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Two Lake County Major Crimes Task Force Officers entered the room. They introduced themselves and then the first thing they asked each of us was the most shocking question we could ever imagine."DO YOU BELIEVE YOUR MOTHER IS CAPABLE OF MURDER?"In just a short time we all realized that the answer was irrelevant. The Task Force had already decided that our mom, Marni Yang, a hard-working single mother of three, was their target and they would do whatever it took to make her appear guilty, but first, they had to turn us against our mother."You better start telling us what we want to hear!" screamed the officer at teenager Andrew Yang. "One of you is going down, it's either going to be you or your mother! Your mother doesn't love you! No mother would put their kid in this position. So start talking, or you will go to prison for the rest of your life.""I'm not going to admit to something I didn't do!" Andrew protested. "I also kept insisting that my mom was just as innocent as me. She was home with me the morning this murder took place," but that was not what the police wanted to hear."It took the police seventeen months to pinned this murder on my mother," says Emily Yang "And they did it by dividing all of us and destroying our family.""I was the closest one to my mother," Brandon Yang states "I saw how the harassment, wore my mother down. We were a family under siege. The police never gave us a moment to recover from one attack before they launched another attack on us."Deceived into believing that her son would be put in prison for the rest of his life, Marni Yang confessed to a murder she didn't commit. She was subsequently convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Most people would be surprised to learn that false confessions are the leading cause of wrongful convictions."My Mom Marni" is a shocking tale of injustice in America. This true story is compelling, gripping and heart-breaking. In the end, you will be challenged to wrestle with the question: could this happen to me? Yes, it could because none of us are immune to abusive and coercive interrogation techniques, false confessions, and wrongful convictions."My Mom Marni" is yet another wakeup call to the American public about the horrors of the justice "system" which miscarries far more often than it should. This begs the question: "WHY?" The answer, which three underage children and their loving mother learned the hard way, is: Lacking the proper investigative talent to solve a crime, junk science, and subterfuge are used to concoct a case against a scapegoat.

No one ever fully recovers from the death of a child. Marie-Rose Fox wanted to be someone who was happy - not hiding from the world, or bitter and angry. She knew that forgiveness was the way to peace, but how could she ever forgive her daughter's murderer?Hidden Thorns is the heart-wrenching but ultimately uplifting account of a moither's journey after the murder of her daughter- how she found both peace and forgiveness.."Hidden Thorns is an encouraging and remarkable story."

Before Michael Connelly became a novelist, he was a crime reporter, covering the detectives who worked the homicide beat. In these vivid, hard-hitting pieces, Connelly leads the reader past the yellow police tape as he follows the investigators, the victims, their families and friends--and of, course, the killers--to tell the real stories of murder and its aftermath.

Polly Nichols, Annie Chapman, Liz Stride, Cate Eddowes, Mary Kelly...they were the victims that fed the legacy of the greatest killer of all time...Jack the Ripper. Jack the Ripper Illustrated is an examination of the most infamous serial killer of all time. Included are looks at the official victims, suspects, Whitechapel, and more, including some official photographs and newspaper articles of the time period. This short excursion provides a concise yet comprehensive survey and a perfect introduction to the complexities of the serial killer who has fascinated criminologists and mystery buffs for over a century. Artist Mark Bloodworth adds a number of drawn pages, conveying a dark and sinister look to his art as each of the victims is portrayed in their final moments with Jack. The script by Gary Reed, known for his work in bringing historical and literary works to graphic novel formats.

With Foreword by Zac Stuart-Pontier, producer of CrimetownFor Bobby Walason, the turning point in his life began when he was thrown out of his house at age twelve. It was also the best moment in his short life. Forced to survive on his own, with no friends or family to turn to, his determination drives him without the benefit of a moral compass. Finding shelter in the basement of a Providence, Rhode Island inner city housing project, sleeping in an abandoned cardboard box, he tries to stay hidden from the world. Finding solace in the Olneyville Boys Club, he learns to box, discovers a physical strength beyond his age, and hones an ability to fight. His ability to absorb punishment, forged under the fists of his brutal father, earns him a reputation for toughness. A toughness which built a powerful street reputation, enhanced in prison, drawing the attention of organized crime. This the story of the horrific life of a 12-year-old boy, enduring abuse no child should ever face, the lure of organized crime, descent into the brutal and violent world of a feared mob enforcer, and the power of resilience. Bobby Walason unmasks the false patina of Organized Crime, finding a way to leave the life; alive, without spending life in prison, and without disappearing into the invisibility of the witness protection program. Turning from a life of brutality to the world of business, Bobby builds a successful life as an entrepreneur. This story casts a light onto the ebb and flow of the dark side of American society; a look at the forces that play havoc with the lives that go adrift on the streets of all our cities. And how one man found a way out against staggering odds.

