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Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Now a major motion picture starring Robert Redford and Sissy Spacek, The Old Man and the Gun is here joined by two other riveting true-crime tales. "The Old Man and the Gun" is the incredible story of a bank robber and prison escape artist who modeled himself after figures like Pretty Boy Floyd and who, even in his seventies, refuses to retire. "True Crime" follows the twisting investigation of a Polish detective who suspects that a novelist planted...
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Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"The most common triggers for homicide are fear, rage, revenge, money, lust, and, more rarely, sheer madness. This isn't an exact science, of course. Any given murder can have multiple triggers. Sex and revenge seem to be common partners in crime. Rage, money, and revenge make for a dangerous trifecta of triggers, as well. This book offers my memories of homicide cases that I investigated or oversaw. In each case, I examine the trigger that led to...
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English
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Based off Hannah Maguire and Suruthi Bala's popular podcast of the same name, RedHanded explores real-life true crime cases to help answer once and for all if a killer is born or made. After meeting at a house party in London, where they discovered a mutual obsession for all things true crime, Suruthi Bala and Hannah Maguire drunkenly promised to one day start their own murder podcast. Six weeks later they ordered their first microphones and the rest...
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Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"A chilling, lavishly illustrated whos who of the most despicable people ever to walk the earth, featuring stories from the Lore podcast now a streaming television series including "Black Stockings," "Half-Hanged," and "The Castle," as well as rare material."--
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Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Two true-crime thrillers include "Murder Thy Neighbor," depicting a man's violent retaliation against a local who would protect property values; and "Murder IRL'" in which an isolated girl's social-media war upends the target of her misguided affections.
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Publisher
Public Affairs
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A true-crime story for the post-truth era. In the early hours of July 10, 2016, gunshots rang out and a young man lay fatally wounded on a quiet Washington, DC, street. But who killed Seth Rich? When he was buried in his hometown, his rabbi declared: "There are no answers for a young man gunned down in the prime of his life." The rabbi was wrong. There were in fact many answers, way too many. In the absence of an arrest, a howling mob filled the...
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Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Los Angeles has one of the nation's most controversial police departments. In the fall of 1998, still reeling from the Rodney King and O.J. Simpson debacles, the LAPD took a far more damaging hit when officer Rafael Perez implicated over seventy fellow officers--members of the elite Rampart street-crimes unit--in a conspiracy of robbery, brutality, drug dealing, false imprisonment, and allegedly murder. Now award-winning journalist Randall Sullivan...
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Magpie Books
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
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Leading authors examine shocking crimes that have baffled the police, including Dr. John Bodkin Adams, well-loved local doctor and perhaps poisoner of his wealthiest patients, the dreadful murder of Elizabeth Short, the "Black Dahlia" case that inspired James Ellroy's bestselling novel, the strange story of Martin Guerre, the medivel case of impersonation and possible murder that inspired two films and a hit musical, the Halls-Mills double murder...
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