Author: Keven McQueen
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253058457
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
While the Midwest may be known for salt-of-the-earth folks, it's also home to murder and mayhem. In Murderous Acts: 100 Years of Crime in the Midwest, Keven McQueen explores a century of true crimes committed in 10 Midwestern states, from the 1840s to the 1940s. With a touch of gallows humor, McQueen relies on original research to recount infamous transgressions—including Michigan's Robert Irving Latimer case, the serial murders of Nebraskan Jake Bird, and the bloody deeds of Kansas's Bender family—as well as gruesome tales that are less well known, such as the Wisconsin man with a penchant for swinging an axe at the necks of men he didn't care for, the Hoosier who killed his sweetheart in the midst of a Halloween ball, and the French nobleman who wreaked havoc in a St. Louis hotel. Murderous Acts will intrigue and delight fans of true crime and will send a shiver down the spine of any reader fascinated by the dark history of America's Heartland.
Murderous Acts
Author: Keven McQueen
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253058457
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
While the Midwest may be known for salt-of-the-earth folks, it's also home to murder and mayhem. In Murderous Acts: 100 Years of Crime in the Midwest, Keven McQueen explores a century of true crimes committed in 10 Midwestern states, from the 1840s to the 1940s. With a touch of gallows humor, McQueen relies on original research to recount infamous transgressions—including Michigan's Robert Irving Latimer case, the serial murders of Nebraskan Jake Bird, and the bloody deeds of Kansas's Bender family—as well as gruesome tales that are less well known, such as the Wisconsin man with a penchant for swinging an axe at the necks of men he didn't care for, the Hoosier who killed his sweetheart in the midst of a Halloween ball, and the French nobleman who wreaked havoc in a St. Louis hotel. Murderous Acts will intrigue and delight fans of true crime and will send a shiver down the spine of any reader fascinated by the dark history of America's Heartland.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253058457
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
While the Midwest may be known for salt-of-the-earth folks, it's also home to murder and mayhem. In Murderous Acts: 100 Years of Crime in the Midwest, Keven McQueen explores a century of true crimes committed in 10 Midwestern states, from the 1840s to the 1940s. With a touch of gallows humor, McQueen relies on original research to recount infamous transgressions—including Michigan's Robert Irving Latimer case, the serial murders of Nebraskan Jake Bird, and the bloody deeds of Kansas's Bender family—as well as gruesome tales that are less well known, such as the Wisconsin man with a penchant for swinging an axe at the necks of men he didn't care for, the Hoosier who killed his sweetheart in the midst of a Halloween ball, and the French nobleman who wreaked havoc in a St. Louis hotel. Murderous Acts will intrigue and delight fans of true crime and will send a shiver down the spine of any reader fascinated by the dark history of America's Heartland.
Murderous Acts
Author: Knight Colin (author)
Publisher: Colin Knight
ISBN: 0463556119
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
"If an injury has to be done to a man, it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared."A chance encounter and an overheard conversation was all it took to undo the psychotherapy that had buried David's bitterness and suppressed his desire for revenge.Little by little, the ruthless characters David had once played on London's premier stages, forced their way in to his consciousness.Little by little, David identified the undeserving, balanced the evidence, and passed sentences.Deluded by a demanding imaginary audience, and manipulated by an increasingly powerful subconscious, David is compelled to act.Killing for the adulation of his 'audience', David cleansed his past, purged the unworthy and settled his soul.But...Little by little, unknown by David, the protective and inquisitive child of the woman he loves has watched, made notes, and took photographs.As the killings become more personal, and the child reveals what he knows, David must make a choice.Is he too far gone to make a rational choice?Will his now dominant subconscious demand David kill the child of the woman he loves?Will David's imaginary audience recoil at the murder of a child?Or is there another way out?
Publisher: Colin Knight
ISBN: 0463556119
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
"If an injury has to be done to a man, it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared."A chance encounter and an overheard conversation was all it took to undo the psychotherapy that had buried David's bitterness and suppressed his desire for revenge.Little by little, the ruthless characters David had once played on London's premier stages, forced their way in to his consciousness.Little by little, David identified the undeserving, balanced the evidence, and passed sentences.Deluded by a demanding imaginary audience, and manipulated by an increasingly powerful subconscious, David is compelled to act.Killing for the adulation of his 'audience', David cleansed his past, purged the unworthy and settled his soul.But...Little by little, unknown by David, the protective and inquisitive child of the woman he loves has watched, made notes, and took photographs.As the killings become more personal, and the child reveals what he knows, David must make a choice.Is he too far gone to make a rational choice?Will his now dominant subconscious demand David kill the child of the woman he loves?Will David's imaginary audience recoil at the murder of a child?Or is there another way out?
