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Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
by Ben Mezrich
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 It's Friday night and you're on a red-eye to the city of sin. Strapped to your chest is half a million dollars; in your overnight bag is another twenty-five thousand in blackjack chips; and your wallet holds ten fake IDs. As soon as you land in Las Vegas, you are positive you are being investigated and followed. To top it all off, the IRS is auditing you, someone has been going through your mail--and you have a multivariable calculus exam on Monday morning. Welcome to the world of an exclusive g... more info>> (Published: 2002)
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Teasing Secrets from the Dead: My Investigations at America's Most Infamous Crime Scenes [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
by Crown Publishing Group
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 Teasing Secrets from the Dead is a front-lines story of crime scene investigation at some of the most infamous sites in recent history. In this absorbing, surprising, and undeniably compelling book, forensics expert Emily Craig tells her own story of a life spent teasing secrets from the dead. Emily Craig has been a witness to history, helping to seek justice for thousands of murder victims, both famous and unknown. It's a personal story that you won't soon forget. Emily first became intrigued b... more info>>
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The Monster of Florence [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
by Douglas Preston
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In 2000, Douglas Preston fulfilled a dream to move his family to Florence, Italy. Then he discovered that the olive grove in front of their 14th century farmhouse had been the scene of the most infamous double-murders in Italian history, committed by a serial killer known as the Monster of Florence. Preston, intrigued, meets Italian investigative journalist Mario Spezi to learn more. This is the true story of their search for--and identification of--the man they believe committed the crimes, and... more info>>
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Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba ... and then Lost It to the Revolution [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
by T. J. English
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In modern-day Havana, the remnants of the glamorous past are everywhere--the old hotel-casinos, vintage American cars, and flickering neon signs speak of a bygone era that is widely familiar and often romanticized, but little understood. In Havana Nocturne, T. J. English offers a riveting, multifaceted true tale of organized crime, political corruption, roaring nightlife, revolution, and international conflict that interweaves the dual stories of the Mob in Havana and the event that would oversh... more info>>
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A Descent Into Hell: The True Story of an Altar Boy, a Cheerleader, and a Twisted Texas Murder [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
by Kathryn Casey
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Bright, attractive, and both from good families, University of Texas college student Colton Pitonyak and vibrant redhead Jennifer Cave had the world at their beckoning. Cave, an ex-cheerleader, had just landed an exciting new job, while a big-money scholarship to UT's prestigious business school lured Pitonyak to Austin. Yet the former altar boy had a dark, unpredictable streak, one that ensnared him in the perilous underworld of drugs and guns. When Jennifer failed to show up for work on August... more info>>
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In Cold Blood [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
by Truman Capote
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On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. Five years, four months and twenty-nine days later, on April 14, 1965, Richard Eugene Hickock, aged thirty-three, and Perry Edward Smith, aged thirty-six, were hanged from the crime on a gallows in a warehouse in the Kansas State Penitentiary in... more info>> (Published: 2002)
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Hello Charlie: Letters from a Serial Killer [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
by Charlie Hess
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The 1991 abduction and murder of thirteen-year-old Heather Dawn Church baffled police for three agonizing years, and became one of the most infamous murders the quiet and scenic city of Colorado Springs had ever seen. It was legendary homicide detective Lou Smit who finally broke the case, sending Robert Charles Browne, a forty-three-year-old Louisiana drifter and career criminal, to prison for life. But the savage saga of Robert Browne did not end there. In 2000, Smit, now retired, joined force... more info>>
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While They Slept: An Inquiry into the Murder of a Family [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
by Kathryn Harrison
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Early on an April morning, eighteen-year-old Billy Frank Gilley, Jr., killed his sleeping parents. Surprised in the act by his younger sister, Becky, he turned on her as well. Billy then climbed the stairs to the bedroom of his other sister, Jody, and said, "We're free." But is one ever free after an unredeemable act of violence? The Gilley family murders ended a lifetime of physical and mental abuse suffered by Billy and Jody at the hands of their parents. And it required each of the two surviv... more info>>
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The Cases That Haunt Us: From Jack the Ripper to Jon Benet Ramsey, The FBI's Legendary Mindhunter Sheds New Light on the Mysteries That Won't Go Away [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
by John Douglas & Mark Olshaker
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America's foremost expert on criminal profiling provides a gripping
analysis of seven of the most notorious murder cases in the history of
crime. Taking a fresh and penetrating look at each case, the authors
reexamine and reinterpret accepted facts and victimology using modern
profiling and criminal analysis--with fascinating and haunting results. (Published: 2001)
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Catch Me if You Can: The Amazing True Story of the Most Extraordinary Liar in the History of Fun and Profit [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
by Frank W. Abagnale
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Frank W. Abagnale, alias Frank Williams, Robert Conrad, Frank Adams, and Robert Monjo, was one of the most daring con men, forgers, imposters, and escape artists in history. In his brief but notorious criminal career, Abagnale donned a pilot's uniform and copiloted a Pan Am jet, masqueraded as the supervising resident of a hospital, practiced law without a license, passed himself off as a college sociology professor, and cashed over $2.5 million in forged checks, all before he was twenty-one. Kn... more info>> (Published: 2002)
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The Serial Killer Files: The Who, What, Where, How, and Why of the World's Most Terrifying Murderers [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
by Harold Schechter
