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Anything by John Philpin (even his
mysteries are good-see J.D.
The Plot to Steal J.D. Salinger's Manuscripts).
Shattered
Justice: A Savage Murder and the Death of Three Families' Innocence by John
Philpin--The Crowes' peaceful middle class community neighbors in San Diego's
North County were shocked by the savagery of the crime -- a young girl
murdered, stabbed repeatedly, in her own bed in the dead of night. The lack of
any evidence of forced entry led the Escondido police to their inevitable
conclusion: someone in the family was responsible for 12-year-old Stephanie
Crowe's slaying. The investigation quickly zeroed in on the victim's older
brother, Michael, and two teenage friends -- three loners who enjoyed
inhabiting dark fantasy worlds of quests and violence. Through efficient,
by-the-book police work, the boys were broken down and ultimately confessed.
The only problem was the detectives had gotten everything wrong. Shattered Justice is the riveting and
disturbing true account of a horrific tragedy and the terrible crime that
followed -- a nightmare of four innocent lives shattered, one by a killer's
blade, three by obsession and twisted law.
Anything by Diane Fanning
Through
the Window: The Terrifying True Story of Cross-Country Killer Tommy Lynn Sells
by Diane Fanning--Tommy
Lynn Sells was one of the worst serial killers in history. A little girl would
bring him to justice. The confession from Sells to another murder in this book
may bring justice to a wrongfully convicted woman--but he didn't admit
responsibility to the authorities, he confessed to the author.
Saving Grace: The True Story of a Mother-to-be, a Deranged Attacker and an Unborn Child by Sarah Brady, Patrick Crowley and Eric Deters--Nine months into her pregnancy, Sarah Brady receives a phone call out of the blue from another expectant mother named "Sarah Brody." The woman informs her they have both signed up for the same gift registry, and due to their similar names gifts meant for Brady have mistakenly been sent to Brody's address. What seems to be an amusing mix-up is, in fact, a deadly trap. When Brady stops by the woman's apartment to retrieve the gifts, she is instead confronted by a knife-wielding Kate Smith. Brady instinctively fights back, and the struggle for the knife becomes a fight to the death — leaving police to determine whether the attack was an act of self-defense or murder. One of only three people in the United States to survive an attempted fetus theft, Sarah Brady tells her incredible story for the first time in Saving Grace.
NUT-CRACKER MONEY, MADNESS, MURDER: A FAMILY ALBUM by Shana
Alexander--The Utah trial of Frances Schreuder convicted of forcing her son to
kill her multimillionaire tightfisted father.
Evidence of Love by John Bloom and Jim Atkinson--Texas 1980:
Candy Montgomery, a homemaker, killed her neighbor Betty Gore, hit her 41 times
with the ax and was acquitted. The background of the people and the events
leading of the murder are fascinating.
A Beautiful Child by Matt Birkbeck--Sharon Marshall was a
brilliant and beautiful student whose future was filled with promise. But her
murderous, fugitive father had drawn her into a lifetime of deception that
became one of the most baffling cases in the annals of American crime.
Without a Trace: The Disappearance of Amy Billig--A Mother's
Search for Justice by Greg Aunapu and Susan Billig--On March 5, 1974 -- the same day that
rival motorcycle clubs roared through suburban Miami in celebration of their
annual "Bike Week" -- seventeen-year-old Amy Billig left home to meet
a friend for lunch ... and vanished. Several days later, Amy's frantic mother,
Susan Billig, received an anonymous phone call saying that her daughter had been
carried off by one of the biker gangs. And so began Susan's harrowing and
extraordinary twenty-five-year search for her lost child -- an odyssey that led
a desperate parent into the seedy heart of a dangerous subculture built on
drugs, rebellion, brutality, and sex; a relentless hunt for the truth that
showed her the best side of humanity...and the very worst.
Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three by
Mara Leveritt--Three
eight-year-old boys were mutilated and murdered in West Memphis, a small
Arkansas town in May 1993. A probation officer alerted police to a teen, Damien
Echols, interested in "Goth" and Wiccan lifestyles. Investigators
coerced a cognitively impaired 16-year-old, Jesse Misskelley, acquaintance of
Echols, into confessions that he, Echols and teen, Jason Baldwin assaulted the
boys. All three boys were convicted on the basis of these statements. One
victim's stepfather, with a history of domestic violence, a drug informant was
not investigated .
