A tale of 117 years of devotion to duty, peacefulness and calm, disrupted forever by a day of inexplicable violence, a community's battle to have a lighthouse built.
On August 25, 1938, twenty-five-year-old Ben Dickson and his fifteen-year-old wife Stella Mae robbed the Corn Exchange Bank in Elkton, South Dakota, making off with $2,187.
Brisante Fälle, Krisen, Skandale und vielfältige Diskussionen – Das Verhältnis von Staatsanwaltschaft und Medien ist seit über 100 Jahren spannungsgeladen und heute mehr denn je komplex.
First published in 1981, Murder at the Broad River Bridge recounts the stunning details of the murder of Lieutenant Colonel Lemuel Penn by the Ku Klux Klan on a back-country Georgia road in 1964, nine days after the passage of the Civil Rights Act.
Like a character in a Hitchcock movie, Dave McOmie travels the country breaking into bank vaults, cracking jewelry store safes, and decoding unbreakable codes secured deep in government facilities.
In February 1967, Air Force Lieutenant Vaughan arrived at Ching Chuan Kang Air Base in Taiwan to begin 14 months as a C-130 Hercules pilot, airlifting supplies and troops throughout southeast Asia.
'Exactly the novel we need right here, right now' TAYARI JONES'Astonishing' JODI PICOULT'Triumphant' ELLE A woman learns the astonishing truth of her family's ties to a vanished American Kingdom in this riveting new novel from the bestselling and award-winning author of Take My Hand Nikki Berry hasn't seen her estranged grandmother Rita in years - until an unexpected phone call summons her to the hills of North Carolina.
This book explicitly chronicles 40 cases of unsolved murders and disappearances over a period of more than 160 years, tracing the evolution of criminal investigation and forensic techniques.
Die Fachtage "Familienorientierung im Strafvollzug" an der Hochschule Merseburg 2017 und 2018 hatten zum Ziel, AkteurInnen aus den Bereichen der Justiz, der Freien Straffälligenhilfe, aber auch andere professionell Handelnde, in einen moderierten Prozess des Austauschs über eine stärkere Orientierung des Vollzuges an den Bedarfen von Familien zu bringen.
With the war between the Mexican state and the drug traffickers operating within its borders having claimed over 70,000 lives since 2006, noted journalist and author Michael Deibert zeroes in on the story of the notorious Gulf Cartel, their deadly war with their former allies Los Zetas, the cartels connections in Mexican politics and what its trajectory means for Mexico's--and America's--future.
A New York Times BestsellerDetroit, mid-1930s: In a city abuzz over its unrivaled sports success, gun-loving baseball fan Dayton Dean became ensnared in the nefarious and deadly Black Legion.
Art theft has risen from an occasional event involving the trophies of the wealthy and elite, into a multi-billion-dollar annual criminal industry, run almost entirely by organized crime groups, and a significant funding source for terrorism.
Faced with a 1-A draft classification after graduation from college in the spring of 1968, the author decided to control his own destiny by volunteering for the draft.
From Disgrace to Dignity: Redemption in the Life of Willie Rico Johnson examines the life of Rico Johnson who became the head of the Conservative Vice Lords, one of the largest street gangs in the United States.
Discover the theories and facts surrounding the Whitechapel murders in David Rumbelow s The Complete Jack the Ripper It is 1888 in London s Whitechapel district, where one by one a group of prostitutes are brutally murdered.
Eine gefährliche Raubmörder-Bande treibt ihr Unwesen in Berlin, als im Herbst 1932 die 75-jährige Frau eines Markthändlers in ihrer Wohnung überfallen und umgebracht wird.
