Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=3295&N=3+6203 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1742035 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731330 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1734768 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1693771 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696408 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1734641 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1534503 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1628998 Shares the stories of lesser-known serial killers including Mad Sculptor Robert Irwin, Tell-Tale Heart Killer Peter Robinson, and Man of Two Lives Edward H. Ruloff, in an text that evaluates their mental statuses and motivations. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1662218 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1624037 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731259 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1576243 Covers the child sexual abuse scandal at Penn State that rocked the world of collegiate sports, surveying all the key participants, as well as the climate that allowed the alleged crimes to occur. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1577694 First discovered in 1930, the diamonds of Sierra Leone have funded one of the most savage rebel campaigns in modern history. These blood diamonds are smuggled out of West Africa and sold to legitimate diamond merchants in London, Antwerp, and New York. This book is the gripping tale of how the diamond smuggling works, how the rebel war has effectively destroyed Sierra Leone and its people, and how the policies of the diamond industry--institutionalized in the 1880s by the De Beers cartel--have allowed it to happen. The author traces the deadly trail of these diamonds and shows how the repercussions of diamond smuggling are felt far beyond the borders of the poor and war-ridden country of Africa. Updated with new material from Campbells return visit to Sierra Leone in 2011, Blood diamonds remains just as timely and important as ever--cover p. [4]. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667990 Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker and former private detective Errol Morris examines the nature of evidence and proof in the infamous Jeffrey MacDonald murder case. In 1979 MacDonald was convicted of the brutal 1970 murder of his wife and two children, and remains in prison today. Since then a number of bestselling books, including Joe McGinnisss Fatal Vision, and a blockbuster television miniseries have attempted to solve and explain the MacDonald case. Here, Morris, who has been investigating the case for nearly two decades, reveals that almost everything we know about it is ultimately flawed, and an innocent man may be behind bars. In a reinvention of the true-crime thriller, Morris looks behind the haze of myth. Drawing on court transcripts, lab reports, and original interviews, he brings a complete forty-year history back to life and allows the reader to explore the case as a detective might by confronting the evidence as if for the first time.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1307116 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1310306 Art theft is one of the most profitable criminal enterprises in the world, exceeding $6 billion dollars in losses to galleries and art collectors annually. In Stealing Rembrandts, authors Anthony M. Amore and Tom Mashberg reveal the actors behind the major art heists of the Dutch Master in the last century. Through thefts around the world--from Stockholm to Boston, Worcester to Ohio--the authors track daring entries into and escapes from the worlds most renowned museums, and robbers who coolly walk off with multimillion dollar paintings. Stealing Rembrandts is a dramatic and brilliant account that lets you peek into the alluring and little-known criminal art world-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1392874 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1274982 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1373859 Celebrated writer and contrarian Bill James has voraciously read true crime throughout his life. Now he takes readers on an epic journey from Lizzie Borden to the Lindbergh baby, from the Black Dahlia to O. J. Simpson, explaining how crimes have been committed, investigated, prosecuted and written about, and how that has profoundly influenced our culture over the last few centuries - even if we havent always taken notice. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1374155 In 2002, NASA fellow Thad Roberts hatched the most daring heist ever conceived: steal NASAs precious moon rocks. With the help of his girlfriend and another female cohort, both NASA interns, Roberts successfully stole the rocks. However, selling the invaluable stones proved to be Roberts downfall. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1307214 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1212465 In September 2005, Liz Seccuro received an apology letter from the man who had raped her twenty-two years earlier. The rape, which occurred when she was a freshman at the University of Virginia, was reported to the campus police, but their inquiry led nowhere. The man accused of raping her left the university soon after, and Seccuro tried to put the incident behind her, but like all survivors of trauma, the memory was never far from the surface. The letter brought it all back. Seccuro began an e-mail correspondence with her rapist to try to understand what happened, and why. Then she found the courage to do what should have been done all those years earlier--prosecute him. But once proceedings began, she found that what she thought occurred at that frat party was only the tip of the iceberg.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1224520 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1306373 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1243690 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1393008 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1274873 The founder of the Bring Sean Home Foundation advocacy group for parents of internationally abducted children describes how his Brazilian wife unexpectedly returned to her native country and refused to share custody of their son, triggering an international controversy. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1392829 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1486861 The sexually violent murder of twenty-one-year-old British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy, in November 2007, became an international sensation when one of her housemates, twenty-year-old Seattle native Amanda Knox, was charged with the murder. This is a mesmerizing literary investigation of the crime, the trial, the machinations of Italian justice, and the clash of cultures in one of central Italys most beloved cities. 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=1293941 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1200780 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1148571 Documents the efforts of the Vidocq Society, an elite trio of gifted investigators, to solve such notorious cold cases as those of JonBenet Ramsey, the Butcher of Cleveland, and Jack the Ripper, and details their work with the worlds top forensic specialists. