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The Kent State University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In 1936, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was executed for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr. Almost all of America believed Hauptmann guilty; only a few magazines and tabloids published articles questioning his conviction. In the ensuing decades, many books about the Lindbergh case have been published. Some have declared Hauptmann the victim of a police conspiracy and frame-up, and one posited that Lindbergh actually killed his own son and...
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Publisher
Kent State University Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Crime has formed the basis of countless plots in music theater and opera. Several famous composers were murder victims or believed to be murdered, and one of the greatest Renaissance composers slaughtered his wife and her lover. In Musical Mysteries, renowned true crime historian Albert Borowitz turns his attention to the long and complex history of music and crime. The book is divided into two parts. The first addresses three aspects of musical crime:...
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Series
Publisher
Kent State University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In 1902, 20-year-old Walter Brooks, the scion of an affluent Brooklyn family, was murdered in a seedy Manhattan hotel. The subsequent trial of Florence Burns, the young woman accused of the murder, made front-page news across the country and shocked New York society. This true crime tale sheds new light on this now-forgotten crime.
Author
Series
Publisher
The Kent State University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Justice is blind, they say, but perhaps not to beauty. In supposedly dispassionate courts of law, attractive women have long avoided punishment, based largely on their looks, for cold-blooded crimes. The Beauty Defense: Femmes Fatales on Trial gathers the true stories of some of the most infamous femmes fatales in criminal history, collected by attorney and true crime historian Laura James. With cases from 1850 to 1997, these 32 examples span more...
Author
Series
Publisher
The Kent State University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In 1875, an Irish-born Baltimore policeman, Patrick McDonald, entered the home of Daniel Brown, an African American laborer, and clubbed and shot Brown, who died within an hour of the attack. In similar cases at the time, authorities routinely exonerated Maryland law enforcement officers who killed African Americans, usually without serious inquiries into the underlying facts. But in this case, Baltimore's white community chose a different path....
Author
Series
Publisher
The Kent State University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Discord and domestic violence end in murder Albin Ludwig was furious. He had caught his wife, Cecilia, with other men before; now, after secretly following Cecilia one evening in 1906, Albin was overcome with suspicion. Albin and Cecilia quarreled that night and again the next day. Prosecutors later claimed that the final quarrel ended when Albin knocked Cecilia unconscious with a wooden potato masher, doused her with a flammable liquid, lit her...
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Publisher
The Kent State University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Queen of the Con tells the true story of Cassie Chadwick, a successful swindler and 'one of the top 10 imposters of all time,' according to Time Magazine. Born Elizabeth Bigley in 1857 in Canada, she first operated as Madame Devere, a European clairvoyant, and in 1890 was arrested for defrauding a Toledo bank of $20,000. In the mid-1890s, while continuing her work as a medium under the name Madame La Rose in Cleveland, Cassie met and married a widowed...
10) I have struck Mrs. Cochran with a stake: sleepwalking, insanity, and the trial of Abraham Prescott
Author
Series
Publisher
The Kent State University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"After creeping out of bed on a frigid January night in 1832, teenage farmhand Abraham Prescott took up an ax and thrashed his sleeping employers to the brink of death. He later explained that he'd attacked Sally and Chauncey Cochran in his sleep. The Cochrans eventually recovered but-to the astonishment of their neighbors-kept Prescott on, somehow accepting his strange story. This decision would come back to haunt them. While picking strawberries...
11) Wunderland
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English
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"East Village, 1989 Things had never been easy between Ava Fisher and her estranged mother Ilse. Too many questions hovered between them: Who was Ava's father? Where had Ilse been during the war? Why had she left her only child in a German orphanage during the war's final months? But now Ilse's ashes have arrived from Germany, and with them, a trove of unsent letters addressed to someone else unknown to Ava: Renate Bauer, a childhood friend. As her...
Publisher
Macmillan Reference USA
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
The encyclopedia of crime & justice not only discusses many different kinds of crime--from perjury to terrorism--but also looks at law enforcement, legal procedures and penalties and the social causes and wide-ranging impact of crimes on society. The articles reflect issues dominating the news and entertainment media--topics that are frequently discussed or assigned in both high school and college curricula. What is perjury? How do copyright laws...
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Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A thrilling account of the creation of the so-called lie detector, exploring shocking murders and dramatic trials to uncover the true nature of the polygraph"--
Summer, 1922. Henry Wilkens burst through the doors of the emergency room covered in his wife's blood. Was he a grieving husband, or a ruthless killer who had conspired with bandits to have her murdered? San Francisco police turned to a new machine that had just been invented in Berkeley....
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"Winner of the 2012 Outstanding Publication Award, International Association for the Study of Organized Crime" Federico Varese is professor of criminology at the University of Oxford. He is the author of The Russian Mafia and editor of Organized Crime.
"A compelling read and an impeccable work of reference."-John le Carré
Organized crime is spreading like a global virus as mobs take advantage of open borders to establish local franchises at will....
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Publisher
Regnery History
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
It is two years before the Civil War, and Congressman Daniel Sickles and his lovely wife Teresa are popular fixtures in Washington, D.C. society. Because Congressman Sickles is frequently out of town, he trusts his friend, U.S. Attorney Philip Barton Key--son of Francis Scott Key--to escort the beautiful Mrs. Sickles to parties in his absence. Then one day an anonymous note sets into motion a tragic course of events that culminates in a shocking murder...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Can crime make our world safer? Crimes are the worst of humanity's wrongs but, oddly, they sometimes "trigger" improvement in our lives. Crimes That Changed Our World explores some of the most important trigger cases of the past century, revealing much about how change comes to our modern world.
The exact nature of the crime-outrage-reform dynamic can take many forms, and Paul and Sarah Robinson explore those differences in the cases they present....
17) Mafia empire
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
A comprehensive investigation into the history of greed, treachery, and violence of organized crime in America. The 3-part documentary traces the origins of the five major crime families from their beginnings in Italy through today.
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Publisher
Union Square & Co
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A fascinating pop-history dive into the stories behind the incredibly impactful crimes--both infamous and little-known--that have shaped the legal system as we know it. When asked why true crime is so in vogue, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Amber Hunt always has the same answer: it's no hotter than it's always been. Crimes and trials have captured American consciousness since the Salem Witch Trials in the...
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