Category: True Crime

By Xavier Duff

True tales of normal Australians who risked their lives to avoid wasting others. Meet Australia's 'accidental heroes' and listen to their tales of incredible braveness, self-sacrifice and private trimph. They make for relocating, occasionally terrifying, and constantly heart-warming examining. unintentional Heroes is a reminder of the energy of the human spirit, in an age once we want it so much.

By Richard Buskin, Jay Margolis

Seeing that Marilyn Monroe died between suspicious situations at the evening of August four, 1962, there were queries and theories, allegations and investigations, yet no definitive facts approximately accurately what occurred and who used to be concerned . . . earlier. In The homicide of Marilyn Monroe: Case Closed, popular MM professional Jay Margolis and New York Times bestselling writer Richard Buskin eventually lay to relaxation greater than fifty years of untamed hypothesis and erroneous assertions through truly naming, for the 1st time, the monitor goddess's killer whereas using the testimony of eye-witnesses to precisely what happened within her condominium on 5th Helena force in Los Angeles' Brentwood neighborhood.

Implicating Bobby Kennedy within the fee of Marilyn's homicide, this can be the 1st ebook to call the LAPD officials who followed the USA legal professional basic to her domestic, offer information about how the Kennedys used bribes to silence one of many ambulance drivers, and specify how the following cover-up used to be aided via a famous pathologist's outrageous lies. This blockbuster quantity blows the lid off the world's so much infamous and talked-about superstar demise, and within the method exposes not just the reality approximately an iconic star's tragic ultimate hours, but in addition how a mythical American baby-kisser used strong assets to guard what many nonetheless understand as his untarnished popularity.

By John A. Cassara, Chip Poncy

Uncover the monetary fraud that money terrorist organizations

Trade-Based funds Laundering is an authoritative exam of this burgeoning phenomenon, now coming less than scrutiny within the conflict on Terror. This e-book walks you thru the indicators and styles of trade-based cash laundering (TBML) that can assist you realize it while it happens, and indicates you ways facts and analytics can be utilized to realize it. you will study the typical worth move recommendations together with bill fraud, over-and-under invoicing, and misrepresentation, and study why analytic detection platforms have not begun to be applied regardless of the life of copious facts. Case experiences from world wide spotlight the real-life implications of the strategies and strategies provided within the textual content, supplying you with a first-hand view of the mechanisms at paintings within this increasing unlawful marketplace.

Trade-based cash laundering makes use of exchange to transform huge amounts of illicit money into much less conspicuous resources or commodities to circumvent monetary transparency legislation and rules. As an awesome investment mechanism for terrorist teams, the perform is getting extra consciousness at the same time it raises in scale and unfold. This e-book takes you deep within TBML to higher arm you opposed to its prevalence.

• Learn the common price move ideas of TBML
• Examine case stories detailing foreign examples
• Discover why associations have didn't enforce detection systems
• Explore ways that analytics can determine TBML

According to the U.S. nation division, TBML has reached brilliant proportions in recent times, and is taken into account through many to be the following frontier of overseas cash laundering enforcement. Trade-Based cash Laundering provides a conflict plan, with professional perception and real-world tips.

By William Norris

The abduction and homicide of Charles Lindbergh's boy or girl son, and the following trial and execution of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, were a resource of fascination for greater than 70 years. Now, for the 1st time, William Norris delves into assets of data overlooked via earlier investigators and is derived up with the identification of the real wrongdoer.

By Michael Forwell, Lee Bullman

On 29 June 1988 Michael Forwell (aka The Fox) had all of it - quickly autos and speedboats, a nightclub in Bangkok, houses around the globe. And a boat heading in the direction of California wearing seventy two a whole bunch high-grade Thai marijuana, his final deal ahead of going immediately. On 30 June the DEA seized the send within the greatest dope bust in heritage . . . and extremely quickly Michael had not anything in any respect.

