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The scene is Baltimore.
Twice every three days
another citizen is shot,
stabbed, or bludgeoned
to death. At the cente of
this hurricane of crime
is the city's homicide
unit, a small
brotherhood of men
confronted by the darkest
of American visions. This
book presents an account
of casework and an
investigation into our
culture of violence.
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At once horrifying and
fascinating, The True
Crime Casefile is a
gripping study of crimes
that have shocked the
world. Detailing a
variety of offense from
kidnappings to
assassinations, this
book features portraits
of some of the most
renowned criminals of
that last two decades,
including serial killers
Harold Shipman, Robert
Pickton and Marc Dutroux,
kidnappers Wolfgang
Priklopil, O J Simpson
and Josef Fritzl and
spree killers Eric Harris
and Dylan Klebold,
perpetrators of the
Columbine High School
massacre. The True Crime
Casefile is enhanced by
the inclusion of
facsimiles of documents
that led to the capture
and conviction of these
criminals, making the
book not just a catalogue
of gruesome crimes but
also a record of the
growing skill and refined
methods of the police and
judicial system that have
successfully brought them
to justice. Removable
evidence from recent
criminal casefiles
includes:
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On Wednesday 2nd June
2010, the villages and
towns of West Cumbria
awoke to an ordinary
sunny day. Hours later,
12 people lay dead and 11
more were wounded after
taxi driver Derrick Bird
embarked on a terrifying
killing spree. This is
the tragic story of one
of Britain's most
shocking criminal
atrocities.
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The way in which crime is
detected and criminals
are identified and
convicted has changed
radically due to the
development of forensic
science. This book
presents a study of the
techniques that are
familiar to us from media
reports or television
dramas. Many cases are
discussed in detail,
including those in which
the author was an expert
witness.
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Alexander Shannon escaped
a shady past to enjoy a
glittering career in the
army, only to end up
back in the thick of
criminal activity. This
title explains how
Shannon managed to
combine a successful army
career with dangerous
gangland dealings for so
long and how he finally
broke free for good.
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The Black Dahlia Case.
The Manson Murders. The
Zodiac Killer. The
Slaughter of Jonbenet
Ramsay. These killings,
among many others in Bill
James's astonishing
chronicle of American
crime, have all created
a frenzy of interest and
speculation about human
nature. And while many of
us go out of our way to
ignore news about
gruesome murders, Bill
James contends that these
crime stories are as
important to
understanding society,
culture and history as
anything we may consider
to be a more 'serious'
subject. The topic
envelopes us so
completely, we almost
forget about it. This
book has 482 pages and is
23.4cm x 15.2cm x 3.2cm
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Kevin Skelton watched
helplessly as a bomb
ripped apart the life he
knew. It was 15 August
1998, and the place was
Omagh, in Northern
Ireland. Kevin's wife
Mena was one of the 29
people killed that day,
and his daughter Shauna
was horrifically injured.
Kevin had lost the love
of his life. He sank into
the depths of despair
after the bomb. At a time
when his family needed
him most, he turned to
drink and self-loathing,
often wishing he could
have taken Mena's place
that day. More than once,
he held a loaded shotgun
to his mouth, but he
could never go through
with it. Mena was the
angel who saved him.
Before she died, she and
Kevin had been bringing a
young girl, Andreea,
from a Romanian
orphanage, for holidays
to their home. In memory
of Mena, Kevin decided
to adopt Andreea, but on
his first trip to Romania
to start proceedings, he
was shocked to discover
that her mother, Maria,
was still alive. In the
most unlikely of
circumstances, a love
blossomed between them,
convincing Kevin that
Mena had sent Andreea and
Maria to him so that he
could find happiness
again. He believes Mena
has been a constant
presence in the family's
lives since her death,
watching over them and
protecting them. Sent by
an Angel is a true story
of love rising from the
ashes of tragedy, a
romance that reaches
beyond the boundaries of
this world. 19.2 x 13 x
2.4 cm, pages 215
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Includes chapters such
as: The Misted Mountain,
The Arran Case, 1889;
The German Tea Planter,
Broughty Ferry, 1912;
The Late Mr Toad, The
Musselburgh Case, 1911;
'Oh, Loch Maree!',
William Laurie King,
Edinburgh, 1924; The
Running Girl, Christina
Gilmour, 1843; The
Travelling Man, Hugh
Macleod, 1830; and,
more.
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In May 2005, Natalee
Holloway disappeared from
a high school trip to
Aruba. Five years to the
day later, 21-year-old
Stephany Flores Ramirez
was reported missing in
Lima, Peru. Implicated
in both crimes was one
young man: Joran van der
Sloot. This book looks at
the man tied to two of
the most sensational
cases of the decade.
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Set in bomb-scarred
London in 1947, this
title presents the untold
story of a Soho robbery
and shooting carried out
by a 17 year-old and his
two young accomplices, a
crime which sparked
worldwide press coverage.
It also concentrated on
the hunt for the killers
and the subsequent trial.