Acts of Murder
Author: L.R. Wright
Publisher: Felony & Mayhem Press
ISBN: 1631941690
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
A serial killer stalks the Sunshine Coast in the final novel of this Edgar Award–winning series—the basis for the Fox TV and Hulu Murder in a Small Town. The ninth and final book in the Karl Alberg series makes a wonderfully elegant end to the saga of the tiny town on Canada’s “Sunshine Coast,” the policeman who tries to catch the town’s baddies, and the sensual, smart-mouthed librarian he loves. Alberg and Cassandra are at long last getting married, and Alberg has a new sergeant, the beautiful and enigmatic Edwina Henderson. But don’t be fooled by all the sunshine. Sechelt, British Colombia, once again has more than its share of murders. And the serial killer who’s busy knocking off residents—someone known as “the avenging Angel”—may be the darkest character Alber has ever faced.
Publisher: Felony & Mayhem Press
ISBN: 1631941690
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
A serial killer stalks the Sunshine Coast in the final novel of this Edgar Award–winning series—the basis for the Fox TV and Hulu Murder in a Small Town. The ninth and final book in the Karl Alberg series makes a wonderfully elegant end to the saga of the tiny town on Canada’s “Sunshine Coast,” the policeman who tries to catch the town’s baddies, and the sensual, smart-mouthed librarian he loves. Alberg and Cassandra are at long last getting married, and Alberg has a new sergeant, the beautiful and enigmatic Edwina Henderson. But don’t be fooled by all the sunshine. Sechelt, British Colombia, once again has more than its share of murders. And the serial killer who’s busy knocking off residents—someone known as “the avenging Angel”—may be the darkest character Alber has ever faced.
Got Murder?
Author: Martin Hintz
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
ISBN: 9781931599962
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Ah, Wisconsin. . . land of beer, cows, and the Green Bay Packers. And also the home of Ed Gein, Jeffery Dahmer, and a host of other bloodthirsty maniacs. This book goes behind the bucolic Dairy State image to reveal shocking acts of mayhem in the dark corners of Wisconsin history, and asks the troubling question: Is it something in the cheese?
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
ISBN: 9781931599962
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Ah, Wisconsin. . . land of beer, cows, and the Green Bay Packers. And also the home of Ed Gein, Jeffery Dahmer, and a host of other bloodthirsty maniacs. This book goes behind the bucolic Dairy State image to reveal shocking acts of mayhem in the dark corners of Wisconsin history, and asks the troubling question: Is it something in the cheese?
Murderous Acts
Author: Keven McQueen
Publisher: Quarry Books
ISBN: 9780253058447
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
-Author attends numerous local events and will be a good self-promoter -Author's books have good sales numbers
Publisher: Quarry Books
ISBN: 9780253058447
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
-Author attends numerous local events and will be a good self-promoter -Author's books have good sales numbers
Murder
Author: Ronald Doctor
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 042991640X
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
This book, a sequel to the edited book Dangerous Patients: A Psychodynamic Approach to Risk Assessment and Management, places the emphasis on working in psychodynamic psychotherapy with patients who have killed to gain a greater understanding of their internal world and object relationships.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 042991640X
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
This book, a sequel to the edited book Dangerous Patients: A Psychodynamic Approach to Risk Assessment and Management, places the emphasis on working in psychodynamic psychotherapy with patients who have killed to gain a greater understanding of their internal world and object relationships.
Life Beyond Murder
Author: Dan Gabriel Rusu
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040228992
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Detailing the resettlement narratives of five men who have committed different types of murder (confrontational/revenge, financial gain, random, intimate partner femicide, and family feud), this book counters narratives of neoliberal, ‘responsibilizing’ messages of individualism to investigate what informs their experiences of resettlement. Life Beyond Murder: Exploring the Identity Reconstruction of Mandatory Lifers After Release explores the impact of mandatory lifers’ institutionalisation, families, consumer culture, emotions, and supervision, considering how these factors hamper or assist with their transition from the stigmatising identity of being ‘dangerous murderers’. The book’s discussion is guided by the men’s narratives, employing a ‘tug of war’ metaphor to elucidate the ‘push-pull forces’ that influence the men’s efforts to reconstruct their lives in the years following their release. To be successful, the book argues, these men have to reconcile a paradoxical situation, and the most skilled mandatory lifers manage to relativise their involvement in murder whilst concomitantly showing remorse. This situation is achieved through a Splitting Narrative that ultimately defends against anxiety, contains internal stigma, and often showcases self-flagellant remorse, as they move towards positive social identities such as philanthropists, family men, wounded healers, and pious members of the church.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040228992
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Detailing the resettlement narratives of five men who have committed different types of murder (confrontational/revenge, financial gain, random, intimate partner femicide, and family feud), this book counters narratives of neoliberal, ‘responsibilizing’ messages of individualism to investigate what informs their experiences of resettlement. Life Beyond Murder: Exploring the Identity Reconstruction of Mandatory Lifers After Release explores the impact of mandatory lifers’ institutionalisation, families, consumer culture, emotions, and supervision, considering how these factors hamper or assist with their transition from the stigmatising identity of being ‘dangerous murderers’. The book’s discussion is guided by the men’s narratives, employing a ‘tug of war’ metaphor to elucidate the ‘push-pull forces’ that influence the men’s efforts to reconstruct their lives in the years following their release. To be successful, the book argues, these men have to reconcile a paradoxical situation, and the most skilled mandatory lifers manage to relativise their involvement in murder whilst concomitantly showing remorse. This situation is achieved through a Splitting Narrative that ultimately defends against anxiety, contains internal stigma, and often showcases self-flagellant remorse, as they move towards positive social identities such as philanthropists, family men, wounded healers, and pious members of the church.
