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Helter skelter: the true story of the Manson murders
Par Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry. 1974
Guilty until proven innocent
Par Donald S Connery. 1977
Account of the case of eighteen-year-old Peter Reilly who was persuaded by the police to confess to the murder of…
his mother. After a successful appeal and national attention, all charges against him were finally dropped. Some strong language. 1977.Guarding the secrets: Palestinian terrorism and a father's murder of his too-American daughter
Par Ellen Francis Harris. 1995
True story of Palestinian Zein Isa, who moves his family to St. Louis but forbids his daughters to act American.…
When daughter Tina defies him by dating a young black man and working part-time, Isa and his wife stab her to death. The FBI, investigating Isa's terrorist activities, gets the murder on tape. Strong language and violence. 1995.For the sake of example: capital courts-martial 1914-1920
Par Anthony Babington. 1983
From the outbreak of the First World War to the end of March 1920, official Army records state that 346…
officers and men were executed following court martials in the field. A sense of uneasiness has arisen regarding the circumstances surrounding these deaths. The author has made use of evidence which has recently come to light, and shows that many men were treated with injustice and inhumanity. 1983.Describes the byzantine history of New York's five Mafia families - Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese and Lucchese. Also illuminates the…
Mafia's origin in 19th-century Sicily and its transition to this country. Throughout his survey of the mob's evolution, Raab renders the mobsters as three-dimensional figures, without glossing over their vicious crimes and their impact on honest citizens. 2005.Black mass: Whitey Bulger, the FBI, and a devil's deal
Par Dick Lehr, Gerard O'Neill. 2013
Investigative journalists expose FBI corruption. In 1975 Boston FBI agent John Connolly began using Irish mobster Jim "Whitey" Bulger as…
an informant. Though Bulger committed outrageous crimes, the state police and federal drug agents were never able to get a conviction, and authorities became suspicious of a fix. 2013.Finding Chandra: a true Washington murder mystery
Par Sari Horwitz, Scott Higham. 2010
The 2001 disappearance of Washington, D.C., intern Chandra Levy, and the discovery of her remains a year later in a…
remote area of D.C.'s Rock Creek Park, made headlines, especially when her affair with Congressman Gary Condit became known. Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters Higham and Horwitz expand on their investigation that in 2008 identified Levy's likely killer, delivering a meticulous study of the case and the media circus surrounding it. Descriptions of sex, explicit descriptions of violence. 2010.Escape into espionage: the true story of a French patriot in World War Two
Par Roland Rieul. 1987
Beginning in 1940, a French sergeant attempted to escape from stalags and work camps. When he finally succeeded in escaping…
the Germans, he volunteered to spy for the British. 1987. Uniform title: Soldier into spyFinal payoff: the true price of convicting Clifford Robert Olson
Par Ian Mulgrew. 1990
In 1981, Clifford Olson negotiated a deal with the RCMP that would give his wife $10,000 for each victim that…
Olson located. This book examines the deal, the precedent it set and its impact on the victims' families. 1990.Marron's account of the 1991 murder of Nina de Villiers by Jonathan Yeo examines the history of both victim and…
killer. Yeo, a known violent offender, was on parole at the time he murdered de Villiers and another woman, Karen Marquis. Marron also discusses the coroner's inquest which followed, and the aftermath of the tragedy for the families of the victims. c1993.FairTax, the truth: answering the critics
Par Neal Boortz, John Linder, Rob Woodall. 2008
In 2005, radio show host Boortz and Georgia congressman Linder wrote "The FairTax Book", presenting a plan designed to eliminate…
federal taxes and the IRS and jump-start the U.S. economy. This follow-up offers new insights, and debunks the negative myths and misrepresentations of their idea. The plan enables Americans to keep all the money in their paychecks; eliminates the fraud, hassle, and waste of the current system; and revolutionizes the way America pays for itself. 2008.Don't look behind you: and other true cases (Ann Rule's crime series. #15.)
