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So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Wrong Carlos: Anatomy of a Wrongful Execution tells you what you need to know-before or after you read James S. Liebman and the Columbia DeLuna Project's book. This short summary and analysis of The Wrong Carlos: Anatomy of a Wrongful Execution by James S. Liebman and the Columbia DeLuna Project includes: Historical context. Chapter-by-chapter summaries, detailed timeline of important events,...
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Marie-Alexandrine Petitjean, Veuve Becker (Belgique, 1879-1942), onze victimes : dix femmes et un homme.
Henry-Désiré Landru (France, 1869-1922), onze victimes : dix femmes et un homme.
À quelques années près, ils sont contemporains. Leur parcours criminel est identique.
Ils sont sociables, s'y entendent à cajoler leurs proies avant de les tuer, raflant leurs biens pour faire bonne mesure. Tous deux furent condamnés à la peine capitale...
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James Edward Wood was one of the most unassuming men that you could ever meet. He was the type of person that if you passed by him on the street, you would never know his true agenda was much darker than what appeared. The life of James Wood is largely considered to be that of a true psychopath with no conscience. While the overall depths of his crimes is largely speculation, what is known of his crimes was enough to have him sentenced to death in...
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Young girl's panties started to go missing; sexual assaults began to occur, and then female bodies were, found! Soon this quiet town of Tweed, Ontario, was in panic. What's even more shocking was, when an upstanding resident stood accused of the assaults. This was not just any man, but a pillar of the community; a decorated military pilot, who had flown Canadian Forces VIP aircraft for dignitaries such as the Queen of England, Prince Philip, the governor...
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From the bestselling author of Pop Goes the Weasel, Red Herrings, New World Order, 9/11 Conspiracy and many more.
Robert Kennedy, JFK and the Death of Marilyn Monroe.
Who Didn't Kill Them? For five decades, the world has been, told that the killers of John F Kennedy and his brother Bobby were either already dead or languishing in prison.
Lee Harvey Oswald was shot the day after the assassination but the Warren Commission, set up to investigate...
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The 1917 election of Mayor George Luis Baker ushered a long era of unscrupulous greed into Portland government. While supposedly enforcing prohibition laws, Baker ordered police chief Leon Jenkins to control and profit from the bootlegging market. Baker filled city coffers and his friends' pockets with booze-soaked cash while sensational headlines like the 1929 affair between policeman Bill Breuning and informant Anna Schrader scandalized the city....
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Murders in any form, and the more gruesome the better, hold a morbid fascination to the British public but never more so than when the bodies of the victims are never found. Aside from the lack of closure for relatives and friends, this factor creates problems for police and prosecutors and has macabre appeal for the public.
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So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Helter Skelter tells you what you need to know-before or after you read Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Genry's book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader. This summary of Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi with Curt Gentry includes: • Historical context • Section-by-section overviews • Detailed timeline...
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While the River City is known for its history of furniture making, it also has a sinister side. Jennie Flood was a widow with a get-rich scheme that involved a shotgun and an insurance application. Reverend Ferris went undercover in his war against the city's purveyors of vice. The police rounded up the usual suspects in an attempt to solve the infamous 1921 bank heist that led to the slaying of two detectives. And the death of a teenager exposed...
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In 2020, after the longest and most expensive trial in Western Australian history, Bradley Robert Edwards was convicted of two of the Claremont Serial Killings, a series of unsolved murders that had haunted the state since the mid-1990s. But before he went to trial, before he started killing, Edwards violently assaulted a social worker while he was working on the telephone system at Hollywood Hospital. Not only did Edwards keep his job, but he was...
3011) Wicked Fairfax County
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Fairfax County is far more than just a bedroom community for Washington, D.C. The county has been the site of crimes as shocking and fascinating as anything that happens across the Potomac. In 1898, troops from a Spanish-American War training camp looted their way across the area, even robbing a few graves. The twentieth century brought horrific murders, hysteria over a hatchet-wielding rabbit and an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus. The tenacity...
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Robert Maudsley casually walked into the cell of another inmate, who was sleeping on his bunk facedown. A savage rage quickly took over, and Maudsley started stabbing the back of the man's head. There was blood, pieces of brain, and chunks of hair flying in a fury. After the man went limp, Maudsley grabbed the man's head and held it in both palms and started to smash it against the walls of the cell, so hard that the plaster began to fall off the...
3013) When Love Kills
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We will explore the cases of 8 parents who decided to kill their own children. We will look deep inside the lives of the killers. We will find out what caused them to commit such a horrific crime against the very people that they were supposed to protect. We hope that this book will alert others to keep a vigilant eye on the children and parents in their communities and hopefully prevent the next killing from happening.
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The Kray twins were Britain's most notorious gangsters. Ruling London's underworld for more than a decade, as gang lords they were among the most powerful and feared men in the city. Photographed by David Bailey and even interviewed for television, they became celebrities in their own right and are infamous to this day.
Ronnie and Reg's reign of terror ended on 8 March 1969 when they were sentenced to life with the recommendation that they serve at...
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From his arrest until his execution in 1989, Ted Bundy was interviewed extensively by psychologists, journalists, and law enforcement. He offered insight into the thoughts and methods of other serial killers. It wasn't until the last few days of his life that he confessed to some of his crimes, which he attributed to a mysterious Entity he claimed compelled him to kill.
Dr. Al Carlisle, Ph.D., evaluated Bundy for the Utah court in 1976. Ever since,...
3016) Mother's Day
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The gruesome true story of a murderous modern-day Medea. In June of 1985, Theresa Cross Knorr, with the help of her teenage sons, dumped the body of her daughter Sheila in California's desolate High Sierra. Knorr had beaten Sheila unconscious 3 days earlier, then locked her in a closet to die. This unbelievable yet true tale of a monstrous, abusive mother murdering not 1 but 2 of her children is almost too horrific to describe. The previous summer,...
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Pamela Perillo was set to die on March 24, 1996.Convicted of capital murder in 1980, Pamela sat on Texas's Death Row awaiting lethal injection. But less than two days before her scheduled execution, she was given a second chance, and in 2000, she was resentenced: from death to life in prison with the possibility of parole. Her first chance at new life had come shortly after her arrest, when Pamela embraced the Christian faith and began bringing her...
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Bestselling true crime author Edward Butts presents a rogues' gallery of desperadoes whose crimes range from robbery to murder. English bank robbers on the run turn up in Newfoundland. A legendary Nova Scotia detective matches wits with smugglers. In the West the Mounties track down bandits and rustlers. Vancouver police officers hunt down the bank-robbing Hyslop Gang in the 1930s. A decade later the Polka Dot Gang rampages across Southern Ontario....
3019) Murder in the Prairies
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On a warm evening in May 1962, twenty-three-year-old nurse and beauty queen Alexandra Wiwcharuk, was brutally murdered, and buried alive in a shallow grave by the South Saskatchewan River.
It is a murder that has been investigated for decades, but is still considered unsolved. Alexandra Wiwcharuk had been a beautiful and intelligent young woman in the prime of her life, and had recently been serenaded by Johnny Cash in front of a crowd of more than...
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The true crime story of a father's murder and a daughter's discovery of his Jekyll-and-Hyde double-life in pursuit of his killer.
Denise Wallace had spent years hiding deadly secrets about her enigmatic father, Wesley Wallace. Wes was a trusted security guard of the Ritz Carlton Palm Beach. He was supposed to protect those who found themselves in his care. But a closer look into his brutal murder revealed a split personality-one that his daughter...
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