Wednesday, May 6, 2009

New True Crime Books June 2009

I have compiled this list of true crime books being released in June 2009.These are not by any means the entire list but the ones which I will be adding to my "to be read" list.As soon as I read these books I will do my own review on them and update this post with my review link next to the book information.

Signed in Blood: The True Story of Two Women, a Sinister Plot, and Cold Blooded Murder
Author: Jeanne King
Country: United States of America
Format: Mass market paperback
Publisher: St. Martin's True Crime
ISBN: 9780312949006
Publication date: June 2009
Pages: 256
Illustrations: Illustrated

They came from different backgrounds, but when Helen Golay and Olga Rutterschmidt met in the 1980s, they became fast friends. For decades, they made a game of engaging in petty crime:bad deals, insurance fraud, robbing wallets. But after years of dabbling in theft, they came up with a way of making their pocketbooks even fatter. They found a way to make murder pay...
It was a plan out of Arsenic and Old Lace : Befriend a homeless man, place life insurance policies in his name and then have him killed. Their scheme worked once...but then police started to notice a pattern. Helen and Olga were discovered, and in front of a court of law, their coldhearted pact to kill and cash in would finally be exposed.
Signed in Blood: The True Story of Two Women, a Sinister Plot, and Cold Blooded Murder (St. Martin's True Crime Library)


Parents Who Kill: Murderers of Newborn, Pre-Teen and Teenage Children
Author: Carol Anne Davis
Country: United Kingdom
Format: Softcover
Publisher: Pennant Books Ltd
ISBN: 9781906015374
Publication date: June 2009

Parents Who Kill: Murderers of Newborn, Pre-Teen and Teenage Children






Behind the Mask: A True Story of Obsession and Savage Genius
Author: Stella Sands
Country: United States of America
Format: Mass market paperback
Publisher: St. Martin's True Crime
ISBN: 9780312944704
Publication date: June 2009
Edition: illustrated edition
Pages: 256

Forty-year-old William Coday lived the quiet life of a scholar. He spoke six languages and held degrees in history, literature, and library science. As a librarian in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, he was known to be unfailingly kind and helpful. But you can't always judge a book by its cover...
When Coday failed to show up for work one day, a concerned colleague looked for him at his apartment,only to discover the body of Gloria Gomez. Coday's ex-girlfriend, Gomez had been bludgeoned to death with 144 blows by two hammers and a knife. Police at the scene had little doubt that Coday was the killer. But other, darker secrets from Coday's past had yet to come to light...
In one of the most shocking crime cases and legal appeals in Florida history, an extraordinary courtroom battle began.What the jury did not know was that Coday, when he lived abroad, had beaten another ex-girlfriend to death; the courts there had deemed him insane. Who was William Coday: Mentally unstable? Or perfectly capable--and guilty--of murder in the first degree? Soon it would be up to prosecutors to prove who the real man was BEHIND THE MASK,
Behind the Mask: A True Story of Obsession and a Savage Genius (St. Martin's True Crime Library)


501 Most Notorious Crimes
Publisher: Bounty Books
Country: United Kingdom
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780753717677
Publication date: June 2009
Pages: 544
Illustrations: Colour illustrations

In 501 Most Notorious Crimes , the reader will find a fascinating line-up of notorious crooks, criminals, villains and thieves, from the mysterious disappearance of Lord Lucan, the assassination of JFK to the treason committed by Guy Fawkes. This book provides a fascinating insight into the world's most notorious crimes.
501 Most Notorious Crimes (True Crime)


The Bike Path Killer
Author: Maki Becker; Michael Beebe
Country: United States of America
Format: Mass market paperback
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
ISBN: 9780786019977
Publication date: June 2009
Edition: illustrated edition
Pages: 332

He raped...Altemio Sanchez was a modern-day Jekyll and Hyde - a family man who resided in Buffalo, New York, with a wife and two sons, worked nights as a machinist, and concealed a terrible secret. Once a year, after his shift, he'd make a side trip to a secluded spot where women would ride bikes and jog. He was called 'The bike path rapist' - until he crossed the line from rape to murder. He Killed...For fourteen years, the Bike Path Killer mercilessly raped and murdered his prey, eluding police every step of the way. Then, the killings stopped. People wondered whether he'd left town, had been locked up in prison for another crime, or maybe even died. But when another woman's corpse with the same lethal signature surfaced, authorities knew the Bike Path Killer was back. And he almost got away with it. Now, for the first time, two award-winning reporters follow a depraved killer's bloody trail of terror to the bitter end: his horrifying confession...
The Bike Path Killer


