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True Crime: Virginia

Author : John F. Jebb
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811706494
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book True Crime: Virginia written by John F. Jebb and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In his fascinating account of crime in Virginia, John F. Jebb explores the evidence, motives, and colorful personalities that captured the public's imagination during the course of the state's criminal trials. Presenting the crimes in context, the author blends Virginia law and history in an engaging and superbly written work> --Fred Shackelford, author of Judges Say the Darndest Things Includes . . . The controversial rape case of the Martinsville Seven The first murder in America to be convicted on DNA evidence The UVA honors students accused of murder The last-minute reprieve of Earl Washington Jr. based on DNA findings The Virginia Tech shootings AUTHOR: John F. Jebb is a graduate of the University of Virginia and participated in the New Castle County (Delaware) Citizens Police Academy. He teaches English at the University of Delaware and with J. K. Van Dover authored the book Isn't Justice Always Unfair?: The Detective in Southern Literature.

A Murder in Virginia

Author : Suzanne Lebsock
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393326062
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book A Murder in Virginia written by Suzanne Lebsock and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the events surrounding the dramatic post-Civil War trial of a young African American sawmill hand who was accused of ax murdering a white woman on her Virginia farmyard and who implicated three other women in the crime.

Beyond Reason

Author : Ken Englade
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312923464
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (234 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Reason written by Ken Englade and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1990-11 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of Elizabeth Haysom and Jens Soering, convicted of the double murder of her parents, Derek and Nancy Haysom.

True Crime Northern Virginia in the '50s & '60s

Author : Zachary G Ford
Publisher : History Press
ISBN 13 : 9781467156660
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book True Crime Northern Virginia in the '50s & '60s written by Zachary G Ford and published by History Press. This book was released on 2024-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover crimes that made headlines across northern Virginia in the 1950s and 60s. As the suburbs of Washington, D.C. expanded in the mid-twentieth century, growth inevitably led to increasing crime, and grisly murders began to shock local communities. Learn the story of the killer and his victim who are buried only a few yards apart. The truth behind the tale of the murderous toddler and the sad story of the death of an agent at National Airport belie the picture perfect image of those decades. Fairfax, Arlington, Alexandria, Falls Church and Prince William witnessed atrocities that grabbed headlines in their day but have since faded from collective memory. Local author Zachary Ford uses detailed research drawn from contemporary accounts to bring these stories to life.

A Fatal Lie

Author : Sally Chew
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312970147
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book A Fatal Lie written by Sally Chew and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-09-15 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling book reveals fascinating truth about a crime involving a teenage lesbian love triangle that exploded when two girls dragged their roommate into a wooded area and beat and stabbed her to death in Richmond, Virginia, in July 1997.Chew covered the story for "Out" magazine. 8 pages of photos.

The Last Lynching in Northern Virginia

Author : Jim Hall
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439657696
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book The Last Lynching in Northern Virginia written by Jim Hall and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This true crime history reveals the harrowing story of a black man brutally murdered by a lynch mob in 1932 Virginia. In 1932, a black man was found hanging on Rattlesnake Mountain in Fauquier County, Virginia. Though a mob set fire to his body, officials were able to identify him as Shedrick Thompson, who had been wanted for the abduction and rape of a local white woman. Some claimed Thompson killed himself, framing his gruesome death as the final act of a desperate fugitive. But residents knew better. Thompson had been the victim of a lynching—the last one known in Virginia. In The Last Lynching in Northern Virginia, author Jim Hall pieces together Thompson’s life, the weeks-long manhunt to find him, and his final hours. He also details the lawless practice of lynching in Fauquier County. This true crime chronicle takes an in-depth look at Thompson’s case to expose a complex and disturbing chapter in Virginia history.

The WVU Coed Murders

Author : Geoffrey C. Fuller
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439673969
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book The WVU Coed Murders written by Geoffrey C. Fuller and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-04 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some said that the killer couldn't be a local. Others claimed that he was the wealthy son of a prominent Morgantown family. Whispers spread that Mared and Karen were sacrificed by a satanic cult or had been victims of a madman poised to strike again. Then the handwritten letters began to arrive: "You will locate the bodies of the girls covered over with brush--look carefully. The animals are now on the move." Investigators didn't find too few suspects--they had far too many. There was the campus janitor with a fur fetish, the "harmless" deliveryman who beat a woman nearly to death, the nursing home orderly with the bloody broomstick and the bouncer with the "girlish" laugh who threatened to cut off people's heads. Local authors Geoffrey C. Fuller and S. James McLaughlin tell the complete story of the murders for the first time.

