Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Ne=6660&N=3+6585+6643 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1734637 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729595 Chronicles the criminal career of the gangster who provided a protection racket against drug lords, ran illegal gambling, robbed banks, and served as an informant for the FBI until going into hiding for sixteen years. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1734641 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1751114 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1753154 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668100 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1598006 From a hunchbacked dwarf to a paranoid poet assassin, a history of Victorian England as seen through the numerous assassination attempts on Queen Victoria. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1674791 Examines the political life of former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, including how he was elected, the corruption within his office, and the evidence presented during his federal trial that resulted in a fourteen year prison term. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1623963 A harrowing narrative of murder and secrets, revenge and heroism in the City of Angels. Lieberman chronicles the true story of the secretive police unit that waged an anything-goes war to drive Mickey Cohen and other hoodlums from Los Angeles after WWII. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667983 Timothy Masters was a lonely, troubled teenager with a penchant for gory artwork when he first saw Peggy Lee Hettrick, her dead, mutilated body nearly frozen in the early morning of Fort Collins, Colorado. Not believing it could really be a dead body, thinking he was the victim of yet another prank by his abusive classmates, the fifteen-year-old didnt go to the police, but they came to him. So began a decade-long investigation led by a relentless detective who was sure that Masters was the killer, even without a shred of physical evidence. Against all reason, a conspiracy of silence and circumstantial evidence eventually put Masters behind bars. Only the determination of a lone investigator who believed the young man was innocent would reveal the shocking truth, and free Masters after ten years in prison. This is the compelling true story of one life ended in blood and murder, one life ruined by coincidence and prejudice, and justice long denied but finally found.--Publishers description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667996 This is a recounting of the Meredith Kercher case, from her murder to the acquittal of Raffaele Sollecito and Amanda Knox. Shortly after 12:30 p.m. on November 2, 2007, Italian police were called to the Perugia home of twenty-one-year-old British student Meredith Kercher. They found her body on the floor under a beige quilt. Her throat had been cut. Based on four years of reporting and access to the complete case files, and hundreds of first hand interviews, this book takes readers on a journey behind the scenes of the investigation, as the author the drama of the trials and appeal hearings he lived through. Four days later, the prosecutor jailed Merediths roommate, American student Amanda Knox, and Raffaele Sollecito, her Italian boyfriend. He also jailed Rudy Guede, an Ivory Coast drifter. Four years later Knox and Sollecito were acquitted amid chaotic scenes in front of the worlds media. Including exclusive interviews with Merediths friends and other key sources, this book reveals how the Italian dream turned into a nightmare. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1608949 When Caylee Anthony was reported missing in Orlando, Florida, in July 2008, the public spent the next three years following the investigation and the eventual trial of her mother, Casey Anthony. On July 5, 2011, the case that captured headlines worldwide exploded when, against all odds, defense attorney Jose Baez delivered one of the biggest legal upsets in American history: a no--guilty verdict. In this book, Baez shares secrets the defense knew but has not disclosed to anyone until now and frankly reveals his experiences throughout the entire case, discovering the evidence, meeting Casey Anthony for the first time, being with George and Cindy Anthony day after day, leading defense strategy meetings, and spending weeks in the judges chambers. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1299084 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1213190 Nine days before Christmas 1998, thirty-two-year-old Ronda Reynolds was preparing to visit her family for the holidays. Rondas second marriage was dissolving and her career as a pioneering Washington State Trooper had ended, but she told her mother she was optimistic about starting over. At 6:20 that morning, Ron Reynolds called 911 and said his wife had committed suicide. But her mother, Barb Thompson, never for one minute believed it ... (Bestseller) http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1307128 On Long Island, a farmer finds a duck pond turned red with blood. On the Lower East Side, two boys playing at a pier discover a floating human torso wrapped tightly in oilcloth. Blueberry pickers near Harlem stumble upon neatly severed limbs in an overgrown ditch. Clues to a horrifying crime are turning up all over New York, but the police are baffled: There are no witnesses, no motives, no suspects. The grisly finds that began on the afternoon of June 26, 1897, plunged detectives headlong into the eras most baffling murder mystery. Seized upon by battling media moguls Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, the case became a publicity circus. Reenactments of the murder were staged in Times Square, armed reporters lurked in the streets of Hells Kitchen in pursuit of suspects, and an unlikely trio, a hard luck cop, a cub reporter, and an eccentric professor, all raced to solve the crime. What emerged was a sensational love triangle and an even more sensational trial: an unprecedented capital case hinging on circumstantial evidence around a victim whom the police couldnt identify with certainty, and who the defense claimed wasnt even dead. This book is a tale of America during the Gilded Age and a colorful re creation of the tabloid wars that have dominated media to this day. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1372757 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1427564 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1335422 Relates the full, twenty-seven-year story behind the abduction and murder of Adam Walsh, the six-year-old son of Americas Most Wanted host John Walsh, as well as the decades-long search for the boys elusive killer. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1247248 With high drama and stunning detail, relates the infamous crime and punishment of French serial killer Joseph Vacher, interweaving the story of how Dr. Alexandre Lacassagne, Emile Fourquet and colleagues developed forensic science as we know it. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1115128 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1088158 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=989282 Jack Ballentine became a Phoenix police officer in 1978 and quickly rose to become one of the worlds most successful undercover operatives. His specialty: posing as a hit man. None of the people who hired him had any inkling that he was actually a cop, and he obtained 24 convictions out of 24 indictments on murder conspiracy charges. He worked with criminals of all sorts, from vengeful spouses and partners to the criminally insane, with one thing in common: the desire to have someone killed. In assuming an alternate identity and developing a reputation among the Phoenix underground--bikers, strippers, junkies, and thugs--Ballentine developed an intricate network of sources who kept him extremely busy. All the while, he strove for the semblance of a normal life with a new wife and stepson. His story is a unique look at how law enforcement delves into the heart of the criminal world.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1061273 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=738523 In 2004, Jenn Corbin, mother of two and wife of a successful dentist, was found dead in her home with a gunshot wound to her head. Neither her family nor the county sheriff believed she would end her own life, and so began a harrowing search for the truth. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=683813 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=659987 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=655944 Over the course of eighteen months in the mid-1980s, Jonathan Jay Pollard, an intelligence analyst working in the U.S. Naval Investigative Services Anti-Terrorist Alert Center, systematically stole highly sensitive national security secrets from almost every major intelligence-gathering agency in the United States. He sold to Israel more than one million pages of classified material - enough to fill a six-by-ten foot room stacked six feet high. No other spy in the history of the United States has stolen so many secrets, so highly classified, in such a short period of time. Pollard was caught, arrested, and sentenced to life in prison. But because his case never went to trial - and so much of the information surrounding it remains classified - many questions have arisen about it. Most of the books and articles that have been written about Pollard denounces his life sentence as unjust. This is the other side of the story. Ronald J. Olive was the assistant special agent in charge of counterintelligence in the Washington office of the Naval Investigative Service who led the whirlwind investigation against Pollard, and garnered the confession that led to his arrest in November 1985. Here is Olives account from deep inside the espionage investigation that gives details of Pollards confession immediately following his arrest and describes Pollards behavior before and during the time suspicion about his activities was mounting. Revealed are countless other details that have never before been made public. Calling the Pollard story an extreme example of a counterintelligence failure, Olive writes that mistaken assumptions and leadership failures enabled Pollard to ransack Americas defense intelligence long after he should have been fired. The author hopes the vital insights his book offers will serve as a lesson in history, prevent similar problems in the future, and provide an antidote to the uncertainty that has fueled speculation, rumor, and lies surrounding the Pollard case.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=613131 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=582485 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=32245 For O.J. Simpson to get away with murder, an innocent cop - a brilliant detective - had to he destroyed. That was the cynical strategy of the Simpson Dream Team, and it worked. But as certainty about Simpsons guilt grows, so does outrage about the scapegoating of Mark Fuhrman. Now the former LAPD detective tells his side of the story in a damning expose. The veteran detective gives the inside story of why and how Simpsons interrogation was bungled; how police criminalists made previously unrevealed errors that torpedoed the prosecutions case; why Marcia Clark foolishly suppressed evidence of an affair between Ron and Nicole; and why Clark refused to call a key police witness who could have corroborated Fuhrmans testimony and blown away the defense teams claim of planted evidence. Fuhrmans own hand-drawn maps of the crime scene and his reconstruction of the murders leave no doubt about what really happened on June 12, 1994. New revelations about the incompetence and corruption that pervaded the Trial of the Century will exonerate this decent, loyal detective, the innocent cop who was sacrificed so a rich, guilty celebrity could go free.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=237278