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61) The Vault
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This book , The Vault by Anthony Marini with Kenny Lee is an explosive account of the rise of one of the most successful and controversial clubs in New York City history , and the person responsible for making it all happen. It's not just a story about celebrities and their secret lives but goes deep into police corruption, political corruption, the evolution of the down town New York club scene and the mob involvement in it all!
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The United States is only about 5 percent of the world's population, but home to 25 per cent of global prisoners. The American criminal justice system presently is broken, and an example of justice run amok. The system has deteriorated to a point whereby innocent people are being imprisoned even with the lack of sufficient evidence. For the real criminals, punishments are often not commensurate with the crime. Consequently, the criminal justice system...
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What is it like to go to jail in the 21st Century? Convict Land: Undercover in America's Jails is an Orwellian tour of the world's most celebrated and controversial system by English journalist Alexander Reynolds. The United States is supposed to be the land of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness but 2.3 million Americans, approximately 1 in every 107 adults, are currently living in a state of captivity. America locks away more of its citizens...
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Overview of 'Title is Untitled' To look at things like we've never looked at before – we present a unique book of facts blended with fiction to spread more awareness in our society. Facts about various problems in the present urban and rural societies of India are presented wrapped in fiction, like case studies to elaborate them. Women of our country are often victims to most issues like rape, marital rape, prostitution, child marriage, child trafficking...
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There was more to wartime London than stiff upper lips and rousing choruses of 'Roll Out the Barrel'. Criminals hunted their prey without fear of reprisal. Many operated under the cover of darkness, emerging when the city sank into the oblivion of its nightly blackout. Others simply struck whenever opportunity presented itself. At a time when Londoners were pulling together in the face of terrible adversity, there were an increasing number of looters,...
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For nearly every moment of light in the Sunshine State, there is darkness. True Crime: Florida examines the shady side of the state, featuring the headline cases of theft, abduction, and murder that have received national and even international attention.
Included here are the stories of John Ashley and his gang of bank robbers and bootleggers, the slaying of the Duperrault family aboard the ketch Bluebelle, the kidnapping of heiress Barbara Jane...
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The Dividing of America is a true story taken from volumes of court transcripts, depositions, news articles, video news presentations, felony booking warrants, and voluminous personal notes that all became public documents with the fraudulent arrest of an Oklahoma contractor and businessman.
What began as nothing more than the bidding of a construction project led down a path of corruption, shady lawyers, corrupt public servants, and judges who hide...
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Set in a social backdrop of recovery from two world wars, Margaret Drinkall's Rotherham Murders concentrates on killings that took place in and around the town during the first fifty years of the twentieth century. Most of her cases have not been written about in recent years, but are now investigated and told by a modern crime historian. Read about the brutal death of a policeman, a sensational 'body in a trunk' murder which resulted in Scotland...
69) Pandora's Box
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In 1996 a neighbour spies three Asian men running out of a court in Glen Waverley. It looks like two chasing one. But when they head towards a nearby car with an open boot, and suddenly the boot closes and there are only two men standing there, the chase takes on a more sinister aspect. Young Steve Tragardh joined the police force when he was 18 and a half; he'd tried uni for a while, but it wasn't for him. He had come through the private school system...
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This is the complete 580-page FBI file on the kidnapping of the baby son of aviator Charles Lindbergh. Although the crime occurred in New Jersey, the FBI maintained its own records of the case. It was the first "Crime of the Century" in the U.S. Bruno Richard Hauptmann was eventually arrested for the crime and, in a trial which defined "media circus," was found guilty and exec,ted, but he never confessed to he crime. The last page of the FBI file...
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Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in and Around Durham spans four centuries, with over fifty terrible tales of man's inhumanity to man, which are related in the pages of this book. In the early centuries superstition and ignorance were often the means by which justice was meted out. If it was believed that a crime had taken place, a person could be tried, condemned and hanged by the side of the road on nothing more than the statement of a neighbor....
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Shattered, is a psychological thriller based on true facts. A chance introduction and poetry bring the protagonist and the antagonist together. A psychological game of deception, intimidation and terror takes place and reveals the horror of a diabolical mind at play. Desire, obsession and rejection accelerate into death threats. It is a spine-chilling story of being stalked and harassed relentlessly, day and night. Cat and mouse chases ensue on foot...
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Learn the chilling history of the Blue Light Rapist in this true crime story. From November 1995 to July 1997, the state of Arkansas experienced perhaps its first terrorist, a serial rapist. His modus operandi was to stop vehicles driven by lone females late at night, using a dash-mounted blue light to mimic police officers. He would then kidnap the victims at gunpoint and take them to remote locations where he raped them. Despite a dozen rapes and...
74) Officer Down
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2016 was a heartbreaking year for law enforcement agencies across the U.S., with 140 officers being killed in the line of duty. Their deaths, and the deaths of those who died so long ago, should never be forgotten. Officer Down, Vol. I, is a compilation of eighteen riveting stories of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty between 1850 and 1900.
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SNITCHING IS WHAT THE GOVERNMENT HAS PERPETUATED AS A MEANS TO SOLVE CRIMES AND ALLOW CRIMINALS TO ESCAPE SENTENCES THAT THEY MAY VERY WELL DESERVE. THIS BOOK IS ABOUT HOW THE STREET GAME HAS NEVER BEEN FAIR. THIS IS THE GUIDE TO HOW IT GOES DOWN. For years the government has afforded criminals the opportunity to race other criminals to the finish line of freedom. It's a game of who can get their attention first as a means to avoid doing long prison...
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This true story will take the reader on a scary ride through the trials and tribulations of a card cheater on the run.
Las Vegas is a gambling mecca that lures in tourists from all over the world, each trying to win money at their favorite casino game. The game of Blackjack or "21" is, played by more tourists than any other casino game.
78) Deputy Death
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Barty Bartlett writes as if he is talking directly to you. He recants the stories for the love of his work. He shares the gruesome events on how he became Deputy Death.
He is a truth teller, protector, skilled officer, devoted family man and a ghost whisperer.
Barty bravely shines his flashlight on fascinating police events and twisted traffic accidents.
You will be exposed to true tales that quirky people get themselves into. Many stories will...
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He Raped. . .
Altemio Sanchez was a modern-day Jekyll and Hyde--a family man who resided in Buffalo, New York, with a wife and two sons, worked nights as a machinist, and concealed a terrible secret. Once a year, after his shift, he'd make a side trip to a secluded spot where women would ride bikes and jog. He was called "The Bike Path Rapist"--until he crossed the line from rape to murder.
He Killed. . .
For fourteen years, the Bike Path Killer mercilessly...
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Members of the jury, have you agreed upon your verdicts?" The court clerk asked her rote question with a wavering, tell-me-don't-tell-me tone that seemed to capture perfectly the nervous, nerve-wracked mood among the more than three dozen men and women sitting in the Halifax Law Court's Courtroom 3-1 on the blustery afternoon of December 18, 1998. Everyone in the sterile, high-ceiling, red-bricked courtroom craned to look at the six women and four...
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