New True Crime Book Releases

Here is a list of true crime books which are newly published.I have listed the books from September 2008 through to December 2008.This is also a way for me to keep up to date with which new books I need to read.So basically this is my TBR list.And also for when I get my new Kindle(yes,I know you are tired of hearing of my new Kindle!!)so I can know which ones to order or request that they be put on Kindle if they are not available.

Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case
Author: K. C. Johnson; Stuart Taylor
Format: Softcover
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 9780312384869
Publication date: September 2008
Edition: First
Pages: 444
Illustrations: Illustrated

What began that night shocked Duke University and Durham, North Carolina. And it continues to captivate the nation: the Duke lacrosse team members' alleged rape of an African-American stripper and the unraveling of the case against them. In this ever-deepening American tragedy, Stuart Taylor Jr. and KC Johnson argue, law enforcement, a campaigning prosecutor, biased journalists, and left-leaning academics repeatedly refused to pursue the truth while scapegoats were made of these young men, recklessly tarnishing their lives. The story harbors multiple dramas, including the actions of a DA running for office; the inappropriate charges that should have been apparent to academics at Duke many months ago; the local and national media, who were so slow to take account of the publicly available evidence; and the appalling reactions of law enforcement, academia, and many black leaders. Until Proven Innocent is the only book that covers all five aspects of the case (personal, legal, academic, political, and media) in a comprehensive fashion. Based on interviews with key members of the defense team, many of the unindicted lacrosse players, and Duke officials, it is also the only book to include interviews with all three of the defendants, their families, and their legal teams. Taylor and Johnson's coverage of the Duke case was the earliest, most honest, and most comprehensive in the country, and here they take the idiocies and dishonesty of right- and left-wingers alike head on, shedding new light on the dangers of rogue prosecutors and police and a cultural tendency toward media-fueled travesties of justice. The context of the Duke case has vast import and containslikable heroes, unfortunate victims, and memorable villains--and in its full telling, it is captivating nonfiction with broad political, racial, and cultural relevance to our times.
Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case


Murder.Com
Author: Christopher Berry-Dee; Steven Morris
Format: Softcover
Publisher: John Blake
ISBN: 9781844545179
Publication date: October 2008
Edition: illustrated edition
Pages: 268
Illustrations: Illustrated

Evil roams the internet just as it does even the most quiet of streets in the real world. World-renowned criminologist Christopher Berry-Dee takes an unflinching look into the darkest recesses of the world wide web and what he has unearthed will make you switch off your computer - for good. From cannibals ordering a human meal by email to mail-order brides whose quest for better lives end in grisly murder, this is the only guide you need to avoid the perils of the online world. With years of experience in understanding the criminal mind, Berry-Dee rigorously analyses how the ease of access to the most depraved of materials on the net has fed the imagination of the world's sickest fiends. From the bondage festishist who killed an innocent acquaintance, to the girl who learned how to commit suicide from the web, these all-true stories will shock you to your core.
Murder.com


Mom Said Kill
Author: Burl Barer
Format: Mass market paperback
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
ISBN: 9780786019090
Publication date: October 2008
Pages: 314
Illustrations: Illustrated

When Jerry Heimann's son arrived at his father's home in Everett, Washington, he found his grandmother, an Alzheimer's patient, alone in the house, starving and dehydrated. His father was missing. The furniture was gone. Within hours, police realised that Jerry's live-in housekeeper, Barbara Opel, had robbed him and fled. But where was Jerry?The next morning, Opel's 11-year-old son led police to Jerry's body. Soon, stunned detectives were getting confessions from a rage tag group of teens and pre-teens. At Barbara Opel's command, they had set upon Jerry Heimann with knives, fists, and baseball bats - and battered him to death.From 13-year-old Heather, who frantically stabbed Jerry after having sex with her boyfriend, to 7-year-old Tiffany, who helped clean up the blood, this is the horrifying true story of how a mother turned her children and their friends into stone cold killers - and then rewarded them for their crime...
Mom Said Kill (Pinnacle True Crime)

