Best of
True-Crime

1993

Until the Twelfth of Never: The Deadly Divorce of Dan and Betty Broderick


Bella Stumbo - 1993
    Featured on Oprah!.

A Rose for Her Grave and Other True Cases


Ann Rule - 1993
    Distinguished by the former Seattle policewoman's razor-sharp eye for telling detail and her penetrating analysis of the criminal mind, this gripping collection of accounts drawn from her personal files features the twisting case of Randy Roth, who married -- and murdered -- for profit. In her trademark narrative style, Ann Rule weaves a tale that is riveting, enraging, and heartbreaking all at once, and brilliantly chronicles the fateful confluence of a killer and his female victims, as well as the shattering investigation into Roth's heinous crimes.

Innocent Victims: The True Story of the Eastburn Family Murders


Scott Whisnant - 1993
    On Mother’s Day, 1985, the bodies of Kathryn Eastburn and her two young daughters were found in their Fayetteville, North Carolina, home. Katie, an air force captain’s wife, had been raped and stabbed to death. Kara and Erin’s throats had been slit. Their toddler sister, Jana, was the only survivor of a bloody killing spree that terrified a community still reeling from the conviction, six years prior, of Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald for the savage slayings of his pregnant wife and two daughters.   The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Department soon focused its investigation on US Army soldier Tim Hennis. Detectives and local prosecutors built their case on circumstantial evidence and a jury convicted Hennis and sentenced him to death. But his defense team refused to give up. Piece by piece, they discredited the state’s case, exposing false testimony, concealed evidence, and prosecutorial misconduct. At a second trial, Hennis was found not guilty and released from death row.   But an even more stunning turn of events was yet to come. Twenty-five years after the murders, the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation tested a crucial piece of DNA evidence from the crime scene. The shocking results led to an unprecedented third trial to determine Tim Hennis’s guilt or innocence.   From the initial discovery of the horrifying scene at 367 Summer Hill Road to the controversial change of jurisdiction that allowed Hennis to be prosecuted for an astonishing third time, author Scott Whisnant chronicles every development in this intricate, disturbing, and still-evolving case. Has the mystery of who killed Katie, Kara, and Erin Eastburn been solved beyond a reasonable doubt? Read Innocent Victims and decide for yourself.

Sexual Homicide: Patterns and Motives


Robert K. Ressler - 1993
    -- and why do they kill? The increase in these violent crimes over the past decade has created an urgent need for more and better information about these men: their crime scene patterns, violent acts, and above all, their motivations for committing these shocking and repetitive murders.This authoritative book represents the data, findings, and implications of a long-term F.B.I.-sponsored study of serial sex killers. Specially trained F.B.I. agents examined thirty-six convicted, incarcerated sexual murderers to build a valuable new bank of information which reveals the world of the serial sexual killer in both quantitative and qualitative detail. Data was obtained from official psychiatric and criminal records, court transcripts, and prison reports, as well as from extensive interviews with the offenders themselves.Featured in this book is detailed information on the F.B.I.'s recently developed Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (VICAP) and a sample of an actual VICAP Crime Analysis Report Form.

Deadly Pretender


Karen Kingsbury - 1993
    An account of the crimes of David Miller describes how, posing as, variously, a CIA agent, an attorney, and a lobbyist, he conned people out of their money and their lives.

The Misbegotten Son


Jack Olsen - 1993
    Olsen delves into the psychology of Arthur Shawcross, who had characteristics of a pedophile, paraphile, misogynist, necrophile, and philanderer, yet still managed to charm a release out of a parole board.

Above Suspicion: An Undercover FBI Agent, an Illicit Affair, and a Murder of Passion


