Crimes Criminals category: 7162 books
Defending the Damned
Inside Chicago's Cook County Public Defender's Office
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2007
Chicago was the nation's deadliest city in 2001, recording 666 homicides. For lawyers in the Cook County Public Defender's Office Murder Task Force, that meant a steady flow of new clients. Eight out of ten people arrested for murder in Chicago are represented by public defenders. They're assigned...
Not Lost Forever
My Story of Survival
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Not Lost Forever is Carmina Salcido’s remarkable story of survival and healing following the 1986 murderous rampage by her father, Mexican immigrant Ramon Salcido in the wine country of Sonoma Valley, California. Left for dead at three years old—her throat brutally slashed—Carmina miraculously...
by Gary C. King
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2016
Strange but true stories of murder and mayhem. In all there are 18 chilling stories about crimes that could only be perpetrated by the twisted minds and gruesome obsessions of coldblooded killers. It's the stuff that horror movies and novels are made of, brought to you from the vault of bestselling...
23 Days of Terror
The Compelling True Story of the Hunt and Capture of the Beltway Snipers
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
In October 2002, a nation still recovering from the 9/11 attacks found itself under siege once more -- by an unseen, unknown, and seemingly unstoppable enemy. For 23 days, the area around Washington, D.C., was the hunting ground for a pair of serial snipers who struck at random, killing from afar,...
Debating the Death Penalty
Should America Have Capital Punishment? The Experts on Both Sides Make Their Best Case
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2005
When news breaks that a convicted murderer, released from prison, has killed again, or that an innocent person has escaped the death chamber in light of new DNA evidence, arguments about capital punishment inevitably heat up. Few controversies continue to stir as much emotion as this one, and public...
Horrible Man
Sinister Secrets and Truths Untold : The Portland Hair Salon Murders
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
It is one of Australia’s worst unsolved crimes. On a Friday afternoon as the wind down to the weekend begins, two women are held hostage in a hairdressing salon. They scream and fight for their lives, but they face a killer’s frenzied rage. Two unlikely victims and an unlikely crime scene at an unlikely...
Talking with Serial Killers 2
The World's Most Evil Killers Tell Their Stories
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
Christopher Berry-Dee is the man who talks to serial killers. He has penetrated their minds and gained their trust to produce one stomach-churningly compulsive selection of tales already, and his unique collection of audiotape and videotape interviews has been collected into another disturbing book....
The Serial Killers
A Study in the Psychology of Violence
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
As the number of serial killers worldwide has risen steadily - from the emergence of Jack the Ripper in 1888 to Harold Shipman and Ivan Milat, the backpacker killer of the Australian outback - the need to understand mass murder is becoming more urgent.
Using privileged access to the world's...
by Alan Hayhurst
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Staffordshire Murders brings together murderous tales that shocked not only the county but made headline news throughout the nation. They include the poisonous Dr Palmer, murder on the canal, a tale of infanticide, the body in the gasometer, the chauffeur’s revenge, murder on Cannock Chase and much...
The Making of a Serial Killer
The Real Story of the Gainesville Murders in the Killer's Own Words
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
The man convicted of the vicious murders of five college students in Gainesville, Florida, discusses his motivations and actions in commiting the crimes, reflects on what made him into a killer, and his struggle to come to terms with what he did. Original. IP.
by Michael G. Haag, Lucien C. Haag
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
Shooting Incident Reconstruction, Second Edition, offers a thorough explanation of matters from simple to complex to help the reader understand the factors surrounding ballistics, trajectory, and shooting scenes.
Forensic scientists, law enforcement, and crime scene investigators are often...
Blood in the Snow
The True Story of a Stay-at-Home Dad, his High-Powered Wife, and the Jealousy that Drove him to Murder
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
***Please note that the photos that appear in the print edition of the title do not appear in the e-book.***
Washington Township, Michigan: Valentine's Day, 2007. Stephen Grant filed a missing person's report on his beloved wife, Tara. The stay-at-home father of two was beside himself with...
A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis, Sixth Edition
Containing a detail of the various crimes and misdemeanors by which public and private property and security are, at present, injured and endangered: and suggesting remedies for their prevention.
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
This edition features
• a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes
CONTENTS (abridged list)
CHAP. I. GENERAL VIEW OF EXISTING EVILS.
CHAP. II. ON THE SYSTEM OF PUNISHMENTS: THEORETICALLY CONSIDERED.
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CHAP. XIX. MUNICIPAL POLICE OF THE METROPOLIS.
CHAP. XX. CONCLUSION.
Rampage
Canadian Mass Murder and Spree Killing
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Rampage: a state of anger or agitation resulting in violent, reckless, and destructive behaviour. In 1989, Marc Lépine mercilessly executed 14 female students at Montreal's École Polytechnique to become Canada's most notorious mass murderer. The following year spree killer Peter John Peters roamed...