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"I Heard You Paint Houses": Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa
"I heard you paint houses" are the first words Jimmy Hoffa ever spoke to Frank "the Irishman" Sheeran. To paint a house is to kill a man. The paint is the blood that splatters on the walls and floors. In the course of nearly five years of recorded interviews ...more |
Charles Brandt |
2008-09-19 |
$12.95 |
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419 Scam
The "419" scam is an aspect of transnational financial crime with a 'modus operandi' peculiar to the Nigerian swindler. The most recurrent type of transnational "419" scam is the "advance fee fraud". It is usually introduced in the form of a business contract, |
Charles Tive |
2008-09-19 |
$6.00 |
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A Beautiful Child
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. ...more |
Matt Birkbeck |
2008-11-30 |
$15.00 |
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A Bright and Guilty Place
A captivating chronicle of how the City of Angels lost its soul Los Angeles was the fastest growing city in the world, mad with oil fever, get-rich-quick schemes, celebrity scandals, and religious fervor. It was also rife with organized crime, with a |
Richard Rayner |
2009-06-22 |
$25.00 |
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A Cop's Life: True Stories from the Heart Behind the Badge
After September 11, 2001 Las Vegas Police Sergeant Randy Sutton began soliciting writing from law enforcement officers-his goal being to bridge the gap between the police and those they serve, with a book that offers a broad and thoughtful look at the ...more |
Randy Sutton |
2009-04-10 |
$23.95 |
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A Criminal Injustice: A True Crime, a False Confession, and the Fight to Free Marty Tankleff
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 ...more |
Jay Salpeter &
Richard Firstman |
2009-01-08 |
$28.00 |
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A Dance With the Devil: A True Story of Marriage to a Psychopath
Her marriage to retired Navy admiral John Perry seemed almost too good to be true. Because it was.
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, |
Barbara Bentley |
2008-11-29 |
$16.00 |
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A Priest in Hell: Gangs, Murderers and Snitching in a California Jail
This gritty memoir describes the painful reality of crime and punishment in a California jail, beginning on November 5, 2005, when the author, a parish priest in a small town in northern California, is arrested and charged with 10 felonies after a large ...more |
Randall Radic |
2009-10-01 |
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All the Centurions
The bestselling book and acclaimed film Prince of the City told only part of Robert Leuci's story. In All the Centurions, he shares the full account of his years as a narcotics detective with the New York Police Department -- a tale of daring adventure, |
Robert Leuci |
2008-09-14 |
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Almost Midnight: An American Story of Murder and Redemption
The haunting true story of a triple murder in the Ozarks, two lovers on the lam, and a death-row inmate saved by the pope. On a spring day more than ten years ago, sixty-nine-year-old Lloyd Lawrence was gunned down in rural Missouri. The shooter also |
Michael W. Cuneo |
2008-09-20 |
$24.95 |
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Amazing True Stories of Execution Blunders
The business of death can be seriously absurd, and nothing illustrates this better than these gruesome true tales. This gory compendium details the frankly ridiculous ways in which a number of ill-fated unfortunates met (or failed to meet) their maker ...more |
Geoffrey Abbott |
2008-09-23 |
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American Law Enforcement: Does Not Serve or Protect!
This ebook describes how policing has forgotten to serve and protect citizens but emphasizes technology and quick response after a crime has been committed. It has astonishingly simple new ideas about how policing could prevent crime as well as enforce ...more |
Johannes F. Spreen &
Diane Holloway |
2008-07-29 |
$6.00 |
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Amerithrax
The first book on the unsolved case that terrorized a nation in the aftermath of September 11th is now updated with new material, including photos and transcripts of original anthrax letters that were received by "NBC Nightly News" anchor Tom Brokaw and ...more |
Robert Graysmith |
2009-08-10 |
$7.99 |
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An Act of Kindness
Genore Guillory was one of the most generous souls in her Louisiana community. And she would pay for it. Her shocking mutilation and murder revealed a festering, small-town evil that betrayed the promise of a good life spent in God's country. ...more |
Charles Hustmyre |
2010-01-22 |
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An Unfinished Canvas: A True Story of Love, Family, and Murder in Nashville
Janet March had a picture-perfect life-until she disappeared...
No body, no cause of death, no physical evidence - and yet, after ten years, a murder conviction... Janet March, the strikingly attractive artist and wife of corporate lawyer Perry March, |
Michael Glasgow |
2009-01-19 |
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Armed and Dangerous: The Hunt for One of America's Most Wanted Criminals
As an agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, William Queen must tackle a number of challenging cases, including going undercover to investigate a group of violent skinheads and infiltrating and busting a ring trafficking in high-powered ...more |
Douglas Century &
William Queen |
2008-09-19 |
$23.95 |
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Behind Bars: Surviving Prison
A judge hands down a stretch in a local, state, or federal prison. It's time for some serious life lessons. With the crime rates soaring in the United States and the prison population growing faster than at any time in American history, staying alive and ...more |
Jeffrey Ian Ross |
2009-01-29 |
$14.95 |
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Behind the Yellow Tape: On the Road with Some of America's Hardest Working Crime Scene Investigators
From the authors of Bodies We've Buried - an uncensored look at real-life CSIs. With a foreword by Patricia Cornwell.
For years, Jarrett Hallcox and Amy Welch trained CSIs at the National Forensic Academy in Knoxville, Tennessee. Now they provide a |
Jarrett Hallcox |
2009-01-10 |
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Bestial: The Savage Trail of a True American Monster
FROM SOCIAL OUTCAST TO NECROPHILE AND MURDERER -- HIS APPALLING CRIMES STUNNED AN ERA. San Francisco, the 1920s. In an age when nightmares were relegated to the fiction of Edgar Allan Poe and distant tales of the Whitechapel murders, a real-life monster |
Harold Schechter |
2010-03-05 |
$7.99 |
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Beyond Bars: Rejoining Society After Prison
Can the common criminal get a fresh start An essential resource for former convicts and their families post-incarceration. The United States has the largest criminal justice system in the world, with currently over 7 million adults and juveniles in jail, |
Jeffrey Ian Ross PhD |
2009-07-08 |
$12.95 |
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