The following is a small collection of true and sometimes tragic historical events from 1850 to 1950. The events include crimes, murders, and mysteries that happened in and around Waverley in Victoria, Australia between 1850 and 1950. The authors have researched the events in an attempt to understand the background of how the events occurred - and why. The stories help to paint a picture of how the area looked during the era, and how the people lived

Voice of the Anchorage Times columnist Tom Brennan, author of the best-selling Murder at 40 Below, retells the most dramatic and exciting stories from the confidential files of Alaska''s police detectives who investigate murder, mayhem, crimes of passion and greed, and plenty of criminal stupidity throughout the northern state.

On May 17, 2017, Robert Swan Mueller III was appointed by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein as special counsel overseeing an investigation into allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and related matters. Mueller submitted his report to Attorney General William Barr on March 22, 2019.  This is the unedited redacted version of that report which was submitted to congress and the public on April 18, 2019.

In January 1986 the Wheat Ridge Police Department uncovered one of the most vicious crime sprees in Colorado’s history. Dating back to 1920, in the small town of Stratton, Colorado, the officers discovered decades of brutal killings and slaughter involving transient farm workers that had been hired to work the fields of the now infamous McCormick farm. With over 70 bodies buried on the 2,800 acre farm and dozens of others scattered around the country, the body count was extreme. But with murder, comes the ghostly remains of the dead. Faced with angry spirits and buckets full of body parts brought up by their plow, the farm’s new owners contacted S.P.O.O.K.S Paranormal team for help. Join author Tracy Beach as she digs through mountains of police casefiles, missing person reports, interview’s, court transcripts, autopsy reports and two scrap books full of decomposed bodies being removed from the earth, in her quest to piece together the demented mind of Michael McCormick and figure out what made him tick...and who is really haunting the farm.“Whenever I teach a class on how to administer a Polygraph test, I’m always asked if I’ve ever done one on a Psychopath. I tell them I have only done it once and it was on Michael McCormick… and he passed. Why? Because a Psychopath doesn’t feel shame or guilt and you need those to fail the test.” —The Wheat Ridge Police Department“I’ll give Michael credit for one thing, he knew how to play people and he did it better than anyone I’ve ever met.” —Investigator Michael Gallagher

The true story of an extraordinary friendship In the summer of 1992, Christopher Morgan, a farmer, joined a penfriend scheme whose aim was to give prisoners a window on the world. He was allocated Tom Shannon, a lifer, inside for murder. Through their correspondence, a strong and honest friendship developed between the two men whose lives were poles apart. Never intended for publication, the authenticity of these letters is all the more powerful and convincing. Whilst portraying the grim reality of prison life in Britain in the 1990s, they also reassure us that friendship and respect can prevail in the most unlikely circumstances. Royalties from the publication of the Invisible Crying Tree helped to found Shannon Trust, a national charity unlocking the power of reading for people in prison.'A small gem of a book.' Marie Claire 'A remarkable insight into prison conditions and human nature…The murderer, defying a poor education…finds an eloquent voice which rings with poetry, humour and a moral certitude.' Sunday Times 'A truly revealing insight into the mind and existence of a "lifer". A sensitive and telling dialogue between an understanding outsider and a man condemned to life inside prison.' Jon Snow

Few New Yorkers are aware that the tenements and storefronts of the East Village, famous for Beat poetry, avant-garde art, and alternative rock music, were a stronghold of mafia racketeering, treachery, and intrigue for almost seventy years. From the 1920s to 1990, mob icons lived in or frequented the East Village, known as part of the Lower East Side until the mid-1960s.In The East Village Mafia, author Thomas F. Comiskey shares the history of this little-known Manhattan mafia enclave that wielded influence on the direction and destiny of organized crime in New York City, telling how:Mafia royalty Lucky Luciano, Joe "the Boss" Masseria, and Joseph Bonanno lived in or frequented the East Village;East Village-bred Mafiosi plotted the assassinations of five Cosa Nostra bosses;Lucky Luciano ordained the East Village to be one of the mafia's major heroin distribution centers after World War II;A mobster from Avenue A conspired to sell the Vatican millions worth of bogus stocks and bonds, some forged in the East Village;A sit down in Mafia don Joseph Bonanno's favorite Social Club on East Twelfth Street determined control over a New Jersey hotel; andA federal agent from Avenue A and Fifteenth Street became the nemesis of mafia narcotics dealers.

