Broken Lives
Broken Lives

Author: Estelle Blackburn

Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 498

ISBN-13: 174064073X

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The father of Eric Edgar Cooke despised his baby son from the moment he saw him. Bashings and a hate-filled childhood followed for the boy with the crooked mouth, launching a personality unique among serial killers. He stalked the city of Perth for months, shooting strangers in the dead of night and using a sickening variety of weapons to steal the lives of strangers. Unknown to the terror-stricken citizens of this trusting, emerging metropolis, the young father of seven children who pulled the trigger had for years been doing other sinister night work. In a remarkable twist of fate, the killer's life tangled with that of 19-year-old John Button, whose 17-year-old girlfriend was killed. Both men confessed to that crime. This riveting investigation into the life and untold crimes of the last man to hang in Western Australia reveals new evidence to indicate that at least one innocent man, John Button, went to jail for one of Cooke's murders. Estelle's efforts to clear John Button's name, have led to the West Australian Court of Criminal Appeal re-opening the case against John Button after nearly 35 years. The new edition will include a chapter covering the case and the final decision.

Eric Edgar Cooke
Eric Edgar Cooke

Author: Jack Rosewood

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-01-21

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 9781523766512

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The Night Caller, The Nedlands Monster, and Eric Edgar Cooke, are the names used to describe one of the most brutal serial killers in Australian History. Over the space of 5 years, he not only murdered 8 people, he also attempted to murder 14 others, because he just wanted to hurt people. Was he crazy? Nobody was safe from Eric Edgar Cooke. He was an opportunistic killer, selecting victims randomly. Whoever crossed his path during those hot humid nights would fall victim to his variety of killing methods. You were not safe in your homes, or walking down the road at night. This serial killer biography will delve into the life and eventual execution of Eric Edgar Cooke, the last man hanged for murder in Perth, Western Australia. The deeds of Eric Edgar Cooke created fear and horror in the people of Perth. The true accounts from the survivors will show you how they lived through this Australian true crime. If you are a lover of serial killers true crime, you will be enthralled by this investigative book. You will discover how it is that he could get away with his crimes for so long. Why is it that the detectives thought he was just a likeable rogue and petty thief? Discover how one man could change the lives of an entire town and become a bogeyman character for decades after his death. True crime murder doesn't get more complexing or bewildering as the story of Eric Edgar Cooke.

The Shark Net
The Shark Net

Author: Robert Drewe

Publisher: Penguin Group Australia

Published: 2003-07-08

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0143002155

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Written with the same lyrical intensity and spellbinding prose that has won Robert Drewe's fiction international acclaim, The Shark Net is set in the 1950s in a city haunted by the menace of an elusive serial killer. Drewe's youth in the middle-class seaside suburb of Perth, Australia-often described as the most isolated city in the world-takes a sinister turn when a social outcast (who turns out to be an employee of Drewe's father) embarks on a five-year murder spree. This unusual memoir brilliantly evokes the confluence of adolescent innocence and sexual awakening while a hare-lipped killer who eventually murders eight people, including one of Drewe's friends, lurks in the shadows.

Jasper Jones
Jasper Jones

Author: Craig Silvey

Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers

Published: 2011-04-05

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0375896783

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A Michael L. Printz Honor Book Charlie Bucktin, a bookish thirteen year old, is startled one summer night by an urgent knock on his bedroom window. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in their small mining town, and he has come to ask for Charlie's help. Terribly afraid but desperate to impress, Charlie follows him into the night. Jasper takes him to his secret glade, where Charlie witnesses Jasper's horrible discovery. With his secret like a brick in his belly, Charlie is pushed and pulled by a town closing in on itself in fear and suspicion. He locks horns with his tempestuous mother, falls nervously in love, and battles to keep a lid on his zealous best friend. In the simmering summer where everything changes, Charlie learns why the truth of things is so hard to know, and even harder to hold in his heart.

