By Steven Johnson, Heath McCoy, Irv Muchnick, Greg Oliver

ISBN-10: 1550228129

ISBN-13: 9781550228120

The lifestyles and alarming loss of life of acclaimed specialist wrestler Chris Benoit are explored during this well timed and exhaustive biography. In June 2007 Benoit devoted suicide after killing his spouse and son, and the media assurance surrounding this event—as good because the evidence of the case and its results on specialist wrestling—are all greatly addressed. Benoit’s lifestyles sooner than and through his professional wrestling occupation is tested, as is his major influence at the wrestling global and common reputation. This close-up examine certainly one of seasoned wrestling’s maximum and so much lamented figures additionally provides where of his tragedy within the darker facet of wrestling’s history.

By Paul Collins

ISBN-10: 0307592227

ISBN-13: 9780307592224

"No author larger articulates our curiosity within the confluence of wish, eccentricity, and the timelessness of the daring and unusual than Paul Collins."--DAVE EGGERS
 
On ny, a farmer reveals a duck pond became pink with blood. at the reduce East facet, boys taking part in at a pier find a floating human torso wrapped tightly in oilcloth. Blueberry pickers close to Harlem bump into smartly severed limbs in an overgrown ditch. Clues to a frightening crime are turning up in every single place manhattan, however the police are baffled: There are not any witnesses, no factors, no suspects.
 
The grisly unearths that begun at the afternoon of June 26, 1897, plunged detectives
headlong into the era's so much baffling homicide secret. Seized upon by means of scuffling with media moguls Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, the case turned a exposure circus. Reenactments of the homicide have been staged in occasions sq., armed newshounds lurked within the streets of Hell's Kitchen in pursuit of suspects, and an not likely trio--a hard-luck cop, a cub reporter, and an eccentric professor--all raced to unravel the crime.
 
What emerged used to be a sensational love triangle and an excellent extra sensational trial: an extraordinary capital case hinging on circumstantial proof round a sufferer whom the police couldn't establish with sure bet, and who the security claimed wasn't even lifeless. The homicide of the Century is a rollicking tale--a wealthy evocation of the US in the course of the Gilded Age and a colourful new version of the tabloid wars that experience ruled media to this day.
 

From the Hardcover edition.

By Andrew Cook

ISBN-10: 0752499815

ISBN-13: 9780752499819

The nice teach theft of 1963 is without doubt one of the such a lot notorious crimes in British heritage.

The bulk of the money stolen (equivalent to over £40 million this day) hasn't ever been recovered, and there has now not been a unmarried yr due to the fact 1963 whilst one element of the crime or its members has no longer been featured within the media.
Despite the wealth and volume of this insurance, a bunch of questions have remained unanswered: Who was once at the back of the theft? used to be it an within activity? And who obtained away with the crime of the century? Fifty years of selective falsehood and myth has obscured the truth of the tale in the back of the theft.
The incontrovertible fact that quite a few the unique research and prosecution records on these concerned and imagined to were concerned have been closed, in lots of circumstances till 2045, has in basic terms served to muddy the waters nonetheless extra.

Now, via Freedom of knowledge requests and the specific beginning of a lot of those documents, Andrew cook dinner finds a brand new photo of the crime and its research that, eventually, presents solutions to lots of those questions.

By James H. Bruton

ISBN-10: 1616738073

ISBN-13: 9781616738075

The warden tells all! "The mammoth House" is a daunting insiders examine existence in a world-famous, maximum-security criminal and the 1st to be informed from the wardens standpoint. enable Warden James H. Bruton lead you past the large coils of razor ribbon and into the cellphone blocks of a few of Americas most deadly prisoners. event the surprising fact of operating daily with murderers, robbers, rapists, and thieves. Meet the inmates who've killed or maimed and who may take human existence in a heartbeat. who're they, and what are all of them approximately? stroll inside of with the Warden to this global of incredible ferocity and numbing fact. event in photo element the bleak and sinister realities of legal lifestyles as you come back face-to-face with baby molesters, predators, drug smugglers, and gang participants. research the administration ideas of controlling the main violent and difficult-to-manage offenders in addition to why the staffs method of treating inmates has made Oak Park Heights supermax legal one of many most secure and safest prisons in lifestyles. in regards to the writer: Jim Bruton used to be the warden at Oak Park Heights for 5 years, from 1996-2001. He labored in correctional amenities for 14 years and has 35 years of expertise within the box of corrections. he's an accessory college member in legal Justice/Sociology at 5 dual towns colleges/universities.

By Tom Shachtman, Shiya Ribowsky

ISBN-10: 0061116246

ISBN-13: 9780061116247

A urban with 8 million humans has 8 million how you can die

For fifteen years, Shiya Ribowsky labored as a medicolegal investigator in ny City's scientific examiner's office—the greatest, such a lot refined association of its type on the earth. using his historical past in drugs, he led the investigations of greater than 8 thousand person deaths, changing into a key determine in a few of New York's such a lot strange loss of life instances and at last taking cost of the biggest forensic research ever tried: choosing the useless within the aftermath of the September eleven tragedies.

Now, during this enthralling publication, Ribowsky pulls again the curtain at the manhattan City's clinical examiner's place of work, giving a captivating, never-before-seen glimpse into dying and the town. Born and raised in manhattan City's orthodox Jewish group, Ribowsky turns out an not likely candidate for this macabre career. however he has forsaken a promising profession of clinical paintings with the dwelling, descending as an alternative into the world of the lifeless, enticed through the problem of confronting dying every day. Taking you thru the vermin-infested Bowery flophouses and posh higher East aspect residences of the city's useless, Ribowsky explores in grotesque aspect the skeletons that hold within the great Apple's closets. Combing in the course of the post-mortem room, he additionally exposes the bleak secrets and techniques that just a scalpel and a lifeless physique can inform and explains how forensic research doesn't only remedy crimes—it saves lives.

