Books of True Crime / Murder / General
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1888: London Murders in the Year of the Ripper
By Peter StubleyThere was also no sign of Mr Barber. A description was issued: William Barber, aged thirtyfive, chemist's assistant, height 5ft 8.5in, fair complexion, hair and moustache, nearsighted, dressed in grey jacket, dark trousers and a hard ...
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When Good Kids Kill
By Michael D. KelleherBy this time , Betty Gardner was beside herself with Wendy's unacceptable behavior and demanded that her granddaughter immediately return home . On the evening of December 29 , 1994 , Wendy came back to her grandmother's house ...
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Going Postal: Rage, Murder, and Rebellion: From Reagan's Workplaces to Clinton's Columbine and Beyond
By Mark AmesExploring the rage-murder phenomenon that has both plagued and baffled America for the last three decades, Going Postal offers provocative answers to the oft-asked question, "Why?"American workers and children are...
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Forty Whacks: New Evidence in the Life and Legend of Lizzie Borden
By David Kent"Lizzie Borden is a name that has lived in infamy." "Wasn't this the ghoulish daughter who "took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks" and then "gave her father...
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Bloodletters and Badmen: A Narrative Encyclopedia of American Criminals from the Pilgrims to the Present
By Jay Robert NashThis new edition of Bloodletters and Badmen represents the book's first major revision. Now Jeffrey Dahmer, Charles Keating, David Koresh, John Wayne Gacy and scores of others join Charles Manson,...
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Beyond All Reason: The Crime that Shocked the World--the Story of Two British Ten-year Old Killers and Their Three-year Old...
By David James SmithBeyond All Reason is the book on the shocking true story that has captured headlines around the world. On February 12, 1993, ditching school on a Friday, Jon Venables and...
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Killing Time: The First Full Investigation Into the Unsolved Murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman
By Donald Freed, Raymond P. BriggsThis compelling investigation into the unsolved murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman focuses on the time-frame when the murders occurred - the "killing time", sometime between 10 PM...
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When a Child Kills: Abused Children who Kill Their Parents
By Paul MonesA compassionate yet shattering exploration of the dark world of parricide. Attorney Paul Mones comes to the defense of abused children who kill their parents in this gripping, soul-wrenching, and...
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The Zapruder Film: Reframing JFK's Assassination
By David R. WroneIt is the most famous home movie of all time, the most closely analyzed 26 seconds of film ever shot, the most disturbing visual record of what many have called...
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Final Justice: The True Story of the Richest Man Ever Tried for Murder
By Gregory White Smith, Steven NaifehThe Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of The Mormon Murders reveal the highly controversial legal tactics that convinced jurors to acquit Texas multi-millionaire Cullen Davis of the 1976 fatal shooting of his...
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Good Cop, Bad Cop
By Rebecca H. Cofer, David McElligottA probing look at a multiple murder case in Ithaca, New York, and the perhaps specious justice that resulted reveals how an ambitious police investigator falsified testimony and tampered with...
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Double Jeopardy: Obsession, Murder, and Justice Denied
By Bob HillIt had been more than three years since Brenda Schaefer had disappeared, her car found abandoned along an interstate highway in Louisville, Kentucky. From that rainy night forward, attention had...
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A Deed of Death: The Story Behind the Unsolved Murder of Hollywood Director William Desmond Taylor
By Robert GirouxThree unpublished typescripts of A Deed of death submitted to Alfred A. Knopf, publishers, New York, 1989, two of which bear the title The Taylor murder case with half-title A...
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This Bloody Deed: The Magruder Incident
By Ladd HamiltonThe story of the infamous murder and robbery of Lewiston merchant Lloyd Magruder and his companions during the 1860s gold rush is legendary in Montana, Idaho, and Washington. Ladd Hamilton...
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Jack the Ripper: Summing Up and Verdict
By Colin Wilson, Robin OdellJack the Ripper: Summing Up and Verdict
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The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
By John GrishamJohn Grisham’s first work of nonfiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, is his most extraordinary legal thriller yet.In the major league draft of 1971, the first...
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Brotherly Love: Murder and the Politics of Prejudice in Nineteenth-century Rhode Island
By Tess Hoffmann, Charles HoffmannOn New Year's Eve in 1843, Rhode Island textile manufacturer Amasa Sprague was shot and beaten to death. Within two days, three Irish immigrant brothers - Nicholas, John, and William...
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For a Mother's Love
By Lee ButcherOn March 8, 1991, Dr. Norman Larzelere was finishing his lunch in his quiet, Florida dentist office when a masked gunman burst in, fatally wounded Dr. Larzelere with a shotgun,...
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Return of Assassin John Wilkes Booth
By W. C. JamesonCompelling and revealing information in the form of papers and diaries have recently been found in private collections materials which provide greater insight into the events leading up to the...
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The Intent to Kill: Making Sense of Murder
By Edward GreenA criminologist combines scientific, legal, & literary perspectives to explain how internal & external forces in the life of the individual transform into the intent to kill. The book evaluates...