Al Capone Case FileNo other American gangster rose to the international reputation of Al Capone whose historical image is a curious blend of ruthless gangster and a distorted Horatio Alger hero who went from rags to riches to jail. Ruthless he was, hero never, not even to those with whom he robbed, racketeered, and murdered. Capone was a [...]
Charles Manson Case FileHe did not actively participate in any of the murders. He not even present at the scene but his influence as the leader of Manson family had led to at least nine murders. Charles Manson set up his family in 1967 when he arrived at California for ‘Summer of Love’. Manson, who was recently released [...]
Jack The Ripper Case FileHe had killed five women between 31 August and 9 November 1888, and he got away with it. The anonymous killer, famously known as Jack the Ripper based on the signature on the letters and note to the authority, made prostitutes his target. His choice later led to the theory that he was a religious [...]
Richard Speck Case FileHe had expressed his emotion and mental state through a tattoo that read, ‘Born to Raise Hell’ on his left forearm. Obviously it was not enough when Richard Franklin Speck decided to translate it on action when he killed eight student nurses on 13 July 1966. Few days before the tragedy, the 25-year-old merchant seaman [...]
Ian Brady and Myra Hindley Case FileThe Moors Murder case was one of the most notorious British murder cases in the history of crime. It was committed by a criminal couple Ian Brady and his mistress, Myra Hindley, who responsible for murdered four children during 1963 and 1964 and buried their bodies on Saddleworth Moor, near Manchester, England. Their reign of [...]
David Meirhofer Case FileDavid Meirhofer case is one of the most significant cases in the history of crime. It is mark as the first case solved by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) using criminal profiling, a year after Behavioral Science Unit (BSU) start its operation. The bureau was called in after seven-year-old Susan Marie Jaeger was abducted [...]
- Anton Probst Case File
Antoine or Anton Probst, a German immigrant, arrived in America during the Civil War. When learning that the Federal Army would pay enlistees to fight for the Union, Probst promptly volunteered. He had no intention, however, of serving in the front lines. Instead, he turned his loudly demonstrated patriotism into a business. He enlisted again [...]
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Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.The award-winning and bestselling classic memoir about a young Chicano gang member surviving the dangerous streets of East Los Angeles, now featuring a new cover. Winner of the Carl Sandburg Literary Award, hailed as a New York Times notable book, and read by hundreds of thousands, Always Running is the searing true story of one man’s life in a Chicano gang—and his heroic struggle to free himself from its grip.
Assata: An AutobiographyThis presents the life story of African American revolutionary Shakur, previously known as JoAnne Chesimard. This black activist’s memoir is like a freeze frame of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Though the polemical rhetoric is dated, the book is an otherwise compelling tale of the impact of white racism on a sensitive and powerful young black woman. Born Joanne Chesimard, she took an African name to confirm her commitment to black liberation, joined militant organizations, and was
Octopus: Sam Israel, the Secret Market, and Wall Street’s Wildest ConProduct Detail Title: Octopus: Sam Israel, the Secret Market, and Wall Street’s Wildest Con Pages: 368 Author: Guy Lawson Publisher: Crown (July 10, 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 0307716074 ISBN-13: 978-0307716071 ASIN: B00540P9YS Book Description Octopus is a real-life thriller that tells the inside story of an audacious hedge fund fraud and the wild search, by a colorful cast of rogues and schemers, for [...]
What Price Providence?Product Detail Title: What Price Providence? Pages: 548 pages Author: Gerard T. Ouimette, Jennifer Cinq-Mars Publisher: CreateSpace (May 18, 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 1477492577 ISBN-13: 978-1477492574 ASIN: B0084H8BUW Book Description The true and fascinating story of the rise and fall of the second most powerful Mafia Boss in New England. The intertwined themes of underhandedness, criminal behavior, morality, honor, dedication to family and [...]
Law Man: My Story of Robbing Banks, Winning Supreme Court Cases, and Finding RedemptionProduct Detail Title: Law Man: My Story of Robbing Banks, Winning Supreme Court Cases, and Finding Redemption Pages: 320 Author: Shon Hopwood, Dennis Burke Publisher: Crown (August 7, 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 0307887839 ISBN-13: 978-0307887832 ASIN: B007OLXTTC Book Description Law Man is an improbable-but-true memoir of redemption — the story of a young bank robber who became the greatest jailhouse lawyer in American [...]
Caveat Emptor: The Secret Life of an American Art ForgerProduct Detail Title: Caveat Emptor: The Secret Life of an American Art Forger Pages: 368 Author: Ken Perenyi Publisher: Pegasus; 1 edition (August 15, 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 1605983608 ISBN-13: 978-1605983608 ASIN: B008DR6ROK Book Description It is said that the greatest con man in the world is the one who has never been caught—and here for the first time is the astonishing story [...]