Crimes category: 7162 books
by Freddie Foreman
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2009
To Britain's criminal underworld, Freddie Foreman is the Godfather. Held responsible for the gangland killings of Ginger Marks and Frank 'The Mad Axeman' Mitchell, he was the punisher to those who broke the underworld's strict code of conduct.Foreman's dramatic kidnap and arrest for Britain's biggest...
The Deadliest Outlaws
The Ketchum Gang and the Wild Bunch, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2009
After Tom Ketchum had been sentenced to death for attempting to hold up a railway train, his attorneys argued that the penalty was cruel and unusual for the offense charged. The appeal failed and he became the first individualand the lastever to be executed for a crime of this sort. He was hanged in...
by Don Lasseter
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1997
"You Get To A Point Where You Can Take Just So Much."
EDMOND, OK-Postal employee Patrick Henry Sherrill fatally shoots 14 co-workers before turning the gun on himself.
ESCONDIDO, CA-Postal employee John Merlin Taylor murders his wife in her sleep before executing 2 colleagues at work.
RIDGEWOOD,...
by James Crosbie, Stephen Richards
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2007
...Within half an hour, the place was buzzing. 'The airport's been shut down.' 'Bank robbers have dumped a car.' 'They've taken hostages.' 'They're tying to get out of the country.' The gossip ranged wide and wild as rumours spread. I got a lift back to the main terminal buildings and spotted our...
Wicked Mr Hall
The Memoirs of the Butler Who Loved to Kill
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Growing up in Glasgow in the 1930s, Roy Archibald Hall was a natural thief. After moving down to London, Hall—who was bisexual—became a familiar figure in the capital's glitzy, underground gay scene. Due to his lucrative criminal career, he led an extravagant lifestyle. Eventually the law caught...
Mommy's Little Girl
Casey Anthony and her Daughter Caylee's Tragic Fate
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
***Please note: This ebook does not contain the photos found in the print edition of this title.***
When news broke of three-year-old Caylee Anthony's disappearance from her home in Florida in July 2008, there was a huge outpouring of sympathy across the nation. The search for Caylee made front-page...
Bitter Almonds
The True Story of Mothers, Daughters and the Seattle Cyanide Murders
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
New York Times bestseller!
Corrected file uploaded July 3, 2015.
Stella Nickell's small-time world was one of big-time dreams. In 1986, her biggest one came true when her husband died during a seizure, making her the beneficiary of a $175,000-plus insurance payoff—until authorities...
by Caitlin Rother
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Reprinted Edition
"Page-turning excitement. . .riveting, fast-paced true crime." —M. William Phelps
On a chilly November afternoon in 1998, a tearful 36-year-old man walked into the Humboldt County Sheriff's Department in Eureka, CA, and confessed to something horrible. "I...
Cold North Killers
Canadian Serial Murder
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2012
There are more than 60 serial murderers in Canadian history. For too long awareness of serial murder in Canada has been confined toWest Coastbutcher Clifford Olson and the "Schoolgirl Murderers" Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka, along with the horrific acts of pig farmer Robert Pickton. Unlike...
The Corpse Had a Familiar Face
Covering Miami, America's Hottest Beat
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2004
For eighteen years, Pulitzer Prize-winner Edna Buchanan had one of the most exciting, frightening, and heartbreaking jobs a newspaperwoman could have -- working the police beat for the Miami Herald. Having covered more crimes than most cops, Buchanan garnered a reputation as a savvy, gritty writer...
by Michael Benson
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
In The Hands Of A Sadist… First, he bound and beat his girlfriend, a 43-year-old librarian. Then he went after her teenaged daughter-warning her, "Scream and I will kill you both"-before knocking her unconscious. When the teenager awoke, he proceded to rape her. And in a final horrifying...
Stalkers
Disturbing True-Life Stories of Harassment, Jealousy and Obsession
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
From shadowy online stalkers to jealous ex-lovers, from obsessed fans to crazed and dangerous criminals, this book probes the innermost instincts of the perpetrators involved in each of these terrifying crimes. Based on revealing interviews with policemen, psychiatrists, and doctors, as well as the...
Murder on a Lonely Road
A Beauty Queen, a Privileged Killer, and a Twenty-Five Year Search for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
A brutal murder that shocked residents of Missouri—and a killer it took 25 years to bring to justice...
On June 17, 1985, twenty-year-old beauty pageant winner Jackie Johns's car was found abandoned, the interior drenched in blood. Four days later, her bludgeoned, nude body was found floating...
Somebody's Daughter
The Hidden Story of America's Prostituted Children and the Battle to Save Them
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
They are America’s forgotten children, the hundreds of thousands of child prostitutes who walk the Las Vegas Strip, the casinos of Atlantic City, the truck stops on interstates, and the street corners of our cities. Many people wrongly believe sex trafficking involves young women from foreign lands....