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Vendor: Sean Sa Storm
Burning Bar: Confessions of a Reformed Professional Safecracker
Sean Sa Storm began a life of crime as a teen. He was ignored and belittled by a cruel father who let his sister drive the family car anytime she wanted. Not Sean. When he needed a way to pay for a car and...- $15.95
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How to Become a World-Class Investigator: An Insider's Guide to a Secretive Industry
The era of the lone wolf private eye is over. Julie CleggAuthor: Julie CleggISBN-10: 1544512090ISBN-13: 9781544512099Publisher: Lioncrest PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/16/2018Pages: 172Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.40d- $15.99
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Cyber Crime
Cyber Crime, Second Edition by Catherine D. Marcum, provides the reader with a thorough examination of the prominence of cybercrime in our society, as well as the criminal justice system experience with cybercrimes. Research from scholars in the academic field, as well as government...- $161.75
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In My Opinion, The Inquest Hearing of Lizzie Andrew Borden: Volume 1
In the year 1892 on the fourth day of August, an infamous crime was committed during the late morning hours in the city of Fall River. It was during a time when the cotton mill industry was thriving, and the population within the city...- $23.99
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How The *Bleep* Did You Find Me?: Real life lessons for protecting your privacy from one of America's leading skiptracers
You have unknowingly been helping private investigators and others track your every move. This is your "How NOT To" manual helping you take back your privacy. Judi Sheeks, a private investigator for over two decades, shares some of her real life cases and lets...- $10.99
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Historic Crimes & Justice in Portsmouth, New Hampshire
The first courts handled crimes like lying, idleness and card playing with punishments that ranged from fines to public whipping to death by hanging. Constables kept order until Portsmouth's first police officer took up the shield in 1800. But no force could keep all...- $31.99
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Bedlam on the West Virginia Rails: The Last Train Bandit Tells His True Tale
In 1949, two bandits from Youngstown, Ohio, boarded a B&O passenger train from Washington, D.C., to Detroit. In the West Virginia mountains near Martinsburg, Luman "Lu" Ramsdell and his gang stopped the train to rob and terrorize nearly 150 people on board. They pistol-whipped...- $31.99
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Escaping Death's Grip: An Autobiography from the Streets of Chiraq
When he was three years old, James Reed lost his family to a raging apartment fire. Reed, taken in by his loving, but unwell grandmother, turned to the streets of Englewood, on Chicago's South Side, for survival at age eight. There he found the...- $6.99
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Human Trafficking: An Organized Crime?
"Human trafficking" brings to mind gangsters forcing people, often women and girls, to engage in dangerous activities against their will, under threat of violence. However, human trafficking is not limited to the sex trade, and this picture is inadequate. It occurs in many different...- $45.00
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Art Theft and the Case of the Stolen Turners
In 1994 two important paintings by J.M.W. Turner--then valued at twenty-four million pounds--were stolen from a German public gallery while on loan from Tate Britain. In this vivid, personal account, Sandy Nairne who was then Director of Programmes at the Tate and became centrally...- $23.00
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Hands-On Incident Response and Digital Forensics
Incident response is the method by which organisations take steps to identify and recover from an information security incident, with as little impact as possible on business as usual. Digital forensics is what follows - a scientific investigation into the causes of an incident...- $45.99
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Bonnie & Clyde & Marie: A Sister's Perspective on the Notorious Barrow Gang
"I had known Marie since autumn, 1993, after both of us had worked on a documentary titled Remembering Bonnie and Clyde. She brought in the "death shirt" and other items to be photographed for this program. I watched her being interviewed and was impressed...- $24.95
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A Plea for Justice: The Timothy Cole Story
During the closing months of 1984 and extending through March 25, 1985, a number of violent rapes occurred around Texas Tech in Lubbock, Texas. As a result, females, both students and employees of the university, along with those who worked in the general area,...- $24.99
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From Miracle To Murder: Justice For Adam
From Miracle to Murder: Justice for Adam is about the murder of a little boy that took place in Phoenix, Arizona, 1983. It wasn't solved until 2002.Joyce loved her son. She treasured every minute of his short life. In spite of what the rest...- $15.49
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Death on the Gallows: The Encyclopedia of Legal Hangings in Texas
