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She tried to tell her friends. She even went to the police. No one would believe her--and now she was dead.Problems had always followed Susan White, but when she remarried and moved to Houston's posh suburbs, she thought the past was behind her--until she met a deputy sheriff named Kent McGowen who would soon become her worst nightmare.McGowen was an aggressive cop with a spotty record. When Susan rebuffed his advances, she claimed he stalked and harassed her, using her troubled teenage son as bait. And then, in an act of arrogance and revenge, he made good on his threats, setting her up for the kill.In A Warrant to Kill, Kathryn Casey meticulously pieces together the tragic shards of the case to create a riveting story of vengeance, fear, and justice--of the terrifying power a badge can have in the wrong hands.

Booby Kent was a bully--a steroid-pumped 20-year-old who dominated his peers in their comfortable, middle-class Ft. Lauderdale beach community through psychological, physical and sexual abuse. But on a summer night in 1993, Bobby was lured to the edge of the Florida everglades with a promise of sex and drugs. . .and was never seen alive again. The tormentor had become the victim in a bizarre and brutal act of vengeance carried out with ruthless efficiency and cold-blooded premeditation by seven of his high school acquaintances--including his lifelong best friend--and instigated by one overweight, underloved teenager who believed her life would be perfect. . .if only Bobby Kent were dead.BULLY is a riveting story of adolescent rage and bloody revenge--all the more harrowing and horrific because its true.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Stranger Beside Me comes a true crime story of a serial killer who was sentenced to die-yet lived to murder again....and again.... After committing his first grisly crime, Harvey Louis Carignan beat a death sentence and continued to manipulate, rape, and bludgeon women to death, using want ads to lure his young female victims. And time after time, justice was thwarted by a killer whose twisted legal genius was matched only by his sick savagery. Complete with the testimony of the officers who put him behind bars and the women who barely escaped with their lives, The Want-Ad Killer is one of the most shattering and thought-provoking true-crime stories of our time.

The best-selling young adult novelist recounts her daughter's mysterious shooting death and her own investigation into the crime, describing her use of a psychic to contact her dead child and expose the truth."Later! I'll see you guys later!" They were the last words Lois Duncan would ever hear her daughter speak. On a balmy midsummer's night in 1989, eighteen-year-old Kaitlyn Arquette was shot to death as she drove home along a deserted strip of new Mexico highway. The police called it a random shooting-even though it had all the earmarks of a professional hit. . . . Who would put out a contract on a beautiful young honor student? Was it grief that made Kaitlyn's Vietnamese lover try to take his own life?-or was it not an attempted suicide at all? Lois Duncan's search for answers would take her into the underworld of Vietnamese gangs that stretched across three states. It would lead her to an extraordinary psychic and to a courageous journalist determined to expose the devastating truth. And it would send her on a numbing odyssey into Kaitlyn's shocking secret life as she desperately sought justice for the daughter she would always love . . . even in the face of shattering betrayal and threats to her own life. . . . Praise for Who Killed My Daughter?"Duncan's anguish and frustration surface on practically every page of this sad but intriguing mystery. Her forays into the realm of psychics and dreams are downright eerie."-The Plain Dealer "Who Killed My Daughter? is a story of sadness, frustration and hope. . . . It is an emotional book that reads more like a novel than nonfiction."-San Antonio Express-News "This book is especially well written, perhaps because Duncan's writing comes from her broken heart and anguished soul."-Library Journal "Ms. Duncan is an award-winning yong adult novelist. She does a remarkable job of organizing the untidy events of real life into a cohesive, readable narrative."-The Atlanta Journal and Constitution

An "indescribably touching, extraordinarily intelligent" (Los Angeles Times Book Review) chronicle of a fatal gun-battle between FBI agents and American Indian Movement activists by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014), author of the National Book Award-winning The Snow Leopard and the novel In Paradise On a hot June morning in 1975, a desperate shoot-out between FBI agents and Native Americans near Wounded Knee, South Dakota, left an Indian and two federal agents dead. Four members of the American Indian Movement were indicted on murder charges, and one, Leonard Peltier, was convicted and is now serving consecutive life sentences in a federal penitentiary. Behind this violent chain of events lie issues of great complexity and profound historical resonance, brilliantly explicated by Peter Matthiessen in this controversial book. Kept off the shelves for eight years because of one of the most protracted and bitterly fought legal cases in publishing history, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse reveals the Lakota tribe's long struggle with the U.S. government, and makes clear why the traditional Indian concept of the earth is so important at a time when increasing populations are destroying the precious resources of our world.