Murder in Roanoke County: Race and Justice in the 1891 Susan Watkins Case

Author : John D. Long
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 146714410X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Murder in Roanoke County: Race and Justice in the 1891 Susan Watkins Case written by John D. Long and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A drama played out in the mountains of southwestern Virginia in 1891 that attracted nationwide attention and held the citizens of the Roanoke Valley spellbound. It was a story of violence, bigamy, race and a quest for justice. The tale of the trial of Charles Watkins for the murder of his wife was marked by threats of lynching, a fugitive manhunt, a disappearing witness, mistaken identities, claims of insanity and finally a secret letter to break the case wide open. In its day, the story was as closely followed as a modern televised murder trial. Despite the rapt attention of the public then, it has entirely faded from the history books--until now. Historian John Long resurrects the truth of who killed Susan Watkins. Did her rival for a man's love get away with murder?

Murder in Lexington

Author : Daniel Morrow
Publisher : True Crime
ISBN 13 : 9781609498962
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (989 download)

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Download or read book Murder in Lexington written by Daniel Morrow and published by True Crime. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The story of the famous Blackburn murder of 1854"--

Murder in the Mountains

Author : Bluefield Daily Telegraph/Register-Herald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781532388736
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (887 download)

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Download or read book Murder in the Mountains written by Bluefield Daily Telegraph/Register-Herald and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Special Kind of Evil

Author : Blaine Lee Pardoe
Publisher : Wildblue Press
ISBN 13 : 9781947290044
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book A Special Kind of Evil written by Blaine Lee Pardoe and published by Wildblue Press. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1980s, a predator stalked the Tidewater region of Virginia, savagely murdering his carefully selected his prey. He, or they, demonstrated a special kind of evil, and to this day have evaded justice. This is the first comprehensive look at the Colonial Parkway Murders and sheds new light on the victims, the crimes, and the investigation.

The Third Rainbow Girl

Author : Emma Copley Eisenberg
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 0316449202
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book The Third Rainbow Girl written by Emma Copley Eisenberg and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *** A NEW YORK TIMES "100 Notable Books of 2020" *** A stunning, complex narrative about the fractured legacy of a decades-old double murder in rural West Virginia—and the writer determined to put the pieces back together. In the early evening of June 25, 1980 in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, two middle-class outsiders named Vicki Durian, 26, and Nancy Santomero, 19, were murdered in an isolated clearing. They were hitchhiking to a festival known as the Rainbow Gathering but never arrived. For thirteen years, no one was prosecuted for the “Rainbow Murders” though deep suspicion was cast on a succession of local residents in the community, depicted as poor, dangerous, and backward. In 1993, a local farmer was convicted, only to be released when a known serial killer and diagnosed schizophrenic named Joseph Paul Franklin claimed responsibility. As time passed, the truth seemed to slip away, and the investigation itself inflicted its own traumas—-turning neighbor against neighbor and confirming the fears of violence outsiders have done to this region for centuries. In The Third Rainbow Girl, Emma Copley Eisenberg uses the Rainbow Murders case as a starting point for a thought-provoking tale of an Appalachian community bound by the false stories that have been told about. Weaving in experiences from her own years spent living in Pocahontas County, she follows the threads of this crime through the complex history of Appalachia, revealing how this mysterious murder has loomed over all those affected for generations, shaping their fears, fates, and desires. Beautifully written and brutally honest, The Third Rainbow Girl presents a searing and wide-ranging portrait of America—divided by gender and class, and haunted by its own violence.

