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Kids Who Kill
Cries Unheard:
Her terrible story rattles our preconceptions and forces us to
consider questions to which there are no easy or comfortable
answers. Should children accused of violent crimes be treated as
adults? Can we expect them to understand the gravity of their
actions? Even resolute believers in the "throw away the
key" school of criminal justice will find their convictions
shaken by this powerful book. MORE
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Cruel Sacrifice:
Veteran true crime journalist Aphrodite Jones reveals the shocking
truth behind the most savage crime in Indiana history--the
torture, mutilation, and murder of 12-year-old Shanda Sharer by
four teenage girls. Here is a tragic story of twisted love and
insane jealousy, lesbianism, brutal child abuse, and sadistic
ritual killing in small-town America. Includes 16-page photo
insert. MORE
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Blood Brothers:
This book takes you through the lives of both the victims and the
victimizers. To anyone interested in "understanding"
murder, one has to try to put themselves in the shoes of the
criminal to get a grasp of their view of the world at the time of
the crime. This book lets the reader do just that. MORE
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Always In Our
Hearts: A true-crime page-turner about the privileged
New Jersey teens who made headlines after callously discarding the
baby they never wanted into the trash bin of the hotel where they
secretly gave birth. MORE
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As If:
Blake Morrison attended the 1993 trial of two 10-year-old boys in
Liverpool, England, who were accused of killing a 2-year-old; he
wrote about the case for the New Yorker. Three years later,
the case was still haunting him, so he returned to the subject to
examine its impact on a more personal level. MORE
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Born Bad:
A close-up look at teenage killer Jason Massey describes his
fascination with serial killers Ted Bundy and Henry Lee Lucas,
childhood torture experiments, and brutal rape, murder, and
mutilation of a young girl and the killing of another teenage boy.
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Cadet Murder Case: The explosive true crime that
shocked the nation! On December 4, 1995, 16-year-old Adrianne
Jones, a beautiful high school sophomore, was found murdered.
Texas detectives soon put together a story of teenage love,
secret guilt, ruthless revenge, and two "perfect"
teenagers--Diane Zamora and David Graham. Includes eight pages
of riveting photos, some never before published. MORE
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The Borden
Tragedy: Based on the famous 19th-century Lizzie
Borden double murder, this comic-book version of the event is
supposedly excerpted and adapted from the unpublished writings
of an unknown woman from the Borden's hometown of Fall River.
The narrator, a friend of Lizzie Borden, is intent on finding
out all of the facts behind such a grizzly butchering. We are
taken through meticulously researched evidence, all stunningly
illustrated by Geary, but Geary leaves us without taking a
strong stand one way or the other. MORE
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Lizzie Borden:
A speculative recreation of the famous crime follows young
Lizzie Borden as she deals with her stepmother's avarice, her
father's suffocating love, and her sister's emotional blackmail.
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The Dark Son:
The Heikkilas appeared to be a happy family. The trouble began
when 20-year-old Matthew was arrested for holding a gun to his
adoptive father's head. Six months later, prior to taking his
girlfriend out for a birthday dinner, he murdered his parents.
This is the tragic story of a teen killer and his unprecedented
defense, "Adopted Child Syndrome." Photos. MORE
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Love's Blood:
Edgar-winning author Howard details one of the strangest, most
brutal crimes committed in our time: the killing of businessman
Frank Columbo, his wife and son-by their daughter Patty. Howard
traces Patty's life through the streets of suburban Chicago and
offers an explanation of why she became a part of such a bizarre
and terrible crime. MORE
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Kids Who Kill:
A revealing look at under-aged criminals discusses the
seventeen-year-old who opened fire on an elementary schoolyard,
the sixteen-year-old who beat his brother to death, and the two
Missouri tots who murdered a baby. MORE
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