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The Book of Thieves is the story of how a greedy few destroyed a nation called Oblivion.Oblivion was once a great place to live and work in, with excellent laws to protect everyone who worked there, and to keep conditions fair for them.Not anymore.A greedy few called Banksters cheated and stole after working harder at getting the rules changed and finding ways to simply ignore them than at earning an honest living.The Banksters were assisted by an untrustworthy Trustee, a Key Holder, and Dealers.The Oblivious – the citizens of Oblivion – did not notice until the deed was done.This cautionary tale should be read carefully, because it can happen anywhere.It can happen in any country, even with the best of laws.All that’s necessary is for people to not pay attention, and for a few to cheat, lie, and steal.Those who do not pay attention can expect to lose their homes and worse.Life is unfair, and so are the Thieves.

Whether he's hot on the trail of a killer who carves off his victim's faces, or putting together the pieces of a case to bring a local college professor's killer to justice, Hock Hochheim is relentless as he investigates a plethora of criminals, tracks them down and brings them to justice. In Don't Even Think About It, Hock shares the details of his life investigating crime. He tells how he escaped New York City on a motorcycle headed for Australia only to end up in Texas dodging bullets and tracking down criminals, first as a security guard, then in Asia working for Uncle Sam as a military policeman and investigator. Hock also explains how he parlayed military service in law enforcement into civilian police investigations, private eye and bodyguard careers that, together, span nearly three decades. Don't Even Think About It educates, while it entertains, and leaves the reader turning pages well into the night. Along the way Hock reveals the thrills, spills and mysteries as well as the missteps, he encountered serving in law enforcement both in the U.S. and abroad. For anyone considering a career in law enforcement, or for readers interested in real crime stories, Don't Even Think About It is a MUST READ. It both educates and entertains while leaving the reader hungry for more.

This is the story of the Las Vegas Massacre: the worst mass shooting by a single person in American history. In this book we'll explore the circumstances leading up to the crime, the location, the shooter's preparations, his arsenal, and his possible motive. Then we'll discuss the casualties and the aftermath.

Morris was personally acquainted with many of the outlaws who nested in the dives along the Tennessee-Mississippi border, and crossed paths with them while he was doing research for Buford Pusser's authorized biography, The Twelfth of August. Pusser fought the state-line criminals during his six-year reign as sheriff of McNairy County, Tennessee.

Lydia Perkins is a struggling actress desperately looking for work. Drifting from one unsuccessful audition to the next and always being pipped at the post by younger and prettier actresses for good drama parts that could enhance her career. However, her agent Maurice Weinstock informs her that a fantastic part has just come up for grabs. It's to play the wife in a TV sitcom. There are four other actresses after the part so he can't promise anything. Lydia knows the actresses. She will stop at nothing including murder to get the right part for money and fame. Even if it means killing off the competition to land the lucrative TV sitcom role. Lydia knows how to handle a gun. Having grown up on her parent's farm. She learnt how to shoot helping her father kill foxes and vermin as well as providing game for the Sunday roast. One by one Lydia kills off the opposition. It comes easy for her. She has killed before. Newspaper headlines called it a family tragedy with her parents shot dead by her sister suffering from depression. Only Lydia knows the truth.

In 1991, Wallace Jeffs was coerced to become an FLDS polygamist. In 2011, he rebelled against the sect, and the FBI helped him reclaim his kidnapped children. Then an "accident" put Wallace into a 45-day coma. Though he fears FLDS sabotage caused his car crash, he continues fighting against his half-brother, imprisoned FLDS prophet Warren Jeffs.

Can any man be as evil as the media portrays him to be? A vagrant and frustrated musician who referred to himself as Jesus Christ, he masqueraded behind the image of a peace-loving hippie to disguise his insatiable thirst for power and an intense obsession with violent death. Beyond explores the story behind convicted murderer Charles Manson.Conspiracies. Espionage. UFOs. Hidden History. Secret Societies. The Paranormal. "Beyond" brings you stories about the secret and suppressed, the stories "They" don't want you to know! Take the Red Pill and join your fearless host Virgil Hall as he takes you far, far down the Rabbit Hole...to "Beyond"!

