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Examines the motives of terrorists, from ancient Greece to the present day. In this timely study of the roots of terrorism, author Albert Borowitz deftly assesses the phenomenon of violent crime motivated by a craving for notoriety or self-glorification. He traces this particular brand of terrorism back to 356 BCE and the destruction of the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus by arsonist Herostratos and then examines similar crimes through history to the...
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In spite of its small size and rural character Hertfordshire has been the location for some of the most infamous and fiendish murders in the history of England. Spanning four centuries, Hertfordshire Murders contains accounts of many of these crimes. Famous cases are re-examined with the help of previously unused archive material and several other major cases are included in a book for the first time.
Among the stories are the murder of a reputed...
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72 Hours True Crime volume 13
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Firemen are called to put out a blaze and discover two sisters, one dead and the other on death's door. Detectives learn that a man snuck into the house late at night and brutally sexually assaulted the sisters before setting fire to the house. The attack
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72 Hours True Crime volume 12
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When a senior citizen is killed on a city street, authorities at first treat it as a typical hit-and-run accident. But as they investigate further, they begin to realize that the culprit is a thrill-seeking psychopath who is intentionally out to kill peop
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72 Hours True Crime volume 11
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The wife of a successful jeweler is found in their home - stripped naked and beaten to death. The jeweler immediately falls under suspicion, but he's not alone. The couple had been overseeing expensive renovations to their home for the past year - meaning
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72 Hours True Crime volume 5
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The bizarre murder of a world-renowned anthropologist over the Christmas holidays shocks staff and students at the university where she teaches. Police get a clue that a stranger described as a female Hulk was seen shortly before the murder. In a case str
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72 Hours True Crime volume 6
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A 19-year-old man comes home one night to discover that his father, mother and autistic sister have all been savagely murdered. Could it be the $500,000 insurance money and a movie called "The Great Despisers" that motivated the killers to perpetrate such
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72 Hours True Crime volume 10
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Surgically clean body parts start turning up on a highway. Stranger still, they have been drained of every drop of blood. Using a unique forensic technique that takes footprint impressions from the inside of shoes, police are able to connect the body part
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72 Hours True Crime volume 7
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A beloved small town public school teacher fails to arrive for work for the first time in thirty years, leaving an empty house and a baffled community. Vanished, she seems to have disappeared without a trace. The few clues that are found - a missing chair
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72 Hours True Crime volume 3
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A string of bank robberies in Winnipeg confound local police. Most bank-robbers are strung out addicts, usually quite thin. This new man doesn't fit that profile: this bandit is fat. When next he strikes he confuses police further by changing locales and
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72 Hours True Crime volume 2
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Whistler, B.C. a winter wonderland for the rich and trendy. Three people meet - the son of a wealthy Frenchman, a Vancouver businessman looking for investors and a real estate agent trying to sell a mountainside estate. Unbeknownst to two of them, they ar
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72 Hours True Crime volume 9
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A trucker stopping at a roadside rest station discovers the fully clothed body of a dead East Indian woman in the woods. An autopsy reveals that she has been strangled, that she has an unusually high level of sedatives in her bloodstream and, mysteriously
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72 Hours True Crime volume 8
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When the curiosity of an insurance claims investigator is piqued by the suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of a young Sikh man, a trail of bigamy, deceit and murder is soon uncovered. Police detectives follow that trail and discover it leads a
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72 Hours True Crime volume 4
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A woman is told by a friend that she was a passenger in a car where she was confronted with a guy's head in a bucket. The woman gets in touch with police. But the story keeps changing and the woman retracts. As police dig deeper, they discover a sordid ta
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The infamous escape from the maximum security federal prison is recounted in gripping detail in this Depression Era true crime history.
On December 11, 1931, chaos erupted behind the limestone walls of Leavenworth Penitentiary as seven desperate men put months of planning into action. Aided by notorious gangsters Frank Nash, George "Machine Gun" Kelly and Thomas James Holden, these convicts enacted one of the most legendary prison breaks in history,...
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From Scarface to Miami Vice, Hollywood has created indelible images of Miami's criminal underworld. Yet beyond the lurid depictions exists a fascinating history of dramatic true-life crimes--tales of vigilante justice, family tragedies, politically motivated homicides and rampageous cross-country killers. And of course, the inevitable stories of celebrities behaving badly--as when Jim Morrison allegedly exposed himself during a 1969 Doors concert--along...
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Arcadia Publishing
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2007
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The full story of the infamous double murder featured on Discovery’s FBI Files—includes photos.
In this book, former South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) forensic photographer Lt. Rita Y. Shuler recounts twenty-eight days of terror and shocking developments in one of the most notorious double murders and manhunts in South Carolina history.
Shuler shares her own personal interactions...
In this book, former South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) forensic photographer Lt. Rita Y. Shuler recounts twenty-eight days of terror and shocking developments in one of the most notorious double murders and manhunts in South Carolina history.
Shuler shares her own personal interactions...
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Why do people kill? In the case of the young and mentally unstable Frank Zastera, the rationale was as simple as the act was brutal: he wanted William Sheppard's money. In other homicides, such as the still-unsolved 1913 murder of George Harris, the motive for committing the ultimate crime remains obscured for eternity. In Murders in Monmouth, author George Joynson unflinchingly assembles the who, what, when, where and why surrounding twelve high-profile...
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Arcadia Publishing Inc
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Author and crime writer Mark Jones presents the stories, and criminal minds, of nine serial offenders who terrorized South Carolina during the latter part of the twentieth century. The "Super Christian"? who turned a small beach community into a terrified town. The "Gaffney Strangler"? who taunted police with the message, "Stop me or I will kill again."? The schoolteacher-turned-rapist who eluded authorities for more than thirty years. And of course,...
20) Shadows of Evil
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Claiming he'd been sent by God to confess, truck driver Wayne Adam Ford walked into the Humbolt County Sheriff's Office and admitted to them that he was a serial killer. After police found a gruesome piece of evidence in Ford's pocket, he told them that he had to be stopped before he killed again, before he murdered his ex-wife, and made his beloved three-year-old son an orphan. Authorities arrested the long-haul trucker and listened in horror to...
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