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Burned : a story of murder and the crime that wasn't
by Edward Humes
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of No Matter How Loud I Shout reveals key flaws in forensic science that have sent thousands of innocent people to jail, tracing the 1989 story of a wrongly convicted mother of three
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A Serial Killer's Daughter : My Story of Faith, Love, and Overcoming
by Kerri Rawson
What is it like to learn that your ordinary, loving father is a serial killer? In 2005, Kerri Rawson heard a knock on the door of her apartment. When she opened it, an FBI agent informed her that her father had been arrested for murdering ten people, including two children. It was then that she learned her father was the notorious serial killer known as BTK, a name he'd given himself that described the horrific way he committed his crimes: bind, torture, kill. As news of his capture spread, Wichitacelebrated the end of a thirty-one-year nightmare.
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Unsolved Murders : True Crime Cases Uncovered
by Amber Hunt
Readers are on the case in the most infamous unsolved crimes of the 20th and 21st centuries, from the Black Dahlia murder to the Zodiac Killer through this compendium of crime scenes, evidence, witnesses and other essential details and clues.
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Incest, Murder and a Miracle : The True Story Behind the Cheryl Pierson Murder-for-Hire Headlines
by Cheryl Cuccio
In 1986 Cheryl Pierson was a sixteen year old abuse and incest victim. Day after day her father placed the fear in her no one would believe her if she revealed their dirty secret. But Cheryl had made a promise to her mother, as she lay in her coffin, to protect her eight year old sister from the monster Cheryl's father had become. To honor this promise and end the daily hell she endured, the distraught teenager hired a classmate to murder her father. The name Cheryl Pierson was in the national media for years, filled with assumptions and fabrications surrounding the murder, but her side of the story was never truly covered from her perspective. The one interview she did give to a reporter was while she was still in shock from what had transpired. Now, after thirty years, Cheryl has come out of the shadows to tell her true story--what really happened behind the doors at 293 Magnolia Drive, and what the life she and Rob have shared has been like. She is a strong survivor and hopes to inspire courage in those who walk in her shoes, and to promote abuse and incest awareness with this book.
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The Evil Within
by Darren Galsworthy
This is the heartbreaking story behind the murder of 16-year-old Bristol schoolgirl Becky Watts, a crime that shocked the nation and tore a family in two.
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The officer's wife: a true story of unspeakable betrayal and cold-blooded murder
by Michael Fleeman
Describes the case of Michelle Theer, a sexually adventurous, North Carolina psychologist, who persuaded her lover, U.S. Army Staff Sergeant John Diamond, to murder her Air Force pilot husband, Marty, only to leave Diamond to take the fall for the killing, claim the insurance money, flee to Florida, and have plastic surgery to hide her identity.
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Go down together : the true, untold story of Bonnie & Clyde
by Jeff Guinn
An account of the exploits of Bonnie and Clyde explores the ways in which they captured the imaginations of people during and after their time, reveals the role of youth and luck in their two-year crime spree, and recounts the events that led to their deaths
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Labyrinth
by Randall Sullivan
An investigation into the murders of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls offers a stunning exposT of the link between the LAPD Rampart scandal and gang violence and controversial rap celebrities as it describes how members of the LAPD became involved in criminal activities and how high-level officials covered it up.
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