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Murder is forever volume 2
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As seen on the Discovery ID TV series Murder is Forever, these two true-crime thrillers follow a lawyer struggling to stop a killer and a detective angling to solve a double homicide.
Home Sweet Murder (with Andrew Bourelle): Lawyer Leo Fisher and his wife Sue are a sixty-one-year-old couple enjoying a quiet Sunday dinner at home. Until a man in a suit rings their front door claiming to be an SEC agent. By the end of...
Home Sweet Murder (with Andrew Bourelle): Lawyer Leo Fisher and his wife Sue are a sixty-one-year-old couple enjoying a quiet Sunday dinner at home. Until a man in a suit rings their front door claiming to be an SEC agent. By the end of...
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Murder is forever volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
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Murder Interrupted - rich, cheating financier Frank Howard wants his wife dead, and he's willing to pay Billie Earl Johnson whatever it takes, to the tune of $750,000. When his bullet misses the mark, Billie Earl and Frank will turn on each other in a fight for their lives. Mother of all Murders - Dee Dee Blancharde is a local celebrity. Television reports praise her as a single mother who tirelessly cares for her wheelchair-bound, chronically ill...
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Three decades ago, Jackie Schut was considered one of the most prolific baby sellers in the country. She traveled all over the US, murdered women who had just borne babies, and then stole their infants. She is still imprisoned in the South. A lovely, vibrant woman in San Antonio was found dead in a vacant lot. Her mother, a popular local realtor, never stopped looking for her killer. Just months ago, a truly unlikely suspect was found many states...
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Ann Rule's crime files volume 10
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Former Marine sergeant and judo instructor Roland Pitre Jr. claimed it was all an elaborate plan to win back his wife's love. It wasn't supposed to end with her dead body in the trunk of a car. Nearly twenty years later, he acknowledged that he had hired someone to kill his estranged wife in 1988, though his alleged excuse for why a monstrous "mistake" happened is as shocking and convoluted as the crime itself.
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Ann Rule's crime files volume 9
Pub. Date
c2004
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xix, 396 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 18 cm.
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An absorbing portrayal of true-crime lovers who kill and the men and women who are their victims.
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A wealthy kidnapped man fights for his life and a real estate deal turns deadly in these two true crime thrillers that inspired Discovery's Murder is Forever TV series.
Murder Beyond the Grave(with Andrew Bourelle): Stephen Small has it all: a Ferrari, fancy house, loving wife, and three boys. But the only thing he needs right now is enough air to breathe. Kidnapped, buried in a box, and held for ransom, Stephen has...
Murder Beyond the Grave(with Andrew Bourelle): Stephen Small has it all: a Ferrari, fancy house, loving wife, and three boys. But the only thing he needs right now is enough air to breathe. Kidnapped, buried in a box, and held for ransom, Stephen has...
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Ann Rule's crime files volume 6
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©1999
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xvii, 382 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm.
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An account of Silas Cool, a gunman who shot the driver of a Seattle bus in transit, causing it to plunge off a bridge into an apartment building, is accompanied by nine other sensational true crime cases that explore the alarming nature of the murderous psyche.
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"On January 26, 1996, Dave Schultz, Olympic gold-medal winner and wrestling golden boy, was shot three times by du Pont family heir John E. du Pont at the famed Foxcatcher Farms estate in Pennsylvania. Following the murder there was a tense standoff when du Pont barricaded himself in his home for two days before he was finally captured. How did such a horrifying senseless murder happen?...Mark Schultz takes us through his remarkable wresting career...
11) Searching for Savanna: The Murder of One Native American Woman and the Violence Against the Many
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2023.
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A gripping and illuminating investigation "that is far overdue" (Rachel Louise Snyder, author of No Visible Bruises) into the disappearance of Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind when she was eight months pregnant, highlighting the shocking epidemic of violence against Native American women in America and the societal ramifications of government inaction.
In the summer of 2017, twenty-two-year-old Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind vanished. A week...
In the summer of 2017, twenty-two-year-old Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind vanished. A week...
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Ann Rule's crime files volume 8
Pub. Date
2023.
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xiii, 478 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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"Dr. Anthony Pignataro was a cosmetic surgeon and a famed medical researcher whose flashy red Lamborghini and flamboyant lifestyle in western New York State suggested a highly successful career. But appearances can be deceiving--and, for the doctor's wife, very nearly deadly. Now, the motivations of the classic sociopath are plumbed with chilling accuracy by Ann Rule. Along with other shocking true cases, this worldwide headline-making case will...
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Ann Rule's crime files volume 13
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[2013].
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1 audio media player (approximately 13 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
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Examines several cases of the spouse, lover, family member, or helpful stranger who is totally trusted but whose lethally violent nature, though masterfully disguised, can and will kill.
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"The gripping true story of the origins of the Mafia in America--and the brilliant Italian-born detective who gave his life to stop it. Beginning in the summer of 1903, an insidious crime wave stirred New York City, and then the entire country, into panic. The children of Italian immigrants were kidnapped and dozens of innocent victims gunned down. Bombs tore apart tenement buildings. Judges, senators, Rockefellers, and society matrons were threatened...
15) Foxcatcher
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[2015]
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1 videodisc (approximately 134 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Based on true events, the dark and fascinating story of the unlikely and ultimately tragic relationship between an eccentric multi-millionaire and two champion wrestlers.
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Ann Rule's crime files volume 11
Pub. Date
c2006
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xvi, 411 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.
17) The murder room: the heirs of Sherlock Holmes gather to solve the world's most perplexing cold cases
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c2010
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xvi, 439 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Documents the efforts of the Vidocq Society, an elite trio of gifted investigators, to solve such notorious cold cases as those of JonBenet Ramsey, the Butcher of Cleveland, and Jack the Ripper, and details their work with the world's top forensic specialists.
19) Mortal danger
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Ann Rule's crime files volume 13
Pub. Date
2008
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x, 465 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
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Examines several cases of the spouse, lover, family member, or helpful stranger who is totally trusted but whose lethally violent nature, though masterfully disguised, can and will kill.
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Murder is forever volume 3
Pub. Date
2018.
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293 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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Two true-crime tales relate the stories of a wealthy man buried alive with only forty-eight hours of air, and a grisly shooting high in the Sierra Nevada mountains involving the locals and rich developers.
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