When the Harris family was found brutally murdered three days before Christmas, it plunged the sleepy upstate New York community of Ithaca into shock. The town clamored for justice and breathed a collective sigh of relief when the police, led by rising-star investigator David Harding, who found the murderer's fingerprints, solved the case in just six weeks.The prime suspect was fatally shot when police tried to apprehend him, but his middle ...
When the hunters become the hunted, life for law enforcement officials and their families in Miramichi, New Brunswick, Canada, turns upside-down. It takes a months-long investigation by police, search and rescue dogs and their handlers to catch a suspected serial killer.Death Dealer is a gripping true crime story of committed investigators from two countries and their cooperation in the relentless pursuit of a brutal murderer. It’s int ...
In this gripping, true crime exposé, Bill Palmini, a rookie detective, hopes to take down the West Coast Mafia by gaining the confidence of notorious mob operative William Ettleman. Set against a backdrop of social turmoil, the book immerses readers in free love, drugs, robbery and murder, orchestrated by organized crime in locations like Sausalito, California. The Trident Restaurant, once a drug Mecca for Hollywood, the music industry ...
When Jim Dunn got the heart-stopping call every parent dreads: «Your son has disappeared,» and then saw his son's blood-splattered apartment, it set into motion a six-year nightmarish odyssey of desperate searches. Ahead were moments of frantic hope, growing despair and finally acceptance that Scott was dead. Texas law insists on a body before prosecuting anyone for murder and Scott's body was nowhere to be found. Frustrated, Dunn turn ...
As children, two sisters became pawns in a top secret government program to train guerrilla leaders, assassins and information couriers: secret weapons for American intelligence services. Years passed; the sisters grew up, married and had children. But inside lay dormant, hidden skills – weapons training, reconnaissance work, pilot training and more – that kept them ready for the call from the government. Through analysis of CIA files and interv ...
When a down-on-his-luck Vietnam veteran is bludgeoned and stabbed to death in his campsite close to a railroad crossing, Detective Sergeant Bill Palmini has a gut feeling that this is just the tip of the iceberg. Taking command, he swiftly embeds a trusted informant into the shadowy subculture of rail hoppers. What the veteran cop doesn't know, however, is that the murderer is already thousands of miles away and the brutal killing is just o ...
Rookie police officer Paul Echols didn’t know, on that cold April night, that twenty-three-year-old college coed Deborah Sheppard’ s unsolved murder would haunt him and lead him on a twenty-five year chase for a serial killer. Timothy Wayne Krajcir did not fit the criminal psychologist profile of a serial killer. He wasn’t predictable. Krajcir’s victims ranged in age from twenty-one to sixty-five. Some wer ...
