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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.
DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE KIDS WHO FOUND A FERRARI BURIED IN THEIR
GARDEN? WHAT ABOUT THE MAN WHO SUED SATAN? DO YOU KNOW THE LEGEND
OF THE BUNNY MAN? Strange happenings, unsolved mysteries and
seemingly supernatural events have gripped and shocked us for
centuries, passed from person to person in whispers in classrooms,
tales around the campfire and idle gossip among friends. Whether
they're based on a grain of truth or a complete flight of fancy,
the myths, legends and weird tales contained within this book will
take you on a fascinating journey to the outer limits of
plausibility, and dare you to believe the unbelievable.
A news media frenzy hurled the quiet resort community of Pinehurst
into the national spotlight in 1935 when hotel magnate Ellsworth
Statler's adopted daughter was discovered dead early one February
morning weeks after her wedding day. A politically charged
coroner's inquest failed to determine a definitive cause of death,
and the following civil action continued to expose sordid details
of the couple's lives. More than half a century later, the story
was all but forgotten when local resident Diane McLellan spied an
old photograph at a yard sale and became obsessed with solving the
mystery. Her enthusiastic sleuthing captured the attention of
Southern Pines resident and journalist Steve Bouser, who takes
readers back to those blustery winter days so long ago in the
search to reveal what really happened to Elva Statler Davidson.
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Run To The Fire
(Hardcover)
Chad Collins; Foreword by Roger Staubach
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During an eight-month period in 1977 and 1978, the city of
Columbus, Georgia, was terrorized by a mysterious serial killer who
raped and ritualistically strangled seven elderly women in one of
the community's finer neighborhoods. Despite intensive efforts on
the part of police the Stocking Strangler, as he came to be known,
managed to elude capture. After the last murder in April 1978, the
case went cold. In the spring of 1984, a series of fortuitous
events connected to an unrelated murder and a stolen pistol led to
the capture of Carlton Gary, who had recently escaped from a South
Carolina prison. Following a dramatic trial in August 1986, Gary
was convicted of three of the seven Columbus murders and sentenced
to death, a penalty that would not be carried out until March 2018.
This convoluted tale of crime and punishment is punctuated by
dramatic and unexpected twists and turns including issues of race,
alleged conspiracy and misconduct on the part of the police and the
judiciary, a second serial killer active in Columbus during the
time of the Strangler murders, the Ku Klux Klan, errors in DNA
analysis, and a vigorous and prolonged struggle by attorneys and
death penalty opponents who believed in Gary's innocence.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of
best-loved, essential classics. In 1936, George Orwell volunteered
as a soldier in the Spanish Civil War. In Homage to Catalonia,
first published just before the outbreak of World War II, Orwell
documents the chaos and bloodshed of that moment in history and the
voices of those who fought against rising fascism. His experience
of the civil war would spark a significant change in his own
political views, which readers today will recognise in much of his
later literary work; a rage against the threat of totalitarianism
and control.
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