Love Behind Bars by SMITH

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Category: TRUE CRIME

The Last Escape: The True Story of the Helicopter Bandit by John Killick

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Category: TRUE CRIME

John Killick fed his gambling addiction by robbing banks in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, but this career criminal entered a new phase when he met Russian immigrant Lucy Dudko at a party in 1995. When a warrant was issued in Queensland for his arrest on old charges, Killick and Dudko went on the run which ended in his capture after a failed bank robbery in Bowral, NSW in January 1999.In one of the most audacious prison breaks in Australian history, Killick was broken out of Sydney's Silverwater prison after Dudko commandeered a scenic helicopter flight at gunpoint. Australia's 'Bonnie and Clyde' spent another 45 days on the run before recaptured . Killick was sentenced to 14 years' jail; Dudko got 8 years. After he was released in 2015, the pair meet up again but are they the same people Is the magic still there ...Show more

Serial Killer - Over 100 of the World's Deadliest Murderers by Ben Biggs

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Category: TRUE CRIME

Serial Killerprofiles over 100 of the world's most deadly serial murderers. Each profile details the means, motive and opportunity of those who kill and kill again, and asks: what, if anything, drives these killers? Were they born to kill? What could possibly have gone through their minds? How were they caught? What was done to obtain justice for their victims, and how did they pay for their crimes? And, most importantly, what can be done to enable the prevention of these appalling crimes in future, and the capture of those who would commit them? ...Show more

Prince Andrew: Epstein and the Palace by Nigel Cawthorne

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Category: TRUE CRIME

Buckingham Palace’s greatest fear came true when the FBI arrested Prince Andrew’s friend Jeffrey Epstein on charges of under-age sex trafficking. Just before the marriage of Kate and Wills, a snapshot of Andrew with his arm around the naked midriff of the billionaire’s most articulate victim had surfaced. Despite sending stringent defamation warnings, the palace had been powerless to prevent headlines on the controversial friendship from moving in its direction like a hurricane. Prince Andrew: The End of the Monarchy and Epstein investigates the story of the key players and allegations and counter-allegations in this unique, high-stakes royal drama. It provides a gripping and uncommon insight into the hidden privileges enjoyed by global power brokers, royalty and billionaires. Transcending the life of one man, it characterises a whole institution and a way of life — the monarchy as we know it today. Prince Andrew’s official involvement with UK trade came to an abrupt end in 2010 when the prince was overheard discussing Saudi bribery and bribery in Kyrgyzstan, arguing that ‘people should be allowed to get on with their jobs’. And that was only the beginning of Buckingham Palaces headaches. ...Show more

Cults Uncovered: True Stories of Mind Control and Murder by Emily G Thompson

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Category: TRUE CRIME

Discover the shocking truth about some of the most disturbing cults that have ever existed-cults led by charismatic psychopaths such as Charles Manson, David Koresh, and Jim Jones that have exploded into acts of appalling savagery. How did Manson inspire his "family" to launch a campaign of murder? Wha t twisted ideology lay behind horrific events like the Waco Siege, the Aum Doomsday Cult's attack on the Tokyo metro, and the mass suicide/murders of Peoples Temple? Why did the suicidal adherents of Heaven's Gate believe Doomsday was at hand? How did the idealistic commune of Rajneeshpuram collapse into shocking controversies, involving biological terrorism and attempted murder? Cults Uncoveredexplores these and many more bizarre and frightening cases from all over the world to reveal terrifying stories of manipulation, coercion, abuse, and murder. ...Show more

Terrorism In Australia by Peter Moroney

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Category: TRUE CRIME

Peter Moroney was a member of the NSW Police force for 17 years whoretired as Detective Sergeant with predominant experience in the field ofCriminal investigations and and extensive experience in managing andconducting complete criminal investigations such as counter terrorism,drugs, money laundering, o rganised crime and homicide.This is Peter's first book which will take a look at the birth of modernterrorism in Australia, particularly NSW through what become known asOperation Pendennis. Operation Pendennis is still one of the largest counterterrorism investigations in this country, which included the investigation and eventual prosecution of MrKhaled Sharrouf.Terrorism in Australia takes us into a world unknown to most of us on how the culture of terrorists groupswork and think and how this is an issue that authorities continue to strive to stay on top of around theworld but also in Australia. How do we stop an attack on our shores, who is who in our terrorist ...Show more

The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay and Disaster (Sandra Pankhurst)(PB) by Sarah Krasnostein

