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Book Murder and Mayhem in Cedar Falls

Download or read book Murder and Mayhem in Cedar Falls written by Walter Wittmuss and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Brennon, a college professor of astrology, and Denise Cole, a college professor of music, both dabble in helping the police solve crimes of almost any kind. They live in Cedar Falls, a small Midwestern town that has crimes of rape and murder to solve, with a coven of witches to muddy up the water.

Book Murder  Madness  and Mayhem on the Iowa Illinois Frontier

Download or read book Murder Madness and Mayhem on the Iowa Illinois Frontier written by Nick Vulich and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's not the usual boring history read. It's a fast-paced, easy to read, behind the scenes look at the making of Iowa and Illinois focusing on Eastern Iowa and Western Illinois.

Book Scream at the Sky

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  • Author : Carlton Stowers
  • Publisher : St. Martin's Press
  • Release : 2004-08-16
  • ISBN : 1466835826
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book Scream at the Sky written by Carlton Stowers and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2004-08-16 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carlton Stowers, the two-time Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestselling master of true crime, is back. Scream at the Sky is his masterful chronicle of one man's murderous career, and another man's sworn promise to deliver justice and closure to the people of Texas. Wichita Falls, Texas, was home to a hundred thousand people in the last months of 1984. That winter was harsh, as the normally arid Texas plains gave way to ominous dark clouds that delivered freezing sleet and rain. But a much darker force was looming, and soon the quiet town was besieged by a faceless evil--and its young women were dying because of it. In the next seventeen months five women were found brutally beaten and murdered, their young lives cut short and their bodies left haphazardly where they fell. In the years that followed, grieving families fruitlessly sought answers. A haunted district attorney chased every lead only to meet one dead end after another. And the killer's identity remained unknown to the ravaged townspeople. Then, fourteen years after the killing started, an investigator who had been assigned the cold case brought to it a renewed dedication, and came upon a chance discovery. Searching through the yellowed case files, he caught a minor detail that suggested one more suspect. Faryion Wardrip was an unhappily married family man who drowned his anger in substance abuse and violent fantasies. But for five unfortunate families, the drugs sometimes took over and the fantasies became realities. Investigator John Little followed his instincts and tirelessly ruled out every possibility until he was left with but one conclusion: Faryion Wardrip was the serial killer who had eluded his office for so long. How he tracked down Wardrip and used the legal system to beat the killer at his own game of deception is a remarkable story of justice served.

Book Murder at the Roosevelt Hotel in Cedar Rapids

Download or read book Murder at the Roosevelt Hotel in Cedar Rapids written by Diane Fannon-Langton and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Byron C. Hattman sealed his fate when he checked into the Roosevelt Hotel on December 13, 1948. A maid found his body in a blood-spattered room two days later. An investigation linked him to the young wife of St. Louis pediatrician Robert C. Rutledge, who confessed to the brutal attack after trying to poison himself. The scandal made national headlines and seemed like an easy case for the Linn County court. That is, until new evidence changed the story completely. Reporter and author Diane Fannon-Langton uncovers the truth and compiles the complete details of the Hattman slaying for the first time.

Book Brother s Blood

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  • Author : G. Scott Cawelti
  • Publisher : Ice Cube Press
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9781888160598
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Brother s Blood written by G. Scott Cawelti and published by Ice Cube Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How could he murder a brother, his sister-in-law, his young niece and nephew as they slept in their beds? Jerry Mark was a Peace Corps volunteer, lawyer, 4-H leader, vice-president of his Cedar Falls H.S. senior class when he graduated in 1960.

Book Annals of Iowa

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 530 pages

Download or read book Annals of Iowa written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Railfan   Railroad

Download or read book Railfan Railroad written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bad Boy from Rosebud

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  • Author : Gary M. Lavergne
  • Publisher : University of North Texas Press
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 1574410725
  • Pages : 379 pages

Download or read book Bad Boy from Rosebud written by Gary M. Lavergne and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Fact Sheet A chilling account of a serial killer whose cruel & tortuous murders while on parole from the Broomstick Murders changed the third largest criminal justice system in the United States.

Book CMJ New Music Report

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2000-04-03
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 64 pages

Download or read book CMJ New Music Report written by and published by . This book was released on 2000-04-03 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CMJ New Music Report is the primary source for exclusive charts of non-commercial and college radio airplay and independent and trend-forward retail sales. CMJ's trade publication, compiles playlists for college and non-commercial stations; often a prelude to larger success.

Book CMJ New Music Report

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2000-03-06
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 68 pages

Download or read book CMJ New Music Report written by and published by . This book was released on 2000-03-06 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CMJ New Music Report is the primary source for exclusive charts of non-commercial and college radio airplay and independent and trend-forward retail sales. CMJ's trade publication, compiles playlists for college and non-commercial stations; often a prelude to larger success.

