More shocking stories of murders of rich and famous celebrities! Hollywood is the place where dreams are made. Yet, it can also be the source of many nightmares as well. Many are surprised to learn of all of the tragic deaths that have been inflicted upon celebrities. Have you ever heard the phrase "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous"? Well-here's a new twist for you: what about "Deathstyles of the Rich and Famous"? Because here in this book we go down the list of some of the most notorious murders of the fabulously wealthy, famous, or just downright infamous individuals that you'll likely ever hear of. Here in this book, we ask a lot of questions. We ask-for example-What really happened to a famous rapper, entrepreneur extraordinaire, Nipsey Hussle? Was he killed at random? Or was his death part of a larger conspiracy?One could ask the very same question about the odd execution-style hit that was made on British journalist Jill Dando. How come this beloved TV personality was gunned down on her doorstep for no apparent reason? Or have we just never uncovered the reason? And what about "The Voice" contestant Christina Grimmie? What really happened to her? This book takes a look at 15 cases just like these, notorious murders of those in the limelight...take a peek... and find out. Scroll back up and click the BUY NOW button at the top right side of this page to order your copy now!
There's never a good time to die violently, but Christmas tragedies are especially heinous.Christmas is a time for Peace on Earth and Good Will Toward Men. Holiday bloodshed feels like a sacrilege, but it does happen. Whether by accident or deliberate malice, scores of people have been killed on December 25 or the days surrounding it. This volume contains seven accounts of unnatural deaths that occurred on or around Christmas Day: The Ashland Tragedy: On December 24, 1881, three burned corpses were pulled from a house in Ashland, Kentucky. They belonged to teenagers Robert Gibbons, Fannie Gibbons, and Emma Carrico, who had all been bludgeoned to death. The girls had also been sexually assaulted. A formerly quiet Kentucky town was plunged into a nightmare fueled by grief and lust for revenge. Christmas Eve Combustion: On Christmas Day, 1885, Patrick Rooney and his wife were found dead in their home in Seneca, Illinois. Rooney died from smoke inhalation, caused by his wife's body suddenly bursting into flames. It is an early and sensational case of spontaneous human combustion. Delia's Gone: Early on Christmas morning in 1900, fourteen-year-old Moses "Cooney" Houston murdered his lover, Delia Green, who was the same age. Because Georgia had no youth justice system, Cooney Houston was charged as an adult. The senseless crime shocked the citizens of Savannah, Georgia, and inspired songs later recorded by Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan. The Holyhead Horror: On Christmas Day, 1909, a horrific murder took place in North Wales. Gwen-Ellen Jones was killed by her ex-soldier lover, William Murphy, in a manner so depraved that even in an era when domestic violence was commonplace, people were shocked. The murder and subsequent execution of William Murphy are still talked about in Holyhead today. Changing of the Guard: Early on the morning of December 26, 1920, New York underworld legend Edward "Monk" Eastman, was shot down by a crooked Prohibition agent, ending a thirty-plus year career marked by murder and mayhem. Eastman, who had once ruled the roost in Manhattan's Lower East Side, died in a freezer gutter. The Adonis Club Massacre: December 25, 1925 was the last Christmas on earth for Irish gangster Richard "Pegleg" Lonergan. He and his White Hand gang had taunted, abused, and killed their Italian rivals for years. Finally, when Lonergan and his boys went to the Italian-owned Adonis Social Club, their resentful enemies got even. Lawson Family Massacre: On December 25, 1929, North Carolina tobacco farmer Charlie Lawson murdered his wife and six of their seven children. The reason for this brutal act is a subject of debate even today, but may be attributable to a terrible family secret that remained hidden until 1990. All of these events took place in the distant past. People who knew the victims, remembered the circumstances of their demise, or were directly involved in the investigations are dead. That's why these cases were chosen for this book. The passage of time has transmuted them into tragic mysteries, ensuring that they arouse astonishment, sympathy, and indignation instead of the grief and personal loss that is at odds with the holiday season. Scroll back up and grab your copy today!
