Crimes category: 7162 books
by Keven McQueen
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2009
The author of Horror in the Heartland delves deep into the dark and sordid annals of the region where Hoosier history began.
Prepare to take a tour of some dark, strange moments of southern Indiana’s history. From the scheming wife who wanted her dull husband out of the way to make room for...
People Wasn't Made to Burn
A True Story of Housing, Race, and Murder in Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
A unique study of civil rights struggle in the North in the 1940s
A long-hidden story not previously written about
A sympathetic story as jobs, housing, and economic stability become scarce
Ben Shahn, an artist of the Social Realism art movement important in the U.S. during the...
Murder Among the Mighty
Celebrity Sightings That Shocked America
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 1983
In this riveting book of celebrity murders Jay Robert Nash provides keen insights into the mind of the murderer, and has carefully researched each murder to bring new facts to light. He devotes a chapter to each celebrity murder spanning from the slaying of Big Jim Fisk in 1872 up through the poisoning...
Slipping into the Shadows
Junkies, Prostitutes, Con Artists
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2004
In every large city, there are marginal, criminal types who live on the fringes of the society. They are faceless, ignored or feared. The author had worked and lived in their East Harlem, New York neighborhood. Through a series of in-depth interviews he attempts to give them a human face.
These...
by David Meade
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Right now elements of the Unelected Shadow Government are actively attempting to overthrow President Donald J. Trump. This book explores the covert background of the Deep State and the history of who is behind these clandestine operations against the President. It also reveals who funds them and explains...
Double Cross
The Explosive Inside Story of the Mobster Who Controlled America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
One of the most feared Chicago mobsters Sam Giancana clawed his way to the top of the Mafia hierarchy by starting as a hit man for Al Capone. He was known as one of the best vehicle escape artists, a tenacious business man, and a ruthless killer. He partied with major stars such as Frank Sinatra and...
The Tangled Web
The Life and Death of Richard Cain—Chicago Cop and Hitman
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
The notorious life and mysterious death of the man the FBI described as “possibly the most corrupt police official in the history of Chicago.”
Det. Richard Cain is one of the most notorious figures in Gangland history. Leading a double life, Cain was both a chief investigator for the Chicago...
Cold-Blooded
A True Story of Love, Lies, Greed, and Murder
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
From a New York Times–bestselling journalist: The story of the murder of a California attorney at the hands of the lethally cunning wife he never doubted.
A wealthy and well-connected legal ace and the proud owner of a champion show horse, Larry McNabney had every reason to love his life....
The Blackpool Rock
Guns, Gangs and Door Wars in Britain's Wildest Town
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
To the police he was public enemy number one. To drunken gangs of yobs intent on trouble, he was a nightmare come true. Steve Sinclair was the tougest doorman in the wildest resort in Britain - and if you crossed him, payback was swift and certain. The Blackpool Rock is a candid insight into the dangerous...
Generation Oxy
From High School Wrestlers to Pain Pill Kingpins
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Generation Oxy is the story of a group of friends—clean cut, all-American high school kids—who stumbled into the Sunshine State’s murky underworld of illegal pill mills and corrupt doctors. This teenage criminal enterprise ultimately shipped hundreds of thousands of OxyContins and other prescription...
Violent Mind
The 1976 Psychological Assessment of Ted Bundy
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Ted Bundy was convicted of Aggravated Kidnapping. But was he violent?
In March 1976, Ted Bundy was convicted of the aggravated kidnapping of a young woman near Salt Lake City, Utah. Bundy had not been accused or convicted of any violent crime except this one. No one knew then how many women...
The Trigger
Narratives of the American Shooter
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Six moving profiles reveal the complex realities behind gun violence in the United States. These are the stories of the shooters.
In South Carolina, a young man embarks on a life of crime that culminates in a drug-related shooting and decades in prison; in Chicago, an off-duty police officer...
The Manson Women and Me
Monsters, Morality, and Murder
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
The Manson Women and Me
In the summer of 1969, Leslie Van Houten and Patricia Krenwinkel carried out horrific acts of butchery on the orders of the charismatic cult leader Charles Manson. But to anyone who knew them growing up, they were bright, promising girls, seemingly incapable of such...
The Big Heist
The Real Story of the Lufthansa Heist, the Mafia, and Murder
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
“A comprehensive account of the legendary 1978 heist . . . impressive.”
—Kirkus Reviews
The crime that inspired the movie Goodfellas.
The rest of the story that couldn’t be told—until now.
One of the biggest scores in Mafia history, the Lufthansa Airlines heist of 1978 has become...