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On November 7th, 1919, Bartow Grover Nix, was hanged for a double murder in Columbus, Georgia. And that wasn't the first time he found himself in hot water over killing. Like many great tragedies, the story is not as clear-cut as it would seem on paper. Questions continue concerning the prosecution of this case. Was it done properly? Was Nix even sane? Nearly a century later, Bartow's great nephew reviewed the case with the fresh eyes and understanding...
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Pretty, young Catherine Harewood is walking to the market early one morning to surprise her father with some fresh mushrooms. As she passes a gambling house, she hears a gunshot and two young men emerge. One man falls dead on the pavement and the other is Henry Felitham, a handsome young man Cathy recognizes from seeing him previously at a dance. Henry is holding a smoking pistol in his hand. This incident propels the proper young Catherine into a...
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Un uomo viene avvistato sulla spiaggia di Chesil, la testa appoggiata contro l'argine. Da lontano, sembra che si stia godendo un po' di tranquillità al mare. Il giorno dopo viene ritrovato morto. Indossa un abito elegante, una tenuta troppo elegante per una giornata sulla spiaggia. È stato ucciso oppure si è suicidato? E perché nessuno si presenta per reclamare il suo corpo?
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This true story begins on Valentine's Day, 1961. 14 years old, Claudette Carolyn Covey went missing from Hondo, Texas. On Halloween evening, 1961, Claudette's remains were discovered eight miles from town in a field. She had been shot twice in the head. From the beginning, town folks believed that she was murdered by the corrupt sheriff or his 18-year-old son, whom she was dating. Because of the corrupt sheriff's influence, no one was ever charged...
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La oscuridad llega a esta pequeña ciudad de la costa, donde una familia encuentra una sobreviviente de un secuestro a la que han abandonado creyéndola muerta en una vinera. La mujer está desnuda y tiene un collar hecho a mano con marcas distinguidas. La situación empeora cuando empiezan a aparecer cadáveres de mujeres, todas con marcas similares en el cuerpo. El asesino deja claves en todas sus víctimas para jugar con las autoridades en este...
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This is how it all began, the story that captivated the Nation and became one of the most Infamous Crimes of the Century. This was the story of Caylee Marie Anthony, a beautiful child taken way too early. When all was said and done, nobody paid for the crime, nobody was incarcerated or accused, and Nobody knew the truth. Or did they?
There was a story that went UN-published of a young gentleman who became deeply attached to the case that just might...
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⚠ Nightmare Chronicles: Immerse Yourself in Gripping True Crime Horror Stories, Unraveling Enigmatic Vanishings and Murders! ⚠ Satisfy Your Curiosity with the Darkest Realities of Humanity! Dive into Gripping True Crime Horror Stories, Unraveling Unexplainable Secrets and Enigmatic Enigmas!Unleash Your Inner Detective: Immerse Yourself in Mysterious True Crime Horror Stories and Master Your Investigating Skills! Unveil the Secrets of these unsolvable,...
8) Ted Bundy, el Asesino Carismático: Los Escalofriantes Actos de uno de los Asesinos Seriales más F
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¿Has escuchado o leído el nombre miles de veces sin saber toda su historia? ¿Te gustaría conocer todo lo que se esconde detrás de este psicópata? ¿Hay manera de evitar a otros individuos como Ted Bundy de acuerdo a la psicología? Entonces sigue leyendo… "El mal está sólo en tu mente y no en lo externo. La mente pura siempre ve solamente lo bueno en cada cosa, pero la mala se encarga de inventar el mal." - Goethe Theodore Robert Bundy...
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THE GABARDINE GANG: Power and Betrayal in Hartford's Mob Scene by Kevin B. DiBacco is a riveting tale of crime, family, and redemption in the gritty underworld of the 1950s and 1960s Hartford, Connecticut. Geno DiBacco led the notorious Gabardine Gang, a small-time mob that ruled the city. Geno's son, Kevin, takes you on a visceral journey through his childhood and adolescence, revealing the gang's illegal activities, his father's dramatic descent,...
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On Mother's Day 1949, someone killed a high school girl in a church kitchen. The janitor found her body the next morning…. brutally beaten… strangled… lying in a pool of blood.Baffled police got an anonymous phone tip to go ask her classmate Lee Goode Scott, an Eagle Scout who sang in the church choir. Officers went to the school and called him to the principal's office. The minute they saw the scratches and deep cut on his face, they knew they...
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Hemlock Press
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2024.
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Every mother's worst nightmare... When nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall vanished from her bed one summer night, her disappearance tore her family apart. Now, sixteen years later, her mother Helena is found dead, her husband by her side. It looks like a straightforward murder-suicide but DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent soon discover nothing about this case is straightforward. The Marshalls have been keeping secrets, and they aren't alone. Josh...
12) What we hide
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Tupelo Grove novel volume 1
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Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"The only hope they've got is each other, and they're going to have to put their past behind them if they're going to stay alive long enough to uncover all that's hidden"--
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Julia Bird mysteries volume 1
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Bookouture
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Julia Bird has left London for a fresh start in a picturesque Cotswolds village, and the rustic charm and cosy fireplaces of her little cottage are everything she'd hoped for. But when she tears down the old garden shed to make way for a chicken coop, she unearths much more than she'd bargained for... the body of a young woman, apparently buried for decades, thrusting Julia into a baffling mystery. With only one copper on the case in Berrywick, Julia...
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Holiday House
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2024.
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Bettina Holland, known for being the daughter of The Smiley Face Killer, confronts her past and questions her beliefs about her father's guilt when a series of copycat murders emerge, as she teams up with Eugenia, the mortician's daughter, to unmask a murderer closer to home than she ever imagined.
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Julia Bird mysteries volume 2
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Bookouture
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2022.
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English
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"Julia Bird had imagined the quiet of rural life would be soothing after years in the city, but she finds she can't just sit still. Determined to throw herself into village activities, she joins the library just in time to attend a talk by celebrated local author Vincent Andrews. Charming, devilishly handsome and talented, Vincent teases the crowd with a reading from his forthcoming novel. Set in a village bearing strange similarities to Berrywick,...
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Julia Bird mysteries volume 4
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Bookouture
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Julia Bird loves the village pub quiz, but it seems one of her team won't make it to the next round alive... On the first Tuesday of each month, Julia Bird and her Agatha Quizteam teammates take part in Berrywick's village pub quiz. They take it seriously - what's the point of playing, after all, if you aren't in it to win it? But it seems someone connected with the quiz night has taken the competition to a whole new level when Lilian, the local...
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Julia Bird mysteries volume 5
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Bookouture
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2024.
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English
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"The joyous crowd applauds as the happy couple strides down the aisle. This Cotswolds country wedding has everything - friends and family, beautiful flowers and... murder? When Julia Bird's ex-husband Peter and his lovely partner Christopher decide to get married in Berrywick, Julia is delighted - after all, who doesn't love a country wedding? Little does Julia know that normally calm and collected Christopher will turn into a full-on Groomzilla -...
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