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41 produkter
Northamptonshire Murders
Av Kevin Turton
Häftad, 2003
212 kr
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An exploration of murders in Northamptonshire from 1852 to 1952. A chapter is devoted to each murder featured. Kevin Turton covers not only the events and subsequent investigation but also the trial of the killer and public reaction to the crime. Featuring many illustrations including newspaper …
Sussex Murders
Av W H Johnson
Häftad, 2005
190 kr
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Contained within the pages of this book are the stories behind some of the most notorious murders in Sussex's history. Based upon contemporary documents and illustrations, Johnnie Johnson re-examines some of the crimes that shocked not only the county but Britain as a whole. Among the gruesome …
Somerset Murders
Av Nicola Sly, John van der Kiste
Häftad, 2008
189 kr
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Somerset Murders brings together numerous murderous tales that shocked not only the county but also made headlines throughout the country. They include the cases of Elizabeth and Betty Branch, a mother and daughter who beat a young servant girl to death in Hemington in 1740; 13-year-old Betty …
Black Country Murders
Av Ian M Bott
Häftad, 2009
209 kr
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Located in central England, the Black Country is a distinctive industrial region encompassing numerous ancient towns and villages in a unique and diverse landscape, formed by centuries of mining and iron forging. Here evolved a breed of people much accustomed to the darker tragedies of life, often …
Shropshire Murders
Av Nicola Sly
Häftad, 2009
260 kr
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Shropshire Murders brings together numerous murderous tales, some which were little known outside the county, and others which made national headlines. Contained within the pages of this book are the stories behind some of the most heinous crimes ever committed in Shropshire. They include the Revd …
Worcestershire Murders
Av Nicola Sly
Häftad, 2009
218 kr
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Worcestershire Murders brings together numerous murderous tales, some which were little known outside the county, and others which made national headlines. Contained within the pages of this book are the stories behind some of the most heinous crimes ever committed in Worcestershire. They include …
Oxfordshire Murders
Av Nicola Sly
Häftad, 2010
201 kr
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Oxfordshire Murders brings together twenty-five murderous tales, some which were little known outside the county, and others which made national headlines. Contained within the pages of this book are the stories behind some of the most heinous crimes ever committed in Oxfordshire. They include the …
More Cornish Murders
Av Nicola Sly, John van der Kiste
Häftad, 2010
185 kr
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This chilling follow-up to Cornish Murders brings together more murderous tales that shocked not only the county but frequently made headline news throughout the nation. They include the brutal slaying of Elizabeth Seaman in Penzance in 1845, the murder in the course of a robbery of Robert Drew …
Channel Island Murders
Av Nicola Sly
Häftad, 2013
209 kr
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Although an idyllic setting, where violent crime is thankfully rare, the Channel Islands have a shadier side. Contained within the pages of this book are twenty-five historic cases of murder committed in the Channel Islands. They include a fatal assault on John Francis in 1894, which remains …
Capturing the Fugitive
The Prosecutors and the Marilyn Sheppard Murder
Av The Kent State University Press
Inbunden, 2003
422 kr
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Marilyn Sheppard, four months pregnant and mother of a toddler son, was bludgeoned to death in her Bay Village, Ohio, home in the early morning of July fourth, 1954. The cause of death was 27 blows to the head with a heavy instrument. Who took her life so brutally has been the subject of much …
Murder of Mary Bean and Other Stories
Av The Kent State University Press
Häftad, 2007
291 kr
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When the winter ice melted in April 1850, residents of Saco, Maine, made a gruesome discovery: the body of a young girl submerged in a stream. Thanks to evidence left at the scene, a local physician was arrested and tried for the death of Mary Bean, the name given to the unidentified young girl; …
Adventuress
Murder, Blackmail, and Confidence Games in the Gilded Age
Av The Kent State University Press
Inbunden, 2010
368 kr
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This book tells the engaging tale of a nineteenth-century black widow. Intrigue, deception, bribery, poison, murder - all play a central role in the story of Minnie Walkup, a young woman from New Orleans who began her life of crime when she was only sixteen years old. Born in 1869 to Elizabeth and …
Though Murder Has No Tongue
The Lost Victim of Cleveland's Mad Butcher
Häftad, 2010
289 kr
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The unfortunate victim of a frightened city desperately in need of a scapegoat. Though Murder Has No Tongue tells the story of Frank Dolezal, the only man actually arrested and charged with the infamous "Torso Murders" in Cleveland, Ohio, during the late 1930s. Dolezal, a fifty-two-year-old Slav …
Born to Lose
Stanley B. Hoss and the Crime Spree That Gripped a Nation
Av Hollock
Häftad, 2011
407 kr
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INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER GOLD MEDAL WINNER 2012 IN TRUE CRIME FINALIST, FOREWORD BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDSA small-time hoodlum who became the most hunted man in AmericaStanley Barton Hoss was a burglar, thief, and local thug from the Pittsburgh area. In eight short months in 1969, however, he became a …
Guilt by Popular Demand
A True Story of Small-Town Injustice
Av Bill Osinski
Häftad, 2012
289 kr
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Murder and miscarriage of justice in a rural community The townsfolk of Logan, Ohio, a mined-out area of the Appalachian foothills, cheered as an innocent man was convicted and sent to death row. The occasion was the conviction of Dale N. Johnston. His trial ended nothing; the tragedies had just …
Hauptmann's Ladder
A Step-by-Step Analysis of the Lindbergh Kidnapping
