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The Making and Influence of I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

by Scott Allen Nollen
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016

Robert E. Burns, a World War I veteran coerced into taking part in a petty crime in Atlanta, Georgia, was sentenced to hard labor on a chain gang in 1922. Twice escaping and on the lam for decades, he was aided only by his minister-poet brother, Vincent G. Burns. Their collaborative work, I Am a Fugitive...

Getting Away With Murder - The Kray Twins were convicted of four murders but in reality the deaths numbered ten

by Lenny Hamilton, Craig Cabell
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2006

One time jewel thief Lenny Hamilton is still a well-known character in the East End. Respected for actually castigating the Kray brothers on television while they were still alive, he wrote his autobiography, Branded by Ronnie Kray, which detailed Lenny's own life and the night when Ronnie Kray branded...

Son: A Psychopath and His Victims

by Jack Olsen
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015

A classic from “the dean of true crime” (The Washington Post)—now with a new foreword—this 1983 masterpiece tells the incredible story of a Spokane, Washington serial rapist who was exposed as the handsome, privileged son of one of the city’s most elite families. For more than two...

The Mafia Hit Man's Daughter

by Linda Scarpa, Linda Rosencrance
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016

**“A riveting look at life inside a Mafia family.”—New York Times bestselling author George Anastasia The world called him a killer. She called him Dad . . .** “We were always worried. Always looking over our shoulders . . .” Linda Scarpa had the best toys, the nicest...

William Corder and the Red Barn Murder

Journeys of the Criminal Body

by S. McCorristine
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014

This study reassesses the criminal body from sentencing to execution and afterlife, using the nineteenth-century Red Barn murder as a case study. Positioned within the burgeoning field of medical humanities, it places culture and power at the centre of debates surrounding criminal justice and public punishment.

Fly, Colton, Fly

The True Story of the Barefoot Bandit

by Jackson Holtz
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011

Exclusive to this edition—a new update on the conviction and sentencing of the Barefoot Bandit Colton Harris-Moore. A teenage outlaw wanted in nine states for more than eighty crimes. For two years he outran authorities - often barefoot. At every step of the way, a frenzied public cheered...

Drug Lord: A True Story

The Life and Death of a Mexican Kingpin

by Terrence E. Poppa
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010

"Drug Lord is the real thing. Raw, immediate, indispensable."-Don Winslow, author of The Power of Dog and California Fire and Life "The [drug smuggling] business goes on, the slaughtered dead pile up, the US agencies continue to ratchet up their budgets, the prisons grow larger...

Gangland

The Rise of the Mexican Drug Cartels from El Paso to Vancouver

by Jerry Langton
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013

A frightening look at Mexico's new power elitethe Mexican drug cartels The members of Mexico's drug cartels are among the criminal underworld's most ambitious and ruthless entrepreneurs. Supplanting the once dominant Colombian cartels, the Mexican drug cartels are now the major distributor...

The Executioner's Men

Los Zetas, Rogue Soldiers, Criminal Entrepreneurs, and the Shadow State They Created

by George W. Grayson
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017

Los Zetas represent a new generation of ruthless, sadistic pragmatists in Mexico and Central America who are impelling a tectonic shift among drug trafficking organizations in the Americas. Mexico's marines have taken down the cartel's top leaders; nevertheless, these capos and their desperados have...

Evil Eyes

by Corey Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006

More victims than Bundy . . . * * In Houston, Texas, on a Sunday morning in spring, Coral Eugene Watts trapped two young women in their apartment. Only hours before, he’d killed another woman by drowning her in her bathtub. As Watts attempted to do the same to 20-year-old Lori Lister, her roommate...

The Westies

Inside New York's Irish Mob

by T. J. English
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011

From a New York Times–bestselling author: A true story of Irish gangsters in Manhattan—“A harrowing account of big city crime” (Library Journal). It’s men like Jimmy Coonan and Mickey Featherstone who gave Hell’s Kitchen its name. In the mid-1970s, these two longtime friends take...

Psycho USA

Famous American Killers You Never Heard Of

by Harold Schechter
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012

AMERICA’S MOST COLD-BLOODED! In the horrifying annals of American crime, the infamous names of brutal killers such as Bundy, Dahmer, Gacy, and Berkowitz are writ large in the imaginations of a public both horrified and hypnotized by their monstrous, murderous acts. But for every celebrity...

Season of Madness

by Robert Scott
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013

California Nightmare. . . Annette Edwards was a vivacious 19-year-old on her way to watch the Fourth of July fireworks. Eighteen-year-old Pam Moore was a former beauty pageant contestant, hitching a ride on a busy street. Linda Slavik was a young mother enjoying a night out with a friend. Annette...

At the Hands of a Stranger

by Lee Butcher
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012

I didn't kill them for any satisfaction. It was distasteful. It was dreadful. Of course, I was able to do it because of my general rage against society. Meredith Emerson was a recent college graduate who disappeared while taking her beloved dog, Ella, for a hike on Georgia's Blood Mountain...