Summary: What compels a seemingly normal person to disregard a fundamental societal principle and commit murder? In this disturbing program, correspondent Steve Aveson reports on recent scientific research into the behavior of killers. An exclusive interview with serial killer Joel Rifkin, convicted of strangling 17 women, is combined with neurological testing, brain scans, and even information derived...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Nugent, Ted.
Contents: Journey to the center of the mind -- Baby please don't go -- Psalms of aftermath -- Colors -- Down on Phillips escalator -- Night time -- Mississippi murderer -- Scottish tea - Dr. Slingshot -- Flight of the bird -- Why is a carrot more orange than a orange -- Saint' Phillips friend -- You talk sunshine, I breathe fire -- Migration -- Prodigal man -- Good natured Emma -- For his namesake --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Music Entertainment Inc. 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK NugSummary: Fingerprint analysis, crime scene photography, the fine art of grave digging-these are only a few of the highlights on the path to mastering forensic science. This program follows the progress of students in the respected Forensic Science department at the University of Central Lancashire. As part of the Forensic Anthropology course, a third-year student has to put himself in the mind-set of a...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Reid, William H.
Summary: "On July 20, 2012 in Aurora, Colorado, a man in dark body armor and a gas mask entered a midnight premiere of The Dark Knight Rises with a tactical shotgun, a high-capacity assault rifle, and a sidearm. He threw a canister of tear gas into the crowd and began firing. Soon twelve were dead and fifty-eight were wounded; young children and pregnant women were among them. The man was found calmly...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 REISummary: Detective Superintendent Peter Boyd and his cold case team tackle their cases with a new colleague, Sarah Cavendish, a brilliant ex-counter-terrorism officer who has fallen from grace. Will she help or hinder the team₂s searches for a killer with a twisted mind; the perpetrators of crippling state childcare; and the murderer of a veteran-turned-peace activist, rumored to have been killed by the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WAKJames, P. D.
Summary: Adam Dalgliesh was called to the elegant Steen Psychiatric Clinic to investigate why the body of Enid Bolan was found with a chisel through her heart.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner Paperback Fiction 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAMHeaberlin, Julia
Summary: "An elderly man with dementia, once acquitted of a terrible murder and suspected in many others, is removed from his assisted-living facility by a woman he does not recognize--a woman who claims to be his long-lost daughter. She takes him on a road trip across Texas, searching for answers to her own burning questions. Following the paths of vanished women, she attempts to discover the truth...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HEASummary: Inspector Marie Brand is back on the murder beat working with the self-described ladies' man Jürgen Simmel. It's a May/December spring that works: he's tolerant of her eccentricities once he comprehends the scope of her brilliance and she needs a little protection along with the common sense and physicality he brings to investigations. Together they are an entertaining German dream team,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MARVan de Wetering, Janwillem
Summary: Grijpstra and de Gier begin a search that leads to the unidentified corpse of a man stuffed into the trunk of a stolen Mercedes, but can't locate the body of Mrs. Fortune. Tracking a killer without a corpse and a corpse without a killer, the Amsterdam cops finally arrive at the bare truth.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Soho 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANAdams, Jane
Summary: The murder of a student re-opens a series of cold cases in this intriguing mystery. A young student is found brutally murdered in her room, killed while her flatmates slept nearby. The police soon recognize that this is frighteningly similar to a crime committed fifteen years before. A crime investigated by the now discredited Detective Inspector Joe Jackson, but never solved. Other deaths,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADAGrecian, Alex.
Summary: "Scotland Yard's Murder Squad faces the most shocking case of its existence, in the extraordinary new historical thriller from the author of the acclaimed national bestseller The Yard. London, 1890. Four vicious murderers have escaped from prison, part of a plan gone terribly wrong, and now it is up to Walter Day, Nevil Hammersmith, and the rest of Scotland Yard's Murder Squad to hunt down the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014