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Murderous Acts

Author : Keven McQueen
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253058457
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Murderous Acts written by Keven McQueen and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the Midwest may be known for salt-of-the-earth folks, it's also home to murder and mayhem. In Murderous Acts: 100 Years of Crime in the Midwest, Keven McQueen explores a century of true crimes committed in 10 Midwestern states, from the 1840s to the 1940s. With a touch of gallows humor, McQueen relies on original research to recount infamous transgressions—including Michigan's Robert Irving Latimer case, the serial murders of Nebraskan Jake Bird, and the bloody deeds of Kansas's Bender family—as well as gruesome tales that are less well known, such as the Wisconsin man with a penchant for swinging an axe at the necks of men he didn't care for, the Hoosier who killed his sweetheart in the midst of a Halloween ball, and the French nobleman who wreaked havoc in a St. Louis hotel. Murderous Acts will intrigue and delight fans of true crime and will send a shiver down the spine of any reader fascinated by the dark history of America's Heartland.

Murderous Acts

Author : Knight Colin (author)
Publisher : Colin Knight
ISBN 13 : 0463556119
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (635 download)

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Download or read book Murderous Acts written by Knight Colin (author) and published by Colin Knight . This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If an injury has to be done to a man, it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared."A chance encounter and an overheard conversation was all it took to undo the psychotherapy that had buried David's bitterness and suppressed his desire for revenge.Little by little, the ruthless characters David had once played on London's premier stages, forced their way in to his consciousness.Little by little, David identified the undeserving, balanced the evidence, and passed sentences.Deluded by a demanding imaginary audience, and manipulated by an increasingly powerful subconscious, David is compelled to act.Killing for the adulation of his 'audience', David cleansed his past, purged the unworthy and settled his soul.But...Little by little, unknown by David, the protective and inquisitive child of the woman he loves has watched, made notes, and took photographs.As the killings become more personal, and the child reveals what he knows, David must make a choice.Is he too far gone to make a rational choice?Will his now dominant subconscious demand David kill the child of the woman he loves?Will David's imaginary audience recoil at the murder of a child?Or is there another way out?

Murderous Acts

Author : Keven McQueen
Publisher : Quarry Books
ISBN 13 : 9780253058447
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (584 download)

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Download or read book Murderous Acts written by Keven McQueen and published by Quarry Books. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -Author attends numerous local events and will be a good self-promoter -Author's books have good sales numbers

Acts of Murder

Author : L.R. Wright
Publisher : Felony & Mayhem Press
ISBN 13 : 1631941690
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Acts of Murder written by L.R. Wright and published by Felony & Mayhem Press. This book was released on 2019-12-15 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A serial killer stalks the Sunshine Coast in the final novel of this Edgar Award–winning series—the basis for the Fox TV and Hulu Murder in a Small Town. The ninth and final book in the Karl Alberg series makes a wonderfully elegant end to the saga of the tiny town on Canada’s “Sunshine Coast,” the policeman who tries to catch the town’s baddies, and the sensual, smart-mouthed librarian he loves. Alberg and Cassandra are at long last getting married, and Alberg has a new sergeant, the beautiful and enigmatic Edwina Henderson. But don’t be fooled by all the sunshine. Sechelt, British Colombia, once again has more than its share of murders. And the serial killer who’s busy knocking off residents—someone known as “the avenging Angel”—may be the darkest character Alber has ever faced.

Rethinking Serial Murder, Spree Killing, and Atrocities

Author : Robert Shanafelt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317564677
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Serial Murder, Spree Killing, and Atrocities written by Robert Shanafelt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multiple killings by serial or spree killers and the mass violence seen in war crimes and other atrocities have typically been understood as discrete category types, which can foster the view that there are fundamentally different kinds of human beings, including "deviants" who are born evil and innately given to sadism or a callous lack of empathy. In contrast, this book considers the violence of these "deviants" in terms of larger questions about human violence. Therefore, in addition to describing the life histories of a sample of individual serial and spree murderers, the book includes analysis of macro-level phenomena such as genocide, mass rape and killing, and torture occurring under conditions of war, state authorization, or political upheaval. The chief claim of the book is that, given the "right" combination of factors occurring at different levels of analysis, virtually anyone can emerge as a killer or perpetrator of atrocities. While it is crucial to understand individual killers in terms of the details of their biographies, it is equally crucial to understand political atrocities in terms of the details of their histories; and to see that persons and groups are always the product of complexly interacting assemblage processes.

