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Crimwife

An Insider’s Account of Love Behind Bars

by Tanya Levin
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012

It’s so sad,” she told me, “because you could have been something. You could have gotten to the top. You’re smart enough. But now you’re going to end up as just another dirty, scummy, rotten crimwife. How far would you go for love? Some women commit crimes to help their lovers, while...
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Practically Perfect

Killers Who Got Away with Murder ... for a While

by Dale Brawn
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2013

A man murders the first four infants he fathers with his lover, then tries again with a fifth. Two men have three things in common: each commits what seems like a perfect murder, each marries his victim's wife far too soon, each has an overdue appointment with the gallows. A man cuts up the body of...
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by Aaron Elliott, Michael Newton, Katherine Ramsland
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014

The debut issue of Serial Killer Quarterly, “21st Century Psychos”, explores seven of the new millennium’s most notorious multiple murder cases and examines how modern technological advancements and political developments are influencing the manner in which serial murder is being articulated....
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Media Circus

A Look at Private Tragedy in the Public Eye

by Kim Goldman
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015

Imagine losing a loved one in the public eye. A media frenzy ensues and spreads your family name through the news. Reporters ambush you, and across the country, strangers gossip about your personal loss. Welcome to the circus. No one understands better than Kim Goldman the complex...
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Evil at the Front Door

Notorious Louisiana

by Ron Franscell, Rebecca Morris
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014

Louisiana – famous for its Mardi Gras, spicy cuisine, and Dixieland jazz – is also the scene of some of the most notorious crimes in the country. Bestselling authors Ron Franscell and Rebecca Morris write about a sultry, Southern beauty who proved to be a deadly hitchhiker; the bloodiest day in New...
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Every Woman's Nightmare

The Fairytale Marriage and Brutal Murder of Lori Hacking

by Steven Long
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007

Well-liked and respected, Mark Hacking came from a highly successful Mormon family. His father was a pediatrician. One of his brothers was also a doctor, and his other brother was an electrical engineer. With acceptances into both George Washington University and University of North Carolina medical...
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by Liz Porter
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011

Cold case investigators scrape back paint in a renovated flat where a murder was committed twelve years earlier, and find a blood stain that leads them to a killer. Scientists extract DNA from crime-scene samples collected in 1973, and a 21st-century hunt for a triple murderer begins. A forensic dentist...
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by John McCoist
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2012

Britain has more than its fair share of criminals, some more evil than others. Behind our prison walls are some of the most feared and dangerous criminals on earth. Sick and twisted delves into the world behind bars, sometimes barbaric and a world we would find hard to comprehend. Behind these bars...
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by Liz Porter
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2007

A crime scene investigator notes the tiny indentations on the fragments of a tin can identified at a bomb site. After months of testing he is able to match them to the can opener that made them - and lead police to the bomb-maker who used it. A forensic dentist documents the marks in chewing...
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by Caroline Maxton
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005

The charming English town of Guildford is built upon centuries of mayhem and madness—from a Game of Thrones–style massacre to mysterious murders.   The twin fascinations of death and villainy will always hold us in their grim but thrilling grip. In Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Guildford,...
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Profiling Serial Killers

And other crimes in South Africa

by Micki Pistorius
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012

The science of profiling is relatively new, having first been used in the United States in the 1940s. It took another twenty years of development and refinement before it was recognised as a valid investigative tool in the apprehension of criminals.
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Infamous Murderers

Maniacs filled with hatred and rage

by Rodney Castleden
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2011

Infamous murderers, their deeds horrifying yet intriguing, have always inspired a strange fascination. Their crimes repulse us, yet the more heinous the act, the more we crave information, and ultimately we elevate the perpetrator to celebrity status. The names of the often random and completely innocent...
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Financial Crime and Knowledge Workers

An Empirical Study of Defense Lawyers and White-Collar Criminals

by Petter Gottschalk
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014

Financial Crime and Knowledge Workers examines the role of lawyers in court cases involving white-collar crimes, revealing fresh insights into the relationship between a lawyer's stature and a case's potential verdict.
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Female Imprisonment

An Ethnography of Everyday Life in Confinement

by Catarina Frois
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017

This book is a reflection on the nature of confinement, experienced by prison inmates as everyday life. It explores the meanings, purposes, and consequences involved with spending every day inside prison. Female Imprisonment results from an ethnographic study carried out in a small prison facility...
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