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This book is written by me, “Redemption Ritchy”, a former Millhaven, and Kent penitentiary former offender convicted of manslaughter, armed robbery, assault, break and enter and theft. I genuinely regret every bit of my past. I wish I had never hurt, lied, cheated, deceived or robbed anyone.
The story needs to be told to help others realize the truth about crime and prison. It's not a picnic and there is no guarantee you are coming out alive...
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Starting in the summer of 1976, one man terrorized a city and fascinated a nation: Son of Sam. Over 30 years after his capture, David Berkowitz (AKA Son of Sam), is still one of the most known serial killers of all time.
The life, murders, trial, and prison life of David Berkowitz is recapped in this book.
LifeCaps is an imprint of BookCaps™ Study Guides. With each book, a lesser known or sometimes forgotten life is recapped.
5443) I'll Be Watching You
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A serial killer who wanted to out-kill Ted Bundy. . .
In September 2001, Carmen Rodriguez, a beautiful 32-year-old Hartford mother of four, went missing. At first police were stymied. . .until a killer's crucial mistake led investigators down a long, dark road of cold, calculated murder. . .
In 1987, single mother Mary Ellen Renard was strangled, repeatedly stabbed, and left for dead in her New Jersey apartment. Her vicious assailant had already...
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Ces femmes qui ont marqué l'Histoire !
Choquantes mais toujours captivantes, ces histoires plongent le lecteur dans la vie et l'époque des femmes les plus impitoyables et ambitieuses de l'Histoire. Impudentes, douées, méchantes, rusées, instables, dures comme la pierre, elles furent des produits de leur temps, des femmes qui défièrent les coutumes et l'éthique de leur époque.
Ces femmes utilisaient tous les moyens à leur disposition pour...
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On May 22, 1970, responding to a bogus emergency call to help a pregnant woman, St. Paul patrolman James Sackett was killed by a sniper's bullet fired from a high-powered rifle. The white officer's assassination was the most shocking event in an era of shocking, racially charged events, punctuated by bombings at Dayton's Department Store and elsewhere, police harassment and shootings of young black men, an alleged hijacking plot, and random acts of...
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Twenty-five years ago, serial killer Paul Denyer terrorised the bayside suburb of Frankston. Twenty-five years later, the trauma of his seven-week killing spree still haunts the community. The spate of murders in 1993 touched many more lives than just the three victims. All of Melbourne was gripped with fear, as Frankston and surrounding suburbs were flooded with police hunting the serial killer of three young women. It began on June 11 when Elizabeth...
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In the company of author Troy Taylor, pull off the trick of coming back alive from some of Chicago's most infamous "one-way rides." Meet the deadly womanizer Johann Hoch, who would propose to a woman within twenty minutes of meeting her and then poison her within a week. Follow "Terrible" Tommy O'Conner as he eluded the gallows for more than fifty years, until the city finally grew "tired of waiting" and dismantled them for the final time. Learn how...
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Discover a serial killer you'll never forget!
Between 1918 to 1919 a serial killer ran rampant throughout New Orleans. His weapon of choice? The axe.
He didn't spare women. Or children. Or even men. There was only one kind of person who could be sparred from the blade of his axe: the home of a person playing jazz music. At least eight people were brutally murdered. Who could have been responsible for this crime, and how was the Mafia connected?
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5449) Una Ciudad Propia
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Uno tras otro, aparecen a los lados de vías y autopistas suburbanas -los cuerpos desnudos y estrangulados de mujeres violadas, torturadas y abandonadas a morir.
La Policía empieza a sospechar que su sospechoso es un hábil canalla que ha salido de sus propias filas. Y entonces, el infierno se desata en Los Ángeles. Un arresto por los asesinatos de dos estudiantes en otro estado lleva finalmente a un quiebre en el caso, pero el sospechoso es alguien...
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From the depths of German and American archives comes a story one soldier never wanted told. The first volunteer killed defending Robert E. Lee's position in battle was really a German assassin. After fleeing to the United States to escape prosecution for murder, the assassin enlisted in a German company of the Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Mexican-American War and died defending Lee's battery at the Siege of Veracruz in 1847. Lee wrote a letter...
