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Tells the true story of Cassie Chadwick, a successful swindler and 'one of the top 10 imposters of all time', according to Time magazine. This meticulously researched book is the first full-length account of the notorious career of this fascinating woman, the forerunner to more recent female scammers.

Issues of false convictions, fake news, illegal immigration, police corruption, and racial prejudice are common tropes in today's news cycles. The East River Ripper demonstrates that these are not simply matters of recent vintage and seeks to answer such questions in trying to determine whether and in what way justice miscarried.

Thomas Riha vanished on March 15, 1969, sparking a mystery that lives on 50 years later. Presenting a compelling cast of characters in an era of intrigue and with astounding attention to detail, Eileen Welsome demonstrates why the mystery continues to fascinate.

Offers an extraordinary look at race and policing in late nineteenth-century Baltimore. What makes this work so powerful is that many of the issues that the antipolice brutality movement faces today were the very issues faced by black people in nineteenth-century Baltimore.

Examines how a forgotten case of murder while sleepwalking changed history. After creeping out of bed on a frigid January night in 1832, teenage farmhand Abraham Prescott took up an ax and thrashed his sleeping employers to the brink of death. He later explained that he'd attacked Sally and Chauncey Cochran in his sleep.

At long last, The Potato Masher Murder: Death at the Hands of a Jealous Husband unearths the full story of two immigrant families united by love and torn apart by domestic violence.

Justice is blind, they say, but perhaps not to beauty. In supposedly dispassionate courts of law, attractive women have long avoided punishment for cold-blooded crimes. The Beauty Defense gathers the true stories of some of the most infamous femmes fatales in criminal history, collected by attorney and true crime historian Laura James.

Recounts the dramatic tale of Emma Molloy, who hit headlines when her husband George Graham was charged with the murder of his first wife - and she and her daughter were implicated as accessories.

The first complete history of the historically significant case, A Woman Condemned draws upon newly discovered New York State Police records, volumes of court transcripts, and period newspapers, leading readers to wonder if justice was really served.

Traces the 19th century murder of Helen Potts by Carlyle Harris and Harris's subsequent trial, highlighting what has been overlooked - the decisive role that the second-class status of women in Victorian Era culture played in this tragedy.

Recounts the court case following the murder of twenty-year-old Walter Brooks in 1902, and follows the young woman at the heart of the case from her trial for the murder of Brooks to her adulthood.

They have no witnesses. They have no case. With this blunt observation, Mariann Colby - an attractive, church-going Shaker Heights, Ohio, mother and housewife - bet a defense psychiatrist that she would not be convicted of murder. As her trial unfolds in the book, the imprecision of her insanity defense confounds the judges, and psychiatrists disagree about her diagnosis.

Presents ten murder cases of ""the old-fashioned sort"" - evoking a nostalgia more obviously associated with fiction - that all took place during the festive period from mid-December to Twelfth Night between 1811 and 1933. The settings of these grisly tales range from the Knickerbocker Athletic Club in New York to an apartment in Glasgow.

Explores the persistent mysteries of Lincoln's assassination, with contributions from leading experts who approach the crime from a variety of perspectives. Each focuses on one controversial or compelling topic. This volume will challenge and delight readers who are interested in getting to know everything they can about this epic and tragic event.

Stanley Barton Hoss was a burglar, thief, and local thug from the Pittsburgh area. In eight short months in 1969, however, he became one of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted. James Hollock traces Hoss from his earliest misdemeanors to a daring rooftop escape, to his killing of police officer Joseph Zanella.

In 1936, Bruno Hauptmann was executed for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr. In the ensuing decades, many books about the Lindbergh case have been published. Some have declared Hauptmann the victim of a police conspiracy and frame-up. Hauptmann's Ladder is a testament to the truth that counters the revisionist histories all too common in the true crime genre.

Tells the story of Frank Dolezal, the only man actually arrested and charged with the infamous ""Torso Murders"" in Cleveland, Ohio, during the late 1930s. In Though Murder Has No Tongue, James Jessen Badal tells a gripping tale of justice gone wrong. It is also a modern story of forensic analysis as compelling as an episode of CSI.

An anthology of thirteen true crime stories that includes the mysterious slaying of Charles Walton, found in an area notorious for its associations with black magic; the terrorizing of Hammersmith, London, by the nocturnal appearance of a ""ghost""; the Salem witchcraft trials; and the murder of Rasputin.

Marilyn Sheppard was bludgeoned to death in her Bay Village, Ohio, home in July, 1954. Who took her life so brutally has been the subject of much controversy and debate for nearly half a century. This volume presents a comprehensive analysis of this case from the perspective of the prosecutors.