Joe Sharkey - 1993
    When rookie FBI agent Mark Putnam received his first assignment in 1987, it was the culmination of a lifelong dream, if not the most desirable location. Pikeville, Kentucky, is high in Appalachian coal country, an outpost rife with lawlessness dating back to the Hatfields and McCoys. As a rising star in the bureau, however, Putnam soon was cultivating paid informants and busting drug rings and bank robbers. But when one informant fell in love with him, passion and duty would collide with tragic results.   A coal miner’s daughter, Susan Smith was a young, attractive, struggling single mother. She was also a drug user sometimes described as a con artist, thief, and professional liar. Ultimately, Putnam gave in to Smith’s relentless pursuit. But when he ended the affair, she waged a campaign of vengeance that threatened to destroy him. When at last she confronted him with a shocking announcement, a violent scuffle ensued, and Putnam, in a burst of uncontrolled rage, fatally strangled her.   Though he had everything necessary to get away with murder—a spotless reputation, a victim with multiple enemies, and the protection of the bureau’s impenetrable shield—his conscience wouldn’t allow it. Tormented by a year of guilt and deception, Putnam finally led authorities to Smith’s remains. This is the story of what happened before, during, and after his startling confession—an account that “should take its place on the dark shelf of the best American true crime” (Newsday).  Revised and updated, this ebook also includes photos and a new epilogue by the author.

BLOW: How a Small-Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel And Lost It All


Bruce Porter - 1993
    Jung's early business of flying marijuana into the United States from the mountains of Mexico took a dramatic turn when he met Carlos Lehder, a young Colombian car thief with connections to the then newly born cocaine operation in his native land. Together they created a new model for selling cocaine, turning a drug used primarily by the entertainment elite into a massive and unimaginably lucrative enterprise-- one whose earnings, if legal, would have ranked the cocaine business as the sixth largest private enterprise in the Fortune 500.The ride came to a screeching halt when DEA agents and Florida police busted Jung with three hundred kilos of coke, effectively unraveling his fortune. But George wasn't about to go down alone. He planned to bring down with him one of the biggest cartel figures ever caught.With a riveting insider account of the lurid world of international drug smuggling and a super-charged drama of one man's meteoric rise and desperate fall, Bruce Porter chronicles Jung's life using unprecedented eyewitness sources in this critically acclaimed true crime classic.

The Crime of the Century


Dennis L. Breo - 1993
    He broke in as his helpless victims slept, bound them one by one, and then stabbed, assaulted, and strangled all eight in a sadistic sexual frenzy. By morning only one young nurse had miraculously survived. The barbarity of the attack shocked a nation and opened a new chapter in the history of American crime: mass murder. Here is the never-before-told story of Richard Speck by the prosecutor who put him in prison for life."In the Crime of the Century," William J. Martin has teamed up with Dennis L. Breo to re-create the blood-soaked night that made American criminal history, offerning fascinating behind-the-scenes descriptions of Speck, his innocent victims, the desperate manhunt and massive investigation, and the trial that led to Speck's successful conviction. In 1991 Richard Speck died of a heart attack in prison, but the horror of his crime still haunts the conscience of a nation.

The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer


Brian Masters - 1993
    A severed head lay in the refrigerator. A freezer contained two more heads and a human torso. Two skulls and a complete skeleton were found in a filing cabinet. A styrofoam box concealed two more skulls, and a large blue plastic drum was found to contain three further human torsos in various stages of decomposition. This is the story of the mass murderer, Jeffrey Dahmer.

Love's Blood


Clark Howard - 1993
    Led into an adult world of drugs and kinky sex parties by Frank DeLuca, a married man twice her age, the fifteen-year-old had become his sexual slave--desperately, blindly devoted to him. when her parents discovered their daughter's shocking secret life, her enraged father threatened to kill them both. But the lovers struck first, leaving a scene of appalling family carnage. Growing into womanhood in a maximum security prison, Patricia Ann Columbo has finally revealed to author Clark Howard what really happened that dark and fateful night. From their intimate conversations come a chilling, first-hand view of cold-blooded murder--and a twisted love gone horribly wrong.

Every Mother's Nightmare: The Murder of James Bulger


Mark Thomas - 1993
    The discovery that the killers were but boys themselves forced a national (and international) self examination: what kind of society could breed such a monstrous act?

True Crime the Infamous Villians of Modern History and Their Hideous Crimes


Martin Fido - 1993
    Over two centuries of crime, committed by the world's most infamous murderers and villains, documented in a year-by-year format.There is also in-depth commentary on the most notorious men and women in the history of crime: Burke and Hare, Jack the Ripper, Ned Kelly, Lizzie Borden, Al Capone, Albert Fish, Dr Crippen, Myra Hindley and Ian Brady, Charles Manson, Peter Sutcliffe, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Aileen Wuornos, Fred and Rosemary West, Dr Harold Shipman and Bradley Murdoch; and special features on September 11, 2001, the trial of Bradley Murdoch for the outback murder of Peter Falconio, and killers who commit suicide.