Human Trafficking Crimes
Author: Government Accountability Office
Country: United States of America
Format: Hardcover
Contributor: United States
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
ISBN: 9781604569612
Publication date: October 2008
Pages: 118
Illustrations: tables

Human trafficking is a transnational crime whose victims include men, women, and children and may involve violations of labour, immigration, antislavery, and other criminal laws. To ensure punishment of traffickers and protection of victims, Congress passed the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA), which is subject to reauthorization in 2007. The Departments of Justice (DOJ) and Homeland Security (DHS) lead federal investigations and prosecutions of trafficking crimes. This book discusses key activities federal agencies have undertaken to combat human trafficking crimes, federal efforts to co-ordinate investigations and prosecutions of these crimes, and how the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) supported federally funded state and local human trafficking task forces.
Human Trafficking Crimes


Who Named the Knife: A True Story of Murder and Memory
Author: Linda Spalding
Format: Softcover
Publisher: Anchor Books
ISBN: 9780307279200
Publication date: October 2008
Pages: 258

Hawaii's beautiful Hanauma Bay. The suspects: two young mainlanders on their honeymoon. Maryann Acker, a pretty young Mormon woman, is eighteen. William, just out of prison, is twenty-eight. The crime is robbery, ending in a killing. In 1982, Linda Spalding, a mainlander herself, living in Hawaii, is chosen as a juror for Maryann's trial there. Surprisingly the chief witness against Maryann is William, accusing her of shooting their victim. Spalding has reasonable doubts, but on the last day of the trial, she is abruptly dismissed from the jury, and Maryann found guilty. Who Named the Knife is the story of how, eighteen years later, Spalding stumbles over the journal she kept during the trial, and reading it carefully, wonders if she was right to have those doubts. She tracks down Maryann, who is still incarcerated, starts a correspondence, and begins to uncover much more than the answer to the question of Maryann's guilt or innocence. There's the bold new friendship frustrated by monitored visits, hard-to-make phone calls, and the dehumanizing results of years in prison. But as her understanding of the forces that drove Maryann's actions grows, Spalding finds herself compelled to examine her own past as well as Maryann's. Who Named the Knife is a record of this complex journey,a journey into America's troubled soul and into the twists of fate that spin two lives down different but infinitely painful paths. The story is Maryann's but it is also Spalding's, as subject and writer overlap, and the hunt for truth unmasks family mysteries. Lyrical and achingly honest, this is a story that offers us profound insight onto the vagaries of the human heart.
Who Named the Knife: A True Story of Murder and Memory


Dead Men Walking: True Stories of the Most Evil Men and Women on Death Row
Author: Christopher Berry-Dee; Tony Brown
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: John Blake
ISBN: 9781844545926
Publication date: November 2008
Pages: 283

Following the success of the Talking With Serial Killers books, Christopher Berry-Dee continues his investigation into the dark world of the criminally insane, this time with co-writer Tony Brown. Dead Men Walking is a collection of chilling real-life stories from the cells of death row. These damned souls include Bill Benefiel, the 'Superglue Monster', who brutally tortured his teenage victims to death; Dennis Wayne Bagwell, who killed four female family members, brutally raping one; and Veronica and Ivan Gonzalez, who systematically tortured their four-year-old niece over a period of six months, before scalding her to death in a bath tub, making them the first married couple on death row.While illustrating the horrific crimes of some of the world's most dangerous criminals, this book discusses the difference between monster and man and tries to trace the often blurry line between justice and murder. With in-depth accounts of each perpetrator and crime, Dead Men Walking offers a voice of reason in an exhausted debate between politicians, the public and the press. These insightful portrayals allow for a terrifying journey down the Green Mile.Once again, Christopher Berry-Dee leads you into the dark side of human nature.
Dead Men Walking: True Stories of the Most Evil Men and Women on Death Row


A Dance with the Devil: A True Story of Marriage to a Psychopath
Author: Barbara Bentley
Format: Softcover
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780425221181
Publication date: November 2008
Pages: 362
Illustrations: Illustrated

