Author: Ken Blanch
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780975154458
Category : Murder
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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This book is a true crime casebook detailing the Gold Coast's most infamous homicide. Veteran reporter and author, Ken Blanch, who was present the day a bloodstained taxi was discovered at Southport in 1952, re-examines the infamous case that led to the arrest of one of Australia's most notorious criminals. The author explores the actions of detectives and their suspect, raising serious questions about the investigation and trial. This book is extensively researched and includes over 50 images, many never before published.---Backcover.
Author: Carlos Busqued
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1646220587
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 193
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NPR, One of the Best Books of the Year A “chilling but fascinating portrait” of a serial killer, and “a must-read for true crime fans” who enjoyed My Dark Places, The Stranger Beside Me, or I’ll Be Gone In the Dark (Buzzfeed) One of Argentina’s most innovative writers brings to life the story of a teenager who murdered 4 taxi drivers in 1982 Buenos Aires—without any apparent motive. Over the course of one ghastly week in September 1982, the bodies of 4 taxi drivers were found in Buenos Aires, each murder carried out with the same cold precision. The assailant: a 19–year–old boy, odd and taciturn, who gave the impression of being completely sane. But the crimes themselves were not: 4 murders, as exact as they were senseless. More than 30 years later, Argentine author Carlos Busqued began visiting Ricardo Melogno, the serial killer, in prison. Their conversations return to the nebulous era of the crimes and a story full of missing pieces. The result is a book at once hypnotic and unnerving, constructed from forensic documents, newspaper clippings, and interviews with Melogno himself. Without imposing judgment, Busqued allows for the killer to describe his way of retreating from the world and to explain his crimes as best he can. In his own words, Melogno recalls a visit from Pope Francis, grim depictions of daily life in prison, and childhood remembrances of an unloving mother who drove her son to Brazil to study witchcraft. As these conversations progress, the focus slowly shifts from the crimes themselves, to Melogno’s mistreatment and misdiagnosis while in prison, to his current fate: incarcerated in perpetuity despite having served his full sentence. Using these personal interviews, alongside forensic documents and newspaper clippings, Busqued crafted Magnetized, a captivating story about one man’s crimes, and a meditation on how one chooses to inhabit the world, or to become absent from it.
Author: Roy Campbell
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781542921602
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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A Taxi cab.... Desires.... Passengers ....Death People generally don't trust strangers but put their lives in the hands of a taxi driver. A man who kills unsuspecting passengers for a number of reasons, it could be for revenge, as a vigilante and for sexual gratification or just because he enjoys it. The book is like John Wayne Gayce, Charles Manson and Dexter from the HBO series in a cab. It takes place in present day in New York Cit. A middle age Ali Chandahan Guyanese Ben Kingsley or Gery Bednob type. He's going thru life in a bad marriage. He has an undying love for his wife. He will do, accept every kind of abuse from her. She uses his unconditional love to abuse him. He goes after strangers to satisfy his inner demons away from home. The spousal abuse and betrayal pushes him over the edge to bring the killing close to home. When the unthinkable when the love of his life betrays him. He sets her up for a murder that she didn't commit. She goes to an insane asylum to be evaluated to stand trial. She realizes that her husband is a killer but it too late. No matter what she said, no one believes that her husband is a killer while she goes to jail. Threw out the time when he's with and without his wife. He's picking up, taking and killing passengers in his cab. Things continue to progress with his killings but things change and not in his favor. A nosy neighbor knows part of his secrets. The police begin to be obsessed with him and his every move. So Ali goes around the city killing men and women for revenge, for pleasure and for survival. During his discovery of killings, the suppression of his desires is short lived. The thirst of killing is unquenched. He does everything possible to live and kill another day. TCK (Taxi Cab Killer) is a story of fear. It's a fear that scares everyone young and old to the core. Everyone has a story about a taxi driver that was funny, interesting and even heartwarming. It's the stories that make you wonder as you get in the next cab ride. "Will anyone hear me scream? Will I ever see my friends and family again?" Just because it's convenient, we get into that strangers car. Taxi cab killer is a story that everyone can be terrified of.
Author: Stephen Fulcher
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473551560
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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The true story behind the ITV series, A Confession 'The gripping allure of long-form podcasts, such as Serial' Observer On the evening of Saturday, 19 March 2011, D.S. Stephen Fulcher receives a life-changing call that thrusts him into a race against the clock to save missing 22-year-old Sian O’Callaghan, who was last seen at a nightclub in Swindon. Steve knows from experience that he has a small window of time to find Sian alive, but his hopes are quickly dashed when his investigation leads him to Christopher Halliwell, a cabbie with sick obsessions. Following the investigation as it develops hour-by-hour, Steve’s gripping inside story of the cat-and-mouse situation that ensues shows how he hunted down Halliwell – his number-one suspect – which led him to the discovery of Sian’s body and another victim, Becky Godden-Edwards, who had been missing since 2002. The murders shocked the nation and Halliwell become one of the most hated men in Britain. Since then, he has been linked to several murders and disappearances, and has been called 'sick in the head' by an ex-cellmate for his unrelenting hatred of women. Catching a Serial Killer is a thrilling, devastating and absorbing look at a real-life murder case and potentially one of the UK’s most prolific serial killers.