Fatal Charm: The Shocking True Story of Serial Wife Killer Randy Roth


Carlton Smith - 1993
    Randy Roth was handsome, hardworking, kind, and in top physical shape. But for all his charm and good looks, he was seemingly cursed with the ladies. His first marriage ended in divorce before the couple’s fifth anniversary; his second wife plunged to her death during a hike; and his third wife left him after less than five months.   But when Roth’s fourth wife, Cynthia, drowned in an apparent speedboating accident in Washington State’s Lake Sammamish just weeks after their first anniversary, a pattern of suspicious behavior finally caught up to him. As Roth set about collecting on a hefty insurance payout, the authorities were on to his game.   Roth had been careful—and so close to getting away with it. But, as chronicled by Seattle Times reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist Carlton Smith, his lies were about to come crashing down around him.

The Killer Department: Detective Viktor Burakov's Eight-Year Hunt for the Most Savage Serial Killer in Russian History


Robert Cullen - 1993
    They found the first body in 1982, in the woods near Rostov-on-Don: a young girl, lying faceup with her skeletal hands raised near her head as if trying to fend someone off. Over the next eight years, fifty-two more bodies were found in and around Rostov, a river city 600 miles south of Moscow. The victims had been savagely slashed with a knife, with their eyes gouged out, their sexual organs excised, their bodies spattered with the killer's semen. As the body count mounted, a remarkable Rostov detective, Viktor Burakov, became obsessed with hunting down the killer. He faced formidable odds. Archaic attitudes toward sex crimes and the nightmarish maze of the Soviet system produced an extraordinary range of false leads and bizarre theories: a satanic cult had formed, the murders were the work of a gang of mentally retarded boys, the killer must be a doctor, because the sexual organs of the victims had been carved out with surgical precision. The investigations of these hypotheses disrupted the lives of Rostov's citizens - most particularly homosexuals, who came under suspicion when young boys began to number among the slaughtered. Haunted by specters of the brutally murdered victims, Burakov took a startling route for a Soviet detective. He turned secretly to a psychiatrist - an expert on transsexualism - who produced a psychological profile of the killer that proved to be eerily accurate when Andrei Chikatilo - a family man, member of the Communist Party, and former schoolteacher - was finally hunted down and captured.

Sex Crimes: Ten Years on the Front Lines Prosecuting Rapists and Confronting Their Collaborators


Alice Vachss - 1993
    From her ten years of experience in the Queens, New York, district attorney's office, the author offers a searing indictment of our justice system and how it "collaborates" with rapists.

A Dark and Bloody Ground: A True Story of Lust, Greed, and Murder in the Bluegrass State


Darcy O'Brien - 1993
    Acker’s own life hung in the balance, but it was already too late for his college-age daughter, Tammy, savagely stabbed eleven times and pinned by a kitchen knife to her bedroom floor. Three men had breached Dr. Acker’s alarm and security systems and made off with the fortune he had stashed away over his lifetime.The killers—part of a three-man, two-woman gang of the sort not seen since the Barkers—stopped counting the moldy bills when they reached $1.9 million. The cash came in handy soon after when they were caught and needed to lure Kentucky’s most flamboyant lawyer, the celebrated and corrupt Lester Burns, into representing them. Full of colorful characters and desperate deeds, A Dark and Bloody Ground is a “first-rate” true crime chronicle from the author of Murder in Little Egypt (Kirkus Reviews).

Preacher's Girl: The Life and Crimes of Blanche Taylor Moore


Jim Schutze - 1993
    35,000 first printing.

Savage Messiah


Paul Kaihla - 1993
    A three-year publication ban on evidence was lifted only after Theriault pleaded guilty in January 1993 to a charge of second-degree murder. But even then much horrific material was never released. This book makes it clear that when Canadians read of a Charles Manson or a David Koresh, they cannot look complacently southwards and say "it can never happen here."How did Theriault, who called himself Moses, maintain control over his eight wives and twenty-six children? How could someone once described as a "renaissance man" be so sadistic? How is it conceivable that the women he "married" stuck with him through torture, drunken orgies and the removal of their children by an appalled Children's Aid Society?What sort of prophetic charisma led Rock Theriault's followers to work tirelessly for him in remote bush country and become unquestioning witnesses to -and victims of- his atrocities? How was Theriault able to charm his way past so many psychiatrists and social workers? Finally, what, if anything, can relatives or the police do to intervene in such a cult unless or until crimes are brought to light?No one who absorbs this shocking story can take lightly the date on which Rock Theriault can apply for parole. No one who reads this remarkable piece of investigative reporting can fail to be compelled by the amazing narrative it unfolds.

