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In this shocking true-crime drama, a forty-year-old double murder brings together a grieving family and two brothers - just kids when they witnessed their father commit the brutal act - to track down a psychopath once suspected as being the Golden State...

James Patrick Lyons abandoned his family for a life on Kansas City's skid row. A town drunk, he was arrested eighty times for public intoxication. On the night of his last arrest, he was taken to the city jail and held in solitary confinement. The next...

Marlys Wohlenhaus was an animated, energetic eighteen-year-old girl. Then, one afternoon, everything changed. She should have been safe working at the town restaurant. She should have been safe in her own home. She should still be alive today. But in May...

Informed by thousands of pages of newly released FBI files, The Kidnapping and Murder of Little Skeegie Cash tells the gripping story of the only crime investigated by J. Edgar Hoover himself, the sensational 1938 murder of a five-year-old boy from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814250563Author H.V. RedfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University Press

This work talks about a woman's heartrending search for her sister. Advancing with the suspense and deft reportage of the true-crime genre and fueled by the poignancy of a literary memoir, ""Finding Susan"" is Molly Hurley Moran's...

The disappearance of two boys during the summer of 1483 has never been satisfactorily explained. They were Edward, Prince of Wales, nearly thirteen at the time, and his brother, Richard of York, nearly ten. With their father, Edward IV, dying suddenly at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781510710030Author A M RosenthalFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 206mm...

Sentenced to death in 1982 for allegedly killing a police officer named Daniel Faulkner, Mumia Abu-Jamal is the most famous death row inmate in the United States, if not the world. This book is the first to convincingly show how the Philadelphia Police...

In October 1955, three Chicago boys were found murdered, their bodies naked and dumped in a ditch in Robinson Woods on the city's Northwest Side. A community and a nation were shocked. In a time when such crimes against children were rare, the public was...

In 1922, Rudolph Valentino was one of the most famous men alive. But few knew that the star had a dirty secret that he desperately wanted to bury. The lurid tale began a decade earlier when former Yale football star and notorious playboy Jack de Saulles...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802157553Author Francisco GoldmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Grove PressPublisher Grove Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870238376Author Gerald W. McFarlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint University of Massachusetts PressPublisher University of Massachusetts...

No one has performed more autopsies in high-profile cases than Dr. Cyril Wecht. During the past four decades, he has dissected more than 16,000 bodies to determine how and why they died. He has testified in hundreds of trials and exhumed dozens of...

On May 18, 1927, the small town of Bath, Michigan, was forever changed when Andrew Kehoe set off a cache of explosives concealed in the basement of the local school. Thirty-eight children and six adults were dead, among them Kehoe, who had literally...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816524631Author Thornton W. III PriceFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona PressWeight(grams)...

Generally naive about their world, children are thought to be nearly incapable of serious wrongdoing and are rarely suspects in violent crimes. Yet, from the 1960s to the mid-90s, the U.S. saw several waves of juvenile murders that caused widespread...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780425280379Author Donna FielderFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 188g

This is a history of the murder of Joshua Spooner in Brookfield, Massachusetts, in March 1778 and the execution of his wife Bathsheba and three accomplices four months later. It also provides newspaper accounts and trial records at that time.Book...

This is the first book to examine murder through the written word--not only the writings of the killers themselves, but also the story of murder as told in literary fiction and the crime dramas that are now a staple of film and television. The authors--a...

Renowned activist Andy Parker's account of the story that shocked America, the murder of his daughter, reporter Alison Parker, on live television, and his extraordinary ensuing fight for commonsense gun safety legislation and doing "Whatever It Takes" to...

In the summer of 1975, an alarming number of patients at the AnnArbor Veterans Administration Hospital began experiencing mysteriousrespiratory failures that left ten dead and over 30 more clinging to life.Doctors struggled to determine the cause of the...

On a bitterly cold afternoon in December 1986, a Michigan State trooper found the frozen body of Jerry Tobias in the bed of his pickup truck. The 31-year-old oil field worker and small-time drug dealer was curled up on his side on the truck's bare metal,...

Teenager Lucas Leonard made shocking admissions in front of the altar-he'd practiced witchcraft and conspired to murder his parents, among other horrific crimes. The confessions earned him a brutal beating by a gang of angry church members, including his...

In its rush to establish dominion over the North, Canada executed two innocent Inuit men. In 1921, the RCMP arrested two Copper Inuit men under suspicion that the two had murdered their uncle. Both men confessed to the crime through a police...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870207167Author Matthew J PriggeFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Wisconsin Historical Society PressPublisher Wisconsin Historical Society...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956763362Author Sue BlackFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Arcade PublishingWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538746851Author Becky CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Young Reader's Choice Award (Grades 9-12) 1995.Book InformationISBN 9780440213420Author Lois DuncanFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781537480824Author Lynne BlanchardFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948239387Author Caitlin RotherFormat PaperbackPage Count 470Imprint Wildblue PressPublisher Wildblue PressWeight(grams) 540gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

MORE THAN 20 MILLION COPIES OFANN RULE'S BOOKS IN PRINT! In this unnerving collection drawn from her personal crime files, "America's best true-crime writer" (Kirkus Reviews) Ann Rule brilliantly dissects the convoluted love affairs that all...

How the forgotten case of murder while sleepwalking changed history After creeping out of bed on a frigid January night in 1832, teenage farmhand Abraham Prescott took up an ax and thrashed his sleeping employers to the brink of death. He later explained...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813187143Author Mark I. PinskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint The University Press of KentuckyPublisher The University Press of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374602291Author Roxanna AsgarianFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

On October 26, 1961, after an evening of studying with friends on the campus of Transylvania University, nineteen-year-old student Betty Gail Brown got into her car around midnight - presumably headed for home. But she would never arrive. Three hours...

Uncover the real truth behind mass media accounts of how they died, and learn the reason for their murders.Book InformationISBN 9781510731400Author David GardnerFormat HardbackPage Count 292Imprint Sky Pony PressPublisher Skyhorse Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692983799Author Emma SeifertFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Chicago Scriptor LLCPublisher Chicago Scriptor LLCWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm)...

Margie Danielsen, a divorcee and mother of three, had fantasies of finding the perfect man. Then one night, in a smoky country and western club, she found him. Sean Paul Lanier was charming, handsome, and kind - everything Margie had dreamed of.Soon...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692300671Author Robert WilhelmFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Night Stick PressPublisher Night Stick PressWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...