Crimes Criminals category: 7162 books
Extreme Killing
Understanding Serial and Mass Murder
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
Extreme Killing offers you a comprehensive overview of multiple homicide, including both serial and mass murder. Filled with classic and contemporary case studies, this fully updated Fourth Edition reflects a growing concern for specific types of multiple homicides—indiscriminate public massacres,...
by Diane Fanning
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Evil Stalks the Sanctuary
Sex, voodoo and vicious assault: three stories of murder linked to the church by Edgar Award Finalist Diane Fanning.
Buried Scandal: In the basement of a Michigan church, a sexton uncovers the rotting skeleton of a nun who had been missing for...
by Bridget DiCosmo
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2009
The shocking true account of a man who learned everything there was to know about getting away with murder.
Thirty years ago, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, became the hunting ground for a predator. Women were being brutally raped and murdered in a series of savage-and seemingly unconnected-crimes.
Not...
Crimwife
An Insider’s Account of Love Behind Bars
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
It’s so sad,” she told me, “because you could have been something. You could have gotten to the top. You’re smart enough. But now you’re going to end up as just another dirty, scummy, rotten crimwife.
How far would you go for love? Some women commit crimes to help their lovers, while...
Practically Perfect
Killers Who Got Away with Murder ... for a While
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2013
A man murders the first four infants he fathers with his lover, then tries again with a fifth. Two men have three things in common: each commits what seems like a perfect murder, each marries his victim's wife far too soon, each has an overdue appointment with the gallows. A man cuts up the body of...
by Aaron Elliott, Michael Newton, Katherine Ramsland
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
The debut issue of Serial Killer Quarterly, “21st Century Psychos”, explores seven of the new millennium’s most notorious multiple murder cases and examines how modern technological advancements and political developments are influencing the manner in which serial murder is being articulated....
Media Circus
A Look at Private Tragedy in the Public Eye
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Imagine losing a loved one in the public eye.
A media frenzy ensues and spreads your family name through the news. Reporters ambush you, and across the country, strangers gossip about your personal loss.
Welcome to the circus.
No one understands better than Kim Goldman the complex...
Evil at the Front Door
Notorious Louisiana
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
Louisiana – famous for its Mardi Gras, spicy cuisine, and Dixieland jazz – is also the scene of some of the most notorious crimes in the country. Bestselling authors Ron Franscell and Rebecca Morris write about a sultry, Southern beauty who proved to be a deadly hitchhiker; the bloodiest day in New...
Every Woman's Nightmare
The Fairytale Marriage and Brutal Murder of Lori Hacking
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Well-liked and respected, Mark Hacking came from a highly successful Mormon family. His father was a pediatrician. One of his brothers was also a doctor, and his other brother was an electrical engineer. With acceptances into both George Washington University and University of North Carolina medical...
by Liz Porter
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Cold case investigators scrape back paint in a renovated flat where a murder was committed twelve years earlier, and find a blood stain that leads them to a killer. Scientists extract DNA from crime-scene samples collected in 1973, and a 21st-century hunt for a triple murderer begins. A forensic dentist...
by Liz Porter
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2007
A crime scene investigator notes the tiny indentations on the fragments of a tin can identified at a bomb site. After months of testing he is able to match them to the can opener that made them - and lead police to the bomb-maker who used it.
A forensic dentist documents the marks in chewing...
by Caroline Maxton
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
The charming English town of Guildford is built upon centuries of mayhem and madness—from a Game of Thrones–style massacre to mysterious murders.
The twin fascinations of death and villainy will always hold us in their grim but thrilling grip. In Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Guildford,...
Infamous Murderers
Maniacs filled with hatred and rage
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2011
Infamous murderers, their deeds horrifying yet intriguing, have always inspired a strange fascination. Their crimes repulse us, yet the more heinous the act, the more we crave information, and ultimately we elevate the perpetrator to celebrity status. The names of the often random and completely innocent...
Female Imprisonment
An Ethnography of Everyday Life in Confinement
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
This book is a reflection on the nature of confinement, experienced by prison inmates as everyday life. It explores the meanings, purposes, and consequences involved with spending every day inside prison. Female Imprisonment results from an ethnographic study carried out in a small prison facility...