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In the early days of photography, in the death-strewn wake of the Civil War, one man seized America's imagination. A "spirit photographer", William Mumler took portrait photographs that featured the ghostly presence of a lost loved one alongside the living subject. Mumler was a sensation. Peter Manseau brilliantly captures a nation wracked with grief and hungry for proof of the existence of ghosts and for contact with their dead husbands and sons. It took a circus-like trial of Mumler on fraud charges to expose a fault line of doubt and manipulation.

Minnie was just 16 when she stood trial for the wrongful death of her first husband, a successful businessman and politician almost 40 years her senior. Despite overwhelming witness testimony that the Creole beauty from New Orleans had purchased the arsenic that killed him, Minnie's own testimony brought the entire courtroom to tears. She was acquitted. Minnie returned to New Orleans with James Walkup's fortune, but she still didn't have enough cash for her liking, so she successfully targeted, seduced, and murdered two more wealthy older men while evading justice in the courtroom.

It takes just seconds for someone to die. Sometimes questions remain: was it an accident, suicide, or something more sinister?

When reclusive millionaire artist Robert Indiana died in 2018, he left behind dark rumors and scandal, as well as an estate embroiled in lawsuits and facing accusations of fraud. Here is the true story of the artist’s final days, the aftermath, the deceptive world that surrounded him, and the inner workings of art as very big business.

REVEALING THE "PROCLAMATION OF FREEDOM" DOCUMENT (Emancipation Proclamation if you will) FOR WHITE SURVIVORS OF THE WHITE SLAVE COLONY (IN VIRGINIA) THAT WAS OFFICIALLY ISSUED IN 1618 AD IN ENGLAND BY THE ENSLAVER, BUT IT WAS DELIVERED IN THE VIRGINIA COLONY IN 1619 AD. ...AND NOW, OVER 400 YEARS LATER WITH TENS OF MILLIONS OF WHITE DESCENDANTS (OUR WHITE BROTHERS & SISTERS AND FELLOW AMERICANS), WITH US ALL CO-EXISTING AND HAVING THE ABILITY TO HAVE THAT CONVERSATION ABOUT REVEALING THIS NOTED TRUTH, WE CAN ATTEMPT TO PLANT SEEDS FOR THE YOUNGER GENERATION(S) TO HELP HEAL THE MENTAL ...

This was LIVING..... this was the human cost to how this gang has been exposed on the streets. This was not just an operation from 2009, it has been timing and pushing where we can to expose the system. Ever wondered if there was corruption? Why can the Police not pick up the main drug dealers on the streets of Sydney? Good question, when your within the cist pool and seeing the system you wonder why others can't see the system that exists today.

Everyday women become victims of petty crimes, why? Are we to busy, moving too fast and not paying attention? What are we doing that makes us a victim? This book is about awareness of ourselves and our surroundings. Pointing out what we are doing wrong and directing us to what we need to do to make it right. Ladies, let's be safe and smart!

Each year Americans lose billions of dollars to fraudulent activity. The Madoffs Among Us explains in graphic detail how and why people fall prey. Most importantly, it tells you how to easily identify the people who perpetrate these crimes and avoid their deceitful practices. Why do smart people fall for these cons? What are today’s most common scams? And how can you avoid becoming a victim?

El 9 de diciembre de 2005, el reportero Pablo Reinah cubrió un “operativo” en el rancho Las Chinitas para Televisa. Se trataba de la captura de dos presuntos secuestradores de la banda Los Zodiaco: la francesa Florence Cassez y el mexicano Israel Vallarta. Poco después, se supo que este “operativo” había sido un montaje. La noticia se volvió un escándalo mediático y político de proporciones inimaginables que puso al descubierto las ineficiencias y la corrupción que atraviesan al sistema de justicia mexicano.

Cannibal. Necrophiliac. Kidnapper. Killer. The stories of serial killers often begin with terrible upbringings and sad events of trauma, but not all have such unfortunate beginnings. Some simply develop their evil on their own and become tainted without anyone realizing it. Jeffrey Dahmer was a man described by his own father as the result of a child becoming lost in the maelstrom while nobody paid attention, a child who was strange and apathetic but whom nobody bothered to ask why.

