Crimes Criminals category: 7162 books
Conviction
The Untold Story of Putting Jodi Arias Behind Bars
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Juan Martinez, the fiery prosecutor who convicted notorious murderess Jodi Arias for the disturbing killing of Travis Alexander, speaks for the first time about the shocking investigation and sensational trial that captivated the nation.
Through two trials, America watched with baited breath...
The Good Son
A True Story of Greed, Manipulation, and Cold-Blooded Murder
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Rick and Suzanna Wamsley were well-loved in their Mansfield, Texas, community. Former high-school sweethearts, they provided their two children with every comfort. But their twenty-year-old son, Andrew, had a bitter, rebellious streak...and resented his parents for making him go to college, for not...
Vanished
A Story of betrayal, Murder, and a father's Dying Wish
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Jana Carpenter Koklich and Bruce Koklich seemed like the ideal couple. She was an attractive 41-year-old blonde, the doted-on only child of a once-powerful California state senator. He was the dedicated and loving husband. Together they owned a lucrative Norwalk, California, real estate business,...
Newjack
Guarding Sing Sing
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2010
Acclaimed journalist Ted Conover sets a new standard for bold, in-depth reporting in this first-hand account of life inside the penal system at Sing Sing.
When Ted Conover’s request to shadow a recruit at the New York State Corrections Officer Academy was denied, he decided to apply for a...
by Rick Porrello
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Be sure to see Kill the Irishman—the major motion picture based on Rick Porrello’s true-crime masterpiece!
A modern warrior known as Greene
Was very quick and smart, and mean.
He scrambled hard and fought like hell,
And led a charmed existence.
They shot him down and blew him up
With most...
Death in Texas
A True Story of Marriage, Money, and Murder
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Was he his brother's keeper?
Robert and Doris Angleton seemed to have the perfect life. Until she was coldly murdered in her own home, shot thirteen times in the head, chest, and abdomen...
Suddenly the ideal husband seemed anything but perfect: he was jailed, accused of hiring his older...
by Anabel Hernández
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 28, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 28, 2014
Los señores del narco es una descarnada crónica sobre las alarmantes complicidades de los altos círculos políticos, policiacos, militares y empresariales con el crimen organizado.
Premio Freedom of Speech 2019 por Deutsche Welle.
Esta segunda edición de Los señores del narco, revisada...
Spy
The Inside Story of How the FBI's Robert Hanssen Betrayed America
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2002
Spy tells, for the first time, the full, authoritative story of how FBI agent Robert Hanssen, code name grayday, spied for Russia for twenty-two years in what has been called the “worst intelligence disaster in U.S. history”–and how he was finally caught in an incredible gambit by U.S. intelligence.
David...
If I Can't Have You
Susan Powell, Her Mysterious Disappearance, and the Murder of Her Children
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
In If I Can't Have You, bestselling author Gregg Olsen and co-author Rebecca Morris investigate one of the 21st Century's most puzzling disappearances and how it resulted in the murder of two children by their father.
Every once in a great while a genuine murder mystery unfolds before the eyes...
Without Mercy
The Shocking True Story of a Doctor Who Murdered
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Dr. John Kappler was a well-respected physician in dozens of California hospitals, yet none of his patients ever imagined that his real profession was murder…
The horror began the day he secretly attempted to kill three patients—including a pregnant woman who suffered permanent brain damage...
by Joe McGinniss
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
The shocking true story of greed, murder, and a family torn apart.
At thirty-nine, Nancy Kissel had it all: glamour, gusto, garishly flaunted wealth, and the royal lifestyle of the expatriate wife. Not to mention three young children and what a friend described as "the best marriage in the...
The Stranger In My Bed
The True Story of Marriage, Murder, and the Body in the Box
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
He Found New Brides To Love Him-
All Diane Bertalan really knew of her new husband, John, was that he was a widower, he lavished her with gifts, and he preferred to keep his past a secret. What she didn't know was that the FBI had been watching him for years. In the Fall of 2000, she found out why-it...
by RJ Parker
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2018
Are women really the weaker sex?
When we hear about a Serial Killer, we never consider the sex, we would immediately assume a man...right? But that's not always the case! Females are for the most part, the loving and caring protectors of our species and the ones that are more susceptible to...
Tacoma Confidential
A True Story of Murder, Suicide, and a Police Chief's Secret Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2006
Gig Harbor, WA, a quiet Tacoma suburb, knew little of tragedy and scandal—until April 26, 2003. On that day David Brame, distraught over his impending divorce, shot his wife to death in a busy public parking lot. Then, with the couple’s two children only feet away, he turned the gun on himself.
It...