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1129325 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1148830 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1185502 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1136993 Julio Scherer Garca centra toda su lucidez periodstica en las vctimas del delito que ms ha daado a la sociedad mexicana. Para recrear los hechos que presenta se vale de sus experiencias personales, de situaciones y testimonios que l mismo ha reporteado, as como de partes sustanciales de los expedientes. Inicia con la crnica del secuestro de su hijo, que de pronto lo convierte en el padre angustiado que en una sola noche debe reunir el dinero del rescate (si no lo entrega al amanecer matamos a su hijo). Enseguida relata cmo l mismo fue secuestrado por militares guatemaltecos cuando cubra la guerra de guerrillas centroamericana, por lo que sabe muy bien qu significa encontrarse a merced de los plagiarios (te voy a hacer mierda comunista hijoeputa). Estas dos experiencias personales apuntalan la narracin de todos los casos presentados y define el tono de alta intensidad y dramatismo que irradia el libro entero. Entre datos duros sobre este delito extremo, declaraciones y puntos de vista de diversos actores (autoridades, expertos, periodistas), se suceden las historias de las bandas y sus vctimas, todas ellas desarrolladas con la vehemencia y la habilidad literaria que slo encontramos en los mejores thrillers. Aunque en estas tramas no hay ficcin, sino registros inteligentes y precisos de la realidad ms cruda e inhumana. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=986168 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1114809 Details the brutal murder of British college student Meredith Kercher, who was stabbed to death by her housemate, American honor student Amanda Knox, while both were studying in Perugia, Italy. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1112818 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1170029 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1187537 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668505 This collection of case histories examines hundreds of trials and death sentences carried out by the law of the Wild West. The legal executions, most of them by hanging, provoke discussion over the controversial, modern view of the death sentence as well as the evolving jurisprudence of the western U.S. territories--Provided by publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1618983 A comprehensive reference to unsolved murders, missing people, assassinations, and robberies from around the world. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1020925 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1022687 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1041567 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1013027 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=691075 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=739740 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=629458 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1113282 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=721457 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=693969 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=729991 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=702308 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=735539 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=712844 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=592581 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=641070 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=624883 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=704776 A history of the Phoenix Police Department from the perspective of Barney Barnhart, an officer from 1968 until 2006. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=656835 From establishing identity to the close detective work of toxicologists and ballistics experts, Postmortem details the procedures that click into place once the victim of an unnatural or suspicious death is found. Color photographs and illustrations show the entire process to determine the why and how of an unnatural death: investigation of the death scene, external and internal autopsy procedures and, finally, establishing the cause and manner of death. Includes details of the latest technological and scientific advances that help solve mysterious deaths. Case studies of 10 famous (and infamous) deaths highlight how the scientific and technical investigations play out in real life. Profiles describe the roles and responsibilities of the postmortem team of experts, from the on-scene photographer to the autopsy technicians and the forensic anthropologist. Book jacket.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=641067 In 1977, Terri Jentz and her Yale roommate, Shayna Weiss, make a cross-country bike trip. They pitch a tent in the desert of central Oregon. As they are sleeping, a man in a pickup truck deliberately runs over the tent, then attacks them with an ax. The crime is reported in newspapers across the country. No one is ever arrested. Both women survive, but Shayna has amnesia, while Terri is left alone with memories of the attack--their friendship is shattered. Fifteen years later, Terri returns to the town and makes an extraordinary discovery: the violence of that night is as present for the community as it is for her. Slowly, her interviews with the townspeople yield a revelation: many say they know who did it, and he is living freely in their midst. Terri then sets out to discover the truth, and ultimately finds herself face-to-face with the alleged psychopath.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=583967 Maltreatment of Patients in Nursing Homes: There Is No Safe Place examines the dark side of nursing homes, where not every employee has the commitment of Mother Teresa. This groundbreaking book applies criminological theory to help develop practical methods of controlling abuse and presents the results of the first and only nationwide study on the theft of patients belongings, a form of abuse too often ignored by the nursing home industry.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=637873 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=682816 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=644193 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=630388 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=617628 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=668027 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=614258 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=689251 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=610225 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=650329 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1734785 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=617610 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=583269 Race and Crime provides a compelling analysis of the issues of race and crime in both a historical and contemporary context. Each of the eight chapters presents information on race and ethnicity and their impact on the administration of justice. Experiences of racial and ethnic groups (Asians, Blacks, Latinos/Latinas, Native Americans, and Whites) in America are examined, focusing primarily on their experiences in the criminal justice system. Unique coverage in this text includes an overview of the history of collecting crime data; historical, contemporary, and nontraditional theoretical perspectives; the history of race and policing, the courts, sentencing, and corrections; and an overview of the historical context of race effects in juvenile justice. The book also provides in-depth analyses of relevant race and crime issues including hate/bias crimes, racial profiling, sentencing disparities, wrongful convictions, felon disenfranchisement, political prisoners, disproportionate minority confinement, minority female delinquency, juveniles and the death penalty, and delinquency prevention. Race and Crime will be valuable core text for those taking courses in Race, Ethnicity, and Crime. Readers will have a greater appreciation for the similar historical experiences of most American racial and ethnic groups and will better comprehend the complex interplay between race and the administration of criminal justice.