The
Boys on the Tracks: Death, Denial, and a Mother's Crusade to Bring Her Son's
Killers to Justice by Mara Leveritt--Linda Ives teenage son and his friend
were found mysteriously run over by a train in 1987. The officials would not
solve the murders that converged complicity with drugs, politics.
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing Ted Conover became a New York
State corrections officer at Sing Sing, New York's maximum-security prison, to
hear the voices of guards and inmates. The majority of the 1,800 inmates have
been convicted of violent felonies: murder, manslaughter, rape, robbery,
assault, kidnapping, burglary, arson. After seven weeks of pseudomilitary
preparation he faces what the every gaurd faces, isolation in the midst of
violence and inmates reliant on them for all their needs.
True Stories of C.S.I.: The Real Crimes Behind the Best
Episodes of the Popular TV Show by Katherine Ramsland--Explores the
real-life crimes that inspired revisits the most absorbing episodes of C.S.I., the authenticity
of the forensic investigations recreated for the dramatizations and the real
forensic in actual cases from mass-murderer Richard Speck, to the massacre of
Buddhist monks in Arizona Temple and spontaneous combustion.
Peter Manuel, Serial Killer by Hector McLeod and Malcolm
McLeod--Fifty years after he was hanged in Barlinnie prison, the memory of this
American-born killer is still fresh in the minds of those who lived through the
two terrible years of his murderous rampage in the suburbs of Glasgow. The
"Beast of Birkenshaw," Peter Manuel used the skills he learned in
Peterhead Prison to avoid detection. He was charged with eight murders but is
reputed to have killed many more. His trial in Glasgow High Court, "the
trial of the century," enthralled and astonished the world. He implicated
major underworld figures and revealed Glasgow's sinister gangster activities.
He fired his legal team and defended himself.
An Unfinished Canvas: A True Story of Love, Family, and Murder
in Nashville by Michael Glasgow and Phyllis Gobbell-- On the surface,
artist and mother Janet March had a picture-perfect existence before she
disappeared. In reality, her husband led a secret, destructive life of
promiscuity and neglect. For ten years, Janet's parents would drag him through
the court system. And though there was no body, no cause of death, and no
physical evidence, they would find justice.
The Darkest Night: Two Sisters, a Brutal Murder, and the Loss
of Innocence in a Small Town by Ron Franscell--Casper, Wyoming: 1973. Eleven-year-old
Amy Burridge rides with her eighteen-year-old sister, Becky, to the grocery
store. When they finish their shopping, Becky’s car gets a flat tire. Two men
politely offer them a ride home. But they were anything but Good Samaritans.
The girls would suffer unspeakable crimes at the hands of these men before
being thrown from a bridge into the North Platte River. One miraculously
survived. The other did not. Years later, Ron Franscell—who lived in Casper at
the time of the crime, and was a friend to Amy and Becky—can’t forget Wyoming’s
most shocking story of abduction, rape, and murder. Neither could Becky, the
surviving sister. The two men who violated her and Amy were sentenced to life
in prison, but the demons of her past kept haunting Becky…until she met her
fate years later at the same bridge where she’d lost her sister.
Such Good Boys: The True Story of a Mother, Two Sons and a Horrifying Murder by Tina Dirmann--Raised in the suburb of Riverside, California, twenty-year-old college student Jason Bautista endured for years his emotionally disturbed mother’s verbal and psychological abuse. She even locked him out of the house, tied him up with electrical cord, and on one occasion, gave him a beating that sent him to the emergency room. His fifteen-year-old half brother Matthew Montejo also was a victim to Jane Bautista’s dark mood swings and erratic behavior, but for some reason, Jason received the brunt of the abuse—until he decided he’d had enough. On the night of January 14, 2003, Jason strangled his mother. To keep authorities from identifying her body, he chopped off her head and hands, an idea he claimed he got from watching an episode of the hit TV series “The Sopranos.” The morning following the murder, Matthew went to school, and Jason returned to his classes at Cal State San Bernardino. When authorities zeroed in on them, Jason lied and said that Jane had run off with a boyfriend she’d met on the Internet. But when police confronted the boys with overwhelming evidence, Jason confessed all. Now the nightmare was only just beginning for him.
