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Take a walk through the depths of human depravity with Unbelievable Crimes Volume Two. I'll delve into some of the most shocking and disturbing crime cases in recent history, taking you on a harrowing journey through some of the most twisted tales you've not heard of - yet. I'll tell you about the heinous crimes of Lawrence Singleton, who brutally assaulted and mutilated a teenage girl as she tried hitchhiking her way home in Los Angeles. I'll also...
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An ax murderer, two of the most brilliant scientific minds of the century, billions of dollars in profit, precedent-setting legal battles, secrets of life and death - all of these come together in the story of the first electric chair.
In Blood and Volts, Th. Metzger creates a unique synthesis of scholarship, storytelling, and cultural critique. Though it draws from a number of disparate fields-true crime, history of technology, conspiracy theory,...
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Following the success of the Living Among Bigfoot series, Tom Lyons and his friend Natalie Price have decided to partner up to co-author a new book - one that revolves around the terrifying encounter that Natalie and her family had shortly after moving to Northern California.Strangers from the Meadow is a true story. Get it now.
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The most comprehensive and explosive book on the worst scandal in the history of sports, Game Over investigates the devastating sexual abuse case that brought down Joe Paterno and forever tarnished the name of Penn State.
In this incisive work of investigative journalism, Bill Moushey and Bob Dvorchak, along with Lisa Pulitzer, go behind the headlines, official statements, and court transcripts to tell the full story of the sexual abuse scandal...
125) Meth Murder & Amazon
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The hilarity ensues when the body of an unidentified child is found under the bed during an open house. Alive or dead? Murder or myth? Derald Grake destroys his life the moment he decides to sell the family home. After capturing the American dream, this father of 4 hopes to solve the complex formula of buying low and selling high. Witness one 'normal' family embark on a hilarious and entirely unexpected journey involving, among other surprises, assassins,...
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A rich biography of the legendary figure at the center of the century's darkest secrets: an untold story of golden age Hollywood, modern Las Vegas, JFK-era scandal and international intrigue from Lee Server, the New York Times bestselling author of Ava Gardner: Love is Nothing…
A singular figure in the annals of the American underworld, Johnny Rosselli's career flourished for an extraordinary fifty years, from the bloody years of bootlegging in...
127) Hanging Charley Flinn: The Short and Violent Life of the Boldest Criminal in Frontier California
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Charley Flinn, otherwise known as "Mortimer," was the craftiest criminal in frontier California. Upon his release from San Quentin State Prison in 1863, Mortimer quickly made up for lost time. He formed a gang of robbers in Virginia City, led a prison break in Northern California, and became the most wanted man in the Bay Area. Boldly outwitting both the police and the press, including the young investigative reporter Mark Twain, Mortimer escalated...
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On Mother's Day 1949, someone killed a high school girl in a church kitchen. The janitor found her body the next morning…. brutally beaten… strangled… lying in a pool of blood.Baffled police got an anonymous phone tip to go ask her classmate Lee Goode Scott, an Eagle Scout who sang in the church choir. Officers went to the school and called him to the principal's office. The minute they saw the scratches and deep cut on his face, they knew they...
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Longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award for Nonfiction
TIME's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020
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"Is Rape a Crime? is beautifully written and compellingly told. In 2020, we were all looking for solutions and this book was right on time. It is one we should all...
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It's 1933 and Prohibition has given rise to the American gangster--now infamous names like Bonnie and Clyde and John Dillinger. Bank robberies at gunpoint are commonplace and kidnapping for ransom is the scourge of a lawless nation. With local cops unauthorized to cross state lines in pursuit and no national police force, safety for kidnappers is just a short trip on back roads they know well from their bootlegging days. Gangster George "Machine Gun"...
131) Branding in Depth. A Black Man's Opinion/Guide to Understanding the Negative Branding of Black Males
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white society has been negatively branding black men as mentally defective violent and threatening for hundreds of years it took me a long time to understand this dynamic in enough detail to realise how this was impacting many aspects of my young naive life and give me the beginning of a rational framework that might help me and others over come it in the future. It is part of a larger project on correct information handling but I think it may have...
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The incredible true story of a woman who risked everything to put her brother, a murderous psychopath and one of the world's most infamous crime bosses, behind bars.
Astrid Holleeder is in hiding because she had the courage to write this book. Her brother Willem Holleeder, best known for his involvement in the 1983 kidnapping of the CEO and chairman of Heineken brewing company, is one of the most notorious criminals in contemporary history. For decades,...
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The first-ever full account of Nixon's extensive ties to the American Mafia, from a veteran White House reporter.
Unbeknownst to most people even now, the election of 1968 placed the patron saint of the Mafia in the White House. In other words, Richard Nixon would go on to not only lead a criminal presidency; he would be totally indebted to our nation's top mobsters.
By 1969, thanks in large part to his long-time campaign manager and political advisor...
134) The Last Counterfeiter: The Story of Fake Money, Real Art, and Forging the Impossible $100 Bill
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The true story of the mastermind counterfeiter who forged millions, replicated the impossible 1996 note, dodged the Secret Service, but couldn't escape the pain of his broken family.
When Art Williams Jr.'s father abandoned the family and his bipolar mother lost her mind, a life of crime in 1970s Chicago quickly claimed him. Parking meter theft led to robbing drug dealers before Art fatefully met a man nicknamed DaVinci who taught him the skill...
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'Harris reveals the history of an extraordinary animal rights campaign that I was proud to be associated with. A heartfelt and important account of a movement that inspired thousands' Benjamin Zephaniah, poet and activist'When DIY ethos plays out on a grand scale, it has the power to shake governments and change the world. This is a must-read for all contemporary activists' Moby, musician'A story of compassion and courage that was crushed by the state,...
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