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Häftad, Engelska, 2026
257 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2026
228 kr
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The Bonecrusher: Murder, Ash, and the Invisible Women of PeoriaBetween July 2003 and October 2004, Larry Dean Bright, known to forensic investigators and the press as "e;The Bonecrusher"e;, murdered eight women in and around Peoria, Illinois, operating undetected for fourteen months in one of the most disturbing serial homicide cases in Midwestern American history. His victims were Black women from Peoria's South Side street economy, women whose disappearances were systematically under-investigated by a fragmented, under-resourced law enforcement apparatus that failed, repeatedly and catastrophically, to connect the evidence accumulating across two counties into the pattern it clearly formed.What distinguished Bright was not only the frequency of his killing but the ritual he developed to conceal it: the incineration of his victims' remains in a residential backyard, followed by the systematic pulverisation of the calcined bone fragments with a hammer, a procedure designed to reduce human beings to ash and render them permanently unidentifiable. Four of his eight confirmed victims remain unnamed to this day.Drawing on forensic science, criminological theory, and a sustained examination of the social and institutional conditions that made this spree possible, The Bonecrusher is both a forensic investigation and a moral reckoning, a book about what a city's structural indifference to its most vulnerable women made possible, and what it cost.
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Engelska, 202665 kr
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The criminal record of Kenneth Allen McDuff, spanning from the mid-1960s to his execution in 1998, represents a critical intersection of psychopathy, institutional corruption, and tectonic shifts in American jurisprudence. McDuff holds a singular and grim distinction in the history of the United States legal system as the only individual to be sentenced to death on three separate occasions for unrelated homicides, a fact that highlights the catastrophic failure of the Texas parole system during the late twentieth century. His case serves as a primary case study for criminologists examining the persistent nature of predatory violence and the social consequences of administrative negligence within the correctional framework. The following analysis explores the biographical, forensic, and legislative dimensions of a man whose release from prison led to one of the most prolific and preventable killing sprees in Texas history