Bøger i True Crime History serien
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- A Step-by-Step Analysis of the Lindbergh Kidnapping
558,95 kr. In 1936, Bruno Hauptmann was executed for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr. In the ensuing decades, many books about the Lindbergh case have been published. Some have declared Hauptmann the victim of a police conspiracy and frame-up. Hauptmann's Ladder is a testament to the truth that counters the revisionist histories all too common in the true crime genre.
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- 558,95 kr.
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- Revisiting the Crime of the Nineteenth Century
423,95 kr. Explores the persistent mysteries of Lincoln's assassination, with contributions from leading experts who approach the crime from a variety of perspectives. Each focuses on one controversial or compelling topic. This volume will challenge and delight readers who are interested in getting to know everything they can about this epic and tragic event.
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- 423,95 kr.
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- The Sensational Brooks-Burns Murder in Turn-of-the-Century New York
351,95 kr. Recounts the court case following the murder of twenty-year-old Walter Brooks in 1902, and follows the young woman at the heart of the case from her trial for the murder of Brooks to her adulthood.
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- 351,95 kr.
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- The Gilded Age Murder of Helen Potts
351,95 kr. Traces the 19th century murder of Helen Potts by Carlyle Harris and Harris's subsequent trial, highlighting what has been overlooked - the decisive role that the second-class status of women in Victorian Era culture played in this tragedy.
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- 351,95 kr.
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- The Tragic Case of Anna Antonio
351,95 kr. The first complete history of the historically significant case, A Woman Condemned draws upon newly discovered New York State Police records, volumes of court transcripts, and period newspapers, leading readers to wonder if justice was really served.
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- 351,95 kr.
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- The Scandal of Emma Molloy and the Murder of Sarah Graham
351,95 kr. Recounts the dramatic tale of Emma Molloy, who hit headlines when her husband George Graham was charged with the murder of his first wife - and she and her daughter were implicated as accessories.
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- 351,95 kr.
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- Sleepwalking, Insanity, and the Trial of Abraham Prescott
351,95 kr. Examines how a forgotten case of murder while sleepwalking changed history. After creeping out of bed on a frigid January night in 1832, teenage farmhand Abraham Prescott took up an ax and thrashed his sleeping employers to the brink of death. He later explained that he'd attacked Sally and Chauncey Cochran in his sleep.
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- 351,95 kr.
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- Femmes Fatales on Trial
258,95 kr. Justice is blind, they say, but perhaps not to beauty. In supposedly dispassionate courts of law, attractive women have long avoided punishment for cold-blooded crimes. The Beauty Defense gathers the true stories of some of the most infamous femmes fatales in criminal history, collected by attorney and true crime historian Laura James.
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- 258,95 kr.
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- A Vanished Professor, A Suspected Killer, and Hoover's FBI
343,95 kr. Thomas Riha vanished on March 15, 1969, sparking a mystery that lives on 50 years later. Presenting a compelling cast of characters in an era of intrigue and with astounding attention to detail, Eileen Welsome demonstrates why the mystery continues to fascinate.
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- 343,95 kr.
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- The Prosecutors and the Marilyn Sheppard Murder
483,95 kr. Marilyn Sheppard was bludgeoned to death in her Bay Village, Ohio, home in July, 1954. Who took her life so brutally has been the subject of much controversy and debate for nearly half a century. This volume presents a comprehensive analysis of this case from the perspective of the prosecutors.
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- 483,95 kr.
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- Classic True Crime Stories (True Crime History (Kent State))
290,95 kr. An anthology of thirteen true crime stories that includes the mysterious slaying of Charles Walton, found in an area notorious for its associations with black magic; the terrorizing of Hammersmith, London, by the nocturnal appearance of a ""ghost""; the Salem witchcraft trials; and the murder of Rasputin.
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- 290,95 kr.
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- Stanley B. Hoss and the Crime Spree that Gripped a Nation
483,95 kr. Stanley Barton Hoss was a burglar, thief, and local thug from the Pittsburgh area. In eight short months in 1969, however, he became one of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted. James Hollock traces Hoss from his earliest misdemeanors to a daring rooftop escape, to his killing of police officer Joseph Zanella.
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- 483,95 kr.
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- Examining the Trial of Mariann Colby
290,95 kr. They have no witnesses. They have no case. With this blunt observation, Mariann Colby - an attractive, church-going Shaker Heights, Ohio, mother and housewife - bet a defense psychiatrist that she would not be convicted of murder. As her trial unfolds in the book, the imprecision of her insanity defense confounds the judges, and psychiatrists disagree about her diagnosis.
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- 290,95 kr.
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- The Mysterious 1891 Murder of Old Shakespeare
258,95 kr. Issues of false convictions, fake news, illegal immigration, police corruption, and racial prejudice are common tropes in today's news cycles. The East River Ripper demonstrates that these are not simply matters of recent vintage and seeks to answer such questions in trying to determine whether and in what way justice miscarried.
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- 258,95 kr.
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- From a Spiritualist to the Carnegie Imposter
398,95 kr. Tells the true story of Cassie Chadwick, a successful swindler and 'one of the top 10 imposters of all time', according to Time magazine. This meticulously researched book is the first full-length account of the notorious career of this fascinating woman, the forerunner to more recent female scammers.
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- 398,95 kr.