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The murder of Ron Little Red Beasley is one of the most bizarre homicide cases in Midlands history. This mystery, with a background of macabre events and colorful characters, remained unsolved since 1967. Beasley's murder was originally ruled a suicide,...

With more than one million people crammed into just over twenty-two square miles, Manhattan Island is a petri dish for the study of humanity. From murder and suicide to fatal accidents, death takes myriad forms among the hustle and bustle of the city...

Many decades before Ted Bundy roamed the country there was serial killer Earle Nelson. During the 1920s, this geographically mobile killer went from city to city. His modus operandi involved getting into a house by pretending to be a person looking...

Three days before Christmas in 1831, Frankie Silver killed her husband, Charles Silver, with an axe and burned his body in the fireplace. Author Perry Deane Young, whose ancestors were involved in the case, began collecting material about it as a...

Voice of the Anchorage Times columnist Tom Brennan, author of the best-selling Murder at 40 Below, retells the most dramatic and exciting stories from the confidential files of Alaska's police detectives who investigate murder, mayhem, crimes of passion...

"No writer better articulates ourinterest in the confluence of hope, eccentricity, and the timelessness of the bold and strange than Paul Collins."--DAVE EGGERS On Long Island, a farmer finds a duck pond turned red with blood. On the Lower East Side, two...

The author has served in CBI for more than thirty-six years and has been associated with investigations of various types of cases. Out of his experience, he has found out the loop holes and shortcomings in crime investigation and wants to share the same...

The Back Road Mysteries: Book Two, "The Tower", plunges you into the heart of Craig County, Virginia, where shadows linger and secrets fester. Sheriff Clifford Davidson and his newlywed wife, Janet, are thrust into a harrowing investigation when a...

My name is Susan Sapolis Mahon. I am a psychic medium. In Gifted Momma and Her Guides, I share how I adapted to my intuition to help other psychics feel comfortable in their own bodies as they learn to adapt to their own intuition, and so the chain goes...

Como um exercício social, o autor deste livro reúne alguns dos relatos mais perturbadores de 21 psicopatas condenados à morte e seus sentimentos como um último pedido para poder colocar seus sentimentos mais profundos no...

It is unavoidably fascinating to see what famous killers choose as their last ever meal on planet Earth. In the book that follows we will offer an eclectic mix of famous (and not so famous) criminals from history and reveal what they had for their last...

Where is Brandon Sims? The four-year-old had not been seen since July 3, 1992, when he attended a birthday party with his twenty-year-old mother, Michelle Jones. Jones was employed, confident, talented, smart, assertive and involved in many community...

One morning in July 1974, Anita Andrews, the owner and bartender at Fagiani’s Cocktail Lounge in Napa, California was found dead in her bar–raped, beaten, and stabbed to death in a bloody frenzy. She’d last been seen alive the night...

With Foreword by Zac Stuart-Pontier, producer of CrimetownFor Bobby Walason, the turning point in his life began when he was thrown out of his house at age twelve. It was also the best moment in his short life. Forced to survive on his...

One week prior to Christmas, in a small, Southern town, a fine Christian lady was murdered in her home as she cooked lunch. It was such a shocking occurrence that the entire town of relatives, friends and neighbors went into Silence Mode, and instructed...

On April 22, 1896, Martin Begnaud was brutally murdered in his general store in Scott Station, Louisiana. He was bound, gagged, blindfolded, stabbed more than fifty times, and robbed of over $5,000. Ten months later, after one of the most extensive...

La Vie De Monsieur De Paris, Diacre (1721) de Pierre Boyer est un livre qui raconte l'histoire de la vie de Monsieur de Paris, un diacre c�����l�����bre du XVIIe si�����cle. Le livre commence par une introduction sur la vie de Monsieur de Paris avant de...

At dawn on the outskirts of Paris in 1869, Hortense Kinck lies buried alive and surrounded by five of her children. Violently attacked, tormented and trapped, she sifts through the truths and deceits of her marriage to self-made industrialist, Jean Kinck...

Ramon Sosa’s memoir I Walked on My Own Grave recounts in vivid detail the unbelievable events that led to his wife plotting to have him killed. The boxer turned businessman and motivational speaker faked his own death (complete with pictures from...

The Terrible Truth About the Truth is an all-in-one dramatic, romantic, horrific true story, not without some humour. As a Tutsi who experienced a number of close calls during the Tutsi genocide conducted by extremists Hutus, Emma identifies herself as a...

