Download or read book Murder in Memphis written by Dorris D. Porch and published by Berkley. This book was released on 2005 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts a family's attempts to solve the murder of one of their kin, a Memphis woman named Deborah Watts, in a case stretching over twenty years, from 1977 to 1997.
Download or read book Alice Freda Forever written by Alexis Coe and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alice + Freda Forever is a gut-wrenching story of love, death, and the dangers of intolerance."—Bustle In 1892, America was obsessed with a teenage murderess, but it wasn't her crime that shocked the nation—it was her motivation. Nineteen-year-old Alice Mitchell had planned to pass as a man in order to marry her seventeen-year-old fiancée Freda Ward, but when their love letters were discovered, they were forbidden from ever speaking again. Freda adjusted to this fate with an ease that stunned a heartbroken Alice. Her desperation grew with each unanswered letter—and her father's razor soon went missing. On January 25, Alice publicly slashed her ex-fiancée's throat. Her same-sex love was deemed insane by her father that very night, and medical experts agreed: This was a dangerous and incurable perversion. As the courtroom was expanded to accommodate national interest, Alice spent months in jail—including the night that three of her fellow prisoners were lynched (an event which captured the attention of journalist and civil rights activist Ida B. Wells). After a jury of "the finest men in Memphis" declared Alice insane, she was remanded to an asylum, where she died under mysterious circumstances just a few years later. Alice + Freda Forever recounts this tragic, real-life love story with over 100 illustrated love letters, maps, artifacts, historical documents, newspaper articles, courtroom proceedings, and intimate, domestic scenes.
Download or read book Memphis Murder Mayhem written by Teresa R. Simpson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008-08-29 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journey through Memphis’ troubled past: the shocking crimes and the brutal killings that led to it being dubbed the “Murder Capital of the World.” With its alluring hospitality, legendary cuisine and transcendent music, Memphis is truly a quintessential Southern city. But lurking behind the barbeque and blue suede shoes is a dark history checkered with violence and disarray. Revisit the mass murder of 1866 that took more than fifty lives, the infamous Alice Mitchell case of the 1890s and a string of unthinkable twentieth-century sins. Author and lifelong Memphian Teresa Simpson explores some of the River City’s most menacing crimes and notorious characters in this riveting ride back through the centuries. Includes photos!
Download or read book Murder in Memphis written by Mark Lane and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Probes the 1968 murder of the great civil rights leader, poses lingering questions surrounding the event, and investigates the possibility of a large conspiracy that used the convicted culprit, James Earl Ray, as a pawn. Reprint.
Download or read book The Blood of Innocents written by Guy Reel and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2000-03-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the events surrounding the 1993 murders of three boys in West Memphis, Arkansas, and the trials of the three teens who were convicted of the crime.
Download or read book Devil s Knot written by Mara Leveritt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a true story, this edition of Devil's Knot will tie-in to a major motion picture starring Academy Award winners Reese Witherspoon and Colin Firth. This riveting portrait of a small Arkansas town recounts the all-too-true story of a brutal triple murder and the eighteen-year imprisonment of three innocent teenagers. For weeks in 1993, after the grisly murders of three eight-year-old boys, police in West Memphis, Arkansas, seemed stumped. Then suddenly, detectives charged three teenagers - alleged members of a satanic cult - with the killings. Despite the witch-hunt atmosphere of the trials and a case that included stunning investigative blunders, the teenagers, who became known as the West Memphis Three, were convicted. Jurors sentenced Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley to life in prison and Damien Echols, the accused ringleader, to death. The guilty verdicts were popular in their home state - even upheld on appeal - and all three remained in prison until their unprecedented release in August 2011. In Devil's Knot, award-winning investigative journalist Mara Leveritt presents the most comprehensive, insightful reporting ever done on this story - one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in American legal history. In-depth research, meticulous reconstruction of the investigation and close-up views of its key participants unravel the many tangled knots of this endlessly shocking case.
Download or read book She Is Evil written by Judith A. Yates and published by WildBlue Press. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true crime story of an immigrant’s success, an abusive wife, and a grisly murder from the award–winning criminologist author of When Nashville Bled. Ejaz Ahmad was handsome, charismatic, and a self-made businessman. He arrived in the United States from Pakistan determined to fulfill his mother’s dying wish: to come to America, complete his education, and make his mark in the world. Settling in Memphis, Tennessee, Ejaz became owner of several businesses, father to a handsome boy, and a devout Muslim. The only thing missing in his life was a wife, someone special to protect, honor, and love. Leah Ward was a pretty girl, but a prison parolee with a history of drug charges, petty crime, and a questionable past. She led a flotsam life, drifting from town to city to state. When she was introduced to Ejaz Ahmad, she believed she had found the ultimate answer: a place to live, someone to take care of her, and money to spend. But what began idyllic soon became abusive and then dangerous for Ejaz. His friends and family warned him. And in May of 2003 Ejaz paid the ultimate price when family members found his mutilated body in a shed. She Is Evil is a story of trust, abuse, religion, and murder. Of a kind man who tried to help a troubled woman and became the victim of abuse and, eventually, a heinous murder.
