True Crime category: 7770 books
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
These excellent reports have been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Contents include: CRS Issue Statement on Organized Crime and Gangs in the U.S. * Combating Gangs: Federal Agencies Have Implemented a Central American Gang Strategy, but Could Strengthen...
Axes of Evil
The True Story of the Ax-Man Murders
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
The ax-man murders of 1912 in Louisiana and Texas leave a bloody trail of evidence that points to the largest, unsolved serial killing in history of the United States. It’s a tale of ritual murder, voodoo mayhem, and wholesale killings that leads the reader on a shocking train ride across two states...
Mountain Madness
A True Story of Murder, Guilt, & Innocence
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
When the police in Oklahoma arrested her husband, Jimmy, on a charge of first degree murder, Jeannie Taylor was certain they had the wrong man. Not only had they been together for seventeen years, but they had three children.However, one's past is never far behind, nor can history ever be erased. Unfortunately...
by Jim Fraser
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Forensic science is a subject of wide fascination. What happens at a crime scene? How does DNA profiling work? How can it help solve crimes that happened 20 years ago?In forensic science, a criminal case can often hinge on a piece of evidence such as a hair, a blood trace, half a footprint, or a tyre...
by Caroline Giammanco
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2015
St. Louis, Missouri, is gripped by a rapid series of twelve bank robberies that leave local and federal authorities completely baffled. Dubbed the 'Boonie Hat Bandit' by the fascinated public, this infamous criminal methodically robs banks in broad daylight leaving no clues, causing everyone...
Fatal Females
13 Cases That Gripped a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Women are supposed to be tender and loving not cold-hearted killers, knife-wielding vampires or gun-toting hijackers. Yet throughout history, theres been no shortage of less than law-abiding ladies. Let journalist Libby-Jane Charleston take you on a chilling journey through a true crime gallery of women...
Serial Killer Case Files Volume 4
Serial Killer Case Files, #4
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
18 Shocking True Crime Stories of the World’s Worst Serial Killers. Included in this volume;
Dennis Nilsen: Known as the British Jeffrey Dahmer, Nilsen strangled at least a dozen young men, cluttering up his tiny apartment with their corpses.
Frank Spisak: A Nazi-obsessed cross dresser...
Empire of Crime
Opium and the Rise of Organized Crime in the British Empire
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Sometimes the best intentions can have the worst results. In 1908, British reformers banned the export of Indian opium to China. As a result, the world price of opium soared to a new high and a century of lucrative drug smuggling began. Just as the banning of alcohol in America during Prohibition...
by Sylvia Shults
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
In the later part of the nineteenth century, Rhoda Derry spent over forty years in the Adams County Poor Farm, curled in a fetal position in a box bed. She had clawed her own eyes out. She had beaten her front teeth in. Her legs had atrophied to the point where she could no longer stand on her own, or...
Pirate Outrages
True Stories of Terror on the China Seas
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Derived from firsthand accounts, newspapers, journals, letters, and telegrams, this daunting compilation divulges authentic piracy stories from the 19th and 20th centuries. Part history, part true crime, this fascinating collection highlights the raids that took place in an area famous for harboring...
by Stefanina Hill
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2014
Charles "Lucky" Luciano was a driving force in the evolution of organized crime. He staged a takeover from the old guard mobsters in the 1930s and remade the criminal world as the National Crime Syndicate with himself occupying one of the seats on The Commission; the committee which was...
Evil in Paradise
A True Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
John trusted Diane--he had no reason not to--so imagine his horror when he woke being violated by the very woman he thought would never hurt him. He didnt understand what was going on, but she simply told him to hush. When the strange nightmare ended, John began to comprehend what had occurred: hed...
Violent Obsession
The Stalker Next Door
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
The Stalker Next Door. The amazing true story of lust, fixation, courage and survival
To her, he was just the boy next door. To him she was something more. They were never lovers. They were never friends. They were never anything more than neighbours. But one day that would all change.
If...
Hands Through Stone
How Clarence Ray Allen Masterminded Murder from Behind Folsom's Prison Walls
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
This fascinating and gripping portrayal is the only book-length account ever written about the illicit career of Clarence Ray Allen, one of the most sinister criminal masterminds and mass murderers in American history. Even hardened detectives were shaken by the scene at Fran's Market in rural Fresno...