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In the early hours of March 22, 1989, two friends - career criminals with violent felony convictions - drove around the eastern Kansas City area in a stolen car committing a series of crimes. The weather was mild for late March in Kansas City; the sky was clear, and there was the pale remnant of a Full Moon that bore the dubious name of Death Moon, the last full moon of winter.A little before 7 a.m., 15-year-old Ann Harrison walked to the end of her driveway on Kansas City's east side to wait for the bus to take her to Raytown South High School. Ten minutes later, she disappeared but no one saw what happened. As if waiting for her return, her belongings were still stacked carefully by the side of the road.BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD is the true crime story of the kidnapping, rape, and murder of Ann Harrison and the long journey forced upon her family who had to wait nearly three decades to see her killers brought to final justice.

This is a series of short essays about true events that occurred in Northwest Florida in the not so distant past. Life was tough, justice was swift, and sometimes the culprits, both known and unknown got away their crimes. These were interesting times indeed.

In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford co-founded a university to honour their recently deceased young son. After her husband's death in 1893, Jane Stanford, a devoted spiritualist who expected the university to inculcate her values, steered Stanford into eccentricity and public controversy for more than a decade. In 1905 she was murdered in Hawaii, a victim, according to the Honolulu coroner's jury, of strychnine poisoning.With her vast fortune the university's lifeline, the Stanford president and his allies quickly sought to foreclose challenges to her bequests by constructing a story of death by natural causes. The cover-up gained traction in the murky labyrinths of power, wealth and corruption of Gilded Age San Francisco. The murderer walked.Deftly sifting the scattered evidence and conflicting stories of suspects and witnesses, Richard White gives us the first full account of Jane Stanford's murder and its cover-up. Against a backdrop of the city's machine politics, rogue policing, tong wars and heated newspaper rivalries, White's search for the murderer draws us into Jane Stanford's imperious household and the academic enmities of the university. Although Stanford officials claimed that no one could have wanted to murder Jane, we meet several people who had the motives and the opportunity to do so. One of these, we discover, also had the means...

The bestselling author of Son and Doc investigates a chilling series of alleged murders that exposes the sinister underworld of Gypsy culture in AmericaIn June of 1994, the Oakland Tribune cracked a story of a string of bizarre deaths in the San Francisco area. The victims were elderly, well-to-do and, in each case, had been befriended by members of an extended Gypsy family -- the Tene Bimbos.Fay Faron, also known as Rat Dog Dick, a dynamic and unconventional private investigator in the Bay Area, was contacted by a lawyer to investigate the strange accusations of an elderly widow who claimed she was being swindled out of her hilltop mansion by a young man named Danny Tene. Within days, the widow was dead and Danny Tene stood to inherit a fortune. Olsen chronicles Faron's hunt for Danny Tene, his mother Mary Steiner, and his beautiful sister Angela -- a family of suspected con artists who may have been responsible for the deaths of as many as five helpless elderly men and women, whose property -- and possibly whose lives -- the family allegedly stole.

"A beloved member of the country music community, David "Stringbean" Akeman found nationwide fame as a cast member of Hee Haw. The 1973 murder of Stringbean and his wife forever changed Nashville's sense of itself. Millions of others mourned not only the slain couple but the passing of the way of life that country music had long represented. Taylor Hagood merges the story of Stringbean's life with an account of murder and courtroom drama. Mentored by Uncle Dave Macon and Bill Monroe, Stringbean was a bridge to country's early days. His instrumental savvy and old-time singing style drew upon a deep love for traditional country music that, along with his humor and humanity, won him the reverence of younger artists and made his violent death all the more shocking. Hagood delves into the unexpected questions and uneasy resolutions raised by the atmosphere of retribution surrounding the murder trial and recounts the redemption story that followed decades later"--

It is unavoidably fascinating to see what famous killers choose as their last ever meal on planet Earth. In the book that follows we will offer an eclectic mix of famous (and not so famous) criminals from history and reveal what they had for their last ever meal. So, make sure you aren't too hungry when you read this book, and prepare to enter the disturbing but darkly fascinating world of killers and food...