Silent Witness: The Karla Brown Murder Case


Don W. Weber - 1993
    Louis. The case seemed impossibly complicated, but years of work by police and investigators, led by Prosecutor Don W. Weber, resulted in a plan to lure the murderer into revealing himself. Photos.

Hunting the Devil: The Pursuit, Capture and Confession of the Most Savage Serial Killer in History


Richard Lourie - 1993
    Ten days to obtain suspect Andrei Chikatilo's confession or he goes free. Certain to join the classic accounts of true crime, Hunting the Devil is the story of how a master detective, an expert in the psychology of serial killers, ensnares a cunning, seemingly bland, but terrifying psychopath. Fifty-three frenzied murders of women and children, involving mutilation and sexual cannibalism. Not a single witness. Not a shred of evidence. A terrified populace. An incompetent local investigation. This is the challenge facing Chief Inspector Issa Kostoev, head of Russia's Department of Crimes of Special Importance, when he is assigned to the case. Five years later, in 1990, after extraordinary efforts, his hunt comes to a taut climax when he locks eyes with his prisoner. Interrogation - the most intricate game of all - is about to begin, played by two, alone for ten days in a bare room, the stakes freedom or death. Richard Lourie has had the exclusive cooperation of Chief Inspector Kostoev in the writing of this book and unrivaled access to most of the other personalities involved in the case. His own deep knowledge of Russia and its people has informed his account, a relentlessly paced story of crime and punishment in a collapsing society. Hunting the Devil is a remarkable book: an absorbing story of the brilliant detective work that finally chained a ravenous, unspeakable evil.

Monsters of Weimar: The Stories of Fritz Haarmann and Peter Kurten


Theodor Lessing - 1993
    

Cause of Death


Cyril Wecht - 1993
    These and other sensational cases featured in this provacative book make for true-crime and medical detection at its most authentic and compelling--a must read for anyone interested in the truth behind the headlines.

Forsaking All Others: The Real Betty Broderick Story


Loretta Schwartz-Nobel - 1993
    35,000 first printing. $35,000 ad/promo. Tour.

Descent Into Madness


Vernon Frolick - 1993
    The incredible diaries of Michael Oros outline his thoughts, actions, and reactions throughout his 13-year descent into madness. Michael Oros' confiscated diaries, with entries faithfully kept right to the time an Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) bullet ended his life, chronicle this tragic story, including the murder of RCMP Constable Michael Joseph Buday.

Headline: Starkweather


Earl Dyer - 1993
    The story of two hometown newspapers' coverage of Starkweather murders.

I'm Frank Hamer: The Life of a Texas Peace Officer


Gordon Frost - 1993
    Best known as the Texas Ranger captain who tracked down and killed Bonnie and Clyde, Frank Hamer was designated by Walter Prescott Webb as "one of the three most fearless men in Western history." This reprint of the 1968 edition gives the complete details of the Barrow-Parker rampage and is the only authentic account of the events leading to their deaths.

Joe Dogs: The Life & Crimes of a Mobster


Joseph Iannuzzi - 1993
    "Joe Dogs" is a fast, funny, real-life, fascinating Mafia story, by the man who, turning against his fellow mobsters, provided the FBI with the key to destoying the mob, all the way up to the major "godfathers" and John Gotti.

Crime, Reason and History: A Critical Introduction to Criminal Law


Alan Norrie - 1993
    It emphasises, in contrast to orthodox texts, the tensions and contradictions at the law's heart. The author outlines the themes of responsibility, rationality and justice which govern the orthodox criminal law text. He traces these to the early nineteenth century reform of the criminal law and notes conflicts within reform ideologies relating to the idea of the 'responsible individual'. He then takes the reader through the bulk of the criminal law's 'general part' showing how conflicts from reform ideology emerge within criminal law. An historical and political logic underlies its illogicalities, giving it its 'shape'. The author presents a sceptical critique of the liberal positivist tradition in criminal law scholarship, and a social analysis of both its practical necessity and intellectual impossibility. He shows how the ideology of individual legal justice was imposed as a means of excluding alternative political voices, while recognising its importance for the survival of the liberal polity.

