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Book Synopsis Murder in the Graveyard: A Brutal Murder. A Wrongful Conviction. A 27-Year Fight for Justice. by : Don Hale
Download or read book Murder in the Graveyard: A Brutal Murder. A Wrongful Conviction. A 27-Year Fight for Justice. written by Don Hale and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping true crime investigation into the longest miscarriage of justice in British legal history.
Download or read book The Scapegoat written by Don Hale and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping true crime investigation into the longest miscarriage of justice in British legal history. In September 1973, Stephen Downing was convicted and indefinitely sentenced for the murder of Wendy Sewell, a young legal secretary in the town of Bakewell in the Peak District. Wendy was attacked in broad daylight in Bakewell Cemetery. Stephen Downing, the 17-year-old groundskeeper with learning difficulties and a reading age of 11, was the primary suspect. He was immediately arrested, questioned for nine hours, without a solicitor present, and pressured into signing a confession full of words he did not understand. 21 years later, local newspaper editor Don Hale was thrust into the case. Determined to take it to appeal, as he investigated the details, he found himself inextricably linked to the narrative. He faced obstacles at every turn, and suffered several attempts on his life. All of this merely strengthened his resolve: why should anyone threaten him if Downing had committed the crime? In 2002, Stephen Downing was finally acquitted, having served 27 years in prison. Immerse yourself in this masterful account of Hale's long, dedicated and often dangerous campaign to rescue a long-forgotten victim of the British legal system; the longest miscarriage of justice in British history.
Book Synopsis Unsolved Murders of the UK by : Phil Drake
Download or read book Unsolved Murders of the UK written by Phil Drake and published by Pen and Sword True Crime. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unsolved Murders of the UK: Cold cases from 1951 to Present Day delves into the mysterious and haunting cases of individuals who were brutally taken from this world, yet their killers were never brought to justice. From mysterious disappearances to seemingly motiveless killings, as well as other cases that continue to perplex law enforcement, this book takes a closer look at the victims, the crimes and the police investigations, as well as the theories surrounding each case. With a focus on the cold cases that have remained unsolved for decades, this book offers a comprehensive examination of the most intriguing and disturbing murders in the UKs recent history. Join us as we explore the twisted minds of the killers and the relentless pursuit of justice for the victims and their families. This book will captivate true crime enthusiasts and armchair detectives alike.
Book Synopsis The Wheels Of Justice by : Renee Fehr
Download or read book The Wheels Of Justice written by Renee Fehr and published by Wildblue Press. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine." Renee Fehr knew that Gregory Houser killed her sister Sheryl. There was not a single doubt in her mind. Yet for 27 years Houser walked free. But Renee wouldn't rest until he was convicted for murder. THE WHEELS OF JUSTICE is equal parts the story of a monstrous killer, a harrowing look at domestic violence, and an inspirational story of a family that wouldn't quit until justice prevailed.
Download or read book For John written by Jane Soyka and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late summer of 2017, my son John was brutally murdered, his mutilated body found a month and a half later buried in a shallow grave in a remote area west of Albuquerque, New Mexico. This writing is a contemporaneous account of my journey through the justice system. I attended every hearing at both the state and federal level, which dragged on for over three years after my son's killing.The police department, the FBI, the District Attorneys and the Federal Prosecutors in New Mexico all agreed this crime spree was the most heinous and disturbing thing they've had to deal with in all their collective careers. It involved not only John, but the kidnapping and torture of John's best friend. The main perpetrator was the craziest, most evil monster one can recall since Charles Manson. Join me as this unbelievable but true ordeal unfolds, from the first homicide indictments in the New Mexico Second District Court to the final sentencings in U.S. Federal Court in Santa Fe.