I Shot the Devil
I Shot the Devil

Author: Ruth McIver

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Published: 2024-07-09

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13:

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FIVE WENT INTO THE WOODS. TWO NEVER CAME BACK. Erin Sloane was sixteen when high school senior Andre Villiers was murdered by his friends. They were her friends, too, led by the intense, charismatic Ricky Hell. Five people went into West Cypress Woods the night Andre was murdered. Only three came out. Ativan, alcohol, and distance had dimmed Erin’s memories of that time. But nearly twenty years later, an aging father will bring her home. Now a journalist, she is asked to write a story about the Southport Three and the thrill-kill murder that electrified the country. Erin’s investigation propels her closer and closer to a terrifying truth. And closer and closer to danger. An unforgettable story of murder, trauma, and childhoods lost, I Shot the Devil is a taut, prize-winning debut novel from an electrifying new talent.

The End of Innocence
The End of Innocence

Author: Estelle Blackburn

Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 9781740661621

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"Broken Lives, Estelle Blackburn's riveting investigation into the life and untold crimes of Eric Edgar Cooke, the last man to hang in Western Australia, revealed new evidence to indicate that two innocent men, John Button and Darryl Beamish, went to jail for one of Cooke's murders. Here, for the first time, Estelle goes behind the scenes and relates how she came to write Broken Lives - the investigative trail, the suspects and the cops involved, the families she befriended. Passionate, inspiring and compelling, The End of Innocence takes the reader on a journey to the heart of our criminal justice system - where good and evil are tightly entwined and truth is sometimes hard to find..."--publisher.

Serial Killer Stranglers
Serial Killer Stranglers

Author: Kevin Smith

Publisher: Serial Killer QRG

Published: 2019-02-14

Total Pages: 115

ISBN-13: 9781733630603

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Serial Killer Stranglers (Serial Killer Quick Reference Guides #1) contains 164 serial killers who have been known to strangle at least one victim during their acts as a serial killer. Each serial killer profile contains 30 points of data backed by our publicly accessible serial killer database. QR codes included in each profile leads the reader to the killers online profile on Killer.Cloud the serial killer database. Killer.Cloud's data is crossed linked to other online datasets, easily referenced by short codes for readers as well as at the bottom of each serial killers online profile page. Killer.Cloud the Serial Killer Database, an ongoing research project which aims to sort and classify serial killers based on documented references from books written about serial killers as well as other online resources.The database currently contains 609 serial killers that are classified into serial killer types. Serial killer types are based on acts committed during a killers serial spree such as: torture, sexual assault rape, stalking, strangulation, consumption of human flesh or organs cannibalism, consumption of human blood vampirism, and/or sexual assault after death necrophilia.

Australia's Serial Killers
Australia's Serial Killers

Author: Paul B. Kidd

Publisher: Macmillan Publishers Aus.

Published: 2011-08-01

Total Pages: 474

ISBN-13: 1742627986

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Since its first publication in 2000, Australia's Serial Killers has become a true crime classic. This edition is fully updated, bringing all the cases covered up to the minute. A recognised authority on Australia's most notorious criminals, Paul B. Kidd covers in unwavering detail 33 true stories of serial murder. In this gallery of infamy are world renowned killers the likes of the Night Caller, The Granny Killer, Ivan Milat, Kathleen Folbigg and the Snowtown murderers. Sixteen years in the researching, this comprehensive and ambitious work includes psychological opinions, court-room trials, detailed confessions, and exclusive prison interviews with three of Australia's most infamous serial killers.

Cloudstreet
Cloudstreet

Author: Tim Winton

Publisher: Penguin Group Australia

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 545

ISBN-13: 0140273980

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From award-winning author Tim Winton comes an epic novel that regularly tops the list of best-loved novels in Australia. After two separate catastrophes, two very different families leave the country for the bright lights of Perth. The Lambs are industrious, united, and--until God seems to turn His back on their boy Fish--religious. The Pickleses are gamblers, boozers, fractious, and unlikely landlords. Change, hardship, and the war force them to swallow their dignity and share a great, breathing, shuddering house called Cloudstreet. Over the next twenty years, they struggle and strive, laugh and curse, come apart and pull together under the same roof, and try as they can to make their lives. Winner of the Miles Franklin Award and recognized as one of the greatest works of Australian literature, "Cloudstreet" is Tim Winton's sprawling, comic epic about luck and love, fortitude and forgiveness, and the magic of the everyday.