Badge 149- "Shots Fired!" by Gary P. Jones

By Gary P. Jones

The 1970’s was once the deadliest decade in sleek legislation enforcement background and extra cops died than in the course of the other decade of the 20 th Century. In fortress Lauderdale, the “Venice of America,” violent crime used to be nearly uncontrolled and to stem this vicious tide the castle Lauderdale Police division created the Tactical effect Unit. Written with all of the drama and pleasure of a singular, Badge 149 – ‘Shots Fired!’ tells the genuine tale of this small staff of guys and of the bold exploits that made them so recognized and respected.

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The Dalai Lama and the King Demon: Tracking a Triple Murder by Raimondo Bultrini

By Raimondo Bultrini

A triple murder dedicated a number of hundred yards clear of the place of abode in exile of the Dalai Lama opens the doorways to an unknown universe for Superintendent Rajeev Kumar Singh of the Indian police. He is going over each step of the crime and identifies its perpetrators as contributors of an particular cult devoted to a demonic spirit with fearsome earthly powers. the executive suspects comprise the top figures of a society dedicated to the cult of Gyalpo Shugden, whose headquarters are to be present in the center of Delhi’s Tibetan exile neighborhood.

Raimondo Bultrini, an investigative journalist, comes to a decision to open a brand new path by means of reconstructing the paranormal element of the occasions. The Dalai Lama himself, decided to wrestle the sectarian outlook fostered within the identify of the “king demon” via a bunch in the clergy of the Gelukpa institution of Tibetan Buddhism, finds to Bultrini hitherto mystery non secular and historic information in regards to the impression of the cult. fresh occasions and advancements appear to endure out his viewpoint, because many Gyalpo Shugden fans have came upon universal floor with the chinese language experts. The hyperlinks among those renegade lamas and the Communist regime have gotten more suitable, developing an alliance aimed toward elimination all strains of the Dalai Lama’s lineage from Tibet’s destiny. this can be the 1st significant exposé of this interesting fight on the middle of the mysticism and politics surrounding the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan quest for freedom.

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Mr Sin: The Abe Saffron dossier by Tony Reeves

By Tony Reeves

Abe Saffron used to be certainly one of Australia's such a lot infamous and robust crime figures. but, he spent his existence denying any involvement in illegal activity, claiming he was once only a winning businessman. Sydney knew in a different way. This was once the guy who managed the city's underworld with an iron fist.

Tony Reeves has been amassing details on Abe Saffron for over 40 years. With Saffron's dying in September 2006, he can ultimately and accurately demonstrate all. And what a narrative it truly is. Saffron trafficked in medicines, ran prostitution and playing jewelry, was once now not averse to severe violence and used to be a grasp of bribery and a corrupter of police, politicians and the judiciary.

The guy with a voracious sexual urge for food used to be a real-life Godfather of Australian crime

Mr Sin makes for surprising and irritating examining. It finds the guts of a vicious international of greed and evil and leaves without doubt that Abe Saffron good and really deserved the moniker, Mr Sin.

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Todesstrafe für die Selbstmörderin: Ein historischer by Heidrun Hannusch

By Heidrun Hannusch

Herbst 1941. In London geht die Angst vor einer Invasion der Deutschen um. Schriftsteller wie Stefan Zweig und Virginia Woolf sind bereits geflohen oder haben den Freitod gewählt. Am eleven. Oktober beschließen auch die jüdischen Flüchtlinge Irene espresso und ihre Mutter Margarete Brann, gemeinsam aus dem Leben zu gehen. Die 30-jährige Tochter überlebt den Selbstmordpakt - und wird aufgrund eines absurden Gesetzes, das in abgeschwächter shape noch heute existiert, zum Tode verurteilt.
Heidrun Hannusch erzählt einfühlsam dieses hoch spannende Kapitel Zeitgeschichte und zeigt, dass es manchmal nur einige wenige, scheinbar belanglose Umstände sind, die über Glück oder Unglück, Leben oder Tod entscheiden.

