True Crime: Connecticut: The State's Most Notorious Criminal Cases Author: Bryan Ethier
Country: United States of America
Format: Softcover
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 9780811735612
Publication date: April 2009
Pages: 131
The mention of Connecticut summons charming images of seaports and peaceful rural areas, but this densely populated state has its share of landmark crimes. Headline stories chronicled in this book focus on cases solved through the use of forensic science, including the arsenic poisoning of Mary Stannard, the Halloween golf-clubbing of Martha Moxley by a Kennedy relative, and the wood chipper murder of Helle Crafts. Also discussed are the killing spree of Michael Ross, the cold case murder of Yale University student Suzanne Jovin, and the horrifying home-invasion slaying of an upper-class Cheshire family.
True Crime: Connecticut
Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34 Author: Bryan Burrough
Country: United States of America
Format: Softcover
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 9780143115861
Publication date: April 2009
Pages: 624
In Public Enemies, bestselling author Bryan Burrough strips away the thick layer of myths put out by J. Edgar Hoover as FBI to tell the full story for the first time of the most spectacular crime wave in American history, the two-year battle between the young Hoover and the assortment of criminals who became national icons: John Dillinger, Machine Gun Kelly, Bonnie and Clyde, Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, and the Barkers. In an epic feat of storytelling and drawing on a remarkable amount of newly available material on all the major figures involved, Burrough reveals a web of interconnections within the vast American underworld and demonstrates how Hoover's G-men overcame their early fumbles to secure the FBI as rise to power.
Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34
The Prom Night Murders: The True Story of a Twenty-Year Mystery Author: Carlton Smith
Country: United States of America
Format: Mass market paperback
Publisher: St. Martin's True Crime
ISBN: 9780312947248
Publication date: April 2009
Pages: 320
Illustrations: Illustrated
In 1989, a shocking tragedy shattered an otherwise peaceful small Indiana community. Much-admired pastor Robert L. Pelley was found slain in his home. In his basement were the huddled, 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. Meanwhile, the pastor's son, Jeff, was nowhere to be found...
Police had a hunch that Jeff was responsible for the massacre, but they didn't have enough evidence to convict. The case went cold until, more than a decade later, when law officials resolved to finally try to unravel the truth about Jeff and to establish a motive,that he was angry toward his father for grounding him on prom night. Then it would be up to prosecutors to prove that Jeff was responsible
The Prom Night Murders: A Devoted American Family, their Troubled Son, and a Ghastly Crime (St. Martin's True Crime Library)
True Blue: To Protect and Serve Author: Randy Sutton
Country: United States of America
Format: Mass market paperback
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9780312549725
Publication date: April 2009
Pages: 304
Lieutenant Randy Sutton's fascinating collection of stories and memories, solicited from law enforcement officers across the country, offers a broad and insightful look at the many facets of police life: courage, exhilaration, frustration, loss, and even humor, from the everyday to the career-defining moments on the job. Told by the cops that lived them, these stories show what it truly means to protect and serve. Readers will come to recognize the faces behind the badge, as they witness officers charge into the unknown on The Beat, honor and mourn friends in The Fallen, hear the War Stories spread in police locker rooms and bars, discover the unbreakable line between civilian and cop in the Line of Duty, and feel the blood-boiling adrenaline during those life-altering moments when a cop must use Deadly Force. To Protect and Serve is a funny, exciting, haunting compilation of true stories written by active and retired police officers, most of whom have never written before, alongside published officers from all over the United States. A portion of the royalties for this book will be donated to The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund.
True Blue: To Protect and Serve
The Crimes of Paris: A True Story of Murder, Theft, and Detection Author: Dorothy Hoobler; Thomas Hoobler
Country: United States of America
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
ISBN: 9780316017909
Publication date: April 2009
Pages: 376
Illustrations: Illustrated
Turn-of-the-century Paris was the beating heart of a rapidly changing world. Painters, scientists, revolutionaries, poets,all were there. But so, too, were the shadows: Paris was a violent, criminal place, its sinister alleyways the haunts of Apache gangsters and its cafes the gathering places of murderous anarchists. In 1911, it fell victim to perhaps the greatest theft of all time,the taking of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre. Immediately, Alphonse Bertillon, a detective world-renowned for pioneering crime-scene investigation techniques, was called upon to solve the crime. And quickly the Paris police had a suspect: a young Spanish artist named Pablo Picasso....
The Crimes of Paris: A True Story of Murder, Theft, and Detection
Erased: Missing Women, Murdered Wives Author: Marilee Strong
Country: United Kingdom
Format: Softcover
Contributor: Mark Powelson
Publisher: JOSSEY-BASS
ISBN: 9780470442524
Publication date: April 2009
Pages: 337
Illustrations: Illustrated
Based on five years of investigative reporting and research into forensic psychology and criminology, Erased presents an original profile of a widespread and previously unrecognized type of murder: not a 'hot-blooded', spur-of-the-moment crime of passion, as domestic homicide is commonly viewed, but a cold-blooded, carefully planned and methodically executed form of 'erasure'. These crimes are often committed by men with no criminal record or history of violence whatsoever, men leading functional and often successful lives until the moment they kill the women, and sometimes children, they claimed to love. A surprising number go on to kill a second or even third wife or girlfriend, often in exactly the same way. In more than fifty chilling case studies, Marilee Strong examines the strange and complex psychology that drives these killers - from the murder a century ago that inspired the novel An American Tragedy to Scott Peterson, Mark Hacking, Jeffrey MacDonald, Ira Einhorn, Charles Stuart, Robert Durst, Michael White, Barton Corbin, and many others. Erased also looks at how these men manipulate the legal system and exploit loopholes in missing persons procedures and death investigation, exposing how easy it can be to get away with murder.
Erased: Missing Women, Murdered Wives
The Illicit American: Based on the True Life Story of Raymond C. Archuleta Author: Raymond C. Archuleta; Dr Manuel Vic Villalpando
Country: United States of America
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: iUniverse.Com
ISBN: 9781440137266
Publication date: April 2009
Pages: 472
The Illicit American: Based on the True Life Story of Raymond C. Archuleta
See Naples and Die: The Camorra and Organized Crime Author: Tom Behan
Country: United Kingdom
Format: Softcover
Publisher: TAURIS PARKE PAPERBACKS
ISBN: 9781848850187
Publication date: April 2009
Pages: 224
A century before the emergence of its cousin, the Sicilian mafia, the criminal organisation known as 'The Camorra' was establishing a deadly grip on Naples and Southern Italy. Its influence today is as strong as ever. This account of the organisation and its shadowy leaders reveals a crime syndicate of extraordinary power and resources: it involves the major political parties, along with the police, judiciary, administrators and leading figures in the business community.
See Naples and Die: The Camorra and Organized Crime
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