West Midland Murders
Author: Michael Posner
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2010-04-15
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 144563211X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNineteenth century crime and punishment in the Black Country.
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The Michigan Murders
Author: Edward Keyes
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2016-04-19
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 1504025598
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEdgar Award Finalist: The true story of a serial killer who terrorized a midwestern town in the era of free love—by the coauthor of The French Connection. In 1967, during the time of peace, free love, and hitchhiking, nineteen-year-old Mary Terese Fleszar was last seen alive walking home to her apartment in Ypsilanti, Michigan. One month later, her naked body—stabbed over thirty times and missing both feet and a forearm—was discovered, partially buried, on an abandoned farm. A year later, the body of twenty-year-old Joan Schell was found, similarly violated. Southeastern Michigan was terrorized by something it had never experienced before: a serial killer. Over the next two years, five more bodies were uncovered around Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti, Michigan. All the victims were tortured and mutilated. All were female students. After multiple failed investigations, a chance sighting finally led to a suspect. On the surface, John Norman Collins was an all-American boy—a fraternity member studying elementary education at Eastern Michigan University. But Collins wasn’t all that he seemed. His female friends described him as aggressive and short tempered. And in August 1970, Collins, the “Ypsilanti Ripper,” was arrested, found guilty, and sentenced to life in prison without chance of parole. Written by the coauthor of The French Connection, The Michigan Murders delivers a harrowing depiction of the savage murders that tormented a small midwestern town.
The Cromwell Street Murders
Author: John Bennett
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2011-10-30
Total Pages: 586
ISBN-13: 0752471376
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book tells for the first time the story from a police perspective. For ten years, the officer in charge of the investigation, Detective Superintendent John Bennett QPM, has refused to tell his story. Now, together with BBC journalist Graham Gardner, he reveals the full story of how the Wests were caught, how the case was prepared and how it nearly failed to come to court. This book chronicles the roles of those who brought down two of Britain's most infamous killers, shedding light on the real heroes of one of the saddest chapters of criminal history. It explores the court processes, the complications of Rose West's trial, her unsuccessful appeal and the difficulty of dealing with witnesses in such a traumatic case. On one level, this is a story of the triumph of good over evil; on another it is a detailed documentation of how a murder investigation really works - the pressures, the commitment and the physical and emotional drain on those who carry out this work.
Warwickshire Murders
Author: Kevin Turton
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2012-02-29
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 0752484370
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWarwickshire has seen its fair share of murder down the centuries. This latest collection explores notorious crimes from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, using contemporary documents, trial transcripts and newspaper accounts to examine cases that gripped both the county and the nation. Among the stories included here are the case of Edwin James Moore, who set fire to his mother after an argument over supper at Leamington Spa in 1907; the Coventry bombings in 1939, for which two men were executed in 1940; and the case of Thomas Ball, who was poisoned by his wife in 1848. She was later tried and executed in Coventry and was the last woman to be executed in public.
The Sex Slave Murders 2
Author: R. Barri Flowers
Publisher: R. Barri Flowers
Published: 2013-09-08
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom R. Barri Flowers, award winning criminologist and internationally bestselling author of The Sex Slave Murders, comes a riveting new true crime short, The Sex Slave Murders 2: The Chilling Story of Serial Killers Fred & Rosemary West. The gripping tale chronicles the lives of Britain’s most infamous serial killer couple. Over the course of two decades, Fred and Rosemary West murdered more than a dozen young females. Most of the murders were sexually motivated and took place at the couple’s home on 25 Cromwell Street in Gloucester, in South West England. Only when the killers were brought to justice did their murderous reign of rape, torture, bondage, and terror come to an end. As a bonus, included is a complete true crime story on American serial killer couple Alton Coleman and Debra Brown, who during one hot summer claimed the lives of eight people during a shocking and murderous crime spree across multiple states in the Midwest. Also included are excerpts from The Sex Slave Murders, which recounts the frightening tale of married serial killers Gerald and Charlene Gallego, and the sex slave fantasies that fueled their kidnapping and murder of young women.
Serial Murder
Author: Elliott Leyton
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-04-27
Total Pages: 929
ISBN-13: 1351767992
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title was first published in 2000: Few areas of criminal activity have sustained such widely held attention as serial murder. This volume charts the complete progress of academic work in this field, detailing the development from the early domination of psychiatric enquiries to the later proliferation of criminal justice studies into the darkest of human behaviours.
