Murder category: 3028 books
by Burl Barer
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
She Offered Her Body. . .
Jimmy Joste was a powerhouse in the oil and gas industry, but he was a weakling when it came to his gorgeous, athletic, longtime lover, Rhonda Glover. Addicted to her sexual prowess and madly in love, Joste gave her homes, cars, cash, and a $350,000 engagement ring.
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Brady and Hindley
Genesis of the Moors Murders
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
The shocking true crime story of child murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, Great Britain’s most horrific serial killers.
During the early 1960s, just as Beatlemania was exploding throughout the United Kingdom, a pair of psychopathic British killers began preying on the very young, innocent,...
In Her Prime
The Murder of a Political Star
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
On July 8, 2006, Reno critical nurse Chaz Higgs called 911 to report that his wife wasn’t breathing. His wife, Nevada state controller Kathy Augustine, was one of Nevada’s best-known—and most notorious—politicians. Impeached in 2004 for campaign ethics violations, she’d been allowed to serve...
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse
The Story of Leonard Peltier and the FBI's War on the American Indian Movement
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1992
An “indescribably touching, extraordinarily intelligent" (Los Angeles Times Book Review) chronicle of a fatal gun-battle between FBI agents and American Indian Movement activists by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014), author of the National Book Award-winning The Snow Leopard and...
by John Kerr and Ray Mooney
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
The verdict in the Walsh Street trial was all four not guilty. Repeat not guilty. All units are warned - keep yourselves under control. Radio newsflash message to all State police. The killings called Walsh Street arose when police and armed robbers went to war. Both sides, convinced the other started...
by Linda Stratmann
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Examining the stories behind some of the most notorious murders in Kent’s history, Linda Stratmann re-examines some of the historic crimes that shocked not only the county but Britain as a whole. Among the gruesome cases featured here are the doctor who was poisoned with morphine in Faversham; the...
by Marvin J. Wolf, Katherine Mader
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
Rotten Apples is a thoroughly investigated treasure of true crime straight from the streets of The City that Never Sleeps. This bushel of vice, victims, and vengeance spotlights sinister citizens from Boss Tweed and Typhoid Mary to Mark David Chapman and Jack Henry Abbot, plus detailed map references...
Prisoners at the Bar: An Account of the Trials of the William Haywood Case,
the Sacco-Vanzetti Case, the Loeb-Leopold Case, the Bruno Hauptmann Case
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Originally published in 1952, here a distinguished trial lawyer makes you a participant in the high drama of four notable twentieth-century American criminal cases.
You are on the scenes of the crimes; you accompany the detectives investigating them, and in your most important role you sit...
Victim
The Other Side of Murder
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
The New York Times–bestselling author’s pioneering true crime classic: It’s “Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood turned inside out” (Newsweek).
During an armed robbery in 1974, five hostages were held in the basement of a small home-audio store in Ogden, Utah, by a group of enlisted US...
Cries in the Desert
The Shocking True Story of a Sadistic Torturer
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
In the fall of 1999, a twenty-two-year-old woman was discovered naked and bleeding on the streets of a small New Mexico town south of Albuquerque. She was chained to a padlocked metal collar. The tale she told authorties--of being beaten, raped, and tortured with electric shock--was unthinkable. Until...
Never Leave Me
A True Story of Marriage, Deception, and Brutal Murder
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
In a quiet community of million dollar homes and shiny SUVs, the Nyce family projected the very image of success. Dr. Jonathan Nyce, an asthma sufferer, had achieved medical breakthroughs that made him rich—and offered hope to countless people. Michelle's beauty made her an object of desire. And...
Cradle of Death
The Chilling Story of a Mother, Multiple Murder, and SIDS
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Ten Babies. Eight Murders. One Woman to Blame: Their Mother
In March of 1949, a healthy baby boy named Richard Noe entered this world. Thirty-one days later, he left it -- found dead in his parents' bedroom in a working-class Philadelphia neighborhood. Over the next nineteen years, all nine of Marie...
The Doctor's Wife
A True Story of Marriage, Deception and Two Gruesome Murders
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
For months, the young son of Bart and Jennifer Corbin had told people that he was afraid of violence in their posh, suburban Georgia home. Then, on the morning of December 4, 2004, neighbors found seven-year-old Dalton Corbin at their front door sobbing. Until then no one could have seen what was...
My Sweet Angel
The True Story of Lacey Spears, the Seemingly Perfect Mother Who Murdered Her Son in Cold Blood
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Lacey Spears made international headlines in January 2015 when she was charged with the “depraved mind” murder of her five-year-old son Garnett. Prosecutors alleged that the 27-year old mother had poisoned him with high concentrations of salt through his stomach tube.
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