Crimes category: 7162 books
When the Husband is the Suspect
From Sam Shepperd to Scott Peterson - The Public's Passion for Spousal Homicide
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008
From the bestselling author of The Defense Never Rests, a look at the modern spate of spousal homicides.
This book provides an overview of several of the most famous homicidal husband cases of recent years, including:
- Sam Sheppard, who inspired the TV series and movie The Fugitive
-...
Murder in Sin City
Death of a Casino Boss
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
The reckless heir to the Horseshoe Club fortune, fifty-five-year-old Vegas casino boss Ted Binionlived the high life constantly teetering on the edge—surrounding himself with guns, heroin, cash, babes and mobsters. But it was a beautiful ex-stripper and her new lover who gave him the final, fatal...
Can You Help Me Solve This Crime?
A Widow's Scrapbook
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Please read the first chapter of the book Life Is Not Fair to get a better understanding of my biography.
Before I grew up and met my husband, I had a typical childhood, with six brothers and four sisters, me being the middle child of eleven children. We lived on a forty acre farm in a small suburb...
by Mardi Link
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018
In this page-turning true-life whodunit, author Mardi Link looks into the cold-case files of the murders of a wealthy Detroit-area family in their northern Michigan cabin in 1968, detailing and reviewing all the evidence to date. She crafts her book around police and court documents and historical...
by Ty Treadwell and Michelle Vernon
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2011
One condemned man requested 24 tacos, 6 enchiladas, and 6 tostadas. Another wanted wild rabbit, biscuits, and blackberry pie. And a two-time murderer asked for a can of SpaghettiOs then complained to the press when he didn't get it!
Newly revised and updated, the 10th Anniversary Edition of...
The Boy on the Bicycle
A Forgotten Case of Wrongful Conviction in Toronto
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
On the night of September 15, 1956, seven-year-old Wayne Mallette, was brutally murdered on the grounds of the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto. The chief suspect was a “boy on a bicycle” seen pedalling away from the CNE.
Investigators zeroed on 14-year-old Ronald Moffatt, a former...
Who Killed These Girls?
Cold Case: The Yogurt Shop Murders
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
From the author of Crossed Over, another masterful account of a horrible crime: the murder of four girls, countless other ruined lives, and the evolving complications of the justice system that frustrated the massive attempts--for twenty-five years now--to find and punish those who committed it.
The...
by John Lonergan
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2010
In his talks to communities throughout the length and breath of Ireland, John Lonergan finds himself coming back to one theme: the importance of kindness. It is an unexpected theme for the former boss of Ireland's biggest and toughest prison, Mountjoy, but then John Lonergan is an unusual man.
John...
Unmaking a Murder
The Mysterious Death of Anna-Jane Cheney
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
An investigation into an intriguing murder case and an unprecedented account of how the decisions made by organs of government can be defended and mistakes covered up.
Anna-Jane Cheney worked at the epicentre of the conservative Adelaide legal community. She was vivacious, popular and talented,...
Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Why Britain's Prisons Are Failing
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012
At the heart of his book is his conclusion that prison simply does not work, failing on three fundamental levels. The view of the popular media is that when prisoners are locked up they cannot commit crime. This is not true. Podmore shows how crime actually proliferates in prison, how serious organised...
Blood Secrets
Chronicles of a Crime Scene Reconstructionist
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
Blood Secrets reveals how forensic experts read the story of a murder told in the traces of blood left behind, providing crucial evidence that has helped convict criminals who might have otherwise walked free.
When Rod Englert began his career in law enforcement, virtually no police force in...
The Story of Dan Bright
Crime, Corruption and Injustice in the Crescent City
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Everybody knows New Orleans, but nobody knows this New Orleans. At sixteen years old, Dan Bright was the head of a New Orleans drug empire. As his operation grew, it was only a matter of time before he attracted the attention of the criminal justice system, which would stop at nothing―including framing...
The Scottsboro Boys in Their Own Words
Selected Letters, 1931-1950
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
This is a collection of letters written by the nine African American defendants in the infamous March 1931 Scottsboro, Alabama, rape case. Though most of the defendants were barely literate and all were teenagers when incarcerated, over the course of almost two decades in prison they learned the rudiments...
Crimelord: The Licensee
The True Story of Tam McGraw
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
Crimelord is the gripping life story of elusive multimillionaire gangster Tam McGraw. A notorious criminal kingpin, McGraw has risen from extreme poverty in the East End of Glasgow to become one of Scotland's wealthiest men.
When hash started to flood into Scotland from the late 1980s onwards,...