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The real story of the shocking Jeffrey Dahmer murders, as told by
the Milwaukee Journal reporter who broke the story--from the
dramatic scene when police first entered Dahmer's apartment to the
lasting repercussions of the case today. One night in July 1991,
two policemen saw a man running handcuffed from the apartment of
Jeffrey Dahmer. Investigating, they made a gruesome discovery:
three human skulls in Dahmer's refrigerator and the body parts of
at least 11 more people scattered throughout the apartment. Shortly
after, Milwaukee Journal reporter Anne E. Schwartz received a tip
that would change her life. Schwartz, who broke the story and had
exclusive access to the principals involved, details the complete,
inside story of Dahmer's dark life, the case, and its aftermath:
the horrific crime scene and the shocking story that unfolded; the
forensics; the riveting trial; and Dahmer's murder in prison. With
approximately 12 images.
The only inside account of the Fritzl case - Josef Fritzl's
horrific incarceration of his daughter in a windowless dungeon for
24 years and the seven children he fathered with her - from the
journalists who helped to break the story. Until April 19 2008,
Josef Fritzl seemed like an upstanding member of the community in
the Austrian town of Amstetten: an ideal father and successful
businessman who had worked his way up from humble beginnings to
become a role model of respectability. Yet for over two decades he
had been living a double life of unimaginable and unparalleled
horror. In 1984 he had drugged his 18-year-old daughter, Elisabeth,
and dragged her into a purpose-made prison under the house that he
had spent five years preparing. He held her captive there for 24
years and raped her frequently. Fritzl initially kept his daughter
chained to a bed and forced her to re-enact scenes from
pornographic films he projected in the cellar. Three months into
her incarceration Elisabeth miscarried what would have been her
first child. Over the next 18 years in the cellar she bore her
father seven children - six of whom survived. Lisa, Monika and
Alexander were taken 'upstairs' to live with their grandmother.
Michael died after birth. Kerstin, Stefan and Felix were never to
see daylight, trapped with their mother in the five-room cellar.
This bold and forensically-researched study sheds new light on the
mind and the psychological development of the man who became one of
the most unique and frightening criminals in history. It includes
new information on the bizarre formative experiences that shaped
his pathology and argues that his crimes, though unthinkable, were
in many ways inevitable. Stefanie Marsh and Bojan Pancevski were
the first English-speaking reporters to break the case and were
there as the police uncovered the dungeon. They draw on previously
unreleased testimonies from the trial as well as exclusive
interviews and documents including confidential official files on
the case to give the only complete and authoritative account of the
forces that drove Fritzl to create another world, far from the
light, in which his fantasies of control could be played out.
Digital violence continues to increase, especially during times of
crisis. Racism, bullying, ageism, sexism, child pornography,
cybercrime, and digital tracking raise critical social and digital
security issues that have lasting effects. Digital violence can
cause children to be dragged into crime, create social isolation
for the elderly, generate inter-communal conflicts, and increase
cyber warfare. A closer study of digital violence and its effects
is necessary to develop lasting solutions. The Handbook of Research
on Digital Violence and Discrimination Studies introduces the
current best practices, laboratory methods, policies, and protocols
surrounding international digital violence and discrimination.
Covering a range of topics such as abuse and harassment, this major
reference work is ideal for researchers, academicians,
policymakers, practitioners, professionals, instructors, and
students.
Raised in a South Boston housing project, James "Whitey" Bulger
became the most wanted fugitive of his generation. In this riveting
story, rich with family ties and intrigue, award-winning Boston
Globe reporters Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy follow Whitey s
extraordinary criminal career from teenage thievery to bank
robberies to the building of his underworld empire and a string of
brutal murders.
It was after a nine-year stint in Alcatraz and other prisons
that Whitey reunited with his brother William "Billy" Bulger, who
was soon to become one of Massachusetts s most powerful
politicians. He also became reacquainted with John Connolly, who
had grown up around the corner from the Bulgers and was now with
Billy s help a rising star at the FBI. Once Whitey emerged
triumphant from the bloody Boston gang wars, Connolly recruited him
as an informant against the Mafia. Their clandestine relationship
made Whitey untouchable; the FBI overlooked gambling, drugs, and
even homicide to protect their source. Among the close-knit Irish
community in South Boston, nothing was more important than honor
and loyalty, and nothing was worse than being a rat. Whitey is
charged with the deaths of nineteen people killed over turf, for
business, and even for being informants; yet to this day he denies
he ever gave up his friends or landed anyone in jail.
Based on exclusive access and previously undisclosed documents,
Cullen and Murphy explore the truth of the Whitey Bulger story.
They reveal for the first time the extent of his two parallel
family lives with different women, as well as his lifelong paranoia
stemming in part from his experience in the CIA s MKULTRA program.
They describe his support of the IRA and his hitherto-unknown role
in the Boston busing crisis, and they show a keen understanding of
his mindset while on the lam and behind bars. The result is the
first full portrait of this legendary criminal figure a gripping
story of wiseguys and cops, horrendous government malfeasance, and
a sixteen-year manhunt that climaxed in Whitey s dramatic capture
in Santa Monica in June 2011. With a new afterword covering the
trial, this book promises to become a true-crime classic."
Winner of the 2022 British Academy Prize for Global Cultural
Understanding. Novelist Alia Trabucco Zeran has long been
fascinated not only with the root causes of violence against women,
but by those women who have violently rejected the domestic and
passive roles they were meant by their culture to inhabit. Choosing
as her subject four iconic homicides perpetrated by Chilean women
in the twentieth century, she spent years researching this
brilliant work of narrative nonfiction detailing not only the
troubling tales of the murders themselves, but the story of how
society, the media and men in power reacted to these killings,
painting their perpetrators as witches, hysterics, or femmes
fatales . . . That is, either evil or out of control. Corina Rojas,
Rosa Faundez, Carolina Geel and Teresa Alfaro all committed murder.
Their crimes not only led to substantial court decisions, but gave
rise to multiple novels, poems, short stories, paintings, plays,
songs and films, produced and reproduced throughout the last
century. In When Women Kill, we are provided with timelines of
events leading up to and following their killings, their
apprehension by the authorities, their trials and their
representation in the media throughout and following the judicial
process. Running in parallel with this often horrifying testimony
are the diaries kept by Trabucco Zeran while she worked on her
research, addressing the obstacles and dilemmas she encountered as
she tackled this discomfiting yet necessary project.
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