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Category: TRUE CRIME

Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, gender reassignment patient, sex worker, small businesswoman, trophy wife ...But as a little boy, raised in violence and excluded from the family home, she just wanted to belong. Now she believes her clien ts deserve no less.A woman who sleeps among garbage she has not put out for forty years. A man who bled quietly to death in his loungeroom. A woman who lives with rats, random debris and terrified delusion. The still life of a home vacated by accidental overdose.Sarah Krasnostein has watched the extraordinary Sandra Pankhurst bring order and care to these, the living and the dead - and the book she has written is equally extraordinary. Not just the compelling story of a fascinating life among lives of desperation, but an affirmation that, as isolated as we may feel, we are all in this together. ...Show more

Reasonable Doubt by Xanthé Mallett

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Category: TRUE CRIME

We all put our faith in the criminal justice system. We trust the professionals: the police, the lawyers, the judges, the expert witnesses. But what happens when the process lets us down and the wrong person ends up in jail? Henry Keogh spent almost twenty years locked away for a murder that never even happened. Khalid Baker was imprisoned for the death of a man his best friend has openly admitted to causing. And the exposure of 'Lawyer X' Nicola Gobbo's double-dealing could lead to some of Australia's most notorious convictions being overturned. Forensic scientist Xanthé Mallett is used to dealing with the darker side of humanity. Now she's turning her skills and insight to miscarriages of justice and cases of Australians who have been wrongfully convicted. Exposing false confessions, polices biases, misplaced evidence and dodgy science, Reasonable Doubt is an expert's account of the murky underbelly of our justice system - and the way it affects us all. ...Show more

Rip Off! by Paul Taylor

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Category: TRUE CRIME

Secrets and Lies - The Trials of Christine Keeler by Christine Keeler; Douglas Thompson

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Category: TRUE CRIME

Christine Keeler died in December 2017, aged seventy-five, more than fifty years after her central role in the scandal that rocked a country and brought down a government. Her death, however, makes it possible to bring her own story up to date, with new material that she had not wanted published in her lifetime. This revised edition has been further enhanced by the active encouragement and cooperation of her younger son, who has provided the foreword, and her long-time legal adviser and friend, making it the definitive account of both her life and the so-called 'Profumo Affair'. It gives voice to her thoughts toward the end of her own life on the deaths of Mandy Rice-Davis and of 'Lucky' Gordon, the man who terrorised and haunted her. Secrets and Lies charts the life's journey of a woman whom history refused to let go, who could never escape being Christine Keeler, set against a backdrop of political turmoil, Cold War espionage, and the social upheavals of the 1960s. The story that she found the courage to tell shatters all preconceptions, and has the power to rewrite history. Book jacket. ...Show more

The Last Stone - A Masterpiece of Criminal Interrogation by Mark Bowden

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Category: TRUE CRIME

From the bestselling author of Killing Pablo, a haunting and gripping account of the true-life search for the perpetrator of a hideous crime-the abduction and likely murder of two young girls in 1975-and the skilful work of the cold case team that finally brought their kidnapper to justice. On March 29 , 1975, sisters Kate and Sheila Lyon, aged ten and twelve, disappeared during a trip to a shopping mall in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. Three days later, eighteen-year-old Lloyd Welch visited the Montgomery County Police headquarters with a tip: he had seen the Lyon girls at the mall that day and had watched them climb into a strange man's car. Welch's tip led nowhere, and the police dismissed him as a drug-addled troublemaker wasting their time. As the weeks passed, and the police's massive search for the girls came up empty, grief, shock and horror spread out from the Lyon family to overtake the entire region. The trail went cold, the investigation was shelved and hope for justice waned. Then, in 2013, a detective on the department's cold case squad reopened the Lyon files and eventually discovered that the officers had missed something big about Lloyd Welch in 1975. In 1975, at age 23, Mark Bowden was a rookie reporter for a small Maryland newspaper reporting on the Lyons sisters' disappearance. In The Last Stone, Bowden returns to his first major story, taking us behind the scenes of the cold case team's exceptional interrogation of Lloyd Welch, the man who - nearly forty years after the crime - quickly became the most likely suspect in the Lyon case. Based on extensive interviews and video footage from inside the interrogation room, The Last Stone is a thrilling and revelatory reconstruction of a masterful investigation. ...Show more

Helter Skelter - The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi; Curt Gentry

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Category: TRUE CRIME

The shocking true story of the Manson murders, revealed in this harrowing, often terrifying book. Helter Skelter won a Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award in 1975 for Best Fact Crime Book. On August 9th 1969, seven people were found shot, stabbed and bludgeoned to death in Los Angeles. America watche d in fascinated horror as the killers were tried and convicted. But the real questions went unanswered. How did Manson make his 'family' kill for him? What made these young men and women kill again and again with no trace of remorse? Did the murders continue even after Manson's imprisonment? No matter how much you think you know about this case, this book will still shock you. ...Show more