The Devil's Dozen: How Cutting-Edge Forensics Took Down 12 Notorious Serial Killers by Katherine Ramsland--Case histories of the twelve most notorious serial killers of the last hundred years, and answers: What clues did they leave behind? How were they eventually caught? How was each twist and turn of their crimes matched by the equally compelling weapons of science and logic? A fascinating window into those who kill—and those bringing them to justice.
Wicked Intentions: The Sheila LaBarre Murders - A True Story by Kevin Flynn--When investigators were called to the secluded farm of attractive, fortyish Sheila LaBarre, they found the dismembered and incinerated remains of her young lover, a man with a child's I.Q. A series of young men had come and gone from the farm over the years, all seeming to vanish into thin air. Now LaBarre was on the run. Eventually she would be caught and would plead insanity. But was she indeed insane — an "avenging angel sent to kill pedophiles," as she claimed — or a vicious, calculating serial killer?
Savage Grace: The True Story of Fatal Relations in a Rich and
Famous American Family by Natalie Robins and Steven Aronson--A tale of
money and madness, incest and matricide, the saga of Brooks and Barbara
Baekeland -- beautiful, rich, worldly -- and their handsome, gentle son, Tony.
Alternately neglected and smothered by his parents, he was finally driven to
destroy the whole family in a violent chain of events. Savage Grace unfolds
against a glamorous international background New York, London, Paris, Italy,
Spain; features Salvador Dalí, James Jones, the Astors, Vanderbilts, and
European nobility; and tells the Baekelands' story through candid interviews,
private letters, diaries, confidential hospital, State Department, and prison
documents.
A Descent Into Hell: The True Story of an Altar Boy, a
Cheerleader, and a Twisted Texas Murder by Kathryn Casey--Bright, attractive, and both from good
families, University of Texas college students Colton Pitonyak and Jennifer
Cave, a former cheerleader had a lot to look forward to. Cave had an exciting
new job and a big-money scholarship to UT's prestigious business school lured
Pitonyak to Austin. Yet the former altar boy had a dark, unpredictable streak
that ensnared him in an underworld of drugs and guns. When Jennifer failed to
show up for work on August 18, 2005, her mother, Sharon Cave's, search led to
Colton's apartment, to a scene worthy of a horror movie. One of the most brutal
slayings in UT history—Pitonyak and his devoted girlfriend were nowhere to be
found.
The Good-bye Door: The Incredible True Story of America's First
Female Serial Killer to Die in the Chair by Diana Britt Franklin--"Blonde
Borgia," Anna Marie Hahn, was a cold-blooded serial killer who preyed on
the elderly in Cincinnati's Over-the-Rhine District in the 1930s. Born in
Bavaria in 1906, Anna Marie brought shame to her pious family when as a teenager;
she gave birth to an illegitimate son, Oscar. Shipped off to America in 1929
she lived with the elderly relatives in Cincinnati, she married Philip Hahn, a
Western Union telegrapher, they bought a new house and she opened a
delicatessen/bakery. During the Depression, Anna Marie found ways to get money
to bet on horses. She tried burning down the house and deli and tried killing
her husband for the insurance. She befriended the elderly, taking their life
savings before feeding them arsenic. For weeks her Cincinnati trial, "the
greatest mass murder in the history of the country" was front-page
national news. Nearly 100 witnesses gave testimony against her, when all
appeals were exhausted, Anna Marie, age 32, was executed on December 7, 1938,
at the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus. In a handwritten "confession"
found in her cell, she admitted to four murders.
Cannibal
Killers: The Impossible Monsters by Moira Martingale--The cannibalism phenomenon back to the
16th century to Sawney Bean family who consumed more than 1,000 people over a
25 year period. Modern murderers including Fritz Haarmann—would tear out young
men's throats to drink their blood, before selling their flesh for meat;
Jeffrey Dahmer, murderer of 17 young men whose body parts were found in his
apartment; Edward Gein—who after his mother's death began killing and eating
women; and Andrei Chikatilo, a Russian, the worst cannibal killer in recent
history. Is there a clinical explanation for vampirism?
Never Seen the Moon: The Trials of Edith Maxwell by Sharon
Hatfield--In 1935,
free-spirited young teacher Edith Maxwell and her mother were indicted for
murdering Edith's conservative and domineering father, Trigg, in their Wise
County, Virginia, home. Edith claimed her father had tried to whip her for staying
out late and she defended herself by striking back with a high-heeled shoe.
