Murder in Baker Company: How Four American Soldiers Killed One of Their Own
by Cilla McCain
Upon returning to the United States after surviving one of the Iraq War’s bloodiest battles, Army Specialist Richard T. Davis was reported AWOL. But Richard was not AWOL; he was dead. On July 14, 2003, within hours of his return to Fort Benning, he was mercilessly tortured and murdered. Four members of his own platoon were arrested for the crime. In Murder in Baker Company, Cilla McCain retraces the events of the case, providing a disturbing, eye-opening look at the problems within today’s military. Not only an exploration of a heinous murder, the book is also a warning and a call to action for U.S. citizens.
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Blood Secrets
by Rod Englert
America’s fascination with CSI and detective work is well-documented and present in all forms of media, yet the public seldom gains access to the methodology used. In Blood Secrets: Chronicles of a Crime Scene Reconstructionist, blood-spatter guru Rod Englert will introduce the reader to what the experts zero in on - and sometimes miss - at a crime scene.
Part autobiography, part casebook, Blood Secrets will offer up what Rod has learned about blood along the way, his field tests and experiments, and the crucial keys to deciphering the secret language of bloodshed. Award-winning writer and reporter Kathy Passero helps to capture Englert’s voice in Blood Secrets, a thrilling ride through the most fascinating cases in a lifetime of reconstruction work.
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Between Good and Evil: Hunting Society's Most Violent Predators
by Roger L. Depue with Susan Schindehette
New York Times Bestseller
The FBI's former top serial killer hunter shares his unique perspective as both a lawman and a member of the clergy counseling convicts, revealing the dangerously thin line between good and evil.
Roger L. Depue spent decades tracking down America's most depraved criminals. First as a small town police chief, then as a S.W.A.T. team member, and ultimately as head of the FBI's famed Behavioral Sciences Unit - the unit responsible for profiling and hunting serial killers where he pioneered revolutionary law enforcement programs and techniques that remain in use today by the FBI and police departments across the globe. In his quest to comprehend the true nature of good and evil, Depue embarked on a mid-career spiritual sabbatical to become a Brother of the Missionaries of the Holy Apostles, counseling maximum-security inmates. With his combined experiences as both a law enforcement professional and a member of the clergy, Depue explores the criminal mind and soul as no one has ever done before.
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Donnie Brasco: Unfinished Business
by Joe Pistone with Charles Brandt
When FBI Special Agent Joe Pistone began what was supposed to be a six-month operation infiltrating New York’s Bonanno crime family in 1975, he had no idea what was about to happen. Posing as jewel thief "Donnie Brasco,” Pistone would spend the next six years undercover in the Family, witnessing - and sometimes participating in - the Mafia’s gruesome activities while gathering enough evidence to send over 200 gangsters to jail. Pistone told his story in the 1988 book Donnie Brasco - a New York Times bestseller and later a feature film starring Johnny Depp and Al Pacino. But because of pending trials at the time of publication, many details of the alleged crimes were omitted.
Now, in Donnie Brasco: Unfinished Business, Pistone for the first time reveals with great detail the horrific deeds of wiseguys Tony Mirra, Lefty Ruggiero, Sonny Black, and the rest of the cold-blooded Bonanno crew. He puts the operation into historical perspective, detailing the timeline of mafia trials from 1981 through 2005 that crippled the New York City crime family. He also recounts his experiences after the operation, his time on the Hollywood set with Pacino and Depp, and other undercover operations through present day.
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The Last Gangster
by George Anastasia
New York Times Bestseller
For 35 years, Ron Previte roamed the underworld. A six-foot, 300-pound capo in the Philadelphia-South Jersey crime family, he ran every mob scam and gambit from drug trafficking, prostitution, and extortion to flimflams that cost an Atlantic City casino millions. By the 1990s, Previte, an old-school workhorse, found himself answering to younger mob bosses like "Skinny Joey" Merlino, who seemed increasingly spoiled, cocky and careless. Convinced that the honor of the "business" was gone, he became the FBI's secret weapon in an intense and highly personalized war on the Philadelphia mob.
As a cop, he was corrupt; as a mobster, he was brutal. Yet as a confidential informant to the FBI, Previte was deadly. The Last Gangster is the story of his life, of the last days of the Philadelphia mob, and of the clash of generations that brought it down once and for all. Drawing on the words of mobsters themselves, George Anastasia tells Previte's story for the first time. Unflinching and enthralling, The Last Gangster is the true story of how the once monolithic, highly organized, powerful and secretive mob was defeated by its own hand.
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When the Husband Is the Suspect
by F. Lee Bailey and Jean Rabe
F. Lee Bailey takes the stand with Jean Rabe in When the Husband Is the Suspect. Based on his phenomenally successful career as one of America's legendary trial lawyers, F. Lee Bailey explores the recent spate of spousal homicides which have grabbed the public interest with names such as Sam Shepherd, Scott Peterson and Michael Schiavo garnering national attention.
