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A vain man of good looks but no family ties to the Mob, Vincent "Vinny Gorgeous" Basciano worked his way up to acting boss of the Bonanno crime family, becoming its leader when official boss Joseph Massino went to prison in 2003. When the Mafia was crawling with secret operatives and informants caving to government pressure to flip, Basciano steadfastly obeyed the code of La Cosa Nostra. "I got faith in one guy," he said during a secretly taped meeting....
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Started by Italian brothers from North Denver, the high-profile Smaldone crime syndicate began in the bootlegging days of the 1920s and flourished into the 1980s. Connected to notorious crime figures, politicians, and presidents, Clyde Smaldone was the crime family's leader. Through candid interviews and firsthand accounts, Dick Kreck reveals the true sense of what it meant to be a Smaldone, not only the corrupt but also the virtuous. Dick Kreck retired...
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Before the Five Families who so notoriously dominated U.S. organized crime for a bloody half-century, there was the one-fingered, surpassingly cunning Giuseppe Morello and his murderous coterie of brothers. Born into a life of poverty in rural Sicily, Morello became an American nightmare, pioneering the bizarre initiation rituals, imaginative protection rackets, influential underworld reigns, and Mafia wars later popularized by countless books, television...
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
c2007
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273 p. (lg. print) : ill. ; 22 cm.
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English
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A former ATF agent describes his 1985 mission to apprehend Mark Stephens, a deranged, violent drug trafficker who had been terrorizing communities around Los Angeles with his rampages.
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"In 1971, while working the late-shift at a Seattle crisis clinic, true-crime writer Ann Rule struck up a friendship with a sensitive, charismatic young coworker: Ted Bundy. Three years later, eight young women disappeared in seven months, and Rule began tracking a brutal mass murderer. But she had no idea that the 'Ted' the police were seeking was the same Ted who had become her close friend and confidant. As she put the evidence together, a terrifying...
10) Jesse James
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PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2006
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1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4in.
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English
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Examines the life and the legend of the infamous outlaw Jesse James. Looks at his formative years in a Southern household dependent on slave labor and as a member of a vicious band of Missouri guerrillas during the Civil War. Describes his life as a violent criminal, as he and his gang moved on to robbing banks, stagecoaches, and railroads in the post-war era. Relates how James was eventually killed when one of his own gang members shot him in the...
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First Second Books
Pub. Date
2013
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IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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264 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 23 cm.
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English
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Welcome to the city of Red Wheelbarrow, where the world's greatest detective has yet to meet the crime he can't solve-- every criminal in Red Wheelbarrow is caught and convicted thanks to Detective Gould's brilliant mind and cutting-edge spy technology. But lately there has been a rash of crimes so eccentric and random that even Detective Gould is stumped. Will he discover the connection between the compulsive chair thief, the novelist who uses purloined...
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2018.
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Murder, Interrupted--Cheating financier Frank Howard wants his wife dead, and he's willing to pay Billie Earl Johnson whatever it takes. But Billie's bullet misses the mark... Mother of All Murders--Media reports praise single mother Dee Dee Blancharde, who tirelessly cares for her wheelchair-bound, chronically ill daughter. Until Gypsy Rose realizes she isn't actually sick, and Dee Dee has lied all these years--From the publisher's web site.
14) Bonnie and Clyde
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Aladdin
Pub. Date
2018.
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IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 4
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147 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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Get a behind-the-scenes glimpse of what it takes to be considered two of the worst figures in history, with the third book in this nonfiction series that focuses on the most despicable historical figures. Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are possibly the most famous and most romanticized criminals in American history. When the police found photos of them posing with guns and goofing around, they became media darlings. However, their fame was short-lived,...
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
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1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A pair of college-bound friends find themselves falling for one another, but after the mysterious murder of their classmate, they defy the authorities to uncover the truth.
16) Bonnie & Clyde
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PBS
Pub. Date
[2016]
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1 videodisc (54 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were the most famous criminal couple in U.S. history. Newsreels in movie theaters across the country flashed images of a pixyish Bonnie and handsome Clyde, turning them into the underworld's dark prince and princess of crime. In reality, as this film reveals, Bonnie and Clyde grew up in the slums of West Dallas and had little in common with their glamorous media images.
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A clandestine operations novel volume 5
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English
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"Special agent James Cronley Jr. finds that fighting both ex-Nazis and the Soviet NKGB can lead to strange bedfellows, in the dramatic new Clandestine Operations novel about the birth of the CIA and the Cold War. A month ago, Cronley managed to capture two notorious Nazi war criminals, but not without leaving some dead bodies and outraged Austrian police in his wake. He's been lying low ever since, but that little vacation is about to end. Somebody--Odessa,...
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