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Author
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 online resource (204 p.)
Language
English
Description
"SERIAL KILLER COUPLES: Bonded by Sexual Depravity, Abduction, and Murder chronicles the true crimes of sexually motivated serial killers who are intimates. In this latest true crime book from award winning, bestselling criminologist R. Barri Flowers, nine gripping tales examine killer couples from America, England, and Canada whose murderous reign of terror knows no end till they are brought to justice. Chapter 1: Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck,...
Author
Publisher
John Blake
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (240 pages)
Language
English
Description
On December 8, 2014, the body of property tycoon Scot Young was found impaled on the railings three floors below his lb.3million Marylebone penthouse. The police verdict was: no foul play. Apparently by coincidence, five of his inner circle also recently met with untimely demise. In this "Ring of Death," three also suffered mysterious falls. Russian billionaire Boris Berezovksy, adversary of Vladimir Putin, was found hanged in his Berkshire home....
63) Bone Crusher
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (360 pages)
Language
English
Description
"Lure Them Home When the urge took hold, serial killer Larry Bright brought women back to his home. After raping and murdering his victims, he brutally disposed of their bodies. Sometimes he built a white-hot fire and burned them in his backyard. Other times he dumped them along nearby roads and fields. Rape And Murder Them For years, Bright had trolled the roads and back streets of Illinois for the most helpless, desperate women he could find. Then...
64) 13 Men
Author
Publisher
Deca
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
When 20 year-old Baby returns from Delhi to West Bengal to care for her ailing mother, the people in her village shun her. Her accent is cosmopolitan, her clothes are too revealing, and "she behaves like she has money now," whisper her fellow Santhals, members of one of India's most insular and historically persecuted tribes. But when Baby falls in love with Khaleque, an outsider and a Muslim, rural gossip explodes into shocking violence, and Baby...
Author
Series
Publisher
Adams Media
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
2.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (304 pages)
Language
English
Description
"Millions of television and movie viewers have shown that Americans continue to be fascinated by the remarkable-and often sordid-world of the Mafia. This book takes you beyond fiction and tabloid accounts and relates the true-life accounts of all the major players in the American Mafia. From Al Capone to John Gotti, you will come away with a better understanding of America's most notorious crime families. This book features colorful information on:...
66) Blood Bath
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (352 pages)
Language
English
Description
"They Knew He Was Out There He took his time. He watched his victims and chose carefully. Then he struck--each attack more brutal than the last. By the time detectives arrived, all they found were gruesome crime scenes of bloodied, brutalized bodies...They Knew He Would Strike Again For more than ten years in South Louisiana the killings went on. Task forces were formed. The killer even spent time in jail. But that wouldn't stop the bloodshed. One...
Author
Publisher
Empire Publications
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 online resource (363 p.)
Language
English
Description
"For almost 25 years, Tony Sullivan has been a member of some of the most violent gangs following Manchester City. He has also toured Britain and Europe as a professional 'grafter'. Sullivan ran with the Mayne Line Motorway Service Crew in the early 80s. Here he details how they gained a fearsome reputation nation-wide. From St James' Park to Upton Park, the Mayne Line ruled British football, the most fearsome football mob during, hooliganism's 'Golden...
Author
Publisher
Grave Distractions Publications
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 online resource (278 p.)
Language
English
Description
"One of humanity's greatest unspoken fears is having our mortal remains desecrated in the grave. These fears reach as far back as the ancient Egyptians and are as close at hand as today's headlines. Skullduggery examines 45 real life tales of those who would disturb the dead's eternal slumber. Discover the postmortem histories of Elvis, Groucho Marx, Charlie Chaplin, Thomas Paine, Alexander the Great, Eva Peron, Graham Parsons, Che Guevara, Albert...
Author
Publisher
Trine Day
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (672 pages)
Language
English
Description
"A chilling expose of corporate corruption and government cover-ups, this account of a nationwide child-trafficking and pedophilia ring in the United States tells a sordid tale of corruption in high places. The scandal originally surfaced during an investigation into Omaha, Nebraska's failed Franklin Federal Credit Union and took the author beyond the Midwest and ultimately to Washington, DC. Implicating businessmen, senators, major media corporations,...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 online resource (244 p.)
Language
English
Description
"It was a mother's worst nightmare: her husband had kidnapped their children and taken them thousands of miles away to his native Bolivia. Cassie tried to get help from the local police, the FBI, the U.S. State Department, even the Bolivian government. No one seemed to care. Only one option was left-to take matters into her own hands. They told her it was impossible. She would be risking her life in a dangerous foreign country. But she wasn't going...