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As legendary Glasgow
detective Les Brown
re-investigates cases
from Stratford in east
London to Wick, via
Glasgow, he finds that,
often, the official
police line doesn't quite
add up. The body of a
young electrician is
dragged from a harbour.
The police say the death
was an accident, but a
mysterious man confesses
to murder. What is the
truth?
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The Hells Angels. The
Bandidos. Asian triads.
Russian mobsters and
corrupt cops. Even the
KKK. Just part of a day's
work for Alex Caine, an
undercover agent who has
seen it all. After a tour
in Vietnam and a stretch
in prison on
marijuana-possession
charges, Caine fell into
the cloak-and-dagger
world of a contracted
agent.
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Encountering crime on any
level will make you stop
and consider how you view
the world. A burglary, a
mugging, even witnessing
a minor theft can leave a
person feeling shocked,
vulnerable and unable to
trust others. Imagine
then how it must feel to
come face-to-face with
the kind of extreme crime
that can only be
conceived by a truly evil
mind. Acts so powerful
that they can scar a
whole community, even an
entire nation, for
generations. The
perpetrators manage to
achieve the kind of
notoriety only usually
afforded to Hollywood
icons. In their own
twisted imaginations they
sit in a kind of evil
Hall of Fame among others
of their kind: Ted Bundy,
John Wayne Gacy, Andrei
Chikatilo, all jostling
for the top spot. Extreme
Evil throws light on some
of the most vicious
crimes ever committed,
and the turbulent lives
of the men and women
behind them.
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At just six years of age,
Audrey Delaney's
childhood was cut
tragically short when her
father first abused her.
Too young to know right
from wrong, the only
Audrey knew for sure was
that her father's actions
left her feeling sordid
and guilty. When she saw
him touching other girls,
this innocent child felt
she was to blame. Then
finally, after years of
harbouring her father's
shocking secret, Audrey
found the courage to
bring him to account.
This book is the
inspiring and triumphant
account of a scared and
hurt little girl who
managed to confront her
demons and reclaim her
life.
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As a gun-wielding bank
robber, the author was
top of the criminal tree.
But he'd also spent the
greater part of his adult
life in prison, an
environment where respect
and basic survival were
guaranteed only to those
prepared to use the most
brutal violence. 0This
book describes how he
came to realize that the
game wasn't worth the
candle.
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When George Millar, the
City of
Glasgow's orchestra
leader, is brutally
murdered in his dressing
room before a
performance,
his colleagues are
shocked. But the show
must go on, and when DCI
Lorimer and
psychologist Solly
Brightman are called in
they uncover a series of
irrevocably tangled
relationships between
the orchestra members.
Millar had been involved
in a string of homosexual
relationships and
was well known for
playing his lovers off
against one another
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Mexico, April 2009. The
bodies of a pair of
undercover military
intelligence agents,
disguised as campesinos
(farmers), are dumped by
the side of the road.
Beside the corpses is a
message on a scrap of
paper: 'You'll never get
El Chapo.' Such is the
fate of many who have
dared to try to catch El
Chapo, or oppose him.
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Presents a true story of
survival in what was
arguably the most
sinister prison in
Europe: the Carabanchel.
The story begins on the
day Christopher Chance
entered the jail and
encountered the innate
racism of the prison
staff and inmates. It
tells how he forged a
band of international
brothers from the chaotic
human rubble in order to
survive.
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Forensic psychologist
Paul Britton can walk
through the minds of
those who murder, rape,
torture, extort and
kidnap. He can see the
world through their eyes.
This book reveals the
psychological and
forensic foundations upon
which he has based his
expertise.
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Presents the reader with
a line-up of notorious
crooks, criminals,
villains and thieves,
from the mysterious
disappearance of Lord
Lucan, the assassination
of JFK to the treason
committed by Guy Fawkes.
This book provides an
insight into the world's
most notorious crimes.
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A poor kid from the
slums, Robert
Fitzpatrick grew up to
become a stellar FBI
agent and challenge the
country's deadliest
gangsters. Relentless in
his desire to catch,
prosecute, and convict
Whitey Bulger,
Fitzpatrick fought the
nation's most determined
c
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The Encyclopaedia Of True
Crime is a fascinating
fact file on wrongdoing
which takes you deep into
the hidden world of those
who break the law. This
book sheds light on what
makes serial killers
tick, how career
criminals plan heists,
the psychology behind
white collar crime, the
ruthless codes which
operate in prisons and
many other aspects of
criminal culture.
Features include Vlad the
Impaler, the Great Train
Robbery, Ed Kemper,
Jeffrey Dahmer,
Brazilian prison gangs,
John Gotti, the Kray
Brothers, the
assassination of John
Lennon, the man who sold
the Eiffel Tower twice,
the world
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Peter Manuel is one of
the most notorious and
evil serial killers
Scotland has ever
produced. His case made
headlines around the
world. This book tells
the full story from start
to finish and challenges
many of the myths and
legends that surround
Peter Manuel.
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For thirteen cruel and
terrifying years, Sharon
McGovern suffered
horrific abuse at the
hands of her stepfather.