Born to Kill: The Rise and Fall of America's Bloodiest Asian Gang
Author: T. J. English
Country: United States of America
Format: Softcover
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780061782381
Publication date: June 2009
Pages: 336

Throughout the late eighties and nineties, a gang of young Asian refugees cut a bloody swath through New York's Chinatown. They were the lost children of the Vietnam War, severed from their families by violence and cast adrift in a strange land. Banding together under the leadership of a megalomaniacal young psychopath, David Thai, they took their name from a slogan they had seen on helicopters and the helmets of U.S. soldiers: Born to Kill. For a decade their empire was unassailable, built on a foundation of fear, ruthlessness, and unimaginable brutality--until one courageous gang brother helped bring it down from the inside.
Born to Kill: The Rise and Fall of America's Bloodiest Asian Gang


Journey to Hell: Inside the World's Most Violent Prison System
Author: Donald MacNeil
Country: United Kingdom
Format: Softcover
Publisher: Milo Books
ISBN: 9781903854860
Publication date: June 2009
Pages: 244
Journey to Hell: Inside the World's Most Violent Prison System






Life Means Life
Author: Nick Appleyard
Country: United Kingdom
Format: Softcover
Publisher: John Blake
ISBN: 9781844546688
Publication date: June 2009
Pages: 306
Illustrations: Illustrations

This book tells the stories of those most depraved killers whose crimes outraged society and demanded the harshest penalty available to a British court. Among a UK prison population of close to 100,000, fewer than 40 men and women have been told they will end their days in a prison cell. They range from men who crossed continents to slay youngsters, to contract killers who relished their grisly calling. Some planned their killings in a sick and sadistic manner, others killed in an unanticipated explosion of rage, lust, greed or jealously. But whatever their crime, whatever their motive, each of these beasts has one thing in common: they are the most evil people in our prison system. A graphic and harrowing read, this book is the first ever to bring together the case histories of every full-term lifer in Britain's jails. It offers never-before-published information about these extraordinary offenders. Police, lawyers and the relatives of the victims and killers all describe how the truth behind these awful crimes was pieced together and those responsible were brought to justice to face the harshest punishment. These are the 36 monsters deemed beyond redemption, who by their own hands forfeited the right to live among us, forever. These are the killers whose crimes were such that society demanded that ...LIFE MEANS LIFE!
Life Means Life


Medical Murder: Disturbing Cases of Doctors Who Kill
Author: Robert M. Kaplan
Country:
Format: Softcover
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 9781741756104
Publication date: June 2009
Pages: 240

In January 2000, news headlines declared that Dr. Harold Shipman had been found guilty of murdering 15 of his patients. Before the trial, many assumed Shipman was an over-zealous doctor who went too far in providing comfort to dying patients. This was not the case. Shipman had deliberately and coldly murdered not 15, but 218 of his patients, though the real number may even be higher still. Medical Murder is a fascinating volume that explores some of the most famous cases of doctors who kill - such as Dr. Harry Bailey, a psychiatrist who dispatched more than 20 patients using the discredited Deep Sleep Therapy; Dr. Radovan Karadizic, the psychiatrist who led the genocide during the Bosnian War; and, Dr. William Palmer who poisoned his victims for insurance money. It offers an intelligent look at the chilling paradox of why these healers spent years learning how to preserve life, only to turn their focus on how to end it.
Medical Murder: Disturbing Cases of Doctors Who Kill


The Ride: A Shocking Murder and a Bereaved Father's Journey from Rage to Redemption
Author: Brian MacQuarrie
Country: United States of America
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 9780306816260
Publication date: June 2009
Weight: 454g
Pages: 304

Boston Globe reporter MacQuarrie chronicles the October 1997 murder of ten-year-old Jeffrey Curley and its devastating effect on his family.What begins as fairly typical, if unusually disturbing, true-crime material quickly turns into the stuff of Greek tragedy as the author plumbs the psyche of the real protagonist of the story - Jeffrey's father Bob, a firehouse mechanic from a working-class section of Cambridge. Bob was estranged from his wife and beginning a new relationship when Jeffrey's horrific murder at the hands of a pair of sociopaths thrust him into the limelight as the de facto spokesman for the reinstatement of the death penalty in one of the most liberal states in the nation. At first, perhaps as a result of the guilt he felt for not being present when Jeffrey needed him most, Bob was eager to play the role that death-penalty proponents asked of him. The sentiment the Curley case aroused in the public developed a momentum that nearly succeeded in overwhelming the anti - capital punishment contingent that was long in power in the statehouse, but crafty politics and unusually courageous politicians turned back the challenge. Then Bob found himself - and worse, the image of Jeffrey in his Little League uniform - being used as a political prop in campaign literature without permission. When the courts dealt Jeffrey's murderer a light sentence, Bob lost all faith in the system to get the right man, let alone determine whether he lived or not.(Kirkus Reviews)
The Ride: A Shocking Murder and a Bereaved Father's Journey from Rage to Redemption


