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Author
Publisher
Diversion Books, a division of Diversion Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First Diversion Books edition.
Physical Desc
213 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Marion Parker was kidnapped from her Los Angeles school by an unknown assailant on December 15, 1927. Her body appeared days later, delivered to her father by the killer, who fled with the ransom money. When William Hickman was hunted down and charged with the killing, he admitted to all of it, in terrifying detail, but that was only the start….
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
CRIMSON STAIN is the shocking true story of murder in an Old-Order Amish community. The ritualistic murder of Katie Gingerich in rural Pennsylvania set into motion a clash of Amish and modern values about mental illness, domestic violence, and criminal justice. CRIMSON STAIN is a window into the private and mysterious world of the Old-Order Amish. This revised and expanded edition of CRIMSON STAIN tells the shocking and tragic story of the Gingerich...
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
Description
""In this astonishing and powerful work of nonfiction, Green meticulously reports on a series of baffling and brutal crimes targeting gay men. It is an investigation filled with twists and turns, but this is much more than a compelling true crime story. Green has shed light on those whose lives for too long have been forgotten, and rescued an important part of American history." -David Grann, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xvi, 197 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Written by a wrongfully convicted man who spent 16 years on death row and 12 years in solitary confinement, a powerful memoir about fighting for--and winning--exoneration. Infinite Hope is an argument against the death penalty through one man's personalstory. It is about a man enduring a life on death row year after year, when he knows that he is one hundred percent innocent and that his exoneration is unlikely. Anthony Graves' unbelievable saga...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
375 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, photographs ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The prosecutor who convicted murderess Jodi Arias for the disturbing killing of Travis Alexander, speaks for the first time about the shocking investigation and sensational trial that captivated the nation.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Furious Hours is the stunning story of an Alabama serial killer and the true-crime book that Harper Lee worked on obsessively in the years after To Kill a Mockingbird. Reverend Willie Maxwell was a rural preacher accused of murdering five of his family members for insurance money in the 1970s. With the help of a savvy lawyer, he escaped justice for years until a relative shot him dead at the funeral of his last victim. Despite hundreds of witnesses,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Aaron Hernandez's every move as a professional athlete played out in the headlines, yet he led a secret life, one that ended in a maximum-security prison. What drove him to go wrong so fast? Patterson draws on original in-depth reporting to reveal this true story of of a life cut short in the dark shadow of fame.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
517 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Deborah Larkin was only ten years old when the quiet calm of her California suburb was shattered. Thirty miles north, on a quiet November night in Santa Barbara, a pregnant nurse named Olga Duncan disappeared from her apartment. The mystery deepens when it is discovered that Olga’s mother in-law—a deeply manipulative and deceptive woman—had been doing everything in her power to separate Olga and her son, Frank, prior to Olga’s disappearance....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Simon Baatz, the first comprehensive account of the murder that shocked the world.
In 1901 Evelyn Nesbit, a chorus girl in the musical Florodora, dined alone with the architect Stanford White in his townhouse on 24th Street in New York. Nesbit, just sixteen years old, had recently moved to the city. White was forty-seven and a principal in the prominent architectural firm McKim, Mead & White. As the foremost...
Author
Publisher
All Points Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 361 pages ; illustrations : 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The story of the decades-long fight to bring justice to the victims of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, culminating in Sen. Doug Jones' prosecution of the last living bombers. On September 15, 1963, the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama was bombed. The blast killed four young girls and injured twenty-two others. The FBI suspected four particularly radical Ku Klux Klan members. Yet due to reluctant witnesses, a lack of physical...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
x, 291 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 2014, protesters ringed the White House, chanting, "How many black kids will you kill? Michael Brown, Emmett Till!" Why did demonstrators invoke the name of a black boy murdered six decades before? In 1955, white men in the Mississippi Delta lynched a fourteen-year-old from Chicago named Emmett Till. His murder was part of a wave of white terrorism in the wake of the 1954 Supreme Court decision that declared public school segregation unconstitutional....
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
viii, 289 pages ; map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed historian Paul Collins' remarkable true account of a stunning turn-of-the-19th century murder and the trial that ensued -- a showdown in which iconic political rivals Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr joined forces to make sure justice was done.
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Language
English
Description
The true story of Abraham Lincoln's last murder trial, a case in which he had a deep personal involvement--and which played out in the nation's newspapers as he began his presidential campaign At the end of the summer of 1859, twenty-two-year-old Peachy Quinn Harrison went on trial for murder in Springfield, Illinois. Abraham Lincoln, who had been involved in more than three thousand cases--including more than twenty-five murder trials--during his...