Häftad, 2014
441 kr
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In 1936, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was executed for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr. Almost all of America believed Hauptmann guilty; only a few magazines and tabloids published articles questioning his conviction. In the ensuing decades, many books about the Lindbergh case have …
Killing of Julia Wallace
Häftad, 2017
289 kr
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The brutal murder of Julia Wallace in 1931 became one of Britain’s great unsolved murders. People began arguing about the case almost immediately and continue to do so to this day.Julia was the middle-aged wife of a mild-mannered Liverpool insurance agent, William Herbert Wallace. By all accounts …
Insanity Defense and the Mad Murderess of Shaker Heights
Examining the Trial of Mariann Colby
Häftad, 2018
229 kr
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They have no witnesses. They have no case. With this blunt observation, Mariann Colby—an attractive, church-going Shaker Heights, Ohio, mother and housewife—bet a defense psychiatrist that she would not be convicted of murder. A lack of witnesses was not the only problem that would confront the …
Belle of Bedford Avenue
The Sensational Brooks-Burns Murder in Turn-of-the-Century New York
Häftad, 2019
289 kr
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Affluenza leading to bad behavior among the youth of an earlier century—ultimately ending in murderAt the turn of the 20th century, many affluent Brooklyn teens and young adults were bucking the constraints of their immigrant parents and behaving badly: drinking, having sex, staying out all night, …
Six Capsules
The Gilded Age Murder of Helen Potts
Häftad, 2019
289 kr
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As Ted Bundy was to the 20th century, so Carlyle Harris was to the 19th. Harris was a charismatic, handsome young medical student with an insatiable appetite. His trail of debauched women ended with Helen Potts, a beautiful young woman of wealth and privilege who was determined to keep herself pure …
Woman Condemned
The Tragic Case of Anna Antonio
Häftad, 2019
289 kr
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A sensational murder, trial, and a young woman’s execution in Depression-era New YorkAt first glance, the 1932 Easter morning murder of Salvatore 'Sam' Antonio had all the trademarks of a gang-related murder. Shot five times, stabbed a dozen more, Antonio was left for dead. His body was rolled into …
Bigamy and Bloodshed
The Scandal of Emma Molloy and the Murder of Sarah Graham
Häftad, 2019
289 kr
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Emma Molloy ― temperance revivalist, prohibitionist, and accessory to murder.In the summer of 1885, ex-convict George Graham bigamously married Cora Lee, foster daughter of nationally known temperance revivalist Emma Molloy, and the three took up residence together on the Molloy farm near …
Beauty Defense
Femmes Fatales on Trial
Av Laura James
Häftad, 2020
289 kr
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Justice is blind, they say, but perhaps not to beauty. In supposedly dispassionate courts of law, attractive women have long avoided punishment, based largely on their looks, for cold-blooded crimes. The Beauty Defense: Femmes Fatales on Trial gathers the true stories of some of the most infamous …
Potato Masher Murder
Death at the Hands of a Jealous Husband
Häftad, 2020
289 kr
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Albin Ludwig was furious. He had caught his wife, Cecilia, with other men before; now, after secretly following Cecilia one evening in 1906, Albin was overcome with suspicion. Albin and Cecilia quarreled that night and again the next day. Prosecutors later claimed that the final quarrel ended when …
I Have Struck Mrs. Cochran with a Stake
Sleepwalking, Insanity, and the Trial of Abraham Prescott
Häftad, 2020
289 kr
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How the forgotten case of murder while sleepwalking changed history After creeping out of bed on a frigid January night in 1832, teenage farmhand Abraham Prescott took up an ax and thrashed his sleeping employers to the brink of death. He later explained that he'd attacked Sally and Chauncey …
Uncommon Case of Daniel Brown
How a White Police Officer Was Convicted of Killing a Black Citizen, Baltimore, 1875
Häftad, 2021
289 kr
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An extraordinary look at race and policing in late nineteenth-century BaltimoreIn 1875 an Irish-born Baltimore policeman, Patrick McDonald, entered the home of Daniel Brown, an African American laborer, and clubbed and shot Brown, who died within an hour of the attack. In similar cases at the time, …
Cold War Secrets
A Vanished Professor, a Suspected Killer, and Hoover's FBI
Häftad, 2021
289 kr
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Thomas Riha vanished on March 15, 1969, sparking a mystery that lives on 50 years later.A native of Prague, Czechoslovakia, Riha was a popular teacher at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a handsome man, with thick, graying hair and a wry smile. After his disappearance, the FBI and the CIA …
East River Ripper
The Mysterious 1891 Murder of Old Shakespeare
Häftad, 2021
289 kr
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Innocent or guilty, or a more nuanced truth, in this Ripper-style killingShortly after NYPD Chief of Detectives Thomas Byrnes publicly criticized the London police for failing to capture Jack the Ripper, he received a letter purportedly from Jack himself saying New York was his next target. Not …
Queen of the Con
From a Spiritualist to the Carnegie Imposter
Av Thomas Crowl
Häftad, 2021
289 kr
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The definitive account of audacious con woman Cassie Chadwick, the Carnegie Imposter.Queen of the Con tells the true story of Cassie Chadwick, a successful swindler and “one of the top 10 imposters of all time,” according to Time magazine. Born Betsy Bigley in 1857 in Canada, she first operated as …
Madness of John Terrell
Revenge and Insanity on Trial in the Heartland
Häftad, 2024
289 kr
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Cold-blooded murderer or loving father driven insane?In early 1900s Indiana, John Terrell was the wealthiest man in Wells County, thanks to oil discovered on his farm. But when his youngest daughter, Lucy, became pregnant and entered into a forced marriage to abusive Melvin Wolfe, Terrell's life …
