Tag: Murder

Free Download Bringing Ben Home: A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CN3R85DX | 2024 | 14 hours and 29 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 418 MB
Author: Barbara Bradley Hagerty
Narrator: Barbara Bradley Hagerty
How states are making their legal systems more equitable, seen through the story of a Black man falsely imprisoned for thirty years for murder. In 1987, Ben Spencer, a twenty-two-year-old Black man from Dallas, was convicted of murdering white businessman Jeffrey Young-a crime he didn’t commit. From the day of his arrest, Spencer insisted that it was "an awful mistake." The Texas legal system didn’t see it that way. It allowed shoddy police work, paid witnesses, and prosecutorial misconduct to convict Spencer of murder, and it ignored later efforts to correct this error. The state’s bureaucratic intransigence caused Spencer to spend more than half his life in prison. Eventually independent investigators, new witness testimony, the foreman of the jury that convicted him, and a new Dallas DA convinced a Texas judge that Spencer had nothing to do with the killing, and in 2021 he was released from prison. As Spencer’s fight to clear himself demonstrates, our legal systems are broken: expedience is more important than the truth.

Free Download John Nova Lomax, "Murder and Mayhem in Houston:: Historic Bayou City Crime"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1626195218, 1540210340 | EPUB | pages: 160 | 4.3 mb
When the Allen brothers sold Houston’s first lots, the city became a magnet for enterprising tycoons and opportunistic crooks alike. As the young city grew, a scourge of crime and vice accompanied the success of oil and real estate. The Bayou City’s seedy side-flashing Bowie knives, privileged bad boys, hardened prostitutes and unchecked serial killers-established its hold. From a young Clyde Barrow to the Man Who Killed Halloween," Houston’s past is filled with bloody tales, heartbreaking loss and despicable deeds. Authors Mike Vance and John Nova Lomax shine a light on these dark days."

Free Download Women Who Murder: An International Collection of Deadly True Crime Tales by Mitzi Szereto
English | March 12, 2024 | ISBN: 1684814650 | True EPUB | 256 pages | 1.1 MB
Female Serial Killers Through Time

Free Download Marion Collins, "The Palm Beach Murder"
English | 2004 | ISBN: 0312990863 | EPUB | pages: 288 | 0.2 mb
For thirty-three-year-old millionaire James Sullivan, sweeping Lita McClinton off her feet was easy. But when the reckless social climber and adulterer turned marriage in their Palm Beach mansion into a luxurious hell, the beautiful Georgia debutante wanted out-and half of her husband’s fortune to take with her.

Free Download Ruben Castaneda, "S Street Rising: Crack, Murder, and Redemption in D.C."
English | ISBN: 1620400049 | 2014 | 304 pages | AZW3 | 473 KB
During the height of the crack epidemic that decimated the streets of D.C., Ruben Castaneda covered the crime beat for the Washington Post. The first in his family to graduate from college, he had landed a job at one of the country’s premier newspapers. But his apparent success masked a devastating secret: he was a crack addict. Even as he covered the drug-fueled violence that was destroying the city, he was prowling S Street, a 24/7 open-air crack market, during his off hours, looking for his next fix.

Free Download Andrew Schanie, "Movie Confidential: Sex, Scandal, Murder and Mayhem in the Film Industry"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 1578603544 | EPUB | pages: 240 | 3.7 mb
Truth really is stranger than fiction – just look at the film industry. The product on the screen is no match for what goes on when the cameras stop rolling. Movie Confidential lays out the story-behind-the-story of Hollywood’s most sordid true tales. Encompassing sex, scandal, murder, and mayhem, it dishes the dirt on stars of the past and present. From what really happened in Fatty Arbuckle’s infamous room at the St. Francis Hotel to Eddie Murray’s "I was just giving her a ride" defense, from PCP-laced chowder on the set of Titanic to Judy Garland’s strange visions, to mysterious deaths, mistakes in filmmaking, and a multitude of other irresistible tales, this cheeky collection covers the gamut. Packed with photos and presented in the style of vintage scandal magazines from the 1950s, Movie Confidential is a compulsively readable look at filmdom’s seamy underbelly.

Free Download Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder: A Novel by Kerryn Mayne
English | July 9, 2024 | ISBN: 1250340101 | True EPUB | 352 pages | 5.95 MB
Lenny Marks is excellent at not having a life.

Free Download I Am on the Hit List: A Journalist’s Murder and the Rise of Autocracy in India by Rollo Romig
English | August 6th, 2024 | ISBN: 0143135287 | 400 pages | True EPUB | 4.76 MB
A gripping investigation into the mysterious assassination of a journalist in India, revealing the courage and vulnerability of those who are fighting the decline of democracy around the world

Free Download Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida by Mikita Brottman
English | July 23, 2024 | ISBN: 166802053X | True EPUB | 288 pages | 4.1 MB
From the critically acclaimed author dubbed "one of today’s finest practitioners of nonfiction" (The New York Times Book Review), a breathless true crime tale of sex, religion, and murder in the deep South.

Free Download Fire on the Levee: The Murder of Henry Glover and the Search for Justice after Hurricane Katrina by Jared Fishman, Joseph Hooper
English | April 25, 2023 | ISBN: 1335429263 | True EPUB | 480 pages | 0.7 MB
"A riveting tale told with care and expertise." -David Simon, creator of The Wire