Maxwell was championed by women's advocates and granted celebrity status by
Hearst press. National news and detective magazines, Warner Brothers created a
screen version and Eleanor Roosevelt helped secure her early release from
prison.
Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters by Peter
Vronsky--The history of serial homicide; the psychological, investigative and
cultural aspects of serial murder in Ancient Rome, through fifteenth-century
France to contemporary cases such as cannibal/necrophile Ed Kemper, Henry Lee
Lucas, Ted Bundy and "serial rampage killers" such as Andrew Cunanan.
Sound theories on what makes a serial killer, how to survive an encounter with
one-from, recognizing verbal warning signs to physical confrontational and resistance.
Transcripts of interviews with killers.
A Priest in Hell: Gangs, Murderers and Snitching in a
California Jail by Randall Radic. This memoir describes a California jail,
beginning on November 5, 2005, when the author, a parish priest, in a small
town in northern California, is charged with 10 felonies. After an
investigation, his congregation learns he mortgaged the parish house, took the
money and sold off the church. Convicted of embezzlement, forgery, and fraud,
he spends six months in prison. At age 54, his background as a priest makes him
a target and a confidant. He writes about anger and contrition, inmates and
indignities of jail life.
By
Their Father's Hand: The True Story of the Wesson Family Massacre by Monte
Francis--Neighbors were
unaware of what went on behind the closed doors of the home of 300-pound Marcus
Wesson, his wife, children, nieces, and grandchildren in Fresno, California.
March 12, 2004, after gunshots were heard inside their home police officers
responding were horrified by the carnage they discovered. A chilling story of
incest, abuse, madness, murder, and one family's terrible and ultimately fatal
ordeal at the hands of a powerful, manipulative man—a cultist who envisioned
vengeful gods and vampires, and totally controlled those closest to him.
Never Enough by Joe MacGinnis--At thirty-nine, Nancy
Kissel's royal lifestyle of an expatriate wife of Merrill Lynch investment
banker, Robert Kissel, three young children -- ended in November 2003 in the
bedroom of their luxury apartment above Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour. Hong Kong
prosecutors, who charged Nancy with murder, said she wanted to inherit Rob's
millions and start a new life with a blue-collar lover in a New Hampshire
trailer park. She said she'd killed in self-defense while fighting for her life
against an abusive, cocaine-addicted husband who forced her to submit to his
brutal sexual demands for years. Her 2005 trial captivated Hong Kong's
expatriate community and attracted attention worldwide. Less than a year after
the unexpected verdict, Rob's brother, Andrew, a Connecticut real estate tycoon
facing prison for fraud and embezzlement, was also found dead: stabbed in the
back in his Greenwich mansion. This is the story of two brothers, Robert and
Andrew Kissel, who wound up murdered half a world apart; and of Nancy Kissel.
Joe McGinniss explores a smart and beautiful family so corroded by greed that
it destroys itself from within.
Invitation to a Murder: 48 Hours by Gail A Zimmerman-- Donnah
Winger was murdered by an intruder who was shot fatally by Mark, her husband, a
respected nuclear scientist. The couple had an adopted infant daughter. After
four years of investigation, new witness testimony reveals the truth.
Pure Murder by Corey Mitchell--On a summer night in
Houston, two teenage girls crossed paths with a group of teenage boys fueled
with alcohol and rage. Four days later, when searchers finally found Jennifer
Ertman and Elizabeth Pena, their bodies were unrecognizable...They grabbed
Elizabeth, while Jennifer escaped. But her cries brought Jennifer back to help
her. Both girls were subjected to sexual assaults and long, painful deaths. The
killers bragged about their crime, but victim's families were in for another
horrible surprise.
Witch: The True Story of Las Vegas' Most Notorious Female
Killer by Glenn Puit--Brookey Lee West, a Silicon Valley technical writer's
twenty year crime and killing spree.
Body Parts by Caitlin Rother--When he walked into the
Humbolt County Sheriff's Office in Northern California with a woman's severed
breast in his pocket, 36-year-old Wayne Adam Ford wasn't a suspect. But before
it was over, he would be convicted of the grisly torture and murder of four
women, two of whom he dismembered. If Ford hadn't confessed, he'd probably still
be out there today. But he did confess - because he knew he'd kill again.
