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From a New York Times–bestselling author and former Los Angeles Times reporter, two teens kill their friend, then befriend the girl's family to avoid suspicion. On a beautiful October day in the San Fernando Valley, teenager Missy Avila was lured into the woods, beaten, tortured, and drowned. Missy's best friend, Karen Severson, publicly vowed to find the killer and even moved in with Missy's family to help. Three years later, a surprise witness...
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Foul Deeds Around Crewe takes the reader on a fascinating journey through centuries of local crime and conspiracy, meeting villains of all sorts along the way-casual killers and robbers, murderous husbands and lovers, prostitutes and poisoners. This revealing book recalls many grisly events and sad or unsavoury individuals whose conduct throws a harsh light on the history of Crewe and the surrounding countryside. Among the many acts of wickedness...
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A history of juvenile crime, punishment, and reform in England in the years before, during, and after the era of Charles Dickens. How were juvenile delinquents dealt with in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? What dire circumstances led to their behavior? Were the efforts to curb their criminal tendencies successful? From 1820–1920, ideas about youth and transgression changed dramatically in the United Kingdom. Criminal Children delves...
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This book contains twenty-one separate stories all based in the Newport and district area. This is a coffee table/bedtime story book for the curious. Anyone fascinated by the mindset of a murderer will enjoy this book. Whether you are a budding Miss Marple or an aspiring Morse, inside is a taste of the criminal mind, the effort of detection and the horror of motives. Please do not try this at home!
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The criminal history of Yorkshire has its share of nasty and brutal murders and the majority of these killers have been men. Statistics show that most homicides are men. But the records over the centuries have tales of women killers and in these tales the murders are often cases of poisoning. Stephen Wade has investigated records across the country to find out stories of women in the years between the middle of the eighteenth century and the mid twentieth...
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The journey of Cuttie started early back in New Orleans, when he witnessed countless murders, drug deals, lots of money laundering, and corrupt police and politicians. Cuttie never expected the things that life threw at him while he was trying to get revenge on the kingpin of New Orleans but found bullets flying toward his life.
After the revenge was best served cold, Cuttie started to become the person he didn't want to become. He found himself...
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Historical true crime stories from a town in South Yorkshire, England, with photos included. Ranging from Victorian times to the World War II era, this is a collection of true crime stories from a coal town in England. Whether motivated by passion, greed, or something else, these cases come from a time before modern technology and advances in DNA evidence. They provide fascinating insight into not only the individuals affected by these tragedies,...
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El 8 de junio de 2019, los bomberos encontraron el cuerpo calcinado de un hombre en su casa, en Vilanova i la Geltrú. Unas horas más tarde, su hijo Ismael, de manera espontánea, confesó ante los Mossos d'Esquadra ser el autor material del asesinato: «No he visto otra solución y he tenido que matar a mi padre. Le he clavado un cuchillo por la espalda».
Un caso que parecía resuelto, el mismo día de los hechos, da un giro inesperado para el...
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The criminal cases vividly described by Bernard Lewis in this gripping book take the reader on a journey into the dark secret side of Swanseas long history. The city has been the setting for a series of horrific, bloody, sometimes bizarre incidents over the centuries. From crimes of brutal premeditation to those born of rage or despair, the whole range of human weakness and wickedness is represented here. There are tales of secret passion and betrayal,...
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"Never Answer to a Whistle "It was meant to be a simple task of repossessing an executive jet from Nigeria...Mike became embroiled in a mess created by an English aristocrat involved in illegal currency dealing.At the same time, Mossad agents were plotting the kidnapping of a Nigerian diplomat in Kensington.To escape certain death from two groups of very angry Nigerians, Mike took off from Lagos International Airport, without permission, only to have...
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Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in and Around Durham spans four centuries, with over fifty terrible tales of man's inhumanity to man, which are related in the pages of this book. In the early centuries superstition and ignorance were often the means by which justice was meted out. If it was believed that a crime had taken place, a person could be tried, condemned and hanged by the side of the road on nothing more than the statement of a neighbor....
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Get the Summary of Ann Rule's A Rose for Her Grave in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "A Rose for Her Grave" chronicles the chilling true story of Randy Roth, a man whose manipulative and controlling nature led to the suffering and death of women in his life, echoing the Bluebeard legend. Janis Miranda, a single mother, fell for Randy's charms and married him, despite friends' warnings. As their marriage progressed,...
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Murder and more in the Midlands-true stories of historical crimes in this British city from the 1850s to the 1950s. Includes photos. Within the pages of this book are some of the most notorious and often baffling cases in Leicestershire's history-from the appalling double murder at Melton Mowbray in 1856, known locally as the Peppermint Billy murders, to the 1953 murderer Joseph Reynolds, who killed because he wanted to know how it felt. This book...
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The author of The A-Z of London Murders investigates Jack the Ripper's stalking grounds for even more crimes and killings in England's capital. For centuries London's East End has been associated with some of the worst elements of human depravity, where foul deeds and murder were commonplace; and in 1888 the area's disrepute was added to by the horrific murders committed by Jack the Ripper. The East End was populated by people crammed together in...
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Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths Around Folkestone takes the reader on a sinister journey through the annals of crime in Folkestone, Hythe and the surrounding area. Along the way we meet villains, murderers and victims of many kinds, including cut-throat soldiers, a 'baby farmer', a Jack the Ripper imposter, two inexplicable suicides and five individuals who died violent deaths in the 'House of Horror'.
There is no shortage of harrowing and revealing...
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You may think Richmond, Kingston and the neighbouring districts are prosperous, safe and law-abiding in comparison to the hazardous, crime-prone centre of London, but you would be mistaken. For, as Jonathan Oates shows in this gripping book, appalling crimes have shocked the local community and left their mark on the history of the area over the last two centuries. Among the sensational criminal cases he reconstructs in chilling, forensic detail are...
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Tras más de treinta años como cronista judicial y policial, Carlos Quílez nos presenta, de primera mano y de mano de los presos y expresos, las 18 historias criminales que más le han marcado en su trayectoria profesional y que abarcan desde delincuentes comunes, violadores y asesinos, como Rosa Peral, hasta policías de otras épocas o altos cargos como Sandro Rosell.
Condenados relatos (Más mala vida) es un compendio de historias criminales...
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About the Book The Armenian Genocide traces developments which led to the arrest, detention, and finally, the release of Young Turks and their allies accused of committing war crimes during and after World War 1 against the Christian population of Ottoman Turkey – and most notably Armenians. The primary focus of Walter Bandazian's work concerns the role played by British authorities in the Near East in addressing the Armenian Genocide and initiating...
19) Essex Murders
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The history of Essex has a wicked side-episodes of murder and villainy run through it. In this compelling book Paul Donnelley has selected a dozen of the most revealing and disturbing cases. He reconstructs in vivid detail the casual killing of a police patrolman, the murder of a husband by his wife's lover, the Great Dunmow sleep-walking killing, the infamous Moat Farm murder of Saffron Walden and the explosive death of Archibald Brown. He also delves...
20) Bra over Jumper
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Michael, 47 years of age, is living on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, in a beautiful part of Australia. However, his life is not always cheerful. After fifteen years of marriage, his wife Tina wants to split up and stay in their house. Fortunately, he finds a small rental property and keeps the company of his beloved dog. But he becomes increasingly worried about his mother in Brisbane, since she suffers from Alzheimer's disease. One day she almost...
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