Peter Woodcock

Author : Mark Bourrie,R. J. Parker
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Murder
ISBN : 1523256990

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Peter Woodcock by Mark Bourrie,R. J. Parker Pdf

Includes graphic photos Peter Woodcock was Canada's youngest serial killer when at the age of seventeen he brutally raped and murdered two boys and a girl between the ages of four and nine. He was never put on trial by "reason of insanity" and instead was confined for 34 years in a criminal psychiatric facility and offered treatment. On July 13, 1991 he finally had earned his first day pass ever and allowed to briefly go off the facility grounds into town to visit a DQ for an ice cream. What Woodcock did within the first hour of his first day pass stunned many people and made national headlines.

Author : Lee Mellor
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-03
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781459701250

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Cold North Killers by Lee Mellor Pdf

Canada is seen as a peaceful place, but this wake-up call shows us that there have been more than 60 serial killers in our history. Limited time offer. There are more than 60 serial murderers in Canadian history. For too long awareness of serial murder in Canada has been confined toWest Coastbutcher Clifford Olson and the "Schoolgirl Murderers" Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka, along with the horrific acts of pig farmer Robert Pickton. Unlike our American neighbours, Canada has been viewed as a nation untouched by the shadow of multiple murder. Then came Colonel Russell Williams and his bizarre homicides and serial home invasions, which were sensational news worldwide on the Internet and television and in scores of newspapers and magazines. The reason for Canada’s serial killer blackout is clear: until now such information has never been compiled and presented in a single concise work. ColdNorth Killers is a wake-up call. This detailed and haunting account of Canada’s worst monsters analyzes their crimes, childhoods, and inevitable downfalls. It is an indispensablecompendium for any true crime lover, criminologist, or law-enforcement officer.

Author : Steve Smith
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781460287859

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The Psychopath Machine by Steve Smith Pdf

When Steve Smith set out to hitchhike from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario to Canada’s west coast back in 1968, he was just an eighteen-year-old hippie with an appetite for adventure. But a short way into his journey, a reckless decision to steal a car landed him in police custody. Afraid of getting caught with the two tabs of acid in his pocket, Steve popped them into his mouth. It was one of the worst decisions of his life. Mistaking his drug trip for a mental breakdown, the authorities placed him in Ontario’s notorious Oak Ridge mental health facility. While there, not only did he find himself shoulder-to-shoulder with people like notorious child killer Peter Woodcock and mass murderers Matt Lamb and Victor Hoffman, he also fell into the hands of someone worse: Dr. Elliot T. Barker. Over the next eight months, Barker subjected Steve and the other patients to a battery of unorthodox experiments involving LSD, scopolamine, methamphetamines, and other drugs. Steven also experienced numerous other forms of abuse and torture. Following his release, Steve continued to suffer the aftereffects of his Oak Ridge experience. For several years, he found himself in and out of prison—and back to Oak Ridge—before he was finally able to establish himself as a successful entrepreneur. Once he began investigating what happened to him during his youth, not even Steve was prepared for what he would discover about Barker, Oak Ridge, and one of the darkest periods in Canada’s treatment of mental health patients. The question remains: Was Oak Ridge and Dr. Barker trying to cure psychopaths or trying to create and direct them?

Author : United States. General Land Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Bounties, Military
ISBN : WISC:89064415326

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War of 1812 Bounty Lands in Illinois by United States. General Land Office Pdf

Author : Jamie Woodcock
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Call center agents
ISBN : 0745399061

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Working the Phones by Jamie Woodcock Pdf

A Marxist investigation into the forms of resistance occurring in the UK call centre today

Author : Mark Bourrie
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1997-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0888821964

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By Reason of Insanity by Mark Bourrie Pdf

The life of David Michael Krueger, who, on his first day pass from his Brockville, Ontario, psychiatric hospital, brutally murdered another patient.

Author : Peter Vronsky
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004-10-05
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781101204627

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Serial Killers by Peter Vronsky Pdf

A comprehensive examination into the frightening true crime history of serial homicide—including information on America’s most prolific serial killers such as: Jeffrey Dahmer • Ted Bundy • “Co-ed Killer” Ed Kemper • The BTK Killer • “Highway Stalker” Henry Lee Lucas • Monte Ralph Rissell • “Shoe Fetish Slayer” Jerry Brudos • “Night Stalker” Richard Ramirez • “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski • Ed Gein “The Butcher of Plainfield” • “Killer Clown” John Wayne Gacy • Andrew Cunanan • And more... In this unique book, Peter Vronsky documents the psychological, investigative, and cultural aspects of serial murder, beginning with its first recorded instance in Ancient Rome through fifteenth-century France on to such notorious contemporary cases as cannibal/necrophile Ed Kemper, the BTK killer, Henry Lee Lucas, Monte Ralph Rissell, Jerry Brudos, Richard Ramirez, “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski, Ed Gein, John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and the emergence of what he classifies as the “serial rampage killer” such as Andrew Cunanan, who murdered fashion designer Gianni Versace. Vronsky not only offers sound theories on what makes a serial killer but also makes concrete suggestions on how to survive an encounter with one—from recognizing verbal warning signs to physical confrontational resistance. Exhaustively researched with transcripts of interviews with killers, and featuring up-to-date information on the apprehension and conviction of the Green River killer and the Beltway Snipers, Vronsky’s one-of-a-kind book covers every conceivable aspect of an endlessly riveting true crime phenomenon. INCLUDES PHOTOGRAPHS

