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161) Day of fury
Author
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story behind that tragic day in Winnetka, and of its long-term consequences.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The Great Depression was a time of incomparable financial desperation in America. Thugs with submachine guns and square-jawed G-men have long dominated the vernacular images of fear, lawlessness, and corruption set against the decimating poverty of that decade. But little known-until now-are the many serial dramas that played out in homes and hideouts, courtrooms and cold cases across the country. In a time of panic, legal lethargy, corruption, and...
Author
Publisher
Harper Element
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This is the heartbreaking story of the murder of 16-year-old Bristol schoolgirl Becky Watts, a personal and heartfelt account of a crime that shocked the nation in a unique way and tore a family in two. A vulnerable and shy girl, Becky Watts was brutally murdered and dismembered by her own step-brother on 19 February 2015. As her father Darren discovered the horrific details of what happened to his darling girl, his world fell apart. Writing about...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this thrilling true-crime procedural, the creator of Sherlock Holmes uses his unparalleled detective skills to exonerate a German Jew wrongly convicted of murder. For all the scores of biographies of Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the most famous detective in the world, there is no American book that tells this remarkable story--in which Conan Doyle becomes a real-life detective on an actual murder case. In Conan Doyle for the Defense, Margalit...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Family secrets emerge as a best-selling author dives into the history of the mob in small-town America. Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a city "in its brawny postwar prime," is where "Little Joe" Regino and Russ Shorto build a local gambling empire on the earnings of factory workers for whom placing a bet-on a horse or pool game, pinball or "tip seal"-is their best shot at the American dream. Decades later, Russell Shorto grew up knowing that his grandfather...
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When he retired as the chief security officer of New York Citys Metropolitan Museum of Art, John Barelli had spent the better part of forty years responsible not only for one of the richest treasure troves on the planet, but the museum's staff, the millions of visitors, as well as American presidents, royalty, and heads of state from around the world. For the first time, John Barelli shares his experiences of the crimes that occurred on his watch;...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A collection of newspaper stories by Pulitzer Prize winning Los Angeles Times reporter Christopher Goffard, including 'Dirty John', the basis for the hit podcast and the upcoming Bravo scripted series starring Connie Britton and Eric Bana.
Since its release in fall 2017, the "Dirty John" podcast about a conman who terrorizes a Southern California family has been downloaded more than 20 million times, and will soon premiere as a scripted drama on...
Author
Publisher
Steerforth Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
They draw you in with the promise of empowerment, self-discovery, women helping women. The more secretive those connections are, the more exclusive you feel. Little did you know, you just joined a cult. Sex trafficking. Self-help coaching. Forced labor. Mentorship. Multi-level marketing. Gaslighting. Investigative journalist Sarah Berman explores the shocking practices of NXIVM, a cult run by Keith Raniere and many enablers. Through the accounts...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Growing up, Rachel Rear knew the story of Stephanie Kupchynsky's disappearance. The beautiful violinist and teacher had fled an abusive relationship on Martha's Vineyard and made a new start for herself near Rochester, NY. She was at the height of her life-in a relationship with a man she hoped to marry and close to her students and her family. And then, one morning, she was gone. Around Rochester-a region which has spawned such serial killers as...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In winter 1952, London automobiles and thousands of coal-burning hearths belched particulate matter into the air. But the smog that descended on December 5th of 1952 was different; it was a type that held the city hostage for five long days. Mass transit ground to a halt, criminals roamed the streets, and 12,000 people died. That same month, there was another killer at large in London: John Reginald Christie, who murdered at least six women. In a...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Norco 80 tells the story of how five heavily-armed young menled by an apocalyptic born-again Christianattempted a bank robbery that turned into one of the most violent criminal events in U.S. history, forever changing the face of American law enforcement. Part thriller, part mystery, and part courtroom drama, Norco 80 transports the reader back to the Southern California of the 1970s, an era of predatory self-help gurus, doomsday predictions, mega-churches,...
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Bremner takes us inside some of the biggest cases of recent times and offers her expert insights and analysis as our legal system faces unprecedented forces fighting to tip the scales of justice their way. Why couldn’t prosecutors convict O.J. Simpson despite all of the evidence seemingly proving he killed his wife Nicole? Could a jury remain unbiased in the face of overwhelming public pressure in the trial of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin...
Author
Publisher
TitleTown Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A tale of murder, sorcery, and criminal justice in turn-of-the-century Chicago, the true story of a mysterious Bohemian fortune teller named Herman Billik, charged in 1907 with murdering a half-dozen people by slowly poisoning them with arsenic.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Intriguing...A gripping legal-thriller mystery...This is a story that profoundly elevates good-cause advocacy to greater heights-to where innocent lives are saved." --USA TodayPublishers Weekly -- Most Anticipated Books of Fall "A crisply written page turner." -- NPR A gripping account of one man's long road to freedom that will forever change how we understand our criminal justice systemDuring the last two decades, more than two thousand American...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Reveals the untold story of the epic rise and fall of one of the most notorious Russian mob bosses of his era whose intimidating presence and street smarts quickly made him legendary in the emigre community of Brighton Beach, Brooklyn and launched him to the top of New York's Russian Jewish mob.
178) The woman who stole Vermeer: the true story of Rose Dugdale and the Russborough House art heist
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Documents the extraordinary life and crimes of the heiress-turned-revolutionary who, in 1974, became the only woman to pull off a major art heist.
179) Searching for Savanna: the murder of one Native American woman and the violence against the many
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A gripping and illuminating investigation into the disappearance of Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind when she was eight months pregnant, highlighting the shocking epidemic of violence against Native American women in America and the societal ramifications of government inaction. In the summer of 2017, twenty-two-year-old Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind vanished. A week after she disappeared, police arrested the white couple who lived upstairs from Savanna...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
"In 2006, Christine Pelisek broke the story of a terrifying serial killer who went unchecked in Los Angeles for decades. Two years later, in her cover article for L.A. Weekly, Pelisek dubbed him "The Grim Sleeper" for his long break between murders. The killer preyed on a community devastated by crime and drugs and left behind a trail of bodiesall women of color, all murdered in a similar fashion, and all discarded in the alleys of Los Angeles. The...
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