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In 1982, Tony West and Avery Brock made a visit to notorious Corpsewood Manor under the pretense of a celebration. They brutally murdered their hosts. Dr. Charles Scudder and companion Joey Odom built the "castle in the woods" in the Trion forest after Scudder left his position as professor at Loyola. He brought with him twelve thousand doses of LSD. Rumors of drug use and Satanism swirled around the two men. Scudder even claimed to have summoned a demon to protect the estate. The murders set the stage for a trial vibrant with local lore.

The eighteenth-century hanging of a schoolteacher for concealing the birth of a child out of wedlock has appeared in local legend over the last few centuries, but the full account of Ruth's story has never been told. Drawing on over two years of investigative research, author Carolyn Marvin brings to light the dramatic details of Ruth's life and the cruel injustice of colonial Portsmouth's moral code. As Marvin uncovers the real flesh-and-blood woman who suffered the ultimate punishment, her listeners come to understand Ruth as an individual and a woman of her time.

The modern American casino resort was born on a lonely stretch of road that, within a decade, would become known as the Las Vegas Strip. This was a place where America could cut loose, enjoying pleasures denied at home. As visitors flocked to Las Vegas, casinos became a business and then an industry. This book shares stories about how Las Vegas became—and stayed—America’s gambling capital, focusing on the casinos that made it famous and the hustlers, gangsters, number-crunchers, and dreamers who made them.

On November 22, 1963, the author of Behind the Scenes was a young Dallas Times Herald reporter who sprinted from his newspaper desk to Dealey Plaza minutes after shots were fired at President John F. Kennedy. Eyewitnesses he found at Dealey Plaza included Abraham Zapruder, who insisted from the first moments that the president could not have survived the serious wounds he had seen so clearly through his camera viewfinder.

Всем, кто так или иначе интересуется историей Китая известно понятие хунхуз! У многих при этом слове возникает представление о кровожадном разбойнике, жестоком грабителе, воре, вероломном обманщике, человеке-звере, чуждом всякого понятия о чести. У нас не существовало такого общественного явления, которое было бы похоже на китайское «хунхузничество», поэтому нет и соответствующего слова, которое выразило бы более или менее верно это явление.

The disappearance of fabulously rich Chicago candy heiress Helen Brach and the suspicious deaths of a string of champion racehorses are linked in a celebrated scandal that has reverberated through every level of the glamorous enclaves of thoroughbred horse breeding. When widowed heiress Helen Brach suddenly disappeared on the morning of February 17, 1977, after a visit to the Mayo Clinic, she left behind a lavender Rolls-Royce, Cadillacs in red, pink, and coral, an eighteen-room mansion, and a fortune now estimated at $75 million.

Illuminating and captivating, New York Times bestselling author of Tinseltown and Bogart offers the first definitive account of the Black Dahlia murder—the most famous unsolved true crime case in American history—which humanizes the victim and situates the notorious case within an anxious...

The gripping story of the Ruby Ridge siege, showing how the historic standoff between federal agents and a white-separatist family set the stage for the conspiracy-laced politics of the Trump era. “Vivid, frightening, and fascinating…This book blew me away and opened my eyes.”—Walter...

Ventuno morti, un'unica guerra: quella, tra opposte ideologie, che per quasi quindici anni sconvolse l'Italia. Cominciando da Genova 1970, Ugo Venturini: «Il primo passo verso gli anni di piombo. Così, quasi per caso». Per finire a Roma 1983, Paolo Di Nella, il «fascista grunge», che chiude con un sigillo di sangue quell'epoca. In mezzo, il rogo di Primavalle, destinato a bruciare per decenni; il «western metropolitano» per le strade di Roma in cui rimane ucciso il greco Mikis Mantakas; l'escalation di tensione nella Milano del 1975 che porta all'omicidio di Segio Ramelli; e molti altri.

Dieser ‚Koffermord' an einem Pariser Gerichtsvollzieher konnte mithilfe intensiver Zeugenbefragungen aufgeklärt werden. Er ging aber auch wegen der Leistungen der beteiligten Gerichtsmediziner und Detektive in die Geschichte der Kriminalistik ein.

