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Fife-Yeomans, Janet: Killing Jodie - How Australia's most elusive murderer was brought to justice.
Book Number: 40777
Viking 2007 8vo softcover 296pp very good. Illustrated with photographs. When women looked at him, what they saw was a little old man who couldn't possible hurt them . . .
By the time he was arrested for the murder of Jodie Larcombe in the late 1980s, Daryl Suckling had escaped conviction more then once for his brutal assault on vulnerable young women. But without Jodie's body, prosecutors struggled to prove a homicide, and once again he was allowed to walk free.
Unwilling to give up, two Sydney policemen spent nearly a decade fighting to bring the psychopathic killer to justice. Frustrated by legal obstacles and sheer bad luck, one officer resigned in disgust, but detectives eventually closed on Suckling as he stalked his next victim.
Keywords: Killing Jodie Fife Yeomans Janet
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Hodge, Brenda: Walk on the Remarkable True Story of the Last Person Sentenced to Death in Australia
Book Number: 40909
The Five Mile Press 2005 8vo softcover 206pp very good. Illustrated with pictures.
Keywords: Walk on the Remarkable True Story of the Last Person Sentenced to Death in Australia Hodge Brenda
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Krakauer, Jon: Under the Banner of Heaven - A Story of Violent Faith
Book Number: 41609
Pan Books August 6, 2004 8vo softcover 398pp very good. In 1984, Ron and Dan Lafferty murdered the wife and infant daughter of their younger brother Allen. The crimes were noteworthy not merely for their brutality but for the brothers' claim that they were acting on direct orders from God. In Under the Banner of Heaven, Jon Krakauer tells the story of the killers and their crime but also explores the shadowy world of Mormon fundamentalism from which the two emerged. The Mormon Church was founded, in part, on the idea that true believers could speak directly with God. But while the mainstream church attempted to be more palatable to the general public by rejecting the controversial tenet of polygamy, fundamentalist splinter groups saw this as apostasy and took to the hills to live what they believed to be a righteous life. When their beliefs are challenged or their patriarchal, cult-like order defied, these still-active groups, according to Krakauer, are capable of fighting back with tremendous violence. While Krakauer's research into the history of the church is admirably extensive, the real power of the book comes from present-day information, notably jailhouse interviews with Dan Lafferty. Far from being the brooding maniac one might expect, Lafferty is chillingly coherent, still insisting that his motive was merely to obey God's command. Krakauer's accounts of the actual murders are graphic and disturbing, but such detail makes the brothers' claim of divine instruction all the more horrifying. In an age where Westerners have trouble comprehending what drives Islamic fundamentalists to kill, Jon Krakauer advises us to look within America's own borders. --John Moe --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. nnFrom Publishers WeeklynUsing as a focal point the chilling story of offshoot Mormon fundamentalist brothers Dan and Ron Lafferty, who in 1984 brutally butchered their sister-in-law and 15-month-old niece in the name of a divine revelation, Krakauer explores what he sees as the nature of radical Mormon sects with Svengali-like leaders. Using mostly secondary historical texts and some contemporary primary sources, Krakauer compellingly details the history of the Mormon church from its early 19th-century creation by Joseph Smith (whom Krakauer describes as a convicted con man) to its violent journey from upstate New York to the Midwest and finally Utah, where, after the 1890 renunciation of the church's holy doctrine sanctioning multiple marriages, it transformed itself into one of the world's fastest-growing religions. Through interviews with family members and an unremorseful Dan Lafferty (who is currently serving a life sentence), Krakauer chronologically tracks what led to the double murder, from the brothers' theological misgivings about the Mormon church to starting their own fundamentalist sect that relies on their direct communications with God to guide their actions. According to Dan's chilling step-by-step account, when their new religion led to Ron's divorce and both men's excommunication from the Mormon church, the brothers followed divine revelations and sought to kill, starting with their sister-in-law, those who stood in the way of their new beliefs. Relying on his strong journalistic and storytelling skills, Krakauer peppers the book with an array of disturbing firsthand accounts and news stories (such as the recent kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart) of physical and sexual brutality, which he sees as an outgrowth of some fundamentalists' belief in polygamy and the notion that every male speaks to God and can do God's bidding. While Krakauer demonstrates that most nonfundamentalist Mormons are community oriented, industrious and law-abiding, he poses some striking questions about the closed-minded, closed-door policies of the religion-and many religions in general. nCopyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the
Keywords: mormonism mormon krakauer nonfiction religion joseph smith lds true crime brainwashing con man cults Under the Banner of Heaven Krakauer Jon
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Hillman, Robert: The Boy in the Green Suit - a memior
Book Number: 41655
Scribe Pubns Pty Ltd October 2003 8vo softcover 256pp very good. The story of 16year old Hillmans escape from from his boring job - he sets sail. He booked his ticket on a ship to install himself in a story his father had begun in his imagination.
Keywords: Post Bali Brace Matthew
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Grisham, John: The Innocent Man
Book Number: 41679
Random House Uk Ltd July 31, 2007 8vo softcover 512pp very good. In the major league draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the State of Oklahoma was Ron Williamson. When he signed with the Oakland A's, he said goodbye to his hometown of Ada and left to pursue his dreams of big league glory. Six years later he was back, his dreams broken by a bad arm and bad habits - drinking, drugs and women. He began to show signs of mental illness. Unable to keep a job, he moved in with his mother and slept 20 hours a day on her sofa. In 1982, a 21 year-old cocktail waitress in Ada named Debra Sue Carter was raped and murdered, and for five years the police could not solve the crime. For reasons that were never clear, they suspected Ron Williamson and his friend Dennis Fritz. The two were finally arrested in 1987 and charged with capital murder. With no physical evidence, the prosecution's case was built on junk science and the testimony of jaihouse snitches and convicts. Dennis Fritz was found guilty and given a life sentence. Ron Williamson was sent to Death Row.
Keywords: The Innocent Man Grisham John
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Fraser, Frankie: Mad Frank: Memoirs of a Life of Crime
Book Number: 41885
Little, Brown 1994 8vo hardcover 237pp index, b/w illus. very good, small penmark on index. / very good d/w. For 60 years Frankie Fraser has been involved in major crimes and with major criminals, and has spent more than 40 years in prisons and secure hospitals. This is his story, detailing his part in protection, armed robbery, shop-breaking, and allegations of attempted murder and arson.
Keywords: Mad Frank Memoirs Life Crime Fraser Frankie
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No Author: Chopper 10 1/2
Book Number: 41949
Floradale Press 2001 8vo softcover very good.
Keywords: Chopper 10 1/2 No Author
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Gordon, Harry: The Harry Gordon Story - How I Faked My Own Death - Why I Faked
Book Number: 41963
New Holland Publishers 2007 8vo softcover 287pp very good. In 2001, Harry Gordon, feeling under extreme financial and personal pressure, faked his own death. When his empty dinghy was found floating in a river on the north coast of New South Wales, an extraordinary chain of events were set in place.
Keywords: The Harry Gordon Story How I Faked My Own Death Gordon Harry
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Capeci, Jerry: The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Mafia
Book Number: 42151
Alpha 2002 Small 4to softcover 343pp index, b/w illus. very good, crease to rear cover corner.
Keywords: mafia murder new york city true crime
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Ferllini, Roxana: Raising the Dead. How the Forensics of the Future are Solving the Murders of the Past
Book Number: 42298
John Blake 2003 Small 4to hardcover 192pp index, colour illus. very good / very good d/w.
Keywords: murderer history true crime solving Forensics Ferllini Roxana
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