Her marriage to retired Navy admiral John Perry seemed almost too good to be true. Because it wasa] At the start of her relationship with the intelligent and worldly John Perry, Barbara Bentley couldnat believe her luckaso when things didnat add up, she struggled to ignore her doubts. She kept trying to put the pieces togetheraunaware that some of them were simply missing. Even 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, proving himself not a protector and provider, but a predator. This is Barbaraas courageous, compelling story, in her own wordsaof the slow, choking darkness that fell after the honeymoon was over, what it took to finally drive her to escape and start her life anew, and her tireless efforts to protect other women and help them learn from her example.
A Dance With the Devil: A True Story of Marriage to a Psychopath


Mortal Danger: And Other True Cases Author: Ann Rule
Format: Mass market paperback
Publisher: Pocket Books
ISBN: 9781416542209
Publication date: November 2008
Edition: illustrated edition
Pages: 465
Illustrations: Illustrated

Ann Rule brings her brilliantly informed understanding of the sociopath to this riveting true crime collection. Only Rule, who unknowingly worked alongside the smart and charming Ted Bundy-America's most notorious serial killer-could lend her razor-sharp insight into these cases of the spouse, lover, family member or a helpful stranger who is totally trusted-but whose lethally violent nature, though masterfully disguised, can and will kill. Featured here is the case of a family man who appeared the picture of healthy living with his expertise in naturopathic healing. Luring a beautiful flight attendant into a passionate affair, he swept her away to a secluded home on the coast where his jealous rages escalated, ultimately leading to a brutal sex attack when she believed she would die. How this brave victim survived, never knowing her tormentor's whereabouts, and how he resurfaced, forcing a tragic end for all involved, makes this one of Ann Rule's most compelling narratives. Other cases include that of the woman who masterminded her husband's murder to gain his inheritance ...The monstrous sadist whose prison release damaged a presidential candidate's campaign and ended in a bitter double tragedy in a quiet neighbourhood 3,000 miles away.See My Review Here
Mortal Danger (Ann Rule's Crime Files)


Wicked Intentions: The Sheila Labarre Murders, A True Story
Author: Kevin Flynn
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: New Horizon Press
ISBN: 9780882823416
Publication date: December 2008
Illustrations: Illustrated

When investigators were called to the secluded farm of Sheila LaBarre, they found the dismembered and incinerated remains of her young lover. LaBarre would plead insanity to this and other murders. Flynn presents a spellbinding true story of obsession and vigilantism carried to a deadly extreme.
Wicked Intentions: The Sheila LaBarre Murders - A True Story


Killer Couples: True Stories of Partners in Crime
Author: Tammy Cohen
Format: Softcover
Publisher: John Blake
ISBN: 9781844545728
Publication date: December 2008
Edition: illustrated edition
Pages: 274
Illustrations: Illustrated

Love and lust are among the most powerful of emotions, but when a joint thirst for violence is thrown into the mix, it creates the ultimate lethal cocktail. Killer Couples explores the deadly dynamic that exists within the relationship of men and women whose romantic obsession leads them to commit acts of bloody devastation. Looking at case histories from around the world - some well known, others whose shocking truth is revealed for the first time- it asks what kind of love proves itself by brutality against innocents, what warped ties of loyalty bind a lover to a mate who murders, and how the balance of power between a couple can become so twisted that other people become irrelevant and, worse, disposable.The seemingly normal can all too frequently hide a macabre depravity for terror, torture and death. If they hadn't met, these people might have continued through their lives in unremarkable obscurity. In all their horrific detail, discover how their flaws and fantasies fused to create a monster that fed on the sadistic extermination of their victims.The couples in this book could be your neighbours, even your friends. They're ordinary people with an extraordinary secret - murder.
Killer Couples: True Stories of Partners in Crime


A Criminal Injustice: A True Crime, a False Confession, and the Fight to Free Marty Tankleff
Author: Richard Firstman; Jay Salpeter
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 9780345491213
Publication date: December 2008
Pages: 593
Illustrations: Illustrated

