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5461) Hunting Evil: The Startling True Story of a Man-Woman Team Alleged to be Brutal Serial Rapists
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What did a high-priced hooker and a low-class sex-offender have in common? It was-according to police-their lust for stalking, raping, and terrorizing young women and girls, in once case as young as thirteen-years-old.
Michelle Michaud and her husky-voiced boyfriend James A. "Froggy" Daveggio used to hang around the local high school in search of their prey-and are suspected of brutally raping numerous women in the gutted van that was rigged to...
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Marie-Alexandrine Petitjean, Veuve Becker (Belgique, 1879-1942), onze victimes : dix femmes et un homme.
Henry-Désiré Landru (France, 1869-1922), onze victimes : dix femmes et un homme.
À quelques années près, ils sont contemporains. Leur parcours criminel est identique.
Ils sont sociables, s'y entendent à cajoler leurs proies avant de les tuer, raflant leurs biens pour faire bonne mesure. Tous deux furent condamnés à la peine capitale...
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So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Helter Skelter tells you what you need to know-before or after you read Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Genry's book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader. This summary of Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi with Curt Gentry includes: • Historical context • Section-by-section overviews • Detailed timeline...
5464) The Gunman and His Mother: Lee Harvey Oswald, Marguerite Oswald, and the Making of an Assassin
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This "groundbreaking" biography of Lee Harvey Oswald's formative years "provides new insight into the character of the man who murdered a president" (Michael Takiff, author of A Complicated Man and Brave Men, Gentle Heroes).
The narrative of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy has been told from many points of view, most significantly in the wave of books exploring the Warren Commission's findings and the conspiracy theories that followed....
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The 1917 election of Mayor George Luis Baker ushered a long era of unscrupulous greed into Portland government. While supposedly enforcing prohibition laws, Baker ordered police chief Leon Jenkins to control and profit from the bootlegging market. Baker filled city coffers and his friends' pockets with booze-soaked cash while sensational headlines like the 1929 affair between policeman Bill Breuning and informant Anna Schrader scandalized the city....
5466) Missing Women
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TEN BEAUTIFUL WOMEN. VANISHED WITHOUT A TRACE. A riveting collection of unsolved disappearances including the cases of Tara Grinstead, Misty Copsey, Bethany Decker, Joyce Chiang, Jodi Huisentruit, Patricia Meehan, Kelsie Schelling, Natalee Holloway, Jennifer Kesse, and Tara Calico.
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From the bestselling author of Pop Goes the Weasel, Red Herrings, New World Order, 9/11 Conspiracy and many more.
Robert Kennedy, JFK and the Death of Marilyn Monroe.
Who Didn't Kill Them? For five decades, the world has been, told that the killers of John F Kennedy and his brother Bobby were either already dead or languishing in prison.
Lee Harvey Oswald was shot the day after the assassination but the Warren Commission, set up to investigate...
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On Nov. 28, 1969, Betsy Aardsma, a 22-year-old graduate student in English at Penn State, was stabbed to death in the stacks of Pattee Library at the university's main campus in State College. For more than forty years, her murder went unsolved, though detectives with the Pennsylvania State Police and local citizens worked tirelessly to find her killer. The mystery was eventually solved-after the death of the murderer. This book will reveal the story...
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So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Wrong Carlos: Anatomy of a Wrongful Execution tells you what you need to know-before or after you read James S. Liebman and the Columbia DeLuna Project's book. This short summary and analysis of The Wrong Carlos: Anatomy of a Wrongful Execution by James S. Liebman and the Columbia DeLuna Project includes: Historical context. Chapter-by-chapter summaries, detailed timeline of important events,...
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Los Angeles is where America's dreams and nightmares got all tangled up. In this otherworldly place of seemingly everlasting life, death could have an otherworldly quality, too. In a city where anything was possible, even the ghastly could happen. Where else does a list of a city's top five most recognized citizens include a mass murderer? Stand in the footsteps of Manson, the Hillside Strangler, the Night Stalker, the Black Dahlia's killer, and the...
