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In 2012, Oscar Pistorius became the first amputee runner in history to compete in the Olympics, and was hailed as a hero not only in his native South Africa but around the world. But everything changed for Pistorius in the early morning hours of February 14, 2013?Valentine's Day?when he shot and killed his girlfriend, model Reeva Steenkamp. He was arrested and convicted for culpable homicide in a seven-month murder trial broadcast from Johannesburg to an international audience.Acclaimed journalist John Carlin details the wrenching emotional breakdowns and merciless interrogation of the accused and the courtroom confrontation between a white, privileged, twenty-seven-year-old male athlete on trial for murder, and the black female judge who alone would decide his fate?held in a democratic country trying to exorcise its history of racial hatred and endemic violence against women?exposes the complex social and political realities of post-Apartheid South Africa.

Lawson, drawing upon police and court records, newspaper articles, personal files, and his own notes, provides an invaluable record of one of Kentucky's most famous cold cases.

This book puts one of the most infamous serial killers of all time into the geographical, historical, and social context of london's east end, offering tantalising details about how its inhabitants lived and worked. Did you know that londoners were charged tuppence for the privilege of sleeping on a washing line? You might have heard of the cryptic message left in goulston street, but did you know about the other jack the ripper graffiti scrawled on whitechapel's walls? Inside you will read about...The whitechapel murderer's hunting groundLeather apronThe double murderThe investigationLetters from jack the ripperWho was jack the ripper?And much more!The other aspect of the story focusses on the police investigation, by contrasting two different investigative approaches to catching jack the ripper. Detective inspector reid tries to understand the crimes and the killer from a psychological perspective. Each killing is explained and analysed in detail by inspector reid, for him to build up a picture of the killer and his probable motives. Whereas, detective inspector fred abberline is relying on his local knowledge policing.

Long before the era of young people committing mass murder became a too-common event, sixteen-year-old Harry Hebard made world news when he killed all five members of his family in Kennedy-era Green Bay, Wisconsin.Harry appeared to be a relatively normal teenager. A member of the high school track team, Harry harbored a deep resentment that would make its ugly appearance on a cold winter's day in 1963. In systematically executing his family, Harry became the first documented teenage mass murderer in Wisconsin history.Criminal profile veteran Steve Daniels details Harry's case and provides insight into what makes Harry and other mass murderers tick.

Rebecca Smith, from Bratton near Westbury in Wiltshire, southern England, was the last woman in Britain to be hanged for infanticide of her own baby. She suffered her punishment at Devizes. But this unassuming woman who attended chapel and prayed night and morning, had poisoned not just one but eight of her babies. Her crime shocked and puzzled Victorian Britain. So why did she do it? Historian and journalist Sally Hendry delves into the nineteenth century to unpick Rebecca's story, looking at everything from domestic violence through to the unspeakable agonies of death by arsenic poisoning. Victim or villain? You decide.

Evidence of Innocence attests to the reality that the more serious the charge, the harder it is to prove innocence - even with strong evidence that the accused was nowhere near the scene of the crime when it occurred.Among other disservices, Edward Clark's court appointed an attorney in the small town that did not assist in jury selection, leaving Clark to choose jurors from a local population he knew nothing about and with documented jury tampering. The prosecution introduced false testimony through investigators and witnesses claiming to be forensic experts and withheld evidence obtained through illegally eavesdropping on attorney-client conversations that supported Clark's defense. Altered court documents impeached the key defense witness. The names of those claiming responsibility are revealed. Ed Clark was convicted of two related murders in 1974 and has been in prison since.According to the National Institute of Justice, nearly 250,000 factually innocent Americans are currently behind bars. The reader's lesson? There, but for the grace of God, go I.

A Recommended Read from: The Los Angeles Times * Town and Country * The Seattle Times * Publishers Weekly * Lit Hub * Crime Reads * AlmaFrom the author of The Real Lolita and editor of Unspeakable Acts, the astonishing story of a murderer who conned the people around him--including conservative thinker William F. Buckley--into helping set him freeIn the 1960s, Edgar Smith, in prison and sentenced to death for the murder of teenager Victoria Zielinski, struck up a correspondence with William F. Buckley, the founder of National Review. Buckley, who refused to believe that a man who supported the neoconservative movement could have committed such a heinous crime, began to advocate not only for Smith's life to be spared but also for his sentence to be overturned.So begins a bizarre and tragic tale of mid-century America. Sarah Weinman's Scoundrel leads us through the twists of fate and fortune that brought Smith to freedom, book deals, fame, and eventually to attempting murder again. In Smith, Weinman has uncovered a psychopath who slipped his way into public acclaim and acceptance before crashing down to earth once again.From the people Smith deceived--Buckley, the book editor who published his work, friends from back home, and the women who loved him--to Americans who were willing to buy into his lies, Weinman explores who in our world is accorded innocence, and how the public becomes complicit in the stories we tell one another.Scoundrel shows, with clear eyes and sympathy for all those who entered Smith's orbit, how and why he was able to manipulate, obfuscate, and make a mockery of both well-meaning people and the American criminal justice system. It tells a forgotten part of American history at the nexus of justice, prison reform, and civil rights, and exposes how one man's ill-conceived plan to set another man free came at the great expense of Edgar Smith's victims. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Jesus said that redemption--eternal salvation--is available to everyone. No one is beyond His reach; no one falls outside the boundaries of His willingness to forgive. Anyone who calls on Him will be saved, He sayd. But, does that really include the world's most infamous convicts? Redeemed unredeemable: when America's most notorious criminals came face to face with God features a close look into the lives of infamous members of the Manson family disciples such as Susan Atkins and Charles "Tex" Watson, as well as serial killer Ted Bundy, "Milwaukee Monster" Jeffrey Dahmer, "Son of Sam" David Berkowitz, "Pickaxe Killer" Karla Faye Tucker, and parent-killer Sean Sellers.

Tells the parallel stories of Daniel Burnham, the main architect of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, and serial killer Henry H. Holmes, discussing the challenges Burnham faced in creating the hugely successful White City, and looking at how Holmes used the opportunities afforded by the fair to lure victims to their deaths.

Serial killers have haunted the public imagination for hundreds of years. They have struck fear and terror into the collective consciousness for their gruesome and malicious crimes against humanity. What motivates them to commit these murders? How do people, who appear normal on the surface, manage to live secret lives of hedonism, psychosis, and bloodlust? This book will explore these issues, and many more, while providing detailed accounts of some of the most infamous serial killers in human history. This book will answer your questions by explaining: The making of a serial killerThe different psychological phases a serial killer goes throughThe different serial killer personalitiesIdentifying serial killersFamous and not so well known serial killers personalities and why they did what they did Follow the paths of a horrendously depraved killer and the relentless detective who dedicated six years of his life to tracking him down. Get inside the courtroom for one of the trials of the century. Revisit the crime scenes and hear from the psychiatrists who examined this human monster. And finally, read the barely believable confessions of one of the most perverted individuals ever to walk this earth.