Ann Rule's crime files
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Ann Rule's crime files volume 1
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Includes the cases of convicted murderers Randy Roth, Charles Rodman Campbell, Cynthia Marler, Ken Burke, and Richard Marquette.
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An explosive love triangle that led to obsession and murder in a small town in the north-west of America. Ann Rule reveals the story of an alluring wife and the two men desperate for her love; a story with a bizarre and deadly twists that no one could have suspected. In this and several other riveting true-crime cases from her personal files, Ann masterfully probes the delusions of the criminal mind.
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Best-selling true crime author Rule tells the story of computer businessman David Brown, a "complete sociopath" who manipulated his 14-year-old daughter, Cinnamon, into murdering his 23-year-old wife in Orange County, California in 1985. Brown collected some $800,000 in insurance money and married his wife's 17-year-old sister while Cinnamon went to the reformatory. Despite her "confession," prosecuting investigator Jay Newell felt uneasy about Cinnamon's...
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Ann Rule's crime files volume 8
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The title case is an account of the life and crimes of Dr. Anthony Pignataro, a cosmetic surgeon with a penchant for forged credentials, botched surgeries, to the attempted arsenic poisoning of his wife. Four other true cases follow.
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Ann Rule's crime files volume 11
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A ship's pilot legendary for guiding mammoth freighters through the narrows of Puget Sound, Rolf Neslund was a proud Norwegian, a ladies' man, and beloved resident of Washington State's idyllic Lopez Island. Virtually indestructible even into his golden years, he made electrifying headlines more than once: after a ship he was helming crashed into the soaring West Seattle Bridge, causing millions in damages; and following his inexplicable disappearances...
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Ann Rule's crime files volume 13
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The author lends her razor sharp insight into these cases of the spouse, lover, family member, or helpful stranger who is totally trusted but whose lethally violent nature, though masterfully disguised, can & will kill.
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Ann Rule's crime files volume 14
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The fourteenth volume in Ann Rule's True Crime Files series features a chilling collection of real cases where unsuspecting victims suffered wiolent crimes - at the hands of a spouse, lover, family member, or helful stranger. While the crimes portrayed in this volume are tragic, perhaps most terrifying is that none of the victims had any sense of danger, never realizing there were masterfully disguised killers walking beside them in their daily lives....
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Focuses on stories of people in danger, sometimes from strangers and sometimes from the people they know and love. The main story, “North to Alaska,” features a tangled web of two families and some sensational detective work thirty years after a murder. It is, quite literally, a case that begins with bare bones.