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  Seattle’s Forgotten Serial...

  Cloyd Steiger

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  "An in-depth look at the 1971 trial of a serial killer who's been mostly forgotten—except to those who were forever impacted." —The Seattle Times 
   
   
   
  In 1969, the body of a young woman was discovered in the woods of Renton, rocking the communities along Puget Sound. Three more brutal murders followed, drawing the attention of multiple police agencies as they tried to piece together the meager clues left behind. The seemingly unrelated cases challenged detectives, who struggled to realize they were all connected to one man: Gary Gene Grant. Before the term "serial killer" was even coined, Grant stalked his prey, destroying lives and families while walking unseen among the masses. Decades later, his crimes have all but been forgotten. 
   
   
   
  Join author and homicide investigator Cloyd Steiger as he uncovers the story of the murderer who slipped through the cracks of history.

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  The Chicken Murders - A True...

  Ralph Beistline

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  Two days before Christmas 1977, a phone call shattered Ralph Beistline's quiet legal practice in Fairbanks, Alaska. The Presiding Judge had an assignment: represent a seventeen-year-old boy charged with two counts of first-degree murder in a deadly shootout over a gold mining claim in the remote Fortymile Country. "I don't do criminal law," the young attorney protested. "That won't be a problem," the judge replied. "Your client is guilty." What followed was a seven-month odyssey that would take Beistline into Alaska's rugged backcountry and introduce him to some of its most intriguing characters—from the enigmatic Russell family living off the grid in pursuit of gold, to the old-timer miners whose deaths sparked outrage throughout the territory's small communities. The case seemed straightforward: two teenagers had gunned down two experienced miners in a dispute over the "Rocking Chair" mining claim near the Alaska-Canada border. But as Beistline investigated, he uncovered a complex web of frontier justice, property rights, and family loyalty that challenged everything he thought he knew about law and justice. His client, David Russell, was barely five feet tall and weighed 140 pounds—hardly the cold-blooded killer prosecutors portrayed. The Russell family lived in a one-room cabin without electricity or running water, scraping gold from frozen riverbed with mayonnaise jars and tablespoons. They had purchased the mining claim legally, posted it properly, and sought help from law enforcement when threatened. Yet somehow, they had become the villains in a story where two men lay dead on the ice. As winter gave way to spring and trial approached, Beistline found himself not just defending a teenager's life, but grappling with fundamental questions about self-defense, frontier survival, and the price of gold fever in America's last wilderness. The case would test his skills as an attorney, challenge his understanding of justice, and forever change his perspective on the law. Set against the backdrop of 1970s Alaska—a time when the territory still embodied the raw spirit of the frontier—"The Chicken Murders" is both a gripping true crime narrative and a coming-of-age story about a young lawyer learning his craft in the crucible of a capital murder case. Written by retired Federal Judge Ralph Beistline, this memoir offers unprecedented insight into Alaska's legal system, mining culture, and the collision between modern law and frontier justice. It's a story that could only have happened in Alaska, told by someone who lived it. Part legal thriller, part historical chronicle, part personal memoir—"The Chicken Murders" delivers a fascinating glimpse into a world where gold, guns, and justice intersected in the frozen wilderness of Alaska's Fortymile Country.

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  Peaky Blinders: The Aftermath -...

  Carl Chinn

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  As Britain emerges into the mid–twentieth century, change is afoot. Cities are beginning to shift from smog-filled industrial hubs to more efficient metropolitan centers of commerce and, despite the country once again being blighted by war, society is beginning to shift towards a more modern, forward–thinking era. But change is not only limited to regular men and women; under the shifting tides of development, the criminal underbelly, too, is evolving, anxious for new avenues of exploitation and expansion . . . 
  And so, in the third instalment of his best-selling series, historian Carl Chinn examines this new era in the landscape of Britain's gangs. After the violent reign of the Peaky Blinders, the intimidation of the Birmingham gang and frequent gang wars up and down the country, from the wreckage new groups are emerging with new ways of making money and causing trouble, and, like those who came before them, they leave havoc and destruction in their wake. 
  Peaky Blinders: The Aftermath will bring this new generation of criminals into focus. And up and down the length of the country, from the dog tracks to the pubs of the East End, it delves into the murky world of the country's most villainous criminals.

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  Jailing the Johnstown Judge -...

  Bruce Siwy

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  In 1988, Judge Joe O'Kicki was regarded by his peers as one of the most brilliant legal minds in the United States. He was newly remarried, sworn in as the president judge of a Pennsylvania county and on the fast track to a federal bench . . .  
   
   
   
  Silently, however, a state police vice unit was in the midst of covert operation into O'Kicki's personal affairs. The judge would be accused of soliciting bribes, frequenting brothels, and running the county as if he were a "battleship commander." Later he'd concoct a plan to flee the country and exact revenge on his enemies. 
   
   
   
  Set in the aftermath of the 1977 Johnstown flood and including courtroom testimony, the memos of whistleblowers, contemporary interviews, and excerpts from O'Kicki's unfinished tell-all memoir, Jailing the Johnstown Judge is a fresh examination of the extraordinary western Pennsylvania case that attained international infamy.

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  The Witch of New York - The...

  Alex Hortis

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  Before the sensational cases of Amanda Knox and Casey Anthony—before even Lizzie Borden—there was Polly Bodine, the first American woman put on trial for capital murder in our nation’s debut media circus. 
  On Christmas night, December 25, 1843, in a serene village on Staten Island, shocked neighbors discovered the burnt remains of twenty-four-year-old mother Emeline Houseman and her infant daughter, Ann Eliza. In a perverse nativity, someone bludgeoned to death a mother and child in their home—and then covered up the crime with hellfire. 
  When an ambitious district attorney charges Polly Bodine (Emelin’s sister-in-law) with a double homicide, the new “penny press” explodes. Polly is a perfect media villain: she’s a separated wife who drinks gin, commits adultery, and has had multiple abortions. Between June 1844 and April 1846, the nation was enthralled by her three trials—in Staten Island, Manhattan, and Newburgh—for the “Christmas murders.” 
  After Polly’s legal dream team entered the fray, the press and the public debated not only her guilt, but her character and fate as a fallen woman in society. Public opinion split into different camps over her case. Edgar Allen Poe and Walt Whitman covered her case as young newsmen. P. T. Barnum made a circus out of it. James Fenimore Cooper’s last novel was inspired by her trials. 
  The Witch of New York is the first narrative history about the dueling trial lawyers, ruthless newsmen, and shameless hucksters who turned the Polly Bodine case into America’s formative tabloid trial. An origin story of how America became addicted to sensationalized reporting of criminal trials, The Witch of New York vividly reconstructs an epic mystery from Old New York—and uses the Bodine case to challenge our system of tabloid justice of today.

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  It's Not Me It's You - An...

  Charlotte Bigland

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  The last man I dated... ended up dead. Jen is a normal, single woman living in a big city. By day, she's a receptionist and by night, she goes on dates. Lots of dates. Because Jen knows if she is going to find true love, it's a numbers game. All of Jen's dates end with the same crushing sense of disappointment and she finds herself silently uttering those five familiar words: 'It's not me, it's you.'But now it seems Jen is more than just unlucky in love. The police have knocked on her door with some questions for her. The last five people she went on dates with have been murdered. And Jen is their prime suspect. As she fights desperately to prove her innocence, she must ask herself, who would have a motive to kill those five people? And if the only thing connecting them is her, will she be next?

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