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For readers of The Devil in the White City and The Massey Murder, the incredible story of Norman "Red" Ryan-"the Jesse James of Canada" and the "Kardashian" of the 1920s and '30s
Dubbed "the Jesse James of Canada," Norman "Red" Ryan was infamous in the 1920s and '30s until he was gunned down in an attempted robbery in Sarnia, Ontario. Ernest Hemingway wrote about Ryan's escape from Kingston Penitentiary for the Toronto Star, Morley Callaghan based...
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The Canadian legal system is broken, and perhaps no other lawyer epitomizes that more, than Ottawa lawyer John Summers.
What can be, said of a lawyer who takes money from an undisclosed source that exploits a disoriented elderly man with diabetes and chronic high blood pressure to embolden his abuse of his wife? This is a man so disoriented that he has run through stop signs, when driving, drifted between lanes on an urban expressway, and become...
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Adler Berriman "Barry" Seal had a brief, but spectacular, career as a cocaine smuggler-turned DEA informant. At the height of his career, he was under investigation by the DEA in Mena, Arkansas, and New Orleans, Louisiana, in addition to being under the watchful eye of the FBI. Despite the heat surrounding Seal, he made a drug run to Nicaragua in 1984, where he picked up 1,465 pounds of cocaine and took photos of Sandinista soldiers loading the drugs....
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The true crime story of a father's murder and a daughter's discovery of his Jekyll-and-Hyde double-life in pursuit of his killer.
Denise Wallace had spent years hiding deadly secrets about her enigmatic father, Wesley Wallace. Wes was a trusted security guard of the Ritz Carlton Palm Beach. He was supposed to protect those who found themselves in his care. But a closer look into his brutal murder revealed a split personality-one that his daughter...
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One day while Dorothy Stratten was on shift working at a Diary Queen, an older man walked into the store. Dorothy noted his outfit — a long fur coat, lizard skin boots, and gold and diamond jewelry — and she was captivated. She had never seen anyone like him before, and the two talked for a little bit before he drove off in a black sports car. Dorothy was sure she would never see the sophisticated stranger again. To her surprise, the man called...
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This true crime biography chronicles the misadventures of a lady outlaw who caused havoc across the late-19th century northern plains.
The American historian Frederick Jackson Turner famously declared the 1890s to be the close of the American Frontier. But, from 1887 to 1893, a young woman known as Nellie King was far from being tamed. King scandalized the residents of the Dakotas, Minnesota and northern Wisconsin with her fetching appearance, eccentric...
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In a twenty-year career marked by obsessive secrecy, brutality, and meticulous planning, Martin Cahill, a k a, The General, netted over 40 million pounds. His criminal record included assassination, kidnapping, bombings, and one of the world's largest art and gold heists! He was untouchable and fiercely loyal to his gang. Loved by the common man, his personal battle with the police made him a living legend. But, Martin Cahill not only refused to respect...
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100 crazy stories of America's dumbest criminals.
WARNING: The crimes you are about to read are true. The names have been changed . . . to protect the ignorant.
Here is the ultimate collection of the most incredibly stupid and painfully dumb attempts at crime ever brought together.
• The woman who invalidated her winning $5,000 lottery ticket by altering it to match the $20 prize number
• The accused vending-machine thief who paid his $400...
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He was the friendly, baby-faced, Canadian boy next door. He came from a loving, caring, and well-respected family. Blessed with good looks and back-woods charm, he was popular with his peers and he excelled in sports. A self-proclaimed "die hard" Calgary Flames fan, he played competitive junior hockey and competed on his school's snowboarding team. And, he enjoyed the typical simple pleasures of a boy growing up in the country: camping, hunting, and...
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"Heartbreaking and horrifying, Letters From a Serial Killer delves into the thinking of a monstrous murderer - but it also reveals the brave struggles of the women who faced him in order to find justice for his victims. It's a powerfully emotional true account that simply must be read." - Claire Booth, author of true crime book, The False Prophet
"An unflinching look at the mind of a notorious Northern California predator who shattered young lives...
