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A search for the truth behind the DEA's life imprisonment of acid's most famous martyr. Operation White Rabbit traces the rise and fall-and rise and fall again-of the psychedelic community through the life of the man known as the “Acid King:” William Leonard Pickard. Pickard was a legitimate genius, a follower of Timothy Leary, a con artist, a womanizer, and a believer that LSD would save lives. He was a foreign diplomat, a Harvard fellow, and...
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In this episode, Harold Brandon continues his private war against the cartels, which takes him to the Yucatan peninsula in southern Mexico. His target is a "Don" and his murderous wife, the Senora Francesca, who ruthlessly rule the region together, inflicting unspeakable horrors on the locals and anyone else who stands in their way to maintain dominion over the region they control. Harold and his partner "Arty" team up with a CIA operative named Jeff...
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A thoroughly researched and authoritative page-turner about this unprecedented operation - and bust.Mark Coakley lifts the veil on the riveting story of a group of criminals - Ontario police would call them "a gang with no name" - whose most famous exploit was turning an abandoned Molson beer factory north of Toronto into a giant indoor jungle of cannabis. The operation produced tens of millions of dollars in profits and involved gun smuggling, slavery,...
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From the bestselling author of Pop Goes the Weasel, Red Herrings, New World Order, 9/11 Conspiracy and many more.
Robert Kennedy, JFK and the Death of Marilyn Monroe.
Who Didn't Kill Them? For five decades, the world has been, told that the killers of John F Kennedy and his brother Bobby were either already dead or languishing in prison.
Lee Harvey Oswald was shot the day after the assassination but the Warren Commission, set up to investigate...
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Treason, witchcraft, robbery and murder, just a few of the crimes that could incur the penalty of death in the early days of Britains justice system. Domestic violence was rife and alcohol was often the fuel that culminated in the murders of a wife or sweetheart. DNA, blood grouping & fingerpinting are now used to place a person at the scene of a crime. Before the use of forensics, evidence was often circumstantial and there is no doubt that in some...
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The Kray twins were Britain's most notorious gangsters. Ruling London's underworld for more than a decade, as gang lords they were among the most powerful and feared men in the city. Photographed by David Bailey and even interviewed for television, they became celebrities in their own right and are infamous to this day.
Ronnie and Reg's reign of terror ended on 8 March 1969 when they were sentenced to life with the recommendation that they serve at...
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Bestselling true crime author Edward Butts presents a rogues' gallery of desperadoes whose crimes range from robbery to murder. English bank robbers on the run turn up in Newfoundland. A legendary Nova Scotia detective matches wits with smugglers. In the West the Mounties track down bandits and rustlers. Vancouver police officers hunt down the bank-robbing Hyslop Gang in the 1930s. A decade later the Polka Dot Gang rampages across Southern Ontario....
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Février 2000. Mme Suzanne Viguier disparaît de sa résidence familiale à Toulouse. Malheureusement, les autorités n'ont pas immédiatement résolu cette énigme. Toutefois, un témoin anonyme décide de se lancer dans la recherche de la victime. Rapidement, il devient convaincu d'avoir découvert des éléments essentiels pour faire avancer l'enquête. Malgré les obstacles qui se dresseront sur son chemin, il persévérera avec détermination...
10) Lawyer X
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Underbelly meets Molly's Game - the true crime investigation that rewrote the story of Melbourne's infamous gangland war and triggered a royal commission.
Melbourne's gangland war was an era dominated by murders, stings, hits, drug busts, corruption and greed - inspiring bestselling books and even a popular TV series, Underbelly. It took the police a decade to curtail the violence and bring down criminal kingpins Carl Williams, Tony Mokbel and their...
11) True crime Japan: thieves, rascals, killers and dope heads : true stories from a Japanese courtroom
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"A middle-aged carpenter beats his 91-year old mother to death and goes to work the following day, leaving the body for his wife to find. An 82-year old woman is jailed for 10 months for stealing fried chicken. Like nearly all defendants in Japan, they both plead guilty. What happens between plea and sentencing is the subject of True Crime Japan. In this fascinating crime book journalist and longtime Japan resident Paul Murphy provides a glimpse of...
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Clarence "Preacher" Heatley struck fear into the hearts of New Yorkers for over a decade. He was the vicious, ruthless leader of the Preacher crew, a gang that specialized in drug trafficking, extortion, and intimidation. The gang allegedly called Heatley "Preacher" because of his dazzling way with words, and ability to manipulate people into following and fearing him. Heatley didn't only rule the streets through speeches, though. He threatened and...
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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...
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John forms his own international mafia ring, working with different factions all around the world, who then also stepped up to help him with hide-outs, fake passports, and transportation. From millionaire to fugitive and capture. Chapters on: John Gotti, Sr., John Gotti, Jr., Johnny Ruggiero, Frankie Burke, Rikers Island, Amored Cars, Crooked Cops, Money, Drugs, Phil Barone, Greg Reiter, Stolen Car, People Stuffed in Trunks, Ronnie One-Arm, Court...
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-John forms his own international mafia ring, working with different factions all around the world, who then also stepped up to help him with hide-outs, fake passports, and transportation.
-From millionaire to fugitive and capture. Bonus chapters and over 50 photos.
-Chapters on: John Gotti, Sr., John Gotti, Jr., Johnny Ruggiero, Frankie Burke, Rikers Island, Amored Cars, Crooked Cops, Money, Drugs, Phil Barone, Greg Reiter, Stolen Car,...
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In Breaking van Gogh, James Grundvig investigates the history and authenticity of van Gogh's iconic Wheat Field with Cypresses, currently on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Relying on a vast array of techniques from the study of the painter's biography and personal correspondence to the examination of the painting's style and technical characteristics, Grundvig proves that "the most expensive purchase" housed in the Met is a...
17) Billion dollar Hollywood heist: the A-list kingpin and the poker ring that brought down Tinseltown
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"Right out of the gate, the entire game was designed to empty the pockets of those rich, celeb-loving LA suckers."-Houston Curtis Leonardo DiCaprio. Alex Rodriguez. Tobey Maguire. Ben Affleck. Matt Damon. John Cassavetes. What do these people have in common? Not just fame and fortune; all these men are also alumni of the ultra-exclusive, high-stakes poker ring that inspired Aaron Sorkin's Oscar-nominated film, Molly's Game. But Houston Curtis,...
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The story of journalist Pete Crooks's exposé of a private- investigation firm notable for its staff of soccer moms, in which he found himself deep in the underbelly of fake sting operations, wannabe celebrities, police corruption, drug-dealing, reality television, double-crossing employees, and more twists and turns than a dozen crime thrillers.
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