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Humes, Edward

Summary: "After 30 years, Detective Jim Scharf arrested a teenage couple's murderer-and exposed a looming battle between the pursuit of justice and the right to privacy. When Tanya Van Cuylenborg and Jay Cook were murdered during a trip to Seattle in the 1980s, detectives had few leads. The murder weapon was missing. No one witnessed any suspicious activity. And there was only a single handprint on the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.25 HUM

Rae-Venter, Barbara

Summary: "The amateur DNA sleuth who solved one of the most infamous cold cases in American history-the Golden State Killer crime spree-tells the incredible true story of how she did it, and explains how her methods have forever changed criminal investigations. In the span of just a few years, Barbara Rae-Venter went from researching her family history as a retiree to finding a serial killer who had...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 RAE

Nest, Michael Wallace

Summary: "A small team uncovers new evidence and exposes police failure in one of the North's most enduring missing persons cases. Missing persons. Double murder? Métis leader James Brady was one of the most famous Indigenous activists in Canada. A communist, strategist, and bibliophile, he led Métis and First Nations to rebel against government and church oppression. Brady's success made politicians...

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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Regina Press, University of Regina 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.2 NES

Browne, Mike

Summary: "Mike Browne, host of the popular Canadian podcast Dark Poutine, chronicles some of his all-time favourite stories of true crime and dark history from Canada and around the world. Divided into four sections --Murders with a Twist, Perpetual Puzzles, The Madness of Crowds and Notable Disasters -- all the stories in this collection (except two) are brand new and haven't been covered by the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Collins 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 BRO

Mitchell, Jerry

Summary: "An award-winning investigative reporter shares the real-life detective story of how Klansmen came to justice in notorious unsolved civil rights cold cases--decades after they had gotten away with murder"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 MIT

Slaughter, Karin

Summary: Una chica con un secreto ... Long Beach, 1982. Emily Vaughn se alista para su baile de graduación. Para una atleta que además es inteligente, bella y apreciada, esta noche debería ser lo más memorable de su paso por la secundaria. Pero Emily guarda un secreto. Y al final de la velada, alguien la silenciará para siempre. Un homicidio sin resolver ... Cuarenta años después, el asesinato de Emily...

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Español 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 SPANISH SLA

Cooper, Becky

2 holds on 2 copies

Summary: "1969: the height of counterculture and the year universities would seek to curb the unruly spectacle of student protest the winter that Harvard University would begin the tumultuous process of merging with Radcliffe, its all-female sister school and the year that Jane Britton, an ambitious 23-year-old graduate student in Harvard's Anthropology Department and daughter of Radcliffe Vice...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2020

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.152 COO

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 COO

Brown, Vanessa

Summary: "Fifty years ago, a serial killer prowled the quiet city of London, Ontario, marking it as his hunting grounds. As young women and boys were abducted, raped, and murdered, residents of the area held their loved ones closer and closer, terrified of the monster -- or monsters -- stalking the streets. Homicide detective Dennis Alsop began hunting the killer in the 1960s, and he didn't stop...

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Publisher / Publication Date: ECW Press 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 BRO

Dykstra, Katherine

Summary: "A riveting investigation into a cold case asks how much control women have over their bodies and the direction of their lives. In July 1970, eighteen-year-old Paula Oberbroeckling left her house in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and never returned. A cold case for fifty years, Paula's story had been largely forgotten when Katherine Dykstra began looking for answers. A woman was dead. Why had no one been...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W W. Norton & Company 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.25 DYK

Summary: In 1961, Secretary General of the UN Dag Hammarskjold died in a plane crash in Northern Rhodesia while en route to ceasefire negotiations between non-combatant UN forces and troops from the breakaway state of Katanga. What started as conspiracy theories have evolved into a growing consensus that Hammarskjold and fifteen other people were shot down, inciting the UN to reopen the case on the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF COL

Norton, Laurah

Summary: "Fans of true crime shows like CSI, NCIS, Criminal Minds, and Law and Order know that when it comes to "getting the bad guy" behind bars, your best chance of success boils down to the strength of your evidence-and the forensic science used to obtain it. Beyond the silver screen, forensic science has been used for decades to help solve even the most tough-to-crack cases. In 2018, the accused...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.25 NOR

