The crime archives inside the minds of today's deadliest criminals
At once horrifying and fascinating, The Crime Archive is a rogue's gallery of murderers, hitmen, gang leaders, and kidnappers. This gripping foray into the criminal underworld details a variety of offenses--from serial killings to drug smuggling, localized rampages to international headlines. I...
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Carlton Book
2011
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| Summary: | At once horrifying and fascinating, The Crime Archive is a rogue's gallery of murderers, hitmen, gang leaders, and kidnappers. This gripping foray into the criminal underworld details a variety of offenses--from serial killings to drug smuggling, localized rampages to international headlines. Includes rare facsimiles of documents that led to the capture and conviction of these criminals and more than 100 photographs. |
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| Item Description: | Book held closed by magnetic strips. Includes index "Contain removable evidence from criminal casefiles" -- on cover Book is accompanied by 15 facimilie materials bearing the same call number and available at the circulation counter Facsimile materials (p.18-19) : 1. A card that Phil Spector sent to a friend, in which he insults the prosecuting District Attorney (and the D A's mother). The postcard reached the media and was an embarrassment for Spector's defence team; not least because it showed their client as rather immature and irresponsible. -- 2. Extracts from the police search warrant issued for the search of Phil Spector's home. Such a warrant has to lay out the police reasons for suspicion that a crime has be committed. Even minor faults in such a document can undermine, or even halt, later court proceedings. -- 3. Despite Jane Andrews's jealous behaviour, it seems like that Tommy Cressman genuinely loved her. It was her continued insistence on marriage that seems to have driven him to consider leaving her: a decision that probably cost him his life. -- 4. This receipt for petrol purchased by Peter Falconio was use by the prosecution at Murdoch's trial to prove that they was driving on the Stuart Highway before Falconio disappeared. (cont.) Facsimile materials (p.30-31) : 5. The death certificate of Kathleen Grundy, the former Mayor of Hyde, signed by Shipman and giving the (false) cause of death as "Old Age". Grundy was the last of Shipman's victims, all of whom were murdered under a cloak of medical officaldom and red tape. -- 6. The witness statement, made by Angela Woodruff, the daughter of Kathleen Grundy. It was this statement that eventually led to Harold Shipman's downfall. It is very likely that Dr Shipman would have continued to kill, if police had not acted on Mrs Woodruff's suspicions. -- 7. In this handwritten note given to his trial judge, serial killer Michel Fourniret admits to being a "bad [human] being devoid of all human sentiment". He adds: "the cupboard of my conscience, wide open, is empty". This letter was his only public statement, as he refused to speak in court. -- 9. A suspect sketch of Marc Dutroux, the peadophile and murderer, whose crimes shook Belgium to the core. His own mother is quoted as saying of him: "What I do not know, and what all the people who know him fear, it's what he has in mind for the future". (cont.) Facsimile materials (p.42-43) : 9 & 10. Thomas Loudamy is a Californian who writes to famous prisoners, hoping to collect their replies, In August 2006 he wrote to Robert Pickton, who was then still awaiting trial for serial killing in Canada. Using the false identity of "Mya Barnett", Loudamy elicited two replies from Pickton; both contained startling insights into the mind of a brutal murderer. Pickton's written replies to Mya Barnett offered a clear hint of what a Jungian psychoanalyst would call a "Jehovah complex". Pickton's rants about other people's "evil ways" and "the terrible anger of God", reflect surviving witnesses' statements that he would work himself into a self-righteous (Jehovah-like) rage before attempting a murder. -- 11. A fax of the search warrant for Seung-Hui Cho's residence. It warrant mentions three bombs threat letters - one found at the scene of the Virginia Tech massacre and two other dating from before the incident. If these latter two threats could have been traced back to Cho in time, it is likely that the VA Tech shooting would never have taken place. (cont.) Facsimile materials (p.54-55) : 12. Almost two years before the Columbine High School Massacre, Eric Harris wrote this level-headed and thorough essay on guns in US schools, scoring 69 marks out of 75. He clearly understood the implications of lax gun security, and later took full advantage of the implications. -- 13. In January 1998, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold stole a car and were caught by the police. They were sent on a "juvenile diversion" programme, in part to assess them for any deep-seated anti-social tendencies. Both passed the programme with flying colours. In April 1999, the boys conducted the Columbine High School Massacre. -- 14. One of the darkly childish ransom notes which were left at two crimes scenes by the Washington Sniper. Some serial killers love to anonymously taunt the police and some, like the Sniper, like to insist that it is the investigators' fault that victims have died. -- 15. O J Simpson's intake photograph from High Dessert State Prison following his conviction for kidnapping. Simpson, once one of the most famous Americans alive, tried a renew his celebrity in 2006 with a TV show called Juiced! - in which he played comedy pranks on members of the public. The show flopped. |
| Physical Description: | 63 p. ill. 29 cm. 15 facimilie documents |
| ISBN: | 9781847327536 |