Ein Standardwerk zum Thema Kaspar Hauser.Professor Georg Friedrich Daumer, der ehemalige Pflegevater Kaspar Hausers, verfasste dieses Buch in Form einer Apologie gegen die Angriffe, denen Kaspar Hauser durch den englischen Earl Stanhope und den dänischen Physiologen Eschricht ausgesetzt war, welche ihn um jeden Preis als Betrüger und Selbstmörder darzustellen versuchten. Besonderes Augenmerk legt Daumer dabei auf die sehr zwielichtige Person Stanhopes, der im Mordfall Kaspar Hauser eine zentrale Rolle spielte. Abgerundet wird Daumers Werk mit interessanten Details zu Geschichte, Charakter und Verhalten Kaspar Hausers.

"A compelling true tale of crime and punishment told from the point of view of the victim's child." -Sublime Book ReviewWhen I was two years old, my mother, Donna Litchfield was brutally murdered by Stephen Moore. My mother had broken up with Stephen-her boyfriend, at the time-only a day prior to being killed. A jury found Stephen guilty of the stabbing murder and the judge sentenced him to life in prison. Moore was sent to the maximum-security Trenton State Prison.Stephen Moore escaped from Trenton State Prison and was on the run for five years. After he turned himself in, he was shipped off to a mental institution, which closed a few years ago. He was then sent to a private mental institution. Moore's sentence was overturned: not guilty by reason of insanity.

With a selection of fine historic images from his best-selling book Historic Photos of Chicago Crime: The Capone Era, John Russick provides a valuable and revealing historical retrospective on Chicago's gangster era.Perhaps no city has a more fabled past than Chicago, home of legendary Al Capone. But that fabled past is often portrayed separate from the surrounding web of social realities, without which no event, no period in time can be understood. Remembering Chicago: Crime in the Capone Era addresses this problem by opening with a compelling look at Chicago's cityscape to include a broad range of cultural phenomena?from suffrage to jazz?essential to the contextualization of crime in the 1920s and 1930s. The history then proceeds as its title suggests?to a riveting overview of crime in Chicago, chock-full of images documenting notorious gangsters and gruesome gangland wars. Al Capone, John Torrio, Earl "Hymie? Weiss, George "Bugs? Moran, and a host of others are all here. Complete with insightful captions by historian John Russick, these photos offer a unique view into Chicago and its nefarious past.

"Could you estimate the number of houses and backyards you have unlawfully entered?""No, it would be terribly hard to say.""Would it be hundreds or would it be thousands?""Many, many hundreds. Perhaps thousands."- The Kingsgrove Slasher's police questioning Between 1956 and 1959, suburban Sydney was terrorised by a phantom known as the Kingsgrove Slasher. A peeping Tom, he graduated to breaking into houses to watch people sleep before later slashing women and girls with a razor while they lay in their beds.He punched a 21-year-old woman into unconsciousness, breaking her teeth and cutting her mouth, hit a teenage girl in the face with a piece of wood and slashed a deep wound across the stomach of a 64-year-old woman. The Slasher also groped teens in their beds, and one of his 18 victims was just seven years old.Night Terrors is the first detailed account of the Kingsgrove Slasher case. It draws on hundreds of newspaper articles written at the time - which show the level of fear in the community - as well as the transcripts from the court hearings, which had been sealed since 1959. The result is a true-crime book that might make it hard for you to go to sleep at night.

Qui étaient les Tueurs du Brabant ? Les théories du complot abondent sur le sujet, suscitant des interrogations diverses à propos d'une implication de l'OTAN, de puissances étrangères, de factions terroristes, de la Gendarmerie Belge, d'un réseau de pornographie infantile composé de personnalités d'influence, ainsi que d'un groupe néo-nazi dangereux. Le but de ce livre est d'aider le lecteur à naviguer à travers tous ces éléments afin qu'il puisse en extraire la vérité concernant ces meurtriers fous.

Wie waren de leden van de Bende van Nijvel? Er zijn vele samenzweringstheorieën die vragen oproepen over de betrokkenheid op een hoger niveau door de NAVO, terroristische fracties, de Belgische Rijkswacht, een netwerk van kinderpornografie waar machtige personen bij betrokken waren en een gevaarlijke splintergroep van neonazi's. Dit boek zal lezers helpen om eindelijk de waarheid over deze krankzinnige moordenaars te reconstrueren.