The Runner: A True Account of the Amazing Lies and Fantastical Adventures of the Ivy League Impostor James Hogue
Author: David Samuels
Country: United States of America
Format: Softcover
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
ISBN: 9781582435046
Publication date: June 2009
Pages: 192

The Runner tells the remarkable true story of a drifter and petty thief named James Hogue who woke up one cold winter morning in a storage shed in Utah and decided to start his life anew. Re-imagining himself as a self-educated ranch hand named Alexi Indris-Santana who read Plato under the stars and could run a mile in under four minutes, Hogue applied and was accepted to Princeton University, where he excelled academically, made the track team, became a member of the elite Ivy Club, and dated a millionaire's daughter.
Echoing both The Great Gatsby and The Talented Mr. Ripley, the story of Hogue's life before and after he went to Princeton is both an immensely affecting portrait of a dreamer and a striking indictment of the Ivy League meritocracy to which Hogue wanted so badly to belong.
The Runner: A True Account of the Amazing Lies and Fantastical Adventures of the Ivy League Impostor James Hogue


Triple Cross: How Bin Laden's Master Spy Penetrated the CIA, the Green Berets, and the FBI
Author: Peter Lance
Country: United States of America
Format: Softcover
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780061189418
Publication date: June 2009
Pages: 688

In the years leading to the 9/11 attacks, no single agent of al Qaeda was more successful in compromising the U.S. intelligence community than Ali Mohamed. A former Egyptian army captain, Mohamed succeeded in infiltrating the CIA in Europe, the Green Berets at Fort Bragg, and the FBI in California;even as he helped to orchestrate the al Qaeda campaign of terror that culminated in 9/11. As investigative reporter Peter Lance demonstrates in this gripping narrative, senior U.S. law enforcement officials(including the now celebrated U.S. attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, who personally interviewed Mohamed long before he was brought to ground)were powerless to stop him.
In the annals of espionage, few men have moved between the hunters and the hunted with as much audacity as Ali Mohamed. For almost two decades, the former Egyptian army commando succeeded in living a double life. Brazenly slipping past watch lists, he moved in and out of the U.S. with impunity, marrying an American woman, becoming a naturalized citizen, and posing as an FBI informant;all while acting as chief of security for Osama bin Laden and Ayman Al Zawahiri. Known to his fellow terrorists as Ali Amiriki, or Ali the American, Mohamed gained access to the most sensitive intelligence in the U.S. counterterrorism arsenal while brokering terror summits, planning bombing missions, and training jihadis in bomb building, assassination, the creation of sleeper cells, and other acts of espionage.
Building on the investigation he first chronicled in his previous books, 1000 Years for Revenge and Cover Up, Lance uses Mohamed to trace the untold story of al Qaeda's rise in the 1980s and 1990s. Incredibly, Mohamed, who remains in custodial witness protection today, has never been sentenced for his crimes. He exists under a veil of secrecy;a living witness to how the U.S. intelligence community was outflanked for years by the terror network.
From his first appearance on the FBI's radar in 1989;training Islamic extremists on Long Island;to his presence in the database of Operation Able Danger eighteen months before 9/11, this devious triple agent was the one terrorist they had to sweep under the rug. Filled with newsmaking revelations, Triple Cross exposes the incompetence and duplicity of the FBI and Justice Department before 9/11 . . . and raises serious questions about how many more secrets the Feds may still be hiding.
Triple Cross: How bin Laden's Master Spy Penetrated the CIA, the Green Berets, and the FBI


World's Most Evil Psychopaths
Author: John Marlowe
Country: United Kingdom
Format: Softcover
Publisher: Arcturus Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 9781848371224
Publication date: June 2009
Pages: 208
Illustrations: photos

World's Most Evil Psychopaths





Identity Theft Breaches
by Cary S. Logweller (Editor)
Hardcover: 318 pages
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers (June 2009)
ISBN-13: 978-1606922279

Crime has moved yet another step forward in its unyielding progression through society. Now it is identity theft. Trying to combat both legal and illegal theft continues to occupy a large portion of the average citizen's life. Identity theft or identity fraud generally involves 'stealing' another person's personal identifying information - such as Social Security number (SSN), date of birth, and mother's maiden name - and then using the information to fraudulently establish credit, run up debt, or take over existing financial accounts. This book focuses on current breaches in the wall of privacy.
Identity Theft Breaches

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