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While vacationing in Paris 20 years ago, the lives of an American family collide with the fatal automobile crash of the world's most beloved Princess. INSPIRED BY A TRUE STORY.
Princess Diana was killed on August 31, 1997, in an automobile collision in Paris. Where were you, when you heard the news? Everybody has an answer, but nobody has an answer quite like Robin and Jack Firestone, the wife-and-husband team who have co-authored this remarkable...
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Susan Wright was a victim...who admitted to killing her husband Jeffrey in their Harris County home in 2003, by stabbing him to death in self-defense. She recounted a harrowing tale of domestic abuse--one that the raging mother of two finally brought to an end--her way.
But prosecutors had a story of their own...
Susan Wright was a seductress...who set the mood for kinky sex with her unsuspecting husband. After tying Jeffrey to the bed, Susan straddled...
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This book picks up where The Desperate Ones: Canada's Forgotten Outlaws left off. Here are more remarkable true stories about Canadian crimes and criminals - most of them tales that have been buried for years. The stories begin in colonial Newfoundland, with robbery and murder committed by the notorious Power Gang. As readers travel across the country and through time, they will meet the last two men to be hanged in Prince Edward Island, smugglers...
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Was Lee a callous murderer, or innocent as he maintained? At the end of the First World War, Alexander Newland Lee was accused of poisoning his wife and three children.
Born at World's End, Lee was a destitute labourer who severely injured his hand in a farm accident. Recovering at The Willows Hospital in the Barossa Valley, he fell in love with nurse Dolly Scholz, an attractive young woman of Prussian-German descent. The setting was post World War...
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This book contains the combined volumes of my previous offerings on the subject: Could it be True: Urban Legends and Spooky Urban Legends & the Stories Behind Them. To spice things up a bit, three eerie new tales have been added to the mix. Included in these pages are accounts of killer clowns. a demonic presence that terrorized Great Britain in the 19th century, monstrous reptiles rumored to inhabit the New York City sewer system, brain-eating insects,...
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A partir de un vendaval de casos de corrupción conocidos desde la segunda década del presente siglo, Chile dejó de ser considerado un ejemplo de probidad y transparencia en la región, y se vio navegando en aguas turbias. El país modelo ya no se diferenciaba de sus vecinos del barrio, pues acá —como allá— campeaba la corrupción política, empresarial y militar. De eso, precisamente, trata este libro de perfiles. Del clientelismo y el acomodo...
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In the middle-classed neighborhood of Muswell Hill, underneath a spectacular residence located at 23 Cranley Gardens, a gruesome discovery was about to be unearthed. While working on drainage pipes of the house at that location, a plumber discovered several bones and a flesh-like substance covering the inside of the pipes.
The pipes led to the top floor apartment of the residence. It was, rented to Dennis Nilsen, a 37-year old, quiet, soft-spoken...
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As the place where prisoners, male and female, awaited trial, execution or transportation Newgate was Britain’s most feared gaol for over 700 years. It probably best known today from the novels of Charles Dickens including Barnaby Rudge and Great Expectations.
But there is much is more to Newgate than nineteenth century notoriety. In the seventeenth century it saw the exploits of legendary escaper and thief Jack Sheppard. Author Daniel Defoe who...
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Brooke was willing to do anything to keep her family together, even if it meant selling herself online. That's why she hooked up with a john on Craigslist. That's what killed her family.
Her boyfriend Charles and their unborn baby, Audi Lynn, meant everything to Brooke. She was the kind of person who talked friends out of committing suicide. Brooke stood by them when no one else seemed to care. She was also willing to do whatever Charles wanted...
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This is the culmination of years of research into the lives of Scots who were guilty of dastardly deeds after leaving Scotland for America – in some cases they literally got away with murder. These emigrants were rogues, con artists, charlatans and reprobates of the worst order and their crimes are laid out in detail. For each character the author relates their early lives in Scotland, family backgrounds and why they left to make a fresh start in...
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