The Crime Of The Century

Author : Dennis L. Breo,William J. Martin,Bill Kunkle
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781510708877

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The Crime of the Century by Dennis L. Breo,William J. Martin,Bill Kunkle Pdf

The story behind the attack that shocked a nation and opened a new chapter in the history of American crime. On July 14th, 1966, Richard Franklin Speck swept through several student nurses’ townhouse like a summer tornado and changed the landscape of American crime. He broke in as his helpless victims slept, bound them one by one, and then stabbed, assaulted, and strangled all eight in a sadistic sexual frenzy. By morning, only one young nurse had miraculously survived. The killer was captured in seventy-two hours; he was successfully prosecuted in an error-free trial that stood up to appellate scrutiny; and the jury needed only forty-nine minutes to return a death verdict. Here is the story of Richard Speck by the prosecutor who put him in prison for life with a brand new introduction by Bill Kunkle, the prosecutor of the infamous John Wayne Gacy Jr. In The Crime of the Century, William J. Martin has teamed up with Dennis L. Breo to re-create the blood-soaked night that made American criminal history, offering fascinating behind-the-scenes descriptions of Speck, his innocent victims, the desperate manhunt and massive investigation, and the trial that led to Speck’s successful conviction.

Author : Gilbert Geis,Leigh B. Bienen
Publisher : Northeastern University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781555538682

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Crimes Of The Century by Gilbert Geis,Leigh B. Bienen Pdf

In compelling narrative, the authors probe the sensational cases of Nathan F. Leopold, Jr., and Richard A. Loeb, the Scottsboro "boys," Bruno Richard Hauptmann, Alger Hiss, and O.J. Simpson, highlighting significant lessons about criminal behavior and the administration of criminal justice. Each case study details the crime, the police investigation, and the court proceedings, profiles the major players, and examines the outcome and aftermath of the trial. The authors untangle the perplexities surrounding the cases and illuminate the many mysteries that remain unsolved today. These celebrated trials reveal issues of overzealous prosecution, sloppy police work, judicial bias, race, class, and ethnic struggles, and the role of wealth in securing a competent defense. They also show how the temper of the times and frenzied media coverage heightened the intensity of drama in the cases.

Author : Gregory Ahlgren
Publisher : eBookIt.com
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780828322768

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Crime of the Century by Gregory Ahlgren Pdf

Traces the two-and-a-half year investigation by the New Jersey State Police of the Lindbergh kidnapping case, challenging the effectiveness of the investigation and the evidence that convicted Bruno Hauptmann.

Author : Paul Collins
Publisher : Crown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780307592217

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The Murder of the Century by Paul Collins Pdf

The “enormously entertaining” (The Wall Street Journal) account of a shocking 1897 murder mystery that “artfully re-create[s] the era, the crime, and the newspaper wars it touched off” (The New York Times) AN EDGAR NOMINEE FOR BEST FACT CRIME • “Fascinating . . . won’t disappoint readers in search of a book like Erik Larson’s The Devil in the White City.”—The Washington Post On Long Island, a farmer finds a duck pond turned red with blood. On the Lower East Side, two boys discover a floating human torso wrapped tightly in oilcloth. Blueberry pickers near Harlem stumble upon neatly severed limbs in an overgrown ditch. The police are baffled: There are no witnesses, no motives, no suspects. The grisly finds that began on the afternoon of June 26, 1897, plunged detectives headlong into the era’s most perplexing murder mystery. Seized upon by battling media moguls Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, the case became a publicity circus, as their rival newspapers the World and the Journal raced to solve the crime. What emerged was a sensational love triangle and an even more sensational trial. The Murder of the Century is a rollicking tale—a rich evocation of America during the Gilded Age and a colorful re-creation of the tabloid wars that forever changed newspaper journalism.

Author : Kingsley Amis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1857971132

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The Crime of the Century by Kingsley Amis Pdf

Author : Michael L. Kurtz
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 087049824X

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Crime of the Century by Michael L. Kurtz Pdf

Addressing developments since the book's initial publication in 1982, Kurtz provides a new introduction and updated bibliography. He discusses the publicity and controversy surrounding Oliver Stone's film JFK, the new books and television programs that have dealt with the different conspiracy theories, new information about the possible role of organized crime in the assassination, and certain materials from the Kennedy autopsy that have only recently come to light.

Author : Nick Russell-Pavier,Stewart Richards
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-10
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780297864400

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The Great Train Robbery by Nick Russell-Pavier,Stewart Richards Pdf

Definitive account of the famous 1963 Great Train Robbery - and its aftermath. In the early hours of Thursday 8th August 1963 at rural Cheddington in Buckinghamshire, £2.6 million (£50 million today) in unmarked £5, £1 and 10-shilling notes was stolen from the Glasgow to London nightmail train in a daring and brilliantly executed operation lasting just 46 minutes. Quickly dubbed the crime of the century, it has captured the imagination of the public and the world's media for 50 years, taking its place in British folklore and giving birth to the myths of The Great Train Robbery. Ronnie Biggs, Buster Edwards and Bruce Reynolds became household names. But what really happened? This is the story of four talented villains who took the criminal world by storm, of the 'perfect crime'. It is also the story of ruthless policemen, determined to hunt the robbers down and to make sure nobody slipped through the net, not even the innocent. It is the story of an Establishment under siege, and of one mistake which cost the robbers 307 years in prison. Fifty years later, here is the story set out in full for the first time, a true-life crime thriller, and also a vivid slice of British social history.

