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True Crime: True Stories of the World's Infamous Murders, Thieves and Con Artists
True Crime True Stories of the World's Infamous Murders Thieves and Con Artists Author:Nick Yapp This volume presents the true stories of over 100 of the world's most infamous murderers, thieves and con artists. — Large scale photographs and background information about the subjects provide an overview that begins with Billy the Kid and Pancho Villa and concludes with some of the most spectacular recent crimes including the saga of... more » O.J. Simpson, Nazi war criminals, and the 2004 murder trial of Scott Peterson.
Outlaws and anarchists --
Ill-gotten gains --
Miscarriages of justice? --
Mobsters and monsters --
Serial killers --
Assassination --
The act of murder --
Crimes of passion --
Kidnappings. Content includes --
OUTLAWS AND ANARCHISTS: Billy the Kid --
Emilio Zapata & Pancho Villa --
John Dillinger --
"Baby Face" Nelson --
Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd --
Jack "Legs" diamond --
Bonnie Parker & Clyde Barrow --
"Black September" gang killing at the 1972 Olympics in Munich --
The Chicago Eight. ILL-GOTTEN GAINS: Willie Sutton --
The Great Train Robbery (Britain, 1963) --
Enron (Andrew Fastow, Ken Lay, David B. Duncan). MISCARRIAGES OF JUSTICE?: Lizzie Borden --
Mata Hari --
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti --
The Scopes Trial (John T. Scopes, Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryant) --
Famous lynchings --
Last American public hanging --
Dr. Sam Sheppard --
Emmett Till (Roy Bryant and J.W. Millam) --
McCarthy witch-hunts --
Mississippi bruning (Andrew Goodman, James Chaeny and Michael Schwerner) --
Michael Skakel --
Wayne Williams --
O.J. Simpson, MOBSTERS AND MONSTERS: Murder Inc. (Martin "Bubbsy" Goldstein, Abe "Kid Twist" Reles) --
Al Capone (Alphonse "Scarface" Capone) --
Dutch Schultz --
Arthur "Weegee" --
Frank Costello --
Lucky Luciano --
Bugsy Siegel --
Jack Graham --
Charles Manson --
Jonestown (Jommie Jones) --
John Gotti ("The Dapper Don") --
George Hennard (Luby's Cafeteria murders) --
Waco and aftermath (Branch Davidian Seventh-Day Adventists; David Koresh) --
Oklahoma bombing (Timothy McVeigh) --
Slobodan Milosevic, Yugoslav president; Serbia; Albanian slaughter; Kosovo ; Bosnia --
Robert Yummy Sandifer (The Black Discipless) --
Unabomber (Theodore Kaczynski) --
9/11 --
Columbine High School Massacre --
Beslan Middle School, Russia. SERIAL KILLERS: Jack the Ripper --
"Bluebeard" (Henri Desire Landru) --
Nuremberg Trials (Hermann Goring, Martin Bormann) --