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Death in Texas

Carlton Smith
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Author : Carlton Smith
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781429908849

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Was he his brother's keeper? Robert and Doris Angleton seemed to have the perfect life. Until she was coldly murdered in her own home, shot thirteen times in the head, chest, and abdomen... Suddenly the ideal husband seemed anything but perfect: he was jailed, accused of hiring his older brother, Roger, to kill his wife for money-- possibly as much as $2 million. However, without the crucial eyewitness testimony of Roger-- who soon committed suicide in a Houston jail cell-- the case against Robert rested entirely on circumstantial evidence. But the facts raise more questions than answers... * Doris Angleton-- deeply involved in a secret love affair-- had asked her husband for a divorce, which might have exposed him as a tax-skipping millionaire bookie and favored police informant... * Extensive handwritten and typewritten notes, coupled with a secretly taped conversation between Roger and another man outlining the murder, were found in a briefcase Roger Angleton was carrying when he was arrested in Las Vegas, Nevada. However, it was later concluded that the second voice on the tape was not Robert's... * Also in Roger's briefcase: $64,000 in cash, along with a money wrapper with Robert's fingerprint on it... * Ultimately Roger confessed to the murder in his suicide note, exonerating his brother of any guilt... A Texas jury came to one conclusion. Read this fascinating true-crime account of greed, deception, and cold-blooded murder-- and decide for yourself. With eight pages of shocking photos!

Terror by Night

Terry Caffey
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Author : Terry Caffey
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781414335339

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At 3:00 a.m. on March 1, 2008, Terry Caffey awoke to find his daughter’s boyfriend standing in his bedroom with a gun. An instant later the teen opened fire, killing Terry’s wife, his two sons, and wounding him 12 times, before setting the house ablaze. Terry fell into deep depression and planned to kill himself, but God intervened. Upon visiting his burned-out property, Terry noticed a scorched scrap of paper from one of his wife’s books leaning against a tree trunk. The page read: “[God,] I couldn’t understand why You would take my family and leave me behind to struggle along without them. And I guess I still don’t totally understand that part of it. But I do believe that You’re sovereign; You’re in control.” That page was like a direct message from God, and it turned Terry’s life around. Now, one year later, Terry is remarried, the adoptive father of two young sons, and working to rebuild his relationship with his 17-year-old daughter, who is currently serving two life sentences in a Texas state penitentiary for her involvement in the crimes. Terror by Night tells the compelling story of how Terry Caffey found peace after his wife and sons were brutally murdered and his teenage daughter implicated in the crime. Sharing never-before-told details about the night of the crime and subsequent murder trial, it explains how Terry was able to forgive the men who murdered his family, and how he even interceded with the prosecutors on their behalf. A powerful example of how the power of forgiveness can bring healing after tragedy and great loss, it shows how God can bring good out of even the darkest tragedies.

The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas

Anand Giridharadas
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Author : Anand Giridharadas
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393239508

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The True American: Murder and Mercy in Texas by Anand Giridharadas Pdf

Describes how a Bangladeshi immigrant, shot in the Dallas mini mart where he worked in the days after September 11 in a revenge crime, forgave his assailant and petitioned the state of Texas to spare his attacker the death penalty.

Death in a Texas Desert

Carlton Stowers
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Author : Carlton Stowers
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Crime
ISBN : 9781556229770

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True crime stories from THE DALLAS OBSERVER.

True Stories in Texas

Annie Doom Pickrell
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Author : Annie Doom Pickrell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1494098547

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This is a new release of the original 1936 edition.

