Catalog Search Results
Language
English
Description
Heavens Fall: Based on the true story of the Scottsboro Boys, a tragic true story of nine black men who were pulled off an Alabama freight train and accused of raping two young white women, quickly tried, and sentenced to the electric chair. Forcing an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, a lone man defends them.
Blue Ridge Fall: In the small town world of Jefferson Creek, North Carolina, star high school quarterback, Danny Shepherd, and his buddies...
Author
Series
Panorama de narrativas volume 1044
Language
Español
Description
Cuando los padres de Adélaïde la encuentran llorando, casi muda e incapaz de explicar completamente lo sucedido, la llevan a la comisaría y presentan una denuncia contra un agresor desconocido por agresión sexual. Pasan los años, años en los que no dice nada y lleva una sonrisa estampada en su rostro. Los innumerables días de sufrimiento y soledad pasan mientras ella lucha contra las medusas. Veintitrés años después del día de su asalto,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Wrongful Conviction in Sexual Assault: Stranger Rape, Acquaintance Rape, and Intra-Familial Child Sexual Assaults examines the phenomenon of innocent defendants who are convicted of rape and related sexual offenses. It presents findings that indicate sexual offenses are highly over represented among confirmed wrongful convictions. Drawing from Innocence Project and National Registry of Exoneration data and supplemented by social science and historical...
Language
English
Description
Documents a 1984 rape/murder case in which a 19-year-old African-American, Darryl Hunt, was wrongfully accused and imprisoned. Utilizing archival footage and interviews, the filmmakers capture the judicial and emotional responses of those involved with the case, and the questions and issues raised by this miscarriage of justice which caused Hunt to spend almost 20 years behind bars.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Lies, murder, and a legendary courtroom battle threaten to tear apart the Territory of Hawaii. In September of 1931, Thalia Massie, a young naval lieutenant's wife, claims to have been raped by five Hawaiian men in Honolulu. Following a hung jury in the rape trial, Thalia's mother, socialite Grace Fortescue, and husband, along with two sailors, kidnap one of the accused in an attempt to coerce a confession. When they are caught after killing him...
Author
Language
English
Description
In May of 1980, Mary Stauffer and her eight year old daughter Beth thought they were preparing for an internatinal mission trip. Ming Sen Shiue, Mary's high-school algebra student from 1965, had other plans. Stalking Mary is the true account of the kidnapping of Mary and Beth Stauffer, the thoughtless murder of a six-year old boy named Jason Wilkman, and the psychosexual ploys of a dangerously deranged Shiue. Using court documents, video and audio...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Suggest a purchase. Submit Request