Download or read book The Memphis Murders by Gerald Meyer written by G. J. Meyer and published by . This book was released on 1974-01-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hostage Murder in Memphis written by Terrence Schultz and published by Xlibris. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The more I investigated, the more the story took on a more meaningful purpose to me. The horror that was Shannon Avenue was a story that needed to be told. What began as a project to tell a story became a labor of love. I wondered, at the time of the occurrence, how a team of police officers could stand idly by while their brother officer was being held hostage and do nothing. I was determined to find out. What I found was that every officer there was a victim. The tragedy touched more lives than I could ever imagine. This is their story
Download or read book Hostage Murder in Memphis written by Terrence Schultz and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-06-06 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ...The more I investigated, the more the story took on a more meaningful purpose to me. The horror that was Shannon Avenue was a story that needed to be told. What began as a project to tell a story became a labor of love. I wondered, at the time of the occurrence, how a team of police officers could stand idly by while their brother officer was being held hostage and do nothing. I was determined to find out. What I found was that every officer there was a victim. The tragedy touched more lives than I could ever imagine. This is their story...
Download or read book Hickory Smoked Homicide written by Riley Adams and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BBQ-joint owner Lulu Taylor knows pretty much everyone in Memphis who loves ribs. But one person she'd rather not know is Tristan Pembroke, a snooty pageant coach with a mean streak. When she finds Tristan's dead body stuffed in a closet at a party, the police are suspicious- especially since Lulu's developed a taste for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Caught in a situation stickier than molasses, Lulu must clear her name, or risk getting fried...
Download or read book Cast the First Stone Murder in Memphis written by James C. Paavola and published by J & M Book Publishers. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cast the First Stone is the fifth book in the Murder In Memphis series. Homosexuality--it's religious, social and political implications--is the backdrop for this mystery. Three gay men murdered--no suspects. A video of Memphis police officers beating a gay man goes viral. The City Council passionately debates protecting homosexuals under the city's non-discrimination law. Demonstrators rally outside City Hall. Emotions run hot. A fourth gay man is found dead. Retaliation from the LGBT community feels imminent. Memphis Police Lieutenant Julia Todd's team must solve all four homicides before there's a fifth.
Download or read book Abomination Devil Worship and Deception in the West Memphis Three Murders written by William Ramsey and published by William Ramsey. This book was released on 2013-12-06 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abomination: Devil Worship and Deception in the West Memphis Three Murders provides a detailed, time-lined analysis of the murder that shocked the nation: the heinous killing of three eight year old boys in West Memphis, Arkansas on May 5th, 1993. A wall of deception has led the American public to erroneously believe that the three men were falsely accused and convicted for the crime. Unfortunately, this is not true. William Ramsey, author of Prophet of Evil: Aleister Crowley, 9/11 and the New World Order, provides shocking insights into the lives of the convicted murderers and their involvement with witchcraft. Relying on actual court and police records, William Ramsey shows that the evidence abundantly points to the guilt of the West Memphis Three.
Download or read book Which One Dies Today written by James C. Paavola and published by Rj Communications. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third book in the Murder In Memphis series: Car bombs, a serious weapon of choice--matching family members' pain when a loved one dies because their health insurance company's priority is its bottom line. A powerful motive for murder. Two car bombs are detonated, then a third--two people are killed, two maimed. Memphis Police Lieutenant Julia Todd discovers that many health insurance companies have been using their version of death panels, denying life-saving medical treatment while their policyholder dies. Using one Iraq War demolitions specialist to catch another, two bombs are found and diffused. The bombers up the ante--pledging a suicide pact and adding police to the target list--Julia is number one.
Download or read book They Gotta Sleep Sometime written by James C. Paavola and published by Rj Communications. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memphis Police Lieutenant Julia Todd returns in the second installment in the Murder in Memphis series. She is concerned when she learns that three of her elderly aunt's high school classmates have died in their hosptial beds within the past six months. Her investigation takes her to the halls of Central High School, class of 1948, where she discovers a clique who bullied students considered to be different. Now sixty years later, the dead bodies of these bullies are piling up. Todd and her team scramble to prevent a fourth murder, then a fifth. Many have been harassed by bullies. For some, being bullied can be traumatic, life-altering--characterized by fear, anxiety and social isolation, affecting every decision they will make in life. Revenge is one of those decisions.
Download or read book Which One Dies Today Murder In Memphis written by James Paavola and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mr Tell Me Anything written by Sherra Robinson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Falling in love with the same "man of her dreams" over and over again was not a difficult task for Sharon Roberson. She had cherished Mr. Tell Me Anything so long that her fragile heart didn't even know how not to love him. After six years the couple settles into a troubled marriage. Despite the inherited challenges of parenting, and relating to their obvious differences, they continue on. With the constant chaos surrounding women, new acquaintances, family, and greed, their efforts would soon appear to be ultimately in vain. Combined with the newfound lies and deception she finds herself questioning his commitment. Her belief in true loves propels her to fight for what she had envisioned from the start. But despite her nurturing efforts, corruption and deceit took their stable places in his life. A breaking point is reached. She makes a life-altering decision. Does it work out for her good? Did all his lies finally catch up to him? Would he or she pay the ultimate price?