The survivors of victims of murder and suspicious deaths are often victimized twice-first by the loss of their loved one and subsequently by the system they rely on for justice. In pursuit of police transparency, retired investigator Dennis Griffin takes us inside the world of real crime cases to expose the shocking truth behind the alarming number of unsolved murders and suspicious deaths that are unsolved, closed, or misclassified with little to no investigation.

Summer Alexis Shipp never went anywhere without a cup of coffee in her hands. When her friends found her car that day, they were not surprised to see her mug locked in the car. And they really weren't too surprised she had gone missing, since she was so beautifully innocent and naively trusting. They had all worried about her door-to-door marketing job and the research that took her to some dangerous neighborhoods. When they found her coffee cup but no trace of Summer, her family and scores of friends went into action, combing the city in a search for clues to give police. They organized a media blitz that included billboards, signs on taxis and appearances on nationally syndicated television shows like Nancy Grace and America's Most Wanted. The search for Summer Shipp captured the attention of an entire city-indeed a nation. Until it didn't. Until Summer's case went cold.This is the true story of a loving daughter's relentless determination to find her mother and to bring her justice. This true-crime tale outlines the agonizing search for a body, the eventual discovery of her remains and the trial of her accused murderer almost a decade afterwards. In preserving the essence of Summer Shipp's beautiful personality, this true story seeks to cement her memory in the minds of those who loved her as well as those who never met her.

Once in an erstwhile peaceful land rich in repose and sharing gifts endlessly, a sanguine merriment quickly evaporated into the caustic reign of the false and deadly. It was during this long drag of unkind hours that the author penned this tribute to sanity in a years-long effort to both reveal the responsible and prevent any further disturbances on this scale. A hard look into the soul of something that may not yet be identifiable, Frictional Ascension reveals a strange case that is still baffling authorities. It examines whether vengeance plays any role in justice and to what extent, offers a sometimes humorous look at rare thoughts, and considers what exactly amounts to proof, among other things. Prison logic has crawled from its safe moorings, which was always its intent, and leeched out to the point where it has touched many, even political realms where sadly today many of these false reasonings may be found. This book offers some possible explanations as to how this happened. However, amidst the fires of the current anti-humanity climate, it is in no way helpful or intended that any actions should be taken based on anything written herein that doesn't arrive at a legal solution, since these fires were sparked by the same prison logic that this book exposes. If we're convinced of everything that surrounds us, Frictional Ascension may reveal that everything may not be what or where we thought it was. If any peace is possible for the future, it is intended that this book help it settle into a condition that isn't prone to rapid negative change or any further dissolution.

It was one of the bleakest times in US history, the Great Depression. People were desperate, some to believe neighbors would help each other while others were desperate to claw their own way to survival, no matter the cost. High in the Cascade Mountain Range, a destitute family and a man using all his wiles to save himself from a similar fate crossed paths. The results were destructive and deadly.The Grimm family, author Michael Grimm's own ancestors, befriended a seemingly harmless drifter. In the months that followed, the family found no peace but was instead tormented by him. His eventual prosecution received national attention.The Grimm family still carries the scars of those events. As a forensic scientist for four decades, Grimm knows first-hand not only the generational pain of such an event but the research behind such pain. Tell Edith Goodbye: A True Crime Story of Depravity and Obsession During the Great Depression reminds us that regardless of who you are and where you live, horrific things can occur without provocation.

MEET DAISY DE MELKER, who 'lovingly' prepared a flask of strychnine-laced coffee for her son. She is very different from Najwa Petersen, who carefully planned a 'house robbery' to eliminate her musician husband. Chané van Heerden placed her victim's facial skin in the freezer for preservation, yet Phoenix Racing Cloud Theron wished to dispose of her mother's body before it was even cold. And Dina Rodrigues? She 'wouldn't harm a fly' - but went and organised a hit on a baby.Women are not paragons of virtue who cannot commit murder. Nor are they always insane when they do deliberately cause death. And the women with 'blood on their hands' are not homogeneous.In Blood on Her Hands, award-winning journalist Tanya Farber investigates the lives, minds and motivations of some of South Africa's most notorious female murderers, from the poisonous nurse Daisy de Melker, to the privileged but deeply disturbed Najwa Petersen, to the mysterious Joey Haarhoff, who died before revealing the fate of her victims. Written in a style lighter than the subject matter might suggest, Blood on Her Hands will keep you reading until late at night.

