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Anniversaries Basilica of St. Adalbert (Grand Rapids, Mich.) Catholic Church Michigan Grand Rapids Centennial celebrations, etc Catholic Church. Cold cases (Criminal investigation) Michigan Grand Rapids Rape victims United States Biography Rapists Ridgway, Gary Leon 1949- Serial murderersRae-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 RAEConnors, Joanna
Summary: Setting out to uncover the story of her attacker, Connors embarked on a journey to find out who he was, where he came from, who his friends were and what his life was like. What she discovers stretches beyond one violent man's story and back into her own, interweaving a narrative about strength and survival with one about rape culture and violence in America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CONNORS, JOANNA CONRule, Ann
Summary: Traces the serial murders of the notorious Green River Killer, profiling Gary Ridgway as a happily married man who worked for the same company for thirty years, the case's approximate 40,000 suspects, the killer's disturbing capacity for luring and hiding his victims, and the DNA breakthroughs that established his link to the killings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.1523 RULGriffin, Laura
Summary: "Forensic genealogist Rowan Healy has made a name for herself by helping investigators trace the family trees of violent criminals who have eluded justice for years. But the pressure of police cases left her burned out, and she's shifted her focus to helping adoptees find their biological parents. Austin detective Jack Bruner has spent his career successfully tracking down vicious criminals --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC GRICrawford, Lacy
Summary: "When the elite St. Paul's School recently came under state investigation after extensive reports of sexual abuse on campus, Lacy Crawford thought she'd put behind her the assault she'd suffered at St. Paul's decades before, when she was fifteen. Still, when detectives asked for victims to come forward, she sent a note. Her criminal case file reopened, she saw for the first time evidence that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CRAWFORD, LACY CRACopies Available at Peninsula
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Contents: The problem -- Deception -- Techniques of deception -- Child molesters -- Rapists -- Sadists -- Psychopaths: fooling people for the thrill of it -- Staff seductions -- Rose-colored glasses and trauma -- Detecting deception -- Protecting our children and ourselves : deflecting sex offenders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.153 SALDykstra, 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 DYKBuhk, Tobin T.
Summary: While the River City is known for its history of furniture making, it also has a sinister side. Jennie Flood was a widow with a get-rich scheme that involved a shotgun and an insurance application. Reverend Ferris went undercover in his war against the citys purveyors of vice. The police rounded up the usual suspects in an attempt to solve the infamous 1921 bank heist that led to the slaying of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The History Press 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.1523 BUHHendry, Fay L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Iota Press 1980
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.7456 HENSkendzel, Eduard Adam.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenville Print. Co. 1980
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.377456 SkendzelHarkema, Graci
Summary: A diversity, equity and inclusion expert committed to empowering employees to perform to their potential as their true selves traces her own path to finding her place in the world, revisiting her experience growing up as an adoptee from the Congo in GrandRapids, Michigan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Two 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARKEMA, GRACI HARBianco, Frank
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paragon House 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 255.125 BIAPorter, Bill
Summary: n 1989, Bill Porter, having spent much of his life studying and translating Chinese religious and philosophical texts, began to wonder if the Buddhist hermit tradition still existed in China. At the time, it was believed that the Cultural Revolution had dealt a lethal blow to all religions in China, destroying countless temples and shrines, and forcibly returning thousands of monks and nuns to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 294.3 POROkrent, Daniel
Summary: Eugenicist arguments ranking the presumed genetic virtue of various ethnic groups helped keep hundreds of thousands of Jews, Italians, and other unwanted groups out of the United States for more than forty years. By 1921 Vice President Calvin Coolidge declared that 'biological laws' had proven the inferiority of southern and eastern Europeans; the restrictive law that remained U.S. policy until...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Basilica? 1980