Crimes Criminals category: 7162 books
Evil Next Door
The Untold Stories of a Killer Undone by DNA
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
A brutal murder.
An abundance of DNA evidence.
A three-and-a-half year search for a killer who was always so close-yet untouchable.
After the rape and murder of Raleigh, North Carolina, resident Stephanie Bennett, police had ample DNA evidence. They also had a suspect: the man next door. But...
Innocent Victims
The True Story of the Eastburn Family Murders
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
The riveting true account of a grisly crime and the unprecedented three murder trials faced by Fort Bragg soldier Tim Hennis.
On Mother’s Day, 1985, the bodies of Kathryn Eastburn and her two young daughters were found in their Fayetteville, North Carolina, home. Katie, an air force captain’s...
A Slaying in the Suburbs
The Tara Grant Murder
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
The true story of the Tara Grant murder.
To their suburban Detroit neighbors, Stephen and Tara Grant were happy as could be. But their marriage, plagued by resentment and extramarital affairs, was held together only by their children. Until the night Stephen snapped, strangled and dismembered his wife, then disposed of her body piece by piece in the very park his children played in.
Restless Souls
The Sharon Tate Family's Account of Stardom, the Manson Murders, and a Crusade for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Restless Souls is the true, bone-chilling chronicle of the Manson Family murders and its aftermath, from the point of view of the victims’ families.
When actress Sharon Tate and four others were brutally murdered by Charles Manson and his followers, the world was shocked. More than forty...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Private Investigating, Third Edition
Discover How the Pros Uncover the Facts and Get to the Truth
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
The mystique of private investigating draws significant numbers of people to consider it as a career or side business. At the same time, individuals want to learn investigative techniques to solve their own personal and legal problems. In The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Private Investigating, Third...
Eye of the Beholder
The Almost Perfect Murder of Anchorwoman Diane Newton King
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
“A fascinating psychological study of an unrepentant murderer” from a New York Times–bestselling author (Library Journal).
Battle Creek, Michigan, is famous as the birthplace of breakfast cereal, and the nearby suburb of Marshall is as wholesome as shredded wheat. Well-known for its colorful...
Blood On The Table
The Greatest Cases of New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008
For almost a century, New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has presided over the dead. Over the years, the OCME has endured everything-political upheavals, ghastly murders, bloody gang wars, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and non-stop battles for power and influence-and remains the final...
Anatomy of Injustice
A Murder Case Gone Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
The book that helped free an innocent man who had spent twenty-seven years on death row.
In January 1982, an elderly white widow was found brutally murdered in the small town of Greenwood, South Carolina. Police immediately arrested Edward Lee Elmore, a semiliterate, mentally retarded black man...
The Killer of Little Shepherds
A True Crime Story and the Birth of Forensic Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
Winner of the Gold Dagger Award
A fascinating true crime story that details the rise of modern forensics and the development of modern criminal investigation.
At the end of the nineteenth century, serial murderer Joseph Vacher terrorized the French countryside, eluding authorities for...
by Sandra Hempel
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
An infamous murder investigation that changed forever the way poisoners were brought to justice.
In the first half of the nineteenth century, an epidemic swept Europe: arsenic poisoning. Available at any corner shop for a few pence, arsenic was so frequently used by potential beneficiaries...
Character and Cops
Ethics in Policing
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Since the first edition was published in 1989, Character and Cops has been considered the bible of police ethics training. The book is a comprehensive guide to the ethical challenges faced daily by police officers, especially in times of heightened security. The updated sixth edition features a new...
The Island of Lost Maps
A True Story of Cartographic Crime
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
The Island of Lost Maps tells the story of a curious crime spree: the theft of scores of valuable centuries-old maps from some of the most prominent research libraries in the United States and Canada. The perpetrator was Gilbert Joseph Bland, Jr., an enigmatic antiques dealer from South Florida, whose...
Bringing Adam Home
The Abduction That Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
“Les Standiford’s account of the decades-long attempt to solve the murder of Adam Walsh is chilling, heartbreaking, hopeful, and as relentlessly suspenseful as anything I’ve ever read. A triumph in every way.”
—Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River
“The most significant missing...
Post-Mortem
Justice at Last for Yvette Budram
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
A jogger running in a field near the perimeter of the African Lion Safari theme park in southern Ontario stumbles across a near-mummified skeleton. The remains are studied at a hospital morgue by a forensic pathologist, a forensic anthropologist and a forensic entomologist (known as "the bug lady")....