Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=3295&N=3+6585+4294966740 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1674953 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694357 California billionaire Jonah Shacknais eight-year-old son dies falling off a balcony in his mansion. Several days later, Jonahs live-in girlfriend, Rebecca, is found hanging, nude, with her hands tied behind her. A police investigation rules her death a suicide-however, this seems unlikely to everyone who knew her. There are several suspects in this case: Jonahs brother, Adam, who arrived the day after Jonahs son fell. There are Jonahs two ex-wives; the second being Maxs mother. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696411 A criminal defense attorney recounts his determined effort to track down and apprehend the people responsible for his brothers murder, revealing how when the case was on the verge of going cold he risked his career and life to discern the truth from contacts on both sides of the law. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1739379 Powerful account of the brutal slaying of a Kansas family by two young ex-convicts. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715283 On a sunny May morning in 1998 in Cortez, Colorado, three desperados in a stolen truck opened fire on the town cop, shooting him twenty times; then they blasted their way past dozens of police cars and disappeared into 10,000 square miles of the harshest wilderness terrain on the North American continent. This is the first in-depth account of this sensational case. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712903 Lucie Blackman--tall, blond, twenty-one years old--stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000 and disappeared. The following winter, her remains were found buried in a seaside cave. The seven months in between had seen a massive search for the missing girl involving Japanese policemen, British private detectives, and Lucies desperate but bitterly divided parents. Richard Lloyd Parry, an award-winning foreign correspondent, followed the case from the beginning. Over the course of a decade, he traveled to four continents to interview those connected with the story, assiduously followed the court proceedings, and won unique access to the Japanese detectives who investigated the case. Ultimately he earned the respect of the victims family and delved deep into the mind and background of the man accused of the crime--Joji Obara, described by the judge as unprecedented and extremely evil. The result is a book at once thrilling and revelatory. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1613395 Chelsea King was a popular high school senior, an outstanding achiever determined to make a difference. Fourteen-year-old Amber Dubois loved books and poured her heart into the animals she cared for. Treasured by their families and friends, both girls disappeared in San Diego County, just eight miles and one year apart. The communitys desperate search led authorities to John Albert Gardner, a brutal predator hiding in plain sight. Now Pulitzer-nominated author Caitlin Rother delivers an incisive, heartbreaking true-life thriller that touches our deepest fears. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1615677 The author, a psychic, shares her extraordinary relationship with Ronnie DeFeo, who was convicted of the 1974 murders of his parents and siblings, and provides his account of what happened on the night they died. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1613397 To his parishoners, minister Matt Baker seemed a pious and good man. To his wife, Kari, he as a devoted husband and caring father. Always sunny and vivacious, Kari never questioned their frequent relocations from one small Texas Baptist church to another. Even when tragedy struck, Kari remained strong - until one day, inexplicably, she took her own life. To friends and family, Karis suicide made no sense and they struggled with questions they couldnt answer. Why couldnt Matt hold a job with any one church? Why did he cut off all contact with Karis devastated parents soon after her death? And who was the blond companion he began appearing with just days after the funera? But it would take a team of investigators and dogged determination to bring Matt Bakers dark secret to light - revealing a shocking history of lies, infidelity, cruelty, and sexual obsession that may have led a serial predator cloaded in Gods word to commit murder.--Cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667846 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1674924 A gripping memoir from Amanda Knoxs Italian ex-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, chronicling his relationship with Amanda and the four years they spent in an Italian prison for a crime they did not commit. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1669026 Follows detective Roy West as he reopened the investigation into the brutal murders of Robert Gierse, James Barker, and Robert Hinson--three men who were notorious womanizers and who had more enemies than friends. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1716011 New Brunswick, New Jersey, Thursday, September 14, 1922. Reverend Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills take a stroll in the towns park in the evening. Shots are heard. 