Kyler Denton is a child and as any other child he is learning about life. Before learning right from wrong, Kyler witnessed atrocities that permanently altered his sense of truth. His consciousness is scarred with dread and death.After twenty years, Kyler is braced to acknowledge his secrets as the son of one of the most infamous criminal minds in the city's past. It's time to set Kyler free from this burden; he doesn't want it anymore.Kyler tells the tragic moments of endurance between a mom and son. The dead can't tell their tale, but the witness still remembers. Against warnings, Kyler will disclose the details of the crimes.This is a true story of grim tragedies, observed through Kyler's eyes. As he re-lives the vivid accounts of his history as the son of Penny Denton, he reveals the shocking true story of growing up in a life of drugs, money and HOMICIDE. How did Penny evade capture? Who helped cover the crimes and why? From beginning to end, Kyler will reveal the truth. This is Kyler's Confession…

"Under The Trestle" is the true story of the most compelling murder case in Virginia history. In 1980, beautiful Gina Renee Hall, a Radford University freshman, went to a Virginia Tech nightclub on a Saturday night. She was never seen again. Her abandoned car was found parked beneath a railroad trestle bridging the New River, with blood in the trunk. The investigation led police to a secluded cabin on Claytor Lake, where there was evidence of a violent attack. Former Virginia Tech football player Stephen Epperly was charged with murder, despite the fact that Gina''s body was never found. In Virginia''s "trial of the century," prosecutor Everett Shockley presented an entirely circumstantial case. Key witnesses against Epperly included his best friend, his mother and a tracking dog handler later believed by many to be a fraud. Three former Virginia Tech football players testified, including a Hokies quarterback once featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated. Would Epperly become the first person in Virginia history convicted of murder without the victim''s body, an eyewitness or a confession? And would authorities ever find the body of Gina Renee Hall?

Every girl's time of first blood is usually the onset of menses. But what happens if a girl's first bloodletting experience takes place before she reaches the milestone of puberty when she encounters those with insatiable lust for children. Meet a girl who is repeatedly molested to the point that she rejects her breasts and womb, switches gender lanes, and begins a passionate, cut and dried, yet murky hunt for a man who opportunistically hurts women and children and depicts them shredded of humanity. In this unbuttoned look at underground pornography, a sexual abuse survivor makes it through tough times without losing her markers for empathy, and struggles with the realization that she was both made and ruined by men's behaviour. At times hesitant and bold, this novel's overriding theme is that it takes something strong to make someone strong. This graphic, informative and intriguing read about the epidemic of child abuse is a frank expose of the plague that stalks global society.

On July 18, 1994 the AMIA building in Buenos Aires was decimated by an explosion that killed 85 people and injured over 400 more. This terrorist attack was made against Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina, the most influential Jewish philanthropic organization in Argentina. Appearances are often deceiving, and while it appeared that the Argentine government was launching a thorough investigation, the reality was that a government-sponsored smokescreen was covering up the true details of the attack. Frustrated and stymied, survivors of the attack and families of its victims sought to reveal the truth. To that effect, they enlisted the services of internationally renowned prosecutor of Nazi war criminals Alberto Zuppi to investigate the heinous deed and its coverup. AMIA: An Ongoing Crime Extended Edition is the compelling story of Zuppi's efforts - from the initial blast to the dramatic closing trial - to plough through the layers of corruption and intrigue to reveal the shocking truth of the case.

On Boxing Day 1964 10-year-old Lesley Ann Downey left home to go to the fair. Her older brother, Terry did not go with her because he was ill with flu. Not accompanying her on that fateful day would haunt Terry for the rest of his life. Lesley was abducted by Moors murderers, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley.This is their heart-breaking story, told by Terry.This fascinating and tragic story also includes family photographs and letters from Ian Brady and Myra Hindley.

¿The Road¿ is a 1907 autobiographical memoir by American writer Jack London. Within it, London recounts his experience of being homeless during the 1890 depression in the United States. He tells of his having to hop freight trains, beg to survive, his various run-ins with the police, and much more in an interesting and insightful account of life during an economic depression. This volume will appeal to those with an interest in the depression of the late nineteenth century, and it is not to be missed by fans and collectors of London's seminal work. John Griffith London (1876 ¿ 1916), commonly known as Jack London, was an American journalist, social activist, and novelist. He was an early pioneer of commercial magazine fiction, becoming one of the first globally-famous celebrity writers who were able to earn a large amount of money from their writing. London is famous for his contributions to early science fiction and also notably belonged to "The Crowd", a literary group an Francisco known for its radical members and ideas. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.