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The Authors experience dealing with the IRS and Congress has led him to know that most Americans earn insufficient income to have a tax liability. The current taxing system, Title 26 United States Code, is all based on semantics, not fact of law. This experience culminated with the IRS placing levies and liens against him and his wife. He knew the IRS had no authority to use these penalties and set out on a journey to prove this true. This book documents...
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The author was sworn in as a Federal Agent in 1957 at age 23, and continued his investigative career until 2003. He considers the pinnacle of all his cases the rape and murder of a four year old child in 1967. He obtained a confession from a suspect and uncovered her grave with his bare hands. He thinks of this case daily. May Patty R.I.P.
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Arson Investigation consists of true actual cases of arson. Photographs that were taken are included to indicate how the fires were started.
These arsons include murder, organized crime, cover-up for other crimes, and more.
Investigative techniques prepare the investigator to obtain sufficient evidence in order to convict the fire setter and then present this information as an expert witness in a court of law.
Technical information is replete in...
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He had new medicine to help with his anger, and we saw Mary, our counselor, three times a week, alone and together. Things were going very well, and it was not uncommon for him to sleep over. In the following weeks, everything seemed fine, except we were anxious for him to come home. Maybe soon, Mary said, but we should keep doing what we were doing since it was going so well. Then our nightmare began. What was it that put him over the edge and become...
45) Stealing Wyeth
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Andrew Wyeth was one of the best known American artists in the world in the 20th century with his works, including the Helga series, being sought after by serious art collectors worldwide. His father, N. C., and son, Jamie, are integral parts of the best known American family of artists. They have an art museum dedicated to their works. A gang of thieves decided to steal an original Wyeth painting for their "retirement" and engaged a professional...
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The Incredible true story of the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo. Charles Deville Wells has two loves in his life: a beautiful French mistress named Jeannette and his sumptuous yacht, the Palais Royal. At the risk of losing them both, Wells stakes everything he owns at the roulette tables in Monte Carlo's world-famous casino - and in the space of a few days he breaks the bank, not once but ten times, winning the equivalent of millions in today's...
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The Informer trilogy followed the lives of two Jamaican rude boys who voyaged to Canada separately, to experience a better life. Once in Canada, the first of these two rude boys discovered that hustlers who wished to get involved in the drug trade must only acquire their products from a biker gang that controlled the underground traffic markets. This biker gang was, ruled by a cult of wealthy billionaires, who used them to do their dirty work. However,...
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A glimpse into the chaotic, violent and often hilarious world of crime through the eyes of one of Perth's top criminal defence barristers, Henry Sklarz.
From a career spanning 35 years comes a collection of short stories recounting the murderers, drug smugglers, rapists, prostitutes, unsuccessful bank robbers and more thrills and spills of those caught on the wrong side of the law.
The mad, bad, stupid and dangerous.
50) Southern Justice
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In 1879, Franklin County, Mississippi, George Walker Guice's seemingly normal life is forever altered as he quickly takes center stage in a feud with the neighboring Hawley family. The feud, which will end on the busy streets of Natchez, Mississippi, in 1881, quickly turns violent. Between 1879 and 1883, a very young George W. Guice will be shot by his nemesis, retaliate against his adversary, face a murder trial, lose an appeal to the Mississippi...
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30 YEARS ON THE RUN: THE HUNT FOR THE MOST PROLIFIC BANK ROBBER IN HISTORY, is told masterfully by author and retired FBI Special Agent Raymond J. Carr. Readers will follow the painstaking and extraordinary steps that led to the discovery of the most prolific bank robber in history, an evil genius who evaded police for 30 years and whose robberies totaled more than those of Bonnie and Clyde, John Dillinger, and Willie Sutton combined. This was Carr's...
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Neal Smither doesn't hide his work. The side of his van reads: "Crime Scene Cleaners: Homicides, Suicides and Accidental Death." Whenever a hotel guest permanently checks out, the cops finish an investigation, or an accidental death is reported, Smither's crew pick up the pieces after the police cruisers and ambulances have left.
Alan Emmins offers a glimpse at this little-known aspect of America's most gruesome deaths. Filled with details as fascinating...
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In this meticulous and authoritative account of the trial and the times of the Lindbergh kidnapping, Robert Zorn clears away decades of ungrounded speculation surrounding the case. Inspired by his father's relationship with the actual accomplices--including the mastermind--he presents the clearest ever picture of a criminal partnership that would shake every class and culture of American society. Using personal possessions and documents, never-before-seen...
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Statistically there are around 14 million criminal related arrests a year in the United States. Approximately 1.5 million drivers get arrested every year for driving under the influence of alcohol or narcotics. No one ever expects to get arrested. Even criminals never really expect to be caught! It always comes knocking on your door when you least expect it, and when it does, most of us have no clue as to how to behave or what to do when arrested...
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Often, the term 'psychopath' tends to be equated with violent and deranged criminality, but true psychopaths are very different from the way they are portrayed in film or on television. They are aware of the difference between right and wrong: they simply choose to ignore anything that prevents them getting what they want. Real-life psychopaths are not 'mad' but 'bad', but they appear on the surface to be entirely 'normal'. One of the pioneers of...
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On a lonely highway in the middle of the night, two teenage Aboriginal girls are, killed in a crash. Like rag dolls, their bodies are thrown from the Toyota Hilux, when it rolls at high speed. One suffers massive internal injuries. The other has her ear and scalp torn off. They bleed out in the dirt. A drunk middle-aged white man crawls out of the crashed ute. It's after midnight. He spreads a green plastic sheet on the stony ground. He drags the...
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The journey of Cuttie started early back in New Orleans, when he witnessed countless murders, drug deals, lots of money laundering, and corrupt police and politicians. Cuttie never expected the things that life threw at him while he was trying to get revenge on the kingpin of New Orleans but found bullets flying toward his life.
After the revenge was best served cold, Cuttie started to become the person he didn't want to become. He found himself...
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El 8 de junio de 2019, los bomberos encontraron el cuerpo calcinado de un hombre en su casa, en Vilanova i la Geltrú. Unas horas más tarde, su hijo Ismael, de manera espontánea, confesó ante los Mossos d'Esquadra ser el autor material del asesinato: «No he visto otra solución y he tenido que matar a mi padre. Le he clavado un cuchillo por la espalda».
Un caso que parecía resuelto, el mismo día de los hechos, da un giro inesperado para el...
59) Dragon's Breath
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Blackmail, sabotage and murder shatter the calm of a Victorian bush town; unrelated acts of evil or evidence of a wider and deeper, Chinese Communist Party plot, to undermine and take over Australia?
A routine job for ken Eliot threatens his life and growing evidence of Chinese State infiltration drives him back into ASIO service, re-uniting him with the deceptive and deadly Kat Douglas. Family fiefdoms, fanaticism, foreign plots and rival spies form...
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Thirty-four-year-old New Jersey State Trooper Robert Higbee lay on his back in an Atlantic City Hospital room. His 6'8" frame hardly fit into the bed. Just hours before at 10:00 p.m., Higbee sustained a concussion when the patrol car in which he was "closing the gap" on a speeder, collided with a van crossing through an intersection ahead of him. Tragically, the two teenage sisters in the van died at the scene. The next morning, I received a phone...
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