Astonishingly Wrongful convictions that led to rethinking capital punishment Ever since DNA evidence started exonerating death row inmates, public concern about wrongful executions has been on the rise. It has been such a source of worry that some states have abolished the death penalty entirely. Although we want to believe that the criminal justice system designed to protect us is infallible, mistakes can be and are made. The ultimate tragedy is when an innocent person is executed for a crime that he or she didn't commit.Inside find three stories of wrongful executions in the UK, where justice was swift and limitless appeals were not supported. In one case the person was actually exonerated forty-six years after being hanged. Eliza Fenning and the Devilish Dumplings In March 1815, the entire household of Robert Turner, a London law stationer, was struck by a mysterious illness. When a search was made for its cause, a substance believed to be arsenic was found in the dish used to mix up yeast dumplings the family had eaten for dinner. Although she had fallen ill too, Eliza Fenning, the twenty-one-year-old maid who had prepared the dumplings, was charged with attempted murder and hanged. Her execution is still regarded as one of Britain's worst miscarriages of justice.The Messalina of IlfordEdith Thompson and her younger lover, Frederick Bywaters, were executed in January 1923 for the murder of Edith's husband. Although Mr. Bywaters confessed and insisted that Mrs. Thompson had nothing to do with the murder, she was held equally responsible for the crime because of some letters that expressed hostile intent toward her overbearing spouse. Her supporters believed that she had really been condemned for being an adulteress. There is currently a campaign in process to win her a posthumous royal pardon."Let Him Have It"On January 28, 1953, nineteen-year-old Derek Bentley was hanged at Wandsworth Prison for the murder of a Metropolitan Police constable. Bentley had not fired the fatal shot, but his sixteen-year-old accomplice was too young to receive the death penalty, so the mentally impaired Bentley went to the gallows instead. In 1998, thanks to four decades of vigorous campaigning by his family, he received a posthumous pardon. His execution was instrumental in the abolition of capital punishment in the UK.It is too late to save these victims of wrongful execution, but the time has come to accept that, regardless of our individual feelings about the death penalty, all future debates on the subject must proceed with the knowledge that innocent people have been put to death.Scroll back up and grab your copy today!
Agreeing or not with the death penalty, death row killers committed some of the most atrocious crimes ever and are awaiting their execution on death row. Meet some of the evilest and heinous death row killers today.It's a hard thing to comprehend. Innocent life is taken, and a cold-blooded killer has absolutely no remorse. It is for such heinous individuals that society usually reserves its harshest of penalties. For there are some crimes and some criminals that simply seem to go beyond the pale. These murderers not only kill but do so in such a depraved manner that public outrage builds to a fever pitch until the only thing that will satiate the desire for justice is the death penalty.Here in this book, we will go over a wide variety of death penalty cases. Some of them involve infamous serial killers such as the Grim Sleeper; in others, like that of Lisa Montgomery-who killed a pregnant woman and surgically removed her baby-the circumstances were simply so malicious that the crime was judged to merit death. The motives for the crime vary as well, but the sentences don't. Here you will find some of the most notorious killers ever to sit on death row.Scroll back up and click the BUY NOW button at the top right side of this page to order your copy now!
Discover the most wicked serial killers of the 1960s, one of the worst decades of true crime and heinous serial murderers America has ever known.The 1960s was a time of cultural revolution. The music was as intense as the politics and everyone was looking forward to a summer of love. But some troubled souls took a wrong turn on the way to Woodstock and walked down the dark road of the serial killer. This decade was the first in which the term "serial killer" was used-and the first in which the general public became aware that such homicidal wolves were indeed roving about in their midst. This book follows some of the most notorious serial murder cases of the era. From the Zodiac Killer to the Moor Murders, we take a look at some of the worst serial killers of the 1960s.Inside you will discover 12 true crime case files of the most vile serial killers of the 1960s including: The Case of the Walking CorpseThe Measuring ManThe Serial Killer with a Foot FetishThe Moors MurdersPoland's ManiacThe Pied Piper of TucsonAnd more!Scroll back up and click the BUY NOW button at the top right side of this page for an immediate download!