On April 26th, 2018, Patrick Frazee, a cattle rancher from Florissant near Cripple Creek in Colorado, confided in his elderly neighbor that he'd finally figured out a way to kill his fiancé. "No body, no crime, right?" Joe Moore, a fellow rancher who thought of Frazee as a stepson, and as one of the best cattlemen around, urged the 30-year-old to "get that sh*t out of your head." But Frazee didn't. He persisted. Seven months later, Frazee committed what he hoped was the perfect murder. MURDER MOST FOUL is the definitive narrative of the Frazee case by the world's most prolific true crime ...

Doubt persists about the fate of a little girl lost twelve years ago. DEEP INTO DARKNESS challenges and tests the mainstream mythology that is the paedophile-abductor narrative. The current default story for what happened to Madeleine McCann on May 3rd, 2007 has many spin-off conspiracies. DEEP INTO DARKNESS examines the best and worst of these, and debunks almost all of them. But if the conspiracies and crazy theories aren't true, what is? What lies hidden deep in the darkness?

Discover unspeakable acts of brutality and violence in this volume of 12 shocking true crime cases. If you’re fascinated by the stories of both killers and victims, and how police work with forensics and evidence in pursuit of coldblooded murderers, this captivating book is for you, taking you on a journey through some of the most unforgettable murders in recent times.

For more than 60 years, Southern Californians entrusted the bodies of their loved ones to the Sconce family's Lamb Funeral Home. But the heirs to the fourth-generation funeral empire betrayed that trust with a series of gruesome crimes against the dead. Featured on ABC-TV's Nightline.

SHE SAVED HIM CAN YOU SAVE HER? It was a crime that shocked the community in Coronado to its core. In the days following Rebecca Zahau's death in the summer of 2011, an unfathomable horror closed in around her. By early September the same year, law enforcement announced the case closed, and Zahau's billionaire boyfriend Jonah Shacknai, thanked them for their trouble. Years passed and nothing happened. But it wasn't over. Far from it. Crowdsleuthers rallied to the cause of the Zahau family. Funds were raised to lay charges and re-open the case. The case that seemed mired in red tape, welded ...

A revelatory account of how the family behind Hobby Lobby rose to political prominence and used their influence—and fortune—to push a radical religious agenda Hobby Lobby is a multibillion-dollar craft store chain with more than a thousand US locations, founded and owned by the Greens—an...

⭐ The Murder of Grace Millane: A Shocking True Crime Story ⭐ A dream trip. A dating-app encounter. A murder that stunned the world. When 22-year-old Grace Millane disappeared while backpacking through New Zealand, her story ignited an international search. Days later, police uncovered the truth: her body hidden in a suitcase, buried in a shallow grave outside Auckland. Her killer admitted causing her death — but the courtroom battle that followed was even more horrifying. 🔥 The defense claimed Grace died during “rough sex gone wrong.” 🔥 The victim was put on trial. 🔥 A ...

What if the "conspiracy theorists" were right all along? For decades, those who questioned official narratives about government surveillance, corporate cover-ups, and institutional deception were dismissed as paranoid extremists. Yet time and again, these "conspiracy theories" have transformed into documented historical facts through whistleblower revelations, congressional investigations, and declassified documents. CONSPIRACY (BUT NOT) THEORY presents the definitive encyclopedia of 62 proven conspiracies that were once ridiculed as impossible fantasies. From the FBI's systematic ...

King is the story of how Kirkland Gaynes rose to become "Top Pimp" in Chicago's seedy underworld. It's an unapologetic account of what is known as the "Pimp Game". King shows that dreams can come true. But the flip side to a dream is nightmarish.

This is the story of an unforgivable con man. Vulnerable families were his prey. His promise was an impossible dream and a lie. Peter Candlewood understood the system. That’s how he could commute prison sentences and reunite hopeless families with incarcerated loved ones. For a price. Except there was no Candlewood. No hope. Just a lowly Texas con artist who bet on the desperate - and won. And he wasn’t working alone. The multimillion-dollar deception cost the betrayed more than their savings.