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  Angels of Death - Murderous...

  Anônimo

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  Medics and carers hold the lives of their patients in the balance. They see us at our most vulnerable, and we trust them utterly. Yet there are those who abuse this trust in the medical profession, and take advantage of their position to commit the most hideous crimes. 
   
  In this gripping account, readers can discover the chilling stories of these cold-hearted killers, including Dr Harold Shipman who murdered as many as 200 of his patients, hospital orderly Donald Harvey who kept his crimes hidden for 17 years , and many more chilling cases. These are the stories of twisted minds who hide in plain sight and abuse their power over life and death.

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  In the Dead of Night

  Greg Haddrick

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  A mysterious disappearance, a brazen murderer and the police who hunted him down. 
   
  In March 2020 secret lovers Russell Hill and Carol Clay disappeared in Victoria's remote Wonnangatta Valley. Greg Haddrick tells the gripping inside story of the twists and turns of the police investigation and the trial of pilot Greg Lynn. 
   
  In March 2020 a couple disappears from the remote Wonnangatta Valley, leaving a burnt-out campsite. Russell Hill and Carol Clay are secret lovers, and at first it seems they might simply have started a new life somewhere. But the police become increasing convinced that they have been the victims of foul play, even though their bodies have not been found. 
   
  So begins a painstaking police investigation, tracing the driver of every car in the area at the time, checking their stories and alibis. Ultimately, after more than a year's work, there seems to be only one driver who cannot be eliminated: Greg Lynn, a Jetstar captain. 
   
  Is it possible that this highly successful professional pilot is a killer? Could he be responsible for a number of mysterious disappearances in the Wonnangatta Valley? Where are the bodies and how can the police successfully charge him, given that there are no witnesses, no bodies and no clues as to how they were murdered? 
   
  This is the gripping inside story of the pursuit and trial of Greg Lynn.

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  Murder on the Dark Web - True...

  Eileen Ormsby

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  A look into the dark side of the internet's secret underbelly 
   
   
   
  The dark web is the internet's evil twin, where anything can be bought and sold. Drugs, weapons, and hackers-for-hire are available at the touch of a button. 
   
   
   
  Most who visit merely look around, happy to satisfy their curiosity before leaving, never to return. But some are sucked into the criminal underworld and find themselves doing things they would never have contemplated in the real world—ordering a hit on a love rival or bidding on an auction for a sex slave—like the people in this book. 
   
   
   
  A Minnesota dog trainer is found dead of an apparent suicide after detectives find her details on a dark web murder-for-hire site. But who paid $13,000 in Bitcoin to kill this devout Christian and beloved wife and mother? 
   
   
   
  A Page-3 glamour model is drugged, kidnapped and listed for sale on a dark web human trafficking site. A secret society called Black Death demands a ransom for her safe return, or else she will be sold to sadistic millionaires to use before feeding to the tigers. These are extraordinary true tales of infidelity, betrayal, and shadowy hitmen and human traffickers who may not be that they seem. 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  The Butcher Embezzler and the...

  Gretchen Cherington

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  Three powerful men converge on the banks of the Red Cedar River in the early 1900s in southern Minnesota—George Albert Hormel, founder of what will become the $10 billion food conglomerate Hormel Foods; Alpha LaRue Eberhart, the author's paternal grandfather and Hormel's executive vice president and corporate secretary; and Ransome Josiah Thomson, Hormel's comptroller. Over ten years, Thomson will embezzle $1.2 million from the company's coffers, nearly bringing the company to its knees. 
   
   
   
  The Butcher, The Embezzler, and The Fall Guy opens in 1922 as George Hormel calls Eberhart into his office and demands his resignation. Hailed as the true leader of the company he'd helped Hormel build—is Eberhart complicit in the embezzlement? Far worse than losing his job and the great wealth he'd rightfully accumulated is that his beloved young wife, Lena, is dying while their three children grieve alongside. Of course, his story doesn't end there. 
   
   
   
  In scale both intimate and grand, Cherington deftly weaves the histories of Hormel, Eberhart, and Thomson within the sweeping landscape of our country's early industries, along with keen observations about business leaders gleaned from her thirty-five-year career advising top company executives.

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  True Crime Case Histories -...

  Jason Neal

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  Twelve True Crime Stories of Murder & Mayhem 
  Book 14 of the True Crime Case Histories Series 
  Readers and Listeners Love This Series - Over 8,000 Five-Star Ratings 
  *** This series can be listened to in any order *** 
  Not everyone can stomach the grim details of True Crime. Yet, for some, an unshakable allure draws them closer - be it a quest for justice, a desire to understand the mind of a killer, or curiosity about how the cases were solved. 
  True Crime Case Histories Volume 14 brings to light twelve new stories spanning the past fifty years, exposing the depths of human depravity. 
  A sampling of the stories includes: 
  The Cosplay Cam Girl - A young woman's rise from obesity and debt to a successful cam girl and cosplayer takes a dark turn when her tumultuous relationship ends in a brutal murder. 
  The Castle Doctrine - When a man who dedicated his life to protecting America from foreign threats finds himself unable to keep his own home secure, he takes matters into his own hands. 
  A Bad Actor - A struggling actor's desperate pursuit to fund his dream wedding leads him to commit the ultimate betrayal. 
  The Frame-up - When a woman is brutally murdered, all evidence points to her husband. But when others keep dying, police worry they've jailed the wrong killer. 
  Room 308 - A young woman's dream of exploring the world turns into a nightmare when her online date goes terribly wrong. As investigators unravel the sinister truth, they expose a deadly predator hiding in plain sight. 
  Death of a Cheerleader - A beautiful model's pursuit of stardom takes a sinister turn when she meets a photographer for a photo shoot and never returns. 
  Plus, several more disturbing true crime stories, including a bonus thirteenth chapter at the end.

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  You Can't Win - The Classic...

  Jack Black

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  You Can't Win is the pioneering American criminal underworld memoir written by Jack Black, a burglar, drifter and criminal active in early 1900's America. Black's astonishing accounts of hopping trains, cracking safes, escaping prison cells, and drug addiction offers an unusually vivid portrait of American underworld life over a century ago. Beat legend William S. Burroughs ('Junkie') cited the book as influential in his life and writing. 
  In his striking, deadpan and humorous memoir, the author recaptures the transient underworld of the early twentieth century. In You Can't Win, the reader will meet unforgettable underworld characters as diverse and fascinating as: 'Foot and a Half George'; 'Salt Chunk Mary'; 'The Sanctimonious Kid'; 'Soldier Johnnie'; and others. 
  With an accompanying bonus Glossary of Hobo, Tramp, and Transient Terminology, You Can't Win tells of Black's experiences in the hobo and criminal underworld, freight-hopping around North America in the early 1900's. The book is among the first to introduce the fascinating 'yegg' subculture, a prototypical form of criminal Hobo or bum prevalent in the USA around the turn of the century. You Can't Win is a must-listen for fans of true crime, American history, Beat writers, and hobo-yegg culture. 
  The main criminal activity of Black's life and of the book is thievery, which leads to discussions of various technical aspects of the thief's trade, including: the casing of prospects (surveillance of targets), safe-cracking, fencing of stolen goods, the disposal of evidence, maintaining aliases and avoiding attention or traceability, the social networks of criminals, and doing time in jails and prisons. The vices and addictions Black reveals include alcoholism, abuse of opium ('hop'), gambling, prostitution, and stealing. 
  *NOTE: Potentially offensive ethnic slang appearing in the original text has been modified

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