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Angel of darkness
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Dennis McDougal |
Randy Kraft was highly intelligent, politically active, loyal to his friends, committed to his work--and the killer of 67 people--more than any other serial killer known. This book offers a glimpse i… |
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Small sacrifices
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Ann Rule |
the mesmerizing story of Diane Downs, a beautiful, brillient, sociopath, who commits the ultimate evil when she shoots her three children to gain the love of a married man. Anne Rule's insight into t… |
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The Boston stranglers
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Susan Kelly |
In the only definitive book on this case, Susan Kelly investigates Albert DeSalvo's false confession to eleven murders committed in New England in the early 1960s -- and exposes the real killers. |
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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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The inventor and the tycoon
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Edward Ball |
From the National Book Award-winning author of Slaves in the Family, this book is the riveting true story of the partnership between the murderer who invented the movies and the robber baron who buil… |
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Fatal justice
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Jerry Allen Potter |
This "devastating rebuttal to Fatal Vision" (Boston Phoenix) demonstrates that the jury was not privy to crucial evidence in the case of Jeffrey MacDonald, the Green Beret Captain convicted of the mu… |
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Picture Perfect
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Shanna Hogan |
A devoted bachelor. Travis Alexander was a handsome, hard-working, practicing Mormon who lived in Mesa, Arizona. His good looks and easygoing manner made him popular with everyone, especially the lad… |
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Deadly Censorship
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James Lowell Underwood |
On January 15, 1903, South Carolina lieutenant governor James H. Tillman shot and killed Narciso G. Gonzales, editor of South Carolina's most powerful newspaper, the State. Blaming Gonzales's stingin… |
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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts vs. Lizzie A. Borden
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Michael Martins |
xix, 554 p. : 24 cm |
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Murder in Tombstone
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Steven Lubet |
The gunfight at the OK Corral occupies a unique place in American history. Although the event itself lasted less than a minute, it became the basis for countless stories about the Wild West. At the t… |
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Room 1219
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Greg Merritt |
"Part biography, part true crime narrative, this painstakingly researched book chronicles the improbable rise and stunning fall of Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle from his early big screen success to his inv… |
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Anatomy of a confession
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Gary L. Stuart |
Debra Milke spent twenty-three years on death row for murdering her four year-old son based solely on a confession she never gave. The two men who killed Christopher Milke are still on death row. Nei… |
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Racial Reckoning
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Renee C. Romano |
268 pages : 24 cm |
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The Boston stranglers
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Kelly, Susan. |
"DeSalvo Is the Strangler!" declared the headlines after handyman Albert DeSalvo confessed to eleven brutal rape/murders that terrorized Boston from 1962 to 1964. The repeat sex offender boasted he h… |
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Arc of justice
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Boyle, Kevin |
"In the Roaring Twenties, neon lit the night, jazz played, and in northern cities glistening new skyscrapers beckoned Negroes worn down by southern terrors. They came with battered bags and hope. Oss… |
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The Guns of Meeting Street
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T. Felder Dorn |
"As compelling as fiction, The Guns of Meeting Street reconstructs a series of sensational murders in the early 1940s that rocked rural Edgefield County, South Carolina, and riveted the attention of … |
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Mrs. Harris
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Diana Trilling |
Chronicles the trial of Jean Harris for the murder of her long-time lover, the author of the Scarsdale diet. |
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A Murder in Virginia
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Suzanne Lebsock |
"Lucy Pollard is dead. Four black people are arrested. Will they escape with their lives?" "It's 1895 in Lunenburg County, Virginia, and a white woman lies in her farmyard, murdered with a meat-ax. S… |
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A Call for Justice
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Denise Lang |
When the law won't work, you have to work the law...
The murderer stalking the quiet town of Warwick, Rhode Island in the late summer of 1989 was an unrepentant psychopath--"a living, breathing ki… |
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The devil's tickets
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Gary M. Pomerantz |
Kansas City, 1929: Myrtle and Jack Bennett sit down with another couple for an evening of bridge. As the game intensifies, Myrtle complains that Jack is a "bum bridge player." For such insubordinatio… |
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