Molested and beaten, she
was forced to keep a
dirty and confusing
secret that robber her of
her childhood and her
innocence. Years later,
in a step of exceptional
bravery, she confronted
him in court. This book
is the profoundly moving
story of a little girl's
ordeal, and a woman's
fight to put away a
dangerous predator. It is
an unforgettable and
inspiring account of good
versus evil, of facing a
monster and finding the
strength to survive.
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For 20 years, the Essex
Boys firm and their
successors, the New
Generation, controlled a
lucrative drugs empire in
Essex and throughout the
south east of England by
using intimidation,
gratuitous violence and
murder. This book reveals
just how close the author
came to being both
murderer and murder
victim.
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Drawing on a wide
selection of sources and
illustrated with more
than fifty images, this
collection of tales
explores the shadier side
of the Lake District's
past. It features the
tale of the 'Keswick
Imposter', who seduced
and bigamously married a
young
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Rene Enriquez, aka
'Boxer', was a mob
enforcer among the upper
echelons of the Mafia. He
worked for the La Familia
Mexicana, also knowns as
La Eme, a powerful mob
organization that used a
base army of
approximately 60, 000
armed, loyal Latino gang
members - the Surenos -
to control California's
crime world. This book
tells the story of La
Eme.
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A warm welcome or a blade
in the guts - it's the
contradiction that makes
Glasgow unique. This work
offers up forty modern
murder cases. This
collection of tales
graphically explores how
the city has earned its
unenviable title of
Murder Capital of Europe.
It highlights some of the
most sickening murders to
be committed in the
world.
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As a young man in
Glasgow's underworld,
the author fought,
robbed and slashed his
way to the top,
developing a taste for
the high life along the
way. This title offers an
account of his highly
eventful journey through
life in Glasgow's brutal
gangland.
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Shortly after midnight on
March 18, 1990, two men
broke into the Isabella
Stewart Gardner Museum in
Boston and committed the
largest art heist in
history. They stole a
dozen masterpieces. The
theft has become one of
the nation's
extraordinary mysteries.
Art detective Harold
Smith worked the theft
for years. This work
explores his unfinished
leads.
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On February 15, 2003, a
group of thieves broke
into an allegedly
airtight vault in the
international diamond
capital of Antwerp,
Belgium and made off with
over $108 million dollars
worth of diamonds. The
authors sorted through an
array of conflicting
details to put together
the puzzle of what
actually happened that
Valentine's Day weekend.
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A story of two very
different men whose lives
catastrophically
interweaved over the
course of some nine
months in the late 1960s:
one was a thief and con
man called James Earl
Ray, the other one of
the greatest American
figures of the twentieth
century, Martin Luther
King Jr Hampton Sides
follows in Ray's
footsteps as he escapes
from prison.
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A true detective story
tracing the murder
investigation of a human
rights activist and
Guatemalan bishop. It
also traces Los
Intocables struggle with
the Guatemalan
authorities, revealing
the involvement of youth
gangs, political
corruption and organised
crime.
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Criminologists have noted
a disturbing trend over
the years. Though men are
most often the
perpetrators of murder,
violent assault, and
child molestation, more
girls and women are
becoming dangerous
criminals. This book
explores a scope of girls
and women behaving badly.
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Gangster Stephen French
invented the perfect
crime: robbing drug
barons of their huge
fortunes. In SAS-style
swoops, French raided
their fortified mansions
and tortured them with
horrifying violence until
they paid up. This work
also reveals French's
complex relationship with
Curtis Warren, the
wealthiest criminal in
British history.
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Outrageous, hysterical
and misleading headlines
have generated sales of
many millions of copies
of the Red Top tabloids,
but the dodgy dealings
and shady practises of
the journalists behind
them are the real scoop.
In News of the World?:
Fake Sheikhs & Royal
Trappings, Peter Burden
exposes the questionable
methods used by hacks who
flout laws and invade
privacy in the savage
struggle to sell more
copies. Burden questions
the tabloids' claim of
public interest and asks
whether we are victims of
sensationalist
con-artists, from Mazher
Mahmood masquerading as a
Middle Eastern Sheikh to
illegal phone tapping and
inventing
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Fred and Rose West are
virtually unique in
British criminal history.
They were a couple who
loved and killed together
as husband and wife.
During their long
relationship the West's
murdered a series of
young women, burying the
remains of 9 victims
under their home at 25
Cromwell Street,
Gloucester, including
those of their teenage
daughter, Heather. What
was left of Fred West's 8
year old step daughter
was dug up beneath the
West's' previous
Gloucester home. His
first wife and nanny were
buried in the open
country outside the city.
Several victims were
found decapitated and
dismembered, their
remains showing signs of
sexual torture. However,
these 12 are just the
ones the police found
when the West's were
arrested in 1994. There
may be more whose bones
have not been located.
This book has 362 pages
and is 19.7cm x 12.7cm x
2.5cm
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A collection of local
tales and murder cases
from across the county of
Lancashire. This title
includes more than 60
archive photographs,
reward notices and
drawings. It contains
chapters recounting true
cases of theft,
violence, villainy and
murder, suppo
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On 10 June 1991,
eleven-year-old Jaycee
Dugard was abducted from
a school bus stop within
sight of her home in
Tahoe, California. It
was the last her family
and friends saw of her
for over eighteen years.