Bowden, Mark

Summary: Cold case detectives solve the 1975 disappearance of two pre-teen girls in suburban Washington, DC.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic 2019

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.152 BOW

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 BOW

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 BOW

Clark, Mary Higgins

Summary: Laurie is now an award-winning TV producer. She is still haunted by her husband's murder. Laurie and her TV crew have just received the green light to produce a new 'cold case' series. Revisiting unsolved crimes one at a time, she and her TV crew will gather a victim's friends and family, who have lived under suspicion of guilt for many years. By getting paid to reenact the crime on TV, each...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2014

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CLA

McNamara, Michelle

Summary: "A masterful true crime account of the Golden State Killer-- the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California for over a decade-- from Michelle McNamara, the gifted journalist who died tragically while investigating the case. For more than ten years, a mysterious and violent predator committed fifty sexual assaults in Northern California before moving south, where he...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 MCN

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 MCN

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: 364 MCN

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.15 MCN

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Crime Mur McNamara

Jackson, Holly

3 holds on 3 copies

Summary: After solving the murder case together, Ravi Singh helped Pip create a podcast that soon went viral, but they both swear off sleuthing. When Jamie Reynolds goes missing on the sixth anniversary of the deaths of Andie Bell and Sal Singh, however, Pip feels it's too big of a coincidence to ignore. With the spotlight on her, can she still follow the clues and uncover even more sinister depths to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2021

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Mann, William J.

Summary: Hollywood chronicler William J. Mann draws on a rich host of sources, including recently released FBI files, to unpack the story of the enigmatic William Desmond Taylor, the popular president of the Motion Picture Directors Association, and the diverse cast that surrounded him before he was murdered in 1922-- including three beautiful, ambitious actresses, the ruthless founder of Paramount...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 MAN

Rule, Ann.

Summary: Collects true crime stories about sociopaths who kill ruthlessly, including the tale of a sea captain who is tricked into marriage and cheated out of his fortune by the mother of his illegitimate children before being murdered by her and her brother.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2006

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.2 Rule,

Deveraux, Jude

Summary: "Retired romance novelist Sara Medlar has been comfortably sharing her large home with her niece Kate and her "honorary grandson" Jack. It's a convenient arrangement given the Medlar Three, as they've become known, are often working closely together to solve mysteries in their small town of Lachlan, Florida. But when real estate agent Kate announces she's been given the listing for the town's...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024

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Jance, J. A. (Judith A.)

Summary: "Driven by a compulsion that challenges his self-control, the man calling himself Charles Milton prowls the rodeo circuit, hunting young women. For years, he has been meticulous in his methods, abducting, murdering, and disposing of his victims while leaving no evidence of his crimes--or their identities--behind. Indigenous women have become his target of choice, knowing law enforcement's...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JAN

Patterson, James

Summary: Two true-crime tales relate the stories of a married woman who suspects her husband isn't who he says he is and a teenage girl who moves to Arizona and finds her perfect life is about to turn on its head.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 PAT

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 PAT

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 PAT

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 PAT

Sullivan, Tom

Summary: CASE NO. 002: THE ROCK. June 12, 1962. SAN FRANCISCO BAY, CALIFORNIA. 7:18 A.M. A corrections officer at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary tries to awaken inmate AZ-1441, Frank Morris. But when he shakes the unresponsive man, his head rolls off the pillow and crashes to the floor! Soon the guards realize that Morris and two other inmates, brothers John and Clarence Anglin, had done the seemingly...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, HarperAlley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 365.641 SUL

Branson, Jack.

Summary: Documents the painstaking efforts of some of the nation's most prolific cold case detectives, highlighting their most interesting--and baffling--cases.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Prometheus Books 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.25 BRA

Rule, Ann.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press/Thomson/Gale 2007

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 364.1523 RUL

Bentley, Don

Summary: "The quiet of a Texas night is shattered by the sounds of screeching brakes, crumpling metal and, most shockingly, rapid gunfire. The auto accident Jack Ryan Jr thought he witnessed turned out to be a professional hit. Jack may be too late to save the victim, but he'll be damned if he's going to let the hitters escape justice. He's got just one lead--a meeting the victim was going to. When Jack...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BEN

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