Download or read book Crime in Texas 1970 written by Charles M. Friel and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Crime in Texas 1970 1978 written by Roy B. Allen and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Texas Uniform Crime Report written by Carl C. Gaither and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Worse Than Death written by Sherry Gottlieb and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los Angeles policeman Jace Levy has fallen hard for the sexy Risha only to discover that his beloved is a vampire and that eternity has its drawbacks
Download or read book The block grant for crime control in Texas 1968 1970 written by Michael Vance Powell and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Blue Illicit and Unspoken written by Faith Chatham and published by . This book was released on 2019-09 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crooks wore badges in Longview, Texas in the 1970s. In Blue, Illicit and Unspoken, a novel by Faith Chatham, Sheriff Wade Wallace is adept at exploiting peoples' emotional and economic vulnerabilities to draw them into the vortex of the multi-million dollar crime syndicate he operates out of the Court House (similar to one operated by Gregg County Sheriff Tom Welch in the late 1970s.) Faith creates fictitious characters to tell the story of how people in a small city are shaken when a popular sheriff's deputy, Sonny Williams, dies in the County Crime Lab, from, what may or may not be, a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The author dedicates the book to Sheriff Welch's deputy Wayne Gill, whose death mirrored similar suspicious circumstances as the fictitious character Deputy Sonny Williams. This is a novel about how individuals respond when confronted with information, rumors, or suspicion. Some work meticulously to distinguish innuendo from fact, and to move beyond hearsay, to the evidence which can be used in court. It's about how frightened people hide from what they see, hear, and know. It's about how people seek out friends whom they trust when things are murky and uncertain, and local elected officials and law enforcement cannot be trusted.It is the story of people getting caught in webs others spin. It is the story about how those who care for them, work to help keep them alive and to free them. It is about a teenage boy's obsession with his prized vintage motorcycle which places him in the crosshair of a deadly dangerous corrupt Sheriff's department. The novel is set against a backdrop of crime and public corruption, similar to that which led to the 1979 conviction of the Gregg County Sheriff Tom Welch, a County Commissioner, two deputies and a Justice of the Peace, for public corruption and conspiracy to commit murder.
Download or read book Texistics written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Famous Crimes the World Forgot Volume II written by Jason Lucky Morrow and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-03-24 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famous Crimes the World Forgot Volume II uncovers more amazing true crimes that exploded into the national news, shocking Americans from coast to coast-crimes that were eventually forgotten-until now. Each one of these stories transports you back to the time they happened, propels you through all the suspense-filled developments, and explores each one with an in-depth look into the actions of humans so evil, it's hard to believe they were real. They include: a serial poisoner who laughed when thought he got away with murdering a brother and sister, but cried when he was arrested; a woman with a history of being robbed by two men until the third time it happened when they killed her husband, or so she said; a mail-order bride lured to her death 3,000 miles away by a man with a wife and five children; a serial-rapist and possible serial-killer who murdered two sisters on their way to church; a five-time loser turned drifter who gunned down four men for $40 inside a hermit's shack; an escaped convict turned serial-killer with a taste for red-heads; the mysterious car bomb murder of a wealthy Texas socialite which churned up a cast of sordid characters who captivated an audience for what was America's first live-televised murder trial; and Milwaukee's first serial-killer who stabbed young girls with a seven-inch stiletto.
Download or read book Let the Lord Sort Them written by Maurice Chammah and published by Crown. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A deeply reported, searingly honest portrait of the death penalty in Texas—and what it tells us about crime and punishment in America “If you’re one of those people who despair that nothing changes, and dream that something can, this is a story of how it does.”—Anand Giridharadas, The New York Times Book Review WINNER OF THE J. ANTHONY LUKAS AWARD In 1972, the United States Supreme Court made a surprising ruling: the country’s death penalty system violated the Constitution. The backlash was swift, especially in Texas, where executions were considered part of the cultural fabric, and a dark history of lynching was masked by gauzy visions of a tough-on-crime frontier. When executions resumed, Texas quickly became the nationwide leader in carrying out the punishment. Then, amid a larger wave of criminal justice reform, came the death penalty’s decline, a trend so durable that even in Texas the punishment appears again close to extinction. In Let the Lord Sort Them, Maurice Chammah charts the rise and fall of capital punishment through the eyes of those it touched. We meet Elsa Alcala, the orphaned daughter of a Mexican American family who found her calling as a prosecutor in the nation’s death penalty capital, before becoming a judge on the state’s highest court. We meet Danalynn Recer, a lawyer who became obsessively devoted to unearthing the life stories of men who committed terrible crimes, and fought for mercy in courtrooms across the state. We meet death row prisoners—many of them once-famous figures like Henry Lee Lucas, Gary Graham, and Karla Faye Tucker—along with their families and the families of their victims. And we meet the executioners, who struggle openly with what society has asked them to do. In tracing these interconnected lives against the rise of mass incarceration in Texas and the country as a whole, Chammah explores what the persistence of the death penalty tells us about forgiveness and retribution, fairness and justice, history and myth. Written with intimacy and grace, Let the Lord Sort Them is the definitive portrait of a particularly American institution.
