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1) The First 48
Publisher
A&E®
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
The First 48 follows the nation’s top police departments during the critical first 48 hours of murder investigations.
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On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty’s Ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. While the Wager had been chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon known as “the prize of...
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Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summers crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins. A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix's children's school. Josie has been listening to Alix's podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her series....
5) Blue Caprice
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (93 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Isaiah Washington stars in this ripped-from-the-headlines thriller about the notorious DC sniper attacks.
Publisher
Audiovisiva
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (53 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Boston, Massachusetts, 1920. Two Italians, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, were sentenced to death, the only crime they were guilty of was of being anarchists. The whole world stood up, the people crowded into the town squares, not just the lives of two men were at stake but also the beliefs which they represented. Millions of voices in many languages were raised in protest. They sought justice for Sacco and Vanzetti, but nothing could save...
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Rachel Krall investigations volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
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"After the first season of her true crime podcast became an overnight sensation and set an innocent man free, Rachel Krall is now a household name-and the last hope for thousands of people seeking justice. But she's used to being recognized for her voice, not her face. Which makes it all the more unsettling when she finds a note on her car windshield, addressed to her, begging for help. The small town of Neapolis is being torn apart by a devastating...
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Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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Mystery. Manipulation. Murder. Cults are associated with all of these. But what really goes on inside them? More specifically, what goes on inside the minds of cult leaders and the people who join them? Based on the hit podcast Cults, this is essential reading for any true crime fan.
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (74 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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In 1994, Shane was the hitman who attacked Nancy Kerrigan. Maile, two-years old at the time, only knew her brother’s love. Ready to confront Shane's dark past, Maile tries to reconcile the image of her hero and the infamous hitman he was.
Publisher
A&E®
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (85 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A powerful special about four women who were also behind the 1978 Jonestown Massacre in Guyana. The mass murder/suicides, which left 918 people dead, was planned not only by cult leader Jim Jones, but by his all-female inner circle.
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For more than ten years, a mysterious and violent predator committed fifty sexual assaults in Northern California before moving south, where he perpetrated ten sadistic murders. Then he disappeared, eluding capture by multiple police forces and some of the best detectives in the area. Three decades later, true crime journalist Michelle McNamara was determined to find the violent psychopath she called "the Golden State Killer." Michelle pored over...
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In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belfast home by masked intruders, her children clinging to her legs. They never saw her again. Her abduction was one of the most notorious episodes of the vicious conflict known as The Troubles. Everyone in the neighborhood knew the I.R.A. was responsible. But in a climate of fear and paranoia, no one would speak of it. In 2003, five years after an accord...
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Publisher
New Horizon Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xiii, 303 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
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"On a hot August night, beautiful nineteen-year-old Rachel Helena Timmerman was brutally beaten and raped five times by a savage criminal. Her rapist was eventually caught and arrested, but made bond just as quickly and was able to walk the streets a free man until his court date. However, two days before she was to testify against her attacker in court, Rachel received a phone call inviting her and her baby daughter Shannon out for dinner. She was...
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Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xix, 352 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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"The necktie murders in Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy; Chicago's Jazz Age crime of passion; the fatal hookup in Looking for Mr. Goodbar; the high school horrors committed by the costumed slasher in Scream. These and other cinematic crimes have become part of pop-culture history. And each found inspiration in true events that provided the raw material for our greatest blockbusters, indie art films, black comedies, Hollywood classics, and grindhouse horrors....
15) True Conviction
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (84 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
There's a new detective agency in Dallas, Texas, started by three exonerated men, with decades in prison served between them. TRUE CONVICTION is a character-driven documentary that follows these change-makers as they rebuild their lives and families, learn to investigate cases, and work to support one another. Winner of the Special Mention Award for Documentary Feature at the **Tribeca Film Festival.** Official Selection at the **Traverse City Film...
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Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 24 cm
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In the early evening of June 25, 1980 in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, two middle-class outsiders named Vicki Durian, 26, and Nancy Santomero, 19, were murdered in an isolated clearing. They were hitchhiking to a festival known as the Rainbow Gathering but never arrived; they traveled with a third woman however, who lived. For thirteen years, no one was prosecuted for the "Rainbow Murders," though deep suspicion was cast on a succession of local...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
520 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits, facsimiles, photographs ; 25 cm
Description
An investigative journalist chronicles his twenty-year obsession with the 1969 Manson murders and describes how he discovered evidence of a cover-up, carelessness from police, misconduct by prosecutors, and potential surveillance by intelligence agents.
18) Polisse
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (128 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A gripping police drama based on true accounts from the Parisian child protection unit.
19) Persistence
Publisher
Royal Anthropological Institute
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (54 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Human bodies don’t simply disappear. They were kidnapped, buried, broken into pieces. But they are also searched for, recovered and if forensic experts achieve the unlikely, reconstructed as persons. These only return to their homes if they are identified as dead. An audiovisual journey through Mexico’s landscapes of disappearance, between mass graves and fragments, affected families and forensic anthropologists. In search for the human that remains,...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2005.
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193 pages ;
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A former attorney of the Scott Peterson defense team presents evidence uncovered in his investigation which was excluded from the trial and which he alleges would have changed the verdict returned by the jury which put the defendent on death row.
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