True crime

In this compelling true-crime story, journalist and author David Yonke presents and analyzes the only case in U.S. history in which a Roman Catholic priest was arrested for the murder of a nun. Father Gerald Robinson of Toledo, whom friends and associates described as a timid and mild-mannered man, was arrested by cold-case detectives in April, 2004, and charged in the brutal slaying of Sister Margaret Ann Pahl 24 years earlier.The 71-year-old nun had been choked to the edge of death, covered with an altar cloth, and stabbed 31 times in the face, neck and chest. Her body was found in the sacristy of a Catholic hospital, her habit pulled up to her chest and her undergarments around her ankles. It was Holy Saturday morning, 1980, the day before Easter and the day before the victim's 72nd birthday. Cold-case investigators said the first nine stab wounds, made over the nun's heart, were in the shape of an upside down cross, one of many signs that Sister Margaret Ann was the victim of a ritual killing. "Sin, Shame & Secrets" unveils how cold-case investigators decided to reopen the case in 2003 after a Toledo nun testified that Father Robinson abused her in satanic rituals when she was a child. The nun's testimony before the Toledo Catholic Diocese's Review Board also alleged that a number of children had been killed by the cult.A lengthy police investigation followed, resulting in Robinson's arrest at age 66 on April 23, 2004. After a three-week trial, covered gavel-to-gavel by Court TV (now truTV), the priest was convicted of murder on May 11, 2006 and sentenced to 15 years to life in prison.* * *Yonke, the award-winning former Religion Editor and reporter at The Toledo Blade, reviewed hundreds of police files, interviewed dozens of principles, and covered every minute of the trial to give readers a thorough and examined look at events as they unfolded, as well as providing background information for the story and the people involved.* * *In Robinson's legal appeals, the killer priest claimed that his trial attorneys failed to examine the possibility that another hospital chaplain - one with a drinking problem, a bad temper, and a knife collection - may have been the real murderer. Robinson also alleged that Coral Eugene Watts, a confessed serial killer who strangled and stabbed up to 80 women, was living an hour north of Toledo in 1980 and may have been the perpetrator.The story has been covered by news media around the world and featured on many nationally broadcast television programs.Although Robinson's appeals were denied by the Ohio Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court, public debate and controversy continue to swirl in this timeless and controversial case. * * *Nancy Grace of CNN and truTV commented: "Very rarely does a single incident grip the public conscience. The brutal and sacrilegious murder of a true innocent, Sister Margaret Ann Pahl, does just that. Carefully detailing her murder, Yonke describes not only the search for a killer, but the struggle for all of us including both the Toledo police and the Catholic Church, to accept that evil exists everywhere around us, even within the house of God."Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael Sallah called it "a murder case for the ages," adding that "Yonke deftly shows how an American Catholic diocese kept one of its own from being charged for more than a quarter century."Father Thomas Doyle, JCD, CADC, commented: "This is not just another murder mystery. It is a true story that enrages, mystifies and terrifies any reader with even a modicum of moral awareness."Barbara Blaine, founder of SNAP, said: "Through painstaking research and gripping narrative, David Yonke presents and analyzes a stunning case of physical, emotional, and sexual pain and the political corruption that kept a horrific crime unsolved for years."

Charles "Charlie" Warner Kennedy O'Brien is one of the few Christian Detectives in the good ole US of A. He investigates and then solves 'white collar' crimes at crooked investment firms as well as banks that are so-called "too big to fail."In this his third and exciting case study, he finds himself in Bagdad, IRAQ. The CIA and the NSA have sent him to investigate a 1/4 billion dollar [US dollars] embezzlement at the largest bank in the country. Mystery and lots of intrigue follow.All the while he is praying to his gracious and almighty Heavenly Father, Abba, to keep him alive until he can solve the complicated fraud and get back to his beloved wife and home in Los Angeles, the 'City of the Angels'.

Unsolved true crime cases from 1925.Contains 60 cases (18 babies) including Nellie Clarke who was outraged and murdered, Florence Firmin who died from an illegal operation, Iris Watkins who was found in a mountain stream, Charles Boyles who was attacked in the street, Mabel Howell who was found dead shot with a humane killer, Arnold Dale whose throat was cut and Mary Wilson who was found dead in a hole.Contains all known unsolved murders and mysteries from England, Scotland and Wales in 1925.A fantastic resource for people that need a categorical reference for all unsolved murders and mysteries from 1925.Resourced from old newspapers, court files, police files and other varied sources.The most authoritative resource for unsolved murders and mysteries from 1925 in the UK on the market.Cases include: Charles Richard Kirkham ConstableManBabyWilliam Charles WhitbreadCharles Henry BoylesArnold DaleFrank Wilfred DaveyBabyFlorence WebbBenjamin ChurmBabys HeadElizabeth FrostNellie BarkerEdward ChambersLily SmithJoseph TaylorIris WatkinsBabySkeletonBessie Violet JenkinsFlorence FirminDorothy AllenBabyLily ParkinsonCecil Clive TaylorRose JonesBabyElizabeth Finlay and Doris May FinlayGeorge WatermanElsie GelderBabyEmily HargreavesTom ButlerBabyBabyMary Ann WilsonRichard Septimus BatterburyBabyBabyBabyBabyFrancis JohnsonBabyBabyNewborn BabyIsabella GillingAlbert William StevensBabyDismembered LimbFleshy RefuseMabel Violet HowellBabyFrederick John MagnerAbraham Naylor CooperMartha EdmondsonIsabella May ShaweArthur W BrownStephen ArthurNellie Bell Wood ClarkeArthur Valentine Flathers and Hilda Annie Flathers

For nearly 5,000 years, the world had been ruled from wooden ships by one man. 241 years ago, the Founding Fathers declared a new course for the human race. Freedom and Liberty were unalienable rights given by God, not government. Through these rights, the People would control a revolutionary new type of government declared in 1776. The all-powerful Global Syndicate has been seeking to regain control of the world, but first it has to get America out of the way.President Trump doesn't realize just how evil the Syndicate really is. He soon becomes the target of the forces of evil, and Americans find they have no idea who is really running our government from behind the scenes. This book is a big-screen movie in print. The action is relentless. The revelations made by the author will blow you away with how prophetic these pages really are. It is happening around you at this very moment. The conspiracy is far larger and darker than you could imagine. All of the technology is real. The plot to destroy America is real. There is much you can do to influence the outcome. Begin by reading this book. There is more to come, but it is vital that every patriotic American reads this book. Remember. The author will provide you the audio version of this book as a free bonus for buying the paperback.