MacLean, Harry N.
Summary: "On January 21st, 1958, Charles Starkweather and his fourteen-year-old girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate changed the course of crime in the United States when they murdered her parents and sister in a house on the edge of Lincoln, Nebraska. They then drove to the nearby small town of Bennet, where they robbed and killed a farmer. When Starkweather's car broke down, the man and woman who stopped to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 MACPrice, Amy
Summary: When Amy Price took a temporary design job at an Art Deco hotel in Los Angeles to help a friend, she had no idea the path it would lead her down. Before long, she would become manager of the Cecil Hotel, seeking to make it more welcoming and correct its notoriety, not helped by sitting at the foot of Skid Row, or the fact that since its opening in 1927, there had been any number of deaths by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 647.94 PRIJones, Doug (G. Douglas)
Summary: "The story of the decades-long fight to bring justice to the victims of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, culminating in Senator Doug Jones' prosecution of the last living bombers. On September 15, 1963, the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama was bombed. The blast killed four young girls and injured twenty-two others. The FBI suspected four particularly radical Ku Klux Klan...
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Publisher / Publication Date: All Points Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.1196 JONLarkin, Deborah Holt
Summary: "Deborah Larkin was only ten years old when the quiet calm of her California suburb was shattered. Thirty miles north, on a quiet November night in Santa Barbara, a pregnant nurse named Olga Duncan disappeared from her apartment. The mystery deepens when it is discovered that Olga's mother in-law--a deeply manipulative and deceptive woman--had been doing everything in her power to separate Olga...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2022
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Summary: "Here's the complete Mona Lisa story which includes that of the world's most famous art theft for which Pablo Picasso was arrested as a suspect"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2024
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Summary: "A Los Angeles hotel with a haunting history. A missing young woman. A disturbing video followed by a shocking discovery. A cold-case mystery that has become an internet phenomenon--and for one determined journalist, a life-changing quest toward uncomfortable truths. Twenty-one-year-old Vancouver student Elisa Lam was last heard from on January 31, 2013, after she checked into downtown L.A.'s...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Citadel Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 ANDMontillo, Roseanne
Summary: Describes how author Truman Capote became obsessed with the true crime story of a Manhattan socialite who shot her banking heir husband in 1955, and discusses how publication of his book led to her suicide and his own scandalous downfall.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022
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Summary: "Like spies Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen before her, Ana Montes blindsided her colleagues with brazen acts of treason. For nearly 17 years, Montes succeeded in two high-stress jobs. By day, she was one of the government's top Cuba experts, a buttoned-down GS-14 with shockingly easy access to classified documents. By night, she was on the clock for Fidel Castro, listening to coded messages...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2023
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Summary: "On an April night in 1989, three small children perished in a Los Angeles apartment fire. Their young mother, Jo Ann Parks, escaped unharmed. Based on forensic evidence, Parks was later convicted, sentenced to life in prison without parole. Now a young lawyer with the California Innocence Project is challenging the conviction and the so-called "science" behind it"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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Summary: "One moonlit night, fourteen-year-old Reena Virk went to join friends at a party and never returned home ... Godfrey takes us into the hidden world of the seven teenage girls--and boy--accused of a savage murder"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2019
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Summary: Anna Delvey, a self-proclaimed German heiress, was generous, worldly and ambitious. Then she asked her new friend Williams to join her on an all-expenses-paid trip to Marrakech at the five-star La Mamounia hotel. Anna's credit cards mysteriously stopped working, and Anna asked Williams to begin fronting costs-- for flights, meals and shopping, and, finally, for their $7,500-per-night private...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.16 WILRamsland, Katherine M.
Summary: Elmer Wayne Henley, Jr. was only fourteen when he first became entangled with serial rapist and murderer Dean Corll in 1971. Fellow Houston, Texas, teenager David Brooks had already been ensnared by the charming older man, bribed with cash to help lure boys to Corll's home. When Henley unwittingly entered the trap, Corll evidently sensed he'd be of more use as a second accomplice than another...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crime Ink 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 RAMAbrams, Dan
Summary: At the end of the summer of 1859, twenty-two-year-old Peachy Quinn Harrison went on trial for murder in Springfield, Illinois. Abraham Lincoln was hired to defend him. This was to be his last great case as a lawyer. The case posed painful personal challenges for Lincoln. The murder victim had trained for the law in his office, and Lincoln had been his friend and his mentor. His accused killer,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.7 ABRMitchell, 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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Summary: "A groundbreaking portrait of Vincent Chin and the murder case that took America's Asian American community to the streets in protest of injustice. America in 1982. Japanese car companies are on the rise and believed to be putting American autoworkers out of their jobs. Anti-Asian American sentiments simmer, especially in Detroit. A bar fight turns fatal, leaving Vincent Chin--a Chinese...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company 2021