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Young girl's panties started to go missing; sexual assaults began to occur, and then female bodies were, found! Soon this quiet town of Tweed, Ontario, was in panic. What's even more shocking was, when an upstanding resident stood accused of the assaults. This was not just any man, but a pillar of the community; a decorated military pilot, who had flown Canadian Forces VIP aircraft for dignitaries such as the Queen of England, Prince Philip, the governor...
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Bible-toting Earle Leonard Nelson fancied himself a man of mission. The Lamb of God, in fact, divinely empowered to cleanse the world of sin. But the priesthood that carried him across the country from San Francisco to Buffalo and ultimately into Canada during the 1920s assumed grisly proportions-the brutal strangling and violation of twenty-two helpless and unsuspecting women. Landladies mostly, but each, in Nelson's deranged mind, an incarnation...
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"Heartbreaking and horrifying, Letters From a Serial Killer delves into the thinking of a monstrous murderer - but it also reveals the brave struggles of the women who faced him in order to find justice for his victims. It's a powerfully emotional true account that simply must be read." - Claire Booth, author of true crime book, The False Prophet
"An unflinching look at the mind of a notorious Northern California predator who shattered young lives...
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This thought provoking and inspirational story is the true account of how Anita's nephew's brutal murder forced her to experience forgiveness in the rawest form. It is a testament to the strength of the human spirit's ability to heal after crippling devastation which would forever alter the lives of all those effected, negatively or positively. Anita gives a very personal account of her darkest hours in an open and honest dialogue. Anita's story is...
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James Edward Wood was one of the most unassuming men that you could ever meet. He was the type of person that if you passed by him on the street, you would never know his true agenda was much darker than what appeared. The life of James Wood is largely considered to be that of a true psychopath with no conscience. While the overall depths of his crimes is largely speculation, what is known of his crimes was enough to have him sentenced to death in...
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Brooke was willing to do anything to keep her family together, even if it meant selling herself online. That's why she hooked up with a john on Craigslist. That's what killed her family.
Her boyfriend Charles and their unborn baby, Audi Lynn, meant everything to Brooke. She was the kind of person who talked friends out of committing suicide. Brooke stood by them when no one else seemed to care. She was also willing to do whatever Charles wanted...
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In the middle-classed neighborhood of Muswell Hill, underneath a spectacular residence located at 23 Cranley Gardens, a gruesome discovery was about to be unearthed. While working on drainage pipes of the house at that location, a plumber discovered several bones and a flesh-like substance covering the inside of the pipes.
The pipes led to the top floor apartment of the residence. It was, rented to Dennis Nilsen, a 37-year old, quiet, soft-spoken...
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Benjamin D'Amore abused his wife for the last time on November 29, 1949. That night, his sons John and Nicholas exacted revenge and executed Benjamin with a shotgun and deer rifle. The trial that followed was unlike many before it. Two psychiatrists diagnosed the brothers with "catathymic crisis," which inhibited their judgment during the crime. But despite the defendants' guilty plea, an all-female jury acquitted them. Thomas Deitman and Dawn D'Amore...
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The ultimate collection of intriguing details from the most infamous cold cases around the world-and the killers who may still be out there...
From England's Jack the Ripper and the Axeman of New Orleans to lesser-known cases like Detroit's Bigfoot Killer and Cleveland's Torso Murderer, this trivia book is packed with information about some of the most shocking cold cases in history.
Written for the true crime junkies who just can't get enough,...
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This psychological crime thriller takes us inside the mind of a unique female serial killer, a prostitute who murdered seven adult men-a case with which the author was intimately, involved. The issues raised by this high-profile criminal case remain unresolved to this day.
Women, even prostitutes, have the right to self-defense in theory, but in practice, the story is more complicated.
This book will challenge everything you ever thought about prostitutes,...
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