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Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (736 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Many famous cases have been reexamined in recent years using the great advances made in forensic science. Cold cases have been reopened. Supposedly solved crimes have been analyzed anew. Explore how cutting-edge investigative techniques are being applied to help unravel criminal enigmas all over the world.
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (124 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Danish
Description
In 1961, UN secretary-general Dag Hammarskjöld’s plane mysteriously and fatally crashed on African soil. As director Mads Brügger begins to investigate the case with fresh eyes, he discovers something far more sinister than expected.
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (92 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A dramatic account of the rise and fall of Nicky Barnes, a poor black kid from the streets of Harlem who became the biggest heroin dealer in the United States. Eventually jailed, Nicky lost control of his empire. Rather than giving up the reins, he committed one final audacious act, which brought down the entire organization and led to the arrests of over 100 of his closest allies. Was he the ultimate coward, or was this the ultimate act of revenge?...
Publisher
University of Southern California Cinematic Arts
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (20 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The Dope Years: The Story of Latasha Harlins is a 19 minute documentary that explores and retells the life of Latasha and how her death is directly connected to the Los Angeles climate of the 1990s. Through reimagined scenes from Latasha’s life, the audience gains insight into who she was as a person and the impact she made on her community. The Dope Years explores perspectives of those who were children at the time and identifies the issues that...
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Language
English
Description
In the early 1990s, Maurice "Mom" Boucher and his fellow Montreal Hells Angels, reputedly the most ruthless and vicious bikers in the world, subdued all comers except the tough-as-nails members of the Rock Machine. Founded by Salvatore Cazzetta, an ex-friend of Boucher, the Rock Machine had every intention of standing up against the Hells Angels. Seven years of bloody conflict, which left over 160 people dead and countless injured, was the result....
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Language
English
Description
"On a peaceful August morning in 1985, grim-face FBI agents led a dawn raid on an eighty-acre farm outside Rulo, Nebraska, said to be occupied by a gorup of religious survivalists led by the charismatic Mike Ryan. What they found on the farm shocked even experience investigators. For months Ryan's Nebraska neighbors spoke in whispers of gunfire in the night, the disappearance of women and children, neo-Nazis and white supremacists. But little did...
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Language
English
Description
"This book is, quite simply, remarkable journalism, and remarkable writing. --Robert B. Parker An infamous murder spree. A monstrous hoax. The definitive book--updated with new evidence."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 had raped an additional 2,000 women. His story became the subject of...
Author
Language
English
Description
"This riveting inside story of the intense search for the Salt Lake City teenager reveals never-before-told details of the largest investigation in Utah state history. The firsthand account of Tom Smart, Elizabeth's uncle and one-time suspect, reveals the details of the flawed police investigation, the media's manipulation of the family, and the eyewitness account of nine-year-old Mary Katherine Smart that went largely ignored by investigators. New...
10) Blood Frenzy
Author
Language
English
Description
"He Used A Claw Hammer... Frankie Cochran knew her boyfriend, David Gerard, was possessive, controlling, and prone to violent rages. When she tried to break up with him, Gerard threatened her with a hammer. One week later, he used it to club her in the head. Again. And again. Then he stabbed her in the throat--and left her for dead...And A Sharp Knife... Miraculously, Frankie survived--but cops began to suspect Gerard of other vicious crimes. One...
11) Predator
Author
Language
English
Description
He Stalked His Victims...
A mother and daughter--brutalized, murdered, and left to rot in the summer heat. A young college student--killed with a.38 handgun at a remote highway rest stop. These were just a few of the victims of Timothy Krajcir, a sexual predator with an unquenchable appetite for violence...
From State To State...
He would travel to towns where nobody knew him, break into a woman's home, and wait for her. It started when he was...
12) Blue Caprice
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (93 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Isaiah Washington stars in this ripped-from-the-headlines thriller about the notorious DC sniper attacks.
Publisher
A&E
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (0 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
THE KILLING SEASON is an immersive series that follows documentarians Joshua Zeman and Rachel Mills as they investigate one of the most bizarre unsolved serial killer cases of our time.
14) The Legal Death
Publisher
Audiovisiva
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (53 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Italiano
Description
Boston, Massachusetts, 1920. Two Italians, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, were sentenced to death, the only crime they were guilty of was of being anarchists. The whole world stood up, the people crowded into the town squares, not just the lives of two men were at stake but also the beliefs which they represented. Millions of voices in many languages were raised in protest. They sought justice for Sacco and Vanzetti, but nothing could save...
15) The First 48
Publisher
A&E®
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (309 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The First 48 follows the nation’s top police departments during the critical first 48 hours of murder investigations.
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Language
English
Description
On the morning of January 14, 1975, Mrs Dorothy Whittle wakes to be faced with every mother's worst nightmare: finding her daughter has been abducted from her room. A note has been left downstairs, demanding a ransom. Later, a recorded message comes from Lesley herself saying where to leave the money but not to tell the police or she'll be killed. The family disobeys the instructions and informs the authorities, and together they struggle to understand...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The story of the American Mafia is not complete without a chapter on Kansas City. The City of Fountains has appeared in The Godfather, Casino, and The Sopranos, but many Midwesterners are not aware that Kansas City has affected the fortunes of the entire underworld. In The Mafia and the Machine, author Frank Hayde ties in every major name in organized crime-Luciano, Bugsy, Lansky-as well as the city's corrupt police force."--
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (102 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh, a former soldier deeply influenced by the literature and ideas of the radical right, parked a Ryder truck with a five-ton fertilizer bomb in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal building in Oklahoma City. Moments later, 168 people were killed and 675 were injured in the blast. This documentary traces the events — including the deadly encounters between American citizens and law enforcement at Ruby Ridge and Waco...
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