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Criminal psychology Criminal psychology Case studies Hicks, Albert W approximately 1820-1860 Meurtre Aspect psychologique Études de cas Meurtriers Psychologie Études de cas Murder Murder Psychological aspects Murder Psychological aspects Case studies Murderers Psychology Murderers Psychology Case studiesMcDiarmid, Jessica
Summary: In the vein of the astonishing and eye-opening bestsellers <i>I'll Be Gone in the Dark <i>and <i>The Line Becomes a River<i>, this stunning work of investigative journalism follows a series of unsolved disappearances and murders of Indigenous women in rural British Columbia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.88 MCDCohen, Rich
Summary: Over three months in the summer before the Civil War, New York suffered a massacre, a flight, a manhunt, and a trial, all of which kept the nation riveted and remade Albert Hicks, the last pirate of New York, into a celebrated antihero. For years Hicks operated out of the public eye, rambling from crime to crime. In 1860 he was hired, under an alias, as a hand on an oyster sloop. His plan was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau, an imprint of Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1092 COHButcher, Barbara
Summary: "Reflecting on twenty years of investigating more than 5,500 death scenes, an NYC death investigator, the second woman ever hired for this role, shares how, in dealing with death every day, she learned surprising lessons about life--and how some of those lessons saved her from becoming a statistic herself"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BUTCHER, BARBARA BUTHale, Grace Elizabeth
Summary: An award-winning scholar of white supremacy tackles her toughest research assignment yet: the unsolved murder of a black man in rural Mississippi while her grandfather was the local sheriff--a cold case that sheds new light on the hidden legacy of racial terror in America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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Summary: Some true crimes reveal themselves in bits and pieces over time. One such case is the Florida School for Boys, a.k.a. the Dozier School, a place where--rather than reforming the children in their care--school officials tortured, raped, and killed them. Opened in 1900, the school closed in 2011 after a Department of Justice investigation substantiated allegations of routine beatings and killings...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twenty-First Century Books, an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 365 MURCoen, Jeff
Summary: Chicago Police Detective James Sherlock was CPD through-and-through. He thought he had seen it all-- until he went to the records center to see the case file for the murder of John Hughes. Seventeen years old when he was gunned down on Chicago's Southwest Side in 1976, Hughes's case had threads that led everywhere: Police corruption. Hints of the Chicago Outfit. A crooked judge. Even the belief...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2021
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Summary: "What goes through the mind of a killer when they commit murder? Based on the massively successful Netflix documentary series of the same name, this book features ten of the most compelling cases from the series and is full of exclusive never-seen-before material. In each of the cases the inmate speaks openly about themselves and reflects on their life and their crimes. To gain a complete...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2023