By Michele R. McPhee

Neil gave the impression of a dream come real for Rachel: a good-looking, impeccably mannered, success-oriented Englishman, the fairytale husband she had dreamed of assembly. by the point Neil and Rachel Entwistle have been husband and spouse, residing the nice lifestyles in a brand new England city, it used to be too past due to wager the reality: that underneath Neil's beauty and manners used to be a deceit and darkness...

On a iciness day in 2006, police got here to the Entwistle domestic and located the decomposing our bodies of twenty-seven-year-old Rachel and their nine-month previous daughter Lillian Rose. Rachel have been shot within the head. Lillian within the belly. And Neil was once long past. quickly, gurus could commence a determined seek that might take them around the Atlantic to discover Neil...and convey him to trial for the killing of his kin.

Heartless is the surprising tale of Neil Entwistle's cold-blooded homicide of his spouse and child.

By A.E. Maxwell

By Steven Fielding

Among them, the 3 males within the fearsome Pierrepoint dynasty done over 800 humans in the course of a profession spanning greater than part a century. Henry, his brother Thomas, and his son Albert, dispatched the most notorious criminals of the 20 th century, and within the technique earned a public notoriety that them all through their eventful lives.For years, the 3 males have been confronted with the duty -- prestigious to a few, awful to many others -- of being the final aspect of touch for the in charge and condemned. The Pierrepoints done criminals the country over prior to vacationing to many nations together with Egypt and postwar Germany, the place they hanged Nazi struggle criminals, and received a name because the world's most threatening practitioners of the paintings of hanging."Pierrepoint: A family members of Executioners" recounts the exciting tales of the 3 males and the impression that their macabre profession had on their own lives. This definitive consultant is full of stunning within stories from the professional files and diaries saved via the Pierrepoint relations. With revealing insights into the serious contention among fellow executioners, new mild is shed at the menacing international of years passed by.

By Marvin J. Wolf

Rotten Apples is a completely investigated treasure of actual crime directly from the streets of the town that by no means Sleeps. This bushel of vice, sufferers, and vengeance spotlights sinister voters from Boss Tweed and Typhoid Mary to Mark David Chapman and Jack Henry Abbot, plus distinct map references to steer you to the destinations the place they devoted their grisly crimes. you can be surprised by...

Murder via Morphine
Playboy scientific pupil Carlyle Harris was once wanting to finish his mystery marriage to a fine looking younger girl from the incorrect facet of the tracks. A deadly prescription looked to be simply what death's health care professional ordered. however the eyes of a corpse by no means lie...

Goodbar, As In Nuts
Roseann Quinn was once a tender, appealing schoolteacher dwelling the carefree singles lifetime of the early seventies on Manhattan's higher West aspect. the boys she took domestic have been strictly one-night stands, yet one in every of them made definite he left his mark on her--eighteen times...

Son of Sam
For greater than a yr, the fellow dubbed " The .44 quality Killer" held the town paralyzed with worry: spraying demise from the muzzle of a high-powered handgun, murdering and maiming greater than a dozen younger women and men, bold New York's best to finish his bloody spree, and touching off the most important manhunt in manhattan felony background. in spite of everything, he acknowledged the satan made him do it...

And--if you're thinking that you could take it--much, a lot more...

By Tim Carey

Between 1923 and 1954 the Irish nation performed twenty-nine humans convicted of homicide. just about all executions have been performed within the hanghouse of Mountjoy criminal through contributors of the Pierrepoint family members. the usually stunning and interesting tales of those males and one girl were principally forgotten. Their continues to be lie in the back of criminal partitions as unusual testaments to an deserted shape of punishment. between these buried in Mountjoy are Bernard Kirwan, convicted of killing his brother, notwithstanding a physique used to be by no means conclusively pointed out. Kirwan's presence in Mountjoy felony and his execution encouraged Brendan Behan's play 'The Quare Fellow'. additionally there lie Henry McCabe, convicted of killing six humans in a home in Malahide, and Annie Walsh, convicted of murdering her husband for reimbursement cash. Few had ever been convicted of against the law prior to every one used to be convicted of the main critical of all. The voices of a few appear to whisper from the unmarked graves that it used to be no longer they who conducted the...