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Calendar of Books on True Crime and Justice
The Serpent and the Spirit: Glenn Summerford's Story by Thomas Burton -- A story of Holiness snake-handling preacher Glenn Summerford, who is serving ninety-nine years for attempting to murder his wife, Darlene, by forcing her to be bitten by a rattlesnake. May 1, 2004
Lethal Guardian by M. William Phelps -- A real estate lawyer in Connecticut's moneyed seaside communities, Beth Carpenter, 30, had beauty, brains and success. But she wanted guardianship of her two-year-old niece, Rebecca, daughter of Beth's estranged sister, Kim. When Kim married Anson "Buzz" Clinton, 28, a former male exotic dancer deemed an unsuitable guardian by the Carpenter family, Beth became obsessed with the idea that only his death could ensure that she and her parents would get custody of the child. On March 10, 1994, Clinton was shot five times. Behind his death lay a bizarre murder-for-hire conspiracy that privileged professionals and local misfits joined in a cold-blooded plot against an innocent man. This homicidal group included attorney Haiman Clein, 52. A husband, father, and successful businessman, Clein was Beth's boss-and also her sexually obsessed, cocaine-snorting, murderously obedient lover. The paid killers were two buddies, organizer Joe Fremut and triggerman Mark Despres, who brought his 15-year-old son Christopher along for the hit. May 1, 2004
Born to the Mob: The True-Life Story of the Only Man to Work for All Five of New York's Mafia Families Frankie Saggio reminisces about the era of true wise guys like his Uncle Philly -a contemporary of Al Capone who "taught him the value of a dollar and how to steal it from someone else." Uncle Philly was from when mafia meant being bound by blood and honor, not like modern day families whose only concern is money. For Frankie, the only way to avoid the modern mob treachery is to avoid getting involved with any single mob family, but working "freelance" for all five. Frankie is one of the biggest earners in the business, pulling down millions and kicking a share upstairs to the bosses. Frankie is tied by blood to the Bonanno family, and Uncle Philly's family. Frankie escapes an assassination attempt and is busted for a major scam. With little choice, and less loyalty to the Bonannos, Frankie turns himself over to the Feds on the one condition that he will tell the feds everything, but will not squeal on his own relatives.
Psychopaths: Inside the Minds of the World's Most Wicked Men by John Clarke May 1, 2004
Global Financial Crime: Terrorism, Money Laundering, and Off Shore Centres (Global Finance Series.) Stephen Shaw is Managing Director of SSA Ltd, UK, a firm specialising in providing courses in marketing and economics to airlines and aerospace firms, located at Chinnor, Oxford, England. This book examines the principles of marketing and demonstrates the ways in which these principles can be applied to today's airline industry. As the fifth edition of a successful book, it includes new material on: The implications of the terrorism, and the threat to the demand for air travel. The lessons to be learnt from the economic slowdown - in particular its impact on so-called Premium Traffic in First and Business Class. The developments which have taken place in the regulatory scene in recent years. Impact of low fares airlines and the response of the traditional airlines to the threat posed by these carriers. Airline alliances, which are again in the melting-pot. An initial review of the structure of the air transport market and the industry marketing environment is followed by detailed chapters examining airline business and marketing strategies, product design and management, pricing and revenue management, distribution channels and selling and advertising policies. The reader will benefit from greater understanding of both marketing and airline industry jargon and from the knowledge obtained of the significant strategic challenges facing aviation at the present time. The book is written in a straightforward, easy-to-read style and is full of up-to-date and relevant examples drawn from the world-wide aviation industry. May 1, 2004
My Life Among the Serial Killers: Inside the Minds of the World's Most Notorious Murderers by Dr. Helen Morrison, Harold Goldberg
May 4, 2004 Over the course of twenty-five years, Morrison has profiled more than eighty serial killers. She is one of the country's leading experts on serial killers, and has spent four hundred hours alone in a room with depraved murderers, digging deep into killers' psyches. Dr. Morrison relates how she profiled the Mad Biter, Richard Otto Macek, who chewed on his victims' body parts, stalked Morrison, then believed she was his wife. She did the last interview with Ed Gein, the inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. John Wayne Gacy, the clown-obsessed killer of young men, sent her crazed Christmas cards and gave her his paintings as presents. Atlanta child killer Wayne Williams; rapist turned murderer Bobby Joe Long; England's Fred and Rosemary West, who killed girls and women in their "House of Horrors"; and Brazil's deadliest killer of children, Marcelo Costa de Andrade. Dr. Morrison receives hundreds of letters from killers, read their diaries and journals, evaluates crime scenes, testifies at their trials, and studies photos. She interviewed the families of the victims -- and the spouses and parents of the killers -- to gain a deeper understanding of the killer's environment and public persona. She has studied serial killers throughout history with psychological autopsies of the 15th-century French war hero Gilles de Rais, the 16th-century Hungarian Countess Bathory, H. H. Holmes of the late ninteenth century, and Albert Fish of the Roaring Twenties. Morrison is on a mission to discover the reasons serial killers are compelled to murder, how they choose their victims, and what we can do to prevent their crimes in the future.
