Small Sacrifices

Small Sacrifices PDF Author: Ann Rule
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593335171
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 536

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Book Description
The story of an Oregon woman convicted of shooting her three children, killing one, in 1983.

Small Sacrifices

Small Sacrifices PDF Author: Ann Rule
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593335171
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 536

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Book Description
The story of an Oregon woman convicted of shooting her three children, killing one, in 1983.

Killer Mom

Killer Mom PDF Author: Barbara Daley
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781542682718
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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At 22.48pm on May 19th, 1983, a young, single mother pulled up outside McKenzie-Willamette Hospital in Springfield, Oregon, in a blood-spattered Nissan Pulsar, repeatedly shouting that someone had shot her children. Hospital staff rushed to the car and found three children slumped inside. The mother, Diane Downs, had herself been shot in the left arm, which was wrapped in a blood-soaked towel. As medics frantically tried to save the lives of the little ones, Diane told police that a man had flagged her down on the Old Mohawk Road, and demanded her car. When she had refused, he had leant into the car and shot her three children. According to Diane, she had struggled with the man who had then shot her in the arm. Pretending to throw the car keys into a field, she managed to distract the man long enough to get in her car and drive away, in a desperate bid to get the children to the hospital in time to save them. Tragically, 7-year-old Cheryl was already dead, and, although still alive, 3-year-old Danny and 8-year-old Christie were in a critical condition. The bone in Diane's arm was shattered. While the people of Oregon, and the wider community, reeled in shock at this heinous crime and fearful of the bushy haired killer whom Diane had described, and who was still at large, the police were turning their attention to someone closer to home - the mother herself, Diane Downs.

Charlie

Charlie PDF Author: Diane Fox Downs
Publisher: Goldencraft
ISBN: 9780307602060
Category : Cats
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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Book Description
After finding less and less food in the alley where he lives, Charlie, a cat, decides to move to the country, where he can drink milk, climb trees, and play Tiger in the Grass.

Best Kept Secrets

Best Kept Secrets PDF Author: Sandra Brown
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 1455546259
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 359

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Book Description
From a New York Times bestselling, a savvy attorney in small-town Texas will stop at nothing to catch the man who murdered her mother in this steamy thriller. Lawyer Alexandra Gaither revisits the three men who were with her mother the night she died twenty-five years ago. None of their charms can stop Alex's determined search for the truth–she's not leaving without one of them being arrested and convicted. When Alex's investigation uncovers decades-old intrigues, someone decides she must be stopped. Now, with a one-month deadline to either wrap up the case or drop it for good, Alex must work diligently to catch her mother's killer–and find a way to stay alive.

Exactly Where You Need to Be

Exactly Where You Need to Be PDF Author: Amelia Diane Coombs
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1534493565
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Book Description
Turtles All the Way Down meets Love and Luck in this “lively” (Publishers Weekly), romantic road trip story about a teen girl’s last chance to have an epic summer with her best friend before everything changes. Florie’s OCD and her mother’s worrying have kept her from a lot of things, like having an after-school job and getting her driver’s license. And now that she’s graduated high school, while her best friend Kacey is headed off to Portland in the fall, Florie’s taking a parent-sanctioned gap year off before starting college. When the decision was made, Florie was on board, but now she can’t ignore the growing itch to become the person she wants to be and venture outside the quaint, boring Washington town she grew up in. Winning tickets to see her favorite true crime podcast’s live show in California gives her the opportunity to do just that, if only for a few days. So—unbeknownst to their parents—Kacey and Florie set off on a road trip to San Francisco. The only downside in Florie’s opinion? Sam, Kacey’s older brother and Florie’s forever crush, is their ride. The Samson Hodge, who Florie hasn’t seen since winter break, and who she’d prefer to never see again, if possible. But Florie is willing to put up with Sam if it means one last adventure with her best friend. Making it to San Francisco and back to Washington without their parents catching on isn’t a given, but one thing is for sure: this trip will change everything.

Breaking Point

Breaking Point PDF Author: Suzy Spencer
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312983093
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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Book Description
The author explores the case of Andrea Yates, the Houston, Texas, mother suspected in the deaths of her five children, ages six months to seven years, whom she allegedly drowned in the family home's bathtub in June 2001.