Book Synopsis Survived by One by : Robert E. Hanlon
Download or read book Survived by One written by Robert E. Hanlon and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On November 8, 1985, 18-year-old Tom Odle brutally murdered his parents and three siblings in the small southern Illinois town of Mount Vernon, sending shockwaves throughout the nation. The murder of the Odle family remains one of the most horrific family mass murders in U.S. history. Odle was sentenced to death and, after seventeen years on death row, expected a lethal injection to end his life. However, Illinois governor George Ryan’s moratorium on the death penalty in 2000, and later commutation of all death sentences in 2003, changed Odle’s sentence to natural life. The commutation of his death sentence was an epiphany for Odle. Prior to the commutation of his death sentence, Odle lived in denial, repressing any feelings about his family and his horrible crime. Following the commutation and the removal of the weight of eventual execution associated with his death sentence, he was confronted with an unfamiliar reality. A future. As a result, he realized that he needed to understand why he murdered his family. He reached out to Dr. Robert Hanlon, a neuropsychologist who had examined him in the past. Dr. Hanlon engaged Odle in a therapeutic process of introspection and self-reflection, which became the basis of their collaboration on this book. Hanlon tells a gripping story of Odle’s life as an abused child, the life experiences that formed his personality, and his tragic homicidal escalation to mass murder, seamlessly weaving into the narrative Odle’s unadorned reflections of his childhood, finding a new family on death row, and his belief in the powers of redemption. As our nation attempts to understand the continual mass murders occurring in the U.S., Survived by One sheds some light on the psychological aspects of why and how such acts of extreme carnage may occur. However, Survived by One offers a never-been-told perspective from the mass murderer himself, as he searches for the answers concurrently being asked by the nation and the world.
Book Synopsis The Case of Stephen Downing by : Stephen Downing
Download or read book The Case of Stephen Downing written by Stephen Downing and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2020-02-19 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The memoir of a man wrongfully convicted of murder and his 27 years spent in the U.K. prison system until his conviction was overturned. On September 12, 1973, seventeen-year-old, naïve gardener Stephen Downing returned from his lunch break to discover the badly beaten, unconscious, thirty-two-year-old Wendy Sewell lying on the footpath of Bakewell Cemetery close to Catcliff Wood and the consecrated chapel where she had been attacked. Stephen ran to the nearby workmen’s building, and in the meantime Wendy’s attacker returned and dragged her body to a second location where she was subsequently found soon after. Despite having learning difficulties, Downing was immediately taken into custody, questioned at length without a solicitor, and eventually signed a false confession statement. Wendy died some two days later from her injuries. Following a very biased, three-day trial during February, 1974, Downing was found guilty by a jury, convicted, and sentenced to what was eventually a full life sentence. Just eight months later during October, 1974, there followed an appeal with fresh evidence from an eye witness who saw Wendy Sewell alive after Downing left the cemetery for lunch. However, the prosecution trashed this evidence, and the appeal failed. In the years following Downing’s incarceration, he was moved from prison to prison, continuing to maintain his innocence—and in doing so, jeopardizing any chance of parole, as he was “In Denial of Murder”—until eventually his plight reached journalist Don Hale. Hale’s tireless efforts led to an appeal in which Downing was released after some twenty-seven years, the longest miscarriage of justice in the United Kingdom’s legal history.
Book Synopsis The Man Who Murdered My Mother by : Tina Ann Healey
Download or read book The Man Who Murdered My Mother written by Tina Ann Healey and published by Black Rose Writing. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A compelling true tale of crime and punishment told from the point of view of the victim’s child.” –Sublime Book Review When I was two years old, my mother, Donna Litchfield was brutally murdered by Stephen Moore. My mother had broken up with Stephen—her boyfriend, at the time—only a day prior to being killed. A jury found Stephen guilty of the stabbing murder and the judge sentenced him to life in prison. Moore was sent to the maximum-security Trenton State Prison. Stephen Moore escaped from Trenton State Prison and was on the run for five years. After he turned himself in, he was shipped off to a mental institution, which closed a few years ago. He was then sent to a private mental institution. Moore’s sentence was overturned: not guilty by reason of insanity.
Book Synopsis Darker Than Night by : Tom Henderson
Download or read book Darker Than Night written by Tom Henderson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When two friends vanish during a hunting trip in Michigan, the police are unable to prove anything until two decades later, a detective finds an eyewitness whose testimony leads to the conviction of two brothers, Raymond and Donald Duvall, for murder.
Book Synopsis Dancin' with the Devil at Midnight by : Quimby Melton (III)
Download or read book Dancin' with the Devil at Midnight written by Quimby Melton (III) and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-23 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1983 Timothy Wayne Coggins, a young black man in a small middle Georgia community, was brutally and savagely murdered. The murder remained unsolved for 34 years until a small overlooked clue was discovered by an unyielding and determined district attorney, sheriff and their staffs. This first-hand account of the vicious murder traces the prejudice of the times, the lack of cooperation from the local law enforcement and a community that was sick and tired of being bullied by the brutish thug later convicted of murder. For after all it was the murder of, "just another black man,"This is the story of a community that rediscovered itself in the courtroom that hot summer day in June, 2018, when a thunderstorm rolled in and out of town. Prejudices were changed, forever, and the hopes for a new generation became fulfilled. "Dancin' with the Devil at Midnight," contains a timeline of the events leading up to and after the vicious murder. The book also encompasses face to face interviews with one of the killers. The author located numerous sources, both known and those who wished to remain anonymous, that wanted to "report the real story of the crime." Read this book with your eyes wide open. It is a story that will change your views about the rural south and how residents of this small community in middle Georgia became more understanding and empathetic after this senseless slaughter.Quimby Melton III was a journalist and publisher of the local newspaper, Griffin Daily News, when the crime occurred. He too has spent years trying to uncover the truth to this brutal slaying and answer the questions...who, what, when, where, and why. These are found in, "Dancin' with the Devil at Midnight. You won't want to put it down.
Book Synopsis Death of Justice by : Michael O' Brien
Download or read book Death of Justice written by Michael O' Brien and published by Y Lolfa. This book was released on 2013-01-18 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The harrowing autobiography of Michael O'Brien (one of the Cardiff Newsagent Three) who was imprisoned for 11 years for a murder he didn't commit. Michael received the largest payout ever by the police to anyone who has been wrongly convicted.
Download or read book Burned written by Edward Humes and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was a monstrous killer brought to justice or an innocent mother condemned? On an April night in 1989, Jo Ann Parks survived a house fire that claimed the lives of her three small children. Though the fire at first seemed a tragic accident, investigators soon reported finding evidence proving that Parks had sabotaged wiring, set several fires herself, and even barricade her four-year-old son inside a closet to prevent his escape. Though she insisted she did nothing wrong, Jo Ann Parks received a life sentence without parole based on the power of forensic fire science that convincingly proved her guilt. But more than a quarter century later, a revolution in the science of fire has exposed many of the incontrovertible truths of 1989 as guesswork in disguise. The California Innocence Project is challenging Parks's conviction and the so-called science behind it, claiming that false assumptions and outright bias convicted an innocent mother of a crime that never actually happened. If Parks is exonerated, she could well be the "Patient Zero" in an epidemic of overturned guilty verdicts—but only if she wins. Can prosecutors dredge up enough evidence and roadblocks to make sure Jo Ann Parks dies in prison? No matter how her last-ditch effort for freedom turns out, the scenes of betrayal, ruin, and hope will leave readers longing for justice we can trust.
Download or read book Raging On written by Paula May and published by WildBlue Press. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of First Degree Rage continues the ongoing true crime saga of obsessive jealousy, murder, and revenge in North Carolina. Police Officer L. C. Underwood terrorized his ex-fiancé Kay Weden and her son Jason. Though he evaded justice for a time, Detective Paula May uncovered the truth and saw him convicted for murdering Kay’s boyfriend, Viktor Gunnarsson. But was Underwood also responsible for the brutal murder of Kay’s mother, Catherine Miller? Now, despite being sentenced to life in prison plus forty years, Underwood vows to exact revenge on everyone he deems responsible for his arrest. He rages on, plotting his next move, enlisting others to wreak havoc in the lives of Kay, Jason, Detective May, and others. Will they ever find peace? Will Catherine Miller’s murder ever be solved? Will Underwood’s reign of terror ever be stopped?
