Murder Cases of the Twentieth Century
Title | Murder Cases of the Twentieth Century PDF eBook |
Author | David K. Frasier |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2007-02-20 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780786430314 |
From Jack Henry Abbott, who stabbed a waiter through the heart for not allowing him to use the toilet, to the "Zodiac," an unknown California serial killer who may have murdered as many as 37 people, this reference work details 280 of the most famous murder cases of the twentieth century. Each entry contains, when applicable, birth and death dates, aliases, occupation, location of the murders, weapons used, number of victims, and the time period when the killings occurred. Films, plays, television shows, videos and audio programs based on or inspired by the case are then cited, followed by a brief overview of the murder case and a bibliography of English-language works related to it.
Murder Cases of the Twentieth Century
Title | Murder Cases of the Twentieth Century PDF eBook |
Author | David K. Frasier |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 584 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Profiles of crimes that occurred prior to 1992 and the criminals.
Crimes of the 20th Century
Title | Crimes of the 20th Century PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Ashley Books |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780881767179 |
Murders in the United States
Title | Murders in the United States PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald Barri Flowers |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Murder |
ISBN | 9780786450244 |
Presents brief descriptions of notorious murder cases in the U.S. from the 1900s to the 1990s, as well as alphabetized biographical sketches of famous killers and victims.
Unsolved Crimes
Title | Unsolved Crimes PDF eBook |
Author | Kirk Wilson |
Publisher | Running PressBook Pub |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | True Crime |
ISBN | 9780786710225 |
An extended edition of an award-winning book investigates such events as the Lord Lucan murder, the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa, the assassination of President Kennedy, and the coma of Sunny von Bnlow, citing the author's view on why such crimes remain significant. Reprint.
The Trunk Dripped Blood
Title | The Trunk Dripped Blood PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Grossman |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 235 |
Release | 2018-01-12 |
Genre | True Crime |
ISBN | 1476630135 |
A trunk dripping blood, discovered at a railway station in Stockton in 1906, launched one of the most famous murder investigations in California history--still debated by crime historians. In 1913, the dismembered body of a young pregnant woman, found in the East River, was traced back to her killer and husband, who remains the only priest ever executed for homicide in the U.S. In 1916, a successful dentist, recently married into a prestigious family, poisoned his in-laws--first with deadly bacteria, then with arsenic--claiming the real murderer was an Egyptian incubus who took control of his body. Drawing on court transcripts, newspaper coverage and other contemporary sources, this collection of historical American true crime stories chronicles five murder cases that became media sensations of their day, making headlines across the country in the decades before radio or television.
The Rise of True Crime
Title | The Rise of True Crime PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Murley |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2008-08-30 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1573567728 |
During the 1950s and 1960s True Detective magazine developed a new way of narrating and understanding murder. It was more sensitive to context, gave more psychologically sophisticated accounts, and was more willing to make conjectures about the unknown thoughts and motivations of killers than others had been before. This turned out to be the start of a revolution, and, after a century of escalating accounts, we have now become a nation of experts, with many ordinary people able to speak intelligently about blood-spatter patterns and organized vs. disorganized serial killers. The Rise of True Crime examines the various genres of true crime using the most popular and well-known examples. And despite its examination of some of the potentially negative effects of the genre, it is written for people who read and enjoy true crime, and wish to learn more about it. With skyrocketing crime rates and the appearance of a frightening trend toward social chaos in the 1970s, books, documentaries, and fiction films in the true crime genre tried to make sense of the Charles Manson crimes and the Gary Gilmore execution events. And in the 1980s and 1990s, true crime taught pop culture consumers about forensics, profiling, and highly technical aspects of criminology. We have thus now become a nation of experts, with many ordinary people able to speak intelligently about blood-spatter patterns and organized vs. disorganized serial killers. Through the suggestion that certain kinds of killers are monstrous or outside the realm of human morality, and through the perpetuation of the stranger-danger idea, the true crime aesthetic has both responded to and fostered our culture's fears. True crime is also the site of a dramatic confrontation with the concept of evil, and one of the few places in American public discourse where moral terms are used without any irony, and notions and definitions of evil are presented without ambiguity. When seen within its historical context, true crime emerges as a vibrant and meaningful strand of popular culture, one that is unfortunately devalued as lurid and meaningless pulp.