SERIAL KILLERS

Author : William M. Harmening
Publisher : Charles C Thomas Publisher
ISBN 13 : 039808114X
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book SERIAL KILLERS written by William M. Harmening and published by Charles C Thomas Publisher. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether it be Jack the Ripper in nineteenth-century England or Ted Bundy in 1970s America, the public has always been fascinated by the criminal offender type known as the serial killer. Professionals continue to speculate and develop new theories about their identity decades after their crimes ended. But what is it that causes such evilness in individuals that causes them to take an innocent life, not once but multiples times, and for no apparent reason beyond their own perverse psychological gratification? This fascinating book explores this question by looking at the psychosocial determinants of criminal behavior, including serial murder. The role of such internal processes as attachment, moral development, and identity formation in the development of a person’s predisposition to various forms of deviance, including physical and sexual aggression, is reviewed. This information is then applied to actual serial killers, including David Berkowitz (The Son of Sam), Charles Manson, Eric Rudolph (God’s Crusader), Ted Bundy (The Face of Evil), Edmund Kemper (The Co-ed Killer), and the Zodiac Killer, in an effort to construct a psychosocial profile of each and to attempt to pinpoint the various developmental factors that contributed to their eventual criminality. Finally, early intervention strategies are explored that can potentially redirect a child’s developmental trajectory away from crime and deviance, and toward a more adaptive and socially acceptable behavioral repertoire. This book will be an insightful resource to all law enforcement professionals, policymakers, police academics, psychologists, psychiatrists, and many others in the helping professions as well.

Anguyiim Nalliini/Time of Warring

Author : Ann Fienup-Riordan
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
ISBN 13 : 1602232911
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Anguyiim Nalliini/Time of Warring written by Ann Fienup-Riordan and published by University of Alaska Press. This book was released on 2016-05-15 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this powerful new book, long time Yup'ik researcher Ann Fienup-Riordan teams again with Alice Rearden to bring a long-ignored oral history of warfare to light. Time of Warring combines Yup'ik oral accounts and written records to understand the dramatic history of the bow-and-arrow wars fought in southwest Alaska between 1300 and 1800 AD. Yet warfare is not the only story being told. The book also explores the cultural history of violence, retribution, and ultimately peaceful coexistence. These narratives reveal the origins of place names and architectural practices in their cultural and historical context. And great warriors and heroic women of the past are revealed and discussed. The book represents thirty years of research, discussions, and recordings with over one hundred Yup'ik men and omen--elder historians of the highest caliber. After extensive summary and contextualization from Fienup-Riordan, facing-page translations give the Yup'ik elders and culture bearers the space to tell the stories in their own words. Time of Warring is an important chapter that has long been missing in the history of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta's people.

Murder at Pope's Cafeteria

Author : Ronald Martin
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1483492117
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book Murder at Pope's Cafeteria written by Ronald Martin and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-10-22 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story about the quadruple homicide in Des Peres, Mo in Oct 1980. Committed by a mass murderer and serial killer. Multi-national killer and some of the possible crimes connected to him.

Got Murder?

Author : Martin Hintz
Publisher : Big Earth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781931599962
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Got Murder? written by Martin Hintz and published by Big Earth Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ah, Wisconsin. . . land of beer, cows, and the Green Bay Packers. And also the home of Ed Gein, Jeffery Dahmer, and a host of other bloodthirsty maniacs. This book goes behind the bucolic Dairy State image to reveal shocking acts of mayhem in the dark corners of Wisconsin history, and asks the troubling question: Is it something in the cheese?

Murder

Author : Sara Louise Knox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Murder written by Sara Louise Knox and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of American murder narratives across a number of genres including novels, sociological texts and true crime accounts.

Border Killers

Author : Elizabeth Villalobos
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816553076
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Border Killers written by Elizabeth Villalobos and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Border Killers delves into how recent Mexican creators have reported, analyzed, distended, and refracted the increasingly violent world of neoliberal Mexico, especially its versions of masculinity. By looking to the insights of artists, writers, and filmmakers, Elizabeth Villalobos offers a path for making sense and critiquing very real border violence in contemporary Mexico. Villalobos focuses on representations of “border killers” in literature, film, and theater. The author develops a metaphor of “maquilization” to describe the mass-production of masculine violence as a result of neoliberalism. The author demonstrates that the killer is an interchangeable cog in a societal factory of violence whose work is to produce dead bodies. By turning to cultural narratives, Villalobos seeks to counter the sensationalistic and stereotyped media depictions of border residents as criminals. The cultural works she examines instead indict the Mexican state and the global economic system for producing agents of violence. Focusing on both Mexico’s northern and southern borders, Border Killers uses Achille Mbembe’s concept of necropolitics and various theories of masculinity to argue that contemporary Mexico is home to a form of necropolitical masculinity that has flourished in the neoliberal era and made the exercise of death both profitable and necessary for the functioning of Mexico’s state-cartel-corporate governance matrix.

Serial Killers

Author : Peter Vronsky
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101204621
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Serial Killers written by Peter Vronsky and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-10-05 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive examination into the frightening true crime history of serial homicide—including information on America’s most prolific serial killers such as: Jeffrey Dahmer • Ted Bundy • “Co-ed Killer” Ed Kemper • The BTK Killer • “Highway Stalker” Henry Lee Lucas • Monte Ralph Rissell • “Shoe Fetish Slayer” Jerry Brudos • “Night Stalker” Richard Ramirez • “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski • Ed Gein “The Butcher of Plainfield” • “Killer Clown” John Wayne Gacy • Andrew Cunanan • And more... In this unique book, Peter Vronsky documents the psychological, investigative, and cultural aspects of serial murder, beginning with its first recorded instance in Ancient Rome through fifteenth-century France on to such notorious contemporary cases as cannibal/necrophile Ed Kemper, the BTK killer, Henry Lee Lucas, Monte Ralph Rissell, Jerry Brudos, Richard Ramirez, “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski, Ed Gein, John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and the emergence of what he classifies as the “serial rampage killer” such as Andrew Cunanan, who murdered fashion designer Gianni Versace. Vronsky not only offers sound theories on what makes a serial killer but also makes concrete suggestions on how to survive an encounter with one—from recognizing verbal warning signs to physical confrontational resistance. Exhaustively researched with transcripts of interviews with killers, and featuring up-to-date information on the apprehension and conviction of the Green River killer and the Beltway Snipers, Vronsky’s one-of-a-kind book covers every conceivable aspect of an endlessly riveting true crime phenomenon. INCLUDES PHOTOGRAPHS