Driven To Kill


Gary C. King - 1993
    Navy enlistee. But behind his mask of normalcy lurked a predatory sex fiend with a seventeen-year history of appalling acts of molestation and violence. Children were his victims and the parks of the Pacific Northwest his personal hunting grounds. On September 4, 1989, his unnatural desires had driven him to abduct, torture and kill two young boys in Vancouver, Washington. Undetected despite his record, Dodd killed a third innocent victim only weeks later near Portland, Oregon. But only when he was caught trying to kidnap a child from a local movie theater was he finally taken into custody by police. Confessing to these heinous murders, he was convicted on all three counts and sentenced to death. On January 5, 1993 at 12:05 a.m., Westley Allan Dodd became the first criminal in America in nearly three decades to be executed by hanging. Based on exclusive access to police files and riveting trial testimony, personal interviews with Dodd himself and excerpts from his chilling diary of death, DRIVEN TO KILL dramatically recounts a hideous spree of death and horror that brought every parent's worst nightmare frighteningly to life!

Murder On The Rabbit Proof Fence: The Strange Case Of Arthur Upfield And Snowy Rowles


Terry Walker - 1993
    In 1929 Arthur Upfield, Australia's premier crime writer, plotted a perfect murder for his novel The Sands of Windee. To his horror, one of his friends, stockman Snowy Rowles, put the scheme into deadly effect even before the book was published. The result was Western Australia's most sensational murder trial of the 1930s.

One Bloody Afternoon: The Hungerford Massacre


Jeremy Josephs - 1993
    The years do not lessen the shock the nation felt at the news of Michael Ryan’s massacre of innocent people on the streets of this picture-postcard town.What, on Wednesday 19th August 1987, made this loner put on paramilitary kit, arm himself with a Beretta pistol, an M1 carbine, and a high-velocity Kalashnikov rifle, and drive to the beautiful Savernake Forest to find his first victim? Here he shot dead an ebullient, attractive mother of two young children, as they picnicked in the sunshine. Why did sixteen men and women, including Ryan’s own mother, have to die on that stiflingly hot summer’s day?We follow Ryan on his journey of motiveless killings as he drives from Savernake Forest to his local filling station, where he tries to shoot the cashier, then on to his Hungerford home, which he burns to a shell. Now on foot and armed, he kills several people in his own road, rampages across a recreation ground where children are playing on swings and slides, and swimmers are in the pool.As the panic grows, he is back on the streets shooting randomly at drivers of passing cars and anyone else unfortunate enough to be there. Finally, he holes up in a nearby school, concerned only whether his mother and his beloved black Labrador dog have survived his shots, before he puts a bullet through his own head with a handgun.Jeremy Josephs unfolds the harrowing story through first-hand testimony and personal interviews. Ryan’s family, neighbours, teachers, fellow workers, and members of his rifle club, all contribute to the portrait of a man, spoiled by his mother, obsessed by knives and firearms, and living in an elaborately constructed fantasy world. Victims’ loved ones relate their tragic stories and how they cope with the trauma today. Local policemen and the Tactical Firearms Team on duty that day describe the steps they took to take control, not least Sergeant Paul Brightwell, the man who for one hour tried to talk Ryan into giving himself up.One Bloody Afternoon: The Hungerford Massacre is the first book on Michael Ryan and is unlikely to be displaced as the definitive account of the day a man went berserk in a quiet English town.

