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Story of Lisa Fotopoulos and her husband Kosta, how their marriage ended when it came to light that Kosta was involved in a murder.
Lisa Fotopoulos could not have asked for a more loving, caring, and affectionate spouse than Kosta. Her parents adored him; he was the nice young man that they had always dreamed Lisa would marry. But behind Kosta's innocent face and seductive charm, he was anything but the perfect husband. The sun-drenched shores of...
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"When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold analyzes four homicides carried out by Chilean women over the course of the twentieth century. Drawing on her training as a lawyer, Alia Trabucco Zerán offers a nuanced close reading of their lives and crimes, foregoing sensationalism in favor of dissecting how all four were perpetrators of grievous violent acts at the same time as being victims of another, more insidious kind of violence. This radical retelling...
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At the beginning of 2020, McCullough was a program director at a major academic medical center in Dallas, Texas. Searching for a treatment for the disease, he followed the longstanding principle that it is best to tackle a sickness early. McCullough and his colleagues developed an early treatment protocol-- which was not welcomed by public health officials. News of their promising results was dismissed; McCullough and his colleagues were attacked...
545) But I trusted you
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Trust is the foundation of any enduring relationship between friends, lovers, spouses, and families, but when trust is placed in those who are not what they seem, the results can be deadly. In this riveting collection from the true-crime files of New York Times bestselling author Ann Rule, trusting bonds are lethally shattered. Whether driven to extreme violence by greed or jealousy, passion or rage, these calculating sociopaths targeted those closest...
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"In the summer of 1873, four American forgers went on trial at the Old Bailey--London's iconic law court--for the greatest fraud the world had ever seen. The attempted crime: stealing five million dollars from the Bank of England from under the noses of its unsuspecting officials. [In this book], Booth tells the extraordinary true story of the forgers' earliest escapades in Chicago, Louisville, and Manhattan, culminating with the heist at the world's...
548) Standing strong
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"Diane Reeve found everything she was looking for in the handsome Frenchman Philippe Padieu. Deeply in love, they spent every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday together at his place or hers...that is, until she learned about his Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday women. But her heartbreak was just beginning. After discovering his cheating, she tested positive for HIV and learned that Philippe had knowingly infected her. Even more shocking was the...
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Cults prey on the very attributes that make us human: our desire to belong; to find a deeper meaning in life; to live everyday with divine purpose. Their existence creates a sense that any one of us, at any time, could step off the cliff₂s edge and fall into that daunting abyss of manipulation and unhinged dedication to a misplaced cause. Perhaps it's this mindset that keeps us so utterly obsessed and desperate to learn more, or it's that the stories...
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Buried Memories: Katie Beers' Story is a never-before-told true story of survival, memory and recovery. Beers was a profoundly neglected and abused child even before she was kidnapped on Long Island in 1992. Abducted by a family friend, she was held captive in an underground cell for 17 days and sexually abused. With smarts and strength, she slipped the bonds of captivity and began a new life.--Publisher.
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Crime Classics was a true-crime radio docudrama that aired on CBS from June 1953 to June 1954. Created, produced, and directed by Elliott Lewis, the program examined crimes and murders throughout history. Founded in Lewis' own personal interest in famous murder cases, the program meticulously recreated the facts, atmosphere, and personages of the era in which the crime took place. Very little dramatic license was taken with the facts, but a touch...
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"The definitive account of the mass disappearance of 43 Mexican students and the government that tried to cover it up. On September 26, 2014, 43 male students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College went missing in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico. According to official reports, the students commandeered several buses to travel to Mexico City to commemorate the anniversary of the 1968 Tlatelolco Massacre. During the journey, local police intercepted the...
556) Echoes of my soul
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New York Times bestselling author and renowned prosecuting attorney Robert K. Tanenbaum provides the first insider's account of the historic Wylie-Hoffert case, from the shocking double-murder to the wrenching interrogation of an innocent young man, and the heroic Assistant District Attorney who risked everything to unravel a disgraceful injustice.
Chronicle of the infamous Career Girls Murders, a case that led to the Supreme Court's enactment of...
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"The 1979 murder of 13-year-old John Pius is a stain on the history of Suffolk County, Long Island. It was national news at the time: a young white kid with his whole life ahead of him, killed and trampled and left in the woods. A young detective named Thomas Spota was under intense pressure to solve the mystery. Then a 14-year-old informant named Jimmy Burke came to him with evidence--questionable evidence--that broke the case open. The relationship...
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Recent evidence throws new light on this famous case of the 1920's.
Startling new evidence is revealed that proves once and for all Nicola Sacco's guilt and Bartolomeo Vanzetti's innocence in the famous 1920 murder case that resulted in the conviction and execution of both men.
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