The most comprehensive work ever done on legal executions by hanging in Texas. Arranged by counties, this book documents 467 executions in Texas, many that have been forgotten through the years. Such as: Decapitated: Jack Fields--Wharton County, and Charles Myers-- Tarrant County were both...- $34.95
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Alabama Jus Tice
A subject was sentenced to life in prison for a bombing. The FBI "Mystery Memo" 1968 report of their 3 year and 3 month "intensive investigation" stated the investigation did not develop information on the subject as one of the perpetrators of the bombing....- $13.00
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Fraud Examination: Second Edition: Prevention, Detection, and Investigation
Fraud Examination is a practical reference for how to prevent, detect, and investigate fraud within a business. It can be used to identify the different types of fraud, as well as to construct an environment in which fraud is minimized. In addition, it describes...- $26.95
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Call Me Trooper: The Chronicles of a Michigan State Police Officer
This fusion of criminal investigation, traffic patrol, and undercover drug deals culminates in a potent concoction for anyone interested in police work. The author's career as a uniformed trooper and a narcotics officer have birthed these gripping narratives.For the cynical reader, dozens of supporting...- $14.99
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Dirty Old Man
Monsters do exist, though many parents can't see them. I knew one called Bernie. He groomed me and led me away from home. It's been all over the news lately. Teenagers running away from home. Groomed and snatched from the nest by predators, before...- $11.95
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Criminal Women 1850-1920: Researching the Lives of Britain's Female Offenders
Women are among the hardest individuals to trace through the historical record and this is especially true of female offenders who had a vested interest in not wanting to be found. That is why this thought-provoking and accessible handbook by Lucy Williams and Barry...- $24.95
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Abduction: The Tears of a Lonely Pathway: 5 True Stories of Contemporary Abduction in America
"Abduction: The Tears of a Lonely Pathway" is a collection of 5 true stories about contemporary abduction in America, all of which are guaranteed to penetrate your soul to the core of its very existence. In California a 24-year-old beauty queen, Mitrice Richardson, disappears...- $11.99
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Framing Dave Burgess: A True Story About Hells Angels, Sex And Justice
Dave Burgess, son of a career Marine and the nephew of the founders of the Mustang Ranch, managed the Mustang, built and owned the last remaining piece of the original brothel and became a Hells Angel when he was 40. Along the way he...- $16.95
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Crusading Iowa Journalist Verne Marshall: Exposing Graft and the 1936 Pulitzer Prize
On December 12, 1934, police raided a canning factory in Cedar Rapids, uncovering an illegal liquor and gambling set-up. Verne Marshall, tempestuous editor of the Cedar Rapids Gazette, sensed a bigger story and a wider network of corruption. His aggressive investigative reporting led to...- $21.99
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After Etan: The Missing Child Case That Held America Captive
In After Etan, author Lisa Cohen draws on hundreds of interviews and nearly twenty years of research--including access to the personal files of the Patz family--to reveal, for the first time, the entire dramatic tale of Etan's disappearance: "A masterful combination of deep human...- $14.99
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Vendor: Justin Hopson
Breaking the Blue Wall: One Man's War Against Police Corruption
During his first few days as a rookie New Jersey State Trooper, Justin Hopson witnessed an unlawful arrest made by his training officer. When he refused to testify in support the illegal arrest, his life veered into a dangerous journey of hazing and harassment....- $30.99
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Vendor: Justin Hopson
Breaking the Blue Wall: One Man's War Against Police Corruption
During his first few days as a rookie New Jersey State Trooper, Justin Hopson witnessed an unlawful arrest made by his training officer. When he refused to testify in support the illegal arrest, his life veered into a dangerous journey of hazing and harassment....- $13.99
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Vendor: John Patrick Jr. Roach
Conspiracy to Assassinate President John F. Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
This book is about grasping power and once achieving it, using that power to assassinate all challengers to the power gained. The Warren Commission Report concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone and was not part of a conspiracy, and went on to say...- $23.99
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Vendor: Billy Anders
Fifty-Seven Pieces of the Cloudcroft Puzzle ...Some Secrets of the Sacramento Mountains, and other New Mexico Law Enforcement Stories...
THE SACRAMENTO MOUNTAINS MAY HIDE YOU BUT THE COPS WILL FIND YOU ... Fifty-seven of 80 'Pieces of the Puzzle' stories written over nine years by retired Sgt Billy Anders of the Otero County NM Sheriff's Office for the Cloudcroft, New Mexico, Mountain Monthly...- $17.95
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Foxtrot, We're on the Way! ... San Antonio, Texas, Police Department Helicopter Stories, a Memoir...
