Crime Shorts Series
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It's not unusual for someone to have issues with their parents, but the 15 cases profiled in this book show that sometimes they can't be resolved with a conversation. In some cases, frequent physical and mental abuse led to murder, while other cases were just mentally deranged people taking out their frustrations on the closest person av
Titles in the series (10)
- The Comfort Women: A History of Japenese Forced Prostitution During the Second World War
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One of the worst cases of sex slavery happened during the most violent time in modern history....Japan during the Second World War. The Rape of Nanking is well known, but what isn't is the systematic kidnapping and murdering of young girls in Korea, Indonesia, and all over Asia. Different estimates say between 20,000 and 400,000
- The Death Row Cookbook: The Famous Last Meals (with Recipes) of Death Row Inmates
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The last meals of death row convicts fascinate us because they offer an insight into a disturbed mind shortly before its owner’s death. The last meal is a way for the system to offer a last-minute nod to humanity--that although these murderers, rapists, and villains listed inside may have performed inhuman acts, they are still indeed human
- The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre
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In the crime-ridden Chicago of the Prohibition era, gangsters like Al Capone battled for power, but few went to the extreme lengths that Capone did on Valentine's Day in 1929. The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre is one of the most notorious gang murders of all time. This short book, the first in the "Crime Shorts&qu
- America's First Serial Killers: A Biography of the Harpe Brothers
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★★★ Discover America's First Killers ★★★ They murdered. They stole. And they did it all to excess. Unlike other bandits of early America, they didn't do it for the money--they did it for the thrill and love of blood. They were the Harpe Brothers, and they have been called America's first true
- Scary Bitches: An Anthology of the Scariest Women You Will Ever Meet
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With all of the attention placed on murderers of the male persuasion, you may be under the mistaken impression that the fairer sex has little if any blood on their hands. Sure, women have killed people over the years, but aside from a poisoning here and there, they couldn’t have been that bad, right? Wrong. T
- Young, Queer, and Dead: A Biography of San Francisco's Most Overlooked Serial Killer, the Doodler
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Read about one of the most overlooked serial killers The Zodiac Killer may have been San Francisco's most notorious serial killer, but another equally cruel killer was also stalking the streets at the same time, and, just like the Zodiac Killer
- The Butcher Baker: The Search for Alaskan Serial Killer Robert Hansen
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Beautiful Alaska--a peaceful, natural land where you know your neighbors and don't have to lock your doors. For most people, it's the perfect place to experience nature; for Robert Hansen, it was the perfect place for murder. Between 1980 and 1983, Hansen went on a murderous rampage killing between 17 and 37 women in the Anchorage,
- In Love and Murder: Crimes of Passion That Shocked the World
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Love is patient. Love is kind. Love is…deadly? For the people in this book, that’s certainly the case. They acted out of love and performed some of the most hideous acts of passion in the history of romance. This short book follows several cases of deadly passion, from the celebrated French woman who had enough of her husband&
- Deadly Darlings: The Horrifying True Accounts of Children Turned into Killers
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If you've ever thought your child was bad, then you haven't seen anything yet! In the pages that follow, you are about to meet some of the most vicious children who ever lived. The kids in this book are as young as ten-years-old and they are ruthless. The nice ones killed in cold blood—but many of these kids weren’t nic
- Murdering Mommy: Horrifying Tales of Children Who Killed Their Own Mothers
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It's not unusual for someone to have issues with their parents, but the 15 cases profiled in this book show that sometimes they can't be resolved with a conversation. In some cases, frequent physical and mental abuse led to murder, while other cases were just mentally deranged people taking out their frustrations on the closest person av
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