Par Ann Rule. 2011
Four true-crime cases. In "North to Alaska" a divorced father loses contact with his children. In "Too Late for the…
Fair" the grown son of a long-missing woman suspects she was murdered by his father. Violence, strong language, and some explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2011.Deadly encounters: true crime stories of Alberta
Par Barbara Smith. 1993
Eight tales of rum-running, shoot-outs, hostages, and murder which have occurred in Alberta. Ranging from the tragic to the bizarre,…
some of the cases remain unsolved to this day. Some descriptions of violence. 1993.Deadly silence: Canadian mafia murders
Par Peter Edwards, Antonio Nicaso. 1993
The authors use the details of thirteen Mafia murders in Canada to trace the development of the Mafia in this…
country. Each murder is examined in the context of the Mafia ethos. Also includes the code of behaviour for the Calabrian Mafia. Strong language and descriptions of violence. 1993.Dark ambition: the shocking crime of Dellen Millard
Par Ann Brocklehurst. 2016
Tim Bosma of Hamilton, Ontario, was a successful businessman and happily married young father until he put his truck up…
for sale online, went for a test drive with two strangers, and never returned. His disappearance and the murder investigation that followed played out on social media and in the headlines over several weeks in spring 2013. His heartbroken family made futile pleas for his return. Weeks later, two men were arrested for Bosma's murder, a petty criminal named Mark Smich, and Dellen Millard, the heir of an aviation millionaire. Disturbingly, there appeared to be no motive for the gruesome killing of Bosma, whose charred remains were found on Millard's farm. It seemed to be a cold-blooded "thrill kill" carried out by what some would deem a psychopath, and his sidekick. But there was even more to the grisly story. The investigation of Bosma's death would eventually lead to the discovery of two other murders: the pair would be charged with the murder of Laura Babcock, Millard's former girlfriend, who disappeared in 2012, and Millard alone would be charged with the murder of his own father, Wayne Millard. 2016.Desire Street: a true story of death and deliverance in New Orleans
Par Jed Horne. 2005
Analyzes the five trials of Curtis Kyles for the 1984 murder of sixty-year-old New Orleans housewife Delores Dye. Discusses political…
and legal manoeuvring in the case, reversal by the U.S. Supreme Court, subsequent retrials, and the unsolved status of the crime. 2005.Death in the family
Par John Chipman. 2017
In the mid-'90s, the Ontario Coroner's office decided that death investigation teams needed to "think dirty." They wanted coroners, pathologists…
and police to be more suspicious--to "assume that all deaths are homicides until satisfied that they are not." They were particularly concerned about pediatric deaths, which historically had been exceedingly difficult to investigate. Among those charged to "think dirty" was Dr. Charles Smith, Ontario's top pediatric forensic pathologist at the time. But with virtually no training in forensics, Dr. Smith was ill prepared for his work. Instead of basing his judgments on forensic evidence found during autopsies, he allowed himself to be swayed by circumstantial evidence. The defendants were often single mothers--some on welfare, some struggling with substance abuse. Dr. Smith made dangerous assumptions, and the results were catastrophic. 2017.Investigative journalist Yves Lavigne offers new information on the current state of the illegal drug trade in North America. From…
Toronto's Chinatown to L.A.'s mean streets, Lavigne shows how street gangs will go to great lengths to grab their cut of the world's illicit drug market. Strong language, descriptions of violence, and explicit descriptions of sex. 1999.The ViCLAS (Violent Crime Linkage Analysis System) database was a first - an adaptation of the techniques used by FBI…
psychological profilers folded into a comprehensive, cross-referenced data bank to track serial predators. Within months of its introduction, ViCLAS contributed to successful outcomes in a number of cases, including the Bernardo/Homolka murders. It was largely the initiative of one man, RCMP Sergeant Ron MacKay. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language, descriptions of violence. 2002.Case files: 40 murders and mysteries solved by science
Par Larry Verstraete. 2011
A killer has been caught, convicted, and sentenced, the case closed, all in 114 days. No one suspected – least…
of all the boy on death row – that it would take almost 50 years for a tiny piece of scientific evidence to answer the question: was he really the murderer? 40 amazing stories of how scientists solve crimes, reveal identities, untangle evidence, and discover the truth. Grades 5-8. Winner of the 2013 Silver Birch Non-Fiction Honour Book Award. 2011.