Author: Ellen Harris
Publisher: Crossroad Press
ISBN:
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Dying to Get Married is a modern-day morality tale of the perversion of an American dream. Julie Miller was a successful executive who, through a newspaper ad, met who she thought was "Mr. Right." Little did she know that he had a violent past and a predisposition for bizarre sexual rituals. This tragic, true-crime tale will shock its horrified readers.
Dying to Get Married
Author: Ellen Harris
Publisher: Crossroad Press
ISBN:
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Dying to Get Married is a modern-day morality tale of the perversion of an American dream. Julie Miller was a successful executive who, through a newspaper ad, met who she thought was "Mr. Right." Little did she know that he had a violent past and a predisposition for bizarre sexual rituals. This tragic, true-crime tale will shock its horrified readers.
Publisher: Crossroad Press
ISBN:
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Dying to Get Married is a modern-day morality tale of the perversion of an American dream. Julie Miller was a successful executive who, through a newspaper ad, met who she thought was "Mr. Right." Little did she know that he had a violent past and a predisposition for bizarre sexual rituals. This tragic, true-crime tale will shock its horrified readers.
3 Days In 63
Author: Gregg Clark
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781732063969
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
When the brutally murdered body of Frances Bullock was found in her home in the summer of 1963, the sleepy town of Franklin, North Carolina, locked its doors for the first time. A killer was among them. Years later, on a late-night paranormal radio show, the owner of a historic ghost tour in the town dissects the cold case as the Southland listens.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781732063969
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
When the brutally murdered body of Frances Bullock was found in her home in the summer of 1963, the sleepy town of Franklin, North Carolina, locked its doors for the first time. A killer was among them. Years later, on a late-night paranormal radio show, the owner of a historic ghost tour in the town dissects the cold case as the Southland listens.
Frankie - a Life Cut Short
Author: Ronald Evans
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692154441
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
"Frankie - A Life Cut Short" is a historic, nonfiction story of the Life and Unsolved Murder Mystery of Frances S. Bullock, an attractive 40-year-old widow, who was brutally stabbed to death at her home July 26, 1963. The homicide happened in the small mountain town of Franklin, North Carolina and remains unsolved over fifty-five years later. The story reveals much about the victim's family's history including her childhood and adult life that might have led to her untimely death. In addition to the murder it also reveals some domestic violence and abuse that frequently occurred in the lives of some of the persons-of-interest in the case. The book describes in detail recent attempts at solving it as a cold case investigation and re-examination of the evidence of the clothing worn by the victim when murdered.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692154441
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
"Frankie - A Life Cut Short" is a historic, nonfiction story of the Life and Unsolved Murder Mystery of Frances S. Bullock, an attractive 40-year-old widow, who was brutally stabbed to death at her home July 26, 1963. The homicide happened in the small mountain town of Franklin, North Carolina and remains unsolved over fifty-five years later. The story reveals much about the victim's family's history including her childhood and adult life that might have led to her untimely death. In addition to the murder it also reveals some domestic violence and abuse that frequently occurred in the lives of some of the persons-of-interest in the case. The book describes in detail recent attempts at solving it as a cold case investigation and re-examination of the evidence of the clothing worn by the victim when murdered.
Under the Banner of Heaven
Author: Jon Krakauer
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 1400078997
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air, this extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America’s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities. • Now an acclaimed FX limited series streaming on HULU. “Fantastic.... Right up there with In Cold Blood and The Executioner’s Song.” —San Francisco Chronicle Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake City, the renegade leaders of these Taliban-like theocracies are zealots who answer only to God; some 40,000 people still practice polygamy in these communities. At the core of Krakauer’s book are brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty, who insist they received a commandment from God to kill a blameless woman and her baby girl. Beginning with a meticulously researched account of this appalling double murder, Krakauer constructs a multi-layered, bone-chilling narrative of messianic delusion, polygamy, savage violence, and unyielding faith. Along the way he uncovers a shadowy offshoot of America’s fastest growing religion, and raises provocative questions about the nature of religious belief.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 1400078997
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air, this extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America’s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities. • Now an acclaimed FX limited series streaming on HULU. “Fantastic.... Right up there with In Cold Blood and The Executioner’s Song.” —San Francisco Chronicle Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake City, the renegade leaders of these Taliban-like theocracies are zealots who answer only to God; some 40,000 people still practice polygamy in these communities. At the core of Krakauer’s book are brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty, who insist they received a commandment from God to kill a blameless woman and her baby girl. Beginning with a meticulously researched account of this appalling double murder, Krakauer constructs a multi-layered, bone-chilling narrative of messianic delusion, polygamy, savage violence, and unyielding faith. Along the way he uncovers a shadowy offshoot of America’s fastest growing religion, and raises provocative questions about the nature of religious belief.