Bailey, the bestselling author of The Defense Never Rests, reveals his behind-the-scenes insights into some of America's most legendary courtroom battles, including the trials of Sam Shepherd and O.J. Simpson.
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First We'll Kill My Husband
by Lyn Riddle
Lyn Riddle returns with an astounding new true story of the only woman on Georgia’s Death Row. Gulf War Veteran Doug Gissendaner was known for his generosity and consideration, but in First We’ll Kill My Husband, Lyn tells how his own wife plotted his demise. From the hold Kelly had over a good and decent man to her controversial trial, Riddle captures the manipulations of a woman bent on murder.
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Without a Badge: Undercover in the World's Deadliest Crime Organization
by Jerry Speziale
In this mesmerizing true story, career cop Jerry Speziale chronicles his fast living years as one of the youngest recruits for the DEA's task force on drug -- an unimaginable odyssey of undercover intrigue, Colombian kingpins, amazing takedowns and nerve-jangling narrow escapes.
Speziale was recruited by the Drug Enforcement Administration and assigned to an elite drug task force whose main purpose was to infiltrate and dismantle the powerful Cali drug cartel. After learning the ropes, Speziale discovered that his informant was betraying him all along.
By turns harrowing and heroic, compelling and inspiring, Jerry Speizale's story reads like a Hollywood thriller. It's a white-knuckle ride into a world few people ever see, a decent into the netherworld of Colombia's deadly drug cartels. And it's a rare glimpse into the back rooms of justice where the country's finest put their lives on the line every day, never forgetting their duty... or its consequences.
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The Last Godfather: The Rise and Fall of Joey Massino
by Simon Crittle
Joseph Massino was the ultimate Don.
As head of the Bonanno crime family, Joseph Massino was smart, cautious and treacherous. He ran a nice side business out of his New York City restaurant. The Feds say it included extortion, loan sharking, gambling, narcotics and murder - a criminal empire that had its root back in the Sicilian motherland. Massino was definitely big time.
He honored the classic code - of trust, loyalty, silence. Until he was indicted for murder...
The last Five Family Don in operation, he was taken down in 2004 for seven brutal murders. Only then did he agree to wear a wire to slip his way out of the death penalty. News of his cooperation sent waves of panic throughout the underworld and once again made him the most feared mobster alive. And the very first New York boss to break the American Mafia’s 100-year-old vow of silence.
It would become one of the most explosive, important, and historic courtroom dramas in criminal history. This revealing book tells the story - and gives a look inside a world of organized crime that we may never see again.
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Double Deal: The Inside Story of Murder, Unbridled Corruption, and the Cop who was a Mobster
by Michael Corbitt and Sam Giancana
New York Times Bestseller
A true story of murder, unbridled corruption, and the cop who was a mobster.
Michael Corbitt - along with Sam Giancana, the godson and namesake of the former Chicago mob boss - tells the gritty often gruesome, personal account of how he slipped between the deadly, conflicting worlds of cop and mobster with terrifying, almost schizophrenic ease. Among the astonishing, news-making revelations:
- The man who called for Sam Giancana's murder - and who carried it out.
- The new "clean" Las Vegas and its dirty secrets. An eyewitness account of the millions still being skimmed by organized crime from major casinos.
- The Mob's involvement in Central and South America, the Phillipines, Israel and the Middle East, and its ties to covert CIA activities around the world.
Michael Corbitt was a highly decorated officer while on the Mob's payroll. After serving more than 11 years in prison and refusing to testify against organized crime figures, he began working undercover to help the FBI investigate organized crime. Sam Giancana is the co-author of the New York Times bestseller Double Cross.
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Evidence Dismissed
by Tom Lange and Philip Vannatter
New York Times bestseller
In this astonishing book, veteran LAPD detectives Tom Lange and Philip Vannatter - the leaders of the investigation into the Brown/Goldman double murder - fully chronicle the police case that brought O.J. Simpson to trial. Here for the first time are the plain facts of this sensational case, recounted in the kind of riveting detail only the detectives on the scene could deliver. And this is also the disturbing story of how solid, professional police work became evidence dismissed.
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Execution Eve
by William J. Buchanan
Execution Eve has been optioned by Fun Bunch Inc. to be produced as a feature film.
In a story reminiscent of Dead Man Walking, the brutal murder of professional golf star Marion Miley and her mother enraged the nation. People were finally quieted when three men were arrested, tried and convicted. But on the night of their scheduled execution, the warden, "hang 'em high" lawman Jesse Buchanan is unsure of one prisoner's guilt. His actions would change his life forever and alter the course of capital punishment in America.
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