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  Lost and Found - The True Story...

  John Glatt

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  In 1991, eleven-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard was kidnapped on her morning walk to the school bus. The search for Jaycee made national headlines, and the case was repeatedly featured on America's Most Wanted. But despite her family's tireless efforts, Jaycee's disappearance remained a mystery.Then, in August 2009, a registered sex offender named Phillip Garrido appeared on the University of California, Berkeley, campus alongside two young women whose unusual behavior sparked concern among campus officials and law enforcement. That visit would pave the way for a shocking discovery: that Garrido was Jaycee Lee Dugard's kidnapper. For eighteen years Jaycee had lived on the Garrido property in Antioch, California. Kept in complete isolation, she was repeatedly raped by Garrido, who fathered her two daughters. When news broke of Jaycee's discovery, there was a huge outpouring of relief across the nation. But questions remain: How did the Garridos slip past authorities? And how did Jaycee endure her captivity? This is the story of a girl-next-door who was lost and found.

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  Serial Killer Trivia: Cold Cases...

  Michelle Kaminsky

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  The ultimate collection of intriguing details from the most infamous cold cases around the world—and the killers who may still be out there . . .  
   
  From England’s Jack the Ripper and the Axeman of New Orleans to lesser-known cases like Detroit’s Bigfoot Killer and Cleveland’s Torso Murderer, this trivia book is packed with information about some of the most shocking cold cases in history. 
   
  Written for the true crime junkies who just can’t get enough, you’ll get all the must-know details on more than 80 unsolved true crime cases. Alongside these disturbing cold cases, you’ll also learn about the inspiring story of the crack detective work—and ancestry DNA database—that eventually brought California’s Golden State Killer, arguably one of the most famous serial killer cold cases, to justice. 
   
  With gripping facts and disturbing evidence plucked from original sources such as trial transcripts and contemporary newspaper accounts, the book is sure to include surprising stories that even the most well-informed true crime fans don’t know.

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  FBI's Most Wanted – Incredible...

  Federal Bureau of Investigation

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  The FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list arose from a conversation held in late 1949 between J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI, and William Kinsey Hutchinson who were discussing ways to promote capture of the FBI's "toughest guys". For sixty years, the FBI has sought the public's assistance in a special way through one of our most effective and longest running publicity programs, which, since 1950, has led to the location of more than 460 of our nation's most dangerous criminals. 
  Content:
  FBI's "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" Program:
  The Beginnings
  Today
  The Program
  Criteria for Placement on the List
  The List
  Removal from the List
  How the FBI Gets Its Men and Women:  
  A 20-Year Study of the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" Program 1989-2009
  Today's "Top Ten" List More Likely to Include Terrorist, Organized Crime Figures and Child Predators 
  "Top Tenners" Cannot Hide for Long
  Many Fugitives Found far from Home 
  "Top Ten" Fugitives Increasingly Caught Through Publicity 
  Conclusion
  Project Pin Point
  Project Welcome Home
  America's Most Wanted
  Famous Cases:
  Thomas James Holden
  William Raymond Nesbit
  Isaie Beausoleil 
  Clyde Edward Laws
  James Earl Ray
  Richard Lee Tingler, Jr.
  Ruth Eisemann-Schier
  Theodore Robert Bundy
  Eric Robert Rudolph
  Warren Jeffs
  Service Martyrs

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  Buried Alive - The True Story of...

  Roy Hallums

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  A “vivid, absorbing, and chilling” true-life account of surviving nearly a year of captivity in Iraq (Lesley Stahl, 60 Minutes correspondent). 
   
  AK47s, masked thugs, and brutal urgency erupt from Roy Hallums’ account of his abduction in Iraq, shredding through those frequently sterile cable news reports revealing that another American contractor is being held hostage. Hallums was the everyman behind that report—a fifty-six-year-old retired Naval commander working as a food supply contractor in Baghdad’s high-end Mansour District. 
   
  His abduction was transacted in a matter of minutes, amidst a hail of gunfire and a handful of casualties. For the first few months of his captivity, Hallums endured beatings and psychological torture while being shuffled from one ramshackle safe house to another. 
   
  From the four-foot-tall crawlspace where he carried out the bulk of his nearly year-long abduction, Hallums established a surprising degree of normalcy—a system of routines and timekeeping, along with an attention to the particulars that defined his horrific ordeal. His experience is recreated here, rich with harrowing specifics and surprising observations.

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  The Death of James Dean

  Warren Newton Beath

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  With extensive research, this account of the Hollywood star and his legion of fans offers “the best narrative yet of Dean’s final ten hours” (San Francisco Examiner).   Just before sunset on September 20, 1955, James Byron Dean’s Porsche 550 Spyder collided with Donald Gene Turnupseed’s Ford Tudor on California Highway 46. At age twenty-four, America’s newest screen idol was dead. But what really happened? Drawing on original documents, including the coroner’s inquest and other previously unpublished material, author Warren Newton Beath provides a painstakingly accurate reconstruction of Dean’s final hours and tragic death.   In addition, Beath explores Dean’s life and his enduring status as a cultural icon, including Elvis Presley’s worship of him; Hitchcock’s use of Highway 46 in the famous crop-dusting scene in North by Northwest; death threats against Giant director George Stevens if he dared excise a single frame of Deans’ final performance; and many more fascinating facts about the enigmatic screen legend.   Beath’s definitive account concludes with a memorable portrait of the James Dean cult, a strangely moving record of his posthumous life in the hearts of his adoring fans.

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  Online Killers - Portraits of...

  Christopher Berry-Dee, STEVEN...

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  A collection of true crime tales featuring killers who found their prey online, from the author of Cannibal Serial Killers. 
   
  Take a cyber journey where the flicker of LCD screens illuminates unimaginable evil. It starts as a harmless online-date, but can quickly turn to kidnapping, torture and death. More than just tales of sinister criminals, this collection of true horror stories destroys commonly held myths, like “it’s safe to meet someone after knowing them online for many months.” Predators actually gain additional satisfaction from stalking their victims over long periods of time! 
   
  Online Killers chronicles the stories of men, women and children whose internet adventures led them into disastrous circumstances, including: 
   
  •Naïve fifteen-year-old Christina Long, whose meeting with a much older man from a chat room led to her rape and murder 
   
  •Schoolteacher Jane Longhurst, the victim of an obsessive necrophiliac who abused her decomposing body for weeks 
   
  •Bernd-Jurgen Brandes, who was not only killed and eaten by a cannibal, but had the whole process immortalized on video 
   
  •Young and beautiful Anastasia Solovyonva, the would-be bride who was brutally murdered at the hands of her supposed fiancé

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