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1) Vanished
Author
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
In the 1930s, Marielle Patterson, the wife of a successful New York City businesman, is plunged into a nightmare when her son is kidnapped and a former lover is arrested for the crime.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A story based on true events recreates a female slave's struggle for freedom in the decades before the Civil War as she is freed by her owner, kidnapped by slave catchers and returned to Virginia, and brings criminal charges against her kidnappers.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Michelle was a young single mother when she was kidnapped by a local school bus driver named Ariel Castro. For more than a decade afterward, she endured unimaginable torture at the hand of her abductor. In 2003 Amanda Berry joined her in captivity, followed by Gina DeJesus in 2004. Their escape on May 6, 2013, made headlines around the world. Barely out of her own tumultuous childhood, Michelle was estranged from her family and fighting for custody...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Richly evoking the volatile world of Georgian Ireland, this recounts the saga of James Annesley, the presumptive heir of five aristocratic titles and scion of the mighty house of Annesley. Kidnapped at twelve years of age by his uncle, James was shipped from Dublin to America in 1728 as an indentured servant. He finally managed to escape after thirteen years, returning to Ireland to bring his nemesis, the Earl of Anglesea, to justice in one of the...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"He promised to kill me when he got out. I believed him. If I wanted justice, I had to fight both him and the courts...maybe kill him first. If I didn't do something, I was going to die." This is not a manufactured dialogue from a thriller but the words of attorney Sharon Muse. They came after she survived an attempted kidnapping, rape, and murder at the hands of Hank Morrison, a former client. On April 7, 2006, Muse miraculously escaped from the...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Recounts a famous kidnapping that took place in New Orleans in 1870, in which a seventeen-month-old white child was taken by two African-American women, and the resulting public hysteria that led to racial tensions, political divisions, and false accusations and arrests.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A reopening of one of the most confounding crime mysteries of all time as a team of expert investigators employs state-of-the-art forensic and behavioral science techniques in an effort to determine what really happened to Charles Lindbergh's baby, and why.
Author
Publisher
Rosen Pub. Group
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Primary source documents are used to describe the events preceeding the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby, the investigation of the crime, and the subsequent trial of the man accused, convicted, and executed for the child's murder.
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"January 3, 1935. The trial opens in Flemington, New Jersey, for the man accused of the crime of the century. And Edna Ferber is there to cover it. 1932. On a windy March 1 night, Charles Lindbergh, America's hero, discovers that his twenty-month-old son has been snatched from his crib. A ransom is arranged. Yet two months later, Little Lindy is found in a ditch near his Hopewell home, several weeks dead from a blow to the head. It takes over two...
Author
Publisher
WildBlue Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
" 'Raw Deal' is the true story of former New York City police officer Gil Valle, who in 2012 became known throughout the world as 'The Cannibal Cop.' It is part the controversial saga of a man who was imprisoned for 'thought crimes,' and a look into a world of dark sexuality and violence that most readers don't know exists, except maybe in their nightmares. After Valle's arrest, media coverage exploded in a frenzy of lurid tabloid headlines and stories...
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