Crimes Criminals category: 7162 books
Bestial
The Savage Trail of a True American Monster
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
FROM SOCIAL OUTCAST TO NECROPHILE AND MURDERER -- HIS APPALLING CRIMES STUNNED AN ERA.
San Francisco, the 1920s. In an age when nightmares were relegated to the fiction of Edgar Allan Poe and distant tales of the Whitechapel murders, a real-life monster terrorized America. His acts of butchery...
From the Mouth of the Monster
The Joel Rifkin Story
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2002
KILLER AND COP -- BOUND TOGETHER BY FATE
They met in college twenty years ago.
One became a decorated NYPD officer and a journalist.
The other became New York's most notorious serial killer.
This is the riveting true story of Joel Rifkin -- the Long Islander convicted of savagely murdering...
Shake the Devil Off
A True Story of the Murder that Rocked New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
A charismatic young soldier meets a tragic end in this moving and mesmerizing account of the war in Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, and no-safety-net America
Zackery Bowen was thrust into two of America's largest recent debacles. He was one of the first soldiers to encounter the fledgling insurgency...
Murder on Long Island
A Nineteenth-Century Tale of Tragedy & Revenge
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
A meticulously researched account of one of the North Fork’s most infamous crimes: the Wickham Axe Murders of 1854.
In the mid-nineteenth century, James Wickham was a wealthy farmer with a large estate in Cutchogue, Long Island. His extensive property included a mansion and eighty acres of...
Kingpin
Prisoner of the War on Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
This fast-paced sequel to Smuggler's Blues is a harrowing and at times comical journey through the criminal justice system at the height of America's War on Plants.
Captured in the lobby of the Sheraton Senator Hotel at LAX following a fifteen-year run smuggling marijuana and hashish as part...
Poisoned Blood
A True Story of Murder, Passion, and an Astonishing Hoax
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
New York Times Bestseller: The “astonishing” true story of the notorious “black widow” who preyed on her husband and daughter and faked her own death (The Washington Post Book World).
Pretty, smart, and pampered, Audrey Marie Hilley grew up in a small Alabama town believing she was...
Blood in the Soil
A True Tale of Racism, Sex, and Murder in the South
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
The first book about the investigation into the attempted murder of Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt—and the serial killer who shot him.
In Gwinnett County, Georgia, in 1978, Larry Flynt and his attorney were shot and injured on their way back to court during an obscenity trial.
This...
Finding Karla
How I Tracked Down an Elusive Serial Child Killer and Discovered a Mother of Three
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
In the early 1990s, Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo became known around the world as the “Ken and Barbie Killers” after the young lovers were convicted of crimes related to the rape and murder of two teenage girls. Homolka later struck a deal with prosecutors to serve twelve years in prison for...
Hunted
The Zodiac Murders - Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
The Zodiac serial killer claimed the lives of at least five young victims between 1966 and 1974, and mocked the police with telephone calls, taunting letters, and encrypted messages. Thousands of men have been accused; nearly 2,500 have been investigated. Yet the Zodiac has never been identified.
This...
by Ann Walmsley
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
A daring journalist goes behind bars to explore the redemptive power of books with bikers, bank robbers, and gunmen
An attack in London left Ann Walmsley unable to walk alone down the street, and shook her belief in the fundamental goodness of people. A few years later, when a friend asked...
In Plain Sight
The Kaufman County Prosecutor Murders
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
JUDGE. JURY. EXECUTIONER.
On a cold January morning, the killer executed Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse in broad daylight. Eight shots fired a block from the Kaufman County Courthouse. Two months later, a massacre. The day before Easter, the couple slept. Bunnies, eggs, a flower centerpiece...
Top Hoodlum
Frank Costello, Prime Minister of the Mafia
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
“DeStefano tells Costello’s story well.”—Kirkus Reviews ** **
The definitive book on the ultimate mob boss—featuring new FBI revelations, rare family photos, and never-before-published material . . .
To authorities, Frank Costello was “The Prime Minister of the Underworld” and “one...
by Gary Provost
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
ON ANY SUNDAY MORNING IN THE FLORIDA REDLANDS, DEE CASTEEL MIGHT HAVE SERVED YOU PANCAKES AT THE IHOP …
She was a hard-working, cheerful waitress, one of the nicest people you’d ever want to know. She was also a three-bottle-a-day alcoholic, hopelessly in love with the IHOP’s manager,...
The Mind of the Devil
The Cases of Arthur Gary Bishop and Westley Allan Dodd
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
“He could not stop what he was doing. It was either sex or suicide.” It’s often said that we will likely never understand how a person becomes a serial killer. However, I believe we can. In fact, we must, if we are ever going to find a way to stop the sexual abuse of children. But it’s not...