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Every adopted child has their own story of how they came to be with their forever families. In modern times, children are usually told as soon as their young minds can understand the concept that their parents adopted them-maybe from a couple who just didn't have enough money, or maybe from a lady who was all alone and didn't have what she needed to raise a child. Although Carter can't speak for all the adopted kids of his generation, he didn't learn...
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It's a case reminiscent of the explosive story of Susan Smith, convicted in the drownings of her two young sons in South Carolina. But in "The Unforgiven", three young children are in the back seat of a car driven by Amanda Hamm's boyfriend as it slips into an Illinois lake. Amanda and her boyfriend survive. Her three children do not.
The question of whether it was a horrible accident or a murderous plot divided family and friends and traumatized...
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A mother and her three young children are found hacked to death in their beds. The apparent weapons, an ax and butcher knife, are found nearby. A month later the husband and father, who was away on a business trip when the bodies were found, is accused of the killings. Police believe he methodically murdered his wife and children before he left. But why? A successful businessman and devoted member of a fundamentalist religious group, David Hendricks...
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Edwin Bartlett died on the last night of 1885 from a massive ingestion of the poisonous solvent chloroform.
Legally the case was resolved with nobody convicted. While filed away and gathering dust, it remains a mystery, and writers are drawn back to the story like mystified moths to a flame.
It was scandalous at the time because of the persons involved, and there was no way that conservative judges and counsels could have fathomed what really transpired....
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On the beautiful island of Jersey, the wealthy Newall family were the epitome of success; Roderick, the eldest son, was a handsome Royal Green Jackets lieutenant, his younger brother, Mark, was a financier. On the night of 10 October 1987 Nicholas and Elizabeth Newall went out to dinner with their sons to celebrate her 48th birthday. It was the last time that the parents were seen alive. Sometime during that evening, they were bludgeoned to death...
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At 9:02 a.m. April 19, 1995, in what was at that time largest terrorist attack ever perpetrated on American soil, the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was destroyed by the explosion of a 7,000-pound truck bomb. One- hundred and sixty eight people, including nineteen children, were killed by the blast, and more than five hundred others were injured. Timothy J. McVeigh, an anti-government activitist, was tried, convicted of the bombing,...
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When the farmer Lorel Wardlow died from an acute case of quinsy after a long illness, the country doctor who took care of him signed off on the death certificate without an autopsy or postmortem. But the little town of Kyle was soon buzzing with gossip about his widow, Belle Wardlow, and her association with the farmhand Harry Cowdry, who helped take care of his boss during his final days. Before the dust settled on the case, there would be accusations...
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In 1939 an eighteen year old girl left her godparents' home in a small town in western Pennsylvania. At some point along the three mile walk to her home she somehow ended up in a stranger's car. She was soon found severely injured lying under another car along a country road several miles from her intended destination. Less than twelve hours later she died in the local hospital. Although the perpetrator was captured a little over a week later, the...
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Travis Victor Alexander was a good looking, charismatic, entrepreneur and motivational speaker. He was in the prime of his life enjoying good health, financial success, world travel and a bustling social life. But, things weren't always so good for him. His life began in dismal circumstances, and tragically, it ended worse than it began. He was born to drug addicted parents and suffered many of the worst privations of life. His family was poor and...
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Teina Pora, a 17-year-old car thief, was wrongly convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Susan Burdett, who had been beaten to death with the softball bat she kept next to her bed for her own protection Tim McKinnel, en ex-cop turned private investigator, discovered the long forgotten case 18 years later, saw an injustice had been done and set out to win Teina's freedom. Reaching from the mean streets of South Auckland to the highest...
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Early one winter morning in 1903, Sam Keelor of Hamilton, Ohio, awoke with a cooper's hammer in his hand dripping blood and his pretty young wife Bertha dead in their marriage bed next to him. When getting rid of the body proved more work than he bargained for, he decided the only noble thing to do was to take his own life, so with a sharp razor, he slit his own throat. Before he could bleed out, however, his family discovered the bloody, bloody scene,...
12) Deadly in Love
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When you don't even know the person you love, who can you trust? Power couple Jason and Tonya seem to have everything – a successful company, an enviable relationship, looks to kill for – but not everything is as it appears on the tranquil surface of their lives. As their world rapidly unravels, they unleash a hurricane of the darkest passions lurking in the human soul, which destroys much in its path as it roars across the pages of this gripping...
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A Madness Shared by Two, is not only the true untold story about the lives of Sabina and Ursula Eriksson, alongside the murder of Glenn Hollinshead, based on a critique re-examination of the BBC's Madness in the Fast Lane documentary that had 7 million viewers with a conservative estimate of around a further 15 million people having since watched this film via the internet and on websites such as YouTube,glued to their TV screens watching the twin...
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This book contains; 9 chapters, addendum, epilogue, and glossary of major participants involved in the case. Individual chapters include; a psycholinguistic analysis of the ransom letter, the placing of various criminal types in scenarios to determine their viability as suspects, comparing other kidnapping cases to the Ramsey case, psychological profiles of various criminal types, placing family members in possible scenarios, and the flawed police...
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Forty years after covering his only homicide case as a rookie newspaper reporter—the unsolved and long-cold hometown murder of a vibrant and popular eighteen-year-old in Upstate New York—the now semi-retired university professor turns his time, energy and skills to researching and writing Tess McCarthy's life's final chapter. For readers of true crime non-fiction.
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War-hero, huckster, showman and womanizer extraordinaire, Frenchman André Surmain has defied the critics and pulled off something really quite remarkable - forging a reputation for the Lutèce as the finest restaurant not just in New York but in the whole of the United States. "What do you think this is", a New York hot-dog vendor once memorably remarked to a customer who dared to question the quality of his wares, "the Lutèce?" The contrast with...
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Marlowe Evans is excited about attending a meeting of the secret Anglesey Philosophical Society at the Harlech Inn. At the meeting the conversation takes on what appears to Marlowe to be an unrelated undercurrent about whether present-day justice is sufficient or whether others must step in and provide real justice in some cases. The hostess bursts into the private meeting room and through her tears manages to choke out that there has been some sort...
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Late one fall night in 1929, the barber Charlie King opened the gas lines of his home and left his four sons and wife sleeping in the deadly fumes, then jumped on a freight train heading north. In spite of a heroic effort by police and neighbors alike, Ethel King and three of her sons died in the tragedy, and it was a year before the Charlie King would show up in the world. Although he initially denied he was "The Gas Fume Fugitive," this novella...
19) The Canes
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Hellman, a man with high morals, will kill without hesitation or remorse to protect his friends and the homeless from a gang of ex-cons that use canes as their weapon of choice in Las Vegas, Nevada. By chance, he becomes independently wealthy and makes use of his wealth to help the poor and the homeless regain their dignity and find a place in society while always ready to fight the evil ex-cons that he calls "The Canes".
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"Oh my God, we found a dead body." The man's voice, calling from a mountain trail in Cleveland National Forest, was frantic. "Please hurry. I'm so scared. It's a little kid." When police arrived, they were met by a horrific sight. The girl was naked and had been positioned in such a way that detectives believed the murderer had seen his kill as some kind of a trophy. As if he were showing off his "work". The little kid was Samantha Runnion, a five-year-old...
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