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Books > Fiction > True stories > Crime
I'm Brayden Cooper and I'm just an average guy who found himself in
a situation not at all average. Based on a true story, I will
reveal to you state secrets, twisted politics, a few crooked cops,
the negligence of the legal aid office, and the emotional battles
of going to prison an innocent man. My faith in God has never been
tested like it has been in the story I'm about to tell.All names
have been changed, as ordered by a federal judge, to protect the
identity of the cowards who fear the truth. Much of this story has
never before been told. I promised myself an uncensored story of
truths and I kept that promise, no matter who hurts as a result. I
will, within this book, hold accountable those who made me hurt and
have never taken responsibility.Although I went to prison for a
crime I did not commit, I am not innocent. I am guilty of being
blind to warning signs right in front of my face. I am guilty of
not doing more to help. I am guilty of being fooled, of being a
fool. This book is not for the faint of heart.
In the erotic thriller Dangerous Thoughts, a small-time journalist
stumbles onto a big scandal, ultimately immersing himself in a
harrowing mystery that could spell his demise.
Jake Alexander is a tired, middle-aged newspaper reporter ready
for some excitement. When he begins to investigate a political
candidate's suicide, he is unknowingly cast into a web of deceit,
murder, and blackmail. After he meets the beautiful Isabella
Genovese, he is lost in an unyielding fatal attraction to her that
eventually leads him down a path of chaos and danger. As Genovese
and Alexander arrange one lustful rendezvous after another, he
realizes she is a major player in a blackmailing scheme, but
Alexander has only one goal-to free his love from a life of
servitude. A multitude of murders occur, and as Alexander attempts
to save Genovese, himself, and a loyal detective from peril, he
must face a showdown with Conrad Poppa, the ultimate villain.
Alexander's steadfast curiosity and treacherous thoughts lead
him into deadly predicaments that are nearly impossible to escape
and straight into the twisted clutches of a psychopathic
killer.
During his first few days as a rookie New Jersey State Trooper,
Justin Hopson witnessed an unlawful arrest made by his training
officer. When he refused to testify in support the illegal arrest,
his life veered into a dangerous journey of hazing and harassment.
He uncovered evidence of a secret society within the State Police
known as the "Lords of Discipline," whose mission it was to keep
fellow troopers in line. Trooper Hopson blew the whistle on the
Lords of Discipline, which sparked the largest internal
investigation in State Police history.
This book is a story of fear, courage, and integrity, showing
how Justin Hopson persisted with his mission of exposing police
corruption. Through many unexpected twists of fate, Hopson tells
his story with a strong message that one committed individual can
make a successful stand against social forces of fear and
intimidation.
"Closed Eyes; Who's Killing Our Children" is a story of four
individual child abductions that have found no closure for the
families to this day. This is a factual story with an emotional
element that starts with a cold case investigation into the
abduction of seven year-old little Tracey Neef from the grounds of
her school in 1984. Tracey was found raped and dead a few short
hours later in the cold of a Colorado winter. The author follows a
trail of the bodies of children left behind by a skilled pedophilic
predator and culminates with the murder and rape of JonBenet
Ramsey. As each crime is researched numerous suspects surface.
Circumstances, witness statements and trace evidence point to only
one of these suspects. Although the author has obtained a legal
opinion that the public has a right to know the identity of this
suspect, his last name has been deleted from the manuscript. James
Benish presents the facts of these cold case child murders in
sequential order from the time of the abductions, through the years
of neglected follow-ups, ignored leads, and dismissal of evidence
and testimony that have left these murders in the ranks of the
unsolved. This is the first time in recent history that anyone has
suggested with credible logic, that there is a serial killer loose
in Colorado.
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.