Bei diesem mysteriösen Mordfall aus dem Jahr 1859 wurde eine Leiche in einem verschlossenen Koffer in einem Lager in einem Güterbahnhof im polnischen Rzeszow entdeckt, nachdem dieser einen bestialischen Gestank verströmte. Der Koffer war in Wien auf die Reise geschickt worden. Die Ermittlungen überführen schließlich den Täter, einen Buchhalter, der den Mord an seinem Arbeitgeber begangen hatte.

That Day in Dallas: Lee Harvey Oswald Did Not Kill JFK is best described as a prosecution by Robert K. Tanenbaum of those corrupt, unscrupulous government and unelected agency officials, who from inception with predetermined outcomes, deceitfully engaged in insecure, phony pretense probes regarding the assassination in Dealey Plaza. Those responsible are prosecuted while those who speak truth to power are exonerated.

È il 29 maggio 1985: Mario ha otto anni e ha giocato tutto il pomeriggio nel campetto vicino casa, con le prime scarpe coi tacchetti di ferro. Sono usate e più piccole di un numero, ma lo hanno fatto sentire grande e importante, pronto per guardare in tv la sua Juventus contendere al Liverpool la Coppa dei Campioni nella finale al vecchio stadio Heysel di Bruxelles. Mario, ancora sporco di terra, sente le strade di Martina Franca svuotarsi e l'emozione crescere. Non può sapere che all'Heysel si è appena consumata una delle più gravi tragedie della storia del calcio.

Muchas personas pasan años en la cárcel sin haber cometido ningún crimen. Esta injusticia, que sirve de premisa a tantas novelas, se hace real en este libro en el que John Grisham ha decidido contar diez desgarradores casos de inocentes que fueron obligados a sacrificar amigos, familias, parejas y décadas de sus vidas en prisión mientras los culpables seguían libres.

On a sultry August morning in 1970, the battered body of a young woman was hoisted from a dry well just outside Hogansville, Georgia. Author and investigator Clay Bryant was there, witnessing the macabre scene. Then fifteen, Bryant was tagging along with his father, Buddy Bryant, Hogansville chief of police. The victim, Gwendolyn Moore, had been in a violent marriage. That was no secret. But her husband had connections to a political machine that held sway over the Troup County Sheriff's Office overseeing the case. To the dismay and bafflement of many, no charges were brought.

Nuova edizione aggiornata. Ci sono incubi che si travestono da sogni e quando poi ti accorgi dell'inganno è troppo tardi. E non puoi farci niente. Il 29 maggio 1985, allo stadio Heysel di Bruxelles, è un pomeriggio di luce e bandiere che sembra scandire alla perfezione il conto alla rovescia prima della finale di Coppa dei Campioni tra Juventus e Liverpool, la partita delle partite. Emilio ha diciotto anni e ce l'ha fatta: è lì, con il biglietto per entrare allo stadio, insieme all'amico di una vita, Giampiero.

A Jacket Off the Gorge peels back the layers of the criminal mind, revealing a fascinating look at one man's struggles within himself and with others. Jon's story raises questions about incarceration versus rehabilitation, lack of mental health treatment for offenders, and abuses by those we entrust to uphold the law.

A much-loved mother, teacher and friend steps on a plane for an overseas adventure and is never seen again. When Marion Barter disappeared in 1997, police initially dismissed it as the actions of a divorced mother abandoning her family. In this book, the creators of the addictive global hit...

A Daily Mail Book of the Week Prolific armed robber. Close ally of Joey Pyle. Friend and fellow inmate of the Kray twins. Last man to stand trial with a Kray brother. First prisoner in the notorious Belmarsh Unit … Welcome to Ronnie Field's world. From his abusive childhood, his inevitable...

Piacenza, 2019. Il maggiore dei carabinieri, Rocco Papaleo, riceve e trasmette al comando dei vigili urbani e non ai suoi superiori un'informazione di cui è venuto a conoscenza e che ha dell'incredibile: un carabiniere in servizio presso la caserma Levante, la seconda per importanza della città, è accusato di "condotte gravi e illecite". Le indagini della Procura di Piacenza scoprono cose incredibili, commesse non da uno ma da 7 carabinieri che popolano quella caserma: soprusi, pestaggi, sopraffazioni, festini privati, arresti illegali e persino spaccio di stupefacenti.