Unsolved Murders & Disappearances in Northeast Ohio
Author: Jane Ann Turzillo
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2015-12-07
Total Pages: 107
ISBN-13: 1625856350
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Agatha Award–nominated account of Northeast Ohio’s most chilling unsolved crimes from the author of Wicked Women of Ohio. Cold case files litter the desks of authorities all across Northeast Ohio. Louise Wolf and Mabel Foote, Parma teachers, were on their way to school one winter morning when a maniac sprang from the bushes and bludgeoned them to death. When young Melvin Horst went missing on his way home from playing with friends in 1928, many thought he was kidnapped or accidentally killed by a bootlegger’s car. Charles Collins’s death looked like suicide but was proved otherwise by two preeminent surgeons and has remained a mystery for more than one hundred years. Author Jane Ann Turzillo recounts eight unsolved murders and two chilling disappearances in Northeast Ohio’s history. Includes photos!
The Sex Slave Murders True Crime Bundle: Serial Killers Gerald & Charlene GallegoFred & Rosemary WestLeonard Lake & Charlges NgPaul Bernardo & Karla Homolka
Author: R. Barri Flowers
Publisher: R. Barri Flowers
Published:
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Sex Slave Murders True Crime Bundle: Serial Killers Gerald & Charlene Gallego\Fred & Rosemary West\Leonard Lake & Charles Ng\Paul Bernardo & Karla Homolka contains one full length bestselling true crime book and three true crime shorts. The Sex Slave Murders: The True Story of Serial Killers Gerald & Charlene Gallego chronicles the kidnapping, rape, sex slave fantasies, brutality, and serial murder of husband and wife Gerald and Charlene Gallego in California, Nevada, and Oregon, killing ten, including a pregnant woman, and destroying many lives in the process before the killer couple was finally brought to justice and pitted against each other in riveting trials in two states. The Sex Slave Murders 2: The Chilling Story of Serial Killers Fred & Rosemary West (A True Crime Short) recounts the lives of Britain’s most infamous serial killer married couple, Fred and Rosemary West, who raped, tortured, held in bondage, and. murdered more than a dozen young females over two decades, mostly at the couple’s house of horrors on 25 Cromwell Street in Gloucester, in South West England, till the authorities brought the reign of terror to an end. The Sex Slave Murders 3: The Horrific Tale of Serial Killers Leonard Lake & Charles Ng (A True Crime Short) delves into the sex-motivated crimes at a secluded cabin and adjacent custom-made bunker of horrors in an unincorporated area in Calaveras County, California, where the brutal killers sexually assaulted, tortured, and murdered their multiple victims, often videotaping the heinous crimes for their sick pleasure, before a twist of fate brought their reign of terror to a shocking conclusion. Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka is a true crime short that looks at the infamous Canadian sexually motivated serial killers and husband and wife, who took three lives including that of Holmoka’s own sister; with Bernardo a serial rapist as well, known as The Scarborough Rapist, before justice came down on them.
Lincolnshire Murders
Author: Stephen Wade
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2012-02-29
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 0752484257
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe murder cases in this book are a mixture of classic narratives of jealousy, elimination and passion, now retold from new perspectives and with more research. The author also includes some little-known mysteries: three unsolved homicides from across the county, including the killing of the 'Barton recluse' and the enigmatic death of a young farmer in Gedney in which the dead man's dog appeared in court. In this chronicle of violent deaths and courtroom struggles the reader will find a new slant on some of the principal cases, with plenty of social and legal history added to enrich the stories. Lincolnshire Murders is a powerful and fascinating reappraisal of some of the most brutal and gruesome killings in the county's history.
North London Murders
Author: Geoffrey Howse
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2012-02-29
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 0752484575
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver the centuries North London has witnessed literally thousands of murders: those included within the pages of this book have shocked, fascinated and enthralled the public and commentators for generations. From Britain's first railway murder, a case that turned on the evidence provided by a distinctive style of hat, to the appalling story of two Islington woman convicted after 'disposing of' babies in their care, these are crimes that both horrified and captivated the public. No volume covering the murders of this part of London would be complete without an examination of the Crippen case; the name of Frederick Henry Seddon, hanged for poisoning Miss Eliza Barrow, is now less well known, although for several decades his waxwork effigy was a popular exhibit at Madame Tussaud's Chamber of Horrors and his story is an extraordinary one. Among other cases included here, North London Murders also re-examines the crimes of serial 'bride-killer' George Joseph Smith, the tragic story of Ruth Ellis and David Blakely, and the killing of Joe Orton by Kenneth Halliwell.