A wrenching true tale of horrific loss, Surviving Heartbreak Valley is the story of a woman whose four young children were murdered on the day she graduated college. She somehow finds the strength and courage to go on with life. She became an outspoken advocate, conducting seminars, speaking to organizations and groups, appearing on the Oprah Winfrey Show and in a Diane Sawyer documentary. Less A wrenching true tale of horrific loss, Surviving Heartbreak Valley is the story of a woman who suffers the worst tragedy imaginable but somehow finds the strength and courage to go on with life. In 1989 Linda Walls had put an abusive relationship behind her, graduated college, and was ready to start the next chapter in life. But in one hellish night everything changed. She came home to find her house on fire with her four young children trapped inside. The children's father, Bernon Howery, a violent man who stalked Linda following their break-up, had ignited the blaze. In 1991 he was sentenced to death for murdering his children. Linda meanwhile began the difficult process of putting her life back together. Rather than simply drowning in a sea of despair, she began speaking out against stalking and domestic violence to help prevent what happened to her from befalling others. She became an outspoken advocate, conducting seminars, speaking to organizations and groups, appearing on the Oprah Winfrey Show and in a Diane Sawyer documentary. But Linda's battle for justice and to establish a new life for herself was far from over. Bernon Howery continued to wreak havoc in her life, fighting to have his death sentence overturned which was eventually commuted to four life sentences. Writing Surviving Heartbreak Valley is "my next chapter," Linda said. "I want the telling of my story to add a real sense of urgency in building greater awareness of the domestic horror taking place in America, and our nation's need to galvanize a crusade to prevent it."

'A riveting book on real-life crimes and how the police solve them. We sleep in peace in a world made safer by these supermen and women in white.'-Sourav Ganguly, cricketerBrother kills brother using the plague bacteria as a murder weapon.A man is killed in his sleep and his body walled up in the house.A seemingly docile housewife masterminds a gruesome twin murder…The Kolkata Police is one of the oldest and most illustrious police forces in the country. In Murder in the City, Supratim Sarkar digs deep into their archives and chooses twelve astonishing cases to recount, bringing investigators, criminals and indeed the city to life in startling detail. Among the cases described in these pages are one where the method of 'photographic superimposition' was used for the first time ever in India to identify a body; another, where a single word led the police to a ruthless killer's hideout; and an extraordinary case of a kidnap and murder that was solved even though the body was never found.Initially written in Bengali for the Kolkata Police Facebook page and website, these stories went viral and were shared widely when they appeared online for the first time. Here, they have been translated and compiled into a book that is as utterly gripping as it is fascinating.

Although there have been individual books published about famous murder cases ranging from serial killers, mass murderers and more . . . ."Murdered Judges of the Twentieth Century" is the first collection of its kind. Susan P. Baker started this project because she was concerned with the prevalence of violence in American courthouses in the 1980s and 1990s. She had always thought of a courthouse as a safe haven, a place where one came to resolve one's differences through peaceful means, a sanctuary if you will. she imagined that people had respect for the judiciary, for lawyers, for bailiffs, and for other folks who worked in the legal business whether or not at our safe haven. Although she knew of Federal Judge John Wood's assassination, she assumed it was a fluke. It was related to a drug case. Those people knew no bounds.

On April 22, 1896, Martin Begnaud was brutally murdered in his general store in Scott Station, Louisiana. By intertwining a suspenseful account of this heinous crime with an exploration of the citizens it affected, No Spark of Malice provides insight into a fascinating people, place, and era.

The story of Chicago gangsters in the 1920s is legendary. Less talked about is the tale of the politicians who allowed those gangsters to thrive. During the heyday of organized crime in the Prohibition era, Chicago mayor "Big Bill" Thompson and Gov. Len Small were the two most powerful political figures in Illinois. Thompson campaigned on making Chicago "a wide open town" for bootleggers. Small sold thousands of pardons and paroles to criminals, embezzled $1 million, and was then acquitted after mobsters bribed the jury. This book is the story of those Jazz Age politicians whose careers in government thrived on and endorsed corruption and racketeering, from Chicago to Springfield. It complements author Jim Ridings's groundbreaking biography, Len Small: Governors and Gangsters, which was praised by critics and situated Ridings as a trailblazer among Chicago crime authors.