On 26 August 2009,
Dugard, her daughters,
and Phillip Craig Garrido
appeared in the office of
her kidnapper's parole
officer in California.
Their unusual behaviour
sparked an investigation
that led to the positive
identification of Jaycee
Lee Dugard, living in a
tent behind Garrido's
home. During her time in
captivity, at the age of
fourteen and seventeen,
she gave birth to two
daughters, both fathered
by Garrido. Dugard's
memoir, is written by
the 30-year-old herself
and covers the period
from the time of her
abduction in 1991 up
until the present. In her
stark, utterly honest
and unflinching
narrative, Jaycee opens
up about what she
experienced, including
how she feels now, a
year after being found.
Garrido and his wife
Nancy have since pleaded
guilty to their crimes.
The size of this book is
22.2cm in height and
14.3cm wide with 273
pages
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Images of life in the Mob
pervade our film and TV
screens, some glamorous,
some horrific - what is
the reality? Nigel and
Colin Cawthorne have put
together the largest ever
collection of insider
stories from prominent
ex-Mafiosi, infiltrators
and award-winning
writers.
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A terrifying journey to
the criminal heart of the
Hell's Angels motorcycle
club - the most infamous
biker group in the world.
'Brilliant and highly
readable.. . an
investigative
tour-de-force. This is
the first book to lift
the lid on the real
Hells' Angels.' TONY
THOMPSON, author of the
bestselling GANGS
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Judicial hanging is
regarded by many as being
the quintessentially
British execution.
However, many other
methods of capital
punishment have been used
in this country; ranging
from burning, beheading
and shooting to crushing
and boiling to death.
This title explores these
types of execution.
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June Thomson and Giselle
Ross are inextricably
linked by two unspeakable
acts of evil. On the same
day, in the UK, just
miles apart, their
estranged husbands
murdered their children.
The killings were not
driven by rage, or
committed in moments of
madness. They were
planned, and carried out
with chilling precision -
to inflict the worst pain
imaginable on the women
who no longer needed
them.
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Before Al Capone and
Lucky Luciano, there was
the one-fingered,
cunning Giuseppe Morello
and his murderous coterie
of brothers. Had it not
been for Morello, the
world may never have
heard of 'men of honour',
the first family of New
York, and how this
extended close-knit clan
of racketeers and
murderers left the
backwaters of Sicily to
successfully establish
themselves as the
founding godfathers of
the New World. Combining
strong narrative and raw
violence, The First
Family is a compelling
portrait of the early
years of organised crime.
This is how it really
happened.
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Glasgow is the largest
city in Scotland. Beneath
the busy streets, the
Victorian sandstone and
urban trendiness lies a
black heart that beats in
rhythm with the roar of
the traffic and the echo
of footsteps on concrete.
It is a black heart
pumped by greed and lust,
violence and murder.
This book presents the
epic story of Glasgow
crime.
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This is the explosive
story of what happened as
the Daniel - Lyons feud
spiralled out of control
and engulfed a whole
community. The deadliest
Glasgow gang war of a
generation was sparked by
an opportunistic cocaine
theft from a house party
which unleashe
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Few names are as closely
linked with London's East
End as those of the Kray
twins but little was
known about their younger
years until now. This is
Reggie's last memoir, in
which he recalls the
close-knit community
where he and Ronnie spent
their childhood. This
book paints a vivid
portrait of a London that
has long since
disappeared, filled with
stories about the area's
most outlandish
personalities and
notorious criminals. This
book has 230 pages and is
19.7cm x 12.6cm x 2cm.
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Margie Danielson, a
divorcee and mother of
three, had fantasies of
finding the perfect man.
Then one night, in a
smoky country and western
club, she found him.
Sean Paul Lanier was
charming, handsome, and
kind - everything Margie
had dreamed of. Soon
after, their whirlwind
romance took flight. Sean
showered Margie with
flowers, jewellery,
expensive gifts, and his
intense
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Drawing on a selection of
sources and illustrated
with more than fifty
images, this collection
of grisly tales explores
the shadier side of
Harrogate's past. It is
suitable for those
interested in the
criminal history of this
part of North Yorkshire.
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The crime world's most
enduring mystery, the
identity of Jack the
Ripper, has plagued
professional historians,
criminologists, writers
and amateur enthusiasts
for over a hundred years.
This newly updated volume
offers the fullest ever
overview of the
Whitechapel Murders case.
It collects not just the
key factual evidence but
also 17 different
arguments as to the
identity of the Ripper,
including the more recent
theories from Patricia
Cornwell and others.
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Jack the Ripper's brutal
murders have left an
ineradicable stain on the
gloomy streets of
Whitechapel and
surrounding area. This
title features cases of
Henry Wainwright, tried
in 1875 for the murder
and dismemberment of his
mistress, Harriet Lane;
Polish-born Israel
Lipski, charged with the
murder of fellow lodger
Miriam Angel in 1887;
and, more.
