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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
Presents a true account of the early twentieth-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.
4) Murder in the court room: a true story of sexual compulsion, judicial misconduct and homicidal rage
Author
Publisher
Windy Knoll Productions
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
322 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1954, Norman Moon stood up in court in the town of Warren, Pennsylvania and pulled out a Colt .45 automatic. Six shots were fired, leaving Judge Allison Wade dead on the courtroom floor. The author reconstructs the story based on first-hand testimony that reveals a portrait of marital infidelity and small town corruption.
Author
Series
Ann Rule's crime files volume 16
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Pocket Books paperback ed.
Physical Desc
xvii, 513 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ann Rule provides inside views of both headlined and little-known homicides and speaks for vulnerable victims who relied on the wrong people.
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
223 p.
Language
English
Description
In the Ural mountains of the Soviet Union in January of 1959 nine hikers set out on a winter excursion. In February a search party finds their bodies: some are burned; some have crushed ribs; some are missing their eyes and one is missing her tongue. This book explores the question of what happened to these experienced hikers and why they left their warm shelter to venture half-clothed into the freezing Siberian winter.
Author
Language
English
Description
Aaron Hernandez's every move as a professional athlete played out in the headlines, yet he led a secret life, one that ended in a maximum-security prison. What drove him to go wrong so fast? Patterson draws on original in-depth reporting to reveal this true story of of a life cut short in the dark shadow of fame.
Author
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
187 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In December, 2009, Susan Cox Powell was reported missing from her home in West Valley City, Utah. Her husband, Josh Powell, became the prime suspect in the case. Josh's sister, Jennifer Graves, realized her brother was probably the killer. She devoted herself to the safety of Susan's boys Charlie and Braden, but they too were murdered by their father in February 2012. Jennifer shares her struggles and triumphs in coming to terms with with this tragedy....
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
454 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Richard Lloyd Parry, an award-winning foreign correspondent, chronicles the 2000 disappearance, massive search, long investigation, and the even longer murder trial behind the gruesome murder case of Lucie Blackman in Japan.
Author
Publisher
[Stacy Galloway]
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 296 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the Ural mountains of the Soviet Union in January of 1959 nine hikers set out on a winter excursion. In February a search party finds their bodies: some are burned; some have crushed ribs; some are missing their eyes and one is missing her tongue. This book explores the question of what happened to these experienced hikers and why they left their warm shelter to venture half-clothed into the freezing Siberian winter.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Furious Hours is the stunning story of an Alabama serial killer and the true-crime book that Harper Lee worked on obsessively in the years after To Kill a Mockingbird. Reverend Willie Maxwell was a rural preacher accused of murdering five of his family members for insurance money in the 1970s. With the help of a savvy lawyer, he escaped justice for years until a relative shot him dead at the funeral of his last victim. Despite hundreds of witnesses,...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2017
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Interweaving his account of the Steven Avery trial at the heart of Making a Murderer with other high profile cases from his criminal defense career, attorney Jerome F. Buting explains the flaws in America's criminal justice system and lays out a provocative, persuasive blue-print for reform.
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
307 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Charlie Cullen's murderous career as a nurse spanned sixteen years and nine hospitals across New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Graeber presents the whole story of Cullen as a surprisingly intelligent and complicated young man whose promising career was overwhelmed by his compulsion to kill.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author and Edgar Award-winner Daniel Stashower returns with American Demon, a historical true crime starring legendary lawman Eliot Ness.
Boston had its Strangler. California had the Zodiac Killer. And in the depths of the Great Depression, Cleveland had the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run.
On September 5th, 1934, a young beachcomber made a gruesome discovery on the shores of Cleveland’s Lake Erie: the lower half of a female...
19) Crimson stain
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
CRIMSON STAIN is the shocking true story of murder in an Old-Order Amish community. The ritualistic murder of Katie Gingerich in rural Pennsylvania set into motion a clash of Amish and modern values about mental illness, domestic violence, and criminal justice. CRIMSON STAIN is a window into the private and mysterious world of the Old-Order Amish. This revised and expanded edition of CRIMSON STAIN tells the shocking and tragic story of the Gingerich...