When he went to bed on the night of September 6, 1988, seventeen-year-old Marty Tankleff was a typical kid in the upscale Long Island community of Belle Terre. He was looking forward to starting his senior year at Earl L. Vandermeulen High School the next day. But instead, Marty woke in the morning to find his parents brutally bludgeoned, their throats slashed. His mother, Arlene, was dead. His father, Seymour, was barely alive and would die a month later. With remarkable self-possession, Marty called 911 to summon help. And when homicide detective James McCready arrived on the scene an hour later, Marty told him he believed he knew who was responsible: Jerry Steuerman, his father's business partner. Steuerman owed Seymour more than half a million dollars, had recently threatened him, and had been the last to leave a high-stakes poker game at the Tankleffs' home the night before. However, McCready inexplicably dismissed Steuerman as a suspect. Instead, he fastened on Marty as the prime suspect-indeed, his only one.
Before the day was out, the police announced that Marty had confessed to the crimes. But Marty insisted the confession was fabricated by the police. And a week later, Steuerman faked his own death and fled to California under an alias. Yet the police and prosecutors remained fixated on Marty-and two years later, he was convicted on murder charges and sentenced to fifty years in prison.
But Marty's unbelievable odyssey was just beginning. With the support of his family, he set out to prove his innocence and gain his freedom. For ten years, disappointment followed disappointment as appeals to state and federal courts were denied. Still, Marty never gave up. He persuadedJay Salpeter, a retired NYPD detective turned private eye, to look into his case. At first it was just another job for Salpeter. As he dug into the evidence, though, he began to see signs of gross ineptitude or worse: Leads ignored. Conflicts of interest swept under the rug. A shocking betrayal of public trust by Suffolk County law enforcement that went well beyond a simple miscarriage of justice. After Salpeter's discoveries brought national media attention to the case, Marty's conviction was finally vacated in 2007, and New York's governor appointed a special prosecutor to reopen the twenty-year-old case. At the same time, the State Investigation Commission announced an inquiry into Suffolk County's handling of what has come to be widely viewed as one of America's most disturbing wrongful conviction cases.
As gripping as a Grisham novel, A Criminal Injustice is the story of an innocent man's tenacious fight for freedom, an investigator's dogged search for the truth. It is a searing indictment of justice in America.
A Criminal Injustice: A True Crime, a False Confession, and the Fight to Free Marty Tankleff


Beauty Sleep: A Glamorous Mother, a Woman from Her Past, and Her Mysterious Death
Author: Michaele Ballard
Format: Mass market paperback
Publisher: St. Martin's True Crime
ISBN: 9780312947842
Publication date: December 2008
Pages: 256
Illustrations: illustrations

On April 10, 2001, Sandra Baker, a recently separated, forty-five-year-old mother of two, went for a facelift,and a new lease on life. But the nurse anesthetist was a woman from her past. And Sandra's future was in jeopardy.Decades before, in a world of high school cliques and competition, Sally Jordan Hill had a crush on a guy whose attentions turned toward Sandra. Little did Sandra know how jealous Sally might have been.Once Nurse Sally had Sandra in her care, she administered a lethal dose of the painkiller Fentanyl. Within hours, Sandra was brain dead and her death was ruled a medical mistake. But earlier, Sally's coworkers heard her say this: That's the woman who stole my boyfriend in high school, And soon, a determined detective would find new clues to convince a judge that Sandra's death was no accident.
Beauty Sleep: A Glamorous Mother, a Woman from Her Past, and Her Mysterious Death

Cross-Country Evil: The Shocking True Story of an Eighteen-Year Manhunt for a Killer on the Run
Author: Tom Basinski
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 9780425224892
Publication date: December 2008
Edition: illustrated edition
Pages: 290
Illustrations: Illustrated
The murder of a San Diego woman in 1988 was eventually solved,nearly two decades later and thousands of miles away,after a Florida cop pulled a man over during a traffic stop. What transpired was an incredible combination of chance and relentless investigative work.
Cross-Country Evil: The Shocking True Story of an Eighteen-Year Manhunt for a Killer on the Run (Berkley True Crime)