Carlton Smith: 27 books

Book cover of Reckless

Reckless

Millionaire Record Producer Phil Spector and the Violent Death of Lana Clarkson

by Carlton Smith
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007

In the early morning hours of February 3, 2003, police were summoned to the spooky Alhambra, California castle of legendary music producer Phil Spector. There they discovered the body of actress Lana Clarkson, dying in a chair, shot through the mouth. Spector claimed she had killed herself, but was...
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The Prom Night Murders

A Devoted American Family, their Troubled Son, and a Ghastly Crime

by Carlton Smith
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009

In 1989, a shocking tragedy shattered an otherwise peaceful small Indiana community. Much-admired pastor Robert L. Pelley was found slain in his home. In his basement were the huddled, blood-soaked bodies of his wife and daughters, executed by shotgun at close range. The doors to the house were locked,...
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Dying for Love

The True Story of a Millionaire Dentist, his Unfaithful Wife, and the Affair that Ended in Murder

by Carlton Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011

Dr. John Yelenic was a successful dentist in a small Pennsylvania town. When he met Michele Kamler, he thought he'd finally found the woman of his dreams. She was beautiful, intelligent, and seemed to want all the same things out of life as he did. Michele married Yelenic in 1997. But by 2002, the...
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Seeds of Evil

A True Story of Murder and Money in California

by Carlton Smith
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011

On Easter Sunday, multimillionaire Dale Ewell, his wife, and 24-year-old daughter were gunned down one by one as they returned home from their beach house. The stone-cold killer waited on a sheet of plastic to avoid leaving clues and calmly retrieved all the bullet casings before leaving the house...
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Death of a Doctor

Two Doctors, Obsessive Love, and Murder

by Carlton Smith
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007

Pasadena pediatrician Kevin Paul Anderson was admired and trusted by his wife and patients, and looked up to as a mentor by many of his associates. Handsome, athletic, and established, he was also a magnet for women. Deepti Gupta, a thirty-three-year-old fellow doctor, was the kind of conquest Anderson...
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Mind Games

The True Story of a Psychologist, His Wife, and a Brutal Murder

by Carlton Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2007

A SUCCESSFUL DOCTOR. Dr. Felix Polk was a married psychologist living in Berkeley, California. At forty years old, he had a successful practice and a towering reputation—until he began a scandalous affair with one of his patients: Susan Bolling. She was fifteen years old. A TROUBLED TEENAGE...
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The BTK Murders

Inside the "Bind Torture Kill" Case that Terrified America's Heartland

by Carlton Smith
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007

From 1974 to 1991, someone in the midwestern city of Wichita was leaving behind slain tortured bodies and anonymously proclaiming himself to police and reporters as "BTK" for "Bind, Torture, Kill." Then, for the next 14 years, BTK was silent. But when he began sending letters again,...
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Blood Will Tell

A Shocking True Story of Marriage, Murder, and Fatal Family Secrets

by Carlton Smith
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2003

They Were The Perfect Family. . . For twenty years, Ken and Kristine Fitzhugh and their two sons had lived lives of comfortable middle-class normality in the university town of Palo Alto, California. Then came the shocking news that Kristine Fitzhugh was dead, the victim of a terrible accident......
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Poisoned Love

The True Story of ER Nurse Chaz Higgs, his Ambitious Wife, and a Shocking Murder

by Carlton Smith
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2008

Kathy Augustine was a controversial two-term Nevada State Controller. In 2003, her husband Chuck died of an apparent stroke. Only a month later, she married Chaz Higgs, an ER nurse who, it was later revealed, had attended to her late husband just before his death. Three years later, fifty-year-old...
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Shadows of Evil

Long-haul Trucker Wayne Adam Ford and His Grisly Trail of Rape, Dismemberment, and Murder

by Carlton Smith
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007

Claiming he'd been sent by God to confess, truck driver Wayne Adam Ford walked into the Humbolt County Sheriff's Office and admitted to them that he was a serial killer. After police found a gruesome piece of evidence in Ford's pocket, he told them that he had to be stopped before he killed again,...
Book cover of Blood Money

Blood Money

The Du Pont Heir and the Murder of an Olympic Athlete

by Carlton Smith
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016

The story of an Olympic wrestler allegedly murdered by the wealthy heir to the Du Pont fortune, Blood Money takes readers inside the bizarre owrld of a multi-millionaire, and lays bare the brutal shooting and tense police siege that riveted the nation.
Book cover of African Americans: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide
by Iris Carlton-LaNey, Tanya Smith Brice
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010

This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of social work find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data...
Book cover of The Ignorant Grandfather

The Ignorant Grandfather

Who Has Been Kept Locked in His Closet, Lo—All These Many Years

by Carlton R. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014

Thirty five essays concerning experiences of the author over his lifetime concerning parenting children, counseling and mentoring. Done thru short reads. Situations and explanations are loosely patterned to get people to think logically and more deeply. Shown mostly as dialogs with his children and others remembrances. Essays once started almost compels reading it to completion.
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