The Big Book of Texas Ghost Stories

Alan Brown
The Big Book of Texas Ghost Stories Book PDF

Author : Alan Brown
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780811748537

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The best ghost stories from the Lone Star State, including . . . • Spirits of the Alamo • The Black Hope Horror • Hauntings at the Driskill Hotel • The legend of El Muerto • Woman Hollering Creek • Stampede Mesa

Cult of Glory

Doug J. Swanson
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Author : Doug J. Swanson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101979884

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“Swanson has done a crucial public service by exposing the barbarous side of the Rangers.” —The New York Times Book Review A twenty-first century reckoning with the legendary Texas Rangers that does justice to their heroic moments while also documenting atrocities, brutality, oppression, and corruption The Texas Rangers came to life in 1823, when Texas was still part of Mexico. Nearly 200 years later, the Rangers are still going--one of the most famous of all law enforcement agencies. In Cult of Glory, Doug J. Swanson has written a sweeping account of the Rangers that chronicles their epic, daring escapades while showing how the white and propertied power structures of Texas used them as enforcers, protectors and officially sanctioned killers. Cult of Glory begins with the Rangers' emergence as conquerors of the wild and violent Texas frontier. They fought the fierce Comanches, chased outlaws, and served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War. As Texas developed, the Rangers were called upon to catch rustlers, tame oil boomtowns, and patrol the perilous Texas-Mexico border. In the 1930s they began their transformation into a professionally trained police force. Countless movies, television shows, and pulp novels have celebrated the Rangers as Wild West supermen. In many cases, they deserve their plaudits. But often the truth has been obliterated. Swanson demonstrates how the Rangers and their supporters have operated a propaganda machine that turned agency disasters and misdeeds into fables of triumph, transformed murderous rampages--including the killing of scores of Mexican civilians--into valorous feats, and elevated scoundrels to sainthood. Cult of Glory sets the record straight. Beginning with the Texas Indian wars, Cult of Glory embraces the great, majestic arc of Lone Star history. It tells of border battles, range disputes, gunslingers, massacres, slavery, political intrigue, race riots, labor strife, and the dangerous lure of celebrity. And it reveals how legends of the American West--the real and the false--are truly made.

Texas True Crime Miscellany

Clay Coppedge
Texas True Crime Miscellany Book PDF

Author : Clay Coppedge
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439673164

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Texas True Crime Miscellany by Clay Coppedge Pdf

Outrageous acts of villainy have slowly drifted out of the national limelight and into the dustbin of Texas history. Consider the uproar over the 1879 shooting of actor Maurice Barrymore in Marshall and the 1949 murder of oil field legend Tex Thornton in Amarillo. The 1909 Coryell County Courthouse massacre committed by a sixteen-year-old girl remains just as shocking today. For the long-suffering associates of repeat offenders like Fort Worth's Flapper Bandit or Temple's International Man of Mystery, notoriety couldn't fade quickly enough. From the lawless days of the frontier to the rise of organized crime, Clay Coppedge sifts through eighteen obscure case files to chart the evolution of crime and punishment in the state.

Texas True

Janet Dailey
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Author : Janet Dailey
Publisher : Zebra Books
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781420133752

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A second chance for a veteran and his sweetheart comes at a price in this romance from the New York Times–bestselling author of the Calder Saga. He's the one who got away… The cowboy who claimed her heart before taking off on a tour of duty, planning never to return. But Beau Tyler is back, and Natalie Haskell feels defenseless against the powerful pull of the brawny soldier. Especially when she finds herself suddenly widowed and needing the shelter of his strong arms. She's the hometown sweetheart… The girl Beau left behind but never forgot, despite his battle-scarred soul. Now Natalie is the real reason he's staying on at the ranch, despite rumors that he was somehow involved in her late husband's death. Because something in Beau has stirred to life again—something he believed his painful past had destroyed. And not even wild horses can keep him from the woman he still loves…. Praise for the Tylers of Texas series "Big, bold, and sexy, Texas True is Janet Dailey at her best!”—Kat Martin “Dailey does the genre proud with plenty of intrigue, subplots, twists and, of course, love. Fans and newcomers alike will revel in the ride.”—Publishers Weekly on Texas Tall

Texas Disasters

Mike Cox
Texas Disasters Book PDF

Author : Mike Cox
Publisher : Disasters Series
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Disasters
ISBN : 1493013165

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True accounts of major disasters in Texas history are retold in this engagingly written collection. In this part of the country tornadoes are a frequent threat, but in addition to the many violent twisters, Texas residents have experienced fires, floods, drought, blizzards, shipwrecks, and other devastating events, including a yellow fever epidemic in 1867, which earned that year the grim moniker The Year of Death. Each story reveals not only the circumstances surrounding the disaster and the magnitude of the devastation but also the courage and ingenuity displayed by those who survived and the heroism of those who helped others, often risking their own lives in rescue efforts.