Book The Ground on Which I Stand

Download or read book The Ground on Which I Stand written by Marti Corn and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-08 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1871, newly freed slaves established the community of Tamina—then called “Tammany”—north of Houston, Texas, near the rich timberlands of Montgomery County. Located in proximity to the just-completed railroad from Conroe to Houston, the community benefited from the burgeoning local lumber industry and available transportation. The residents built homes, churches, a one-room school, and a general store. In the decades since, urban growth and change have overtaken Tamina. The sprawling communities of The Woodlands, Shenandoah, Chateau Woods, and Oak Ridge have encroached, introducing both new prospects and troubling complications, as the residents of this rural community enjoy both the benefits and the challenges of urban life. On the one hand, the children of Tamina have the opportunity to attend some of the best public schools in the nation; on the other hand, residents whose education and job skills have not kept pace with modern society are struggling for survival. Through striking and intimate photography and sensitively gleaned oral histories, author Marti Corn has chronicled the lives, dreams, and spirit of the people of Tamina. The result is a multi-faceted portrait of community, kinship, values, and a shared history. In 2016, the book cover portrait of Tamina resident Johnny Jones was featured at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. This second edition of Corn’s classic photographic essays and interviews with Tamina residents includes a helpful classroom guide for collecting and studying oral history. The result is a rich new resource that affords readers a window into a little-understood part of our shared past.

Book Stout Hearts and Leathery Hands

Download or read book Stout Hearts and Leathery Hands written by Jeff Carter and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Under the Banner of Heaven

Download or read book Under the Banner of Heaven written by Jon Krakauer and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2004-06-08 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air, this extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America’s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities. • Now an acclaimed FX limited series streaming on HULU. “Fantastic.... Right up there with In Cold Blood and The Executioner’s Song.” —San Francisco Chronicle Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake City, the renegade leaders of these Taliban-like theocracies are zealots who answer only to God; some 40,000 people still practice polygamy in these communities. At the core of Krakauer’s book are brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty, who insist they received a commandment from God to kill a blameless woman and her baby girl. Beginning with a meticulously researched account of this appalling double murder, Krakauer constructs a multi-layered, bone-chilling narrative of messianic delusion, polygamy, savage violence, and unyielding faith. Along the way he uncovers a shadowy offshoot of America’s fastest growing religion, and raises provocative questions about the nature of religious belief.

Book The Yosemite Murders

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dennis McDougal
  • Publisher : Ballantine Books
  • Release : 2000-01-04
  • ISBN : 0345438345
  • Pages : 334 pages

Download or read book The Yosemite Murders written by Dennis McDougal and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2000-01-04 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since he was seven, Cary Stayner had dreamed of capturing women . . . and killing them They were crimes that grabbed headlines around the world and stunned America. Four women dead, their bodies charred and horribly mutilated. Now Dennis McDougal, acclaimed author of the spellbinding true crime tour de force Mother's Day, brings his considerable investigative and narrative skills to the Yosemite murders to give you the most complete account of what really happened. Drawing on several personal conversations with the confessed killer and interviews with the victims' families, McDougal presents the definitive story, and answers many lingering questions. What demons drove this quiet handyman and nudist colony habitue to burn, mutilate, and murder four women he didn't even know? How did he overpower a woman and two teenaged girls? And most disturbing, did the glory-seeking FBI actually hinder the investigation, leaving the killer free to kill once more before he was caught? THE YOSEMITE MURDERS offers valuable insight into these savage and senseless murders in the heart of America's most beautiful wilderness.

Book Picnic In the Ruins

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  • Author : Todd Robert Petersen
  • Publisher : Catapult
  • Release : 2021-01-05
  • ISBN : 1640093230
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book Picnic In the Ruins written by Todd Robert Petersen and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named Best Mystery Thriller in the 2021 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards "Part mystery; part quirky, darkly funny, mayhem-filled thriller; and part meditation on what it means to 'own' land, artifacts, and the narrative of history in the West . . . A fast-paced, highly entertaining hybrid of Tony Hillerman and Edward Abbey." --Kirkus Reviews Anthropologist Sophia Shepard is researching the impact of tourism on cultural sites in a remote national monument on the Utah-Arizona border when she crosses paths with two small-time criminals. The Ashdown brothers were hired to steal maps from a "collector" of Native American artifacts, but their ineptitude has alerted the local sheriff to their presence. Their employer, a former lobbyist seeking lucrative monument land that may soon be open to energy exploration, sends a fixer to clean up their mess. Suddenly, Sophia must put her theories to the test in the real world, and the stakes are higher than she could have ever imagined. What begins as a madcap caper across the RV-strewn vacation lands of southern Utah becomes a meditation on mythology, authenticity, the ethics of preservation, and one nagging question: Who owns the past?

Book Second Chance

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jonathan Valin
  • Publisher : Dell
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN : 9780440212225
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Second Chance written by Jonathan Valin and published by Dell. This book was released on 1992 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the daughter of a prominent psychiatrist disappears, Harry Stoner begins one of the most heart-wrenching cases of his career. A violent, chilling act threatens to tear lives apart in its wake. Continues the Jonathan Valin repackaging program begun last month.

Book Visions of Glory

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  • Author : John M. Pontius
  • Publisher : CFI
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 9781462128433
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Visions of Glory written by John M. Pontius and published by CFI. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: