Fleming, Candace
Summary: How did two teenagers brutally murder an innocent child ... and why? And how did their brilliant lawyer save them from the death penalty in 1920s Chicago? Written by a prolific master of narrative nonfiction, this is a compulsively readable true-crime story based on an event dubbed the "crime of the century." In 1924, eighteen-year-old college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb made a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anne Schwartz Books 2022
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Summary: "I the span of fifteen years, Dr. Thomas Neill Cream murdered as many as ten people in the United States, Britain, and Canada. Poison was his weapon of choice. Structured around the doctor's London murder trial in 1892, The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream exposes the blind trust given to the medical practitioners, as well as the flawed detection methods, bungled investigations, corrupt...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC JOBMiles, Kathryn
Summary: May 1996. Lollie Winans and Julie Williams entered Virginia's Shenandoah National Park for a week-long backcountry camping trip. The couple had met and fallen in love the previous summer while working at an outdoor program for women. During their final days in the park, they descended the narrow remnants of a trail and pitched their tent in a hidden spot. After the pair did not return home as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 364.152 MILKari, Doug
Summary: "On January 6, 1986, Barry and Louise Berman set out for a stroll and never returned. Despite extensive investigations by local and federal authorities, the double homicide of the Kahlua heir and his wife remains unsolved"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 2024
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Summary: "Kristine S. Ervin was just eight years old when her mother, Kathy Sue Engle, was abducted from an Oklahoma mall parking lot and violently murdered in an oil field. First, there was grief. Then the desire to know: what happened to her, what she felt in her last terrible moments, and all she was before these acts of violence defined her life. In her mother's absence, Ervin tries to reconstruct a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2024