Bloody Murder

Author : Michelle Ann Abate
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421408406
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Bloody Murder written by Michelle Ann Abate and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Off with her head!" decreed the Queen of Hearts, one of a multitude of murderous villains populating the pages of children's literature explored in this volume. Given the long-standing belief that children ought to be shielded from disturbing life events, it is surprising to see how many stories for kids involve killing. Bloody Murder is the first full-length critical study of this pervasive theme of murder in children’s literature. Through rereadings of well-known works, such as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, and The Outsiders, Michelle Ann Abate explores how acts of homicide connect these works with an array of previously unforeseen literary, social, political, and cultural issues. Topics range from changes in the America criminal justice system, the rise of forensic science, and shifting attitudes about crime and punishment to changing cultural conceptions about the nature of evil and the different ways that murder has been popularly presented and socially interpreted. Bloody Murder adds to the body of inquiry into America's ongoing fascination with violent crime. Abate argues that when narratives for children are considered along with other representations of homicide in the United States, they not only provide a more accurate portrait of the range, depth, and variety of crime literature, they also alter existing ideas about the meaning of violence, the emotional appeal of fear, and the cultural construction of death and dying.

Social Media Monsters: Internet Killers

Author : RJ Parker
Publisher : RJ PARKER PUBLISHING, INC.
ISBN 13 : 1500487066
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Social Media Monsters: Internet Killers written by RJ Parker and published by RJ PARKER PUBLISHING, INC.. This book was released on 2014-09-14 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stalkers, rapists, and murderers.... These criminals have all discovered uncharted territory through the open door of the internet, and the victims are piling up in their deadly playground. Murder. Kidnapping. Cannibalism. Suicide. All of these themes can be found in this collection of true stories about killers who have used the internet to locate, lure, stalk, or exploit their victims. These monsters are identified as people who are motivated by a psychological factor: some murderers are triggered by anger or jealousy, others kill as a way to seek attention, and some are merely in it for the thrill of the kill. Who is really on the other end of that Facebook friend request, or behind that dating profile, or posting that item for sale on Craigslist? How can you be safe if you plan to meet up with a stranger you met online? What precautions should you take? In this book, we have detailed more than thirty chilling true stories of killers that have used the internet to locate, stalk, lure, or exploit their victims. Facebook, Craigslist, MySpace, chat rooms, dating sites-it does not matter where you are online; killers are lurking in the shadows. They lurk in suicide chat rooms, search for escorts on Craigslist, and create fake social media profiles to fool and gain the trust of their victims. Someone you have been talking to for months or even years could be a completely different person from what you envisioned.

Kids Who Murder

Author : Ellie Hayes
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476644969
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Kids Who Murder written by Ellie Hayes and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-01-23 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generally naive about their world, children are thought to be nearly incapable of serious wrongdoing and are rarely suspects in violent crimes. Yet, from the 1960s to the mid-90s, the U.S. saw several waves of juvenile murders that caused widespread public concern. The phenomenon created longstanding debates about the sources or causes of a child killer's mindset. Some blame external triggers like video games, rock music or pornography, while others argue the causes are deeper issues, such as an underdeveloped brain experiencing abuse and neglect. The quest to uncover the causes of these crimes is ongoing, and how the American justice system should handle these young killers remains a controversy. This book assesses ten murder cases in modern American criminal history, examining the minds of the children who perpetrated them. Chapters compile decades of research on the psychology of child murderers in hopes of creating a more coherent understanding of why kids kill.

Encountering the Stranger

Author : Leonard Grob
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295804394
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Encountering the Stranger written by Leonard Grob and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an age when "collisions of faith" among the Abrahamic traditions continue to produce strife and violence that threatens the well-being of individuals and communities worldwide, the contributors to Encountering the Stranger--six Jewish, six Christian, and six Muslim scholars--takes responsibility to examine their traditions' understandings of the stranger, the "other," and to identify ways that can bridge divisions and create greater harmony.

Women, Murder and Femininity

Author : L. Seal
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230294502
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Women, Murder and Femininity written by L. Seal and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-10-20 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women who kill rupture our assumptions about what a woman is. This book explores different socio-cultural understandings of women who commit, or are accused, of murder. A wide range of cases are discussed in order to highlight the ways in which such women have been perceived, and how such cases reflect important social and cultural shifts.