Download or read book Grave Murder written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "She is a petite, innocent-looking young woman with fantasies of skinning and flaying human skin. He is a diagnosed schizophrenic who fantasises about committing cold-blooded murder. When they meet, they will plan and execute one of the most horrific crimes ever documented in this country. In April 2011, the sleepy gold-mining town of Welkom was deeply shocked when the dismembered, decapitated body of Michael van Eck was discovered buried in a shallow grave on the outskirts of the local cemetery. Was this a muti murder, the work of a deranged madman or part of a satanic ritual? For the investigators and psychologists involved, the mystery only deepened when a seemingly unlikely arrest was made: a soft-spoken girl next door and her intelligent, devoted fiancé. Joining forces with some of the country's most specialised experts in the occult and psychopathy, Lieutenant Ogies Nel of the Welkom Detective Unit and her colleagues in the South African Police Service unravelled one of the most brutal psychologically motivated murders ever committed in South Africa's crime history. As they uncovered the evidence, they exposed a most heinous deed, alarmingly similar to the crimes committed by serial killer Ed Gein, who had a preference for flaying his victims' skin. Grave Murder is the chilling account of how appearances can be very deceptive - how those who might seem innocent and harmless on the outside may hide some dark, disturbing secrets that are just waiting to be revealed." -- Back cover.
Download or read book Town Without Pity written by Don Hale and published by Don Hale. This book was released on 2002 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don Hale's fight to clear Stephen Downing of murder, and the trail of clues the authorities want to hide. In 1973, a woman was brutally murdered in a graveyard in a picturesque market town. Stephen Downing, aged seventeen but with the mental age of eleven, was working as a gardener in the graveyard. He was charged with the crime and served 27 years in prison. Six years ago, Don Hale, the editor of the local newspaper, began his own investigation into the murder. This is the story of one man trapped in a web of evil, and of another's courageous fight to free him.
Download or read book Angels of Death written by Gary C. King and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-09-15 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Accused: 13-year-old Derek King and his 12-year-old brother, Alex, Sunday school students with choirboy looks. After midnight on November 26, 2001, someone bludgeoned Terry King to death while he slept, and set his Florida home afire. By the time the firefighters extinguished the blaze, King's sons, Alex, 12, and Derek, 13, were at the home of their forty-year-old friend, Ricky Chavis, a convicted child-molester. By the next afternoon, following confessions, both boys were charged as adults in their father's slaying. Chavis was tried separately for the same crime-incredibly by the same attorney who would prosecute Alex and Derek, and argue two contradictory theories. The Victim: Their own father. When Alex divulged his sexual relationship with Chavis, the trial took a sensational turn. So did Alex and Derek, who recanted their confession and blamed Chavis to no avail. A jury convicted the boys of second-degree murder, but the judge threw the verdict out. Chavis was acquitted. But the case wasn't over. As more disturbing revelations came to light, as criminal motives became more complex, and as the line between guilt and innocence was crossed, a stunned nation watched in disbelief to learn the ultimate fate of the...Angels of Death.
Download or read book Black Clover written by C. Lee Ryder and published by Sunbury Press. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carl Wade Ryder-brother, son, and all-around good person-was murdered on August 5, 2006.Blood was found at his home in Franklin County, PA.All evidence pointed to one suspect: Scott North, a former employee of Carl's, a regular attendee of Franklin County courts, and the son of a Chambersburg, PA cop. After burglarizing a tavern, a judge granted him work release, and then another dismissed a recent gun charge. Days later, he ran from his unsupervised worksite and began a crime spree that may have ended with the murder of Carl Wade Ryder.The evidence was all there, but the police ignored most of it.With nowhere else to turn, the family scoured the byways and hillsides of Amberson, Path Valley, and other areas in adjoining counties in search of Carl's body. And finally, they found him in Huntingdon County, PA, 27 minutes away from his home.When his body was found, the police revisited the investigation-but only by expanding the murder case to Huntingdon County, despite the blood in Carl's home. For a year and a half, the case was passed off between the counties. With no help from officials, how could the Ryder family bring their beloved son & brother justice?Black Clover is the true story of the heart-wrenching small town murder of the author's brother and the lengths at which the legal system can be manipulated, if the family doesn't fight back.
