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John Grisham
The Innocent Man on Playaway: Ready-To-Go Digital Audiobooks
by Random House Audio (Digital Audiobook)

The Goldman Family
If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer
by Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Audio Cassette)

In 1994, Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson were brutally murdered at her home in Brentwood, California. O.J. Simpson was tried for the crime in a case that captured the attention of the American people, but was ultimately found not guilty of criminal charges. The victims' families brought civil cases against Simpson, in which he was found liable for willfully and wrongfully causing the deaths of Ron and Nicole by committing battery with malice and oppression.In 2006, HarperCollins announced the publication for a book in which O.J. Simpson told how he hypothetically would have committed the murders. In response to public outrage that Simpson stood to profit from these crimes, HarperCollins canceled the book. A Florida bankruptcy court awarded the rights to the Goldmans in August 2007 to partially satisfy the unpaid civil judgment, which has risen, with interest, to over $38 million.

Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
by Bantam Books (Mass Market Paperback)

Steve Fischer
When the Mob Ran Vegas: Stories of Money, Mayhem and Murder
by Berkline Press (CD)

Vegas like you've never seen, tales you've never heard -- until now. Sizzling, behind-the-headlines stories about the men, the Mob, movie stars, and missing money that made '50s and '60s Vegas such a hot spot in the Nevada desert. The 6-CD audiobook version of this popular book captures the flavor of this period, as author Steve Fischer himself tells the true crime tales. You will be captivated.

Melton A. Mclaurin
Celia, A Slave
by Harper Perennial (Paperback) (Release Date: 1993-02-01)

In 1850, fourteen-year-old Celia became the property of Robert Newsom, a prosperous and respected Missouri farmer. For the next five years, she was cruelly and repeatedly molested by her abusive master--and bore him two children in the process. But in 1855, driven to the limits of her endurance, Celia fought back. And at the tender age of eighteen, the desperate and frightened young black woman found herself on trial for Newsom's murder--the defendant in a landmark courtroom battle that threatened to undermine the very foundations of the South's most cherished institution. Based on court records, correspondences and newspaper accounts past and present, Celia, A Slave is a powerful masterwork of passion and scholarship--a stunning literary achievement that brilliantly illuminates one of the most extraordinary events in the long, dark history of slavery in America.

Eric W. Hickey
Serial Murderers And Their Victims (The Wadsworth Contemporary Issues in Crime and Justice Series)
by Wadsworth Pub Co (Paperback)

This book provides an in-depth, scholarly, broad-based examination of serial murder that is backed by extensive data and research.

Philip Carlo
The night stalker: The life and crimes of Richard Ramirez
by Kensington Pub. Corp (Unknown Binding)

Nicky Cruz
Run, baby, run
by Logos Books (Unknown Binding)

The book that has stunned and moved the hearts of millions is to be re-released with a dramatic new cover to co-incide with publication of Nick Cruz's earth-shaking new book ONE HOLY FIRE. Cruz's classic testimony is still compelling reading thirty years after its first publication. A childhood overshadowed by spiritualism in his Puerto Rican home preceded a harsh and violent adolescence as the leader of one of New York's toughest street gangs. Chilling scenes of knife fights, torture and murder dominated the life of a young man proud and feared on the outside, but inwardly running scared. His fears and loneliness were brought to the surface through an encounter with the unlikely character of preacher David Wilkerson, who led Cruz to open his life to Christ - an incredible conversion that amazed all who knew him.

Dennis N. Griffin, Frank Cullotta
Cullotta: The Life of a Chicago Criminal, Las Vegas Mobster and Government Witness
by Huntington Press (Paperback)

From burglary to armed robbery and murder, infamous bad guy Frank Cullotta not only did it all, in Cullotta he admits to it -- and in graphic detail. This no-holds-barred biography chronicles the life of a career criminal who started out as a thug on the streets of Chicago and became a trusted lieutenant in Tony Spilotro's gang of organized lawbreakers in Las Vegas. Cullotta's was a world of high-profile heists, street muscle, and information -- lots of it -- about many of the FBI's most wanted. In the end, that information was his ticket out of crime, as he turned government witness and became one of a handful of mob insiders to enter the Witness Protection Program.

Herbert Asbury
The French quarter;: An informal history of the New Orleans underworld (A Cardinal edition abridged)
by A.A. Knopf (Unknown Binding)

Home to the notorious "Blue Book," which listed the names and addresses of every prostitute living in the city, New Orleans's infamous red-light district gained a reputation as one of the most raucous in the world. But the New Orleans underworld consisted of much more than the local bordellos. It was also well known as the early gambling capital of the United States, and sported one of the most violent records of street crime in the country. In The French Quarter, Herbert Asbury, author of The Gangs of New York, chronicles this rather immense underbelly of "The Big Easy." From the murderous exploits of Mary Jane "Bricktop" Jackson and Bridget Fury, two prostitutes who became famous after murdering a number of their associates, to the faux-revolutionary "filibusters" who, backed by hundreds of thousands of dollars of public support-though without official governmental approval-undertook military missions to take over the bordering Spanish regions in Texas, the French Quarter had ...

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