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True crime tales from this ancient British city and tourist spot-photos included. Take a journey through centuries of local crime and conspiracy, meeting villains of all sorts along the way-cut-throats and poisoners, murderous lovers, assassins, prostitutes and suicides. Among the many tales of wickedness and despair the author records in this fascinating book are:
-Robbery and revenge in Roman times
-The brutal uncertainties of Bath in the dark ages
-The...
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Arson Investigation consists of true actual cases of arson. Photographs that were taken are included to indicate how the fires were started.
These arsons include murder, organized crime, cover-up for other crimes, and more.
Investigative techniques prepare the investigator to obtain sufficient evidence in order to convict the fire setter and then present this information as an expert witness in a court of law.
Technical information is replete in...
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You may think Richmond, Kingston and the neighbouring districts are prosperous, safe and law-abiding in comparison to the hazardous, crime-prone centre of London, but you would be mistaken. For, as Jonathan Oates shows in this gripping book, appalling crimes have shocked the local community and left their mark on the history of the area over the last two centuries. Among the sensational criminal cases he reconstructs in chilling, forensic detail are...
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Irish murder mystery, Set in a Magdalene Industrial laundry. The story of one young woman's struggle as a slave laundry worker. It's a psychological thriller with paranormal elements. It is based on the true life story. What unfolds is one girl’s relentless battle against authority, resulting in murder with the convent walls.
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In the early morning of February 17, 1991, a nineteen-year-old Yale student on his way home from a party was shot through the heart on a New Haven street by a single bullet from a .22-caliber handgun. His wallet, with forty-six dollars inside, was left intact beside him. As murders go, it was senseless, motiveless, and as random as a blindly flung stone. The boy was white, privileged, and widely loved, a scholar and athlete, with a future that seemed...
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London's most exclusive neighborhoods sit on sites of the some of the most sinister and scandalous crimes in British history. Stories of violent death will always hold us in a grim but thrilling grip. The dreadful crimes related in Foul Deeds in Kensington & Chelsea are shocking examples of murder cases that readers will never forget. Crimes of passion, opportunistic killings, political assassinations-the full spectrum of extreme criminality is recounted...
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The author was sworn in as a Federal Agent in 1957 at age 23, and continued his investigative career until 2003. He considers the pinnacle of all his cases the rape and murder of a four year old child in 1967. He obtained a confession from a suspect and uncovered her grave with his bare hands. He thinks of this case daily. May Patty R.I.P.
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The permanent solution to a wife's chronic headache.
As Ted Bundy was to the 20th century, so Carlyle Harris was to the 19th. Harris was a charismatic, handsome young medical student with an insatiable appetite for sex. His trail of debauched women ended with Helen Potts, a beautiful young woman of wealth and privilege who was determined to keep herself pure for marriage. Unable to conquer her by other means, Harris talked her into a secret marriage...
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A scorned woman, an incensed deli owner, a drunken cop, and an antisocial son. These were the most memorable murder defendants to appear before Long Island judge Thomas M. Stark during his thirty-seven years on the bench.
None was more notorious than Ronald DeFeo Jr., who in 1975 was convicted of shooting six members of his family, a crime that sparked tales of hauntings later recounted in the best-selling book The Amityville Horror: A True Story....
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We all know about the “Hells Angels”: toughs on Harleys terrorizing the law-abiding; wild brawls and wild sex; drugs and cruelty, beatings, and even murder. But nobody really knows what it's like to be an Angel except an Angel. In this classic of Hells Angels literature, to be read alongside the works of Hunter S. Thompson and Sonny Barger, George Wethern-for many years the vice president of the Oakland Chapter-tells it like it is.
Until he found...
52) Bloody Yorkshire
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Bloody Yorkshire' is a compilation of thirteen of the vilest crimes, which stunned and gripped the nation. From the triple murders in Mirfield 1847, the ruthless slaying of innocent children John Gill in Bradford 1889, and Barbara Whitian Waterhouse in Horsforth, Leeds 1891. To the shocking death of William Swann brutally murdered by his wife and her lover in 1903. This carefully researched illustrated book will appeal to historians, and those interested...
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The twin fascinations of death and villainy will always hold us in their grim but thrilling grip. In Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Lewisham and Deptford the chill is brought close to home as each chapter investigates the darker side of humanity in cases of murder, deceit and pure malice committed over the centuries in this area of London. From crimes of passion to opportunistic killings and coldly premeditated acts of murder, the full spectrum...
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¿Se puede desear y detestar a una persona al mismo tiempo? Fabio y Nicole han superado la fase entre el odio y el amor incluso si trabajan por separado pueden llevar adelante su relación hecha de sexo y amor no confesado. Nicole trabaja codo a codo con Adriano y Fabio no soporta su proximidad, sobre todo porque sus celos morbosos pondrán en riesgo muchas veces su relación.
Entre peleas, acción y erotismo Fabio y Nicole se encontrarán combatiendo...
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Will, on an evening convertible ride en route to dinner with friends, unwittingly passes by the scene of a gruesome homicide. While he and his friends enjoy dinner and conversation, a breaking news story on television sends his ordinary life into a tailspin as he becomes a suspect in the homicide and must defend himself from the likely perpetrator of the crime.
Will's one desire is to maintain his farmer's life of hard work, routine, and simple pleasures,...
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The Authors experience dealing with the IRS and Congress has led him to know that most Americans earn insufficient income to have a tax liability. The current taxing system, Title 26 United States Code, is all based on semantics, not fact of law. This experience culminated with the IRS placing levies and liens against him and his wife. He knew the IRS had no authority to use these penalties and set out on a journey to prove this true. This book documents...
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The author of A History of London's Prisons reveals the ugly criminal past of one of England's most beautiful cities. It hardly seems surprising that what has become England's fourth city has within its rich history a sinister and darker side. Take a journey to discover cases of petty crime, riots, burglary, robbery, assault, suicide, unlawful killing, manslaughter, and murder, as well as a host of quirky and quizzical crimes from the early Victorian...
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"Give me everything in the till. Notes only! Don't make me nervous or I'll shoot!" The waitress handed me twenty dollars. I fled back to the car and John hightailed it outta there. At seventeen she was living in an old car, fleeing across the Australian desert, committing armed robberies to please the convicted child molester who had 'befriended her'. Taking handfuls of drugs to block out her memories of an abused childhood, life was on the streets,...
59) Diary of a D.A
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Crime, criminals, and their prosecution and punishment, have, from the day Cain slew Abel and the Supreme Law Enforcer dealt with the first fratricide, provoked the interest, aroused the passions, and puzzled the minds of men. Because tales of dark deeds are quick to catch attention and stark sensationalism is easily marketable, accuracy, which is always essential, no longer seems required. So much that we read, hear, and view is blatantly false and...
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Ever wondered what really goes on in the mind of a serial killer? What drove Ian Brady to his crimes? Have we discovered Brady's hidden code? Our extensive research into these murders may have given us something others may have overlooked. Was Myra Hindley a genuine victim of Brady's ideas as she has previously stated? Was she just his partner in crime? Perhaps she may have taken it a step further. Brady told David Smith he was making a "Story to...
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