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To neighbors, she was the brave single mother...
Raising her five kids alone in a rundown section of Sacramento, Theresa Cross Knorr seemed like the ultimate survivor. But her youngest daughter, 16-year-old Terry, told police another story: one almost too terrible to believe.
But accused of imprisoning her children in a house of horrors...
According to Terry, Theresa--no longer the petite brunette she once was--had turned insanely jealous of...
2) Death Cruise
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For pretty Ohioan Joan Rogers and her two teenaged daughters, a Florida sunset cruise was a dream come true. And even though all three were desperately afaid of the water, they were so taken with friendly boat owner Oba Chandler that they gladly accepted a ride with him on beautiful Tampa Bay.
Little did naive mom and two daughters know that behind Chandler's mask of a gracious host lurked a daring and ruthless ex-con, a thief and a liar, a seductive...
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In the silent echoes of the past, mysteries linger. Uncover the chilling and poignant stories of those who vanished without a trace. With each page, the reader delves into the depths of some of the most baffling and heartbreaking missing persons cases in history.
From the fog-enshrouded streets of a small town where a beloved teacher disappears under mysterious circumstances, to the bustling city where a young woman vanishes in broad daylight,...
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Kidnapping (illegitimate deprivation of liberty) is one of the most heinous crimes against people.
The reasons are very varied:
• receive a ransom
• Reckoning, revenge.
• Ritual acts, including totalitarian sects.
• Solve personal or political problems.
• Kidnapping children for sale to childless families.
• Using humans as blood or internal organ donors
• Porn business, prostitution.
• Slavery.
• Criminal acts of maniacs.
Very...
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Embark on an enigmatic voyage within these pages, a journey that traverses not just the physical realms, but the obscure corners of the mind and the hidden crevices of the unknown. Herein lie tales of the most baffling and spine-chilling vanishings known to humanity. This is not merely a collection of unsolved cases, but a cryptic maze of narratives, stitched together with threads of curiosity, dread, and an unquenchable thirst for the unfathomable.
Beneath...
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Dive into a world where shadows whisper and secrets linger just out of reach, in a book that meticulously stitches together the most perplexing and haunting missing persons cases. Each story unfolds like a meticulously researched tapestry, presenting a different, complex narrative brimming with emotionally charged interviews, detailed police reports, and a palpable sense of communal shock.
These chapters are gateways, leading you deep into the...
8) Ted Bundy, el Asesino Carismático: Los Escalofriantes Actos de uno de los Asesinos Seriales más F
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¿Has escuchado o leído el nombre miles de veces sin saber toda su historia? ¿Te gustaría conocer todo lo que se esconde detrás de este psicópata? ¿Hay manera de evitar a otros individuos como Ted Bundy de acuerdo a la psicología? Entonces sigue leyendo… "El mal está sólo en tu mente y no en lo externo. La mente pura siempre ve solamente lo bueno en cada cosa, pero la mala se encarga de inventar el mal." - Goethe Theodore Robert Bundy...
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Peer inside the mind of violent child molester Nathanael Bar-Jonah.Personal coded writings, life-long behaviors and victim testimony reveal how he operated and the difficulties law enforcement experienced stopping him. Eyes of a Pedophile follows Bar-Jonah's evolution from religious beginnings to hunting children, being investigated for child abduction and cannibalism, and finally being imprisoned for life.Extensively researched medical and psychological...
10) Ten years later
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"They told him his daughter died. But what if she didn't? Ten years ago, Keaton Young turned his back briefly on his four-year-old daughter, Vivian, during a family picnic at the beach. Minutes later she was gone, her floaties found in the ocean. Drowned. But they never found a body. And Keaton has never given up hope that, somehow, she's still alive. He thought he'd found her numerous times, only to be wrong. But when he sees fourteen-year-old Emily...
11) A bridge home
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Pinata Books, an imprint of Arte Publico Press
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[2024]
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""Jacqueline Bravo can't understand why she's being called to the principal's office and is shocked to learn her mother hasn't paid her tuition at St. Bernadette High School in three months! Now Sister Mary Grace is threatening to kick her out and even recommends a vocational school until she gets married. Finances have been tight ever since Jacqui's father was killed in Vietnam. She is determined to win the alumni scholarship to UCLA, and there's...
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Bantam
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2011.
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He watches. Something terrible has happened in the snowbound village of Kingdom Come, Wyoming. Twelve eerily identical houses stand dark and abandoned. The people who lived in them appear to have vanished, seemingly into thin air. He waits. Maura Isles is driving through the area with a group of friends when they find themselves trapped in a snowstorm. They stumble into the abandoned village to take shelter. But their nightmare has only just begun....
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