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21) Blue Caprice
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (93 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Isaiah Washington stars in this ripped-from-the-headlines thriller about the notorious DC sniper attacks.
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Pub. Date
2016
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xii, 321 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
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"In the late 1800s, the city of Austin, Texas was on the cusp of emerging from an isolated Western outpost into a truly cosmopolitan metropolis. But beginning in December 1884, Austin was terrorized by someone equally as vicious and, in some ways, far more diabolical than London's infamous Jack the Ripper. For almost exactly one year, the Midnight Assassin crisscrossed the entire city, striking on moonlit nights, using axes, knives, and long steel...
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Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
xvi, 264 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"In the vein of Dave Cullen's Columbine, the first comprehensive account of the Sandy Hook tragedy--with exclusive new reporting that chronicles the horrific events of December 14, 2012, including new insight into the dark mind of gunman Adam Lanza. Twenty-six people dead; twenty of them schoolchildren between the ages of six and seven. The world mourned the devastating shooting at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut in December...
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
316 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Description
"A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter's gripping account of one young man's path to murder--and a wake-up call for mental health care in America. On a summer night in 2009, three lives intersected in one American neighborhood. Two people newly in love--Teresa Butz and Jennifer Hopper, who spent many years trying to find themselves and who eventually found each other--and a young man on a dangerous psychological descent: Isaiah Kalebu, age twenty-three,...
25) The Legal Death
Publisher
Audiovisiva
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (53 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
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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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2022
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"Throughout my tenure as US attorney, Trump's Justice Department kept demanding that I use my office to aid them politically, and I kept declining - in ways just tactful enough to keep me from being fired. I walked this tightrope for two and a half years. Eventually, the rope snapped." - from Holding the Line
"A cautionary tale about how political forces can undermine the quest for justice." - Barbara McQuade, The Washington...
"A cautionary tale about how political forces can undermine the quest for justice." - Barbara McQuade, The Washington...
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"It's 1933 and Prohibition has given rise to the American gangster--now infamous names like Bonnie and Clyde and John Dillinger. Bank robberies at gunpoint are commonplace and kidnapping for ransom is the scourge of a lawless nation. With local cops unauthorized to cross state lines in pursuit and no national police force, safety for kidnappers is just a short trip on back roads they know well from their bootlegging days. Gangster George "Machine...
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In 1981, at the age of eighteen, John N. Huffington was found guilty of a double homicide in Harford County, Maryland. He was given two death sentences plus 21 years in what became known as the Memorial Day Murders.
Maintaining his innocence from day one, John spent 32 years, 2 months, and 28 days in the Maryland Prison System, the first 10 years of his sentence were on death row. John's conviction was tainted with flimsy, unsubstantiated science...
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Murder Most Criminous: The Cases of William Roughead, Father of Modern True Crime Literature
Jim Stovall, Ed Caudill, William Roughead
William Roughead is among the founders and one of the great popularizers of the "true crime" genre as it blossomed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. By those truly familiar with the genre, he is well-known as the father of modern true-crime writing.
Roughead called himself a "historian of homicide." He was...
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Every adopted child has their own story of how they came to be with their forever families. In modern times, children are usually told as soon as their young minds can understand the concept that their parents adopted them-maybe from a couple who just didn't have enough money, or maybe from a lady who was all alone and didn't have what she needed to raise a child. Although Carter can't speak for all the adopted kids of his generation, he didn't learn...
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"California was a wild and lawless place in the 1850s, and San Luis Obispo County was no exception. Outlaws and bandits passed along the El Camino Real, now Highway 101, leaving a trail of victims. Despite attempts to stem the tide of crime with a vigilante committee and a string of executions, notorious men continued to be drawn to the central coast well into the next century. The James brothers, the Daltons and even Al Capone made their mark here,...
33) The night swim
Author
Series
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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In this meticulous and authoritative account of the trial and the times of the Lindbergh kidnapping, Robert Zorn clears away decades of ungrounded speculation surrounding the case. Inspired by his father's relationship with the actual accomplices--including the mastermind--he presents the clearest ever picture of a criminal partnership that would shake every class and culture of American society. Using personal possessions and documents, never-before-seen...
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A detailed historical account of the serial killer calls on never before examined primary documents to reveal how he managed to take advantage of the crowds drawn by the 1893 World's Fair to create his own castle of horrors.
Herman W. Mudgett, better known by his alias, H.H. Holmes, is considered America's first-- and most notorious-- serial killer. During the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago, the basement of his house in Englewood, Illinois contained...
37) Women who kill
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Commitment-phobic Morgan and her ex-girlfriend Jean are locally-famous true crime podcasters obsessed with female serial killers. There?s a chance they may still have feelings for each other, but co-dependence takes a back seat when Morgan meets the mysterious Simone during her Food Coop shift. Blinded by infatuation, Morgan quickly signs up for the relationship, ignoring warnings from friends that her new love interest is practically a stranger....
38) Every last fear
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Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"In one of the year's most anticipated debut psychological thrillers, a family made infamous by a true crime documentary is found dead, leaving their surviving son to uncover the truth about their final days. "They found the bodies on a Tuesday." So begins this twisty and breathtaking novel that traces the fate of the Pine family, a thriller that will both leave you on the edge of your seat and move you to tears. After a late night of partying, NYU...
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (74 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
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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