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Murder by family
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Kent Whitaker |
This is the tragic story of Kent Whitaker's heart-wrenching journey toward forgiveness and faith after the brutal murder of his wife and one of his sons.
Straight from the headlines comes an incr… |
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Shattered
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Kathryn Casey |
With true crime classics like *Descent into Hell* and *Die My Love*, author Kathryn Casey has peered into the darkest corners of the Lone Star State, shedding a fascinating, chilling light on a serie… |
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Dirty dealing
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Gary Cartwright |
A flamboyant family of smugglers, the assassination of a Federal judge, the costliest FBI investigation in history - these are the elements of this riveting true story. It is a tale that, as it unfol… |
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The Kirtland massacre
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Cynthia Stalter Sassé |
When members of the Reorganized Church of the Latter Day Saints moved into the run-down farmhouse being rented by Jeffrey Lundgren and his family, citizens of the rural community of Kirtland, Ohio, b… |
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The shooting salvationist
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David R. Stokes |
The Shooting Salvationist chronicles what may be the most famous story you have never heard. In the 1920's, the Reverend J. Frank Norris railed against vice and conspiracies he saw everywhere to a co… |
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Fatal beauty
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Burl Barer |
"Jimmy Joste was a powerhouse in the oil and gas industry, but he was a weakling when it came to his gorgeous, athletic, longtime lover, Rhonda Glover. Addicted to her sexual prowess and madly in lov… |
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True American
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Anand Giridharadas |
Days after 9/11, an avowed "American terrorist" named Mark Stroman, seeking revenge, walked into the Dallas minimart where Raisuddin Bhuiyan, a former Bangladesh Air Force officer, has found temporar… |
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Never see them again
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M. William Phelps |
Follows the case of Christine Paolilla, who brutally murdered four people with the help of her boyfriend, who later committed suicide. |
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The Man with the Candy
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Jack Olsen |
The mass murder of almost thirty young boys in Houston may well have been the most heinous crime of the century. How could such a series of murders go undetected for almost three years before being e… |
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The midnight assassin
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Skip Hollandsworth |
Contains primary source material.
"In the late 1800s, the city of Austin, Texas was on the cusp of emerging from an isolated Western outpost into a truly cosmopolitan metropolis. But beginning in De… |
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The long shadow of small ghosts
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Laura Tillman |
"In Cold Blood meets Adrian Nicole LeBlanc's Random Family: A harrowing, profoundly personal investigation of the causes, effects, and communal toll of a deeply troubling crime--the brutal murder of … |
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Buried memories
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Irene Pence |
1985, Gun Barrel City, Texas: Police searching for missing Fire Department Captain Jimmy Don Beets dug inside a wishing well in the neatly-tended garden of his wife, 48-year-old Betty Lou Beets. Not … |
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Ashes to ashes
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Lyn Riddle |
On a November afternoon in 1992, 24-year-old Bobby Coulson murdered his parents, two sisters, and a brother-in-law. He bound and gagged his first victim, his mother, and set her on fire. When Bobby w… |
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A Descent Into Hell
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Kathryn Casey |
Bright, attractive, and both from good families, University of Texas college student Colton Pitonyak and vibrant redhead Jennifer Cave had the world at their beckoning. Cave, an ex-cheerleader, had j… |
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