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Tahiry
(Hardcover)
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R927
R801
Discovery Miles 8 010
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Jane had a pretty good life. She was a single mother, and she
worked hard for her three kids, who meant the world to her. One
autumn evening she met someone she believed to be the man of her
dreams-the only thing missing in her nearly perfect life. He was
handsome, gentle, quiet, and kind.
Eleven months later, they bought a home and were married. Jane
was so happy. Soon, however, her daughter, Michelle, began to
change; she became distant and withdrawn. Something was wrong, but
Jane couldn't figure out what it was. She never thought to look at
her husband as being the cause her daughter's moodiness or imagine
that it might be somehow related to sexual abuse. Her husband-a
young, handsome man with a nine-to-five job, an ex-wife and kids of
his own-was nothing like her image of a pedophile.
In her memoir, "I Am Gonna Tell," Jane recounts the nightmare
that she, her daughter and sons lived through due to the man Jane
brought into their lives. This is a mother's brutally honest
account of the horrifying discovery of her daughter's sexual abuse
at the hands of her husband-her daughter's stepfather.
In 1997, George Henderson, who was staying in a homeless shelter,
asked for the help of author, Dr. Bonnie Clark Douglass. George's
brother Paul Henderson, who was nicknamed "Poncho," was only 17
when he went missing on Halloween night. Poncho's lifeless body was
found a couple of weeks later on Nov. 14th, 1981, at the end of the
catwalk under the Centennial Bridge in Miramichi City. Poncho's
sneakers were found neatly placed, side by side, atop a pillar
approximately 50 yards from the body; not one police report
retrieved mentions this fact. George refused to "live with it,"
after the family was told Poncho fell off the bridge, and that was
not what the Pathologist's report concluded. "I'd say he was
beaten. When a person falls, you expect to see trademark injuries,
especially to the hands and face." Sheriff Pollard said that if he
did not know better, he would guess that someone put Poncho on a
rack and stretched him. (Telegraph Journal, February 6, 1999,
Calvin Pollard, with 25 years combined experience as a sheriff and
coroner). George and Dr. Bonnie dug up every piece of information
they could find. This included old RCMP records retrieved from the
New Brunswick Archives, and news articles from 1981. A
comprehensive written report was submitted to the N.B. RCMP Major
Crime Unit and, in 1999, the RCMP announced that the case was being
opened. After George's violent death in 2007, Dr. Bonnie knew that
one day she had to tell George's story, because of his tenacity and
courage in the face of a system that seemed dead against him.
George remained the eye of the storm, no matter what he came up
against. After starting a Facebook site, miraculously, 10 pages of
tips came in. The truth about that fateful night and what happened
on the catwalk began to unravel. Who would ever believe how the
truth surfaced because of social media? A loyal group of people,
who ravaged the storm and fought to honor George's vow for justice,
are revealed in the story.
In 1854, the United States acquired the roughly 30,000-square-mile
region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico
from Mexico as part of the Gadsden Purchase. This new Southern
Corridor was ideal for train routes from Texas to California, and
soon tracks were laid for the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe rail
lines. Shipping goods by train was more efficient, and for
desperate outlaws and opportunistic lawmen, robbing trains was
high-risk, high-reward. The Southern Corridor was the location of
sixteen train robberies between 1883 and 1922. It was also the
homebase of cowboy-turned-outlaw Black Jack Ketchum's High Five
Gang. Most of these desperadoes rode the rails to Arizona's Cochise
County on the US-Mexico border where locals and lawmen alike hid
them from discovery. Both Wyatt Earp and Texas John Slaughter tried
to clean them out, but it took the Arizona Rangers to finish the
job. It was a time and place where posses were as likely to get
arrested as the bandits. Some of the Rangers and some of
Slaughter's deputies were train robbers. When rewards were offered
there were often so many claimants that only the lawyers came out
ahead. Southwest Train Robberies chronicles the train heists
throughout the region at the turn of the twentieth century, and the
robbers who pulled off these train jobs with daring, deceit, and
plain dumb luck! Many of these blundering outlaws escaped capture
by baffling law enforcement. One outlaw crew had their own caboose,
Number 44, and the railroad shipped them back and forth between
Tucson and El Paso while they scouted locations. Legend says one
gang disappeared into Colossal Cave to split the loot leaving the
posse out front while they divided the cash and escaped out another
entrance. The antics of these outlaws inspired Butch Cassidy and
the Sundance Kid to blow up an express car and to run out guns
blazing into the fire of a company of soldiers.
After in-depth research of the circumstances of that fateful night,
investigative writer and former journalist Noel Botham finally
reveals what he alleges to be the truth - Princess Diana fell
victim to a ruthlessly executed assassination. Twenty years later,
the tragedy still shapes Britain as we know it today. How could the
Establishment betray the trust of a whole nation? How was the
killing executed? Was there really another car in the tunnel at the
time of the crash? Reporting from the innermost sanctums of British
intelligence and royalty, Botham reveals shocking answers to what
he claims is one of the UK's most successfully kept secrets. As
Botham affirms, The Murder of Princess Diana firmly lays to rest
the outdated theory that Diana's death was a mere accident, and
finally gives the people of Britain the explanation they deserve.
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.
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Gein
(Hardcover)
Scott Bowser
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R1,189
Discovery Miles 11 890
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Early on the morning of October 3, 1923, the inmates of Eddyville
penitentiary in western Kentucky were preparing to leave their
cells for breakfast. That was when Chester Walters, known as Monte
Tex Walters, made a mad dash for freedom along with two other
inmates, killing three guards in the attempt. A three-day siege
that would later be called the Battle of Eddyville ensued, ending
with the deaths of all three prisoners. When it was over,
twenty-one-year-old Lillian Walters, the gang leader's wife, was
left to stand trial for conspiracy and murder, as an accessory
before the fact in the death of Hodge Cunningham, one of the
guards. Conviction carried the possibility of the death penalty. In
Murder at the Castle on the Cumberland, author Tom Grassham
recreates the case and trial in which his great-uncle, C. C.
Grassham, served as Lillian's defense counsel. Based on documented
facts, Murder at the Castle on the Cumberland narrates the story of
cold and cruel domination of a woman who loved her husband. Lillian
maintained she had done exactly what any good wife would do. The
authorities never could shake her loyalty to her husband.
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