2 days later, their bodies are found laying on the ground very neatly next to each other...Reverend Hall, himself married, was in an open secret of an affair with Mrs. Mills, a married woman of his choir...Alas, no clues or evidence are sufficient to make an indictment stick...The case reopens again 4 years later as new information is brought to light, indicting the reverends wife but she is an upstanding member of her community, denying to the last that her husband had any affair...--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668320 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1674920 Lucie Blackman--tall, blond, twenty-one years old--stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000 and disappeared. The following winter, her remains were found buried in a seaside cave. The seven months in between had seen a massive search for the missing girl involving Japanese policemen, British private detectives, and Lucies desperate but bitterly divided parents. Richard Lloyd Parry, an award-winning foreign correspondent, followed the case from the beginning. Over the course of a decade, he traveled to four continents to interview those connected with the story, assiduously followed the court proceedings, and won unique access to the Japanese detectives who investigated the case. Ultimately he earned the respect of the victims family and delved deep into the mind and background of the man accused of the crime--Joji Obara, described by the judge as unprecedented and extremely evil. The result is a book at once thrilling and revelatory. 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=1613359 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1630184 A gripping memoir from Amanda Knoxs Italian ex-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, chronicling his relationship with Amanda and the four years they spent in an Italian prison for a crime they did not commit. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668100 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715310 A collection of true-crime stories features doomed relationships and speaks for the victims who trusted the wrong people, including the story of the deaths of a billionaires son and girlfriend in his California mansion. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1559756 An examination of the abuse that led to the murder of three-year-old Karly Sheehan reveals the tendency of people to disregard or keep silent about predatory behavior, and brings to light many instances in which the abuse could have been stopped. 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=1668561 Provides an in-depth account of the 2003 bank robbery plot that resulted in the death of innocent pizza delivery driver. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1657334 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668276 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1615566 Historian and China expert Paul French uncovers the truth behind the notorious murder of Pamela Werner, and offers a rare glimpse of the last days of colonial Peking. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1668275 Early on the morning of February 17, 1970, in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, a Green Beret doctor named Jeffrey MacDonald called the police for help. When the officers arrived at his home they found the bloody and battered bodies of MacDonalds pregnant wife and two young daughters. Errol Morris reopens a famous closed case and reveals that, forty years after the murder of MacDonalds family, they still have no proof of his guilt. 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=1307224 Describes how seemingly mild-mannered Star Trek fan Sean Vincent Gillis murdered and then dismembered women in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, for ten years, and how he was finally caught by the authorities. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1336186 In May 2005, Natalee Holloway disappeared from a high school trip to Aruba. Five years to the day later, 21 year old Stephany Flores Ramirez was reported missing in Lima, Peru. Implicated in both crimes was one young man, Joran van der Sloot. A 22 year old Dutchman, van der Sloot has become the subject of intense scrutiny by the media and the public in the years since 2005. He was arrested and detained by Aruban authorities in connection with the Holloway murder, only to be released after questioning. In 2008, during a Dutch sting operation, he admitted to being present for Holloways death, but later recanted his statement. In 2010, on the five year anniversary of her disappearance, a young business student in Peru named Stephany Flores Ramirez disappeared, only to be found dead three days later in a hotel room, registered to Joran van der Sloot. He was arrested for the murder, and he confessed, but later claimed it was coerced. This book offers a probing look at the man tied to two of the most sensational cases of the decade. With unprecedented access to investigative files from law enforcement in the U.S., Aruba, Chile and Peru, it is a glimpse into the workings of an international manhunt and a chilling portrait of the alleged killer within. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1277562 Describes how stay-at-home father Stephen Grant murdered his wife, Tara, dismembered her, and buried her in the woods, then reported her missing and participated in a frantic, emotional search for her before the truth came out. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1243841 Describes how sixteen-year-old Alec Kreider murdered his best friend, Kevin Haines, and Kevins parents, Tom and Lisa, for no apparent reason, and showed no remorse for the brutal crime. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1310352 A devoted wife and mother and a Harvard-educated scientist working as a biology professor at the University of Alabama-Huntsville, Amy Bishop seemed to have it all. But when she was denied tenure, her whole world came crashing down...and she reacted in a way no one ever could have imagined. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1208129 Describes the decades-long descent into criminal madness of former Alaska state trooper John Patrick Addis, and how he was responsible for the deaths of many innocent victims, including single mother Joann Albanese. 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=1207644 Jimmy Joste was a powerhouse in the oil and gas industry, but he was a weakling when it came to his gorgeous, athletic, longtime lover, Rhonda Glover. Addicted to her sexual prowess and madly in love, Joste gave her homes, cars, cash, and a $350,000 engagement ring. Their fifteen years of passion and excess ended the day Rhonda drove directly from a shooting range to the Austin home they once shared. After pumping ten bullets into him from a Glock 9mm, she stood over Jostes blood-spattered body and shot him six more times...--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1376442 In May 2005, Natalee Holloway disappeared from a high school trip to Aruba. Five years to the day later, 21 year old Stephany Flores Ramirez was reported missing in Lima, Peru. Implicated in both crimes was one young man, Joran van der Sloot. A 22 year old Dutchman, van der Sloot has become the subject of intense scrutiny by the media and the public in the years since 2005. He was arrested and detained by Aruban authorities in connection with the Holloway murder, only to be released after questioning. In 2008, during a Dutch sting operation, he admitted to being present for Holloways death, but later recanted his statement. In 2010, on the five year anniversary of her disappearance, a young business student in Peru named Stephany Flores Ramirez disappeared, only to be found dead three days later in a hotel room, registered to Joran van der Sloot. He was arrested for the murder, and he confessed, but later claimed it was coerced. This book offers a probing look at the man tied to two of the most sensational cases of the decade. With unprecedented access to investigative files from law enforcement in the U.S., Aruba, Chile and Peru, it is a glimpse into the workings of an international manhunt and a chilling portrait of the alleged killer within. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1307126 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1364719 Describes how troubled sixteen-year-old Adrianne Reynolds became trapped in a web of jealousy and domination and was murdered and dismembered by her own supposed best friends. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1393261 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1392477 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=1252425 Describes how David Legg murdered his parents, Brian and Jeannie, shooting them at point-blank range, and then fled to Hawaii, where he and his fifteen-year-old girlfriend drained his dead parents savings through ATMs. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1305477 In 1973, a gunman fired five shots into Colonel Joe Alon, a kind, unassuming Israeli Air Force pilot. As it turned out, Alon wasnt just a pilot and family man; he was a high-ranking Israeli military official and hero of the Israeli Air Force. The assassin was never found and the case was closed. As a counterterrorism special agent, Fred Burton reopened the case and pursued the killer. 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=1364722 For the first time, Gacys lawyer and confidant tells his chilling tale of how he defended an American serial killer. ... a gripping true crime narrative that reenacts the gruesome killings and the famous trial that shocked a nation--and a testament to the importance of Americas Sixth Amendment--Jacket. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1224617 Rick and Suzanna Wamsley provided their two children with every comfort. But their son, Andrew, had a bitter, rebellious streak, and resented his parents disapproval of his girlfriend, Chelsea Richardson. On the night of December 11, 2003, Chelsea and two accomplices entered the Wamsley home where they instantly killed Suzanna. Rick fought his attackers tooth and nail, but couldnt save himself. It was only a matter of time before investigators closed in on all the perpetrators, including the one who stood to inherit nearly two million dollars, Andrew Wamsley. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1198425 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1209590 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1209577 Alba, Texas. In 2008, Terry Caffey, a home health care aide and aspiring preacher, was asleep in his bedroom when he woke up to a barrage of bullets. His wife, Penny, was killed instantly. With blood pouring from five bullet wounds, among other serious injuries, Terry tried--but failed--to save his two youngest children before crawling out of his burning house. Meanwhile, Terrys sixteen-year-old daughter, Erin, was missing. Once Erin was found by local authorities, she claimed she had been kidnapped--but could not remember the details. It wasnt until Terry was fully conscious that he could explain what had really happened: Hed been shot, point-blank, by two young men. One of them he did not know; the other was Charlie James Wilkinson. Charlie was Erins nineteen-year-old boyfriend, forbidden from entering the Caffeys home. Until Erin helped Charlie come up with a plan to do away with her disapproving parents once and for all...