Author: Alex Josey
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
ISBN: 9814893552
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
A beautiful, sensuous and rich widow is brutally murdered in the most questionable of circumstances. The last person to see her alive is her brother-in-law and lover—a man later found guilty on circumstantial evidence. Not until the condemned man appealed did a witness come forward and admit that he had given false evidence. How did she die? Who was the other mysterious lover to whom she constantly penned saucy letters? Why did the witness lie?
The Murder of A Beauty Queen
Author: Alex Josey
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
ISBN: 9814893552
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
A beautiful, sensuous and rich widow is brutally murdered in the most questionable of circumstances. The last person to see her alive is her brother-in-law and lover—a man later found guilty on circumstantial evidence. Not until the condemned man appealed did a witness come forward and admit that he had given false evidence. How did she die? Who was the other mysterious lover to whom she constantly penned saucy letters? Why did the witness lie?
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
ISBN: 9814893552
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
A beautiful, sensuous and rich widow is brutally murdered in the most questionable of circumstances. The last person to see her alive is her brother-in-law and lover—a man later found guilty on circumstantial evidence. Not until the condemned man appealed did a witness come forward and admit that he had given false evidence. How did she die? Who was the other mysterious lover to whom she constantly penned saucy letters? Why did the witness lie?
Murder of a Beauty Shop Queen
Author: Bill Crider
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 1250014972
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Dan Rhodes, sheriff of Blacklin County, Texas, is called to the Beauty Shack, where the young and pretty Lynn Ashton has been found dead, bashed over the head with a hairdryer. The owner said Lynn had gone to the salon late to meet an unknown client. There was a lot of gossip going on about Lynn before her death, but no one seems to really know much about her, or they're not telling Rhodes. Lynn was known to flirt, and it's possible an angry wife or jilted lover had something to do with her death. The salon owner suspects two outsiders who have been staying in an abandoned building across the street. While he investigates the murder, Rhodes must also deal with the theft of copper and car batteries, not to mention a pregnant nanny goat that is terrorizing the town. Murder of a Beauty Shop Queen is a wonderful entry in this always delightful series by award-winning author Bill Crider.
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 1250014972
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Dan Rhodes, sheriff of Blacklin County, Texas, is called to the Beauty Shack, where the young and pretty Lynn Ashton has been found dead, bashed over the head with a hairdryer. The owner said Lynn had gone to the salon late to meet an unknown client. There was a lot of gossip going on about Lynn before her death, but no one seems to really know much about her, or they're not telling Rhodes. Lynn was known to flirt, and it's possible an angry wife or jilted lover had something to do with her death. The salon owner suspects two outsiders who have been staying in an abandoned building across the street. While he investigates the murder, Rhodes must also deal with the theft of copper and car batteries, not to mention a pregnant nanny goat that is terrorizing the town. Murder of a Beauty Shop Queen is a wonderful entry in this always delightful series by award-winning author Bill Crider.
Murder on a Lonely Road
Author: Beth Hundsdorfer
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101581484
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A brutal murder that shocked residents of Missouri—and a killer it took 25 years to bring to justice... On June 17, 1985, twenty-year-old beauty pageant winner Jackie Johns's car was found abandoned, the interior drenched in blood. Four days later, her bludgeoned, nude body was found floating in a nearby lake. Sheriff Dwight McNiel vowed to catch Jackie's killer, however long it took. His prime suspect: local rich kid Gerald Carnahan. But despite suspicions, the evidence never managed to add up, and Carnahan slipped away again and again. Throughout the next two decades, multiple other women went missing, some murdered, some never found. Fearful residents believed that a murderous bogeyman was connected to all these crimes. Carnahan's conviction on the attempted kidnapping charge of another young woman brought his name into the mix over and over again--but all of the cases remained unsolved for decades, until a highway patrol sergeant sent DNA from the Jackie Johns's murder for testing and came up with a quadrillions-to-one match to Carnahan. This is the true account of a murderer who thought he was beyond punishment, and the lawmen who would not relent until justice was finally done.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101581484
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A brutal murder that shocked residents of Missouri—and a killer it took 25 years to bring to justice... On June 17, 1985, twenty-year-old beauty pageant winner Jackie Johns's car was found abandoned, the interior drenched in blood. Four days later, her bludgeoned, nude body was found floating in a nearby lake. Sheriff Dwight McNiel vowed to catch Jackie's killer, however long it took. His prime suspect: local rich kid Gerald Carnahan. But despite suspicions, the evidence never managed to add up, and Carnahan slipped away again and again. Throughout the next two decades, multiple other women went missing, some murdered, some never found. Fearful residents believed that a murderous bogeyman was connected to all these crimes. Carnahan's conviction on the attempted kidnapping charge of another young woman brought his name into the mix over and over again--but all of the cases remained unsolved for decades, until a highway patrol sergeant sent DNA from the Jackie Johns's murder for testing and came up with a quadrillions-to-one match to Carnahan. This is the true account of a murderer who thought he was beyond punishment, and the lawmen who would not relent until justice was finally done.
