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Fatal vows
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Joseph Hosey |
Drawing upon exclusive interviews with Stacys friends and family and even Drew himself, Chicago area reporter Joseph Hosey presents the most researched account of the Stacy Peterson case yet. Still, … |
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Death Sentence:The True Story of Velma Barfield's Life, Crimes and Execution
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Jerry Bledsoe |
When North Carolina farmer Stuart Taylor died after a sudden illness, his 46-year-old fiancée Velma Barfield, was overcome with grief. Taylor's family grieved with her―until the autopsy revealed trac… |
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Unholy Matrimony
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John Dillmann |
New Orleans homicide detective Dillmann relates his investigation of the apparently accidental hit-and-run death of Patricia Giesick, a young newlywed. The more he probed, the more he became convince… |
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Foxcatcher
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Mark Schultz |
This book tells the riveting true story -- soon to be a high-profile film -- of Olympic wrestling gold medal-winning brothers Mark Schultz and Dave Schultz and their fatal relationship with the eccen… |
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The devil's right-hand man
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Michaud, Stephen G. |
The case of Robert Charles Browne, who may be one of America’s most prolific serial killers, was supposed to be a cold one. But that was before three retired buddies took it on.
“The score is you… |
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Obsessed
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M. William Phelps |
Describes how Sheila Davalloo, bitter after Nelson Sessler, a colleague, broke off their affair, murdered his new girlfriend, Anna Lisa Raymundo, and went on to attack her own husband. |
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True crime
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Harold Schechter |
Americans have had an uneasy fascination with crime since the earliest European settlements in the New World, and right from the start true crime became a dominant genre in American writing. True Cri… |
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A Very Private Woman
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Nina Burleigh |
In 1964, Mary Pinchot Meyer, the beautiful, rebellious, and intelligent ex-wife of a top CIA official, was killed on a quiet Georgetown towpath near her home. Mary Meyer was a secret mistress of Pres… |
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Under the Banner of Heaven
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Jon Krakauer |
Jon Krakauer's literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits. In UNDER THE BANNER OF HEAVEN, he shifts his focus from extremes of physical adventure to ext… |
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Murder beyond the grave
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James Patterson |
Two true-crime tales relate the stories of a wealthy man buried alive with only forty-eight hours of air, and a grisly shooting high in the Sierra Nevada mountains involving the locals and rich devel… |
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Heartland serial killers
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Richard Lindberg |
"The chilling true story of two turn-of-the-century serial killers, Belle Gunness and Johann Hoch"--Provided by publisher. |
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Fatal friends, deadly neighbors
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Ann Rule |
It's a chilling reality that homicide investigators know all too well: the last face most murder victims see is not that of a stranger, but of someone familiar. These doomed relationships are the foc… |
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Terror in the city of champions
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Tom Stanton |
Detroit 1936: In a city abuzz over its unrivaled sports success, baseball fan Dayton Dean is arrested for murder. Though said to have a childlike intelligence, Dean possesses a vivid memory and a hun… |
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Writing to save a life
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John Edgar Wideman |
193 pages ; 22 cm |
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Killings
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Calvin Trillin |
"'Reporters love murders,' Calvin Trillin writes in the introduction to Killings. 'In a pinch, what the lawyers call "wrongful death" will do, particularly if it's sudden.' Killings, first published … |
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Murder in Grosse Pointe Park
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Miller, Steve |
"Investigative reporter, and author of Nobody's Women, Steve Miller makes a thoroughly researched inquiry into a murder that rocked the privileged world of Grosse Pointe, Michigan,"--Amazon.com. |
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Mortal Remains
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Henry Scammell |
viii, 302 p. : 25 cm |
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Nutcracker
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Shana Alexander |
Nutcracker begins at the ballet but tells the story of a seemingly wholesome all-American family, whose tranquil life's surface erupted in shocking acts of avarice, theft and murder. The victim was F… |
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Deadly lessons
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Ken Englade |
A husband’s murder leads to a trial that stunned a nation, and a killer whose motive is the most shocking of all.
Pam and Gregg Smart lived a seemingly storybook existence, the newlyweds very much… |
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Lethal Shadow
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Stephen G. Michaud |
350 p |
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