A Slaying in the Suburbs: The Tara Grant Murder by Andrea
Billups and Steve Miller--To their suburban Detroit neighbors, Stephen and Tara
Grant were happy. But their marriage, plagued by resentment and extramarital
affairs, was only held together by their children. Until Stephen snapped,
strangled and dismembered his wife, then disposed of her body piece by piece in
the park his children played in.
To Have and To Kill: Nurse Melanie McGuire, an Illicit Affair,
and the Gruesome Murder of Her Husband by John Glatt--Three suitcases were pulled from the
Chesapeake Bay with body parts of William McGuire. William and his wife,
Melanie, a registered nurse had just closed on their New Jersey dream home. For
Melanie was involved in a long-term affair with a married doctor at the
fertility clinic where she worked—and plans for the future that didn’t include
William.
Murder in Mayberry: Greed, Death and Mayhem in a Small Town
by Mary Kinney Branson and Jack Branson--Crime never happened in Madisonville,
Kentucky. That’s why the slaughter of one of its female citizens was so
stunning. Even more so was the identity of the killer whose flight from the law
made him one of the FBI’s Most Wanted.
Tacoma
Confidential: A True Story of Murder, Suicide, and a Police Chief's Secret Life
by Paul LaRosa--Gig Harbor, Washington, a quiet Tacoma suburb, knew little
of tragedy and scandal-until April 26, 2003. On that day, David Brame,
distraught over his impending divorce, shot his wife to death in a busy public
parking lot. Then, with the couple's two children only feet away, he turned the
gun on himself. Brame was, after all, the chief of police. But as the
investigation unfolded, a bizarre and depraved side of Brame and his marriage
came to light.
The Prom Night Murders: A Devoted American Family, their
Troubled Son, and a Ghastly Crime by Carlton Smith--In 1989, a shocking tragedy shattered
a small Indiana community. Pastor Robert L. Pelley was found slain in his home.
In his basement were the blood-soaked bodies of his wife and daughters,
executed by shotgun at close range. The doors to the house were locked, and
there were no signs of forced entry. The pastor’s son, Jeff, was nowhere to be
found. Police had a hunch Jeff was responsible, but they didn’t have enough
evidence to convict until, more than a decade later, when law officials
resolved to unravel the truth about Jeff and to establish a motive.
Secrets in the Cellar by John Glatt--Josef Fritzl, a
73-year-old retired engineer in Austria seemed to be living a normal life with
his wife, Rosemarie, and their family—though one daughter, Elisabeth, had
decades earlier been “lost” to a religious cult. Throughout the years, three of
Elisabeth’s children mysteriously appeared on the Fritzls’ doorstep; Josef and
Rosemarie raised them as their own. For twenty-seven years, Josef had
imprisoned and molested Elisabeth in his basement dungeon, complete with
sound-proof paneling and code-protected electric locks. There, she gave birth
to seven of Josef’s children. One died in infancy—and three were raised
alongside Elisabeth, never to see the light of day. Then, in 2008, one of
Elisabeth’s children became seriously ill, and was taken to the hospital. It
was the first time the nineteen-year-old girl had been outside—soon the truth
about her background, her captivity, and Josef’s crimes would come to light.
Cruel Games: A Brilliant Professor, A Loving Mother, A Brutal
Murder by Rose Ciotta--University
of Pennsylvania professor Rafael Robb was an expert on game theory, his
colleagues and students marveled over his brilliance. His wife, Ellen, knew his
dark side. In December 2006, after years of alleged psychological abuse, she
was ready to leave him. She was about to sign a lease on a new home until she
was found dead in the home she shared with Rafael and their daughter, Olivia.
Rafael claimed she was the victim of a fatal intrusion. Ellen’s friends and
family suspected Rafael committed the crime. The police had almost no
evidence—and the professor had only one strategy: to win at all costs.
No Room for Doubt by Angela Dove--March 25, 1988, Debi
Whitlock was brutally murdered in her Modesto, California, home. Debi’s murder
devastated her family. Debi’s mother, Jacque, wanted answers. Over the next
nine years, Jacque fought what others called a losing battle—and learned to
deal with the authorities, the media, and the public so her daughter’s killer
would not go unpunished. Debi’s husband, Harold, was tossed down another path.