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The definitive dossier on history's most heinous! Hollywood's make-believe maniacs like Jason, Freddy, and Hannibal Lecter can't hold a candle to real life monsters like John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and scores of others who have terrorized, tortured, and terminated their way across civilization throughout the ages. Now, from the much-acclaimed author of Deviant, Deranged, and Depraved, comes the ultimate resource on the serial killer phenomenon. Rigorously researched and packed wi... more info>> (Published: 2003)
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Every Breath You Take: A True Story of Obsession, Revenge, and Murder [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
by Ann Rule
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America's #1 true-crime writer fulfills a murder victim's desperate plea--with this shattering New York Times Bestseller. "If anything ever happens to me ... find Ann Rule and ask her to write my story." In perhaps the first true-crime book written at the victim's request, Ann Rule untangles a web of lies and brutality that culminated in the murder of Sheila Blackthorne Bellush--a woman Rule never met, but whose shocking story she now chronicles with compassion, exacting detail, and unvarnished ... more info>> (Published: 2002)
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My Life Among the Serial Killers [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
by Helen Morrison & Harold Goldberg
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For most of her professional life as a forensic psychiatrist with a law degree, Dr. Helen Morrison has been on a mission to discover (or at least lay the groundwork to discover) the reasons why serial killers are compelled to murder. Many law enforcement officials say they have become hardened to killings. This is something Dr. Morrison will not allow herself to do. "It won't work if I treat a murder as through it is anything routine. I have to keep my emotions completely open in order to advanc... more info>> (Published: 2004)
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True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
by Michael Finkel
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In the haunting tradition of Joe McGinniss's Fatal Vision and Mikal Gilmore's Shot in the Heart, True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa weaves a spellbinding tale of murder, love, and deceit with a deeply personal inquiry into the slippery nature of truth. The story begins in February of 2002, when a reporter in Oregon contacts New York Times Magazine writer Michael Finkel with a startling piece of news. A young, highly intelligent man named Christian Longo, on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list for ... more info>>
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Bind, Torture, Kill: The Inside Story of the Serial Killer Next Door [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
by Roy Wenzl & Tim Potter
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For thirty-one years, an unremarkable family man stalked, killed, and terrorized the people of Wichita, Kansas. He was a devoted husband. A helpful Boy Scout dad. A reliable, conscientious employee. A dependable church president. And behind it all, the notorious serial killer BTK--a self-anointed acronym for "bind, torture, kill." Now that he's in prison serving ten consecutive life sentences, the whole world knows that Dennis Rader is BTK. But the intricate twists and shocking turns of this sto... more info>> (Published: 2007)
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Beyond the Body Farm: A Legendary Bone Detective Explores Murders, Mysteries, and the Revolution in Forensic Science [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
by Bill Bass & Jon Jefferson
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There is no scientist in the world like Dr. Bill Bass. A pioneer in forensic anthropology, Bass created the world's first laboratory dedicated to the study of human decomposition--three acres of land on a hillside in Tennessee where human bodies are left to the elements. His research at "the Body Farm" has revolutionized forensic science, helping police crack cold cases and pinpoint time of death. But during a forensics career that spans half a century, Bass and his work have ranged far beyond t... more info>> (Published: 2007)
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True Stories of Law and Order: SVU [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
by Kevin Dwyer
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The real-life cases behind TV's hit crime drama-including photos! The crimes, the suspects, the trials-as they really went down. True Stories of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit focuses on twenty-five of the scandalous true crimes that real detectives have grappled with the facts behind the fictionalized stories on the phenomenally popular TV show. Beyond the actual crimes, the entire criminal process is covered--from investigation and arrest to trial and verdict. This book reveals in-depth acc... more info>>
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Brutal: The Untold Story of My Life Inside Whitey Bulger's Irish Mob [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
by Kevin Weeks
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I grew up in the Old Colony housing project in South Boston and became partners with James "Whitey" Bulger, who I always called Jimmy. Jimmy and I, we were unstoppable. We took what we wanted. And we made people disappear--permanently. We made millions. And if someone ratted us out, we killed him. We were not nice guys. I found out that Jimmy had been an FBI informant in 1999, and my life was never the same. When the feds finally got me, I was faced with something Jimmy would have killed me for-... more info>> (Published: 2007)
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Killer Doctors: The Shocking True Crimes of Medical Deviates Who Practiced in Murder [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
by Colin Evans
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Doctors have at their disposal a number of devious ways to extinguish life--and just as many motives--should they desire. Some do. In Killer Doctors, the dark side of the men in white is revealed.
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The Dreams of Ada [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
by Robert Mayer
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The true bewildering story of a young woman’s disappearance, the nightmare of a small town obsessed with delivering justice, and the bizarre dream of a poor, uneducated man accused or murder--a case that chillingly parallels the one, occurring in the very same town, chronicled by John Grisham in The Innocent Man
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Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: The Uncensored Story of the JonBenet Murder and the Grand Jury's Search for the Final Truth [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe Reader 7]
by Lawrence Schiller
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In Perfect Murder, Perfect Town, Lawrence Schiller thoroughly recreates every aspect of the complex case of the death of JonBenet Ramsey. A brilliant portrait of an inscrutable family thrust under the spotlight of public suspicion and an affluent, tranquil city torn apart by a crime it couldn't handle, Perfect Murder, Perfect Town uncovers the mysteries that have bewildered the nation. Why were the Ramseys, the targets of the investigation, able to control the direction of the police inquiry?; C... more info>> (Published: 2007)
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