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Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
120 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Some true crimes reveal themselves in bits and pieces over time. One such case is the Florida School for Boys, a.k.a. the Dozier School, a place where--rather than reforming the children in their care--school officials tortured, raped, and killed them. Opened in 1900, the school closed in 2011 after a Department of Justice investigation substantiated allegations of routine beatings and killings made by about 100 survivors. Follow this story of institutional...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
404 pages : illustrations, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Donald Maclean was one of the most treacherous spies of the Cold War era, a member of the infamous "Cambridge Five" spy ring. Yet little is known of this shrewd, secretive man. The full extent of his betrayal has never been documented-- until now. Drawing on the recent release of previously classified files, A Spy Named Orphan meticulously documents the extraordinary story of a man leading a chilling double life until his exposure and defection to...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
10 audio discs (12.5 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 computer disc (PDF ; 4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
Provides the true story of the 1993 murder of a CIA officer by KGB agents in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia, but that was initially pinned on a village bumpkin patsy and quickly ruled as a tragic accident.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xi, 171 pages ; 23 cm.
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
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
x, 438 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"T.J. English offers a front-row seat at the trial of Whitey Bulger, and an intimate view of the world of organized crime--and law enforcement--that made him the defining Irish American gangster. For sixteen years, Whitey Bulger eluded the long reach of the law. For decades one of the most dangerous men in America, Bulger--the brother of influential Massachusetts senator Billy Bulger--was often romanticized as a Robin Hood-like thief and protector....
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xvi, 327 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The true story of two spies and their families on opposite sides of the Cold War, told from the first-person perspective of Eva Dillon, the daughter of one of these spies. With impeccable insider access to both families as well as CIA officers, Dillon offers a riveting true-life spy thriller told in the tradition of a family memoir"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
274 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A stunning firsthand account of the creation of a modern cult under conman Larry Ray and the horrifying costs paid by his young victims: his daughter's college roommates. In September 2010, at the beginning of the academic year at Sarah Lawrence College, a sophomore named Talia Ray asked her roommates if her father could stay with them for a while. No one objected. Her father, Larry Ray, was just released from prison, having spent three years behind...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
225 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 2006, Mary Turner Thomson's world shattered when she discovered her husband Will was a bigamist, con man and convicted sex offender. Unbeknownst to her, this would be the start of a bold new chapter in her life, fighting to protect other women from his heartless gaslighting campaigns and putting a stop to his endless deception.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
321 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"The 170-year history of the San Francisco Bay Area told through its crimes and how they intertwine with the city's art, music, and politics In The Murders That Made Us, the story of the San Francisco Bay Area unfolds through its most violent and depraved acts. From the city's earliest days, where vigilantes hung perps from buildings and newspaper publishers shot it out on Market Street, to the kidnapping of Patty Hearst and the Zodiac Killer, crime...
351) Indefensible
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xv, 304 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 18 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xix, 363 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The story of the decades-long fight to bring justice to the victims of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, culminating in Senator Doug Jones' prosecution of the last living bombers. On September 15, 1963, the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama was bombed. The blast killed four young girls and injured twenty-two others. The FBI suspected four particularly radical Ku Klux Klan members. Yet due to reluctant witnesses, a lack of physical...
Author
Series
Unsolved case files volume 3
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
91 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Two thieves posing as Boston Police officers gain entry to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Once inside, they steal thirteen pieces of art, including several rare Rembrandts. Eighty-one minutes later, these men walk off with $500 million worth of art. This heist is the single largest private property theft in the United States--and despite decades of investigation and dozens of false leads, the case remains unsolved to this day.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xi, 339 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A behind-the-scenes look at the desperate, scandalous private life of a British member of Parliament and champion manipulator, and the history-making trial that exposed his dirty secrets to the world. As a member of Parliament and leader of the Liberal Party in the 1960s and 70s, Jeremy Thorpe's bad behavior snuck under the radar for years. Police and politicians alike colluded to protect one of their own. At the start of the 1970s, Thorpe was the...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xi, 57 pages : illustrations (some color), 1 color map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Powerful and haunting, this depiction, detailed with full-color artwork, names those who were lynched and tortured in late May 1918 in Valdosta, Georgia, including one black woman, Mary Turner, who was eight months pregnant at the time.
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