The Irish Game: A True Story of Crime and Art by Matthew Hart
Live by the Gun, Die by the Gun by Valerio Viccei May 1, 2004
The Krays and Me by Charles Bronson May 1, 2004
Investigating Thefts & Heists (Forensic Files) by Alex Woolf May 1, 2004
Investigating Murder Mysteries (Forensic Files) by Paul Dowswell May 1, 2004
Investigating History Mysteries (Forensic Files) by Alex Woolf May 1, 2004
Investigating Fakes & Hoaxes (Forensic Files) by Alex Woolf May 1, 2004
Innocence Lost by Carlton Stowers -- Undercover officer George Raffield's job was to pose as a student in the small town of Midlothian, Texas and infiltrate the high school drug ring. When Raffield's cover became suspect, word spread through a small circle of friends that the young officer would pay with his life. No one stopped it. On a rainy fall evening in 1987, Raffield was lured to an isolated field. Three bullets were fired-one unloaded into his skull. The baby-faced killer, Greg Knighten, stole eighteen dollars from Raffield's wallet, divided it among his two young accomplices, and calmly said, "it's done." With chilling detail, Carlton Stowers illuminates a dark corner of America's heartland and the children who hide there. What he found was an alienated subculture of drug abuse, the occult, and an unfathomable teenage rage that exploded at point blank range on a shocking night of lost innocence...
Blood From Stones: The Secret Financial Network of Terror -- In the aftermath of 9/11, President Bush froze all terrorist assets in traditional financial institutions and money channels. But Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups have long followed a diversification strategy that has rendered the crackdown by the US and other governments almost useless. Blood from Stones is the first book to uncover, through on-the-ground reporting, the interlocking web of commodities, underground transfer systems, charities, and sympathetic bankers that support terrorist activities throughout the world. As a foreign correspondent and investigative reporter for The Washington Post , Douglas Farah ventured into the dangerous and uncharted world of terrorist financing-a journey that took him across four continents. The information he gathered was far ahead of what U.S. intelligence agencies knew as they scrambled to understand the 9/11 attacks. In unprecedented detail, Farah traces the movement of money from the traffickers of "blood diamonds" in West Africa to the world diamond exchange in Belgium and homegrown money merchants in Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Karachi, and Lahore who turn cash into commodities and commodities into cash. He probes charities that siphon off money to pay for such essentials as false identification cards and safe passage for operatives. And he reveals how the funding of terrorist activities is integrated into the age-old hawala network, a trust-based system that has operated for generations across Arabia and Southeast Asia. Focusing on this critical aspect of the war on terrorism, Blood from Stones not only shows how terrorists are able to orchestrate complex and expensive attacks but also makes it clear why the war will be so difficult to win.
The Art of the Steal: Inside the Sotheby'S-Christie's Auction House Scandal --
The most fascinating big-business trials of the price-fixing scandal that put billionaire tycoon Alfred Taubman, one of the richest men in America, behind bars; Diana "DeDe" Brooks, the most powerful woman in the art world, and Christopher Davidge, the wily British executive conspiring to cheat clients out of millions of dollars. The book also offers an unprecedented look inside this secretive, gold-plated industry, describing how Sotheby's and Christie's grew from clubby, aristocratic businesses into slick, international corporations and showing how the groundwork for the most recent illegal activities was laid decades before the perpetrators were caught by federal prosecutors. Christopher Mason is the only reporter who persuaded all the key figures to spill the beans. He followed the trail of this story wherever it has led-from galleries and boardrooms in London, Paris, and New York to parties in Palm Beach and courtrooms in lower Manhattan. Evoking the best-known investigative narratives like Barbarians at the Gate and Den of Thieves, the hidden lives of the very rich described in Philistines at the Hedgerow, and the crime-and-high-society reporting of Dominick Dunne, The Art of the Steal is destined to become the hottest-and most entertaining-gossip-starter of the season.
The Rabbi and the Hit Man: A True Tale of Murder, Passion, and Shattered Faith by Arthur J. Magida -- On the evening of November 1, 1994, Rabbi Fred Neulander returned home to find his wife, Carol, facedown on the living room floor, blood everywhere. He called for help, but it was too late. Two trials and eight years later, the founder of what had become the largest reform synagogue in southern New Jersey was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison. The Rabbi and the Hit Man is a fascinating true-crime narrative about the first rabbi ever convicted of murder. In a gripping examination of the misuses of the pulpit and the self-delusions of power, Arthur J. Magida paints a devastating portrait of a manipulative man who used his temple as a place to acquire several mistresses -- and to befriend a lonely recovering alcoholic, whom he convinced to kill his wife "for the good of Israel." The Rabbi and the Hit Man straddles the juncture between faith and trust, and confronts issues of sex, narcissism, arrogance, and adultery. At its core are such troubling questions as: Why do we often deify clergy, and what are the consequences when they betray us? What happens when religious leaders who set the standards of ethical behavior fail to abide by them in their personal lives -- and instead contribute to the decline of morality in modern America? This is the definitive account of a charismatic clergyman who paid the ultimate price for ignoring his own words of wisdom: "We live at any moment with our total past; . . . What we do will stay with us forever." May 11, 2004
A Perversion of Justice: A Southern Tragedy of Murder, Lies and Innocence Betrayed by Kathryn Medico , Mollye Barrows May 25, 2004
Angel of Death: The Charles Cullen Story --
by George Mair -- This is the bizarre, shocking story of Charles Cullen life, from boyhood all the way through his career. His bizarre behavior did not go unnoticed, and when his startling confession came to light, dozens of families easily recalled the strange nurse, and demanded autopsies immediately. This terrifying and horrific tale continues to unfold as the background work gets underway. George Mair is the author of more than one dozen books, and is also a Hollywood gossip columnist.
Crime and Criminals (Opposing Viewpoints) by James D. Torr, Helen Cothran
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