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The Monterey Peninsula is rocked when a killer begins to leave roadside crosses beside local highways. Kathryn Dance, the California Bureau of Investigation's foremost kinesics expert, and Deputy Michael O'Neil follow a lead to Travis Brigham, a troubled teenager whose role in a fatal car accident has inspired vicious attacks against him on a popular blog, The Chilton Report. But as the investigation progresses, Travis vanishes--and Dance is forced...
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[publisher not identified]
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English
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James and Carl were only ten years old when they kidnapped and murdered three year-old David. They were caught, tried, convicted and placed in separate juvenile facilities. At eighteen years old, both are given new names and released back into society, much to the horror of the nation. They can have no contact with each other or with their past friends or relatives. The story follows the lives of these two boys as they try to start over, escape the...
3) Dark places
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Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in "The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas". She escaped and survived to later testify that her 15-year-old brother Ben was the killer. Twenty-five years later she is contacted by "The Kill Club" and pumped for information they hope to use to free Ben. Libby hatches a plan to profit from her tragic past but ends up being chased by a killer.
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Thomas Nelson
Language
English
Description
Peer into the minds of teen killers like Pearl, Mississippi school shooter Luke Woodham with researcher Phil Chalmers as your guide to understand the motives behind, and possibly prevent, their horrifying violence. Luke Woodham, a pudgy 16-year-old, woke up one day, slit his mother's throat, and then drove to school, where he shot 9 people, including his girlfriend. Why? In Inside the Mind of a Teen Killer, Chalmers, who has been interviewing teen...
5) The healer
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Series
O'Malley volume 5
Publisher
Multnomah Publishers
Language
English
Description
Rachel O'Malley works disasters for a living. Her specialty? Helping children through trauma. When a school shooting rips through her community, she finds herself dealing with more than just grief among the children she is trying to help. One of them saw the shooting, and the gun is still missing.
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Write Way Publishing
Edition
First edition.
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English
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A dying convict's last request thrusts small-town newspaperman Jefferson Morgan into a deadly maelstrom as he explores a fifty-year-old case of child murder-a wound his town still isn't ready to scrape open.
Under the heaviest deadline of his life, and amid threats from unexpected foes, Morgan must struggle with his own conscience to tell a story no matter the consequences, dig deep into the town's past, and unveil a killer who's managed to remain...
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Grove Press
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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"The first full account of the Slenderman stabbing, a true crime narrative of mental illness, the American judicial system, the trials of adolescence, and the power of the internet. On May 31, 2014, in the Milwaukee suburb of Waukesha, Wisconsin, two twelve-year-old girls attempted to stab their classmate to death. Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier's violence was extreme, but what seemed even more frightening was that they committed their crime under...
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Penguin Press
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English
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In East London in the summer of 1895, Robert Coombes (age thirteen) and his brother Nattie (age twelve) were arrested for matricide and sent for trial at the Old Bailey. Robert confessed to having stabbed his mother, but his lawyers argued that he was insane. The judge sentenced him to detention in Broadmoor, the most infamous criminal lunatic asylum in the land. Shockingly, Broadmoor turned out to be the beginning of a new life for Robert. At a time...
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Zondervan
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English
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A parent's worst nightmare. A lawyer's biggest challenge. A young boy's life on the line. The unimaginable has happened. A thirteen-year-old boy has fired a rifle into a baseball game, killing several of the kids on the field. Parents are devastated. The townspeople are horrified. When public opinion swells to an enraged cry for justice, an ambitious deputy district attorney sees his opportunity-a sensational trial that will catapult him into the...
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Atria Books
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English
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The guilty verdicts handed out to three Arkansas teens in a horrific capital murder case were popular in their home state--even upheld on appeal--and all three remained in prison until their unprecedented release in 2011. Now, award-winning journalist Mara Leveritt provides the most comprehensive look yet into this endlessly shocking case, one that will shape the American legal landscape for years to come --Publisher.
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Docurama
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English
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Damien Echols is a teen who dresses in all black and listens to heavy metal. He and his two friends are accused of the murder of three little boys, and are instantly condemned by a retribution-hungry public. Now they try to defend themselves against a dubious lack of proof.
14) Battle royale
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Anchor Bay Entertainment
Edition
Director's cut, special ed.
Language
English
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In the near future, the Japanese government creates an annual battle royale in which a group of ninth-graders are sent to a remote, deserted island and given three days to kill each other until only one remains.
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Publisher
Counterpoint
Edition
First Counterpoint edition.
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English
Description
"On January 21st, 1958, Charles Starkweather and his fourteen-year-old girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate changed the course of crime in the United States when they murdered her parents and sister in a house on the edge of Lincoln, Nebraska. They then drove to the nearby small town of Bennet, where they robbed and killed a farmer. When Starkweather's car broke down, the man and woman who stopped to help were murdered and jammed in a food cellar. By the time...
16) Lugares oscuros
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Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Edition
Primera edición Vintage Español.
Language
Español
Description
"Libby Day tenía siete años cuando su madre y sus dos hermanas fueron victimas de lo que los medios llamaron la masacre de la granja de Kinnakee, Kansas. Ella salvo la vida y testificó contra su hermano Ben, a quien señaló como el culpable. Veinticinco años después, el Kill Club--una sociedad secreta obsesionada con crimenes célebres--localiza a una Libby en franca decadencia y pretende que les ayude a escarbar en los cabos sueltos de aquella...
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Binge Box
Edition
Widescreen ed.
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English
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A collection of essential 1980s movies in one convenient box for binge watching. Titles included: Ghostbusters (Rated PG), Ghostbusters 2 (Rated PG), Rain Man (Rated R), Dirty Dancing (Rated PG-13), Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (PG), The Princess Bride (Rated PG), Back to the Future (Rated PG), Back to the Future Part II (Rated PG), Back to the Future Part III (Rated PG), Top Gun (Rated PG), Scarface (Rated R), Heathers (Rated R),...
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