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Part true-crime story,
part inspirational
autobiography, criminal
Wayne McKay has lived the
hard yards and come out
the other side
triumphant. His story was
written as a way of
dealing with his past and
to show others that there
is always light at the
end
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Lenny McLean's life story
is an inspirational one.
A bare-knuckle fighter by
profession, he was one
of the most notorious
figures ever to emerge
from the East End of
London. His untimely
death in 1998, following
a battle against cancer,
was a tragic loss for
family and friends and
left his legions of fans
shocked and bereft.
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A gripping collection of
stories of human
criminality at its most
bizarre. These unusual,
sensational murders
recall not only gruesome
historical crimes, but
also touch on shocking
and macabre modern
murders. Included are
details of
ground-breaking advances
in crime detection, law
enforcement and forensic
science. This is the
top-secret report on the
most grisly, and
unusual, criminal
activity of our time.
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The idea of the wandering
murderer, leaving a
trail of mutilated bodies
in his wake, has long
fascinated followers of
true crime. By charting
the geography of the
killers actions, Mapping
the Trail of a Serial
Killer takes an
innovative approach in
exploring the killing
sprees of 25
international mass
murderers of the
twentieth century. With
specially commissioned
maps pinpointing each
killers actions, Mapping
the Trail of a Serial
Killer reveals the
patterns of behaviour and
enables the reader to
understand some of
thinking of the minds of
men such as Ted Bundy,
who circled in ob
university dorms, or
Andrei Chikatilo, whose
killings happened along
railway routes, to Ian
Milat who picked-up and
killed backpackers in New
South Wales, to Volker
Eckert, a German lorry
driver who murdered
prostitutes across
western Europe. Each
case is examined with
timelines of the killers
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Police officers are no
longer encouraged to chat
off the record to
criminals, and in some
ways that's a pity. Years
ago a lot of useful
information got exchanged
over a quick pint with a
snout down the pub, or
in a break from
interrogation, when both
copper and suspect would
stop and light up. Those
were the days when
hair-raising accounts of
slashings, fit-ups,
dodgy deals, blaggings
and petermen would filter
through to the rest of us
and pass into folklore.
Today the banter and
swapping of stories is
gone (and smoking in
interrogation cells is of
course banned) so it is
only here that these
tales can be told.
Villains is written in
page-turning style by
those who had intimate
dealings with the shady
characters
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For more than fifty
years, two ruthless
gangs have dominated the
Tyneside underworld.
Initially, the Conroy
and the Sayers families
lived side by side in
relative harmony in the
West End of Newcastle,
but the birth of the
drug-fuelled rave culture
in the late 1980s changed
everything. This title
explores the origins of
this gangland war.
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Although it's hard to
believe now, Rose West
was once a beautiful
little girl with long,
glossy dark hair and big
brown eyes. Looking at
those pictures of her,
it is almost impossible
to comprehend that she
would grow up to become
one of Britain's most
notorious female
murderers. Crime Writer
Jane Cater Woodrow looks
back at the start of
Rose's life to piece
together what it was that
turned her into a
monster. Was there always
a predisposition to
cruelty or did something
happen in her young life?
This book has 274 pages
and is 19.8cm x 12.9cm x
1.9cm.
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Ruth Ellis was the last
woman to be hanged in
Britain, convicted for
shooting her lover David
Blakely. This title shows
Ruth as somebody damaged
at a very early age who
strove to make something
of herself, only to be
caught up in something
much bigger and end up
paying with her life.
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Barlinnie is one of the
most notorious prisons in
the world and for a
hundred years it has held
Glasgow's toughest and
most violent men, swept
up from the city streets.
It has sparked rooftop
protests and cell block
riots, and been home to
godfathers of crime. This
title deals with riots,
death, retribution and
redemption in this
prison.
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A true story of desire
and death, 'Heart Full
of Lies' is a case study
describing an ambitious
psychopath and her
ill-fated victim. Lisya,
a Texan with a slew of
male victims in her wake,
meets Chris, a handsome
pilot. She not only wants
to destroy his reputation
but wants his
million-dollar fortune.
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First published in the
mid 70s, Snowblind
established itself as an
essential piece of
crime-writing. Telling
the story of the
legendary Zachary Swan,
a mover in the cocaine
trade who set the
standard for those who
followed, Sabbag's
riveting account is a
compulsive insight into
an underworld populated
by crazy characters and
driven by paranoia. This
book has 357 pages and is
19.7cm x 2.5cm
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Voodoo Killers chronicles
the disturbing history of
ritualistic killing
around the world with
shocking examples of
human sacrifice past and
present, voodoo hexes,
sexual slavery and
satanic murder. It is a
history that incorporates
vampires, serial killers
and rapists as well as
institutionalized killers
such as Aztec high
priests and Spanish
Inquisitors who murdered
in the name of religion.
The art of murder knows
many forms, but few can
be more harrowing than
murder for supernatural
or ritual fulfilment.
