From the Trade Paperback edition. Kennedy, newsman ben bradlee, whom she had known since private school days, reports that she had kept a diary set off a tense search by her brother-in-law, and after her death, and CIA spymaster James Jesus Angleton. Mary meyer was a secret mistress of President John F.
A Different Class of Murder: Revised and updated
Lord lucan, found guilty of the murder, was only granted a death certificate in 2016.
The Rising: Murder, Heartbreak, and the Power of Human Resilience in an American Town
To understand what produces a man capable of surviving the worst, and in the process tells a remarkable story of not just a man’s life, D’Agostino digs deep into Bill’s all-American upbringing, but of a community’s power to shape that life through its embrace of loyalty and self-sacrifice as its most important values.
Broken and defeated, using unprecedented access to bill and his family and friends to craft a startling, Bill was forced to confront a question of ultimate consequence: How does a person find the strength to start over and live again after confronting the darkest of nightmares? In The Rising, acclaimed journalist Ryan D’Agostino takes us into Bill Petit’s world, inspiring portrait of human strength and endurance.
William petit suffered an unimaginable horror: Armed strangers broke into his suburban Connecticut home in the middle of the night, bludgeoned him nearly to death, tortured and killed his wife and two daughters, and set their house on fire. Bill’s story, is by turns compelling and uplifting, told as never before in The Rising, an affirmation of the inexhaustible power of the human spirit.
From the Hardcover edition. Following bill through the hardest days—through the desperate times in the aftermath of the attack and the harrowing trials of the two men responsible for it—The Rising offers hope that we can find a way back to ourselves, even when all seems lost.
Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination
. The impeccable research and writing of Richard Belzer and David Wayne show that if the government is trying to hide anything, they’re the duo who will uncover it. Richard belzer and david wayne are back to set the record straight after Dead Wrong; this time they’re going to uncover the truth about the many witness deaths tied to the JFK assassination.
The findings were absolutely staggering; as some cases were clearly linked to a “clean-up operation” after the murder of President Kennedy, while others were the result of ‘other forces’. For decades, government pundits have dismissed these “coincidental” deaths, even regarding them as “myths” as “urban legends.
Like most people, richard and David were initially unsure about what to make of these ‘coincidences’. Then someone comes along later and figures out what the odds of it happening were.
Cold-Blooded: A True Story of Love, Lies, Greed, and Murder
From a new york times–bestselling journalist: The story of the murder of a California attorney at the hands of the lethally cunning wife he never doubted. . Carlton smith, coauthor of the true crime classic The Search for the Green River Killer, reveals one shocking surprise after another in this harrowing tale of broken vows and deadly betrayal.
When larry’s body was found in a shallow grave three months later, Elisa was already gone. Who was elisa mcnabney? beautiful, seductive, and ruthless, she had thirty-eight aliases and a rap sheet a mile long.
Dead Ends: The Pursuit, Conviction, and Execution of Serial Killer Aileen Wuornos
The nation was quickly swept up in the drama of her trial and the media dubbed her the “Damsel of Death” as horrifying details of her past as a prostitute and drifter emerged. Written by the reuters reporter who initially broke the story, and ultimate sentencing to death by lethal injection, Dead Ends is a thrilling firsthand account of Wuornos’s capture, trial, that goes beyond the media frenzy to reveal the even more disturbing truth.
. The police speculated that the murders were connected, but they never anticipated what they’d soon discover: The killings were the work of a single culprit, Aileen Wuornos, one of the first women to ever fit the profile of a serial killer. The chilling true story of female serial killer Aileen Wuornos, whose violent crimes shocked the nation—and inspired the Academy Award–winning film Monster.
With the cooperation of her former lover and accomplice, Tyria Moore, the police were able to solicit a confession from Wuornos about her months-long killing spree along Florida’s interstate highways.