The Tragedy of Sir Thomas Overbury, written by Richard Savage and first published in 1724, is a play that tells the story of the downfall of Sir Thomas Overbury, a courtier who was imprisoned and eventually died in the Tower of London. The play is set in...

With an extensive increase in the rate of crime all over the world and especially in America, the need to address the underlying causes responsible for this alarming rise has never been more urgent. Since murder stands at the apex of the crime hierarchy,...

"Dark Whisper" is a story for adults that long to be taken on a mental ride of murder and mystery. This book is a reminder that not everyone, nor everything, is as it seems. "Dark Whisper" takes you inside the mind of someone you will never see...

Understand History's Most Enigmatic Serial KillerIn December of 1968, a serial killer began orchestrating a campaign of terror in the San Francisco Bay Area. Not satisfied with the simple act of murder, he taunted law enforcement and the public by...

"Catherine was destined to become several important things to me. But most prominently, she would become my problem-solver. Before I met her, I had a bunch of problems. Then, all of sudden, with her in my life I had only one."Written as a true crime...

Benedict Giamo has published widely on the condition of historical and contemporary homelessness in America. In Homeless Come Home: An Advocate, the Riverbank, and Murder in Topeka, Kansas, Giamo offers a deeply sympathetic yet critical look at the life...

Demetrios (Jim) Angelis does not make for a typical criminal: a religious Greek Orthodox Christian born in Montreal, a law-abiding man, a doting father of two with two master's degrees in administration, who speaks four languages, and who lived in New...

A New Yorker writer investigates the life and career of his hit-man great-uncle and the impact on his family.Growing up in a household as generic as Midwestern Jews get, author Eric Konigsberg always wished there was something different about his family,...

The Chronicles of Bow Street Police Office is a historical book written by Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald and published in 1888. The book provides a detailed account of the Bow Street Police Office, which was the first professional police force in London,...

Murder Along the Cape Fear is the story of Fayetteville and Fort Bragg, North Carolina, during the twentieth century. Seen through the eyes of a native son, this is the tale of one - a distinguished historian - who lived through some of it and heard...

THE EVIDENCE YOU'VE NEVER SEEN:Police Witness Statements InsideFor nearly two decades, authors and documentary-makers have given you their own versions of the Scott Watson evidence, sometimes based on faded memories of people interviewed five or six...

Marcus Hartstein was abused as young boy in Austria by his parents during the second World War. In 1946 he is rescued by a kindly Doctor from the British Sector as suspicion is growing about his mother's death. When his friend and saviour is killed...

This book is the non-fiction account of the events which encompassed a murder and trial at the turn of the century in Ossipee, New Hampshire. When Florence Small's smoldering body rose to the surface of the basement water, local folks immediately...

From the author of Profiling the Criminal Mind comes these true stories of cold cases and true mysteries. A truly compelling collection of adventures from the files of a career police detective and university professor that takes the reader inside the...

Beyond the Gates of Hell: The Untold Stories will provide an in-depth investigative look into a sinister group of Canada's criminal elite, most of whom Correctional Manager Neil MacLean crossed paths with in his twenty-five years within the Correctional...

""Dossier d'un condamn����� ������ mort"" est un livre �����crit par L�����on Bigot en 1871. Il raconte l'histoire d'un homme qui a �����t����� condamn����� ������ mort pour un crime qu'il n'a pas commis. Le livre examine les preuves qui ont �����t�����...

Dr Edward William Pritchard was born in 1825, in Southsea, Hampshire, he was the son of a navy captain and came from a family with distinguished naval connections.On the surface, the doctor was well mannered and respectable. He was a kind and loving...

At midnight on 1 August 1876, PC Nicholas Cock was patrolling his beat in the leafy suburbs of Manchester. Two shots rang out in the dark and the young constable fell to the ground. Irish labourer William Habron was convicted of his murder. Later, in an...

"Finally, an amazingly honest book that details exactly how my brother was set up" - Brad DasseyInnocent people do go to jail. Sometimes mistakes are made. But even more terrifying is when the authorities conspire to frame them. That's what...

True crimes stories-straight from the sourceThis third book in a true crime series continues to explore the side of life most people never see. Evil and Then Some contains more than forty stories of true cases-told from the perspective of law...

Of course Pulitzer Prize winner Jimmy Breslin recognized Burton Kaplan right away as the Mafia witness of the ages. Breslin comes from the same Queens streets as mob bosses John Gotti and Vito Genovese. But even they couldn't match Kaplan in crime--and...