Blood Will Tell: A True Story of Deadly Lust in New Orleans


Joe Bosco - 1993
    There were only two men in the whole world who could possibly have committed the deed: her husband, Kerry, and one of his closest friends, Bill Fontanille. The media blitz immediately after the murder featured stories of a badly injured, grieving husband, an all-night fight-and-hostage situation as he vainly tried to protect his family, his desperate call to the police, and charges against Bill Fontanille (the scorned lover?) for attacking Kerry Myers, almost killing his two-and-a-half-year-old son, and bludgeoning to death Kerry's wife. But upon close examination of Kerry's and Bill's statements to the police, the prosecutor's office found a troubling coincidence: Their accounts of what happened were virtual mirror images, the stories all but identical, except that each accused the other of attacking him with either a knife or a bat immediately upon entry into the Myers house that late Thursday afternoon. Each man vowed his innocence; in fact, each man said he hadn't even seen Janet during that long evening, much less her corpse. After four grand juries and three trials over seven years, both men were sent to prison, yet no one - including the judge and jury who convicted them and the district attorney's office that prosecuted them - has been able to determine who did what to whom and why. Perhaps until now, that is. Through hundreds of interviews, exhaustive research in thousands of pages of documents, and exclusive access to both Kerry Myers and Bill Fontanille, Joe Bosco has done what the media, the courts, and all the family members and friends of the victim and the suspects have never been able to do - break open the sordid vault that holds so many of even the best family's secrets and lay bare all that is necessary for you to understand and then render your verdict upon what actually

The Gang They Couldn't Catch: The Story of America's Greatest Modern-Day Bank Robbers-And How They Got Away With It


Debra Weyermann - 1993
    30,000 first printing.

The Devil's Daughter: The Epic Auto-biography of the Girl Who Was Told Her Father Is Ian Brady


Christine Hart - 1993
    

Hidden Victims: The Other Side of Murder


Violet M. Franck - 1993
    However, his other victims refuse to let hate destroy them. When the victim's son marries, his best man is the murderer's son.

An Australian Murder Almanac: 150 Years of Chilling Crime


Patricia Dasey - 1993
    

Defrauding America: A Pattern of Related Scandals


Rodney Stich - 1993
    Defrauding America, second edition, contains descriptions of covert activisties by the United States, detailed by the author and other former government agents, former drug smugglers--under assignment to the CIA and other government offices--and former Mafia figures.

God Bless the Child: A True Story of Child Abuse, Gambling, Southern Politics and One Woman's..


James Colbert - 1993
    Now, with God Bless the Child, this acclaimed young novelist has turned his hand to nonfiction, producing a book as urgent as any headline, as raucous and bizarre as fiction. Sue Hathorn had worked with - and for - abused children for almost twenty years. A determined Mississippi Baptist, she dreamed of a special center for these children in the state capital, Jackson. But Sue had no money. Then she met Robert Malone, a professional gambler, whose nightly bingo games took in astronomical sums of money and who, under Mississippi law, needed to donate some of his proceeds to charity. Then the real game began - for no sooner did Robert give Sue a check for $6,000 than the Attorney General for the state raided Malone's Bingo Depot. In the face of common sense and local custom of several decades, the Attorney General charged that bingo was illegal, a violation of the state constitution. And so the stakes were raised - for Sue, for Robert, for the thousands of abused children in Mississippi (one such story is told here in wrenching detail). The outcome would prove crucial for them all. James Colbert's last novel, All I Have Is Blue, was described by novelist and noted child advocate Andrew Vachss as "social commentary with a surgeon's touch, wrapped in the narrative force of a pile driver. Strong, sweet and subtle." These qualities are shown to full measure in God Bless the Child, a vivid and timely book, a classic of its kind.

Brotherly Love: Murder and the Politics of Prejudice in Nineteenth-Century Rhode Island


Charles G. Hoffmann - 1993
    Within two days, three Irish immigrant brothers were arrested, charged with murder, and eventually brought to trial. Brotherly Love is a graphic reconstruction of the crime, its social and economic background, and the subsequent trials. The story reveals the antagonism between native-born Yankees, who commanded great power, and the growing number of Irish Catholic immigrants, most of whom worked in the textile mills. Indeed, the economic, political, and religious dimensions of the conflict are all evident in the trials. The authors argue persuasively that the Gordons were victims of bigotry and circumstantial evidence, serving as convenient scapegoats to appease a community outraged over the murder of its wealthiest citizen. In telling the story of this notorious case, Brotherly Love reveals the politics of prejudice in nineteenth-century New England as played out in community and courtroom.

Appleton & Lange Review for the Surgical Technology Examination


Nancy M. Allmers - 1993
    This book reflects the areas covered on the test, including computers, physics, mechanics, and robotics. It contains more than 1500 Q&As which provide an exam review.

Crimes of the Twentieth Century: A Chronology


Bill G. Cox - 1993
    

Lambs To The Slaughter


Ted Oliver - 1993
    

Cry the Darkness: One Woman's Triumph Over the Tragedy of Incest


Donna L. Friess - 1993
    Original.

