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Après avoir cambriolé une bijouterie avec Richard Cournon, Pierre Lardon et Philippe Duport, ses trois complices habituels, Joseph Marciano juge utile de rendre visite à son ami Rolland Comparini qui demeure à Langon. En effet le partage a soulevé des problèmes et il n'a pas confiance en ses complices. Il vaut mieux se mettre au vert. Avant de partir, il repasse chez Martine Le Benec, une prostituée qui partage sa vie. Elle a passé la nuit...
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Byron Smith moved back to his family home in Little Falls, Minnesota, to care for his elderly mother and enjoy a quiet retirement from the US State Department. On Thanksgiving Day 2012, Byron shot and killed two teens who broke into his home by breaking a bedroom window. It was the sixth burglary in less than six months. Previous burglaries included over fifty thousand dollars in gold, cash, jewelry, and his Vietnam medals. He feared for his life...
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The Tragedy of Kabul Bank is the story of a massive fraud, deception and betrayal by a group of crony capitalists aided and abetted by the then highest political authorities of Afghanistan. It is an expose of rampant greed and excessive risk taking that shocked the world and caused enormous damage to Afghanistan's economy and image. The Tragedy of Kabul Bank is a narrative of a notorious case of corruption in post-Taliban Afghanistan, recipient of...
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The 1909 murder case surrounding the wealthy Swope family of Independence, Missouri, gripped newspaper readers throughout the nation. This book gathers the facts behind the suspicious fates of three Swope family members: the eccentric Colonel, millionaire donor of Kansas City, Missouri's Swope Park, his affable cousin, and a young nephew and heir. The mystery pits the Swope matriarch against her disfavored son-in-law, Dr. Bennett Clark Hyde. Charged...
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The remote farming community of Murdock, Nebraska, seemed to be the least likely setting for one of the heartland's most ruthless and bloody double murders in decades. In fact, the little town had gone more than a century without a single homicide. But on the night of Easter 2006, Wayne and Sharmon Stock were brutally murdered in their home. The murders garnered sensational frontpage headlines and drew immediate statewide attention. Practically everybody...
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About the Book The Armenian Genocide traces developments which led to the arrest, detention, and finally, the release of Young Turks and their allies accused of committing war crimes during and after World War 1 against the Christian population of Ottoman Turkey – and most notably Armenians. The primary focus of Walter Bandazian's work concerns the role played by British authorities in the Near East in addressing the Armenian Genocide and initiating...
67) Shattered Dreams
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Shattered Dreams is, based on the life of Alfred "Bones" Barton, who at 12-years-old prompted lawmakers to enact a law based on his criminal behavior.
The Bartons Law was, created to charge juveniles young as 11-years-old for violent crimes.
As a young teen Bones was, faced with many obstacles growing up in Bromley-Heath housing project. Will Bones influential family keep him out of harm’s way or will he, become a product of his environment?
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Often, the term 'psychopath' tends to be equated with violent and deranged criminality, but true psychopaths are very different from the way they are portrayed in film or on television. They are aware of the difference between right and wrong: they simply choose to ignore anything that prevents them getting what they want. Real-life psychopaths are not 'mad' but 'bad', but they appear on the surface to be entirely 'normal'. One of the pioneers of...
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Gone to the Dawgs is a collection of true short stories of criminal incidents involving a unique police officer - a working dog from a K-9 detail. The author spent nearly twenty years in the K-9 Detail, and shares here some of his more amusing stories from his time as a police officer, with his four-legged partner, a dog trained to be a manhunter from the K-9 detail. The stories range from the serious, where there are major crimes committed and injuries...
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El 8 de junio de 2019, los bomberos encontraron el cuerpo calcinado de un hombre en su casa, en Vilanova i la Geltrú. Unas horas más tarde, su hijo Ismael, de manera espontánea, confesó ante los Mossos d'Esquadra ser el autor material del asesinato: «No he visto otra solución y he tenido que matar a mi padre. Le he clavado un cuchillo por la espalda».
