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There will never be another Billy Hill - Reggie Kray. Bill had a great brain. There's no two ways about it - Frankie Fraser. I made Billy Hill. Then he got over the top of me. I should have shot Billy Hill. I really should. I'd have got ten years for it but it would have made me happy and I'd be out...

The Joseph Heffernan Story. Last Man to be Hanged in Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin. Early 20th Century British Injustice in Ireland. A century old Irish murder mystery is re-opened. Joseph Heffernan paid the ultimate price for the murder of Mary Walker in Mullingar, Ireland in 1909. Mary Walker was the...

THE SEALED TRUTH is based on a heinous crime that occurred in Rhode Island in 1975 when five-year-old freckle faced Justin Doherty (real names and places have been changed) was kidnapped and murdered. After a week long search by Hopeville police and volunteers, Justins mother Jane and Detective Rick...

Set in a social backdrop of recovery from two world wars, Margaret Drinkall's Rotherham Murders concentrates on killings that took place in and around the town during the first fifty years of the twentieth century. Most of her cases have not been written about in recent years, but are now investigated...

A true-crime tour of this historical British coal town, with photos and illustrations.   Historically, Newcastle was a town of great wealth because of the abundance of natural resources. Certainly by the eighteenth century, Newcastle and its surrounding towns made up the most important commercial...

This collection of papers presents a representative selection of the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) portfolio of gang-related research. The genesis was the upsurge in gang crime beginning in the mid-1980s, which prompted NIJ to expand research in this area. NIJ's major focus is to generate...

ABOUT THE BOOKEven 65 years after it happened, the murder of Elizabeth Short remains one of Americas most notorious unsolved mysteries. The utterly gruesome nature of the murder, combined with the incidents connection to the very in-vogue (at the time) Los Angeles art scene, make this a murder...

**THE ULTIMATE READERS’ GUIDE TO THE ART OF FORENSICS! An intrepid investigator crawls through miles of air conditioning ducts to capture the implicating fibers of a suspect’s wool jacket . . . A forensic entomologist discovers insects in the grill of a car and nails down a drug dealer’s...

As Dexter and CSI fans and most other people know, a crime scene may involve several of the following: --blood droplets of various shapes and sizes --blood sprays, spurts, and splashes --blood flows, pools, and transfers --dried blood --projected blood --cast-off blood Blood spatter analysis...

Book two in a true crime series, written by a twenty-three-year veteran of the Houston Police Department Homicide Division. These are the cases that have stuck with the investigators who worked them for years, if not for decades. Some are a matter of pride, others are just maddening and frustrating...

Crime is that form of deviance that involves an infraction of the criminal law. Not all laws are ‘criminal'. Lawyers recognize civil law, constitutional law, and various other categories of legal norm. Civil law, for example, concerns relations among private individuals, such as the contractual...

"Anitha Moolya was supposed to be getting married. She prepared for the big day by making an effort to look her best; she fixed her hair, dressed herself in an off-white sari, accentuated it with fresh flowers, and glass bangles. To complete the look, she wore a pair of gold earrings and a new...

'I stood in the dock looking at the judge's expressionless face. My two partners in crime had just been sentenced to three years imprisonment each, and had been taken down ...He then sentenced me to three years, and I joined my partners in the cells below. So ended my career on Birkenhead docks; thirteen...

Baby for a Biker is book 2 of the Marino Crime Family trilogy. Book 3, Baby for an Outlaw, is available everywhere now! **I WANTED HER TO GIVE ME A BABY. I JUST DIDN'T KNOW IT WOULD COST ME EVERYTHING. And I didn't know it would require me to kill… One last time.** I was ready...