True stories - real life drama - of Foxtrot, the San Antonio, Texas, Police Department aviation unit formed in the 1970s, today called Blue Eagle... Between 1975 and 1981, the author, a police officer and commercial pilot, helped pioneer the use of helicopters in...- $24.95
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Family Secrets & Lies: Before Bonnie and Clyde There Was Gramma and Glenn
FAMILY SECRETS & LIES By DJ Everette Local Author discovers murder, mystery and achievement in family tree Before Bonnie & Clyde in 1934-35, there was Gramma & Glenn during Prohibition from 1928-31. Gramma, also called "The Blonde Menace", the "Gungirl" and "Iron Irene, stole...- $27.99
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Vendor: Detective Elias Camacho (Ret ).
Auto Theft and the Mexican Border: (Two Thousand Miles of Unlawful Commerce)
Of the thousands of stolen vehicles each year, many are stolen along the Mexican and U.S. Border. Where do these vehicles go? Are these stolen vehicles ever found? What are the U.S. Law Enforcement personnel doing to prevent, locate and repatriate these stolen cars?...- $22.95
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Forensics by the Stars: Astrology Investigates
Detectives and CSI crews may work for weeks, months, sometimes years searching and piecing together forensic evidence to find the vital clues in solving a crime. With the use of planetary positions, houses, fixed stars and Arabic parts, forensic astrology gives investigators a head-start...- $23.95
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I, the People: How Marvin Zindler Busted the Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
"The Chicken Ranch was the one, great festering, frustrating sore on the face of law enforcement in Texas."The year was 1973. The State of Texas had just elected a new reform-minded governor and attorney general. And Houston's ABC-TV affiliate station at Channel 13 had...- $9.99
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Human Trafficking: Trade for Sex, Labor, and Organs
The last few decades have seen a huge increase in attention paid to the trafficking of human beings, often referred to as modern-day slavery. International and national policies and protocols have been developed and billions of dollars spent to combat the issue and protect...- $24.95
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Human Trafficking: A Comprehensive Exploration of Modern Day Slavery
Human Trafficking: A Comprehensive Exploration into Modern Day Slavery by Wendy Stickle, Shelby Hickman, and Christine White examines the legal, socio-cultural, historical, and political aspects of human trafficking and modern-day slavery. While most texts only cover sex trafficking and labor trafficking, this text takes...- $95.00
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Vendor: Tony Dellavalle
"We're The Police": Stories Of An NYPD Patrolman: Volume 1
A Police Officer's job can't be told in just one story That's not what being a street cop is like. Real street cops handle dozens of jobs in a single day and the jobs vary from one extreme to the other. "WE'RE THE POLICE"...- $12.99
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Floating Feet: Irregular dispatches from the Emerald City, with spies, assassins and Bin Laden's chauffeur
A memorable collection - expanded, revised and updated - from investigative journalist and columnist Rick Anderson. He solves the mystery of the Floating Feet, where suspected crime is measured by the nautical foot (the 15 extremities that washed up on Seattle and Vancouver beaches...- $6.99
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A Dented Badge: Tales From The Street
WILD AND REAL-LIFE STORIES ABOUT LAPD COPS A Dented Badge is a snapshot of LAPD during the 1970s and 80s. Between the pages you'll find over one-hundred and thirty stories about LAPD coppers and the extreme violence--as well as wild behavior--associated with high crime...- $13.58
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Dreadful Deeds and Awful Murders: Scotland Yard's First Detectives 1829-1878
Scotland Yard's early history in Victorian London has never previously been told. Dreadful Deeds and Awful Murders fills the gap, painting a vivid picture of the difficulties and considerable triumphs of London's first detectives. The author presents detailed and intriguing accounts from the detectives'...- $12.95
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Exploiting the Wilderness: An Analysis of Wildlife Crime
Illegally harvested ivory and endangered plants, mammals, reptiles, birds, and even insects are easily found for sale throughout East and Southern Africa. And this is just one part of the multi-billion-dollar illegal global trade in wildlife. Wildlife is an important and even vital asset...- $28.95
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Deadly Roses: The Twenty Year Curse
An autobiographical drama in which an innocent man paid his reputation and nearly his life for almost twenty years, Deadly Roses by Marvin Marable is a shocking tale of what happens when officials follow the wrong leads and guilty men have the means to...- $12.99
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Alphonse Bertillon's Instructions For Taking Descriptions For The Identification Of Criminals And Others, By Means Of Anthropometric Indications (1889
Alphonse Bertillon's Instructions For Taking Descriptions For The Identification Of Criminals And Others, By Means Of Anthropometric Indications (1889) is a book that provides detailed guidelines for collecting and recording physical measurements of individuals for the purpose of identification. The book is written by...- $22.95
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Cryptographic Crimes: The Use of Cryptography in Real and Fictional Crimes
