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  True Crime Case Histories -...

  Jason Neal

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  12 True Crime Stories of Murder & Mayhem 
  Readers Love This Series - Over 7,000 Five-Star Ratings 
  Sixth Book of the True Crime Case Histories Series (2021) 
  A sampling of the stories includes:The Darlington Cannibal: In this book, there’s the story of a young English man who had plans to become the UK’s most notorious serial killer but couldn’t keep his mouth shut after his first kill and bragged to over twenty of his friends.The Carnival Cult: Another story covers a group of four young men who believed they could do anything they wanted because their lord Satan protected them. Satan apparently couldn’t protect them from prison.Saving a Soul: There’s the story of a San Diego man who made it his life’s mission to help young men avoid a life of crime. His good deeds resulted in his entire family being butchered by a boy he was trying to help.Dead in the Water: Another killer, a father of eight children, lured women to his boat, raped them, and threw them overboard. Ingenious forensic science was eventually used to catch the killer.Consumed by Desire: One story of a young man who couldn’t handle being rejected by his teenage girlfriend was suggested to me by a reader whose daughter had a close call with the killer. 
  Plus, many more disturbing stories. 
  The twelve stories in this volume are shocking and disturbing, but they’re true. These things really happen in the world. We may never understand why killers do what they do, but at least we can be better informed. You may have heard of a few of the stories in this volume, but there are several I’m almost certain you haven’t.

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  United States of True Crime:...

  Ashley Hudson

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  United States of True Crime is an anthology series with books devoted to the most disturbing cases in each of the 50 states. This book focuses on ten of the most chilling crimes in Colorado history. 
  True crime junkies may recognize some of the highly publicized cases, but also included are lesser-known, equally unsettling crimes. 
  The cases included in this book: 
  The Unsolved Murder of Maggie Long: Teenage girl murdered during a home invasion in 2017 
  Baby Hope and Baby Faith: Two infant girls found dead in 1996. Recent advances in DNA technology allowed law enforcement to find their mothers/murderers 
  Trey Styler: A retired doctor with financial troubles convicted of murdering his landlord alone, despite severe physical limitations 
  Scott Lee Kimball: Conman who tricked the FBI out of $50,000 and went on to brutally murder at least four women 
  Joseph Corbett Jr.: Abducted and killed the heir to the Coors Brewing fortune 
  Alfred Packer: Wilderness “guide” convicted of hunting and eating five men during a trek 
  Vincent Darrell Groves: Potentially the most prolific serial killer in Colorado history 
  Chris Watts: Murdered his pregnant wife and two young daughters 
  Isaac Grimes: Brainwashed by fellow high school students and participated in a plot to massacre a friend and his grandparents 
  Alan Lee Phillips: Sexually assaulted and murdered two beautiful young women in 1982, but went undetected for almost four decades 
  If you’re a true crime enthusiast who enjoys reading about some of the most depraved monsters in our country, you will love United States of True Crime. 
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  A Taste for Murder

  Burl Barer, Frank C. Girardot

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  As seen on Investigation Discovery: “A true crime murder mystery that will leave you gasping for breath.” —Steve Jackson, New York Times–bestselling author of No Stone Unturned   Frank Rodriguez, a much-loved counselor of troubled teens, lies dead on the bedroom floor. His wife and stepdaughter are in shock, and so is the medical examiner when he performs the autopsy. Aside from being dead, Frank is in perfect health.   Demanding to know the cause of her husband’s death, Angie Rodriguez badgers the police, insisting that Frank was murdered. The cops attribute her assertions to overwhelming grief, but soon they too believe that Frank didn’t die of natural causes.   When the police enlist their number one suspect to help in the investigation, things spiral out of control until law enforcement is dealing with a daring plot to murder Angie’s best friend, and allegations of another homicide so evil and perverse that even seasoned LA County Detectives are shocked beyond belief . . .  New York Times–bestselling and Edgar Award–winning author “Burl Barer, with co-author Frank Giradot, has hit yet another home run with this crime story. A smart and well-written who-dunnit tale” (Cathy Scott, Los Angeles Times–bestselling author of The Killing of Tupac Shakur).   “A doozy of a murder.” —Suzy Spencer, New York Times–bestselling author of Breaking Point

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  The Mayfair Mafia - The Lives...

  Dick Kirby

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  This true crime history reveals the shocking career of the London mafia family that ran a thriving prostitution empire for decades.   From the mid-1930s into the 1950s, one immigrant Italian family ran London’s thriving vice trade. The five Messina brothers imported prostitutes from the Continent on an industrial scale, acquiring British citizenship for the women by phony marriages. Taking 80% of these women’s earnings, the Messina family became fabulously wealthy, purchasing expensive properties, cars and influence.   As this revealing and absorbing account describes, the brothers ruled with a ruthless combination of charm, blackmail and threats of disfigurement and death that were all too credible. It took a sensational Sunday newspaper exposé to get the authorities to put an end to their criminal reign. A series of dramatic arrests and trials followed, as one by one the brothers were imprisoned and deported for crimes including immoral earnings, attempted bribery and firearms offenses.   Such was their fortune that numerous potential beneficiaries came forward, most recently in 2012. Dick Kirby, an author and former Metropolitan police officer, presents a vividly detailed and thoroughly researched narrative of the five Messina brothers in this revealing and riveting read.

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  Kentucky Moonshine

  David W. Maurer

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  A concise, lively history of how the Bluegrass State became famous for illicit distilleries, by the author of The Big Con.   When the first American tax on distilled spirits was established in 1791, violence broke out in Pennsylvania. The resulting Whiskey Rebellion sent hundreds of families down the Ohio River by flatboat, stills on board, to settle anew in the fertile bottomlands of Kentucky.   Once there, they used cold limestone spring water to make bourbon and found that corn produced even better yields of whiskey than rye. Thus, the licit and illicit branches of the distilling industry grew up side by side in the state. This is the story of the illicit side—the moonshiners’ craft and craftsmanship, as practiced in Kentucky. This entertaining, deeply researched slice of history also includes a glossary of moonshiner argot, shedding light on such colorful terms as puker, slop, and weed-monkey.

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  Uncle John's True Crime - A...

  Institute Bathroom Readers'

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  A collection of strange-but-true crime tales featuring cops, lawyers, and some very unusual suspects . . .   The fact-finding folks at Bathroom Readers’ Institute have rounded up the best cops-and-robber articles we’ve ever done, plus a rogues’ gallery of new offenders. You’ll read about dumb crooks and criminal masterminds, mafia henchmen and low-level goons, ancient warriors and Old West gunslingers, crazed cops and jovial judges, and even a few loony lawyers and crooked Wall Street types. Find out about . . .   * New York City’s “Mad Bomber” * The Biddle Brothers and the Queen of the Jail * Law and Order: Special Pants Unit * Dopes who hide their dope in the strangest places * America’s first private eye * NASCAR’s bootlegging beginnings * The real pirates of the Caribbean * Why CSI makes the cops’ job even harder * Billy the Kid and other outlaws who died with their boots on * George Luger, Samuel Colt, and other fathers of guns * The greatest train robberies * Arrested for farting * And much more!

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