The legendary FBI criminal profiler, number-oneNew York Timesbestselling author, and inspiration for the hit Netflix showMindhunterdelves deep into the lives and crimes offour of the most disturbing and complex predatory killers, offering never-before-revealed details about his profiling process, and divulging the strategiesused to crack some of Americas most challenging cases.The FBIs pioneer of criminal profiling, former special agentJohn Douglas, has studiedand interviewed many of Americas most notorious killersincluding Charles Manson,Son of Sam KillerDavid Berkowitz andBTK StranglerDennis Radertrained FBI agents and investigators around andtheworld, andhelped educate the country about these deadly predators and how they operate, and has become a legend in popular culture, fictionalized inThe Silence of the Lambsand the hit television showsCriminal MindsandMindhunter.Twenty years after his famous memoir, the man who literally wrote the book on FBI criminal profiling opens his case files once again. In this riveting work of true crime, he spotlights four of the most diabolical criminals hes confronted, interviewed and learned from. Going deep into each mans life and crimes, he outlines the factors that led them to murder and how he used his interrogation skills to expose theirmeans, motives, andtrue evil. Like the hit Netflix show,The Killer Across the Tableis centered around Douglas uniqueinterrogation and profiling process. With his longtime collaborator Mark Olshaker, Douglas recounts the chilling encounters with these four killers as he experienced themrevealing for the first time his profile methods in detail.Going step by step through his interviews, Douglas explains how he connects each killers crimes to the specific conversation, and contrasts these encounters with those of other deadly criminals to show what he learns from each one. In the process, hereturns to other famous cases, killers and interviews that have shaped his career, describing how the knowledge he gained from those exchanges helped prepare him for these.A glimpse into the mind of a man who has pierced the heart of human darkness,The Killer Across the Tableunlocks the ultimate mysteryof depravity and the techniques and approaches that have countered evil in the name of justice.

A brilliant anthology of modern true-crime writing that illustrates the appeal of this powerful and popular genre, edited and curated by Sarah Weinman, the award-winning author of The Real Lolita The appeal of true-crime stories has never been higher. With podcasts like My Favorite Murder and In the Dark, bestsellers like I'll Be Gone in the Dark and Furious Hours, and TV hits like American Crime Story and Wild Wild Country, the cultural appetite for stories of real people doing terrible things is insatiable. Acclaimed author ofThe Real Lolita and editor of Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s & 50s (Library of America) and Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives (Penguin), Sarah Weinman brings together an exemplary collection of recent true crime tales. She culls together some of the most refreshing and exciting contemporary journalists and chroniclers of crime working today. Michelle Dean's "Dee Dee Wanted Her Daughter To Be Sick" went viral when it first published and is the basis for the TV showThe Act and Pamela Colloff's "The Reckoning," is the gold standard for forensic journalism. There are 13 pieces in all and as a collection, they showcase writing about true crime across the broadest possible spectrum, while also reflecting what makes crime stories so transfixing and irresistible to the modern reader.Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

En sommeraften i 1965 findes en ung kvinde død i sit hjem i en forstad til Stockholm. Politiet affærdiger det først som selvmord, men snart står det klart, at kvinden er blevet myrdet. Men hvordan og af hvem? Sådan begynder den største og mest komplicerede mordefterforskning i svensk historie før Olof Palme-mordet.Sagen vækker stor opmærksomhed – og frygt – for det viser sig, at gerningsmanden er gået til værks med en usædvanlig koldblodighed, og politiet frygter, at han vil slå til igen. Da morderen til sidst pågribes, viser det sig, at han har befundet sig lige for næsen af politiet hele tiden. Og ikke nok med det: Han bliver frikendt i byretten, flygter og anholdes på ny i Danmark.Mordet på Söndagsvägen er en dokumentarisk fortælling om en usædvanlig forbrydelse, skrevet af en af Sveriges mest anerkendte historikere og baseret på et omfattende arkivmateriale og interview med personer, der var tæt på begivenhederne dengang. Det er også fortællingen om rekordåret for den skandinaviske velfærdsstat, om velstanden og fremtidsoptimismen – og dens fortrængte og mørke bagside.

Kriminaliteten afspejler samfundsudviklingen, og politiets metoder må indrette sig efter den. Hvor motiverne til alvorlig kriminalitet tidligere kunne tage sig enklere ud, har de op igennem 1980’erne og 1990’erne – også i Danmark – været inspireret af eksempelvis politisk terror, voldelige bandekonflikter, narkohandel, cyberkriminalitet og kulturelle og etniske sammenstød. Det har tvunget politiet til at gå nye veje, for eksempel med såkaldte DNA-profilanalyser og psykologiske portrætter. Alligevel kan det i et samfund som det danske, der er et af verdens mindst voldelige og mest finmaskede, ske, at en gerningsmand slipper fra at begå en forbrydelse. "Danske mordgåder" beskæftiger sig med 20 af den slags sager, fordelt over det meste af 1900-tallet. Ole Schierbeck (f. 1938) er dansk journalist, oversætter og forfatter. Han har været journalist for dagbladet Politiken i en lang årrække og står desuden bag flere dokumentariske bøger om kriminalitet. Udgivelsen er en storskrift-udgave til svagsynede i serien MAGNUMBØGER Lindhardt og Ringhof.