The Borden Murders
Author: Sarah Miller
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade
ISBN: 055349810X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
With murder, court battles, and sensational newspaper headlines, the story of Lizzie Borden is compulsively readable and perfect for the Common Core. Lizzie Borden took an axe, gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one. In a compelling, linear narrative, Miller takes readers along as she investigates a brutal crime: the August 4, 1892, murders of wealthy and prominent Andrew and Abby Borden. The accused? Mild-mannered and highly respected Lizzie Borden, daughter of Andrew and stepdaughter of Abby. Most of what is known about Lizzie’s arrest and subsequent trial (and acquittal) comes from sensationalized newspaper reports; as Miller sorts fact from fiction, and as a legal battle gets under way, a gripping portrait of a woman and a town emerges. With inserts featuring period photos and newspaper clippings—and, yes, images from the murder scene—readers will devour this nonfiction book that reads like fiction. A School Library Journal Best Best Book of the Year "Sure to be a hit with true crime fans everywhere." —School Library Journal, Starred
Publisher: Schwartz & Wade
ISBN: 055349810X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
With murder, court battles, and sensational newspaper headlines, the story of Lizzie Borden is compulsively readable and perfect for the Common Core. Lizzie Borden took an axe, gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one. In a compelling, linear narrative, Miller takes readers along as she investigates a brutal crime: the August 4, 1892, murders of wealthy and prominent Andrew and Abby Borden. The accused? Mild-mannered and highly respected Lizzie Borden, daughter of Andrew and stepdaughter of Abby. Most of what is known about Lizzie’s arrest and subsequent trial (and acquittal) comes from sensationalized newspaper reports; as Miller sorts fact from fiction, and as a legal battle gets under way, a gripping portrait of a woman and a town emerges. With inserts featuring period photos and newspaper clippings—and, yes, images from the murder scene—readers will devour this nonfiction book that reads like fiction. A School Library Journal Best Best Book of the Year "Sure to be a hit with true crime fans everywhere." —School Library Journal, Starred
The Man who Would be Jack
Author: David Bullock
Publisher: Robson Press
ISBN: 9781849543408
Category : Serial murder investigation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In 1893, two years after the last Ripper murder, Detective Inspector William Race met with two journalists working for the Sun and told them that he knew the identity of Jack the Ripper: 25-year-old Thomas Hayne Cutbush. Race's superiors ignored Race's suspicions, so he went to the Sun. Two journalists set about investigating Cutbush, gathering startling new evidence and compelling eyewitness testimony. When they published their results they caused a sensation, leading to the now infamous and deeply flawed Macnaghten Report. In The Man Who Would Be Jack, the author re-examines Inspector Race's and the journalists' findings and uncovers startling new evidence to support the idea that Cutbush was indeed Jack the Ripper.
Publisher: Robson Press
ISBN: 9781849543408
Category : Serial murder investigation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In 1893, two years after the last Ripper murder, Detective Inspector William Race met with two journalists working for the Sun and told them that he knew the identity of Jack the Ripper: 25-year-old Thomas Hayne Cutbush. Race's superiors ignored Race's suspicions, so he went to the Sun. Two journalists set about investigating Cutbush, gathering startling new evidence and compelling eyewitness testimony. When they published their results they caused a sensation, leading to the now infamous and deeply flawed Macnaghten Report. In The Man Who Would Be Jack, the author re-examines Inspector Race's and the journalists' findings and uncovers startling new evidence to support the idea that Cutbush was indeed Jack the Ripper.