Premeditated, organized,
torturous and, in the
past, encouraged and
even sponsored by the
authorities. Voodoo
killers stand alone in
the annals of horror.
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You're Nicked! is a
page-turning insider view
of the golden era in the
Metropolitan Police
Force. Dick Kirby, that
loose cannon of the
Flying Squad, recounts
his hair-raising
adventures from the 1960s
through to the 1990s in a
style that's not for the
faint-hearted. His frank
account of the way
policing used to be takes
us straight into the
crime-ridden streets of
Paris, Berlin,
Amsterdam and of course
London. Whether he's
carrying out arrests in a
hostile East End pub or
dealing with a
schizophrenic arsonist in
a blazing building,
Kirby tells it straight.
Trapping some of London's
most vicious armed
robbers and nabbing the
thief who cracked the
Flying Squad commander's
safe, his exploits are
described with his
trademark black humour,
often shocking and always
uncompromising.
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ORGANISED CRIME IS NOW
THE COUNTRY'S THIRD
BIGGEST INDUSTR GANGLAND
SHOOTINGS, MUISI-MILLION
POUND DRUG DEALS AN
VICIOUS TURF WARS HAVE
SPREAD OUT FROM THE INNER
CITIES AN NOW AFFECT EVEN
THE MOST RURAL
COMMUNITIES. THE
DAY-TO-DAY IMPACT OF
CRIME ON OUR LIVES HAS
NEVER BEEN GREATER. IN
GANGS, AWARD-WINNING
AUTHOR TONY ' THOMPSON
TAKES US ON A GRIPPING
JOURNEY INTO THE
/UNDERWORLD. FROM TRIAD
HUMAN TRAFFICKERS IN
DOVER AND ECSTASY FACTORY
OWNERS IN LIVERPOOL, TO
ALBANIAN VICE BARONS IN
LONDON AND GUN-TOTING
TEENAGE CRACK DEALERS IN
BIRMINGHAM, GANGS.
REVEALS THE INSIDE STORY
OF CONTEIVIPORARY
ORGANISED CRIME
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In 1992 Ray Krone, a
former sergeant in the US
Air Force was sentenced
to death for the murder
of Kimberly Ancona, a
bar manager found stabbed
to death in a restaurant
near his home in Arizona.
There were countless
holes in the
prosecution's case and
ten years later the
victim's clothes were
examined using
newly-developed DNA
testing technology. Krone
was completely exonerated
and released from jail,
but not before he'd spent
an entire decade on death
row. Dead Men Walking
tells the incredible
stories of those men and
women who have lived
their lives behind bars
with the constant threat
of death by fellow
prisoners, or by state
execution, hanging over
them. What is it like to
live out your days inside
one of the world's
toughest prisons,
knowing you'll never
again see beyond the
exercise yard? Is it
really possible to make
friends, or form
relationships inside?
What should you do if,
like Ray Krone, you've
been sentenced to die for
a crime you did not
commit? This book
examines the life-stories
of men who claim to be
innocent, men who were
eventually proven
innocent, and of those
who are so dangerous life
simply has to mean life.
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The Krays are dead and
buried, but the myth
lives on. Their name
alone conjures up images
of power, violence and
greed. This biography
traces their history from
childhood and early
adolescence to manhood
and death, charting
their rise to the top of
the criminal tree and
their ultimate downfall.
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This investigation into
spree killing analyses
the psychology of this
chilling and relatively
new phenomenon. Cawthorne
carefully examines each
case and shows how the
killers suppress their
rage and violent
fantasies until a small
incident sparks off their
fatal rampage.
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Talks about the mindset
of predatory criminals -
their motives, various
plans of attack, and way
of thinking - and then
teaches simple lifestyle
techniques that will help
reduce the risk of
becoming victimised. This
book provides analysis
based on real-life cases,
in addition to insights
from victims and
criminals themselves.
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The crimes of Jack the
Ripper have haunted the
imagination of the world
since his murderous reign
drew to a close late in
1888. Jack the Ripper:
The Casebook is an
invaluable survey of the
killer, his times and
the web of complex and
contradictory theories
that have sprung up in
his wake. Containing a
fully illustrated 64-page
book with 18 items of
removable memorabilia,
Jack the Ripper: The
Casebook allows the
reader to become the
detective, presenting
all the information,
evidence and conclusion
gathered thus far.
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Infiltrates groups of the
deadliest criminals in
countries as varied and
far-reaching as Los
Angeles, Bulgaria and
Kenya. The author, while
investigating Neo-Nazi
football hooligans in
Poland, is tear-gassed
at a football match as he
shadows an elite police
riot squad. Risking his
life, he goes deep into
the realms of gangland
culture.
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In this hard-hitting
collection, acclaimed
author Nigel Cawthorne
examines ten of the most
sickeningly twisted men
who are still alive
today. Some of them,
like serial killer Dennis
Nilsen and cult leader
Charles Manson, are
thankfully behind bars.