Serial killers fascinates...Extreme cases even more soFrom John Wayne Gacy to Jeffrey Dahmer, many of America's most famous murderers have entered into the collective cultural consciousness. They have become pop culture figures, famous for their crimes and the violent nature of their acts. People feel compelled to understand more about these dark and twisted crimes, even when they disgust. For audiences everywhere, the very idea that these people can exist and operate in day-to-day life becomes an issue of abject terror and interest. That your neighbor, your boss, or your gas station attendant might be in the midst of a killing spree taps into something primal and very hard to imagine. It reflects the darkest side of the human psyche. "Serial Killer" as a term can be difficult to define. Different criminal investigation units typically require two, three, or more attributable killings over a period of time before an individual can be considered to have joined the ranks of the serial killers. However, it is not really the numbers which can interest so many people and scare others. Instead, it is the often random nature of the killings. Rather than crimes of passion, crimes of financial reward, or instances when an individual has reached their end of their emotional tether, the crimes of serial killers have often been planned days, weeks, or months in advance. Targets can be random, but the killings are often planned in great detail. From cannibalism to mental health concerns, from ritualistic witchcraft to a simple interest in violence, learning what motivates these people can offer both insight and further confusion.The cases presented in this book are extreme cases and display to what extent a serial killer can go...Read the stories of little known serial killers that went beyond the limit of our imagination to perpetrate vile unremorseful murders in the blink of an eye. The book details ten cases more horrifying one from the other: The isolated loner who butchered women and scattered their remains across AlaskaThe killer who hurled huge stones through his victim's headsColombia's most violent serial killerThe police investigator who was secretly a serial killerThe woman who murdered hundreds of adopted babiesA month-long killing spree from the former mental health patientThe letter-writing cannibal of old New YorkThe killer tried inside an iron cage for the court's protectionA man who earned the trust of tourists and killed them for their moneyThe man whose hammer and knife created a campaign of terrorScroll back up and order your copy today!
A killer on the loose in Spokane, this is the true story of serial killer Robert Lee Yates Jr.The United States of America is a complicated country. Home to many of the world's best-loved cultural icons and achievements, the nation has a darker side. With one of the highest murder rates per capita in the so-called developed world, the country has played home to some of the most violent deaths in recorded memory. Out of this spectrum of death emerges a very specific subset of criminals. The serial killers. More than any other country, America is home to a high number of mass murderers who have moved beyond the pale of regular morality.In this book, we will examine the life and crimes of Robert Lee Yates. Though he might not be as well-known as many of the country's other serial killers, his violent crimes nevertheless left a savage impact. A veteran of the United States Army, he retired from the military and turned his penchant for violence to another end. In this book, we will attempt to discover why he made such a switch. What prompted a veteran and family man to start murdering women later in his life?In the record books, Yates is linked with the murders of sixteen victims. The majority of these victims were female sex workers, people who operated on the fringes of society, part of an ignored and disenfranchised underworld that Yates plunged into.For two years, in the Washington area, one man was able to carry out a campaign of vicious murders, leaving a trail of bodies in his wake. This is the story of Robert Lee Yates, the family he left behind, and the women he killed. It should be noted at this juncture that several names might have been changed to preserve the privacy of their real counterparts. Every action in the story, however, is true.Scroll back up and grab your copy today!
Keith Hunter Jesperson, The Sad Story of the Happy Face Killer Stories about serial killers are incredibly popular. Tracking down a mass murderer is a constant plot line in films, television, and literature. But these stories are so often based on real life. In certain circumstances, however, real life goes a step beyond what we could imagine happening in fiction. Sometimes, the actions of a serial killer can seem so extreme and strange, their motivations so twisted and evil, that we struggle to comprehend exactly how they fit into the modern world. In the case of Keith Hunter Jesperson, the truth behind his murder spree is more horrific than anything dreamt up by Hollywood's best screenwriters. After a disturbing childhood left the giant of a man riddled with emotional and psychological scars, Jesperson travelled across Canada and spent time strangling and killing women whom he met along the way. While he was only convicted of eight murders, his own boasts suggest that total could have reached as high as 160. As a truck driver, he had the perfect cover story for travelling from town to town without having to put down roots. Often leaving an unsuspecting family at home, he was out in the wilderness committing heinous acts without anyone from the authorities coming close to suspecting his guilt. Jesperson, annoyed by the lack of attention he was receiving, began to leave messages to the public. Scrawled onto the walls of truck stop bathrooms, he signed each confession with a happy, smiley face. This led the media to christening him the Happy Face Killer. It was decades before the investigators came close to catching the killer, so read on to discover just how Keith Hunter Jesperson managed to get away with numerous horrific murders. This is the story of the Happy Face Killer. Scroll back up and grab your copy today!
Meet Cary Stayner, a serial killer who once terrorized the grounds of Yosemite National Park. Yosemite National Park is a great place to take in the fresh air of nature and is filled with plenty of great tourist sites. In the late 1990s, however, a local handyman by the name of Cary Stayner forever marred this place of fun and recreation with a series of brutal killings which took place right on the park grounds. Folks were disappearing from the park, and no one seemed to know where they went. The discovery of the burned-out husk of a car in the meantime, with the charred remains of two park visitors in the trunk, would raise more questions than answers. This book explores the grisly crimes, as well as the intensive investigation that followed. Scroll back up and click the BUY NOW button at the top right side of this page to order your paperback copy now!