--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1393168 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1364469 Chronicles the 2002 murder of Christa Worthington and the ensuing trial and conviction of African-American trash collector Christopher McCowen, revealing the conflicting testimony, crime-scene contamination and police misconduct that have caused many to believe that McCowen is innocent. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1279595 Describes how Marjorie Orbin, a stripper turned suburban housewife with a sordid past that included a drug habit and alleged ties to the New York mafia, murdered and dismembered her seventh husband, Jay, a successful art dealer. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1299134 Describes how Jan Roseboro was savagely beaten and strangled before her body was tossed in her backyard pool and how her husband Michael was eventually convicted of the crime after his pregnant mistress came forward. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1222397 Describes how former child star Skylar Deleon, aided by his pregnant wife and a criminal associate, brutally murdered Tom and Jackie Hawks, a retired couple, for their fifty-five-foot yacht. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1519392 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1393688 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1393355 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1250613 A major new work from the New York Times bestselling author of Havana Nocturne and The Westies: Through the stories of three desperate men--an innocent man wrongly accused of murder, a corrupt cop, and a militant Black Panther--T. J. English tells the story of race, violence, and urban chaos in 1960s New York City--Provided by publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1113896 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1132725 Describes how computer genius Hans Reiser was accused of murdering his soon-to-be ex-wife, gynecologist Nina Sharanova, but how many troubling, unresolved issues arose in the investigation, bringing Reisers guilt into question. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1108931 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1055520 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1129471 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1197115 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=1172508 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1200584 Describes the events surrounding the 2003 rape and murder of Kentucky sorority student Katie Autry--a girl who spent years in foster care before attending college. Details the arrests, conflicting stories, and trials of two young men who crossed paths with Katie that night. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1110147 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=1162718 On August 6, 2000, Nicholas Markowitz left his house and never came back. One week later, Susan Markowitz learned her son was dead. Susan had thought only about getting justice for her son. Along the way she rediscovered her own will to live. She promised to honor her sons memory by making sure something positive came from the pain he had to endure. This is the story of a mothers relentless nine-year fight to bring her sons killer to justice. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1053857 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1127134 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1185395 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1116485 She paralyzed her prey...but she was playing with fire...A beautiful nurse. A lethal injection. A gruesomely charred corpse. Nothing could have shocked the sleepy community of Morgantown, West Virginia, more than the lurid details that surfaced after a house fire claimed the life of Shelly Michaels husband, Jimmy. Local authorities suspected possible arson. Then they discovered that Jimmy had been dead before the fire even started--paralyzed by a fatal dose of muscle relaxant...Did Shelly Michael, a respected nurse and mother, kill her second husband and torch her own home? Were the rumors true that shed had an affair with her husbands employee only two weeks before the murder? Or did she kill Jimmy simply for the insurance money? Charged with first-degree murder and first-degree arson, Shelly would never stop claiming her innocence--even to this day...--Cover, p.[4]. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1131069 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1130375 Describes how the brutal murder of a masseuse named Julissa Brisman, who advertised her erotic services on Craigslist, was linked to Philip Markoff, a twenty-two-year-old medical student who prowled the Internet for sex. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1114139 It was the mystery that gripped the nation during the summer of 2001: the sudden disappearance of Chandra Levy, a young, promising intern, and the possible involvement of Congressman Gary Condit. And then the case went cold. By 2007, satellite trucks and reporters had long since abandoned the story of the congressman and the intern in search of other news, fresh scandals. Across the country, Chandras parents tried to resume their daily lives, desperately hoping that someday there might be a break in the investigation. And in Washington, the old game of whos up and whos down played on without interruption. But Chandra Levy haunted. Six years after the young interns disappearance, investigative editors of the Washington Post pitched two Pulitzer Prize winning reporters their idea: revisit the unsolved case and find out what happened to Chandra, a task that had eluded police and the FBI. The authors went to work. The result was a thirteen part series in the Washington Post that focused on a prime suspect the police and the FBI had passed over years before. They had wrongly pursued Condit and chased numerous false leads, including a claim that Chandra had been kidnapped and taken to the Middle East. But the most likely culprit was far less glamorous: an immigrant from El Salvador, a young man in the clutches of alcohol, drugs, and violence who had been stalking the running paths of Rock Creek Park, assaulting female joggers at knifepoint. He had attacked again, even as the police and the press concentrated on a congressman romantically linked to the intern. This book explores the bungled police efforts to locate the crime scene and catch a killer, the ambition and hubris of Washingtons power elite and press corps, the twisted culture of politics, the dark nature of political scandal, and the agony of parents struggling to comprehend the loss of a child. Above all, it is a quintessential portrait of a cast of outsiders who came to Washington with dreams of something better, only to be forever changed. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1200993 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1130169 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1090789 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1148520 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1135945 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1088167 Acclaimed crime writer M. William Phelps tells the true story of a turn-of-the-century, Bible-thumping caretaker and entrepreneur of the nursing home industry who became one of historys most evil female serial killers. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1170899 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1113603 A lethal Lolita...Janeen Snyder was only fourteen when she moved in with Michael Thornton, his wife, and teenage daughter. Michael was a successful entrepreneur and family man with eight beauty salons and a six-figure income--but two years later, he gave it all up to run away with Janeen. At last on the road with his new young lover, Michael could indulge his darkest, wildest obsessions--for bondage, torture, rape, and worse...A secret sadist...They worked together as a team, luring girls into their twisted world of sex, mind control, violence, and depravity. They drugged them, trained them, bound them, abused them. And for many years, Michael and Janeen were never caught...until police uncovered the dead, distorted body of a Las Vegas teen in a horse trailer. One by one, detectives found other victims--the lucky ones who survived, but had been too terrified to come forward. Soon, the world would learn just how sick and derange these lovers really were...--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1161521 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1088158 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1185483 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1036981 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1100647 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1298189 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1298193 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=974441 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1003311 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1015027 Deeply immersed in the close-knit culture of long-distance running, Pam and Bob Bulik were avid competitors. To all appearances, they were also a happily married couple, devoted to each other and their two young children. Then Bob made a fateful decision. He began an extramarital affair that led to his wifes tragic death and to one of the most sensationalized and heavily attended trials in Green Bays history. --Cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1021042 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1023147 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1065672 Rebecca Salcedo had an easy smile, a sexy body, and strong appetites--she wanted the world. Bruce Cleland, she decided, would buy it for her. The shy engineer quickly fell victim to her charms, getting her whatever she wanted. A new car. A boat. A house. But he wasnt Rebeccas only admirer...Even after Rebecca manipulated Bruce into marrying her, hoping to divorce him and take him for everything he had, she occupied herself with a series of lovers. Male strippers, women...they all spent time in Rebeccas bed. But when she learned that a divorce would only get her a few pennies, she knew she had to find another way to secure Bruces fortune. Enlisting two family members as killers-for-hire. Rebecca set in motion her solution to the problem. While she watched, the first bullet hit Bruce in the face. Three more would follow. But while Rebecca kept the blood off her hands, she could not conceal evidence that led straight to her, culminating in a trial that would shock a community.