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=608627 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=602792 By the end of 1934, Melvin Purvis was arguably the most famous man in America, besides President Roosevelt. Just thirty-one years old, he presided over the neophyte FBIs celebrated sweep of the great Public Enemies of the American Depression: John Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson. America finally had its hero in the war on crime, and the face of all the conquering G-men belonged to Melvin Purvis. Yet these triumphs sowed the seeds of his eventual downfall. With each new capture, each new headline touting Purvis as the scourge of gangsters, one mans implacable resentment grew. J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI, was immensely envious of the agent who had been his friend and protege, and vowed that Melvin Purvis would be brought down. A vendetta began that would not end even with Purviss death. For more than three decades Hoover trampled Purviss reputation, questioned his courage and competence, and tried to erase his name from all records of the FBIs greatest triumphs. Alston Purvis is Melvins sole surviving son. With the benefit of a unique family archive of documents, new testimony from colleagues and friends of Melvin Purvis, and witnesses to the events of 1934, he has produced an authentic new telling of the gangster era, seen from the perspective of the pursuers. He also wrestles with the ambiguous legacy Melvin Purvis left behind, weaving into this account a moving father-son memoir. By finally setting the record straight about his father, he sheds new light on what some might call Hoovers original sin - a personal vendetta that is one of the earliest and clearest examples of Hoovers bitter, destructive paranoia.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1053337 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=531941 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=546722 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=583189 Joey OShay is not the real name of the undercover narcotics agent who works from a nondescript office in a city in the center of the country. But Joey OShay exists, as do the nearly three hundred takedowns he has orchestrated with imagination and obsessive precision, graduating from marijuana to speed to cocaine to Mexican black-tar heroin. He has never taken a hit, but the years have eroded his certainty about the meaning of his work and the purposes to which hes bent his unusual gift. Yet he remains a predators predator who cant stop himself from setting in motion the next big guy. This time its more than $50 million of high-grade Colombian heroin, in a transaction that penetrates so deep into the drug world that soon it has federal agents buzzing from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., to New York City. They listen in as the drama of supply and demand and desire that OShay has called into being gathers mass and momentum, landing hundreds of new leads in their laps. When they have had their fill, the bust goes down, in a clatter of broken lives shattering when Joey OShay pulls the trapdoor under their dreams. And still OShay fights on, in a murky and unforgiving landscape thick with the shadows of those he has done deals with - and doomed.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=584172 In the predawn gloom of a February day in 1994, two thieves entered the National Gallery in Oslo. They snatched one of the worlds most famous paintings, Edvard Munchs The Scream, and fled with their $72 million trophy. The thieves made sure the world was watching: the Winter Olympics, in Lillehammer, began that same morning. Baffled and humiliated, the Norwegian police called on the worlds greatest art detective, a half-English, half-American undercover cop named Charley Hill. Edward Dolnick takes us inside the art underworld. The trail leads high and low, and the cast ranges from titled aristocrats to thick-necked thugs. Lord Bath, resplendent in ponytail and velvet jacket, presides over a 9,000-acre estate. David Duddin, a 300-pound fence who once tried to sell a stolen Rembrandt, spins exuberant tales of his misdeeds. We meet Munch, too, a haunted misfit who spends his evenings drinking in the Black Piglet Cafe and his nights feverishly trying to capture in paint the visions in his head. The most compelling character of all is Charley Hill, an ex-soldier, a would-be priest, and a complicated mix of brilliance, foolhardiness, and charm. The hunt for The Scream will either cap his career and rescue one of the worlds best-known paintings or end in a fiasco that will dog him forever.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=674570 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=609933 Dangerous Doses exposes the dark side of Americas pharmaceutical trade. Stolen, compromised, and counterfeit medicine is increasingly making its way into a poorly regulated distribution system, where it reaches unsuspecting patients who stake their lives on its effectiveness. Katherine Ebans exploration of Americas secret ring of drug counterfeiters takes us to Florida, where investigators follow the trail of medicine stolen in a seemingly minor break-in as it funnels into a sprawling national network of drug polluters. Their pursuit stretches from a strip joint in South Miami to the halls of Congress, as they battle entrenched political interests and uncover an increasing threat to Americas health. Eban rides along with the team of dedicated investigators (who call themselves the Five Horsemen of the Apocalypse) and tells the stories of people whose lives were devastated by contaminated drugs. Eban has uncovered a growing threat to Americas drug supply - it is homegrown, secret, and so pervasive it will be difficult to eradicate.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=602729 The mid-1800s through the turn of the twentieth century were lawless times in young Colorado. Resident killer Jack Slade was such an enigma-both gentleman and murderer-that he charmed both Mark Twain and Buffalo Bill. Marshal Jim Clark enjoyed having a little fun on the side, donning disguises to rob miners. Elegant swindler Lou Blonger made a huge fortune off poor suckers. And Gertrude Patterson shot and killed her husband in broad daylight ... but was found innocent nonetheless. Book jacket.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=644654 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=539625 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=583944 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=552892 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=539628 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=588205 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=546688 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=531940 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=501104 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=539024 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=543966 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=470699