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Author: Susan Hatters Friedman, M.D.
Publisher: American Psychiatric Pub
Published: 2018-08-20
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 0873182227
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book offers a unique framework for examining the various types of family murder -- delving into the commonalities, the differences, and society's misconceptions and providing readers with a comprehensive guide to begin to understand these tragedies.
Author: Kent Whitaker
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2008-09-23
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 1439139989
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the tragic story of Kent Whitaker's heart-wrenching journey toward forgiveness and faith after the brutal murder of his wife and one of his sons. Straight from the headlines comes an incredible true story of a son's treachery. For the first time, readers are offered inside access to the emotional drama that went on behind the scenes. At the core is the remarkable healing power of forgiveness, demonstrated by Kent Whitaker, which shows how the survivors of such atrocious events can still forgive those who have permanently damaged their lives. One evening, the Whitaker family returned home after dinner, celebrating a son's impending graduation from college. On opening the front door, they faced a gunman lying in wait. The gunman opened fire, instantly killing the younger son and Kent's wife, leaving Kent and his older son lying wounded until police and ambulances arrived. While recovering in the hospital, Kent resolved in his heart to forgive whoever was responsible for the deaths of his wife and son. Over the next few weeks, it was discovered that the whole murder plot had been orchestrated by the surviving son -- whom Kent had unknowingly forgiven. After a trial that resulted in a death sentence for his son, Kent emerged from this harrowing ordeal to share their astonishing journey toward forgiveness and redemption.
Author: Burl Barer
Publisher: WildBlue Press
Published: 2016-06-21
Total Pages: 443
ISBN-13: 1942266537
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Now updated, the New York Times bestseller about a horrifying Alaska massacre and a controversial trial: “Barer writes true crime at its best.” —Jack Olsen On March 15, 1987, police in Anchorage, Alaska, arrived at a horrific scene of carnage. In a modest downtown apartment, they found Nancy Newman’s brutally beaten corpse sprawled across her bed. In other rooms were the bodies of her eight-year-old daughter, Melissa, and her three-year-old, Angie, whose throat was slit from ear to ear. Both Nancy and Melissa had been sexually assaulted. After an intense investigation, the police focused on a principal suspect: twenty-three-year-old Kirby Anthoney, a troubled drifter who had turned to his uncle, Nancy’s husband John, for help and a place to stay. Little did John know that the nephew he took in was a murderous sociopath. These shocking, tragic events stunned Anchorage residents and motivated the Major Crimes Unit of the city’s police department to get everything right. Feeling the heat, Kirby bolted for the Canadian border. But he was caught in time—and the cops and a tenacious prosecutor began a long, bitter battle to convict him, up against an equally tough defense lawyer and the egomaniacal defendant himself. The tale reached its climax in a controversial trial, where for the first time an FBI profiler was allowed to testify and the pre-DNA science of allotyping was presented to a jury. But justice would not be served until after the psychopathic Kirby Anthoney took the stand in his own defense—and showed the world the monster he truly was.
Author: M. T. Edvardsson
Publisher: Celadon Books
Published: 2019-06-25
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 1250204429
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Now a Netflix Limited Series "...A compulsively readable tour de force." —The Wall Street Journal New York Times Book Review recommends M.T. Edvardsson’s A Nearly Normal Family and lauds it as a “page-turner” that forces the reader to confront “the compromises we make with ourselves to be the people we believe our beloveds expect.” (NYTimes Book Review Summer Reading Issue) M.T. Edvardsson’s A Nearly Normal Family is a gripping legal thriller that forces the reader to consider: How far would you go to protect the ones you love? In this twisted narrative of love and murder, a horrific crime makes a seemingly normal family question everything they thought they knew about their life—and one another. Eighteen-year-old Stella Sandell stands accused of the brutal murder of a man almost fifteen years her senior. She is an ordinary teenager from an upstanding local family. What reason could she have to know a shady businessman, let alone to kill him? Stella’s father, a pastor, and mother, a criminal defense attorney, find their moral compasses tested as they defend their daughter, while struggling to understand why she is a suspect. Told in an unusual three-part structure, A Nearly Normal Family asks the questions: How well do you know your own children? How far would you go to protect them?
