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As seen on Investigation Discovery: the story of killer husband and father Robert Peernock from the New York Times–bestselling author of Impossible Odds. Robert Peernock appeared to have the ideal life. Working as a pyrotechnics engineer and computer expert and coming home to his wife and daughter, Peernock projected the American dream. Even when he and his wife separated, it seemed amicable, just a small bump for the well-to-do family. But there...
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The secret life of a Michigan couple unraveled when police discovered they'd committed 2 horrific murders. When Carol Giles's friend Nancy Billiter was found dead - she had been bound, sexually violated, and injected with a lethal dose of battery acid and heroin - detectives in Michigan traced Billiter's death back to Giles and her boyfriend, Tim Collier. Police also learned that the diabolical duo shared another secret: They had murdered Giles's...
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The author explores the rampage by her father that left seven people dead and her in a dumpster with her throat slashed, reaching back to understand the events that traumatized her childhood and weaving them together with the recollections of detectives and witnesses to reconstruct the story of her father's crimes and the aftermath.
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Karen Tintori thought she knew her family tree.
Her grandmother Josie had emigrated from Sicily with her parents at the turn of the century. They settled in Detroit, and with Josie's nine siblings, worked to create a home for themselves away from the poverty and servitude of the old country. Their descendants were proud Italian-Americans.
But, Josie had a sister nobody spoke of. Her name was Frances, and at age sixteen, she fell in love with a young...
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In this remarkable memoir, a harrowing true story of family, violence, guilt and atonement, a journalist reflects on his own journey to come to terms with his brother's terrible crimes--and to find justice for the young girl he killed. In the gritty docklands of south-east England, Alix Sharkey and his younger siblings grew up in awe of their charismatic yet violent father, a vicious alcoholic. Yet it was Alix's kid brother Stuart--button-cute and...
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