Author: Joni West
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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Family, murder, and neuroscience collide as this daughter's compelling memoir reveals the untold personal story behind one of the most important and controversial cases in the history of the criminal justice system. The case of Herbert Weinstein, the author's father, started with a shocking murder in 1991 that was blasted across the news media with tabloid-style headlines ("High-rise Horror"). Now, three decades later, it is considered the case that forever changed the courtrooms of America by securing a ruling to allow neuroscience in as evidence when determining a defendant's guilt or innocence. The case has been prominently featured in countless articles, symposiums, and books including the standard legal textbook on law and neuroscience used to educate law students throughout the country. This unique case has literally gone from tabloid to textbook.Joni West looks back at the years prior to the murder to determine whether there had been any signs - surely there must have been something she missed given that her father was 65 years old at the time and she was 29. He had been the very best part of her world until her mother died when Joni was 20. When a new woman entered her father's life just one month after her mother's funeral, Joni started noticing a different side to her father - one that pushed Joni away. It would take an unspeakable crime and decades to unravel the true nature of that side and for Joni to put the pieces of her personal puzzle together. She contrasts her contentious relationship with her mother and the heartwarming one she had with her father and shows how he expertly soothed the emotional wounds her mother inflicted upon her. She weaves together her past, the crime, and what she later learns through years of extensive research to paint a stunning masterpiece depicting how it could all go so very wrong. She exposes the private side of this infamous man that has never been revealed anywhere until now. She leaves the reader with new answers about the crime and better questions to ask themselves when thinking about why people do the things they do.
Author: Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
Publisher:
ISBN: 1250080541
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 337
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A young law student, an unspeakable crime, and a past that refuses to stay buried.
Author: Jeanine Cummins
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440627916
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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The acclaimed author of American Dirt reveals the devastating effects of a shocking tragedy in this landmark true crime book—the first ever to look intimately at the experiences of both the victims and their families. A Rip in Heaven is Jeanine Cummins’ story of a night in April, 1991, when her two cousins Julie and Robin Kerry, and her brother, Tom, were assaulted on the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge, which spans the Mississippi River just outside of St. Louis. When, after a harrowing ordeal, Tom managed to escape the attackers and flag down help, he thought the nightmare would soon be over. He couldn’t have been more wrong. Tom, his sister Jeanine, and their entire family were just at the beginning of a horrific odyssey through the aftermath of a violent crime, a world of shocking betrayal, endless heartbreak, and utter disillusionment. It was a trial by fire from which no family member would emerge unscathed.
Author: Michael Finkel
Publisher: Harper Perennial
ISBN: 9780060580483
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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On February 2002, New York Times Magazine writer Michael Finkel received a startling piece of news: a young man named Christian Longo, wanted for killing his entire family, had been captured in Mexico, where he'd taken on a new identity: Michael Finkel of the New York Times. The next day, on page A-3 of the Times, came another troubling item: a note from the editors explaining that Finkel, having falsified parts of an investigative article, had been fired. Nonetheless, the only journalist Longo would speak with was the real Michael Finkel, and so Finkel placed a call to Oregon's Lincoln County jail, intent on getting the true story. So began a bizarre and intense relationship—a reporting job that morphed into a shrewd game of cat-and-mouse. Part mystery, part memoir, part mea culpa, True Story weaves a spellbinding tale of murder, love, and deceit with a deeply personal inquiry into the slippery nature of truth.
Author: Marla Bernard
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 149186382X
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 291
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In a motel room on the east side of the city, a little girl is brutally murdered by her mother's sadistic boyfriend for failing to know her ABCs. The family disappears, along with the child's body, and the scene of the crime spans over 1,000 miles. Despite the lack of a body, the detectives of the 1020 Squad obtain a conviction but it will take another eight long years before the little girl's remains come home to rest. In a twist of fate, the 1020 Squad no sooner closes the final chapters of this case when the headless body of a tiny girl is found discarded in a makeshift dump site in the woods Sgt. David Bernard and the 1020 Squad will work over four years, following 1,500 leads and conducting the single largest area canvass in the history of the Kansas City, Missouri Police Department before finding the true identity of the seemingly orphaned little girl known only as "Precious Doe". Through the Rain is a candid and touching account of the painful impact that these brutal murders had on Sgt. Bernard, his family and the KCPD's 1020 squad. It chronicles the all too frequent stories of child abuse, failed social services, a flawed court system, and battered women who sacrificed their own children to shield their abusive lovers, echoing the same preposterous explanations of "...but I love him". It is the story of a family, a group of committed volunteers and a community who reached out to embrace Angel Lea Hart and Erica Michelle Marie Green aka Precious Doe and give them in death the humanity and affection they so desperately deserved in life.
Author: Linda Principe
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781946989079
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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The riveting first-person account of the grisly murder of the author's aunt and uncle by their adopted son, and its aftermath
Author: Louise Rennison
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007218672
Category : Chick lit
Languages : en
Pages : 29
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The delightful story told by British teen Georgia Nicholson through her journals--a Michael L.
Author: Michael Finkel
Publisher: Harper Perennial
ISBN: 9780062339270
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Now a Major Motion Picture Starring Jonah Hill & James Franco and Distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures When New York Times reporter Michael Finkel meets accused killer Christian Longo–who has taken on Finkel's identity–his investigation morphs into an unforgettable game of cat and mouse. True Story weaves a spellbinding tale of murder, love, deceit, and redemption, following Finkel's relentless pursuit of the shocking truth.
Author: Rex Brown
Publisher: Da Capo Press, Incorporated
ISBN: 0306821370
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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A memoir from the Pantera bassist Rex Brown, offering insight into the influential and popular heavy metal band and his career beyond the group's demise.
Author: Ed Morrison
Publisher: Archway Publishing
ISBN: 9781480878273
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Ed Morrison's brother, Michael, and his spunky girlfriend, Debra Means, never made it home from the Mascoutah Community High School prom held on May 3, 1969. Two days later, their bodies were discovered near an abandoned strip mine on the outskirts of town. After taking his victims at gunpoint, Marshall Wayne Stauffer raped and strangled fifteen-year-old Debbie and dispatched eighteen-year-old Mike with three shots to the back of his head. In this true crime memoir, Ed Morrison chronicles his journey nearly fifty years after that fateful night to learn the truth of what happened, illuminate the evil within a murderer, and find resolution. Gathering insight from interviews with former police investigators, attorneys, judges, a survivor of a similar attack, and prison personnel, Morrison exposes the raw emotions that accompanied the senseless killings. He traces the murderer throughout his life, uncovering facts and unknown stories about his cross-country crime spree, imprisonment, and eventual death--before he could be convicted of the murders. Bad Moon Rising is the gripping true story of one man's quest to uncover the truth fifty years after his brother and his girlfriend were murdered on prom night.