Others, including the
world's most wanted
terrorist, Osama bin
Laden, are still at
large. Unbelievably, one
of them, Robert Mugabe,
is still clinging to the
reins of power and
continues to inflict
suffering and economic
mayhem on the desperate
people of
Zimbabwe. Inside this
book is the gut-twisting
story of Charles Taylor,
the blood-soaked African
general who has
'recruited' thousands of
child soldiers, and one
of the most shocking
cases of recent years:
that of Josef Fritzl,
the Austrian man who
imprisoned and sexually
abused his own daughter
for almost a quarter of a
century.
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Madeleine Smith, a young
woman from a prominent
Glasgow family, stood
accused of the murder of
her lover. The evidence
against her seemed
overwhelming. But after
what was described as
Scotland's trial of the
century, she received
the verdict of 'not
proven' and walked free.
This book gives a picture
of the events surrounding
this infamous case.
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Fact proves far stranger
than fiction in this
collection of real-life
crimes, scandals,
tragedies and murders
which either influenced
the works of the world's
most popular mystery
writer or affected the
lives of many famous
personalities involved in
her long and brilliant
career.
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Levi Bellfield preyed on
young women...with murder
on his mind. The
powerfully-built
nightclub bouncer
kidnapped and murdered
13-year-old Milly Dowler
as she walked home from
school in broad daylight.
She had stopped for a bag
of chips with friends at
a railway station cafe.
The case horrified the
nation when six months
later her body was found
25 miles away by mushroom
pickers in a quiet wood
in the Hampshire
countryside. Her
abduction and death was
described as every
parent's nightmare. He
also murdered, in an
equally horrendous
manner, 19-year-old
Marsha McDonnell and
22-year-old French
student Amelie Delagrange
with blows to the head
after they got off
late-night buses in South
London. He attempted to
kill Kate Sheedy, an
18-year-old he
deliberately hit with his
car as she walked home
shortly after midnight,
before reversing over her
body. She survived only
after major surgery in
hospital. Evil
Bellfield was one of the
most notorious killers of
his time. His crimes,
his dramatic trials at
the Old Bailey, plus the
stories of his young
victims and the
devastating impact on
their families are
examined in detail in
this chilling study of
the violent deaths and
danger to innocent young
girl at the hands of a
total stranger
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The historic city of
Lincoln has a history
going back to the Romans
and a catalogue of crimes
to match it. Combining
research with
photography, this title
provides a feast of crime
to haunt the imagination
of any reader interested
in criminal and local
history.
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Tales macabre and tales
bizarre; all of them with
murder in mind. Another
evocative series of
murder cases from
criminologist Molly
Whittington-Egan. The
stories show that while
the world has moved on,
the human mind still
deals with murder in the
same old fashion.
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From the moment they
first cut a swathe of
crime across the 1930s
America, Clyde Barrow
and Bonnie Parker have
been glamorised in print,
on screen and in legend.
The reality of their
brief and catastrophic
lives is very different -
and far more fascinating.
Go Down Together has it
all; a fatal attraction,
rebellion against
authority, bullets
flying and, in the end,
a dramatic death at the
hands of a celebrity
lawman hired to hunt them
down. Thanks in great
part to surviving
relatives of Clyde Barrow
and Bonnie Parker, who
provided Guinn with
access to
never-before-published
family documents, this
book reveals the truth
behind the myth, told
with cinematic sweep and
unprecedented insight by
a master storyteller.
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Growing up, Sophie
carried a terrible
secret... She was her
father's slave, in the
most horrific ways
imaginable. He spent a
decade grooming her for
abuse and when her mother
finally walked out, that
very night he told Sophie
that from now on, she
would sleep in his bed.
Unable to cope, Sophie
spiralled into suicidal
misery. She began to
self-harm to try and
escape the agony. But one
day she went too far and
at 16, ended up in a
psychiatric unit. A
phenomenally courageous
woman, Sophie now works
for Samaritans and helps
other people in need.
Harrowing yet compelling,
this is a searing and
truly inspirational
account of overcoming the
worst self abuse and
self-harm.
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Athol Visser, or 'Ivan
the Terrible', is a
ruthless torture
technician who has maimed
and murdered his way
around the globe. He
killed his first victim
at 16, his last at 60,
and, in between, has
been a mercenary, drug
smuggler, gun runner and
spy. This title offers
the story of a
degenerate, evil man who
killed for pleasure.
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Jack the Ripper is the
ultimate whodunnit. The
Whitechapel murders of
1888 remain unsolved and
hundreds of theories have
been suggested as to the
killer's identity.
However, many of the
suggestions naming the
infamous Ripper remain
ill-informed and, quite
frankly, ludicrous -
until now!
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Intends to reconstruct
the murder in 1959 of a
Kansas farmer, his wife
and children. This title
explores the
circumstances surrounding
this terrible crime and
the effect it had on
those involved. It
focuses on the amoral
young killers Perry Smith
and Dick Hickcock, who
are shown to be
reprehensible, yet
entirely and
frighteningly human.
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Every area of the UK has
its share of violent
crimes - events so
shocking they linger in
the community's
collective memory for
many years - and, in
this respect, the north
east of England is no
different. The cases
include: The wages clerk
shot through the head for
the bag of money he was
carrying as he travelled
by train from Newcastle
to Widdrington in 1910.
