Author: Ellen Nerenberg
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253223091
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Looking at media coverage of three very prominent murder cases, Murder Made in Italy explores the cultural issues raised by the murders and how they reflect developments in Italian civil society over the past 20 years. Providing detailed descriptions of each murder, investigation, and court case, Ellen Nerenberg addresses the perception of lawlessness in Italy, the country's geography of crime, and the generalized fear for public safety among the Italian population. Nerenberg examines the fictional and nonfictional representations of these crimes through the lenses of moral panic, media spectacle, true crime writing, and the abject body. The worldwide publicity given the recent case of Amanda Knox, the American student tried for murder in a Perugia court, once more drew attention to crime and punishment in Italy and is the subject of the epilogue.
Murder Made in Italy
Author: Ellen Nerenberg
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253223091
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Looking at media coverage of three very prominent murder cases, Murder Made in Italy explores the cultural issues raised by the murders and how they reflect developments in Italian civil society over the past 20 years. Providing detailed descriptions of each murder, investigation, and court case, Ellen Nerenberg addresses the perception of lawlessness in Italy, the country's geography of crime, and the generalized fear for public safety among the Italian population. Nerenberg examines the fictional and nonfictional representations of these crimes through the lenses of moral panic, media spectacle, true crime writing, and the abject body. The worldwide publicity given the recent case of Amanda Knox, the American student tried for murder in a Perugia court, once more drew attention to crime and punishment in Italy and is the subject of the epilogue.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253223091
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Looking at media coverage of three very prominent murder cases, Murder Made in Italy explores the cultural issues raised by the murders and how they reflect developments in Italian civil society over the past 20 years. Providing detailed descriptions of each murder, investigation, and court case, Ellen Nerenberg addresses the perception of lawlessness in Italy, the country's geography of crime, and the generalized fear for public safety among the Italian population. Nerenberg examines the fictional and nonfictional representations of these crimes through the lenses of moral panic, media spectacle, true crime writing, and the abject body. The worldwide publicity given the recent case of Amanda Knox, the American student tried for murder in a Perugia court, once more drew attention to crime and punishment in Italy and is the subject of the epilogue.
Casual Conversations about Love and Murder
Author: Chelsea Mueller
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781732656468
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
What would you do if your best friend died? What if she'd betrayed you hours earlier?Emma's nights are haunted by the twisted sight of her friend's body in Stone Lake. Others in the sleepy town of Camber slap an accident label on the death and call it a day. Emma can't. It hurts too much to leave it alone.Proving the drowning was murder isn't easy. The sheriff stonewalls her, her friends want her to leave it alone, and her parents are too busy bickering to worry over much else.Cole's mistrust for corporations and government hasn't made him many friends in town, but his willingness to believe Emma makes him her strongest ally. Together they'll dig into the town's past-and their own-to get to the truth.Even if it brings more danger to their doorsteps.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781732656468
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
What would you do if your best friend died? What if she'd betrayed you hours earlier?Emma's nights are haunted by the twisted sight of her friend's body in Stone Lake. Others in the sleepy town of Camber slap an accident label on the death and call it a day. Emma can't. It hurts too much to leave it alone.Proving the drowning was murder isn't easy. The sheriff stonewalls her, her friends want her to leave it alone, and her parents are too busy bickering to worry over much else.Cole's mistrust for corporations and government hasn't made him many friends in town, but his willingness to believe Emma makes him her strongest ally. Together they'll dig into the town's past-and their own-to get to the truth.Even if it brings more danger to their doorsteps.
Practice Makes Murder
Author: Helen Breedlove
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1491710373
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
In the fall of 1984, twenty-two-year-old Olivia Lawson is thrilled to receive her first high school teaching position. Finally, she can sever all ties with her father, whom she has avoided since adolescence. Shes free to start a new life and an exciting career, and she finds an immediate friend in fellow teacher, Marcy Dougan. Unfortunately, family grudges follow Olivia to her new job. Marcy worries about her new friend, especially when Livvy starts receiving threatening letters. It is apparent that the new teacher has a stalker, and she does all she can to keep herself safe. Soon, though, other women fall victim to heinous crimes that are inexplicably linked to her. Olivia fears for her life when the perpetrators chilling phrase practice makes perfect turns to a phrase even more terrifying; practice makes murder. Someone wants Olivia dead, but who and why? Only when she is at the brink of death does she finally fit the pieces together.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1491710373
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
In the fall of 1984, twenty-two-year-old Olivia Lawson is thrilled to receive her first high school teaching position. Finally, she can sever all ties with her father, whom she has avoided since adolescence. Shes free to start a new life and an exciting career, and she finds an immediate friend in fellow teacher, Marcy Dougan. Unfortunately, family grudges follow Olivia to her new job. Marcy worries about her new friend, especially when Livvy starts receiving threatening letters. It is apparent that the new teacher has a stalker, and she does all she can to keep herself safe. Soon, though, other women fall victim to heinous crimes that are inexplicably linked to her. Olivia fears for her life when the perpetrators chilling phrase practice makes perfect turns to a phrase even more terrifying; practice makes murder. Someone wants Olivia dead, but who and why? Only when she is at the brink of death does she finally fit the pieces together.