Author : Nate Hendley
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781459749122

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The Boy on the Bicycle by Nate Hendley Pdf

On the night of September 15, 1956, a seven-year-old child was murdered on the deserted grounds of the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) in Toronto. The main suspect was a teenage boy seen near the crime scene on a bicycle. Toronto police arrested Ron Moffatt, a fourteen-year-old former CNE employee who vaguely fit the description of the suspect. During a tough interrogation, Ron falsely confessed and was convicted at trial. In truth, Ron couldn’t ride a bicycle and was innocent; his phony admission was the product of fear and pressure tactics. The real culprit — sex offender and serial killer Peter Woodcock — remained at large, preying on new victims. This shocking story has eerie parallels to the Steven Truscott case (which also involved a fourteen-year-old Ontario boy accused of murder) but has been largely forgotten until now. A powerful account about a coerced confession, a fumbled police investigation and the crusading lawyer who fought to free Ron from custody.

Author : Jon Ronson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781101515167

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The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson Pdf

In this madcap journey, a bestselling journalist investigates psychopaths and the industry of doctors, scientists, and everyone else who studies them. The Psychopath Test is a fascinating journey through the minds of madness. Jon Ronson's exploration of a potential hoax being played on the world's top neurologists takes him, unexpectedly, into the heart of the madness industry. An influential psychologist who is convinced that many important CEOs and politicians are, in fact, psychopaths teaches Ronson how to spot these high-flying individuals by looking out for little telltale verbal and nonverbal clues. And so Ronson, armed with his new psychopath-spotting abilities, enters the corridors of power. He spends time with a death-squad leader institutionalized for mortgage fraud in Coxsackie, New York; a legendary CEO whose psychopathy has been speculated about in the press; and a patient in an asylum for the criminally insane who insists he's sane and certainly not a psychopath. Ronson not only solves the mystery of the hoax but also discovers, disturbingly, that sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way as those they study. And that relatively ordinary people are, more and more, defined by their maddest edges.

Author : New York (State). State Historian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1204 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : New York (State)
ISBN : CORNELL:31924060421421

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Annual Report of the State Historian by New York (State). State Historian Pdf

Author : New York (State). State Historian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1682 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : New York (State)
ISBN : UOM:39015027764359

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Annual Report by New York (State). State Historian Pdf

Vols. for 1896-1897 contain as appendices papers relating to the part taken by military organizations of the state during the civil war, colonial records, 1664-1675, and muster rolls, 1664-1775.

Author : Paul Oldfield
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 1303 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473884854

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Victoria Crosses on the Western Front, 31st July 1917–6th November 1917 by Paul Oldfield Pdf

In the past, while visiting the First World War battlefields, the author often wondered where the various Victoria Cross actions took place. He resolved to find out. In 1988, in the midst of his army career, research for this book commenced and over the years numerous sources have been consulted.Victoria Crosses on the Western Front Third Ypres 1917 is designed for the battlefield visitor as much as the armchair reader. A thorough account of each VC action is set within the wider strategic and tactical context. Detailed sketch maps show the area today, together with the battle-lines and movements of the combatants. It will allow visitors to stand upon the spot, or very close to, where each VC was won. Photographs of the battle sites richly illustrate the accounts. There is also a comprehensive biography for each recipient, covering every aspect of their lives warts and all parents and siblings, education, civilian employment, military career, wife and children, death and burial/commemoration. A host of other information, much of it published for the first time, reveals some fascinating characters, with numerous links to many famous people and events.

Author : Greg Hoch
Publisher : Bureau Oak Book
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781609386276

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Sky Dance of the Woodcock by Greg Hoch Pdf

Woodcock are one of the oddest birds in North America. They are a shorebird that got lost and ended up in the scrubby parts of the forest, and look like they were put together with the leftover parts of other birds. Oddities aside, each spring they rise to great beauty with their sky dance at dusk. Greg Hoch combines natural history, land management, scientific knowledge, and personal observation to examine this little game bird. Woodcock have a complex life history and the management of their habitat is also complex. The health of this bird can be considered a key indicator of what good forests look like.

Author : Lincoln Geraghty
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810869226

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Channeling the Future by Lincoln Geraghty Pdf

Though science fiction certainly existed prior to the surge of television in the 1950s, the genre quickly established roots in the new medium and flourished in subsequent decades. In Channeling the Future: Essays on Science Fiction and Fantasy Television, Lincoln Geraghty has assembled a collection of essays that focuses on the disparate visions of the past, present, and future offered by science fiction and fantasy television since the 1950s and that continue into the present day. These essays not only shine new light on often overlooked and forgotten series but also examine the 'look' of science fiction and fantasy television, determining how iconography, location and landscape, special effects, set design, props, and costumes contribute to the creation of future and alternate worlds. Contributors to this volume analyze such classic programs as The Twilight Zone, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, and The Man from U.N.C.L.E., as well as contemporary programs, including Star Trek: The Next Generation, Angel, Firefly, Futurama, and the new Battlestar Galactica. These essays provide a much needed look at how science fiction television has had a significant impact on history, culture, and society for the last sixty years.

Author : Peter Kropotkin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Nature
ISBN : UOM:39015050243644

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Evolution and Environment by Peter Kropotkin Pdf

Admired by Leo Tolstoy from the last century to Lewis Mumford in our own, Peter Kropotkin's works were ahead of their time.