Author: Stephen Singular
Publisher: Avon Books
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9780380764136
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Lyn Riddle
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780786015511
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Presents the true account of twenty-one-year-old Jimmy Robertson, who, after becoming immersed in the world of drugs and crime, murdered his parents.
Author: Jerry Bledsoe
Publisher: Diversion Books
Published: 2014-05-18
Total Pages: 631
ISBN-13: 162681287X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The New York Times–bestselling author of Bitter Blood weaves “a powerful account” of greed that led to an unspeakable crime (The New York Times Book Review). As they slept in their North Carolina home, wealthy Lieth Von Stein and his wife Bonnie suffered a vicious assault with a knife and a baseball bat. Bonnie barely survived. Lieth did not. The crime seemed totally baffling until police followed a trail that led to the charming stepson, Chris Pritchard, and his brilliant, drug-using, Dungeons and Dragons–playing friends at North Carolina State University. “Haunting . . . Addictive, chilling and a masterpiece of reportage,” Blood Games is the true story of depraved young minds and a son’s gruesome greed turned to horrifyingly tragedy (Patricia Cornwell). Jerry Bledsoe masterfully reconstructs the bloody crime and its aftermath as he takes us into the secret twisted hearts of three young murderers. “Mr. Bledsoe goes straight to the bigger issues.” —The New York Times Book Review “In Mr. Bledsoe’s hands, a mega-load of inert facts becomes a human story of hurricane force.” —The News & Observer “Devastating . . . A brilliant account.” —Publishers Weekly
Author: Ernie Dorling
Publisher:
Published: 2004-02-01
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9781414048062
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Set in the year 2025, On the Inside takes off inside the space-travel ship Marvel. There, vacationer Mary Robbins of the United States is introduced, and the tale of Marvel's existence illuminates the new relationship between Great Britain, Japan, South Africa, and the United States each country belonging to the Unified Nations Special Galaxy Forces, commonly known as the UNSGF. Along with four accomplished space pilots, aboard the ship are Mary's husband George, and one couple from each of the three remaining unified nations, each having won a place on Marvel's maiden voyage to QSSSTII, a planet located in the Galaxy of Rayne where, to their surprise, the extraterrestrial life form exists on the inside of the celestial body. Intertwined in the fantastical Outer Space vacation, which comes with all the trimmings of a first-class hotel, tours of museums, palaces and amusement parks, is a sudden rebellion by an extraterrestrial renegade group that brings forth discord between Queen Trr of QSSSTII and Queen Blaze of Planet Passion. The alien conflict adversely affects the earthling vacationers, at which point the attention-grabbing relationship between Trr and the UNSGF surfaces, leading a surreptitious state of affairs to a bizarre and ambiguous conclusion.
Author: Dennis McAuliffe
Publisher: Council Oak Books
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9781571780836
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Murder mystery, family memoir and spiritual journey combined, this story unearths family secrets and ultimately exposes a systematic murder plot.
Author: Truman Capote
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 2013-02-19
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 0812994388
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time From the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Truman Capote—also available are Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Other Voices, Other Rooms (in one volume), Portraits and Observations, and The Complete Stories Truman Capote’s masterpiece, In Cold Blood, created a sensation when it was first published, serially, in The New Yorker in 1965. The intensively researched, atmospheric narrative of the lives of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and of the two men, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, who brutally killed them on the night of November 15, 1959, is the seminal work of the “new journalism.” Perry Smith is one of the great dark characters of American literature, full of contradictory emotions. “I thought he was a very nice gentleman,” he says of Herb Clutter. “Soft-spoken. I thought so right up to the moment I cut his throat.” Told in chapters that alternate between the Clutter household and the approach of Smith and Hickock in their black Chevrolet, then between the investigation of the case and the killers’ flight, Capote’s account is so detailed that the reader comes to feel almost like a participant in the events.
