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  Murder in the Midlands - Larry...

  Rita Y. Shuler

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  The full story of the infamous double murder featured on Discovery's FBI Files. 
   
   
    
  In this book, former South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) forensic photographer Lt. Rita Y. Shuler recounts twenty-eight days of terror and shocking developments in one of the most notorious double murders and manhunts in South Carolina history. 
   
   
    
  Shuler shares her own personal interactions with some of the key players in this famous manhunt and investigation. Also included are Bell's chilling calls from area phone booths to the Smith family, along with his disconcerting interviews and bizarre actions in the courtroom, which show the dark, evil, and criminal mind of this horrific killer. This is a comprehensive account of the case that has been featured on the Discovery Channel's FBI Files, in the CBS movie Nightmare in Columbia County, and on Court TV's Forensic Files.

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  Bloodstains on the Cocaine Trail...

  Peter Clack

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  A homicide crisis began sweeping America after massive quantities of cocaine first began their journey into America in 1986. Drugs were trucked along the highways of the Cocaine Trail to every city in America. This influx of a deadly new drug led directly to a series of record deaths from overdoses, suicides and crime-related murders, family breakdowns and destroyed lives. Drugs are credited with driving the highest homicide rates in American history and a raging turf war between street gangs.
   
  Crack cocaine unleashed a brutal era of violence, placing newspapers under 
  enormous pressure to provide coverage. Relations with police were breaking down everywhere and crime coverage was in its death throes. Newspapers could not cover the homicides or give any context or explanations to such a social upheaval. Editors, reporters and police now reveal the shocking truth behind this agonizing episode in American history, when crime reporters had to re-invent journalism to get behind the police blue code. This book combines investigative journalism and narrative style to produce a rare portrait from within the secret inner world of newspapers.

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  My Father The Forger - The...

  Adrian Wolfe

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. My Father, The Forger: The Untold Confession of Arthur Williams 
  In the shadows of a struggling Chicago neighborhood, a boy stared into an empty refrigerator and made a silent vow: he would never be powerless again. 
  This is the gripping true-crime saga of Arthur J. Williams Jr. — the criminal mastermind the FBI branded "the greatest counterfeiter in U.S. history." From abandonment and crushing poverty to a secret basement workshop where ink, paper, and obsession transformed into raw power, Arthur's journey is a chilling descent into a world where art becomes weapon, and genius becomes curse. 
  Trained by a shadowy mentor and consumed by a desperate hunger to provide, Arthur engineered near-perfect hundred-dollar bills that fooled banks, outsmarted cutting-edge security features, and triggered one of the largest federal manhunts in modern history. He built an empire of forged fortunes — invisible, untouchable, untraceable. 
  But the FBI didn't bring him down. Neither did his rivals. The blow came from the one person he loved most — his own teenage son. 
  A single impulsive mistake. A secret empire unraveled. A father's legacy turned to ash by the hands of his own blood. 
  Told with cinematic intensity and unflinching psychological depth, this audiobook is more than a crime story — it's a haunting meditation on family, betrayal, moral collapse, and the fragile possibility of redemption. When the same hands that forged millions in counterfeit cash finally learn to create something real — art, truth, and a second chance — you'll discover that the greatest forgery of all… may have been the life he was living.

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  The Woman Who Scammed the World

  Nikolay Stoyanov

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  Ruja Ignatova called herself the Cryptoqueen. She told people around the world that she had invented a cryptocurrency to rival Bitcoin, and persuaded them to invest billions. Then, two years ago, she disappeared and the world has been trying to find out where she is hiding…
  
  Ignatova filled arenas around the world with thousands of adoring fans. She was flamboyant, enigmatic and dazzling. She told the cheering crowds that OneCoin was on course to become the world's biggest cryptocurrency 'for everyone to make payments everywhere'. She said that OneCoin, was a 'Bitcoin killer' and would make early investors rich. And the people believed her. Many in the crowd had already poured in their life savings. Many more followed.
  
  Billions from across the world was spent on OneCoin tokens, then, in late 2017, Ruja disappeared and the scheme was exposed to be a scam. There was no cryptocurrency. It was an old-fashioned Ponzi scheme.
  FBI records show that just after her no-show at a OneCoin event, Ignatova boarded a flight from Sofia to Athens. And then went completely off radar. That was the last time anyone saw or heard from Dr Ruja...

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  Grim Paradise - The Cold Case...

  Rod Sadler

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  The true crime story of a 1960 murder that rocked a tranquil Michigan vacation spot and the search for justice that followed. 
   
  When widow Frances Lacey was murdered in July 1960 on Mackinac Island, only a few meager clues were found by police, and the case soon turned cold. But more than sixty years later, will those same clues finally solve the mystery?  
   
  On July 24, 1960, the quaint charm and serenity of Mackinac, nestled between Michigan’s Upper and Lower Peninsulas, was shattered by Lacey’s brutal death. Despite a massive manhunt and thousands of pages of police reports, her killer was never caught.  
   
  Now, in Grim Paradise, true crime author Rod Sadler (Killing Women) delves into the secrets of one of Michigan's most perplexing murder cases. Offering an in-depth and suspenseful account of the long-standing mystery, he poses the question: Could advancements in DNA technology lead to the identity of the Mackinac Island murderer as it did in the case of the Golden State Killer?

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  Pirates of the Chesapeake Bay -...

  Jamie Goodall

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  The story of Chesapeake pirates and patriots begins with a land dispute and ends with the untimely death of an oyster dredger at the hands of the Maryland Oyster Navy.  From the golden age of piracy to Confederate privateers and oyster pirates, the maritime communities of the Chesapeake Bay are intimately tied to a fascinating history of intrigue, plunder and illicit commerce raiding. Author Jamie L.H. Goodall introduces infamous men like Edward "Blackbeard" Teach and "Black Sam" Bellamy, as well as lesser-known local figures like Gus Price and Berkeley Muse, whose tales of piracy are legendary from the harbor of Baltimore to the shores of Cape Charles.

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