Born in Death
Author: J. D. Robb
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780399153471
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
When a pair of young lovers, employees of a prestigious accounting firm, are brutally murdered, mid-twenty-first-century lieutenant Eve Dallas finds the case complicated by the suspicious disappearance of a pregnant woman. By the author of Memory in Death. 500,000 first printing.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780399153471
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
When a pair of young lovers, employees of a prestigious accounting firm, are brutally murdered, mid-twenty-first-century lieutenant Eve Dallas finds the case complicated by the suspicious disappearance of a pregnant woman. By the author of Memory in Death. 500,000 first printing.
In Cold Blood
Author: Truman Capote
Publisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 0812994388
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time From the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Truman Capote—also available are Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Other Voices, Other Rooms (in one volume), Portraits and Observations, and The Complete Stories Truman Capote’s masterpiece, In Cold Blood, created a sensation when it was first published, serially, in The New Yorker in 1965. The intensively researched, atmospheric narrative of the lives of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and of the two men, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, who brutally killed them on the night of November 15, 1959, is the seminal work of the “new journalism.” Perry Smith is one of the great dark characters of American literature, full of contradictory emotions. “I thought he was a very nice gentleman,” he says of Herb Clutter. “Soft-spoken. I thought so right up to the moment I cut his throat.” Told in chapters that alternate between the Clutter household and the approach of Smith and Hickock in their black Chevrolet, then between the investigation of the case and the killers’ flight, Capote’s account is so detailed that the reader comes to feel almost like a participant in the events.
Publisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 0812994388
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time From the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Truman Capote—also available are Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Other Voices, Other Rooms (in one volume), Portraits and Observations, and The Complete Stories Truman Capote’s masterpiece, In Cold Blood, created a sensation when it was first published, serially, in The New Yorker in 1965. The intensively researched, atmospheric narrative of the lives of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and of the two men, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, who brutally killed them on the night of November 15, 1959, is the seminal work of the “new journalism.” Perry Smith is one of the great dark characters of American literature, full of contradictory emotions. “I thought he was a very nice gentleman,” he says of Herb Clutter. “Soft-spoken. I thought so right up to the moment I cut his throat.” Told in chapters that alternate between the Clutter household and the approach of Smith and Hickock in their black Chevrolet, then between the investigation of the case and the killers’ flight, Capote’s account is so detailed that the reader comes to feel almost like a participant in the events.
The Ice Box Murders
Author: Hugh Gardenier
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780972029315
Category : Homicide investigation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
On Father's Day, June 20th, 1965, Fred and Edwina Rogers of Houston received a surprise. They were murdered. When neighbors failed to see the old couple coming and going, they notified the police who didn't find anything amiss until they opened the ice box. Houston's most grisly double homicide remained unsolved until two forensic researchers cracked the case. Now the truth is revealed in this new and long awaited fact-based fiction by lawyer/CPA team Hugh Gardenier and Martha Gardenier.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780972029315
Category : Homicide investigation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
On Father's Day, June 20th, 1965, Fred and Edwina Rogers of Houston received a surprise. They were murdered. When neighbors failed to see the old couple coming and going, they notified the police who didn't find anything amiss until they opened the ice box. Houston's most grisly double homicide remained unsolved until two forensic researchers cracked the case. Now the truth is revealed in this new and long awaited fact-based fiction by lawyer/CPA team Hugh Gardenier and Martha Gardenier.
Why Was Lincoln Murdered?