Download or read book Evil Among Us written by Ken Driggs and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fall of 1974 Robert E. Kleasen invited two young missionaries to his house in Austin, Texas, for deer steaks. Though apprehensive, they felt compelled to go. They should have bolted. Though convicted of homicide, Kleason would later be released from death row on a technicality. Upon hearing of the murders, then-LDS president Spencer W. Kimball was so disturbed that a physician had to be summoned to his home. The reader will mourn with the missionaries' families as details of the crime unfold.
Download or read book Criminal Justice Standards and Goals for Texas written by United States. Law Enforcement Assistance Administration. Office of National Priority Programs and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Civil Rights in Black and Brown written by Max Krochmal and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not one but two civil rights movements flourished in mid-twentieth century Texas, and they did so in intimate conversation with one another. Far from the gaze of the national media, African American and Mexican American activists combated the twin caste systems of Jim Crow and Juan Crow. These insurgents worked chiefly within their own racial groups, yet they also looked to each other for guidance and, at times, came together in solidarity. The movements sought more than integration and access: they demanded power and justice. Civil Rights in Black and Brown draws on more than 500 oral history interviews newly collected across Texas, from the Panhandle to the Piney Woods and everywhere in between. The testimonies speak in detail to the structure of racism in small towns and huge metropolises—both the everyday grind of segregation and the haunting acts of racial violence that upheld Texas’s state-sanctioned systems of white supremacy. Through their memories of resistance and revolution, the activists reveal previously undocumented struggles for equity, as well as the links Black and Chicanx organizers forged in their efforts to achieve self-determination.
Download or read book Texas Trends written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Midnight Assassin written by Skip Hollandsworth and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller, The Midnight Assassin is a sweeping narrative history of a terrifying serial killer--America's first--who stalked Austin, Texas in 1885. In the late 1800s, the city of Austin, Texas was on the cusp of emerging from an isolated western outpost into a truly cosmopolitan metropolis. But beginning in December 1884, Austin was terrorized by someone equally as vicious and, in some ways, far more diabolical than London's infamous Jack the Ripper. For almost exactly one year, the Midnight Assassin crisscrossed the entire city, striking on moonlit nights, using axes, knives, and long steel rods to rip apart women from every race and class. At the time the concept of a serial killer was unthinkable, but the murders continued, the killer became more brazen, and the citizens' panic reached a fever pitch. Before it was all over, at least a dozen men would be arrested in connection with the murders, and the crimes would expose what a newspaper described as "the most extensive and profound scandal ever known in Austin." And yes, when Jack the Ripper began his attacks in 1888, London police investigators did wonder if the killer from Austin had crossed the ocean to terrorize their own city. With vivid historical detail and novelistic flair, Texas Monthly journalist Skip Hollandsworth brings this terrifying saga to life.
Download or read book True Crime In Houston 1970s written by Duane Ghia and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dean Arnold Corll was an American serial killer who abducted, raped, tortured, and murdered at least 28 teenage boys and young men between 1970 and 1973 in Houston, Texas. He was aided by two teenaged accomplices, David Owen Brooks and Elmer Wayne Henley. The word serial killer had not yet been coined, and as body, after a decomposing body was uncovered from the dirt floor of the boat shed where Corll and his two young accomplishes had buried most of the victims, there were hard words for what this sadistic lust killer had done. The depraved evil that Corll and his accomplices - two teen boys themselves who were promised money but eventually developed a thrill for the kill - was revealed as one of the cohorts, Wayne Henley, calmly, affably, told the stories of how after Corll sexually assaulting them and unimaginably tortured them, they would kill them and take the boys' bodies away to bury them beneath the dirt.
Download or read book The Bird Boys written by Lisa Sandlin and published by A Delpha Wade and Tom Phelan Mystery. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes the truth is not the truth, but murder is always murder. Which of the brothers carries the bloody knife?
Download or read book The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America A De written by Wilbur R. Miller and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2012-08-10 with total page 2713 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive and authoratative four-volume work surveys the history and philosophy of crime, punishment, and criminal justice institutions in America from colonial times to the present.