Author : Hal Higdon
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-02
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780252055065

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Leopold and Loeb by Hal Higdon Pdf

The razor-sharp account of a notorious murder The 1924 murder of fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks by Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb shocked the nation. One hundred years later, the killing and its aftermath still reverberate through popular culture and the history of American crime. Hal Higdon’s true crime classic offers an unprecedented examination of the case. Higdon details Leopold and Loeb’s journey from privilege and promise to the planning and execution of their monstrous vision of the perfect crime. Drawing on secret testimony, Higdon follows the police investigation through the pair’s confessions of guilt and recreates the sensational hearing where Clarence Darrow, the nation’s most famous attorney, saved the pair from the death penalty. In-depth and definitive, Leopold and Loeb tells the dramatic story of a notorious crime and its long afterlife in the American imagination.

Author : Marv Balousek,Balousek Mary
Publisher : Badger Books Inc.
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Crime
ISBN : 1878569473

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50 Wisconsin Crimes of the Century by Marv Balousek,Balousek Mary Pdf

Wisconsin's most notorious crimes and criminals are profiled in this book of the Crimes of the Century series. Read about the killer dairy princess and meet notorious fiends Edward Gein, Jeffery Dahmer, and others.

Author : Paula Uruburu
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781440629761

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American Eve by Paula Uruburu Pdf

The scandalous story of America’s first supermodel, sex goddess, and modern celebrity—Evelyn Nesbit. By the time of her sixteenth birthday in 1900, Evelyn Nesbit was known to millions as the most photographed woman of her era, an iconic figure who set the standard for female beauty, and whose innocent sexuality was used to sell everything from chocolates to perfume. Women wanted to be her. Men just wanted her. But when Evelyn’s life of fantasy became all too real and her insanely jealous millionaire husband, Harry K. Thaw, murdered her lover, New York City architect Stanford White, the most famous woman in the world became infamous as she found herself at the center of the “Crime of the Century” and a scandal that signaled the beginning of a national obsession with youth, beauty, celebrity, and sex.

Author : Mark J. Phillips,Aryn Z. Phillips
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781633881969

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Trials of the Century by Mark J. Phillips,Aryn Z. Phillips Pdf

In every decade of the twentieth century, there was one sensational murder trial that riveted public attention and at the time was called "the trial of the century." This book tells the story of each murder case and the dramatic trial—and media coverage—that followed. Starting with the murder of famed architect Stanford White in 1906 and ending with the O.J. Simpson trial of 1994, the authors recount ten compelling tales spanning the century. Each is a story of celebrity and sex, prejudice and heartbreak, and all reveal how often the arc of American justice is pushed out of its trajectory by an insatiable media driven to sell copy. The most noteworthy cases are here--including the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, the Sam Sheppard murder trial ("The Fugitive"), the "Helter Skelter" murders of Charles Manson, and the O.J. Simpson murder trial. But some cases that today are lesser known also provide fascinating glimpses into the tenor of the time: the media sensation created by yellow journalist William Randolph Hearst around the murder trial of 1920s movie star Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle; the murder of the Scarsdale Diet guru by an elite prep-school headmistress in the 1980s; and more. The authors conclude with an epilogue on the infamous Casey Anthony (“tot mom”)trial, showing that the twenty-first century is as prone to sensationalism as the last century. This is a fascinating history of true crime, justice gone awry, and the media often at its worst.

Author : Scott M. Burnstein
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-16
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781439633106

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Motor City Mafia by Scott M. Burnstein Pdf

Motor City Mafia: A Century of Organized Crime in Detroit chronicles the storied and hallowed gangland history of the notorious Detroit underworld. Scott M. Burnstein takes the reader inside the belly of the beast, tracking the bloodshed, exploits, and leadership of the southeast Michigan crime syndicate as never before seen in print. Through a stunning array of rare archival photographs and images, Motor City Mafia captures Detroit's most infamous past, from its inception in the early part of the 20th century, through the years when the iconic Purple Gang ruled the city's streets during Prohibition, through the 1930s and the formation of the local Italian mafia, and the Detroit crime family's glory days in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, all the way to the downfall of the area's mob reign in the 1980s and 1990s.

Author : Kingsley Amis
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141961750

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The Riverside Villas Murder by Kingsley Amis Pdf

A mummy is stolen from a small town museum along with some Roman coins and a soaking wet man collapses in fourteen year old Peter Furneaux's living room bleeding from the head. What was a suspected student prank is followed by murder. At first it is impossible to see the connection, but the eccentric Colonel Manton does. With Peter's help the Colonel unravels a mystery that strikes fear into the heart of a genteel suburban neighbourhood and gives Peter rather more excitement than he bargained for at the tennis club social. This meticulously paced thriller shows Amis at his most subtle and daring.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Ashley Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0881767174

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Crimes of the 20th Century by Anonim Pdf

Author : Peter Graham
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781620876305

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Anne Perry and the Murder of the Century by Peter Graham Pdf

Offers a detailed account of the shocking 1954 murder committed by two teenage girls in New Zealand, which led to headlines around the world and inspired the Academy Award-nominated film Heavenly Creatures.