Police investigators focused their suspicions on him, eventually uncovering
motives and opportunity—but never enough to make a case. Judged harshly in the
court of public opinion, the once funny, intelligent, and fiercely loyal man
fell into a spiral of guilt, anger, and alcoholism. Told by Harold’s adult
daughter—the last person to see Debi alive—this is the story of a terrible
murder and investigation that led to the ultimate end of one man’s life, and a
renewed sense of purpose and hope in one woman’s life.
A
Dance With the Devil: A True Story of Marriage to a Psychopath by Barbara
Bentley-- At the start of her relationship with the intelligent and worldly
John Perry, Barbara Bentley couldn’t believe her luck—so when things didn’t add
up, she struggled to ignore her doubts. She kept trying to put pieces
together—unaware some of them were missing. As he drained her credit, dodged
her questions, manipulated her and misled her, she stayed with him, suppressing
her growing suspicions. Ultimately, he would try to kill her. Barbara’s
courageous story, after the honeymoon was over, what it took her to escape,
start life anew, and her efforts to protect other women and help them learn.
Dance with the Devil: A Memoir of Murder and Loss by Dave
Bagby and Elliott Leyton--Dave and Kate Bagby's son Andrew, a young doctor, was
murdered in November 2001. The murderer was his ex-girlfriend Dr. Shirley
Turner. She returned to her family home in Newfoundland, Canada pregnant with
Andrew's son. In September 2003, killed Andrew's 13 month old son and then
herself. Dear
Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father Starring Kurt Kuenne DVD
Die, My Love: A True Story of Revenge, Murder and Two Texas
Sisters by Kathryn Casey--The
day before Halloween 2004 was the last day on earth for professor Fred Jablin.
A neighbor discovered his body in a pool of blood in the driveway of his
Virginia home. Police turned their attentions to his ex-wife, Piper, a petite,
pretty Texas lawyer who lost a bitter custody battle and would do anything to
get her kids back. Piper was in Houston at the time of the slaying. So began an
investigation: a conspiracy of lies, rage, paranoia, manipulation, and murder
ensnare an entire family—including two look-alike sisters—and reveal the
shocking depravities possible when a dangerously disordered mind slips into madness.
Why They Kill: The Discoveries of a Maverick Criminologist
by Richard Rhodes--Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Rhodes traces the life of
criminologist Lonnie Athens, who grew up in a violent, angry world. He studied
it and developed a theory about how violent criminals are created. Athens's
work forces readers to consider how violent our society is, how it became that
way, and what might be done to change it. When applied to well-known criminals
such as Michael Tyson and Lee Harvey Oswald, Athens's ideas become concrete.
These are not just descriptions of scumbags' brutal crimes, but intensely
personal stories that reveal how a culture of violence propagates itself.
If
Looks Could Kill by M. William Phelps--Jeff Zack was executed in the
parking lot of a BJ's Wholesale Club in Akron, Ohio, by a biker. Jeff Zack's
murder stunned investigators - but then, so did his life. Many people had
reasons to want Zack dead, including his wife and the husband of a beauty queen
he dated openly.
Vanished at Sea: The True Story of a Child TV Actor and Double
Murder by Tina Dirmann--Thomas and Jackie Hawks, a retired probation
officer and a stay-at-home mom, looked forward to selling their 55-foot,
$435,000 yacht to spend time with their grandchildren. They were thrilled when
Skylar Deleon wanted to buy the boat for his young family. This unemployed,
former childhood actor and dishonorably discharged Marine had plans to lure the
couple to sea, force them to sign away their life savings, throw them overboard
and leave them.
Beggars And Thieves: Lives Of Urban Street Criminals by
Mark S. Fleisher--For policy makers, scholars, activists and citizens who want
to defuse urban Americas ticking crime bomb, this book is truly must reading.
Mark S. Fleisher has spent years among inmates in jails and prisons and on the
streets with thieves, gang members, addicts, and life-long criminals in Seattle
and other cities across the country. He writes about how they become and remain
offenders, and the actual role of jails and prisons efforts to deter crime and
rehabilitate criminals. Fleisher shows that parents who are addicts, abusers,
and criminals beget irreversibly damaged children who become addicts, abusers,
and criminals. Fleisher contends many well-intentioned educational and
vocational training programs are too late to help. And, provides evidence that
youthful and adult offenders find themselves better off in prison with work,
medical care, a clean place to sleep, meals, and stable social ties than they
are in Americas cities. Fleisher calls for bold, practical anti-crime policies.
