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Murder in Memphis: The True Story of a Family's Quest for Justice

Murder in Memphis: The True Story of a Family's Quest for Justice

by Dorris D. Porch

The true story of a family's quest for justice. The murder of mother-of-two Debbie Groseclose resulted in death sentences for the killers and her charming naval recruiter husband, who hired them. But over twenty years later, the Groseclose family's ordeal to see justice done is far from over.

Homicide : 100 Years of Murder in America

Homicide : 100 Years of Murder in America

by Gini Graham Scott

Presented chronologically, these true accoun ts provide readers with a fascinating glimpse into the evolv ing state of crime investigation in America. Interviews with suspects, witnesses and investigators are incorporated in t he text. '

The Ghosts of Hopewell: Setting the Record Straight in the Lindbergh Case

The Ghosts of Hopewell: Setting the Record Straight in the Lindbergh Case

by Jim Fisher

A ground-breaking study of the Lindbergh case re-opens the "trial of the century" only to firmly establish Bruno Hauptmann's guilt, which was questioned by revisionists in the 1970s.

Mom, Dad, Mike and PattieBonnie Remsberg

Mom, Dad, Mike and Pattie

by Bonnie Remsberg

An account of the murder of Frank and Mary Columbo and their young son describes how their daughter Patty, with help from her much-older lover, butchered her family in cold blood.

A Perversion of Justice: A Southern Tragedy of Murder, Lies and Innocence Betrayed

A Perversion of Justice: A Southern Tragedy of Murder, Lies and Innocence Betrayed

by Kathryn Medico

Between Innocence and Guilt are a Hundred Shades of Evil The accused killers were children: 12-year-old Alex King and his brother Derek, one year older, the two youngest defendants ever to stand trial for murder in Florida's history. The boys had already confessed to the brutal slaying of Terry King, their own father, who was beaten to death with a baseball bat on a November night on the outskirts of Pensacola.... (more)

The Hall-Mills Murder Case: The Minister and the Choir Singer

The Hall-Mills Murder Case: The Minister and the Choir Singer

by William M. Kunstler

On Saturday, September 16, 1922, the bodies of Edward Hall, a handsome Episcopal rector, and Eleanor Mills, his choir singer and lover, were found near a lovers' lane in New Jersey. Four years later, the minister's widow and her brothers were tried for the murders and acquitted. Renowned criminal lawyer William M. Kunstler tells the tale.

Blood Relative: Portrait of a Mass MurderCrocker Stephenson

Blood Relative: Portrait of a Mass Murder

by Crocker Stephenson

In a slight, insignificant true crime study, Milwaukee Sentinel reporter Stephenson, who covered this 1987 case for his paper, here recreates the murders of five members of the Kunz family, residents of impoverished, rural central Wisconsin. The family first made the news in 1905, when a son adjudged insane killed his mother. Their descendants were reclusive and semi-literate, living in a ramshackle house overrun... (more)

Basement: True Story of Violence in an American FamilyKate Millett

Basement: True Story of Violence in an American Family

by Kate Millett

Radical feminist Millett, who discontinued lithium medication despite affliction with manic depression, tracks her degenerative mental state, the discontent it fostered in the lesbian artists' colony at her Poughkeepsie, N.Y., farm, and the attempts of relatives and friends to institutionalize her. PW called this memoir "prolix and digressive, fractured and brave." Touchstone is also bringing out an edition of... (more)

Don't Call Us Molls: Women of the John Dillinger Gang

Don't Call Us Molls: Women of the John Dillinger Gang

by Ellen Poulsen

Buried under decades of stereotype and parody, the true history of the female companions of the Great Depression's bank-robbing gang is uncovered. Don't Call Us Molls carefully examines the legacy of the Dillinger women using eyewitness and descendants' accounts as well as courtroom and prison records. This book explores the collective experience of these fugitives and offers a thoughtful, well-informed commentary... (more)

The Enigma Woman: The Death Sentence of Nellie May Madison (Women in the West)

The Enigma Woman: The Death Sentence of Nellie May Madison (Women in the West)

by Kathleen A. Cairns

“Crack shot.” “Enigma woman.” “Good with ponies and pistols.” “A much-married woman.” What if such an unconventional woman—and the press unanimously agreed that Nellie May Madison was indeed unconventional—were to get away with murder? Shortly after her husband’s bullet-riddled body was found in the couple’s Burbank apartment, police issued an all-points bulletin for the “beautiful, dark-haired widow.” The... (more)

A Checklist for Murder

by Anthony Flacco

Recounts the story of the Peernock family and the cruelty and abuse that young Natasha and her mother suffered at the hands of Robert Peernock, and describes the sensational court trial that nearly resulted in the perpetrator's release.

Someone Has To Die Tonight

by Jim Greenhill

Lords Of Chaos It was big news in Ft. Myers, Florida when an abandoned historic building was destroyed by vandals in a spectacular blast. Behind it lay the Lords of Chaos, a band of teenage misfits led by Kevin Foster, 18, a vicious hatemonger who idolized Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh and was known as "God" to his five-man gang. Vortex Of Violence The explosion was only one episode in a... (more)

Blood Relations/the Exclusive Inside Story of the Benson Family MurdersJohn Greenya

Blood Relations/the Exclusive Inside Story of the Benson Family Murders

by John Greenya

Glensheen's Daughter, The Marjorie Congdon Story

Glensheen's Daughter, The Marjorie Congdon Story

by Sharon Darby Hendry

Two horrific murders shocked the state of Minnesota as the bodies of heiress Elisabeth Congdon and her night nurse, Velma Pietila, were discovered in Glensheen Mansion. Suspicions soon turned to Elisabeth's beloved adopted daughter, Marjorie, and her insatiable desire for wealth.

Mostly Murder

by Sydney Smith

Property Of Folsom Wolf

by Don Lasseter

An investigative reporter documents the vicious crimes of Greg Marlow and his lover, Cynthia Coffman, who joined Marlow on a cross-country crime odyssey that ended in the torture, rape, and murder of two young California women. Original.

Toxic Love

by Tomas Guillen

Recounts the disturbing and seemingly unexplainable deaths of a truck driver and his infant nephew to a condition that soon threatened their entire family before an Omaha police officer began to suspect a murderer.

Blood Highway

by Sheila Johnson

Recounts the horrifc true story and arrest of Hayward Bissell, a four-hundred-pound man who went on a murderous rampage down an Alabama highway, leaving a trail of carnage that included the mutilated body of his pregnant girlfriend. Original.

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by Chet Dettlinger

Chain of Evidence: A True Story of Law Enforcement and One Woman's BraveryMichael Detroit

Chain of Evidence: A True Story of Law Enforcement and One Woman's Bravery

by Michael Detroit

Chronicles the daring efforts of Victoria Seele of Orange County, California, who, as a rookie detective, went undercover to infiltrate the Hell's Angels and amassed substantial evidence about their illegal activities. Reprint. K.

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