But it truly is within the aftermath of September eleven that the ME's place of work is passed its greatest problem: to spot as a few of the fallen as attainable. With poignant descriptions, Ribowsky presents a dramatic account of the office's diligent and unflappable paintings with the households of the sufferers, aiding them emerge from the ashes of this tragedy whereas exhibiting the energy, grit, intelligence, and compassion that americans count on from precise New Yorkers.

At as soon as compelling and heartbreaking, Dead heart is a narrative of recent York not like the other, mixing the haunting with the chic, whereas portray a amazing portrait of dying (and lifestyles) within the urban that by no means sleeps.

By M. William Phelps

ISBN-10: 0786032456

ISBN-13: 9780786032457

The crime shocked quiet Mineral Wells, Texas: 49-year-old Bob Dow shot execution-style in his personal mattress, his invalid mom locked within the subsequent room—and a cache of do-it-yourself porn starring the town's underage women. the 2 accused killers—teen fans Bobbi Jo Smith and Jennifer Jones—were at the run, cause on going out in a cross-country blaze of glory. M. William Phelps exposes a gripping story of sexploitation, lust, and betrayal, whereas wondering the court's fateful verdict in a tantalizing forensic puzzle. have been either women both to blame of homicide? Or used to be one purely a pawn within the other's dainty, blood-stained hands?

Includes sixteen Pages Of Dramatic images.

By Ram Tiwary

ISBN-10: 9814634751

ISBN-13: 9789814634755

On 15 September 2003, Singaporean scholars on the collage of recent South Wales in Sydney, Tony Tan Poh Chuan and Tay Chow Lyang, have been brutally murdered of their house. greater than 8 months later, their housemate and fellow Singaporean, Ram Tiwary, used to be arrested for his or her murders. even if Ram proclaimed innocence, he used to be stumbled on to blame in 2006 and sentenced to existence imprisonment. A winning allure overturned the conviction and provided him a retrial, which additionally ended in a responsible verdict in 2009. yet simply days after the second one allure in 2012, the recent South Wales court docket of felony allure overturned the 2009 conviction and acquitted him. He was once published after spending ninety nine months in greatest safety prison. What occurred within the court that forced the main senior judges within the nation to overturn homicide convictions inside of an afternoon of the hearings? From the police claims of 'losing' facts from facts safes, revelations within the court docket that the DPP had hidden...

By Randy Jurgensen,Robert Cea

ISBN-10: 1934708852

ISBN-13: 9781934708859

Circle of Six is the real tale of what's maybe the main infamous case within the background of the recent York Police division. It info Randy Jurgensen's made up our minds attempt to convey to justice the assassin of Patrolman Phillip Cardillo, who used to be shot and killed inside of Harlem's Mosque #7 in 1972, in the middle of an all-out attack at the NYPD from the Black Liberation military. the recent York of this period used to be a spot now not in contrast to the Wild West, within which police officers and criminals shot it out on an everyday basis.

Despite the mayhem at the streets and the Machiavellian corridors of Mayor Lindsay's urban corridor, Detective Jurgensen single-handedly took at the Black Liberation military, the kingdom of Islam, NYPD brass, and town corridor, shooting Cardillo's killer, Lewis 17X Dupree. He broke the case with an not going partner, Foster 2X Thomas, a member of the kingdom of Islam who grew to become Jurgensen's witness. the connection they shaped in the course of the time earlier than trial gave all of the males a greater...

By Ivor J. Edwards

For greater than a century, the terrible tale of Jack the Ripper has persisted. The ghastly crimes of the world's so much infamous serial killer became legend, and because they have been dedicated, modern sleuths have spent many lifetimes trying to determine their perpetrator." Jack the Ripper's Black Magic Rituals" takes the reader step by step during the particular occasions on the heart of the Ripper's reign of terror, uncovering a twisted melange of homicide and black magic. extra importantly, writer Ivor J. Edwards makes a resounding case as to Jack the Ripper's actual identification. That guy is Dr. Robert Donston Stephenson, a military medical professional, occultist, and magician, who can have additionally murdered and dismembered his personal spouse earlier than his bad spree in Whitechapel all started.

By Brian Bailey

ISBN-10: 1840185759

ISBN-13: 9781840185751

One of many world's so much ugly and infamous legal partnerships ran its bad direction in Edinburgh through the yr 1828. Many myths encompass the case of Burke and Hare, and a number of other very important questions stay unanswered. during this re-investigation the writer seeks to set the list immediately and current an entire and exact account of the actions of the 2 ruthless serial killers and their culpable affiliates. What have been the situations which allowed Burke and Hare to hold out their rupulsive alternate undetected for therefore lengthy and on the fee of such a lot of blameless lives? What have been the jobs in their common-law better halves and the scientific scholars who aided and abetted them? certainly, what will be the ultimate judgement on Dr. Robert Knox, the celebrated instructor of anatomy whose dissecting desk used to be the ultimate resting position of many sufferers. because the sordid story unfolds, we find the reality a couple of uniquely abhorrent weather of unprincipled vanity in excessive society and fiendish predatoriness in low lifestyles, every one depending on the opposite.