He prescribes life terms for violent offenders in prisons structured as work
communities, where privileges are earned through work in expanded, productive
industries that reduce the financial burden of incarceration on the public.
Most important, he argues the only way to prevent street crime, and cut prison
growth is to permanently remove brutalized children from criminal, addicted and
violent parents.
Never Leave Me: A True Story of Marriage, Deception, and Brutal
Murder by John Glatt-- In a quiet community of million dollar homes and
SUVs, the Nyce family with their three children projected the image of success.
Dr. Jonathan Nyce, an asthma sufferer, achieved medical breakthroughs that
offered hope to countless people and made him rich. Michelle’s beauty made her
an object of desire. Adultery was her husband’s worst fear. Police found
Michelle’s Land Cruiser floating in a creek near home. Michelle’s battered body
was not killed in an accident.
Because
You Loved Me by
M. William Phelps--Jeanne Dominico was a hard-working single mother. Her fiancé
found her body on her kitchen floor with more than forty stab wounds and blows
to her head with a blunt instrument. Nicole, her fourteen-year-old daughter on
the honor-roll was in love with an eighteen-year-old man on the Internet. Once
they met in person, Jeanne sensed trouble. If only she'd known that the life in
danger was her own.
Love
& Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain by Max Wallace and Ian Halperin--On Friday, April 8, 1994, a body was
discovered in a room above a garage in Seattle. For the attending authorities,
it was an open-and-shut case of suicide. What no one knew then, however, is
that the deceased -- Kurt Cobain, the superstar front man of Nirvana -- had
been murdered. Drawing on tapes made by a P.I. hired by Courtney Love -- and on
new forensic evidence and police reports obtained under the Freedom of
Information Act -- Love
& Death explodes the theory that Cobain took his own life.
The Cop Who Wouldn't Quit by Rick Nelson--July 1979, after seven years as a Houston homicide detective, Johnny Bonds was called to a home. In the den, John, 35, an oceanographer, sat in an armchair, shot twice in the back of the head. Diana, 36,was on the floor, shot once in head. A 14-month-old baby boy lay dead in a crib, shot in the head. The medical examiner called it a murder-suicide but Bonds was not convinced, no gun was found at the scene. The memory of the murdered baby haunted him, and finding the killer became his obsession.
Held Captive: The Kidnapping and Rescue of Elizabeth Smart. On a June night in 2002, Salt Lake City teenager Elizabeth Smart was abducted at knifepoint from her bedroom. March of the following year, Elizabeth was discovered alive a few miles from her home, a prisoner of a self proclaimed Messiah and his wife. What happened to Elizabeth during 9 months in captivity is shocking.
While
She Slept by Marion Collins --When Jill Cahill was leaving to
return home after visiting with her family, she turned to her sister and said: "If Jeff kills me, you can have
all my things." A few days later, she was in a coma in a
hospital, her skull shattered by a savage beating inflicted by her 37-year-old
husband. Six months later, she was dead. Jeff and Jill Cahill seemed to have it
all. Two kids, a dog, a nice house of the picket fence variety. April 21, 1996
Jeff and Jill had a torrid argument while their kids were upstairs sleeping.
She lay in a coma for nearly six months and just as she started coming out of
it she received a visitor.
Cold
Case Files - The Most Infamous Cases -- DVD -- Bill Kurtis gathers ten of
the most fascinating true crimes ever known. Combining the latest forensic
techniques with old-fashioned police work; a systematic look at how a mystery
is solved and the culprit is apprehended. Ten cases: One Night on the Bayou,
Killer in the County, Frozen in Time, A Map to Murder, The Zodiac Killer, The
Green River Killer, Weepy-Voiced Killer, The Lady Killer, Kidnapped, Love Triangle.
A
Wife's Revenge by
Eric Francis -- Susan Wright was a victim ... who
admitted to killing her husband Jeffrey in their Harris County home in 2003, by
stabbing him to death in self-defense. She recounted a harrowing tale of
domestic abuse-one that the raging mother of two finally brought to an end-her
way. But prosecutors had a story of their own... Susan was a seductress ... who
set the mood for kinky sex with her unsuspecting husband. After tying Jeffrey
to the bed, Susan straddled him, stabbed him 193 times with a butcher knife,
then buried his body in a makeshift grave in their backyard. Justice would not
come easy.
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