Death of a Beauty Queen
Author: W. G. Davis
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781544190853
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Twenty years ago, the unsolved murder of 6-year-old JonBen�t Ramsey created endless headlines around the globe. Now, her mysterious death is being reexamined in this fact filled book: The Death of a Beauty Queen.More than 140 suspects and 1,400 pieces of evidence have been reviewed in JonBen�t's murder, one of America's most talked-about cold cases. Burke and JonBen�t's parents, John and Patsy (who died in 2006 after a battle with ovarian cancer), were the primary suspects for more than a decade until police cleared them of any wrongdoing in 2008. For many the case is just a fading headline in their memories. But for others, it's a daily goal to find the killer of JonBen�t Ramsey. We will look at the facts and the details surrounding the evidence and hopefully uncover the answer to who killed JonBen�t Ramsey.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781544190853
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Twenty years ago, the unsolved murder of 6-year-old JonBen�t Ramsey created endless headlines around the globe. Now, her mysterious death is being reexamined in this fact filled book: The Death of a Beauty Queen.More than 140 suspects and 1,400 pieces of evidence have been reviewed in JonBen�t's murder, one of America's most talked-about cold cases. Burke and JonBen�t's parents, John and Patsy (who died in 2006 after a battle with ovarian cancer), were the primary suspects for more than a decade until police cleared them of any wrongdoing in 2008. For many the case is just a fading headline in their memories. But for others, it's a daily goal to find the killer of JonBen�t Ramsey. We will look at the facts and the details surrounding the evidence and hopefully uncover the answer to who killed JonBen�t Ramsey.
The Murder of a Beauty Queen
Author: Alex Josey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789971650902
Category : Murder
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789971650902
Category : Murder
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Murder for Beauty
Author: Beatrice Fairbanks Cayzer
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1462043151
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Murder for Beauty describes the horrific murders by a serial killer planning to take over the cosmetics and perfume industry by killing off top executives of rival companies. Sleuth Happy Harrow, a Kentucky-born woman jockey married to a British race horse trainer based in Epsom, has a supernatural clairvoyant talent to find killers. Happy is drawn into these serial killings by a neighbor who is a Queen in the cosmetics and perfume business heading the WOW!Me Empire. Happy takes the case to save the Queens under threat. Travelling to Italy, Monaco, and Turkey, she stalks the killer in France.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1462043151
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Murder for Beauty describes the horrific murders by a serial killer planning to take over the cosmetics and perfume industry by killing off top executives of rival companies. Sleuth Happy Harrow, a Kentucky-born woman jockey married to a British race horse trainer based in Epsom, has a supernatural clairvoyant talent to find killers. Happy is drawn into these serial killings by a neighbor who is a Queen in the cosmetics and perfume business heading the WOW!Me Empire. Happy takes the case to save the Queens under threat. Travelling to Italy, Monaco, and Turkey, she stalks the killer in France.
The Beauty Queen of Leenane
Author: Martin McDonagh
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408173832
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
The Beauty Queen of Leenane tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen Folan, a plain and lonely woman in her early forties, and Mag her manipulative ageing mother whose interference in Maureen's first and potentially last loving relationship sets in motion a train of events that is as gothically funny as it is horrific.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408173832
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
The Beauty Queen of Leenane tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen Folan, a plain and lonely woman in her early forties, and Mag her manipulative ageing mother whose interference in Maureen's first and potentially last loving relationship sets in motion a train of events that is as gothically funny as it is horrific.
Christopher Wilder
Author: Jack Rosewood
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781533070302
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Of all the many psychopaths and sociopaths that have hunted for human victims throughout history, few have been more disturbing or mysterious than Christopher Bernard Wilder - the beauty queen killer. From the middle of the 1960s until 1984, Wilder sexually assaulted countless women and murdered at least nine in Australia and the United States. The beauty queen killer was not only a true psychopath, but also a hunter as he carefully chose attractive girls and young women to victimize. But Wilder was no creepy looking killer; he was an attractive, articulate man who used a camera and offers of a modelling career to get his unsuspecting, naive victims to remote locations where he would then rape, torture, and ultimately kill them. Among serial killer biographies, Wilder's is a cautionary tale. First as a juvenile and later as a young man, Wilder was arrested on numerous occasions for sexual assaults in both Australia and United States; but he never served any time behind bars due to technicalities, witnesses refusing to testify, or the judges showing sympathy towards the beauty queen killer. When one considers some of the better known American crime stories from history, many red-flags are apparent that point towards the future criminal potential of an individual: for Wilder, the flags were bright, crimson, quite large, and difficult to avoid, yet were ignored by his friends, family, and the authorities. Christopher Wilder's saga is therefore not just a true crime murder story, but also an unfortunate example of how the system can fail to protect the public from a known sexual sadist. Open the pages of this intriguing book and read the story of an American serial killer who had it all: looks, money, and beautiful women. But as this captivating true crime story will reveal, nothing was ever enough for the beauty queen killer as he killed his way across the United States in order to satisfy his sadistic lust. Aspects of the Christopher Bernard Wilder story will disturb you, but at the same time you will find it difficult to put this serial killer biography down because you will be drawn in by the FBI's hunt to capture the elusive criminal."
