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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Bestselling true crime author John Glatt reconstructs the rise of the prestigious Murdaugh family and the shocking murder of its patriarch, Alex Murdaugh, that brought dark secrets to light, resulting in the much-publicized downfall of this Southern legal dynasty.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
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,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Presents a detailed account of the Aaron Hernandez case, drawing on investigative reports, first-person accounts, and previously untold stories to share insights into the youth, fame, imprisonment, and suicide of the NFL star-turned-convicted murderer.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
An anthropologist, working with forensic teams and victims’ families to investigate crimes against humanity in Latin America, comes to see how cutting-edge science also acts as a way of caring for the dead with symbolic force that can repair societies torn apart by violence.
Author
Language
English
Description
Taking readers into the heart of a legal battle over the future of America’s farmland, this riveting book stars a courageous group of locals in the coastal plain of North Carolina who, tired of polluting practices, brought suit against one of the world’s most powerful companies—and won.
Author
Publisher
Citadel Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Presents the rise and fall of Vito Genovese in this first comprehensive biography of the legendary mafioso--from his childhood in Naples, Italy, and the beginnings of his bullet-ridden criminal career on lower Manhattan's mean streets, through his self-exile in the mid-1930s back to his homeland where he ran a black market operation under the fascist regime of Benito Mussolini, and his return to New York where Genovese made a fortune as the head of...
10) The trauma cleaner: one woman's extraordinary life in the business of death, decay, and disaster
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
Describes the fascinating story of a woman who works as a trauma cleaner, detailing how she makes order out of chaos after being called to clean up crime scenes, murders, suicides and long-term property neglect and the equally fascinating story of her past.
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