28 November 2000 was the day when the foundations of a young and
fragile Ukrainian democracy were fundamentally shaken. The national
deputies and the entirety of the Ukrainian population became aware
of the records made by the former officer of the State Security
Service, Mykola Melnichenko, which implicated the then President of
Ukraine, Leonid Kuchma, in being involved in the murder of an
independent journalist Georgiy Gongadze. The tape affair, or as it
became known in the West, the 'Kuchmagate', was an unprecedented
event in the history of modern Ukraine. Kuchmagate and the collapse
of the Orange idea is a story told by Volodymyr Tsvil, a close
associate of the main characters involved in the scandal, who
himself was directly involved in the affair. Tsvil provides a
unique insight into the events that followed immediately after the
outbreak of the Kuchmagate and reveals a web of complex
relationships between major Melnychenko and a plethora of
politicians, journalists, governments and NGOs who were keen to
obtain the contents of these records and use them for their own
purposes. The story of Kuchmagate and the collapse of the Orange
idea, however, is not merely a description of events which inspired
the Orange revolution in 2004. Many Ukrainians entertained the hope
that new people in the government could deliver their promises for
a just and free society. These hopes were shattered by the same
politicians' insincerity and personal interest in political
expediency demonstrated during the Kuchmagate. The hopes of
ordinary Ukrainians that justice would prevail were sidelined and
largely forgotten. Today, the Orange coalition and its leaders are
forgotten, marginalised or even imprisoned. In contrast, the
Kuchmagate affair is alive and to the present day is far from being
solved. The main question of who ordered the murder of Georgiy
Gongadze remains unanswered. In order to find an answer to this and
many other questions, more details about the Kuchmagate should be
revealed to the public. Tsvil's book makes one the first
contributions to this cause, providing first-hand information about
the development of the scandal in a clear and objective manner.
In 1573 there occurred a murder which would leave today's tabloid
editors salivating. George Saunders, a respected merchant tailor,
was killed by his wife's lover. Involved in the conspiracy were
Saunders' wife, her best friend, and a servant. All were found
guilty and hanged, but not before a suspended clergyman fell in
love with Mrs. Saunders and sought to have her pardoned. Murder was
relatively rare in Tudor times. When it did occur, especially if it
involved a female perpetrator and a love affair, it generated
widespread interest. The rise of Protestantism, and its
accompanying rise in literacy, had provided a strong impetus to
read about crime and to ponder the spiritual consequences of
breaking both the civil and the divine law. The English system of
criminal justice was open and popular, and familiar
elements--detection, investigation, the laying of charges, the
trial, verdict, sentence--were all well understood and closely
followed in the 16th century. Today, people are riveted by crime
and violence. But the obsession is not new, as this book shows in
vivid and exciting detail. John Bellamy's new book provides a
fascinating view of life in Tudor England and offers a new angle on
our love affair with murder as a literary form. It was in the Tudor
period, he argues, that popular attention was focused on the crime
of murder, for edification as well as entertainment. A 16th-century
murder inquiry was in many ways a community affair, capable of
arousing the interest of a substantial local audience, with the
members of the inquest often collecting evidence and statements for
twenty or thirty days. Detection, investigation, the laying of
charges, the trial, verdict, sentence--all ofthese familiar
elements were established in the 16th century. Strange, Inhuman
Deaths describes four well-documented cases that occurred between
1538 and 1573. Each of them is deeply rooted in source material,
whether legal records or pamphlets, plays or ballads, giving a rich
background and a wealth of local colour. The human stories they
contain are powerful and lively, and the motivations and
personalities that are revealed speak to us directly across the
centuries. Murder most foul, murder most English--the tradition
begins.
This is a story of an independent gangster named Joe Pastronoco
(Joe, Jr.) aka Joe Thomas who was raised from childhood in a
criminal environment. His father Joe, Sr., and his father's brother
Salvatore were bootleggers during the 1900's and they both were
gangsters involved in a secret organization similar to the Mafia in
Italy when Benito Mussolini was dictator. Salvatore was shot and
left for dead in Italy but he managed to escape, and he came to
America as a stowaway, lived on a farm and sent for his brother
Joe, Sr. who left Italy with his wife and five siblings to live
with him.
The entire family ran an illegal bootlegging and numbers business
at his farm during the Prohibition days. Joe, Jr. accepts his
father's criminal lifestyle as an ordinary day, and under the
influence of his father and uncle he gradually turns into a
seasoned criminal. He becomes a drug dealer, runs a lucrative
prostitution business, and he branches out into other crimes.
This tale takes on an astonishing turn of events with an unusual
spiritual intervention that protects Joe throughout his life, and
by some unknown spiritual means is recognized by his father at his
birth and he names his son "The Chosen One."
City Within A City is going to give you a glimpse into the criminal
mind and a terrifying insight of what prison life is really like.
Raw, gripping, prison letters are exchanged by Joe and his last
wife, Sherry, that are filled with deep emotional pain and
humiliation.
Joe marries 9 times. Sherry Clark becomes his 6th and 9th wife. She
is a woman who is blinded by love and endures abuse beyond belief
by his hand and gives up her soul for the love of a man who gives
hernothing in return.
It is not only a detailed account of a criminal lifestyle, but it
is also a powerful and compelling love story.
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