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First published in 1908, "True Stories of Crime from the District Attorney's Office" is a first-hand account of various case files from the New York City District Attorney's office during the late 1890s and early 1900s. Highly recommended for those with an interest in New York City history and early 20th century Americana in general. Contents include: "The Woman in the Case", "Five Hundred Million Dollars", "The Lost Stradivarius", "The Last of the...
5452) Race to Justice
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The murder case of chef Cynthia Albrecht that shocked the Indy 500 racing world-as seen on Investigation Discovery's True Conviction.
Cynthia Albrecht, the executive chef of the Penske-Marlboro racing team and darling of the Indy Car circuit, went missing on October 25, 1992-the night before her divorce from Michael Albrecht became final. Drivers and racing crews from across the country converged on "The Brickyard," site of the Indianapolis 500,...
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JAKE & CLARA is based on a true story from the dawn of the Jazz Age about scandal, politics, Hollywood-and murder. When Warren Harding won the White House in 1920, his campaign received millions from Jake Hamon-"The Oil King of Oklahoma." Harding planned to make Jake the most powerful businessman in America. But Mrs. Harding (some called her "The Duchess") had one condition-the married man had to end his affair with his long-time mistress, a girl...
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From Scarface to Miami Vice, Hollywood has created indelible images of Miami's criminal underworld. Yet beyond the lurid depictions exists a fascinating history of dramatic true-life crimes--tales of vigilante justice, family tragedies, politically motivated homicides and rampageous cross-country killers. And of course, the inevitable stories of celebrities behaving badly--as when Jim Morrison allegedly exposed himself during a 1969 Doors concert--along...
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Murder in Minnesota features some of the state's most infamous criminals-a collection of fascinating and disagreeable characters usually ignored by historians. They live again in these pages as the conniving, clever, mad, or pitiful creatures they were. Fifteen chapters-involving both well-known and obscure practitioners of the deadly art-tell the stories of Ann Blansky, the only woman hanged in Minnesota; the famous Younger brothers, who with the...
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With A Death in Wichita (originally published as The Wichita Divide) New York Times bestselling author Stephen Singular offers an in-depth account of the life and death of a controversial doctor, the debate that sparked his assassination, and the place where two Americas collide
On May 31, 2009, Scott Roeder walked into a Wichita church, drew a pistol, and shot Dr. George Tiller at point blank range. Tiller, who was the most public practitioner of...
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At the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Northampton, Massachusetts, Kristen Gilbert was known as a hardworking, dedicated nurse. Yet so many emergencies and sudden deaths occurred under Kristen's watch that others jokingly called her the "Angel of Death." No one suspected the horrifying truth: that over the course of six months, Gilbert had caused the deaths of as many as forty patients. With new insight into the sociopathic mindset of nurses who...
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An eBook edition of Justice Terrence J. Morrison's Decision for one of Canada's most sensational murder trails. In his decision, Justice Morrison gives a full account of the positions of the prosecution and defense, a detailed analysis of the evidence and witnesses brought forward at trial, the governing legal principles, and the reasons behind his decision to find Dennis Oland not guilty.
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Known for friendly people, traditional family values, and the Packers, Green Bay is a big city with a small-town feel. But resting beneath its welcoming demeanor is an underbelly of wickedness that has been there from its very formation.
The city's downtown district rests atop one of Wisconsin's oldest burial sites, and the west side was the location for the state's second recorded hanging, which was at the time the punishment for murder. And the...
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The pleasant neighborhoods of the Crescenta Valley offer no hint of the many violent and heinous crimes that have occurred between the San Gabriel and Verdugo Mountains. But ties to such macabre episodes as the Onion Field murder and the search for the Hillside Strangler left lasting scars here. Infamous criminals such as mafia boss Joe "Iron Man" Ardizzone, red-light bandit Caryl Chessman and accused yacht bomber Beulah Overell have left a black...
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