Un caso que parecía resuelto, el mismo día de los hechos, da un giro inesperado para el...
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Thirty-four-year-old New Jersey State Trooper Robert Higbee lay on his back in an Atlantic City Hospital room. His 6'8" frame hardly fit into the bed. Just hours before at 10:00 p.m., Higbee sustained a concussion when the patrol car in which he was "closing the gap" on a speeder, collided with a van crossing through an intersection ahead of him. Tragically, the two teenage sisters in the van died at the scene. The next morning, I received a phone...
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On a lonely highway in the middle of the night, two teenage Aboriginal girls are, killed in a crash. Like rag dolls, their bodies are thrown from the Toyota Hilux, when it rolls at high speed. One suffers massive internal injuries. The other has her ear and scalp torn off. They bleed out in the dirt. A drunk middle-aged white man crawls out of the crashed ute. It's after midnight. He spreads a green plastic sheet on the stony ground. He drags the...
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Statistically there are around 14 million criminal related arrests a year in the United States. Approximately 1.5 million drivers get arrested every year for driving under the influence of alcohol or narcotics. No one ever expects to get arrested. Even criminals never really expect to be caught! It always comes knocking on your door when you least expect it, and when it does, most of us have no clue as to how to behave or what to do when arrested...
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Sheffield born actor and author Geoffrey Howse delves into his files covering over 200 years of Sheffield's criminality. In Murder & Mayhem in Sheffield he takes a look at some of the events that took place during a period of enormous growth within Sheffield; including a failed plot to murder some of Sheffield's officials, take control of the Town Hall and set fire to the homes of prominent citizens; the series of incidents known as the Sheffield...
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In the days before the internet and social media, corrupt authorities in a small Southern town were determined to make an arrest for a capital murder... any arrest. This miscarriage of justice propelled a young man to find the courage to mount a desperate search for the one thing that would save his life-the truth. Follow Kerry Elmore as he pursues the truth. To fail would mean death.
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Welcome to the World's Toughest Cops. This is a no holds barred look at the people who risk their lives to serve and protect, in the front line of a war against drugs, gangs, gun crime, violence and smuggling. Vinnie takes the reader into the jungles of Colombia - where Sub-Lieutenant John Orejuela of the Special Ops Commando Unit leads a secret mission to take out a terrorist camp - and goes on patrol in the Californian suburb of Compton, following...
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The strangeness of Columbine, an interpretation develops further the methods and perspective of the website Lear's Shadow, that was active from 2000 to 2006 in exploring Columbine's "iconic profile." There is no repetition of Lear's Shadow's website content. Rather The strangeness of Columbine follows threads introduced by some of Columbine's anomalies that have not been examined previously, including a few that surfaced in the July 6, 2006 release...
78) Soraya
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Soraya was a thirteen-year-old runaway from her foster home when she met KC, a human trafficker who took her under his wings and pretended to love her, only to force her into prostitution. Soraya endured much abuse in the hands of her clients and KC, who would severely beat her every time she tried to leave that life. After five years of torturous life, when Soraya turned eighteen, she finally left KC. That is when he tracked her down and shot her...
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UNFIT is a true story of corruption within the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that depicts the various struggles within the organization, complete with a well-developed assassination plot, disregard for the lives of any citizen in the traveling public and apparent payoffs from those who seek approval.
The FAA uses a standard game plan. First it attempts to buy-off anyone who might become a whistleblower. If this doesn't work, it will stoop...
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Most women would kill to find the Perfect Man...but what happens when the perfect man is a killer? For the ladies profiled in this book, not even murder, rape and robbery could stand between them and the men that they love. In this book we profile serial killer groupies, women who fall in love with men who's ghastly deeds are already a matter of public record. And to show that it's not only women who swoon for these prisoners of love, as a bonus we've...
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