Toward Commitment

Toward Commitment PDF Author: Diane Rehm
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307492079
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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Book Description
With extraordinary candor and generosity, Diane Rehm, the nationally known Public Radio broadcaster, and her lawyer husband, John, open up for the reader their marriage of forty-two years, revealing the strong and passionate bond between them as well as the conflicts and turmoils that can overtake a relationship. In a series of highly charged dialogues, they grapple with their pronounced differences of background, attitude, and expectation, so that we actually watch them working to understand each other and themselves, and to resolve issues that even after their decades together have remained hurtful and destructive. Their book is divided into twenty-six chapters, each centered on a difficult and important issue: the expression or repression of anger; strong disagreements about money, about family, about religion, about raising children; temperamental differences—she gregarious, he a loner; the complexities of sexual relationships, and the dangers of sexual estrangement and of the intrusion of a third person into a marriage; challenges arising from professional conflicts, from retirement, from aging, from illness. What makes Toward Commitment so fascinating is the opportunity to overhear a husband and wife bravely anatomizing their relationship and confronting their points of discord. What makes it so extraordinary—and so valuable—is their total honesty. These perceptive and searching discussions will resonate with any two people who care enough about each other to reach painfully deep inside themselves in order to resolve their difficulties and emerge closer than ever.

If You Really Loved Me

If You Really Loved Me PDF Author: Ann Rule
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671769200
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 644

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Book Description
A story of crime and punishment.

Diane Downs

Diane Downs PDF Author: Brenda Irish Heintzelman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781523497249
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 42

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Diane took a different way home - she liked to explore. She wanted to learn the area. And even though it was a school night and she really should have had her kids to bed a couple of hours earlier, she decided it was okay to take a little longer getting home. With the soft humming of the tires on the highway, and the music playing, she noticed all three of her children had soon fallen asleep. It was peaceful. She sang along with her music. She told herself that her children were happy. And for a split second Diane allowed herself to feel happy too. As she drove down the highway, Diane thought about the big house that she would soon be able to afford for her children. She had no idea that within just a few miles all of her hopes and dreams, and her children, would be forever stripped away.

Parents Who Killed Their Children : Filicide

Parents Who Killed Their Children : Filicide PDF Author: RJ Parker
Publisher: RJ PARKER PUBLISHING, INC.
ISBN: 1494787067
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 157

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Book Description
What could possibly incite parents to kill their own children? This collection of "Filicidal Killers" provides a gripping overview of how things can go horribly wrong in once-loving families. Parents Who Killed their Children depicts ten of the most notorious and horrific cases of homicidal parental units out of control. People like--Andrea Yates, Diane Downs, Susan Smith, and Jeffrey MacDonald--who received a great deal of media attention. The author explores the reasons; from addiction to postpartum psychosis, insanity to altruism, revenge and jealousy. Each story is detailed with background information on the parents, the murder scenes, trials, sentencing and aftermath. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY - "{A} valuable resource and reference book for Criminologists and Psychologists on the fraught subject of maternal filicide, supported with ten case studies. A clear-eyed view on the most heartbreaking of crimes." SUSPENSE MAGAZINE - "Parents Who Kill Their Children is a great read for aficionados of true crime. The way the author laid the cases out made the hair on the back of my neck stand up." INSIDE THE BOOK Andrea Yates Darlie Routier Susan Eubanks Lianne Smith Alan Bristol Jeffrey MacDonald Deanna Laney Susan Smith Tonya Thomas Diane Downs "Acclaimed true crime author, RJ Parker, has a knack for collecting high-profile cases under specific themes. This collection about parents who kill their children provides a fast-paced, gripping overview of how things can go horribly wrong in once-loving families. From Andrea Yates to Jeffrey MacDonald to Susan Smith, Parker reports on the stunning case details and suggests reasons why the parental bond can get so twisted. The updates at the end of each chapter add a lot, since popular media rarely follows up. An important reference for true crime readers." -- (Dr. Katherine Ramsland, Ph.D.), bestselling author of "The Mind of a Murderer" and "The Ivy League Killer." "Is there anything more reprehensible than filicide--that is, the intended act of a parent killing his or her own child? In "Parents Who Killed Their Children," the award-winning true crime author RJ Parker shines a powerful light on this dark and sordid phenomenon. First, Parker offers a number of possible psychological and environmental causes (or at least correlates) of filicide. Then he presents ten shocking, real life case histories of parents who murdered their children. The result is a book that is bound to make you rethink the absolute sanctity of motherhood and reflect on why some mothers do indeed "eat their young." This is a powerful read and another hard-hitting, compelling entry by RJ Parker." -- (Dr. Scott Bonn, Ph.D), criminologist, professor and author of the forthcoming "Why We Love Serial Killers" NOTEWORTHY This book has been selected by several Universities in their upcoming courses in Criminology, Sociology and Forensic Psychology, including, the University of Utah and Penn State University. Keywords: Andrea Yates Killer Book Darlie Routier Killer Book Susan Eubanks Killer Book Lianne Smith Killer Book Alan Bristol Killer Book Jeffrey MacDonald Killer Book Deanna Laney Killer Book Susan Smith Killer Book Tonya Thomas Killer Book Diane Downs Killer Book