Mysteries and Legends of Texas

Donna Ingham
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Author : Donna Ingham
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780762766680

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Part of our growing Mysteries and Legends series, Mysteries and Legends of Texas explores unusual phenomena, strange events, and mysteries in Texas's history. Each episode included in the book is a story unto itself, and the tone and style of the book is lively and easy to read for a general audience interested in Texas history.

Blind Love

Peter Meyer
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Author : Peter Meyer
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781429938020

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A handsome overachiever... A beautiful honors student... Together they would commit savage murder... A Teenage Love Pact Sealed In Blood Outside a small Texas town by the side of the road, high school sophomore beauty Adrianne Jones lay with her skull bashed in and two bullets in her head. She had been driven to an isolated spot outside of Mansfield, Texas by star student David Graham while David's girlfriend, Diane Zamora, hid in the trunk. First David tried unsuccessfully to break Adrianne's neck, then Diane came out of the trunk to attack her with a set of weights. To finish off the job, David shot her between the eyes. For months, there were no leads on the killing until Diane confessed to her military school roommates about the secret she and her boyfriend would take to their graves... Tainted Love The brutal killing shocked the entire town of Mansfield. Even more shocking were the killers, David and Diane, model teenagers, devoted high school sweethearts, military academy-bound honors students-- and desperate lovers who feared that Adrianne's sexual encounter with David had come between them. Killing Adrianne was "the only thing that could satisfy [Diane's] vengeance," said David in his confession to police-- the only way, she told David, to restore the 'purity' of their love... Pure Vengeance Here is the unbelievable true story of a macabre love triangle-- and the startling lengths one couple went to in the name of... Blind Love

The Captured

Scott Zesch
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Author : Scott Zesch
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429910118

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On New Year's Day in 1870, ten-year-old Adolph Korn was kidnapped by an Apache raiding party. Traded to Comaches, he thrived in the rough, nomadic existence, quickly becoming one of the tribe's fiercest warriors. Forcibly returned to his parents after three years, Korn never adjusted to life in white society. He spent his last years in a cave, all but forgotten by his family. That is, until Scott Zesch stumbled over his own great-great-great uncle's grave. Determined to understand how such a "good boy" could have become Indianized so completely, Zesch travels across the west, digging through archives, speaking with Comanche elders, and tracking eight other child captives from the region with hauntingly similar experiences. With a historians rigor and a novelists eye, Zesch's The Captured paints a vivid portrait of life on the Texas frontier, offering a rare account of captivity. "A carefully written, well-researched contribution to Western history -- and to a promising new genre: the anthropology of the stolen." - Kirkus Reviews

Texas Myths and Legends

Donna Ingham
Texas Myths and Legends Book PDF

Author : Donna Ingham
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493026135

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Each episode included in this book explores unusual phenomena, strange events, and mysteries in Texas’s history. From rumors of Jean Lafitte's buried treasures to the hanging of Chipita Rodriguez and the love story of Frenchy McCormick, Texas Myths and Legends makes history fun and pulls back the curtain on some of the state's most fascinating and compelling stories.

Angel of the Alamo

Lisa Waller Rogers
Angel of the Alamo Book PDF

Author : Lisa Waller Rogers
Publisher : W. S. Benson
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173008403297

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Angel of the Alamo by Lisa Waller Rogers Pdf

Provides a fictionalized account of Andrea Castanon Villanueva who helped the American soldiers defend the Alamo during the war against Mexico.