Under the Trestle

Author : Ron Peterson Jr.
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1532063504
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Under the Trestle written by Ron Peterson Jr. and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Under The Trestle” is the true story of the most compelling murder case in Virginia history. In 1980, beautiful Gina Renee Hall, a Radford University freshman, went to a Virginia Tech nightclub on a Saturday night. She was never seen again. Her abandoned car was found parked beneath a railroad trestle bridging the New River, with blood in the trunk. The investigation led police to a secluded cabin on Claytor Lake, where there was evidence of a violent attack. Former Virginia Tech football player Stephen Epperly was charged with murder, despite the fact that Gina’s body was never found. In Virginia’s “trial of the century,” prosecutor Everett Shockley presented an entirely circumstantial case. Key witnesses against Epperly included his best friend, his mother and a tracking dog handler later believed by many to be a fraud. Three former Virginia Tech football players testified, including a Hokies quarterback once featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated. Would Epperly become the first person in Virginia history convicted of murder without the victim’s body, an eyewitness or a confession? And would authorities ever find the body of Gina Renee Hall?

Virginia Hill, Mafia Queen

Author : Ruth Kanton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book Virginia Hill, Mafia Queen written by Ruth Kanton and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-06 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginia Hill would be found dead at the age of forty-nine, 5,000 miles away from her hometown of Lipscomb, Alabama. She had left behind a suicide note that she was "tired of life"...But the police authorities had no idea what kind of life Virginia led... She had left her small town in Alabama to journey out west. Once there, her beauty would capture the attention of numerous powerful men which included gangster Bugsy Siegel and she would eventually be called to testify at a Senate hearing on the mafia. The small town girl from Alabama would become America's most well known Mafia Queen. This is her story.

A Special Kind of Evil

Author : Blaine L. Pardoe
Publisher : WildBlue Press
ISBN 13 : 1942266995
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book A Special Kind of Evil written by Blaine L. Pardoe and published by WildBlue Press. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling coauthors uncover new information in the Colonial Parkway Murders of 1980s Virginia in this true crime investigation. For four years a killer, or killers, stalked Virginia’s Tidewater region, carefully selecting victims and terrorizing the local community. Again and again, young people in the prime of their lives were targeted. But the pattern that stitched these killings together was more like a spider web of theory, intrigue, and mathematics. Then, mysteriously, the killing spree stopped. The unknown predator, or predators, who stalked the Colonial Parkway seemingly disappeared. Now, father-daughter true crime authors Blaine Pardoe and Victoria Hester blow the dust off of these cases. Interviewing the victims’ family and friends, as well as members of law enforcement, they provide the most complete and in-depth look at these horrifying murders and disappearances. The author-investigators peel back the rumors and myths surrounding these crimes and provide new information never before revealed about the investigations. “Remarkable research and a compelling narrative…relentless and harrowing.”—Burl Barer, author of Betrayal in Blue

Mysteries and Legends of Virginia

Author : Emilee Hines
Publisher : Globe Pequot
ISBN 13 : 9780762758753
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (587 download)

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Download or read book Mysteries and Legends of Virginia written by Emilee Hines and published by Globe Pequot. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of our new and growing Mysteries and Legends series, Mysteries and Legends of Virginia explores unusual phenomena, strange events, and mysteries in Virginia s history. Each episode included in the book is a story unto itself, and the tone and style of the book is lively and easy to read for a general audience interested in Virginia history."

Alice and Gerald

Author : Ron Franscell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1633885127
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (338 download)

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Download or read book Alice and Gerald written by Ron Franscell and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Would you kill for love? True-crime master Ron Franscell tells the grisly story of Alice and Gerald Uden, a loving couple who murdered at least four people, and live happily ever after--while cops try for decades to piece together a petrifying tale of murder and secrets. The appalling details are made even more vivid by the author's familiarity with the Wyoming times and places that formed the backdrop of his national bestseller The Darkest Night. In 1974, Alice, a desperate young mother in a gritty Wyoming boomtown, kills her husband and dumps his body where it will never be found, then slips away and starts a new life. But when her new man's ex-wife and two kids start demanding more of him, Alice delivers an ultimatum: Fix the problem or lose her forever. With Alice's help, Gerald "fixes" the problem in an extraordinarily ghastly way . . . and they live happily ever after. That is, until 2013, almost forty years later, when somebody finds a dead man's skeleton in a place where Alice thought he'd never be found. This page-turner by bestselling true-crime author Ron Franscell revisits a shocking cold case that was finally solved just when the murderers thought they'd never be caught.