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Silent Death: The Killing of Julie Ramage by Karen Kissane

By Karen Kissane

Journalist Karen Kissane follows the accused into the court docket, telling the interior tale of 1 of Australia’s so much debatable trials and the wedding at its centre. A compelling mixture of serious writing, actual crime and court drama.

Julie and Jamie Ramage have been the suitable middle-class Australian couple with every little thing: little ones at inner most faculties, he an organization director and she or he a monetary controller for a manner house.

But Julie walked out in their probably ideal marriage. after which, at some point, he killed her.

Beneath the veneer of perfection there had lain a courting marred through affairs, obsession and a background of violence. Jamie confessed to the killing - yet declared that he have been provoked and as a result no longer accountable of homicide as his spouse had pushed him over the edge.

Jamie's defence of provocation used to be profitable and he's now serving a jail sentence for the lesser crime of manslaughter. the lady he strangled the existence from and buried in a shallow grave had no voice in court docket and no approach of telling her story.

Silent Death tells Julie's tale - but additionally takes us into the demanding wider state of affairs - how a killing happened within the convenience and defense of a moneyed lifestyles; how family and friends both did not see or imagine they need to be concerned. And it's the tale of ways a court docket case is set strategies and approach first - and justice second.

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Murder at the fort: A double homicide cold case and cover by Bob Marmion

By Bob Marmion

Early one chilly, wintry morning in overdue could 1942, the bulletridden
body of motive force Roy Willis used to be stumbled on at the part of the
road. He were shot a couple of occasions with an army revolver.
Despite broad enquiries through many of the Victoria Police’s most
experienced murder detectives, the assassin used to be no longer found.
Then 3 months later, the killer struck again.
In September 1942 Gunner John Hulston went lacking whilst
on shield responsibility. His gun team instantly started a seek. Two
soldiers what looked to be drag marks from the gate
down in the direction of the seashore. They observed a determine a way off and considering it was once Hulston, they referred to as out to him. rather than a friendly
reply, they have been met with a barrage of bullets. The determine ran off and disappeared in the direction of the camp.
Incredibly the garrison was once now not grew to become out to look for the lacking guy or the mysterious determine. The searchlights which could
have grew to become the evening into day alongside the seashore, weren't activated. Hulston’s rifle and bayonet have been present in the water. His torn
trousers have been additionally came across at the seashore. His physique was once ultimately recovered extra alongside the sea coast, 10 days later. Like Driver
Willis, again in might, he had additionally been shot within the chest with a .455 calibre military revolver.
As with any reliable homicide secret, this tale has extra twists and turns than the nice Ocean highway. they vary from black
market operations, confessions, suspects pointed out in later years, misplaced or lacking police records, disagreements among the police and
the military over the research, and an tried cover-up that went all of the approach to the wartime Deputy leading Minister’s office.

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Arsenic and Clam Chowder: Murder in Gilded Age New York by James D. Livingston

By James D. Livingston

Recounts the sensational 1896 homicide trial of Mary Alice Livingston, who used to be accused of murdering her mom with an arsenic-laced pail of clam chowder and confronted the potential for turning into the 1st girl to be achieved in New York's new-fangled electrical chair.

Arsenic and Clam Chowder recounts the sensational 1896 homicide trial of Mary Alice Livingston, a member of 1 of the main prestigious households in manhattan, who used to be accused of murdering her personal mom, Evelina Bliss. the unusual software of demise, an arsenic-laced pail of clam chowder, have been dropped at the sufferer by way of her ten-year-old granddaughter, and Livingston used to be arrested in her mourning outfits instantly after attending her mother’s funeral. as well as being the mum of 4 out-of-wedlock little ones, the final born in legal whereas she was once anticipating trial, Livingston confronted the potential for being the 1st lady to be completed in New York’s new-fangled electrical chair, and these kind of lurid information made her arrest and trial the significant concentration of an all-out stream battle then underway among Joseph Pulitzer’s World and Randolph Hearst’s Journal.

