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Publisher
Passion River Productions
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The idea is powerfully simple: engage the services of two actual legal teams to create a rigorous, legally based fictional—yet unscripted—trial that never happened for one of the nation’s most disturbing recent tragedies. The accused is Officer Daniel Pantaleo (only recently fired by New York City Police Commissioner James P. O’Neill), charged in the July 17, 2014 death of Eric Garner with reckless manslaughter and strangulation in the first...
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Language
English
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Description
A Jersey boy with a knack for numbers, a gift for making people trust him, and an all-consuming hunger to be king of the business world, Tom Giacomaro could convince anyone of anything.
As a teenager, Tom Giacomaro began working in the mob-laden New Jersey trucking industry. A charming, brash-talking salesman, he climbed the ranks, and let his lust for money and relationships with New York and Philadelphia crime families send him spiraling
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
This is the story of Baltimore police sergeant Wayne Jenkins and the Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF), a super group of dirty detectives who exploited some of America's greatest problems: guns, drugs, toxic masculinity, and hypersegregation. In the upside-down world of the GTTF, cops were robbers and drug dealers were the perfect victims, because no one believed them.
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
Traces the author's remarkable counterintuitive healing journey in the aftermath of trauma, relating how she survived a violent abduction only to endure her family's denial, an abandonment that compelled her to learn her imprisoned attacker's story.
46) Three Girls
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A brutally honest drama, which takes us behind the headlines and makes us ask fundamental questions about how our society operates. Rochdale hit the headlines when 11 men from the Pakistani community were convicted of grooming and raping underage girls. Many of the children asked for help and were ignored, in some cases arrested, whilst their abusers continued to groom and attack other victims. It took ten years to bring these men to justice and many...
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Series
Murder is forever volume 3
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
48) True Conviction
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
There's a new detective agency in Dallas, Texas, started by three exonerated men, with decades in prison served between them. TRUE CONVICTION is a character-driven documentary that follows these change-makers as they rebuild their lives and families, learn to investigate cases, and work to support one another. Winner of the Special Mention Award for Documentary Feature at the **Tribeca Film Festival.** Official Selection at the **Traverse City Film...
49) Barrenjoey Road
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Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
A gripping expose of a notorious cold case from 1978. When a popular local girl, 18-year-old Trudie Adams, disappeared one night while hitchhiking home from the surf club dance, her family, friends and community were devastated. As police began to investigate, the dark underbelly of the Sydney peninsula was exposed. Inspired by the Walkley Award-shortlisted #1 podcast and acclaimed ABC TV series, and containing information never previously revealed,...
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Language
English
Description
The Sackler family is one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations to the arts and sciences. The source of the family fortune was vague, however, until it emerged that the Sackler's were responsible for making and marketing Oxycontin, a blockbuster painkiller that was a catalyst for the opioid crisis.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
Traces the author's healing journey after a traumatizing sexual assault at infamous St. Paul's boarding school, describing how she helped police uncover proof of the school's institutionalized mandate of silence.
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Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
An expose of the Varsity Blues scandal reveals how an unscrupulous college counselor named Rick Singer preyed on the desperation of wealthy, upper class, insecure parents who sought to have their children admitted to elite colleges to maintain their own social status.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
An Edgar Award finalist for Best Fact Crime, this "impressive...open-eyed investigative inquiry wrapped within a cultural history of rural America" (The Wall Street Journal) shows legendary statistician and baseball writer Bill James applying his analytical acumen to crack an unsolved century-old mystery surrounding one of the deadliest serial killers in American history.
Between 1898 and 1912, families across the country were bludgeoned...
Between 1898 and 1912, families across the country were bludgeoned...
57) Polisse
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Français
Description
A gripping police drama based on true accounts from the Parisian child protection unit.
58) The Worst Crime
Publisher
Cinedigm
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Johnny Johnson was charged with the abduction and murder of 6-year-old Cassandra Williamson. During the capital murder trial, a juror described the killing as “the worst possible crime.” Does the worst possible crime warrant the worst possible punishment?
59) Persistence
Publisher
Royal Anthropological Institute
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Human bodies don’t simply disappear. They were kidnapped, buried, broken into pieces. But they are also searched for, recovered and if forensic experts achieve the unlikely, reconstructed as persons. These only return to their homes if they are identified as dead. An audiovisual journey through Mexico’s landscapes of disappearance, between mass graves and fragments, affected families and forensic anthropologists. In search for the human that remains,...
60) The last stone
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Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Documents the story of how five skilled detectives navigated the deceptions of a prisoner who hid his role in the 1975 disappearance of two young sisters.
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