Author: Jack Clark
Publisher: Titan Books (US, CA)
ISBN: 1803367482
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 191
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QUENTIN TARANTINO on NOBODY'S ANGEL: “My favorite fiction novel this year was written by a taxi driver who used to hand it out to his passengers. It’s a terrific story and character study of a cabbie in Chicago during a time when a serial killer is robbing and murdering cabbies. Kudos to Hard Case Crime for publishing Mr. Clark’s book.” TWO KILLERS STALK THE STREETS OF CHICAGO—CAN ONE TAXI DRIVER CORNER THEM BOTH? Eddie Miles is one of a dying breed: a Windy City hack who knows every street and back alley of his beloved city and takes its recent descent into violence personally. But what can one driver do about a killer targeting streetwalkers or another terrorizing cabbies? Precious little—until the night he witnesses one of them in action...
Author: Janie Nesbitt Jones
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467148172
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Faulkner County native Red Hall was a serial killer who confessed to murdering at least twenty-four people. Most of his victims were motorists who picked him up as he hitchhiked around the United States. In the closing months of World War II, he beat his wife to death and went on a killing spree across the state. His signature smile lured his victims to their doom, and even after his capture, he maintained a friendly manner, being described by one lawman as a pleasant conversationalist. Author Janie Nesbitt Jones chronicles his life for the first time and explores reasons why he became Arkansas's Hitchhike Killer.
Author: Diane Janes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781907324673
Category : Cold cases (Criminal investigation)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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In January 1931, on a lonely stretch of Northumberland road known as Wolf's Nick, flames rose up into the night sky from the neighboring moorland. Beyond anyone's help, Evelyn Foster, a young taxi driver, lay near her burning car--herself engulfed in flames--desperately hoping to be found by a passing vehicle. With her last breath she described her attacker: a mysterious man with a bowler hat who had asked her to drive him to the next village, then attacked her and left her to die. What followed was a remarkable effort by some members of the police to track down Evelyn's killer--while other members of the force questioned the circumstances, Evelyn's character, and even if there was a man at all. Professional crime writer and lecturer Diane Janes gained unprecedented access to Evelyn's case files. Through her evocative description, gift for storytelling and detailed factual narrative, Diane takes the reader back to the scene of the crime, painting a vivid description of village life and the social attitudes of the 1930s. Central to this tragic tale is a daughter, sister, and friend who lost her life in an unspeakably horrific way, and the likely name of her murderer--revealed for the first time.
Author: Richard Osman
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1984880985
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
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Soon to be a Major Motion Picture The first installment in the beloved and New York Times bestselling series from Richard Osman, also author of We Solve Murders Four septuagenarians with a few tricks up their sleeves A female cop with her first big case A brutal murder Welcome to... THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves the Thursday Murder Club. When a local developer is found dead with a mysterious photograph left next to the body, the Thursday Murder Club suddenly find themselves in the middle of their first live case. As the bodies begin to pile up, can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer, before it's too late? “Witty, endearing and greatly entertaining.” —Wall Street Journal
Author: Maggie K. Black
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1460319087
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 153
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FRONT PAGE NEWS: MURDER! Journalist Katie Todd wanted her name as a byline on the front page, not in the obituaries. When an assignment goes very wrong, she finds herself pursued by ruthless kidnappers. Her only hope is the enigmatic and handsome Mark Armor. All clues point to him being the enemy of her enemy, but is he a friend—or something much more dangerous? Every move Mark makes to help Katie brings him closer to the life he left behind, but he can't say no to the beautiful writer. Will the secrets of his past put Katie in even more danger?
Author: David Grann
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307742482
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 417
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history, from the author of The Wager and The Lost City of Z, “one of the preeminent adventure and true-crime writers working today."—New York Magazine • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • NOW A MARTIN SCORSESE PICTURE “A shocking whodunit…What more could fans of true-crime thrillers ask?”—USA Today “A masterful work of literary journalism crafted with the urgency of a mystery.” —The Boston Globe In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. One of her relatives was shot. Another was poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more and more Osage were dying under mysterious circumstances, and many of those who dared to investigate the killings were themselves murdered. As the death toll rose, the newly created FBI took up the case, and the young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to try to unravel the mystery. White put together an undercover team, including a Native American agent who infiltrated the region, and together with the Osage began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history. Look for David Grann’s latest bestselling book, The Wager!