Author: Otto Eisenschiml
Publisher: Gleed Press
ISBN: 1443731811
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Otto Eisenschiml Cressets UNIVERSAL Library GROSSEX c DUNLAP NEW YORK CONTENTS SMUDGES v I THE FOURTEENTH OF APRIL 3 II ASSASSINATION 6 II THE STRANGE CAREER OF JOHN F. PARKER 1 1 IV WHAT REALLY HAPPENED AT FORDS THEATER 22 V THE PRESIDENT Is REFUSED PROTECTION 32 VI PREMONITIONS vs. SECRET SERVICE REPORTS 40 VII GRANT SUDDENLY LEAVES WASHINGTON 54 VIII HOW THE NEWS OF THE TRAGEDY WAS HANDLED 65 IX EVERY AVENUE OF ESCAPE BLOCKED SAVE ONE 91 SX THE MAN HUNT Is ON 97 XI JOHN FLETCHER TELLS His STORY 107 XII BAKER DIRECTS THE PURSUIT 1 1 6 XIII THE END OF THE TRAIL 130 XIV DEATH VISITS GARRETTS FARM 153 XV THE PLOTS AGAINST GRANT, STANTON AND JOHNSON 162 XVI STANTON INVENTS A NOVEL TORTURE 1 75 XVII STANTONS INNER COUNCIL 187 XVIII THE ODYSSEY OF JOHN HARRISON SURRATT 194 XIX THE CASE AGAINST JEFFERSON DAVIS 207 XX THE SETTING FOR THE CONSPIRACY TRIAL 230 XXI THE PRISONERS AT THE BAR 250 XXII THE WOMAN IN THE CASE 270 WHY WAS LINCOLN MURDERED CHAPTER I The Fourteenth of ffril THE fourteenth of April 1865, dawning on the city of Washing ton, found the Capital gaudily bedecked with flags j for on the preceding night, Lees surrender had been celebrated by a grand illumination. The end of the long war was at last in sight. In the forenoon a regular meeting of the Cabinet was held, at which General Grant was present as a distinguished guest. The victor of Appomattox Court House was a medium-sized, stoop-shouldered, taciturn man, then at the zenith of his military glory. At the White House he met all the members of Lincolns official family, except Secretary of State Seward, who had been the Presidents closest rival at the Chicago Republican convention of 1860. Seward had been thrown from hiscarriage a few days before and was lying at home under the care of physicians. The framework of steel which encased his face and neck, agonizing though it must have been, was destined that night to save his life. Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles was there a kindly looking man with a long white beard, who was gifted with a shrewd insight into the character of men. Thoroughly loyal to his Chief, and with a finely balanced judgment, he kept dose watch on the events of his era and faithfully recorded them in his diary. The President himself seemed in unusually good spirits. Be fore the opening of the formal meeting he spoke freely of his plans for reconciling the conquered South. So far as he was con cerned, he promised, there would be no persecution he even hoped that the fallen leaders of the Confederacy would leave the country and thereby make it unnecessary for him to take direct action against them. He then told of a dream that had come to him during the night, the same that had so often in the past 4 WHY WAS LINCOLN MURDERED presaged a portentous happening. This time he hoped that it foretold the surrender to General Sherman of the last Confeder ate army. As Lincoln was describing his dream, Stanton entered. The President stopped abruptly- Gentlemen, he said, let us proceed to business. Stanton did not often attend Cabinet meetings and, when he came, he usually came late. It was his way of indicating the superiority he felt over his colleagues, if not over Lincoln him self-Gideon Welles distrusted him intensely, considering him an unscrupulous intriguer. He has cunning and skill, the head of the Navy Department once wrote in his diary, dissembles his feelings ... is a hypocrite. .. . 2 Small of stature, with a long beard which he kept perfumed, the Secretary of War had an air of sternness j but Welles always believed that this outward sem blance concealed the heart of a coward. The two Secretaries had crossed swords only once. On that occasion Welles had shown plainly that he would brook no interference in his department, and Stanton had since treated him with an obsequiousness in sharp contrast to his imperious manner toward the other Cabinet members. 3 With Stantons entrance the pleasant flow of informal con versation ceased...
