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The definitive true crime account of Boston's most notorious serial killer-and the exhaustive manhunt that ensued in the wake of his rampage. On June 14, 1962, twenty-five-year-old Juris Slesers arrived at his mother's apartment to drive her to church. But there was no answer at the door. After waiting a half hour, Juris shoved his way inside. He found fifty-five-year-old Anna Slesers lying on the kitchen floor, dead, the cord of her housecoat knotted...
3) Mystic river
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"There are threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected." When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car pulled tip to their street. One boy got into the car, two did not, and something terrible happened -- something that ended their friendship and changed all three boys forever. Twenty-five years later, Sean Devine is a homicide detective. Jimmy Marcus is an ex-con...
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Pocket Books
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[2000]
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English
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A monster preyed upon the children of nineteenth-century Boston. His crimes were appalling-and yet he was little more than a child himself. When fourteen-year-old Jesse Pomeroy was arrested in 1874, a nightmarish reign of terror over an unsuspecting city came to an end. "The Boston Boy Fiend" was imprisoned at last. But the complex questions sparked by his ghastly crime spree-the hows and whys of vicious juvenile crime-were as relevant in the so-called...
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2014.
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After sixteen years on the lam, infamous Boston gangster Whitey Bulger was finally captured and brought to trial-and what a trial it was: evidence of nineteen gruesome murders, government secrets, FBI corruption, a dead witness, and an unbelievable tale of love. Whitey's machine guns and gangland-style extortions gripped the city of Boston for decades.
Investigative journalist Jon Leiberman travelled the world with the FBI's Whitey Bulger task force....
6) Deadly greed: the riveting true story of the Stuart murder case that rocked Boston and the nation
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Prentice Hall Press
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1991.
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English
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Bright Leaf, an imprint of University of Massachusetts Press
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[2021]
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English
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"At the end of the 1976 football season, more than thirty Harvard athletes went to Boston's Combat Zone to celebrate. In the city's adult entertainment district, drugs and prostitution ran rampant, violent crime was commonplace, and corrupt police turned the other way. At the end of the night, Italian American star athlete Andy Puopolo, raised in the city's North End, was murdered in a stabbing. Three African American men were accused of the crime....
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"With a $2 million reward on his head, James 'Whitey' Bulger had been the most-wanted fugitive in America for 16 years when he was captured by the FBI in June 2011. Two years later, this Boston organized-crime boss went on trial in his hometown.... 'New York Times' best-selling author Howie Carr chronicles the trial of this notorious mob boss who was charged with 19 murders."--Jacket.
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"More timely now than ever, Deadly Force is a powerful indictment of police misconduct, a reminder of this issues long, tortured history and of how far we still have to go. From the host of MSNBCs The Last Word with Lawrence ODonnell, the riveting story of a 1975 police shooting of an unarmed black man in Bostonone of the first to draw national headlinesand the dramatic investigation and court case that followed." --
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Traces the scandalous murder of a Harvard Medical School graduate and the ensuing trial that riveted mid-nineteenth-century America, exploring how the case established important precedents in medical forensics and the definition of reasonable doubt.
"On November 23rd of 1849, in the heart of Boston, one of the city's richest men simply vanished. Dr. George Parkman, a Brahmin who owned much of Boston's West End, was last seen that afternoon visiting...
12) The wilderness of ruin: a tale of madness, fire, and the hunt for America's youngest serial killer
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"Documents a series of child abductions against the backdrop of the Great Boston Fire of 1872, and the discovery of the teenaged killer that sparked a system-changing investigation and influential debates among the world's most revered medical minds." --
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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[2011]
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English
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Philip Markoff appeared to have it all. He was a brilliant medical student with a great future and a girlfriend who loved him deeply. But he was also a psychotic killer who met his victims through ads on the Internet.
16) John Adams under fire: the Founding Father's fight for justice in the Boston Massacre murder trial
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"An expert, extremely detailed account of John Adams' finest hour."--Kirkus Reviews Honoring the 250th Anniversary of the Boston Massacre The New York Times bestselling author of Lincoln's Last Trial and host of LivePD Dan Abrams and David Fisher tell the story of a trial that would change history. History remembers John Adams as a Founding Father and our country's second president. But in the tense years before the American Revolution, he was still...
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Steerforth Press
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[2008]
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English
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Describes the lethal criminal career of Leonard Paradiso, a convicted attempted rapist suspected of being a serial killer whose crime spree spanned nearly fifteen years and took the lives of as many as seven young women throughout New England.
19) Impact statement: a family's fight for justice against Whitey Bulger, Stephen Flemmi, and the FBI
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Skyhorse Publishing
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[2013]
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English
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St. Martin's Paperbacks
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2010.
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English
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Describes how the brutal murder of a masseuse named Julissa Brisman, who advertised her erotic services on Craigslist, was linked to Philip Markoff, a twenty-two-year-old medical student who prowled the Internet for sex.
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