Author
Publisher
John Blake
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (240 pages)
Language
English
Description
In 1981, Peter Sutcliffe, the 'Yorkshire Ripper', was convicted of thirteen murders and seven attempted murders. All his proven victims were women: most were prostitutes. Astonishingly, however, this is not the whole truth. There is a still-secret story of how Sutcliffe's terrible reign of terror claimed at least twenty-two more lives and left five other victims with terrible injuries. These crimes - attacks on men as well as women - took place all...
72) A Killer's Touch
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (400 pages)
Language
English
Description
"A PRETTY YOUNG WOMAN ...Denise Amber Lee was a 21-year-old happily married mother of two little boys. She had her whole life ahead of her...until an intruder broke into her Florida home. Within a few short hours she was savagely terrorized, murdered, and buried naked in a shallow grave near a desolate swamp. A DEPRAVED KILLER ...Michael King, a 38-year-old out-of-work plumber, was a ticking time bomb. For years, neighbors called the police on King,...
Author
Publisher
John Blake
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (240 pages)
Language
English
Description
Tell the Truth and Shame the Devil tells the inside story of the biggest historic sex abuse case ever mounted by Greater Manchester Police-the investigation into the systematic abuse of boys at St Ambrose College in Hale Barns by chemistry teacher and church deacon Alan Morris. Author David Nolan was one of Morris's victims and was given unprecedented access to detectives investigating the case. Nolan was there every step of the way, not only experiencing...
74) The Killing Kind
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (320 pages)
Language
English
Description
Heather Catterton was a beautiful, beloved seventeen-year-old when her body was found in the brush by a country road in South Carolina. Sweet-natured Randi Saldana's remains were then discovered, charred and unrecognizable, in a wooded area nearby. Bestselling investigative journalist M. William Phelps delves into the lives of Danny Hembree's victims and reconstructs the twisting path from his horrifying crimes to his high-profile trial and conviction....
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (320 pages)
Language
English
Description
"I didn't kill them for any satisfaction. It was distasteful. It was dreadful. Of course, I was able to do it because of my general rage against society. Meredith Emerson was a recent college graduate who disappeared while taking her beloved dog, Ella, for a hike on Georgia's Blood Mountain on New Year's Day, 2008. Cheryl Dunlap was a nurse whose body was found in Florida's Apalachicola National Forest after she failed to show up to teach her regular...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (352 pages)
Language
English
Description
"The Last Of The Old-World Mob Bosses--And The Ultimate Betrayal For more than twenty years, Joseph "Big Joey" Massino ran what was called the largest criminal network in the U.S., employing over two hundred and fifty made men and untold numbers of associates. The Bonanno family was responsible for over thirty murders, even killing a dozen of its own members to enforce discipline and settle scores. He would be brought down by Salvatore "Good Looking...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (384 pages)
Language
English
Description
"Missing Boy On November 28, 2001, in Chester County, South Carolina, police made a grisly discovery. Joe Pittman, 66, and his wife Joy, 62, had been brutally slain with a .410 shotgun and their house set afire with the bodies inside. Their black Nissan Pathfinder was missing. So was their 12-year-old grandson, Christopher Pittman. What had become of the boy? Was he still alive--and if so, for how long? The clock was ticking and time was running out....
Author
Publisher
John Blake
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (240 pages)
Language
English
Description
Hugely respected, extensively quoted and widely regarded as the 'bible' of Ripper studies, The Complete Jack the Ripper A to Z is the ultimate reference for anyone fascinated by the Jack the Ripper mystery. This new, rewritten, up-to-date edition includes sources and well over 100 photographs. The Complete jack the Ripper A-Z has an entry for almost every person involved in the case, from suspects and witnesses to policemen and journalists, plus the...
Author
Series
She Survived volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (100 pages)
Language
English
Description
Fighting for her life . . . A few days before her 26th birthday, Melissa Schickel returned to her Indianapolis home and went to bed. An hour later, she was yanked from her dreams into terror. An intruder held her down, brutally beating and stabbing her. Melissa fought fiercely. The assailant fled, leaving her to face a long road to recovery from deep-seated fear and post-traumatic stress. She tells her exclusive true story as part of a compelling...
80) True Lies
Author
Publisher
John Blake
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (288 pages)
Language
English
Description
When ex-soldier and police officer Ross Slater took on a close protection security job he got more than he bargained for. His job was to provide security for leading members of Greenpeace. But when he mentioned his new career to contacts in Special Branch they came up with an even juicier role for him--as a double agent spying on the activities of the environmental group. With split loyalties, Slater had to tread a fine line between fulfilling his...
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