We could swear some people are incapable of murdering another human being. Serial killer Ronald Dominique was also known as the Bayou killer was such a man. With an exterior that seems almost normal and some would say pitiful, this serial murderer was on a mission, not one anyone could have ever imagined... Some killers are truly surprising to find. Ronald J. Dominique is one such killer. Read this book to find out about how he came to be one of the most terrible people to walk on this planet.They say that the perpetrators of the very worst of deeds are often the people you'd least suspect. This was certainly true of Ted Bundy; he was a handsome, charming man whom many liked and respected. It was also true of accused Canadian serial killer Bruce McArthur, who had many friends and was well connected. No one expected that he might be capable of such violence. But then, what about Ronald Dominique?Nobody expected such things from him, either-but for slightly different reasons. It wasn't because Dominique was charming; he was generally considered ugly and uncouth. Nor was it because he had a good job and was well connected-he delivered pizza and worked as a meter reader. So why is it that no one suspected this man of doing such horrible things? Simply because he seemed too pathetic to pull them off.To those who knew him, he was just a simpleton eking out a meager existence-but Ronald Dominique proved to be much smarter than anyone imagined. Ending the lives of 23 men and evading detection for over a decade, he became one of the most prolific serial killers on record.In this book, we'll explore the startlingly complex machinations of that warped mind. Dominique was a misfit who never quite fit into normal society. For the most part, he was ignored and sidelined. As this slovenly character delivered your pizza and read your meter, he didn't merit a second glance. But as this book details, there was much more to this crazed killer than met the eye.Scroll back up and grab your copy today!
Discover the story of the Dating Game Killer, Rodney James Alcala, a serial murderer like no others. This true crime case will leave you speechless...Serial killers seem to be everywhere. There is no state in the US without at least one. There are few countries in the world that haven't had a serial killer in their midst. We continue to be fascinated by them, what drives them, how can we protect ourselves, and our loved ones against them?This is the true story of one American serial killer who has gained worldwide notoriety. His story is one of clever manipulation, preying on the young and innocent, and the ability to charm almost everyone he met. He was even the winning contestant on a 1970's game show that gave him his moniker.Behind his outward appearance and his glib tongue, however, lurked an evil that no one suspected. He was able to talk his way out of prison more than once, traveling around the country freely, changing his name to avoid discovery.Finally, once caught, his story continues for years as he tries to gain release from prison and the multiple death penalties still hanging over his head.Rodney Alcala is a dangerous, delusional man who should never be allowed to leave his prison. Perhaps his story will be a cautionary tale for others out there who need help but never quite seem to get it.Scroll back up and grab your copy today!
Discover the most notorious female serial killers of all time! These women serial killers committed some of the evilest and shocking murders there are. This book tells their story.If you were to think of a killer, what's the first thing that would come to mind? Is it a hulking figure with bulging biceps and a deep, gravelly voice? Well, what about a kind, sweet old lady? Or what about an attractive young girl who looks like she could be a supermodel? Such images may not match the popular conception of serial killers, but there are indeed killers who fit this profile. Women are less likely to commit murder, yes, but in the small club of female serial killers that exists, there are some rather outrageous characters.Just take the case of the female professional wrestler from Mexico, Juana Barraza. She wrestled other women in the ring by day and wrung their necks by night. There's also the stunning story of Sharon Kinne, who killed her husband, one of her lovers, and one of her lover's wives-one after the other. Not only that-she escaped from prison and hasn't been seen since! Here in this book, we take a look at Women Gone Mad, highlighting some of the most notorious female serial killers the world has ever known.Scroll back up and click the BUY NOW button at the top right side of this page to order your copy now!
Part one of a serial by a ten year old home educated scholar. Îhil Gidnol was platforming and texting on his new jPhone, when he bumped into a billboard that said "Don't text while platforming!" Fortunately he had slowed down to 5 miles per hour while texting, and just sat down hard. "Darned signs!" he grumbled as he picked himself up "There's one of them every 20 feet." He continued a bit more carefully and managed to get home before rush hour. He was at a loss at what to do next. He had just passed into manhood. "What next?" He asked himself aloud. Then he decided that, before money ran out, he'd better get himself employed. Little did he dream what adventures his first job would lead to!
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