The Mad Sculptor: The Maniac, the Model, and the Murder that Shook the Nation
Irwin’s primary victim, veronica gedeon, was a figure from the world of pulp fantasy—a stunning photographer’s model whose scandalous seminude pinups would titillate the public for weeks after her death. Irwin’s defense attorney, samuel leibowitz, was a courtroom celebrity with an unmatched record of acquittals and clients ranging from Al Capone to the Scottsboro Boys.
The young man who committed the murders would come to be known in the annals of American crime as the Mad Sculptor. Caught up in the easter sunday slayings was a bizarre and sensationalistic cast of characters, seemingly cooked up in a tabloid editor’s overheated imagination. It will keep you riveted until the very last page.
Harold schechter’s masterful prose evokes the faded glory of post-Depression New York and the singular madness of a brilliant mind turned against itself. Fredric wertham, psychiatrist and forensic scientist, befriended Irwin years before the murders and had predicted them in a public lecture months before the crime.
Based on extensive research and archival records, The Mad Sculptor recounts the chilling story of the Easter Sunday murders—a case that sparked a nationwide manhunt and endures as one of the most engrossing American crime dramas of the twentieth century.
Who Killed My Daughter?: The Startling True Story of a Mother's Search for Her Daughter's Murderer
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Lois Duncan including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection. The police gave up, but her mother would not. Written to inspire other families who have lost loved ones to unsolved crimes, Who Killed My Daughter? is a powerful testament to the tenacity of a mother’s love.
On july 16, kaitlyn arquette was shot to death in Albuquerque, 1989, New Mexico. In this tragic memoir and investigation, Lois Duncan searches for clues to the murder of her youngest child, eighteen-year-old Kaitlyn Arquette. Duncan begins to suspect that the official police investigation of Kaitlyn’s murder is inadequate when detectives ignore her daughter’s accidental connection to organized crime in Albuquerque.
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A Beautiful Child
. Sharon marshall was a brilliant and beautiful student whose future was filled with promise—until her murderous, fugitive father drew her into a lifetime of deception that became one of the most baffling cases in the annals of American true crime. A student at forest park high school near Atlanta, Georgia, popular blonde-haired Sharon Marshall was at the top of her class.
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The Vatican Connection: The True Story of a Billion-Dollar Conspiracy Between the Catholic Church and the Mafia
Joseph Coffey. Coffey, the legendary new york policeman who investigated the Lufthansa heist and took the Son of Sam’s confession, first learned of the scheme in a wiretap related to the attempted mob takeover of the Playboy Club in Manhattan. Winner of the edgar award: the riveting account of an audacious fraud scheme that stretched from a Mafia hangout on the Lower East Side to the Vatican.
Shockingly, the plot involved Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, the scandal-plagued president of the Vatican Bank. In the spring of 1972, de lorenzo and his shrewd and ruthless business partner, Vincent Rizzo, traveled to Europe to discuss a plan to launder millions of dollars worth of phony securities. From those unlikely beginnings, dc, detective Coffey worked tirelessly to trace the fraudulent stocks and bonds around the world and deep into the corridors of power in Washington, and Rome.
. With a round, open face and a penchant for tall tales, Matteo de Lorenzo resembled everyone’s kindly uncle. But uncle marty, as he was known throughout the genovese crime family, was one of the New York mob’s top earners throughout the 1960s and ’70s, the mastermind of a billion-dollar trade in stolen and counterfeit securities.
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Double Cross: The Explosive Inside Story of the Mobster Who Controlled America
. The book includes giancana's testimony about the truth of his involvement in the deaths of Monroe and others, among others. But the kennedy brothers double-crossed him, waging full-out war on organized crime throughout the United States. When politician joe kennedy gave Giancana the chance to use mob muscle to get his son John elected, Giancana jumped at the task.
He partied with major stars such as frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe and did business with agents ranging from the CIA to the Vatican to the shah of Iran. One of the most feared chicago mobsters Sam Giancana clawed his way to the top of the Mafia hierarchy by starting as a hit man for Al Capone. And giancana went after them.
Written with suspense and conviction, we learn about how the CIA asked Giancana to assassinate Fidel Castro.