Mabel Stewart and the Witch's Flute
Author: E.G. Voss
Publisher: E.G. Voss
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
What happens when you die? 15-year-old Mabel Stewart had always wondered that until she took her first trip into the afterlife. Now a veteran traveler between life and death, she’s learned that the creators of an ancient talisman designed to allow one person to control the worlds of the living and the dead want it completed. And they’ve upped the stakes. Mabel Stewart returns for another exciting adventure in the thrilling third novel of the Mabel Stewart series. After her latest expedition into the dead version of her grandfather’s Wisconsin hometown along with her younger brother Izzy, best friend Henrietta Cooper, and her mentor witch, Sophie Winslow, Mabel discovered the following: · ✓ Ghosts bleed in the underworld. · ✓ There is a death for the dead. · ✓ People’s passions in life continue after death. The discovery of a book in the dead library possesses the clue to the possible third piece of the talisman. Now Mabel and her friends are off to England to find the piece before the evil members of the Darkness can claim it. Along the way, they encounter old foes now allied with a dangerous, criminal werewolf pack. In this coming-of-age epic fantasy, Mabel will lose someone close, and she will have to decide if she’s worthy of taking on the responsibility of saving both worlds. If you’re a fan of the epic coming of age genre like Harry Potter and Percy Jackson, you’ll love Mabel Stewart and the Witch’s Flute! Buy now for the best price.
Publisher: E.G. Voss
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
What happens when you die? 15-year-old Mabel Stewart had always wondered that until she took her first trip into the afterlife. Now a veteran traveler between life and death, she’s learned that the creators of an ancient talisman designed to allow one person to control the worlds of the living and the dead want it completed. And they’ve upped the stakes. Mabel Stewart returns for another exciting adventure in the thrilling third novel of the Mabel Stewart series. After her latest expedition into the dead version of her grandfather’s Wisconsin hometown along with her younger brother Izzy, best friend Henrietta Cooper, and her mentor witch, Sophie Winslow, Mabel discovered the following: · ✓ Ghosts bleed in the underworld. · ✓ There is a death for the dead. · ✓ People’s passions in life continue after death. The discovery of a book in the dead library possesses the clue to the possible third piece of the talisman. Now Mabel and her friends are off to England to find the piece before the evil members of the Darkness can claim it. Along the way, they encounter old foes now allied with a dangerous, criminal werewolf pack. In this coming-of-age epic fantasy, Mabel will lose someone close, and she will have to decide if she’s worthy of taking on the responsibility of saving both worlds. If you’re a fan of the epic coming of age genre like Harry Potter and Percy Jackson, you’ll love Mabel Stewart and the Witch’s Flute! Buy now for the best price.
How to Deal with the Police: Without Ending up Wearing Orange Jammies
Author: E.G. Voss
Publisher: E.G. Voss
ISBN: 1393252079
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
The police. You know everything about them. Or do you? To a lot of people, the world of police officers is a secretive and mysterious place. They’re either omnipresent or never around. Saving lives or roughing people up. Being jerks or buying groceries for a family caught shoplifting for food. In reality, all of the above are true. But what’s not known is why it’s true. Like any job, there are things about policing the general public doesn’t know (or want to know) about. And given the age we live in, the proliferation of police experts who don’t know anything about policing has exploded. So many experts with so little knowledge giving away so much bad advice. This is a guide with real life humorous examples on how to successfully deal with police written by a nearly 30-year veteran police sergeant. A guide to improving police-community relations. A guide to understanding why cops do what they do. And most importantly, a guide to avoiding ending your night wearing orange jammies. Oh, and don't forget wearing underwear that hundreds of other people have worn too. Yes, that's what really happens.