¿Te gustaría sumergirte en uno de los grandes misterios de la humanidad? ¿Quién era Jack el destripador? ¿Era un maestro del disfraz o un criminal increíblemente afortunado? Entonces sigue leyendo...No hubo testigos de sus asesinatos. Poco se sabe con certeza sobre el Destripador.Las víctimas de sus crímenes eran todas mujeres. Algunos de sus cuerpos fueron mutilados y todos fueron degollados.La ola de asesinatos del Destripador en el pobre East End de Londres de finales de la época victoriana ha fascinado a un gran número de investigadores históricos y detectives aficionados.Han escrito y siguen escribiendo libros y artículos, creando podcasts, películas, novelas y obras de teatro en las que seleccionan pistas de los registros que han sobrevivido, para crear un caso para su sospechoso.¿Era un médico trastornado, un artista excéntrico, un trabajador de un matadero judío, un miembro de la familia real, un militar o un estafador estadounidense?Expertos en escritura, historia del papel, patólogos forenses, historiadores del arte, estudiosos de la psicopatía y científicos expertos en el análisis del ADN mitocondrial han estudiado las pruebas. Después de todo esto, a pesar de lo que afirman algunos detectives, el caso no está cerrado.En este libro, descubrirás: Todo sobre sus asesinatos cronológicamente.Descubre a todos los posibles sospechosos y que fue de sus vidas.Teorías conspirativas alrededor de la investigación policiaca de ese entonces.Herramientas del futuro que pudieron cambiar el rumbo de la investigación.Y mucho más...Serä que algunos criminales nunca fueron capturados, pero que a e¿l hubo que ponerle un alias porque ni siquiera se capturö su identidad. Serä, en fin, que "los crímenes de Whitechapel" conmovieron los cimientos bien estantes de la sociedad victoriana y desvelaron la existencia de una Gran Bretaña distinta, humillada y pobre.Si las historias a detalle sobre el crimen verdadero son tu pasión ¡no te puedes escapar de esta historia! ¡Desplaza hacia arriba y añade al carrito de compra!

The A6 murder case shocked the nation in 1961. But after James Hanratty was convicted of the crime and executed a series of books appeared over three decades arguing that there had been a major miscarriage of justice and an innocent man had been hanged. Some even suggested that the crime had involved a conspiracy and that it originated in the private life of the murder victim, Michael Gregsten. Leonard Miller's classic work of analysis, Shadows of Deadman's Hill, published before the Court of Appeal's final verdict on the case in 2002, was the first book to challenge the case for Hanratty's innocence. Piece by piece, Miller tore apart the claims that there had been a miscarriage of justice, as set out in no less than five full-length studies of the A6 murder case. These authors, he argued, were guilty of tunnel vision. There was no secret conspiracy involving third parties. The crime was unplanned. An impulsive attempt at robbery spiralled out of control as Hanratty enjoyed the power which a newly acquired gun gave him. Miller's conclusion was later echoed by the subsequent Court of Appeal's final verdict that Hanratty had all along been the A6 gunman and rapist, and that there was "overwhelming proof of the safety of the conviction from an evidential perspective". In this rewritten and expanded analysis, Leonard Miller returns after twenty years to his original study of the crime. He brings the story up to date, considers new studies, and provides the definitive account of the case for James Hanratty's guilt. This book also includes new material communicated to the author after the publication of his earlier work.

Over 100 years ago, the Chester Gillette Grace Brown murder case was considered the trial of the century. The case became the basis for Theodore Dreiser's classic novel An American Tragedy and the movie A Place in the Sun, starring Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor. Revisit the tragedy at Big Moose Lake and the ensuing trial in this fully revised and expanded edition of the definitive book about the Gillette Brown murder.In the 30 years since the best-selling Murder in the Adirondacks was written, author Craig Brandon has continued to research the Gillette Brown murder case. This revised and expanded edition is the culmination of those decades of work. Included in this new edition are over 50 new photographs and information from Chester Gillette's prison diary, discovered after the original publication of Murder in the Adirondacks.

Every serial killer is a "nice guy"-until he's found out. The shocking, true account of a Southern charmer who left a trail of victims in his wake.Jerry Marcus fooled them all. He was "a nice guy," always helped at home, did well in school, an athlete, and always employed. When things went wrong, he was the first to help clean up the mess. He was the last person anyone suspected of being a serial killer.After Marcus was caught and sentenced to life in prison in the late '70s, author Linda Lou Long spent years corresponding with him. The Tuskegee Strangler gives an inside look into the workings of a man who is not your typical serial killer.

Autumn 1962 in a picture-perfect small New England college town. Mabel Gorne, who must make her own way while outrunning a past she fervently hopes to bury, arrives with a single suitcase and an unsettling secret.