Bøger af Lori Carangelo

Serial killer Joe Kondro details his life and crimes, informing the author "Even as a kid, before I had actually murdered anyone, I did wonder how far I could take my sexual desires and increasing fantasies that included killing. Look what I have taken. I took a whole community's children."

Like Forrest Gump, Jim Munro grew up with multiple physical and mental handicaps to overcome. Unlike Gump, who was a likable movie hero and was liked in real life, Jim Munro was never liked - not by his American parents who adopted him from a German orphanage and then discarded him, nor by those who knew about his lifestyle and association with Bill Bonin, California's Freeway Killer. To unravel Jim Munro for this book, it was necessary to include graphic descriptions of his activities and behaviors, including when he was in the wrong place at the wrong time with Bill Bonin and the body of one of Bonin's many young male victims. That mistake resulted in almost 40 years in prison at this writing, despite that he never killed or injured anyone. Accomplice or victim or both? You be the judge.

For over 40 years, hard work by now-elderly adoption activists motivated by injustices of their own losses, many of whom have already passed away, laid the groundwork. The extent of the politics, people, and their commentary on sealed adoption issues cannot be contained in a single volume, but this "photo album" with chronological letters, published feature stories and op-eds, provides "snapshots" to inform America's next generation about sealed adoption reform, activists, and abolitionists. It is the next generation who will truly open records nationwide and replace adoption as we have known it with better expressions of individualized child custody and accountability... because America CAN do better for it's (adopted andnon-adopted) children and families. Photos. Indexed.

200 HIGHWAY KILLERS - by State, with over 200 Photos. This unique collection details Serial Killers who either picked up or disposed of their victims, some of whom were hitchhiking, along America's highways and truck stops. Included are their known victims' identities and the nicknames that media attached to their apparent "M.O." or victim type -- such as "The Bra Murderer, " "The Co-Ed Killer,"" "The Flat Tire Killer, " " "The Orange Socks Killer," "The Freeway Killer, " "The Trash Bag Killer, " etc. The FBI tells us that 6,000 people per year die at the hands of serial killers and that close to 300 Highway Serial Killers, specifically, are currently on the loose in the United States, prowling the nation -- especially those who are among the 3.5-million truckers on the road today. Long-haul truckers who pick up prey in one state often dump the body several states away. And they are in every state - California and Texas having the largest number of such serial killers. But even the smallest states thought to be the "safest" have their share of these predators. So if you're offered a ride by a smiling stranger, be afraid... Be very afraid, be very afraid. Includes Killers Index and General Index.

GREG MOX was, by all accounts, a nice, quiet, intelligent "computer nerd." His loving parents adopted and raised him since he was an infant. He was never physically or sexually abused and had no prior criminal history. Yet he felt his reasons justified the horrific killing of his Mom and Dad -- as did 21 other adoptees in this book who similarly unleashed their rage and then tried to cover up the evil deed with fire.

KILLERS ONLINE links 100 unique murder stories to the social media apps and classified ad sites on which the killer and victim first connected. Chapters include Facebook Fatalities, Tinder Trap, eDisHarmony, J[Dead]Date, Zooskicide, Craigslist Carnage, Plenty of [Dead] Fish, Fiend Finder, Bumble Killer Bees, Badoo Bad Boys, Grindr Graveyard, and others. The Introduction provides some background about the sites, surveyed facts and figures as to who and how many use them, what is considered sexually "normal" and "not normal" these days, and how to minimize the risks whether meeting a stranger for a date or sex hookup, or to buy or sell a car or toaster. The author ferreted out details from multiple sources in each case, including victims' and killers' photos, ages, relationships, circumstances that led to the murder, and killers' outcomes, for anyone who enjoys a bloodthirsty tale, as truth is more bizarre than fiction. Includes "300 Dating and Sex Encounter Exploitive Apps," and a Bibliography of news sources. Over 200 photos. Indexed.

Adoptees have higher odds for lifetime substance abuse, drug associated crimes, and suicides than non-adopted persons. This book provides a rare, intimate look at HOW and WHY this occurs. Drug addicted adoptees, Noah Stone (in Part 1), Tom McGee (in Part 2), and 31 other adoptees (in Part 3) reveal, in their own words, the common threads that affected their outcomes. Part 4 was added in 2024 when the author's own son, Tom Schafrick, died of acute Fentanyl and Cocaine Intoxication, ruled "Accidental."

EIGHT WOMEN were convinced that their initial identification of their attacker, who some even identified by name, was wrong. It had to be Joe Garcia. After all, they were told the DNA "matched" and that he had been a "career criminal" with a prior conviction for Rape. So California's Central Coast Rapist rapist was off the street. Justice was served. There was just one problem. Joe Garcia never raped anyone. "EYEWITNESS" not only proves "It wasn't Joe" but also that there had never been a Central Coast Rapist. His faith having sustained him through 33 years of wrongful imprisonment, and all it had done to him, Joe Garcia now shares his story.

Investigation Discovery (ID) TV aired an episode loosely adapted as a partially fictionalized version of this book. Now read the REAL story. "BLOOD RELATIVES" proves that truth is stranger than fiction. This is a "who done it" with twists and turns and multiple murders you won't see coming. The characters and events are REAL - including "the mother who legalized abortion in America," and her children who are caught up in complex family relationships resulting from adoption, abortion, incest, greed, corruption and murders. Just as one may hand down a family recipe, this story, which takes the reader from the 1960s to the present, provides an intriguing mix of Southern pride and prejudice, mystery, motives and murders. Turn up the heat, stir in the action, add a pinch of reasonable doubt, allow to simmer, and feed your craving for a bloody tale.

JOE ESPOSITO, his origins, his life, even his death, have long been shrouded in mystery and folklore. In the late 1880s, the FBI dubbed him "The First Mafioso" while Italian, British, New York, Chicago and New Orleans newspapers depicted him as "the first international serial killer." Orphaned at birth, he adopted multiple identities, trying on new ones as one would try on new clothes. The author brings him to life against vivid backdrops of post-Civil War Sicily and New Orleans, people, politics and places including plantations, brothels, docks, a New York courtroom and the infamous "escape proof" island prison known as "Italy's Alcatraz." But to discover the "real" Joe Esposito, we meet SERAFINA, the petite, bodacious and strikingly beautiful Sicilian woman who had almost as many aliases as Esposito and for whom Joe endeavored to "walk the line." The truth as to whether "Panama Joe" and Serafina were an Italian "Bonnie and Clyde" makes their story all the more compelling.

This sixth U.S. Edition of The Ultimate Search Book, offers the largest collection of updated resources and methods -- from DNA matching to discovering paper trails that legally overcome roadblocks for finding anyone, with or without a name to start - and with little or no expense. "How to" secrets of experienced investigators, directories by subject, and sample documents are included in this unique compilation to help you more quickly find information and people -- including adoptees, birth relatives, missing children, missing adults, unaccompanied migrant children and their families, debtors, old loves and more. Find your family, find yourself. Enjoy the journey.