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Life Sentence: The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore's Deadliest Gang Leader
by Mark Bowden
In this unprecedented deep dive into inner-city gang life, Mark Bowden takes readers inside a Baltimore gang, offers an in-depth portrait of its notorious leader, and chronicles the 2016 FBI investigation that landed eight of its members in prison. Sandtown is one of the deadliest neighborhoods in the world; it earned Baltimore its nickname "Bodymore, Murderland," and was made notorious by David Simon's classic HBO series The Wire. Drug deals dominate street corners, and ruthless, casual violence abounds. Montana Barronette grew up in the center of it all. He was the leader of the gang "Trained to Go," or TTG. An acclaimed journalist who spent his youth in the white suburbs of Baltimore, Mark Bowden returns to the city with exclusive access to key FBI files and unprecedented insight into one of the city's deadliest gangs and its notorious leader.
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The Last Outlaws: The Desperate Final Days of the Dalton Gang
by Tom Clavin
Taking us back to the Wild West on October 5, 1892, this gripping true account of the Dalton Gang—four brothers and their rotating cast of accomplices—follows their attempt to rob two banks in broad daylight in Coffeyville, Kansas, simultaneously, which led to an epic gun battle that left eight men dead.
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Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country
by Patricia Evangelista
In this thoroughly reported and deeply human chronicle of the Philippines' drug war and Rodrigo Duterte's assault on the country's struggling democracy, a trauma journalist immerses herself in the world of killers and survivors, capturing the atmosphere of fear created when an elected president decides some lives are worth less than others.
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The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
by Michael Finkel
This riveting true story of art, crime, love and an insatiable hunger to possess beauty at any cost draws us into the strange and fascinating world of prolific art thief, Stéphane Breitwieser, who stole and kept more than 300 objects until one final act of hubris brought everything crashing down.
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Searching for Savanna: The Murder of One Native American Woman and the Violence Against the Many
by Mona Gable
In the summer of 2017, twenty-two-year-old Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind vanished. A week after the pregnant woman disappeared, police arrested the white couple who lived upstairs from Savanna and emerged from their apartment carrying an infant girl. The baby was Savanna's, but she would not be found until her body was pulled from the Red River days later. This horrifying and unimaginable crime sent shockwaves through the country and helped bring to light the overwhelming sexual and physical violence Native American women and girls have endured since the country's colonization.
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Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer
by Jillian Lauren
Follows journalist Jillian Lauren's journey to uncover the confessions and motivations of serial killer Samuel Little, who killed approximately 90 women over six decades, while balancing the gruesome details of his murders and giving voice to the lives of his victims.
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Blood On Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty
by Mandy Matney
Years before the name Alex Murdaugh was splashed across every major media outlet in America, local South Carolina journalist Mandy Matney had an instinct that something wasn't right in the Lowcountry. The powerful Murdaugh dynasty had dominated rural South Carolina for generations. No one dared to cross them. When Mandy and her reporting partner Liz Farrell looked closer at a fatal boat crash involving the storied family's teenage son Paul, they began to uncover a web of mysteries surrounding the deaths of the Murdaughs' long-time housekeeper and a young man found slain years earlier on a backcountry road. Just as their investigations were unfolding, the brutal double murder of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh rocketed Alex Murdaugh onto the international stage.
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Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century
by Roseanne Montillo
This glittering, "wild romp of a story, boldly and beautifully told" (Neal Thompson, author of The First Kennedys) explores the darkly intertwined fates of infamous socialite Ann Woodward and literary icon Truman Capote, sweeping us to the upper echelons of Manhattan's high society—where falls from grace are all the more shocking.
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An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President's Murder
by Susan Wels
From 1848 to 1881, a small utopian colony in upstate New York—the Oneida Community—was known for its shocking sexual practices, from open marriage and free love to the sexual training of young boys by older women. In 1881, a one-time member of the Oneida Community—Charles Julius Guiteau—assassinated President James Garfield in a brutal crime that shook America to its core. An Assassin in Utopia is the first book that weaves together these explosive stories in a tale of utopian experiments, political machinations, and murder.
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