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1) The First 48
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A&E®
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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The First 48 follows the nation’s top police departments during the critical first 48 hours of murder investigations.
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"In 2020, four women found themselves at a crossroads: Each of them had transitioned from full-time jobs to full-time parenting, and each was pushing against the new boundaries of her life as the pandemic looms. At a fundraiser for their kids' school, they discover they all share a passion for true crime that crystalizes around a mysterious double homicide that took place a decade earlier. A married couple vanished overnight from their home. Their...
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"The powerful Murdaugh dynasty had dominated rural South Carolina for generations. No one dared to cross them. When Mandy and her reporting partner Liz Farrell looked closer at a fatal boat crash involving the storied family's teenage son Paul, they began to uncover a web of mysteries surrounding the deaths of the Murdaughs' long-time housekeeper and a young man found slain years earlier on a backcountry road. Just as their investigations were unfolding,...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"From the detective who found The Golden State Killer, a memoir of investigating America's toughest cold cases and the rewards--and toll--of a life solving crime. People always ask how I am able to detach from the horrors of my work. Part of it is an innate capacity to compartmentalize; the rest is experience and exposure, and I've had plenty of both. But I had always taken pride in the fact that I can keep my feelings locked up to get the job done....
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Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
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An investigation of the overlooked contributions of Martha “Marty” Goddard, who pioneered the rape kit and advocated for the rights of sexual assault survivors in the 1970s, while also confronting the troubling history of forensics in America and reflecting on her personal experiences with injustice.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Stéphane Bréitwieser is the most prolific art thief of all time. He pulled off more than 200 heists, often in crowded museums in broad daylight. His girlfriend served as his accomplice. His collection was worth an estimated $2 billion. He never sold a piece, displaying his stolen art in his attic bedroom. He felt like a king. Until everything came to a shocking end. In this spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius, Michael Finkel gives...
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Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Delves into the sensationalized true story of Barbara Graham, a neglected woman wrongfully portrayed as a femme fatale during a media frenzy surrounding a 1953 robbery-murder case, exposing the sexism, misinformation, and critical evidence overlooked by the prosecution that shaped her tragic narrative.
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St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Recounts the criminal activities of Eli Stutzman, detailing his strict upbringing in an Amish community, his wife's suspicious death, and the spree of sex, sadomasochism, and drug use with his young son that culminated in murder.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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On October 22, 1989, in the small town of St. Joseph, Minnesota, eleven-year-old Jacob Wetterling was kidnapped at gunpoint. Twenty-seven years later, on September 3, 2016, Danny Heinrich led authorities to the boy's remains. What lies between is the riveting story of the search for Jacob Wetterling, told by his mother, Patty. With her trademark candor and down-to-earth honesty, she details the investigation as it unfolds, discusses her family's struggles,...
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Universally acclaimed, rapturously reviewed, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography, and an instant New York Times bestseller, Chanel Miller's breathtaking memoir "gives readers the privilege of knowing her not just as Emily Doe, but as Chanel Miller the writer, the artist, the survivor, the fighter." (The Wrap).
"I opened Know My Name with the intention to bear witness to the story of a survivor....
"I opened Know My Name with the intention to bear witness to the story of a survivor....
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Follows journalist Jillian Lauren’s journey to uncover the confessions and motivations of serial killer Samuel Little, who killed approximately 90 women over six decades, while balancing the gruesome details of his murders and giving voice to the lives of his victims.
18) Trail of the lost: the relentless search to bring home the missing hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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When three young men vanish from the Pacific Crest Trail, a former park ranger launches an investigation with an eclectic team of amateurs who are determined to solve cases by land and by screen and find their hardships bearing strange fruits—ones that lead them to places and people they never saw coming.
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"An account of the unsolved murder of two women in Shenandoah National Park, by a journalist with unprecedented access to all key elements of the case, and a story that reveals the challenges of wilderness forensics and the failures of our justice system"-- Provided by publisher.
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