Crimes category: 7162 books
The Surgeon's Wife
A True Story of Obsession, Rage, and Murder
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
In the summer of 1985, in his exclusive Upper East Side Manhattan apartment, Robert Bierenbaum, a prominent surgeon and certified genius, strangled his wife Gail to death. He then drove her body to an airstrip in Caldwell, N.J., and dumped it into the Atlantic Ocean from a single-engine private plane....
What She Always Wanted
A True Story of Marriage, Greed, and Murder
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
The true story of a woman who had it all-and would kill for more.
Jewelry dealer Jay Orbin disappeared in Florida on a sales run when Hurricane Frances hit. But when his horribly mutilated remains turned up weeks later, the trail of evidence led straight to his glamorous wife Marjorie-whose web of betrayal cost her the one thing she valued most, her child.
Hell Hath No Fury
A True Story of Wealth and Passion, Love and Envy, and a Woman Driven to the Ultimate Revenge
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1992
Dan Broderick was one of California's most successful attorneys; his wife, Betty, a beautiful socialite. But when Betty discovered Dan's hidden life, the façade of LaJolla's golden couple was shattered. What followed was a vicious five-year battle that finally ended in a shocking double-murder.
A...
Convenient Suspect
A Double Murder, a Flawed Investigation, and the Railroading of an Innocent Woman
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
On Thursday, December 15, 1994, Joann Katrinak and her three-month-old son, Alex, went missing from their Catasauqua, Pennsylvania, home. Four months later, when their bodies were found in a lonely patch of woods, the police would launch a three-year investigation leading to the arrest of Patricia...
by Robert Scott
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
A TwoTime Widow Leading A Double Life
Miriam Giles ran away to Colorado to bury her violent pastbut this seductive, charismatic widow had a dark side that could never stay buried. After finding the "sugar daddy" she was looking for in Alan Helmick, her new marriage seemed happy. Then,...
Prison Gangs
Organized Crime Behind Bars
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Contents
Introduction
United States : Aryan Brotherhood, Barrio Azteca, Black Guerrilla Family, The Mexican Mafia or 'La eMe', Nazi Low Riders, Nuestra Familia, Tango Blast, Texas Syndicate.
The Rest of the World : Australia – The Overcoat Gang and Prisoners of War, Brazil...
by Vikki Petraitis
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Forensic evidence is known as the 'silent witness'. Crime scene examiners make the silent witness speak.
Sergeant Trevor Evans has been a crime scene examiner for 17 years, and worked the notorious case of murdered baby Jaidyn Leskie in Moe. He also examined the scene of the intriguing, still-unsolved...
by John McCoist
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
We delve into the secretive and sinister world of Americas ruthless prison gangs. White gangs, black gangs and Latino gangs violently vie not only for control of Americas prisons but the lucrative drug trade outside. The prison gangs control the gangsters on the outside from their cells. Murder,...
In the Shadow of Papillon
Seven Years of Hell in Venezuela's Prison System
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
Following the collapse of his business and the loss of his home, Frank Kane made a catastrophic decision. In desperation, he agreed to smuggle cocaine out of Venezuela. Almost inevitably, he and his girlfriend, Sam, were caught.
The price they paid was a ten-year sentence in the hell of the...
by Paul B Kidd
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
More true crime cases that are the most evil of the evil, where the perpetrators have been sent to prison without the possibility of parole – ‘never to be released’.
Murder on the Menu
On the French Riviera
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
War-hero, huckster, showman and womanizer extraordinaire, Frenchman André Surmain has defied the critics and pulled off something really quite remarkable - forging a reputation for the Lutèce as the finest restaurant not just in New York but in the whole of the United States. “What...
by Oscar Wilde
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
Written while its unfortunate author was a prisoner in Reading Gaol, De Profundis contains what is probably the most sincere and personal expression of his peculiarly artificial and sensitive nature. He records his bitterness toward society on his downfall, his abject grief during his first months...
by Oscar Wilde
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
"Children in prison and other cruelties of prison life" is a letter that Oscar Wilde wrote to the editor of the London Daily Chronicle after a warder (guard) in the prison in Reading (one of the prisons where Wilde himself was incarcorated) was dismissed after having fed a starving child...
Sex Slaves
Human Trafficking
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
SEX SLAVES HUMAN TRAFFICKING
Contents Introduction AFRICA : Introduction, Kenya, Uganda, Somalia, Nigeria, Ghana, Togo and Benin – ‘Wife of Gods’, South Africa, Sierra Leone, Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army. AMERICA : Introduction, Las Vegas – Sin City, Chicago, San Francisco...