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Joyce Cohen thought she hit the jackpot when she married construction mogul Stan Cohen. The young Joyce was finally able to live the life of entitlement she thought she deserved while partying it up in Cohen's mansion, ranches, and night clubs. But her party would come to an end five years later when she would claim that three burglars invaded her home and killed Stan. The authorities believed her at first until a felon disclosed to police that they...
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It is 1888 and the foggy streets of Whitechapel, one of the poorest areas of Victorian London, are gripped by fear. Five women thought have been murdered by the same hand, all but one of their corpses terrifyingly mutilated. But who were these women? And who could the murderer be? This fascinating book contains over one hundred facts about the awful crimes of the serial killer we all know as Jack the Ripper. Organised into sections covering each individual...
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In 1974, one of San Francisco's most horrific unsolved serial murder cases began.
In less than two years, the man police called "The Doodler" took at least five lives, terrorized the LGBTQ community, and left three survivors forever changed. Initial reports claimed the murderer didn't approach his victims with the knife he used to kill them, but that the suspect shared skilled drawings-sketches of faces and animals-before leaving a string of gay...
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A Murdered Husband. . .
Gulf War veteran Doug Gissendaner would do anything for a friend, a stranger, or the wife who broke every rule in the marriage book. Now, investigators were scouring the Georgia woods not far from Doug's home. They'd already found the charred wreckage of his car. They knew they were looking for a body. . .
A Hitman Who Killed For Love. . .
Gregory Owen had been having an on-again, off-again affair with Doug's wife for years....
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There are numerous competing stories regarding the life and persona of Karla Faye Tucker. There is one camp that considers her to be one of the vilest killers in modern Texas history. Then there is another camp who believes that she underwent a religious conversion in prison and that her life should have been spared. Karla Faye Tucker murdered two people in 1983.
6147) Stranglers
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They targeted their vicims...stalked them...then strangled them to death. Two of the most vicious serial killers in history are profiled in this psychological study of their lives and crimes. Timothy Spencer Wilson had an intense hatred of women and used his cat burglar skills to gain entry into his victim's homes during a reign of terror that lasted several years. Steven Wright looked to be an everyday bartender...he had a double life, however, as...
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Tania Herman would do anything for Joe Korp. She was a lonely single mom looking for a soulmate on-line. She met Korp and the two began a hot and heavy romance... Little did she know Korp was married... Feeling betrayed but unwilling to let Korp go, Tania bludgeoned Korp's wife Maria and buried her in the trunk of her car.
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Christine Papin and Léa Papin were two French maids who murdered their employer's wife and daughter in Le Mans, France, on 2 February 1933. The murders were a shock to the country and but some saw the maids as symbols of the underclass lashing out against the rich.
The case has formed the basis of a number of films and plays. This is the story of how the two unassuming sisters became murderers.
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Two true stories of women so deranged that they murdered both their own children and those of others. One of these women is, Amelia Dyer who is considered one of the most prolific serial killers in history. Her reign of terror lasted over twenty years, as she is estimated to have killed as many as 400 children before finally being caught. There is also the case of Christina Marie Riggs who was convicted of murdering her two young children in Arkansas...
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Two real life femme fatales are profiled here. On the exterior, they presented themselves as sweet and caring. On the inside, however, lurked the heart of a killer...Carolyn Warmus murdered her lover's wife out of a jealous rage. Her case would attract national attraction and would lead to comparisons to the movie Fatal Attraction. Two television movies about her story have been produced, Belinda Van Krevel would be imprisoned to asking her boyfriend...
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Lady Killer
Richard Namey, 26, drug abuser and woman-beater, had already threatened a previous girlfriend with a gun, but she'd gotten away. Sarah Rodriquez, 21, wasn't so lucky. On April 16, 2002, in Orange County, California, she and her true love, Matt Corbett, 20, were forced off the road by Namey, who shot them both at point-blank range with a .357. Sarah was killed. Corbett was paralyzed for life.
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After a 42-mile chase, Namey was...
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All Hallow's Eve: a night of mischief, mayhem and evil deeds. The night before Halloween has been passed down through generations as a night to stay off the streets. In more recent years, it's been used as a way for teenagers to venture out with their friends and cause a little mischief before the candy-coated trick-or-treating starts the next night. For Fredric M. Jablin, All Hallow's Even of 2004 would be his last. At the age of 52, Jablin was an...
6154) Killer Michelle Knotek
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Michelle and David Knotek lived just outside of Raymond, Washington. Their home was one of the better ones in the area—on the outside at least. Theirs was a large and beautiful farmhouse sitting in its own four acre plot. The idyll was furthered by the large number of well cared for animals that roamed the farmhouse's extensive grounds. But inside the warm walls life was very different; three people were murdered viciously within that plot; two...
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Kim Hricko was a happy-go-lucky housewife and mother who was a popular employee at the hospital where she worked. But her sunny facade blew up in smoke on a Valentine's Day weekend when her husband 's body was discovered on a hotel room floor, burned to a crisp... Kim would claim that her husband was "sloppy drunk" but the autopsy would reveal no trace of alcohol or smoke inhalation. What investigators did find out was that Kim Hricko had been talking...
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Call it "The Confession"... At 11:13 p.m. on October 26, 1996, a man limped into the Auckland Central Police Station and placed a 16cm army knife on the public counter. He then asked for a constable, telling the officer at the counter that it was about "important matters." The man was directed into an interview room to wait for a constable, and the knife was taken into evidence. The officer realized that the man had an injury on his leg, but did not...
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As the trial of Charles Manson gripped a nation, the stories of those whose lives he had touched also fell into the media spotlight. Many of these were the 'girls' in the Family, often referred to as Manson's girls. And of these girls, there was one by far that received the most attention and has maintained this in the form of an unwanted cult following: Ruth Ann Moorehouse. Ruth joined the Family very early on in her life, which led to a string of...
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On May 12, 2013, 48-year-old Vicky Isaac of rural Puxico, Missouri-a woman with a history of learning disabilities, traumatic brain injuries, and drug addiction- loaded a.22 caliber handgun and shot her violent addict husband while he slept in the trailer they shared with Vicky's adult son. Or did she? According to police reports, Vicky called 911 and confessed to the crime.
Was this another sad case of murder amongst addicts or something more?
Betty...
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Warren township in the southern portion of Herkimer County has been the scene of more than one gruesome event.
In January 1885, locals reeled in horror when disgruntled wife Roxalana Druse shot her husband and dismembered his corpse to incinerate it in a farm house stove. Her trial and hanging was followed up in May of 1901 with two murders in yet another farm house kitchen. John C. Wallis had allowed his ex-wife Arvilla to return home, one year...
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What put a white cop and a black youth on a tragic collision course? This moving account is more timely than ever.
On a frigid winter's night in 1973, William "Rabbit" Wells, a young man of mixed race, was shot and killed by a white policeman named William Sorgie outside a bar in Bernardsville, New Jersey. The shooting, later ruled an accident, stunned local residents and the nation.
For thirty years, author William Loizeaux, who went to high school...
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