This book examines the use of cryptography in both real and fictional crimes - a topic that is rarely broached. It discusses famous crimes, such as that of the Zodiac Killer, that revolve around cryptic messages and current uses of encryption that make solving...- $109.30
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Celeste: The Celeste Beard Johnson Story
After serving 17 years of a life sentence on Capital Murder, and Injury to an Elderly Person, Celeste Beard Johnson, breaks the silence in her newly released biography, Celeste: The Celeste Beard Johnson Story. Never before revealed information about their life and the high...- $18.99
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Anyone's Daughter: Amanda Todd, Bullying, Anonymous and the Dark Side of the Internet
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Following Orders: The Death of Vince Foster, Clinton White House Lawyer
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for Mischief done
A gruesome discovery and the arrest of a child ignite a crisis of confidence in post-Revolutionary New London, Connecticut. As the summer of 1786 unfolds, an investigation exposes the contradictions in the young nation's hard-won liberty, forcing the town to consider the fate of...- $12.00
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At the Door of Memory, Aubrey Rike and the Assassination of President Kennedy
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Fundraiser a: My Fight for Freedom and Justice
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Dynamite and Six-Shooter: The Story of Thomas E. "Black Jack" Ketchum
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True Crime Books
True crime books are a genre of literature that focuses on real-life criminal cases and explores the details of the crimes, investigations, trials, and sometimes the aftermath. These books are typically written by authors who meticulously research and analyze the events surrounding the crimes, often including interviews with the individuals involved, such as witnesses, law enforcement, and sometimes even the criminals themselves. True crime books cover a wide range of criminal activities, including murder, serial killings, kidnappings, heists, and other high-profile cases. They offer readers a unique perspective into the darker side of human behavior and often delve into the psychology of criminals, as well as the motivations behind their actions.
One of the main appeals of true crime books is the captivating storytelling that they offer. Readers can immerse themselves in the suspenseful narratives, unraveling the mystery alongside the investigators and experiencing the thrill of solving the crime. These books also provide a glimpse into the complex workings of the criminal justice system, shedding light on the challenges faced by law enforcement and the legal proceedings involved in bringing criminals to justice. True crime books have gained significant popularity over the years, with many becoming bestsellers and even serving as the basis for movies and television shows. They appeal to a wide range of readers, including true crime enthusiasts, mystery lovers, and those interested in psychology and criminology. These books not only entertain but also often spark discussions and debates around topics such as criminal profiling, forensic science, and the flaws within the justice system.
It is essential to note that true crime books can be intense and graphic, as they depict real-life crimes and the often-violent nature of these cases. They may not be suitable for all readers, particularly those sensitive to explicit or disturbing content. However, for those with an interest in understanding the darker aspects of human nature and the pursuit of justice, true crime books offer a compelling and thought-provoking reading experience.
Popular True Crime Books
True crime books have gained immense popularity over the years, gripping readers with their tales of mystery and intrigue. These books delve deep into real-life criminal cases, providing a gripping narrative that keeps readers on the edge of their seats. In this article, we will explore some of the most popular books in the true crime genre.
1. "In Cold Blood"
2. "Helter Skelter"
3. "The Stranger Beside Me"
4. "Mindhunter"
5. "The Devil in the White City"
These books represent just a fraction of the vast collection of true crime literature available. From notorious killers to unsolved mysteries, true crime books continue to captivate readers with their intense storytelling and exploration of the human psyche. Whether you're a long-time fan of the genre or just starting to dip your toes into true crime, these popular books provide an excellent starting point for your journey into the captivating world of real-life crime.
Known True Crime Book Authors
True crime books have become a popular genre for readers who are fascinated by the dark and haunting world of criminal investigations and the human psyche. Over the years, several authors have made significant contributions to this literary niche, capturing the attention of readers with their gripping storytelling and meticulous research. Let's explore some of the popular authors of true crime books:
1. Ann Rule
2. Truman Capote
3. Michelle McNamara
4. Erik Larson
5. Vincent Bugliosi
6. John Douglas
7. Robert Kolker
8. Harold Schechter
These authors, among many others, have contributed significantly to the popularity and evolution of true crime books. Through their meticulous research, captivating narratives, and dedication to uncovering the truth, they have captured the imaginations of readers and allowed them to explore the chilling world of real-life crime.
At White Rain Book House, we understand that true crime books serve a dual purpose. On one hand, they offer a chilling and gripping reading experience, pulling readers into the twisted minds of criminals and the intricate puzzles that surround their crimes. On the other hand, they provide an opportunity for readers to gain insight into the criminal justice system while questioning societal norms, ethics, and morality.