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The true story of Louisiana serial killer Ronald Dominique’s ten-year murder spree, the men he slayed, and the detectives who hunted him down. In 1997, the bodies of young African American men began turning up in the cane fields of the quiet suburbs of New Orleans. The victims—many of them transient street hustlers—had been brutally raped and strangled, but police had no leads on the killer’s identity. The murders continued, leaving southeast...
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Detective Varg volume 3
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2021
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"Perplexing, unfathomable, and perhaps unimportant, the cases that Malmo's Department of Sensitive Crimes take on will test them to their limits. Life--and crime--is not always as it seems for Ulf Varg and the other fearless detectives in Malmo's Department of Sensitive Crimes. There are always surprising new cases to take on, and the latest batch is no exception. And that's not to mention Ulf's struggle to contain his feelings for his colleague Anna...
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These short stories are actual true events, in which I was personally involved. They occurred between 1982 and 1995 while I was serving as a Police Officer, Detective in the Bomb and Arson Unit, Homicide Unit, the Burglary and Auto theft Units with KCPD. These incidents are taken from my memory of the events as they took place. They are not in any way, meant to hurt or cause discredit to anyone or any place described or resembled in these stories....
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My background is crowded with robberies, burglaries, and thefts too numerous to recall. All manner of crimes against property. Arrests, trials, acquittals, convictions, escapes. Penitentiaries! I see in the background four of them. County jails, workhouses, city prisons, Mounted Police barracks, dungeons, solitary confinement, bread and water, hanging up, brutal floggings, and the murderous straitjacket. I see hop joints, wine dumps, thieves' resorts,...
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From Karen Gravano, a star of the hit VH1 reality show Mob Wives, comes a revealing memoir of a mafia childhood, where love and family come hand-in-hand with murder and betrayal. Karen Gravano is the daughter of Sammy "the Bull" Gravano, once one of the mafia's most feared hit men. With nineteen confessed murders, the former Gambino Crime Family underboss-and John Gotti's right-hand man-is the highest ranking gangster ever to turn State's evidence...
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Joseph Di Prisco's latest memoir brings back to life the hustler, gambler, criminal, bookmaker, and confidential informer who was his father. On the street they called him Pope, and he made his bones in Brooklyn during the 50's and 60's. Di Prisco discovered by accident fifty-year-old transcripts of New York State Appellate Division trials, where his dad was the star witness against corrupt NYPD cops--cops with whom he collaborated. Suddenly, Pope's...
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When George Pitts faked insanity in a federal district court in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1960 to beat twelve felony counts, he was sent to the US Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri, under a lunacy commitment. He worked in the Education Department. Robert Stroud, the famous Birdman of Alcatraz, ran the library next door. They were friends, thus the title.
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As a kid, David used to always, look up to drug dealers, pimps, and players because he thought that they had everything-money, cars, and whores. Even though he wanted to be a lawyer, he wanted to live like them, but his mother was not having that kind of life for him and his big brother, Mike. She raised them like middle class even though they were poor. Growing up, David never saw drugs, pimps, or players. It was not until David turned eighteen that...
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The dramatic story of a young man who grew up in a very dangerous part of town. A place where crime was commonplace and where most of the young boys and girls would do time in the juvenile reform system and many growing up only to serve time in prison. His single-parent mother strove to move into another part of town, hoping to avoid seeing him grow up to be a criminal.
But even, on the other side of town, seeing the neighborhood pimps driving expensive...
90) The Wife I Won
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The Wife I Won is No. 10 in a self-published nonfiction series by hobo writer A No. 1. Contains stories, observations and illustrations of life on the road. The Author has carefully, avoided the least mention of anything that would be, unfit reading for ladies or children. First published circa 1920.
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EL SACAMANTECAS VITORIANO, EL HOMBRE LOBO DE ALLARIZ (GALICIA), LOS SACAMANTECAS ANDALUCES (GRANADA, MÁLAGA, LAS HURDES...), LA VAMPIRA DEL RAVAL (BARCELONA), EL SACAMANTECAS DE SAN SEBASTIÁN...
El Sacamantecas, un personaje a caballo entre la realidad y el mito, una figura mítica que comenzó con Manuel Blanco Romasanta en Galicia a mediados del siglo XIX (el famoso hombre lobo u "ome do unto"). Siguió con el caso de Vitoria y continuó con otros...
92) No Hard Feelings
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Back In The Hey Days Of The Source Magazine Mike McNeill Was A Recording Artist That Was Signed To Ray Benzino's Surrender Records. Mike Had One Foot In The Music Industry As A Part Of A Rap Group Calle The Wiseguys Doing Music With Elite Artist Such As Wyclef, Scarface, 32, An Spice 1 An A List Of Top Producers All While Having His Other Foot Deep Into The Drug Selling An Gang ViolenceOf The 90'S An Early 2000'S. As Wiseguys Reigned As The Biggest...
93) Carried
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Carried is a true crime story of a divorced mother's fight to save herself and her three children from a knife-wielding fifteen-year-old intruder in her home, and her battle in the courtroom to keep their attacker from terrorizing her family again. Carried is true and fully and completely describes a mother's worst nightmare and the many blessings that followed the horrible attack on April 18, 1996.
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17 is a biographical account of two years in the life, ages 16 and 17, of an Oklahoma boy starting out as a completely innocent youth and transforming into one of the wildest street running, vagabond traveling, drug using, crime committing, womanizing, crazy people imaginable. People who grew up in the 60s and 70s will recognize a lot of the activities and parts of life described, but few will have experienced them to the extent that the subject of...
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Eddie Trascher was a gentleman gangster, but he, never wanted to be part of the mob. For 50-years, from the pre-Castro Havana casinos to Los Angeles, Trascher stole from mob-owned casinos, scammed gangsters, and was one of the top bookies in the country. He capped his career as a confidential informant for Florida law enforcement and was the source for getting inside the Trafficante Mafia family. Balls is, written by Scott Dietche and Ken Sanz.
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Married to a Kingpin is about a young girl who met a man whom she falls in love with. She's been with him for almost two years. The first week she was with him, she realized he was a kingpin. He bought her and her family everything. They drove Jaguars and a new Blazer truck. He bought her new clothes, jewelry, and furs. He even took her off the ho stroll. What she didn't know was that he was married, and his wife.
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Summary of A Mother's Reckoning by Sue Klebold | Includes Analysis Preview: In her memoir A Mother's Reckoning, Sue Klebold struggles to come to terms with her son Dylan's role in the infamous Columbine High School shooting. Writing 16 years after the shooting, she reflects on when and where things went wrong for Dylan-and how she and her husband, who were loving parents, could have missed the warning signs. Klebold's story begins with the voicemail...
100) Shattered Windows
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I was robbed of $125,000,000 and I can prove it.
This is a true-life story of how I have gone from heiress to homeless.
My father created an empire, he started out in his two-car garage in 1953. My parents were married for 30 years but their marriage ended in divorce. After the divorce, my four siblings and I helped our father's business grow tremendously. We were consistently rated at the top in quality and prompt delivery. We had everything going...
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