Murder in All Ages
Author: Matthew Worth Pinkerton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Homicide
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Homicide
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Murder in Dublin
Author: Christina Koning
Publisher: Allison & Busby Ltd
ISBN: 0749029889
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
It is 1939 and the Second World War looms ever closer. Blind war veteran, Frederick Rowlands, travels to the neutral territory of Ireland at the behest of Celia Swift, whose husband, Edward Swift, Lord Castleford, has been receiving mysterious death threats. When a body is discovered, Castleford finds himself being accused of a murder he did not commit. As Castleford's trial begins, Rowlands must fight to save his friend's reputation - and his neck from the gallows. But will the Blind Detective identify the true killer in time, or will it be too late? In the latest instalment of Christina Koning's acclaimed Blind Detective series, a country teeters on the knife-edge of war while a man's life also hangs in the balance .
Publisher: Allison & Busby Ltd
ISBN: 0749029889
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
It is 1939 and the Second World War looms ever closer. Blind war veteran, Frederick Rowlands, travels to the neutral territory of Ireland at the behest of Celia Swift, whose husband, Edward Swift, Lord Castleford, has been receiving mysterious death threats. When a body is discovered, Castleford finds himself being accused of a murder he did not commit. As Castleford's trial begins, Rowlands must fight to save his friend's reputation - and his neck from the gallows. But will the Blind Detective identify the true killer in time, or will it be too late? In the latest instalment of Christina Koning's acclaimed Blind Detective series, a country teeters on the knife-edge of war while a man's life also hangs in the balance .
Sexual Murder
Author: Louis B. Schlesinger
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1000350436
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Sexual Murder: Catathymic and Compulsive Homicides is the culmination of the author’s 45 years of experience with, and studying, sexually motivated homicide. Sexual murders are generally of two types — catathymic and compulsive. Catathymic homicides are caused by a breakthrough of underlying sexual conflicts. They can be unplanned, explosive (acute) attacks or planned murders stemming from a chronic obsession with, or disturbed attachment to, the victim. In compulsive homicides, a fusion of sex and aggression results in a powerful internal drive which pushes the offender to seek out victims to kill — and the killing itself is sexually gratifying. These murders also may be planned or unplanned. In compulsive homicides that are unplanned, the urge breaks through and disrupts the offender’s controls when a victim of opportunity crosses his path. The compulsive offender who plans his crimes often eludes law enforcement, and as a result he can have multiple (serial) victims over extended periods of time. Both forms of sexual murder — the catathymic and the compulsive — are presented in this volume from a clinical-descriptive perspective encompassing case studies with analysis. Recent advances in empirical research in sexual murder—including findings from the joint research project between John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit in Quantico—has published many important studies. These include such topics as necrophilia, foreign object insertions in sexual homicide, ritual and signature and temporal patterns in serial sexual homicide, mass murder, crime scene staging in homicide, and undoing (symbolic reversal) at homicide scenes. All such research will be included and incorporate into this fully updated Second Edition, including approximately fifty new clinical case studies.
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1000350436
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Sexual Murder: Catathymic and Compulsive Homicides is the culmination of the author’s 45 years of experience with, and studying, sexually motivated homicide. Sexual murders are generally of two types — catathymic and compulsive. Catathymic homicides are caused by a breakthrough of underlying sexual conflicts. They can be unplanned, explosive (acute) attacks or planned murders stemming from a chronic obsession with, or disturbed attachment to, the victim. In compulsive homicides, a fusion of sex and aggression results in a powerful internal drive which pushes the offender to seek out victims to kill — and the killing itself is sexually gratifying. These murders also may be planned or unplanned. In compulsive homicides that are unplanned, the urge breaks through and disrupts the offender’s controls when a victim of opportunity crosses his path. The compulsive offender who plans his crimes often eludes law enforcement, and as a result he can have multiple (serial) victims over extended periods of time. Both forms of sexual murder — the catathymic and the compulsive — are presented in this volume from a clinical-descriptive perspective encompassing case studies with analysis. Recent advances in empirical research in sexual murder—including findings from the joint research project between John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit in Quantico—has published many important studies. These include such topics as necrophilia, foreign object insertions in sexual homicide, ritual and signature and temporal patterns in serial sexual homicide, mass murder, crime scene staging in homicide, and undoing (symbolic reversal) at homicide scenes. All such research will be included and incorporate into this fully updated Second Edition, including approximately fifty new clinical case studies.