The tale is determined opposed to the electrical backdrop of Gilded Age ny. the arriving of skyscrapers, vehicles, movies, and different glossy marvels within the Nineties used to be reworking city existence with breathtaking pace, simply because the battles of reformers opposed to vice, police corruption, and Tammany corridor have been remodeling the city’s political lifestyles. The aspiring flesh presser Teddy Roosevelt, the prolific inventor Thomas Edison, bon vivant Diamond Jim Brady, and his significant other Lillian Russell have been between Gotham’s larger-than-life personalities, and so they all performed cameo roles within the dramatic tale of Mary Alice Livingston and her arsenic-laced clam chowder. as well as telling a ripping strong tale, the ebook addresses a few social and criminal matters, between them capital punishment, equivalent rights for ladies, societal sexual criteria, inheritance legislation in regard to homicide, gender bias of juries, and the which means of “beyond a cheap doubt.”

Born June 23, 1930, in Brooklyn, big apple, James D. Livingston studied engineering physics at Cornell collage and obtained a PhD in utilized physics from Harvard collage in 1956. on account that retiring from normal electrical after a long profession as a learn physicist, he has been instructing within the division of fabrics technology and Engineering at MIT. even supposing a physicist by means of career, he has lengthy had a robust curiosity in American historical past, and is the coauthor, with Sherry H. Penney, of A Very risky girl: Martha Wright and Women’s Rights.

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Murder Most Texan (True Crime) by Bartee Haile

By Bartee Haile

Texas has lengthy boasted its iron fist of the legislations and strict remedy of its toughest criminals. however, scoundrels, fiends and homicidal criminals necessarily slipped throughout the Lone famous person justice process regardless of the easiest efforts of even the mythical Texas Rangers. From roadside homicide to political assassinations, observe the seedy underbelly of Texas' murderous earlier. In 1877, Texas observed its first high-profile homicide case with the slaying of a lady in Jefferson and the next "Diamond Bessie" trial. Over a century later, nation legislator cost Daniel Jr. used to be shot in chilly blood by way of his spouse at their domestic in Liberty. Texas actual crime author and historian Bartee Haile unburies this selection of 16 coldblooded killings from Lone famous person background and the soiled info that experience surprised and bewildered Texans for decades.

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Living without Liesl by Douwleen Bredenhann

By Douwleen Bredenhann

On 26 February 1988, a Friday evening, Douwleen Bredenhann fetched her oldest daughter Liesl from ballet classification and began getting ready the family’s favorite supper of thick-crusted pizza. Liesl went open air to feed the hot dog. Moments later the family members was once shattered by means of the invention of her physique of their formerly peaceable, suburban backyard.This is the genuine tale of the way Douwleen and her kinfolk begun the lengthy, sluggish technique of studying to dwell with tragedy.Heartbreaking, searing in its unflinching honesty, this actual tale won't allow you to go.

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BLOODSTAINED JUSTICE: The Darlie Routier Story by W.G. Davis

By W.G. Davis

at the evening of June sixth, 1996, Darlie Lynn Routier made a frantic name to 911. She advised the dispatcher that she and her sons have been stabbed.
Five mins later, police arrived at Darlie’s domestic in Rowlett, a suburb of Dallas. Darlie’s eldest son, Devon, had already died from 4 knife wounds. He used to be simply 3 days shy of his 7th birthday. His brother, 5 yr previous Damon, had additionally been attacked. Damon later died within the care of a paramedic. Darlie had a deep gash in her neck and wounds on her fingers. She used to be instantly transported to an area health facility for emergency surgical procedure and survived.
Eight months later, Darlie Routier was once convicted of killing her younger sons and sentenced to die via deadly injection. it's a verdict that many refused to accept.
Darlie's kinfolk believed unidentified fingerprints on the crime scene belong to the intruder. A fingerprint at the door resulting in the storage, and a moment print at the credenza in the back of the sofa, have by no means been absolutely pointed out by way of investigators.
Her relatives insists an important facts was once missed in the course of her trial. yet specialists argue that their case opposed to Darlie Lynn Routier is overwhelming.
Darlie’s attorneys proceed to attraction her sentence. If and while these appeals are exhausted, Darlie Lynn Routier should be carried out for brutally murdering Devon and Damon.

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