True Crime

10 True Crime Books You Won't Be Able To Put Down

Peter Manso | Posted 09.04.2011

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Peter Manso

What is there to say about true-crime books? They're fun. They can be intellectually compelling, and, like the fictional variety from Hammett, Cain and that crowd, they're more often than not rooted in the far side of respectability or polite society.

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Erie Pizza Bomber Case: Who Killed Brian Wells?

Trey Borzillieri | Posted 08.11.2011

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Trey Borzillieri

A quiet and solitary man spent an entire lifetime avoiding the spotlight... only to blow-up on TV. Was he a victim? According to the FBI he was a cons...

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Connecticut Prison Inmates Reading True Crime And Other Violent Books

AP | PAT EATON-ROBB | Posted 05.25.2011

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HARTFORD, Conn. — Inmates in Connecticut prisons have access to true crime books and works of fiction that depict murder and graphic violence, w...

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Are The Best Crime Writers Prone To Violence?

Mulholland Books | Posted 05.25.2011

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My favorite crime novel, "The Hoods" by Harry Grey, was written by a man who was serving time for manslaughter in Sing Sing. While it is true one of t...

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Bond of Silence: A Solid Role For Kim Raver

Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kim Raver, True Crime, Forgiveness, Unresolved Anger, Teenage Drinking, Entertainment News
Jackie K. Cooper

Bond of Silence is one of Lifetime's better original movies. It is believable because it is based on a true story, and also because Kim Raver's casting is so fortuitous.

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DonnaDonna Louise Greenwell Charged Louise Greenwell Charged With Selling 2 Children For $175 & An Exotic Bird

AP | MARY FOSTER | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW ORLEANS — A Louisiana woman has pleaded guilty to selling two children for a cockatoo and $175 in what her attorney called an attempt to do ...

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Amy Fox Reports Fake, Armed Post Office Robbery To 911 To Cover Up Her Own Crime (AUDIO, VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

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Amy Fox, a Michigan woman, called 911 to report an armed Post Office robbery by a "black or Mexican" man. Police began a manhunt looking for the susp...

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Stiletto Stabbing: Woman Charged With Stabbing Man Through The Eye With Stiletto Heel

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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LONDON — British police say they've charged a 33-year-old woman with stabbing a man through the eye with her stiletto heel. West Yorkshire Poli...

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Twinkies Theft! Thieves Swipe Twinkies, Leave Tracks In Snow, Cops Say

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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KINGSPORT, Tenn. — It was a Zinger of a theft in Tennessee. It also included cupcakes, Twinkies and other snack cakes from the Merita Bread Comp...

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Charles Henry Bennett, TSA Worker, Arrested For Attempting To Make Girl His 'Sex Slave'

Click Orlando | Posted 05.25.2011

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ORLANDO, Fla. -- A federal Transportation Security Administration employee has been arrested in connection with the molestation of a girl, Orange Coun...

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Michael Brewer Hospitalized: 5 Teens Charged With Setting Florida Teenager On Fire

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. — Five teenagers were charged with aggravated battery Tuesday for dousing a 15-year-old with rubbing alcohol and setting him on fire because he stopped someone from stealing his father's bicycle, authorities said.

Michael Brewer was hospitalized with burns on more than three-quarters of his body after the attack at a Deerfield Beach apartment complex Monday.

The Broward County sheriff's office said in a news release that 15-year-olds Matthew Bent, Denver Jarvis, Steven Shelton and Jesus Mendez and 13-year-old Jeremy Jarvis were charged with aggravated battery. Mendez was also charged with attempted second-degree murder because authorities say he flicked the lighter.

The victim's brother-in-law, Danny Martinez, told the South Florida Sun Sentinel that Brewer is in serious condition but doing OK.

He was burned on his torso and arms, sheriff's spokesman Jim Leljedal said. Family members said most of his hair, including his eyelashes, had also been burned off.

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Junior Gotti Finds New Calling

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — Now that the government has given up trying to put him in prison, John "Junior" Gotti says he may leave New York and try his hand at writ...

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Devonna Hines, Antoine Perkins, Murder Charge: Accused of ordering mother's killing

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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DETROIT -- A 20-year-old Detroit woman who police say had a strained relationship with her mother is accused of talking her 22-year-old boyfriend into...

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The Past Is Never Dead

Alison Teal | Posted 05.25.2011

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Alison Teal

A new book is a true story about the 2007 trial of klansman James Ford Seale for the hideous murder of two young black men in 1964.

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The Parents of Etan Patz Have Not Changed Their Phone Number in 30 Years

Vickie Karp | Posted 11.17.2011

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Vickie Karp

An entire network for tracking missing children emerged from his disappearance -- pictures on milk cartons, Amber alerts and National Missing Children's Day.

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