Crimes Criminals category: 7162 books
by Ty Treadwell
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Robert Vickers killed his prison cellmate because the other man drank his Kool-Aid. Varnall Weeks believed that after his execution he would be reincarnated as a giant turtle who would rule the universe. Hit man and former Elvis impersonator James Paster tried to escape from his cell by slathering...
For Laci
A Mother's Story of Love, Loss, and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2006
Laci Rocha Peterson, 8 months pregnant, was last seen by her sister, Amy, in the late afternoon of December 23, 2002. She spoke to her mother, Sharon Rocha, at 8:30 p.m. that night. This would be the last time anyone from her immediate family ever spoke to her.
A search began which lasted an...
Bitter Remains
A Custody Battle, A Gruesome Crime, and the Mother Who Paid the Ultimate Price
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
The bestselling true crime author of Under Cover of the Night recounts Laura Ackerson’s disappearance and murder in North Carolina, the discovery of her remains in Texas, and the aftermath…
On July 13, 2011, Laura Jean Ackerson of Kinston, North Carolina, went to pick up her two toddler...
Three Sisters in Black
The Bizarre True Case of the Bathtub Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
In 1909, a bathtub drowning became one of the most famous and bizarre criminal cases in American history.
On November 29, 1909, police were called to a ramshackle home in East Orange, New Jersey, where they found the emaciated body of twenty-four-year-old Oceana “Ocey” Snead facedown in...
The Poison Tree
A True Story of Family Terror
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Edgar Award Finalist: The shocking account of a Wyoming father who terrorized his family for years—until his children plotted a deadly solution.
One cold November night, in Cheyenne, Wyoming, fifteen-year-old Richard Jahnke Jr., ROTC leader and former Boy Scout, waited for his parents to...
A Rip in Heaven
A Memoir of Murder And Its Aftermath
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
The acclaimed author of American Dirt reveals the devastating effects of a shocking tragedy in this landmark true crime book—the first ever to look intimately at the experiences of both the victims and their families.
A Rip in Heaven is Jeanine Cummins’ story of a night in April, 1991,...
Son of a Gun
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
**NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In the tradition of Tobias Wolff, James Ellroy, and Mary Karr, a stunning memoir of a mother-son relationship that is also the searing, unflinching account of a murder and its aftermath**
Tombstone, Arizona, September 2001....
My Stolen Son
The Nick Markowitz Story
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
The true story of the shocking crime behind the hit movie Alpha Dog
One week after fifteen-year-old Nick Markowitz vanished, his mother received the news: Nick's body had been found in a shallow grave. Now she tells her own gripping story-the unbelievable motive for the murder, the shocking identity of the accused, and her own nine-year battle to bring her son's killers to justice.
Richie
A Father, His Son, and the Ultimate American Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
The “powerful and moving” true story of a Long Island family torn apart by drugs, violence, and the unbridgeable divide between generations (Kirkus Reviews).
George Diener, World War II veteran and traveling salesman, and his wife, Carol, had old-fashioned values and ordinary aspirations:...
In the Best of Families
The Anatomy of a True Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Ronald Reagan's personal attorney Roy Miller was a California success story. The Miller family's friends could never have imagined the horror and darkness that were to follow as Michael, the Miller's youngest son killed and raped his own mother.
On My Life
the gripping fast-paced thriller with a killer twist
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019
'Compelling, intense**, and breathtakingly** brilliant.' Angela Marsons, author of Dead Memories
Jenna knows she didn't do it. But she is running out of time to prove it...
A heartbreaking, compulsive thriller with a killer twist!
Framed. Imprisoned. Pregnant.
Jenna thought she...
by Mikal Gilmore
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2009
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER
WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE
Haunting, harrowing, and profoundly affecting, Shot in the Heart* ***exposes and explores a dark vein of American life that most of us would rather ignore. It is a book that will leave no reader unchanged.
Gary...
by Richard Lighthouse
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2017
This short ebook provides information and recommendations for people affected by the illegal gangstalking program, which is run by the FBI in the United States. Internationally, it is run by the CIA. The FBI uses “cover organizations” to assist with these illegal programs, including the Infraguard...
by Lynn Daugherty
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
Why would anyone sexually abuse a child? How does it happen!Dr. Lynn Daugherty, clinical psychologist and award-winning author of the classic bestseller "Why Me? Help for Victims of Child Sexual Abuse (Even if they are adults now)" addresses these difficult questions in this book, "Child Molesters,...