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781533070302
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Of all the many psychopaths and sociopaths that have hunted for human victims throughout history, few have been more disturbing or mysterious than Christopher Bernard Wilder - the beauty queen killer. From the middle of the 1960s until 1984, Wilder sexually assaulted countless women and murdered at least nine in Australia and the United States. The beauty queen killer was not only a true psychopath, but also a hunter as he carefully chose attractive girls and young women to victimize. But Wilder was no creepy looking killer; he was an attractive, articulate man who used a camera and offers of a modelling career to get his unsuspecting, naive victims to remote locations where he would then rape, torture, and ultimately kill them. Among serial killer biographies, Wilder's is a cautionary tale. First as a juvenile and later as a young man, Wilder was arrested on numerous occasions for sexual assaults in both Australia and United States; but he never served any time behind bars due to technicalities, witnesses refusing to testify, or the judges showing sympathy towards the beauty queen killer. When one considers some of the better known American crime stories from history, many red-flags are apparent that point towards the future criminal potential of an individual: for Wilder, the flags were bright, crimson, quite large, and difficult to avoid, yet were ignored by his friends, family, and the authorities. Christopher Wilder's saga is therefore not just a true crime murder story, but also an unfortunate example of how the system can fail to protect the public from a known sexual sadist. Open the pages of this intriguing book and read the story of an American serial killer who had it all: looks, money, and beautiful women. But as this captivating true crime story will reveal, nothing was ever enough for the beauty queen killer as he killed his way across the United States in order to satisfy his sadistic lust. Aspects of the Christopher Bernard Wilder story will disturb you, but at the same time you will find it difficult to put this serial killer biography down because you will be drawn in by the FBI's hunt to capture the elusive criminal."
Severed
Author: John Gilmore
Publisher: Amok Books
ISBN: 187892317X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
This new edition of the L.A. noir classic is released just in time to accompany the Brian De Palma film.
Publisher: Amok Books
ISBN: 187892317X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
This new edition of the L.A. noir classic is released just in time to accompany the Brian De Palma film.
Death of a Little Princess
Author: Carlton Smith
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312964337
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
A Fairy Tale Beginning Six-year-old beauty JonBenet Ramsey was a dream child--smart, talented and blessed. Her mother, a former Miss America contestant, had entered her in every child beauty pageant possible. Wearing lipstick, heavy makeup, and provocative costumes that cost thousands of dollars, with her hair bleached and teased, JonBenet flirtatiously paraded down runways, exuding a sophistication beyond her years. A Nightmare Ending But that dazzling future of crows and titles was brutally cut short the day after Christmas when her mother discovered a random note on the stairs of their luxurious Boulder, Colorado home. Hours later JonBenet's distraught father, millionaire businessman John Ramsey, found his beloved daughter's lifeless body, gagged and strangled in a windowless room in the basement of their million-dollar mansion. An Unspeakable Crime As detectives worked to uncover what happened Christmas night in the darkened mansion, the nation grieved for the innocent little girl whose life was cruelly snuffed out.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312964337
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
A Fairy Tale Beginning Six-year-old beauty JonBenet Ramsey was a dream child--smart, talented and blessed. Her mother, a former Miss America contestant, had entered her in every child beauty pageant possible. Wearing lipstick, heavy makeup, and provocative costumes that cost thousands of dollars, with her hair bleached and teased, JonBenet flirtatiously paraded down runways, exuding a sophistication beyond her years. A Nightmare Ending But that dazzling future of crows and titles was brutally cut short the day after Christmas when her mother discovered a random note on the stairs of their luxurious Boulder, Colorado home. Hours later JonBenet's distraught father, millionaire businessman John Ramsey, found his beloved daughter's lifeless body, gagged and strangled in a windowless room in the basement of their million-dollar mansion. An Unspeakable Crime As detectives worked to uncover what happened Christmas night in the darkened mansion, the nation grieved for the innocent little girl whose life was cruelly snuffed out.