No Sanctuary: The True Story of a Rabbi's Deadly Affair


Michele Samit - 1993
    Provides an account of the murder of Anita Green, a respected member of the San Fernando, California, community, which exposed the truth about her affair with the local rabbi and revealed the extent of her husband's jealous insanity.

Mass Murders: From the Files of True Detective Magazine


C. Rose Meldelsberg - 1993
    Original.

Hunting Humans: The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, Vol. 2


Michael Newton - 1993
    A compendium of bizarre, horrifying tales of murder features the world's most brutal serial killers, including a male nurse sentenced in the Southern California Hospital Murders, and Waldo Grant a quiet loner who killed with hammers and saws.

Tracking the White Salamander


Jerald Tanner - 1993
    Discusses the various forged documents (includes photos) and the sources Hofmann used to come up with his ideas. Also contains Confessions of a White Salamander (deals with Hofmann's conviction and statements to the attorneys) at no extra charge.Now also includes The Mormon Church and the McLellin Collection, which shows how church leaders deliberately suppressed a "key" item (the McLellin Collection) in the Hofmann murder-forgery case. Also gives information on ex-Apostle McLellin's writings against the church.

Unequal Justice


Guy Reel - 1993
    Not long after Dumond was released on bail, two masked gunmen broke into his home, bound and castrated him, and left him to die. His school-aged sons returned home in time to save Dumond's life, but he was later convicted and imprisoned for life.Jack Hill, a Jonesboro, Arkansas television newsman who had been looking into the shenanigans of the sheriff of St. Francis County, began investigating the Dumond case. He found an appalling trail of evil and corruption so widespread that even then-Governor Bill Clinton was forced to address it. Hill discovered that Dumond's severed testicles were taken by the sheriff, who displayed them like a trophy. After DNA tests proved Dumond was not the rapist, Hill pressed Clinton for clemency. The governor refused, even after his own parole board recommended that Dumond be released. It turned out that Clinton was a cousin of the rape victim and a political ally of the prosecutor who put Dumond away. When Clinton ran for president, he turned the case over to the lieutenant governor, who reduced Dumond's sentence.

A Death in Santa Barbara


Matthew Heller - 1993
    An account of the murder of Phillip Bogdanoff describes how two youths, at the urging of Bogdanoff's stepdaughter and with the consent of his wife, murdered Bodganoff's as he was sunbathing on the beach.

150 Years Of True Crime From The "News Of The World"


Jean Ritchie - 1993
    Its files contain a gruesome catalogue of the grisliest murders of two centuries. Its behind-the-scenes investigations have helped the police nail some of the most wanted men in criminal history. It has printed the exclusive confessions of men about to swing from the gallows. From the pages of the 'News of the World', the author has brought together this compelling selection of the most chilling crimes it has covered, ranging from dramatic Victorian parlour murders to sickening modern-day serial killings. It includes the fascinating casebook of Norman Rae, the paper's crime reporter in the 1950s, who won the confidence and the confessions of criminals like Buck Ruxton, the doctor who killed his wife, and John Christie, the multiple murderer of 10 Rillington Place. It also includes : The Moors Murders, Charlie Peace, the Kray twins, George Haigh, Neville Heath, Mary Bell, Michael Sams, the Great Train Robbery, Donald Neilson, Graham Young, Dr Neill Cream, Dr Crippen, Dr John Bodkin Adams, Thompon and Bywaters, Rattenbury and Stoner, and many more. A compulsive account of 150yrs of crime from the first issue of the paper in 1843 up to the 'present' day.

Doing the Business Inside the Krays' secret network of glamour and violence


Charles Kray - 1993
    Charlie Kray was the man who knew everything, but the law of the street dictated that he kept it all secret. In this book, written before Charlie Kray's death, evrything is now revealed.

Beyond Blame: Child Abuse Tragedies Revisited


Peter Reder - 1993
    The authors, all three experienced in child protection work, summarise thirty-five major inquiries since 1973, setting them in their social context and discussing the implications both for practical work in the field and for future inquiries.They stress the need for those who work day to day in child protection to develop and apply a more sophisticated level of analysis to assessment and intervention. They identify common themes within abusing families, in the relationships between members of the professional networks, and in the interactions between the families and the professionals.