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Los años 70 y 80 fueron épocas doradas para los criminales, la investigación policial y la
Criminología no lograban alcanzar la mente del asesino, la falta de huellas y ADN hacían cada vez más impune el obrar delictual.
La segunda guerra mundial, los cambios culturales y movimientos sociales crearon un
escenario ideal para la comisión de delitos, sumando y aportando que los héroes y sobrevivientes de la guerra retomaban sus vidas y hogares...
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Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths around the Tees-True Crime BookFoul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths Around the Tees, contains over sixty terrible and gruesome tales, that are set in the locality including; Barnard Castle, Darlington, Middlesbrough, Hartlepool and many of the surrounding villages.
In the nineteenth-century, Victorian industrialists built their empires in the beautiful scenery and charming villages of the Tees area, using the river for...
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When Darla took off from Spokane, Washington, she thought she would be traveling around to see her country and to research information about cold cases. But to her surprise, after the first six months of traveling, everything changed, and she began crossing paths with people who told her some very interesting stories about their lives. Her faith was tested more than once, and she felt God guide her into meeting people that she would try and help as...
44) Cop Stories
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While working as a Violent Crimes detective for twenty-seven years, my investigations were the result of rapes, robberies, or suspicious deaths. I'm also an instrument-rated pilot and flew prisoner transports, narcotics surveillance, or traveled throughout the western half of the United States on Boise's most violent cases. Following retirement from Boise Police, I moved to Alaska and became an investigator for the attorney general's office. Numerous...
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There is no such thing as the perfect crime. Yet within these pages are thirteen twentieth-century murders whose perpetrators have - so far - escaped justice. Some may still be alive, cold cases awaiting new forensic leads but others have taken their chilling secrets to the grave.
Read about the strange theatrical vagrant found brutally murdered in a brick works. Also about the unfortunate girl strangled to death in a derelict building at Christmas;...
46) Soraya
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Soraya was a thirteen-year-old runaway from her foster home when she met KC, a human trafficker who took her under his wings and pretended to love her, only to force her into prostitution. Soraya endured much abuse in the hands of her clients and KC, who would severely beat her every time she tried to leave that life. After five years of torturous life, when Soraya turned eighteen, she finally left KC. That is when he tracked her down and shot her...
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Criminal cases give us a fascinating, often harrowing insight into crime and the criminal mind, into policing methods and the justice system. They also tell us much about social conditions and attitudes in the past. And such cases make absorbing reading. David Cox's graphic account of 16 notorious cases in Shrewsbury and around Shropshire is a particularly strong and revealing study of this kind. Using newspaper reports, census returns and court records,...
48) Bra over Jumper
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Michael, 47 years of age, is living on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, in a beautiful part of Australia. However, his life is not always cheerful. After fifteen years of marriage, his wife Tina wants to split up and stay in their house. Fortunately, he finds a small rental property and keeps the company of his beloved dog. But he becomes increasingly worried about his mother in Brisbane, since she suffers from Alzheimer's disease. One day she almost...
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This is the first EmovieBook to ever be published with the patented and innovative method that integrates reading with watching. This EmovieBook contains over 250 links that enables the reader to watch videos as they read. "Pseudocide Did Michael Jackson Fake His Death To Save His Life?" is the story of the death of Michael Jackson. Was Michael Jackson forced to save his life by faking his death is the focus of this EmovieBook. This EmovieBook takes...
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UNFIT is a true story of corruption within the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that depicts the various struggles within the organization, complete with a well-developed assassination plot, disregard for the lives of any citizen in the traveling public and apparent payoffs from those who seek approval.
The FAA uses a standard game plan. First it attempts to buy-off anyone who might become a whistleblower. If this doesn't work, it will stoop...
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Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Nottingham' is part of the new established series by Wharncliffe Books. Covering the period 1830 —1950, the book examines murder and suspicious deaths in and around the city of Nottingham and what impact they had on the people of the city.
Murder, mystery and suspicious deaths are often considered to be the province of the fiction writer. However, each story contained within 'Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths...
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El 8 de junio de 2019, los bomberos encontraron el cuerpo calcinado de un hombre en su casa, en Vilanova i la Geltrú. Unas horas más tarde, su hijo Ismael, de manera espontánea, confesó ante los Mossos d'Esquadra ser el autor material del asesinato: «No he visto otra solución y he tenido que matar a mi padre. Le he clavado un cuchillo por la espalda».
Un caso que parecía resuelto, el mismo día de los hechos, da un giro inesperado para el...
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Brian Wilkins finds his secretary dead in his office shower and decides not to call the police to report the death. He becomes a man on the run and steals the identity of a dead man. Though he successfully evades the law for a while, things crash to a halt when Pat Stewart, a private investigator, figures it all out. In trying to save himself, Brian lands in prison and in a mental hospital, losing everything he most valuedfamily, career, and reputation....
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...like a punch in the mouth...like a kick in the ribs...sometimes, there's no quarter given. If you really want to succeed in business, if you really want to surpass your rivals, you need the energy, intelligence, organizational skills to do so...Eddie Blundell had all of these – along with that extra magic ingredient...MUSCLE! It was muscle that served him well during his stretches inside and it was muscle that helped him build his London-based...
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In the days before the internet and social media, corrupt authorities in a small Southern town were determined to make an arrest for a capital murder... any arrest. This miscarriage of justice propelled a young man to find the courage to mount a desperate search for the one thing that would save his life-the truth. Follow Kerry Elmore as he pursues the truth. To fail would mean death.
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Welcome to the World's Toughest Cops. This is a no holds barred look at the people who risk their lives to serve and protect, in the front line of a war against drugs, gangs, gun crime, violence and smuggling. Vinnie takes the reader into the jungles of Colombia - where Sub-Lieutenant John Orejuela of the Special Ops Commando Unit leads a secret mission to take out a terrorist camp - and goes on patrol in the Californian suburb of Compton, following...
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This novel is based upon the worst act of vandalism that has ever occurred aboard a United States Navy warship – by its own crew. The storyline details the emotional climate aboard the ship, the events leading up to this act of vandalism, and the steps taken by the ship's officers and the Naval Investigative Service (now known as the naval Criminal Investigative Service or NCIS) to investigate and try to identify the perpetrators. The major subplot...
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Sheffield born actor and author Geoffrey Howse delves into his files covering over 200 years of Sheffield's criminality. In Murder & Mayhem in Sheffield he takes a look at some of the events that took place during a period of enormous growth within Sheffield; including a failed plot to murder some of Sheffield's officials, take control of the Town Hall and set fire to the homes of prominent citizens; the series of incidents known as the Sheffield...
59) Shattered Dreams
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Shattered Dreams is, based on the life of Alfred "Bones" Barton, who at 12-years-old prompted lawmakers to enact a law based on his criminal behavior.
The Bartons Law was, created to charge juveniles young as 11-years-old for violent crimes.
As a young teen Bones was, faced with many obstacles growing up in Bromley-Heath housing project. Will Bones influential family keep him out of harm’s way or will he, become a product of his environment?
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The strangeness of Columbine, an interpretation develops further the methods and perspective of the website Lear's Shadow, that was active from 2000 to 2006 in exploring Columbine's "iconic profile." There is no repetition of Lear's Shadow's website content. Rather The strangeness of Columbine follows threads introduced by some of Columbine's anomalies that have not been examined previously, including a few that surfaced in the July 6, 2006 release...
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