Publisher: E.G. Voss
ISBN: 1393252079
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
The police. You know everything about them. Or do you? To a lot of people, the world of police officers is a secretive and mysterious place. They’re either omnipresent or never around. Saving lives or roughing people up. Being jerks or buying groceries for a family caught shoplifting for food. In reality, all of the above are true. But what’s not known is why it’s true. Like any job, there are things about policing the general public doesn’t know (or want to know) about. And given the age we live in, the proliferation of police experts who don’t know anything about policing has exploded. So many experts with so little knowledge giving away so much bad advice. This is a guide with real life humorous examples on how to successfully deal with police written by a nearly 30-year veteran police sergeant. A guide to improving police-community relations. A guide to understanding why cops do what they do. And most importantly, a guide to avoiding ending your night wearing orange jammies. Oh, and don't forget wearing underwear that hundreds of other people have worn too. Yes, that's what really happens.
Murder in Minnesota
Author: Walter N. Trenerry
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN: 0873511808
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
This treasury of vintage crime offers a vivid picture of Minnesota from the time it achieved statehood in 1858 through 1917. It also traces the gradual changes in social attitudes from the days of frontier justice to the abolishment of capital punishment in 1911.
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN: 0873511808
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
This treasury of vintage crime offers a vivid picture of Minnesota from the time it achieved statehood in 1858 through 1917. It also traces the gradual changes in social attitudes from the days of frontier justice to the abolishment of capital punishment in 1911.
Chaos
Author: Tom O'Neill
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316477575
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
A journalist's twenty-year fascination with the Manson murders leads to "gobsmacking" (The Ringer) new revelations about the FBI's involvement in this "kaleidoscopic" (The New York Times) reassessment of an infamous case in American history. Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people, including the actress Sharon Tate, then eight months pregnant. With no mercy and seemingly no motive, the Manson Family followed their leader's every order -- their crimes lit a flame of paranoia across the nation, spelling the end of the sixties. Manson became one of history's most infamous criminals, his name forever attached to an era when charlatans mixed with prodigies, free love was as possible as brainwashing, and utopia -- or dystopia -- was just an acid trip away. Twenty years ago, when journalist Tom O'Neill was reporting a magazine piece about the murders, he worried there was nothing new to say. Then he unearthed shocking evidence of a cover-up behind the "official" story, including police carelessness, legal misconduct, and potential surveillance by intelligence agents. When a tense interview with Vincent Bugliosi -- prosecutor of the Manson Family and author of Helter Skelter -- turned a friendly source into a nemesis, O'Neill knew he was onto something. But every discovery brought more questions: Who were Manson's real friends in Hollywood, and how far would they go to hide their ties? Why didn't law enforcement, including Manson's own parole officer, act on their many chances to stop him? And how did Manson -- an illiterate ex-con -- turn a group of peaceful hippies into remorseless killers? O'Neill's quest for the truth led him from reclusive celebrities to seasoned spies, from San Francisco's summer of love to the shadowy sites of the CIA's mind-control experiments, on a trail rife with shady cover-ups and suspicious coincidences. The product of two decades of reporting, hundreds of new interviews, and dozens of never-before-seen documents from the LAPD, the FBI, and the CIA, Chaos mounts an argument that could be, according to Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Steven Kay, strong enough to overturn the verdicts on the Manson murders. This is a book that overturns our understanding of a pivotal time in American history.
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316477575
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
A journalist's twenty-year fascination with the Manson murders leads to "gobsmacking" (The Ringer) new revelations about the FBI's involvement in this "kaleidoscopic" (The New York Times) reassessment of an infamous case in American history. Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people, including the actress Sharon Tate, then eight months pregnant. With no mercy and seemingly no motive, the Manson Family followed their leader's every order -- their crimes lit a flame of paranoia across the nation, spelling the end of the sixties. Manson became one of history's most infamous criminals, his name forever attached to an era when charlatans mixed with prodigies, free love was as possible as brainwashing, and utopia -- or dystopia -- was just an acid trip away. Twenty years ago, when journalist Tom O'Neill was reporting a magazine piece about the murders, he worried there was nothing new to say. Then he unearthed shocking evidence of a cover-up behind the "official" story, including police carelessness, legal misconduct, and potential surveillance by intelligence agents. When a tense interview with Vincent Bugliosi -- prosecutor of the Manson Family and author of Helter Skelter -- turned a friendly source into a nemesis, O'Neill knew he was onto something. But every discovery brought more questions: Who were Manson's real friends in Hollywood, and how far would they go to hide their ties? Why didn't law enforcement, including Manson's own parole officer, act on their many chances to stop him? And how did Manson -- an illiterate ex-con -- turn a group of peaceful hippies into remorseless killers? O'Neill's quest for the truth led him from reclusive celebrities to seasoned spies, from San Francisco's summer of love to the shadowy sites of the CIA's mind-control experiments, on a trail rife with shady cover-ups and suspicious coincidences. The product of two decades of reporting, hundreds of new interviews, and dozens of never-before-seen documents from the LAPD, the FBI, and the CIA, Chaos mounts an argument that could be, according to Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Steven Kay, strong enough to overturn the verdicts on the Manson murders. This is a book that overturns our understanding of a pivotal time in American history.