The Monkwearmouth woman
who was so drunk when her
lover struck her about
the head with an axe,
exposing her brain, she
was able to walk to the
hospital where she died
of her injuries. The
homosexual who lured
teenage boys to
out-of-the-way places to
have sex with them,
strangled them and then
made feeble botched
attempts to burn the
bodies. Of course, no
book on murder in the
Tyne and Wear district
would be complete without
reference to Mary Bell,
the eleven-year old who
was convicted of killing
two little boys, aged
just four and three. Wade
treats the case with
unusual sensitivity,
placing it in a context
of poverty, alcoholism,
family breakdown and the
absence of any moral
guidance.
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When 16 year old Caroline
Roberts accepted a job at
25 Cromwell Street, the
infamous address of Fred
and Rose West, she
realised there was
something very malevolent
about the couple. Leaving
their employment soon
after, glad to be rid of
them, the story should
have ended there. A month
later she was abducted by
the West's and suffered
violent sexual abuse at
their hands before told
that she would be killed
and buried. A combination
of quick thinking of
sheer luck and quick
thinking despite the
trauma of what had
happened, Caroline
managed to escape to
freedom. This book has
278 pages and is 19.7cm x
12.6cm x 1.9cm
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The greatest
archaeological find of
the 20th century, and
perhaps of all time, was
the discovery in 1922 of
the tomb of the Egyptian
Pharaoh Tutankhamen.
Disputing the conclusions
reached by the Egyptian
team, this book presents
a case that the cause of
King Tut's death was most
likely murder.
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No one in the annals of
crime is capable of
arousing such passionate
debate as the perpetrator
of the Whitechapel
Murders in 1888. Was he a
demented Royal, a
Masonic assassin, a
sexually-frustrated
artist, a member of the
Czarist secret police, a
crazed reformist or even
an escaped gorilla? More
than a century has passed
since this unknown killer
murdered East End
prostitutes under the
very noses of the police
and yet we seem no closer
to uncovering the
Ripper's identity.
Countless volumes have
been written by warring
researchers, seemingly
unable to agree even on
the number of his
victims. Is it possible
that we will ever know
the truth, is the Ripper
destined to remain an
enigma, his place in
history secured as both
an English-heritage crime
icon and a universal
bogeyman?
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In December 1995, three
key members of the
infamous Essex Boys firm
were executed in their
Range Rover after being
lured to a deserted farm
track by the promise of a
lucrative drug deal. This
book tells the true story
of the gang that
destroyed everything that
stood in their way to
take control of their
fallen predecessors' drug
empire.
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When Jack the Ripper
walked onto the streets
of the East End he came
to represent everything
that was wrong with the
area and with society as
a whole. This book sets
his murders in their
historical context,
examining in depth what
East London was like in
1888, how it came to be
that way, and how events
led to this most infamous
and grisly episode.
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Graeme Pearson is one of
the UK's most outspoken
and respected senior
police officers. In a
career spanning forty
years he crossed swords
with some of the UK's
most fearsome and brutal
gangsters. This book
tells the inside story of
his fight against some of
the most notorious
criminals operating in
Britain.
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Dr Harold Shipman told
his unsuspecting patients
he was conducting blood
tests as he injected them
with a massive dose of
heroin; they were dead
within minutes. Before
his trial, many assumed
he was an over-zealous GP
who went too far in
providing comfort to
dying patients. In the
end, he was found guilty
of deliberately and
coldly murdering 218 of
his patients. But
although Britain
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The Essex Boys firm was
one of the most violent
criminal gangs in
Britain. This book
returns to the scene of
the murders and relives
the bloody encounters of
the gang. Divided by
greed, bonded by the
blood of their victims,
Essex Boys' rise to the
top of the criminal
underworld was as
dramatic as their final
fall.
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Bent Coppers is the
disturbing inside story
of the undercover 'Ghost
Squad' and how it broke
into the murky world of
police corruption. Bent
coppers really did
believe they were
untouchable. They stole
cash and drugs, fitted
up people, and some are
suspected of involvement
in murder. Only now can
the full story of the
Ghost Squad can be
revealed.
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In this heart-rending
book, Jacqui Kirkby
tells of the devastating
impact Colette's murder
had on her life. It
robbed her not only of
her beautiful daughter
but also of her marriage
and, at times, her own
sanity. This is the
remarkable story of a
mother's loss, but also
of her hope - hope that
she would one day get
justice for Colette.
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The names of infamous
crooks such as the
Richardsons, Frankie
Fraser and the Krays are
all indelibly linked with
the London gangland scene
of the '50s and '60s. One
man who stayed under the
radar, however, was
'Scouse' Norman Johnson.
This autobiography
documents the many twists
and turns that his life
has taken.
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PC John Donoghue reveals
all in his fascinating
and hilarious true
account of a year in the
life of a front line
response officer. Names
and places have been
changed to protect the
guilty... but if you call
the police, maybe, just
maybe, it could be
Police Constable John
Donoghue turning up at
your door.
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