Publisher: Gleed Press
ISBN: 1443731811
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Otto Eisenschiml Cressets UNIVERSAL Library GROSSEX c DUNLAP NEW YORK CONTENTS SMUDGES v I THE FOURTEENTH OF APRIL 3 II ASSASSINATION 6 II THE STRANGE CAREER OF JOHN F. PARKER 1 1 IV WHAT REALLY HAPPENED AT FORDS THEATER 22 V THE PRESIDENT Is REFUSED PROTECTION 32 VI PREMONITIONS vs. SECRET SERVICE REPORTS 40 VII GRANT SUDDENLY LEAVES WASHINGTON 54 VIII HOW THE NEWS OF THE TRAGEDY WAS HANDLED 65 IX EVERY AVENUE OF ESCAPE BLOCKED SAVE ONE 91 SX THE MAN HUNT Is ON 97 XI JOHN FLETCHER TELLS His STORY 107 XII BAKER DIRECTS THE PURSUIT 1 1 6 XIII THE END OF THE TRAIL 130 XIV DEATH VISITS GARRETTS FARM 153 XV THE PLOTS AGAINST GRANT, STANTON AND JOHNSON 162 XVI STANTON INVENTS A NOVEL TORTURE 1 75 XVII STANTONS INNER COUNCIL 187 XVIII THE ODYSSEY OF JOHN HARRISON SURRATT 194 XIX THE CASE AGAINST JEFFERSON DAVIS 207 XX THE SETTING FOR THE CONSPIRACY TRIAL 230 XXI THE PRISONERS AT THE BAR 250 XXII THE WOMAN IN THE CASE 270 WHY WAS LINCOLN MURDERED CHAPTER I The Fourteenth of ffril THE fourteenth of April 1865, dawning on the city of Washing ton, found the Capital gaudily bedecked with flags j for on the preceding night, Lees surrender had been celebrated by a grand illumination. The end of the long war was at last in sight. In the forenoon a regular meeting of the Cabinet was held, at which General Grant was present as a distinguished guest. The victor of Appomattox Court House was a medium-sized, stoop-shouldered, taciturn man, then at the zenith of his military glory. At the White House he met all the members of Lincolns official family, except Secretary of State Seward, who had been the Presidents closest rival at the Chicago Republican convention of 1860. Seward had been thrown from hiscarriage a few days before and was lying at home under the care of physicians. The framework of steel which encased his face and neck, agonizing though it must have been, was destined that night to save his life. Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles was there a kindly looking man with a long white beard, who was gifted with a shrewd insight into the character of men. Thoroughly loyal to his Chief, and with a finely balanced judgment, he kept dose watch on the events of his era and faithfully recorded them in his diary. The President himself seemed in unusually good spirits. Be fore the opening of the formal meeting he spoke freely of his plans for reconciling the conquered South. So far as he was con cerned, he promised, there would be no persecution he even hoped that the fallen leaders of the Confederacy would leave the country and thereby make it unnecessary for him to take direct action against them. He then told of a dream that had come to him during the night, the same that had so often in the past 4 WHY WAS LINCOLN MURDERED presaged a portentous happening. This time he hoped that it foretold the surrender to General Sherman of the last Confeder ate army. As Lincoln was describing his dream, Stanton entered. The President stopped abruptly- Gentlemen, he said, let us proceed to business. Stanton did not often attend Cabinet meetings and, when he came, he usually came late. It was his way of indicating the superiority he felt over his colleagues, if not over Lincoln him self-Gideon Welles distrusted him intensely, considering him an unscrupulous intriguer. He has cunning and skill, the head of the Navy Department once wrote in his diary, dissembles his feelings ... is a hypocrite. .. . 2 Small of stature, with a long beard which he kept perfumed, the Secretary of War had an air of sternness j but Welles always believed that this outward sem blance concealed the heart of a coward. The two Secretaries had crossed swords only once. On that occasion Welles had shown plainly that he would brook no interference in his department, and Stanton had since treated him with an obsequiousness in sharp contrast to his imperious manner toward the other Cabinet members. 3 With Stantons entrance the pleasant flow of informal con versation ceased...