North Carolina's Triangle region is known for universities, research facilities and politics, but even in such a prosperous, diverse, modern environment, crime helps define the edges. These cases cover several decades of murder, fraud and betrayal. Read about the nation's largest prison escape and a couple of North Carolina's poisoners. From a civil rights-era clash of Old South and New and a suspected Cold War spy to new-tech sleuths and tales of diligent as well as discredited investigators, these stories will keep you entertained and aghast at the dark side of daily life. Crime writer Cathy Pickens explores a collection of headline-grabbing tales that shows the sinister side of the Triangle's cities.
Mystery author Cathy Pickens details an assortment of quirky cases, including a duo of poisoning cases more than one hundred years apart, a band of folk hero swamp outlaws, sex swingers and a couple of mummies.
But this drug addict and ex-con would not let the Fort Worth millionaire control her. For the next month, one man and two women formed a twisted triangle, consumed by greed, sex, and drugs--and ultimately undone by jealousy and murder.
A chilling account of a deadly romantic triangle describes how attorney Michael Fletcher killed his pregnant wife, Leann, to pursue a scandalous illicit love affair with District Judge Susan Chrzanowski. Reissue.
A collection of true crime stories featuring female killers with varying reasons for committing murder.
A veteran journalist examines a teenage lesbian love triangle in Richmond, Virginia, that ended in the brutal murder of eighteen-year-old Stacey Hanna and the efforts to bring to justice her killers, including Kelley "Turtle" Tibbs, her ...
Avery Andres has just been downsized from her job in a law office in a North Carolina city and has returned to her small home town to lick her wounds and consider, with hesitation, trying to set up a law practice there.
Describes how millionaire Bill McLaughlin fell victim to a beautiful gold digger and embezzler who, along with her former NFL linebacker boyfriend, stole from his business and then killed him for his life insurance policy.
"Deeply immersed in the close-knit culture of long-distance running, Pam and Bob Bulik were avid competitors.
From the bestselling author of What You Did comes a true-crime investigation that cast a dark shadow over the Ireland of her childhood. Ireland in the 1990s seemed a safe place for women. With the news dominated by the Troubles, it.
Mitchell followed Derek Moore's car as he drove around to the back alley and parked. The screen door in the back of the place was held open by a large brick or building block. "He's in there," the boy said. Mitchell walked up the steps ...