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Crime in Southeast Houston was at an all-time high with the highest concentration being along a seven-mile stretch of Telephone Road. This part of Houston was notorious for prostitution, drugs, robberies, burglaries, auto thefts, assaults, murders, police-involved shoot-outs, and all-around mayhem almost on a daily basis. The citizens living in communities just a mere block or two to either side of Telephone Road along its length were living in constant...
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This west London town has its own character-and its own deadly criminal history-from the author of Unsolved Murders of Victorian and Edwardian London. Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths Around Uxbridge takes the reader on a sinister and sad journey through centuries of local crime and conspiracy, meeting victims and villains of all sorts along the way. There is no shortage of harrowing-and revealing-incidents of evil and despair to recount from the earliest...
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Foul Deeds in Islington takes the reader on a sinister journey through a selection of the most shocking and revealing murders committed in this part of north London during the last two centuries. Killers of all kinds are recorded here, from the coolest and most calculating of criminals to ill-starred individuals who struck out in passion or despair or anger. John Eddleston recounts their notorious stories in forensic detail. Police-killers Thomas...
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Bryna Taubman's The Preppy Murder Trial recreates firsthand the case of Robert Chambers-more sensational than any novel.
Taubman follows the 16-month headline-making investigation to the jarring plea bargain that ended a trial marred by accusations of foul play, sexism, and a crumbling jury. Intricate and fascinating, this true crime account explores every facet of Chambers's case-from the real human drama to the questions left unanswered about his...
46) Expert Witness
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The experiences of a real-life CSI with a ton of personality and media presence Forensic scientists are crime-solving sleuths producing slam-dunk evidence and tidy endings all in a day's work...because being a forensic scientist is just like it is on the television, isn't it?
In fact, it's so much more than this.
From examining illegal drugs to collecting pollen samples from corpses, an independent forensic scientist reveals her fascinating world...
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SNITCHING IS WHAT THE GOVERNMENT HAS PERPETUATED AS A MEANS TO SOLVE CRIMES AND ALLOW CRIMINALS TO ESCAPE SENTENCES THAT THEY MAY VERY WELL DESERVE. THIS BOOK IS ABOUT HOW THE STREET GAME HAS NEVER BEEN FAIR. THIS IS THE GUIDE TO HOW IT GOES DOWN. For years the government has afforded criminals the opportunity to race other criminals to the finish line of freedom. It's a game of who can get their attention first as a means to avoid doing long prison...
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This book is the first to examine the battle for public opinion that palm oil faced from the days of Phil Sokolof's American Heart Association (AHA) in the late eighties and the curiously named Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) right up to the present day Greenpeace, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the Friends of the Earth (FOE) and the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) and will analyze how the tables were turned on them.
What was uncovered...
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The Linden Triangle: Linden Avenue and Linden Place, Hempstead, Long Island. At this blighted intersection, seemingly forgotten by the middle and upper class communities that surround it, the dream of suburban comfort and safety has devolved into a nightmare of flying bullets and bloodshed. Here, a war between the Bloods and Crips has torn a once-peaceful neighborhood apart.
The book tells the true story of one year in the life of a suburban village-turned-war-zone....
50) The Vault
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This book , The Vault by Anthony Marini with Kenny Lee is an explosive account of the rise of one of the most successful and controversial clubs in New York City history , and the person responsible for making it all happen. It's not just a story about celebrities and their secret lives but goes deep into police corruption, political corruption, the evolution of the down town New York club scene and the mob involvement in it all!
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Lecumberri was a Mexican Prison. Opened in 1900 and as I am a witness closed August 26, 1976. I arrived on August 24, 1972 around noon. We Americans as well everyone, find ourselves in a world of payoffs, mordidas, bribes, daily handouts, rent on cells, fees for using the shower, a hotplate, a raffle, or other cheap, overt ways to milk money from a captive audience. You have no choice. Most Mexicans hate the place because they, a family member, friend,...
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Lieutenant Randy Sutton's fascinating collection of stories and memories, solicited from law enforcement officers across the country, offers a broad and insightful look at the many facets of police life: courage, exhilaration, frustration, loss, and even humor, from the everyday to the career-defining moments on the job. Told by the cops that lived them, these stories show what it truly means to protect and serve.
Readers will come to recognize the...
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Upon discovering that her great-great aunt was the victim and central figure in one of Illinois's most notorious crimes, author Susan Elmore set out to learn more. She uncovered a perplexing case that resulted in multiple suspects, a lynch mob, charges of perjury and bribery, a failed kidnapping attempt, broken family loyalties, lies, cover-ups, financial devastation, and at least two suicides. In June 1882, when young schoolteacher Emma Bond was...
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On a peaceful August morning in 1985, grim-face FBI agents led a dawn raid on an eighty-acre farm outside Rulo, Nebraska, said to be occupied by a group of religious survivalists led by the charismatic Mike Ryan. What they found on the farm shocked even experience investigators. For months Ryan's Nebraska neighbors spoke in whispers of gunfire in the night, the disappearance of women and children, neo-Nazis and white supremacists. But little did the...
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From Doing Meth Shards to Running Prison Yards is an autobiography of an ordinary, average man from a ghost town in poverty-stricken eastern Kentucky known as Jenkins. It tells the true-life story of how moving to North Carolina to find work tragically ended up finding me addicted to meth and the treacherous and perilous life I lived for nearly a dozen years until the abundance of drug addiction fueled bad choices that finally led me to my consequences--my...
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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...
57) My Life in Crime
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The late 1690 and early 70s may be remembered as the years of the great bank and other armed robberies in Kenya. This is the true story of one of the participants in some of those robberies, John Kiriamiti. In raw and candid language, Kiriamiti tells the story of how he dropped out of secondary school when he was only fifteen years old, and for a time became a novice pickpocket, before graduating into crimes like car-breaking and ultimately into violent...
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This true story will take the reader on a scary ride through the trials and tribulations of a card cheater on the run.
Las Vegas is a gambling mecca that lures in tourists from all over the world, each trying to win money at their favorite casino game. The game of Blackjack or "21" is, played by more tourists than any other casino game.
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One woman's journey through Sydney's criminal underworld, from rookie cop to police whistleblower. She just wanted to be a great cop and do her job well - that's all she'd ever dreamed of. Little did she know the good guys would turn out to be every bit as menacing as the bad ... In 1984, with grand plans to escape her deadbeat family, Deborah Locke graduated as a constable in the NSW Police Force. Young, blonde and pretty, she looked forward to her...
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He Raped. . .
Altemio Sanchez was a modern-day Jekyll and Hyde--a family man who resided in Buffalo, New York, with a wife and two sons, worked nights as a machinist, and concealed a terrible secret. Once a year, after his shift, he'd make a side trip to a secluded spot where women would ride bikes and jog. He was called "The Bike Path Rapist"--until he crossed the line from rape to murder.
He Killed. . .
For fourteen years, the Bike Path Killer mercilessly...
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