Mabel Stewart and the Wolf's Cane
Author: E.G. Voss
Publisher: E.G. Voss
ISBN: 1393641938
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
A secret talisman has been discovered. Well, sort of. Because other than its name, the Wolf’s Cane, no one knows what it looks like, where it’s located or what its powers are. One thing that is for certain is that there are two secret societies desperately searching for it. A talisman that is linked to the control of the worlds of the living and the dead. Mabel Stewart returns for another thrilling adventure when she makes her now annual return to her grandfather Chamberlain’s house in a small town in Wisconsin. Having found the first piece of the puzzle in their last mystery, Mabel, her younger brother Izzy, and her best friend Henrietta Cooper, continue their quest of locating the second piece of the five pieces necessary to complete the ancient, master talisman. Along with new supernatural allies, secret family members they didn’t know existed, and a visit to their grandfather’s hometown in England, Mabel is also about to discover that evil is everywhere. And on top of all that, she still has to deal with the shallow, social media obsessed kids in her school.
Publisher: E.G. Voss
ISBN: 1393641938
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
A secret talisman has been discovered. Well, sort of. Because other than its name, the Wolf’s Cane, no one knows what it looks like, where it’s located or what its powers are. One thing that is for certain is that there are two secret societies desperately searching for it. A talisman that is linked to the control of the worlds of the living and the dead. Mabel Stewart returns for another thrilling adventure when she makes her now annual return to her grandfather Chamberlain’s house in a small town in Wisconsin. Having found the first piece of the puzzle in their last mystery, Mabel, her younger brother Izzy, and her best friend Henrietta Cooper, continue their quest of locating the second piece of the five pieces necessary to complete the ancient, master talisman. Along with new supernatural allies, secret family members they didn’t know existed, and a visit to their grandfather’s hometown in England, Mabel is also about to discover that evil is everywhere. And on top of all that, she still has to deal with the shallow, social media obsessed kids in her school.
The Southwestern Reporter
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1210
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1210
Book Description
Murder at McDonald's
Author: Phonse Jessome
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504038002
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
The true story of the Sydney River McDonald’s massacre, a botched robbery that would become the most sensational murder case in Canadian history. It started with a broken conveyor belt. When the mechanical malfunction brought eighteen-year-old McDonald’s employee Derek Wood into the restaurant’s back room, he saw the safe and got a dangerous idea. It would be so easy to prop the back door open, allowing two friends to sneak inside and steal the money. Wood assumed there was at least $200,000 in the cashbox—an incredible haul for just a few minutes’ work—but things would not go according to plan. The robbery went wrong from the start, and within minutes, a fast-food restaurant in the wilds of Nova Scotia was turned into a bloodbath. Wood and his accomplices attacked the employees, killing three instantly and leaving the fourth for dead. In the safe, where they had expected to find a fortune, there was barely $2,000. They fled the scene, instigating a manhunt that would captivate the nation. In the tradition of In Cold Blood and The Onion Field, this stunning work of true crime tells the story of the small-town murder that shocked a nation. Phonse Jessome brings a trained journalist’s eye to the case, which remains one of the most horrifying incidents of suburban violence in recent history.
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504038002
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
The true story of the Sydney River McDonald’s massacre, a botched robbery that would become the most sensational murder case in Canadian history. It started with a broken conveyor belt. When the mechanical malfunction brought eighteen-year-old McDonald’s employee Derek Wood into the restaurant’s back room, he saw the safe and got a dangerous idea. It would be so easy to prop the back door open, allowing two friends to sneak inside and steal the money. Wood assumed there was at least $200,000 in the cashbox—an incredible haul for just a few minutes’ work—but things would not go according to plan. The robbery went wrong from the start, and within minutes, a fast-food restaurant in the wilds of Nova Scotia was turned into a bloodbath. Wood and his accomplices attacked the employees, killing three instantly and leaving the fourth for dead. In the safe, where they had expected to find a fortune, there was barely $2,000. They fled the scene, instigating a manhunt that would captivate the nation. In the tradition of In Cold Blood and The Onion Field, this stunning work of true crime tells the story of the small-town murder that shocked a nation. Phonse Jessome brings a trained journalist’s eye to the case, which remains one of the most horrifying incidents of suburban violence in recent history.