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Dotdash Meredith
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From notorious offenders to great escapes, True Crime Stories takes you behind the headlines of some of the shocking stories that have riveted the nation with investigative reporting from People magazine’s crime team. Discover the latest on the investigation of the Golden State Killer, Wisconsin teenager Jayme Closs, who escaped from the predator who abducted her from her home and murdered her parents, and the latest on Chris Watts, who confessed
...5) True Crime
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Future Publishing Ltd
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In True Crime, we investigate some of the most iconic crimes in recent history, from O. J. Simpson's 'Trial of the Century', to the monstrous actions of Edmund Kemper and Charles Manson. Featuring a host of genuine evidence, including official police documentation and unbelievable images, True Crime gives you an insight into the minds of some of history's most notorious killers. Featuring: The Death House - Take a look inside Sing
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The case of Jerry Harris, a self-made California millionaire who, at age forty-four, had it all: booming businesses, yachts, and a mansion, a beautiful wife, and a voice to rival Elvis. No one could make sense of his sudden disappearance one October night in 1987. On a final phone call to his brother from his Mercedes, Jerry breathed a muffled oath & #151; then the line went dead. For Jerry's wife, Susan, it was just the beginning of a relentless...
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Jenn Corbin appeared to have it all: two dear little boys, a posh home in an upscale suburb of Atlanta, expensive cars, a plush houseboat, and a husband--Dr. Bart Corbin, a successful dentist--who was tall, handsome, and brilliant. But gradually their life together began to crumble. There was talk of seeing a marriage counselor. Bart was distraught; Jenn seemed disenchanted. Then Jenn was found dead with a bullet in her head, a revolver beside her....
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Headlining this page-turning anthology is the case of middle-school counselor Chuck Leonard, found shot to death outside his Washington State home on an icy February morning. A complicated mix of family man and wild man, Chuck played hard and loved many...but who crossed the line by murdering him in cold blood? And why? The revelation is as stunning as the shattering crime itself, powerfully illuminating how those we think we know can ingeniously...
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History Press
Pub. Date
2010
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St. Louis was a city under siege during Prohibition. Seven different criminal gangs violently vied for control of the town's illegal enterprises. Although their names are familiar to many, their exploits have remained largely undocumented until now. Learn how an awkward gunshot wound gave the Pillow Gang its name and why Willie Russo's bizarre midnight interview with a reporter from the St. Louis Star involved an automatic pistol and a floating hunk...
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The History Press
Pub. Date
2010.
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His name might not have the same notoriety that belonged to Al Capone or John Wayne Gacy, but Silas Jayne's life carved a similarly brutal arc through the Windy City's history. Even the mob was reluctant to compete with a man who burned his own horses alive for insurance money and ordered the assassination of his own brother in the same unhesitating fashion that he reportedly axed a flock of geese when he was six. Protected by bribery and intimidation,...
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Arcadia Publishing
Pub. Date
2011
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The truth behind the legend of New Orleans’ infamous slave owner, madwoman, and murderess, portrayed in the anthology series, American Horror Story. On April 10, 1834, firefighters smashed through a padlocked attic door in the burning Royal Street mansion of Creole society couple Delphine and Louis Lalaurie. In the billowing smoke and flames they made an appalling discovery: the remains of Madame Lalaurie’s chained, starved, and mutilated...
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The History Press
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2012.
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Chicago Heights was long the seat of one of the major street crews of the Chicago Outfit, but its importance has often been overlooked and misunderstood. The crew's origins predate Prohibition, when Chicago Heights was a developing manufacturing center with a large Italian immigrant population. Its earliest bosses struggled for control until a violent gang war left the crew solidified under the auspices of Al Capone. For the remainder of the twentieth...
18) One last kiss
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St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2012
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Ex-marine and bodyguard Chris Coleman was a family man with a secret: He wanted to leave his wife for another woman, Tara Lintz. But as head of security for the world-famous Joyce Meyer Ministries -- an evangelical organization that frowns on divorce -- Coleman had to make other plans. On May 5, 2009, Illinois police received a call from Coleman, who claimed he was unable to contact his family. When investigators arrived at his home, they found Coleman's...
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Arcadia Publishing Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
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Al Capone. The Untouchables. The Valentine's Day massacre. You may think you know everything about the Roaring Twenties in the Windy City, but in the early twentieth century, the harsh environment of the Maxwell Street ghetto produced a proliferation of Jewish gangsters involved in everything from labor racketeering to white slavery. Their illegal activity offended their own community's value system and sparked rifts between Reform and Orthodox Jews....
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Kent State University Press
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c2013
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When young schoolteacher Emma Bond was brutally gang-raped and left for dead in her country schoolhouse near Taylorville, Illinois in June 1882, an enduring mystery was born. Although she survived, her recovery was hindered by hysteria, amnesia, and some unusual physical complications. The story was covered by newspapers across the land, but some of the wounds inflicted upon the victim were so appalling that the press refused to print the ugliest...
