Author: Kasy Spears
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359089135
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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I was your cure, and you were my disease.I was saving you, and you were killing me.Unhealthy behaviors between romantic partners, friends, or even coworkers aren't always as obvious as they seem. Signs of a toxic relationship are sometimes easy to spot--blatant infidelity or physical violence, for example. But there can often be more subtle signs that something's just not right between you and your partner--or between you and a close friend, a coworker, or a family member. (It's not just romantic relationships that can become toxic.) Focus on the dangers Psychopaths, Narcissism, and Sociopaths play on the public and how you maybe be closer to danger then you think.

Author: Anna Motz
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131781536X
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Domestic violence is a major public health concern, affecting millions worldwide. It is underreported, often devastating and sometimes ends in murder. In Toxic Couples: The Psychology of Domestic Violence, Anna Motz integrates psychological and criminological data with clinical illustrations and discussion of current high-profile cases. She examines the complex manifestations and multiple causes of intimate partner violence. Motz disentangles the roles played by those involved and examines the addictive nature of these damaging partnerships. The book describes various forms of abuse, including physical, sexual and emotional, and analyses how intimate partner violence can escalate to murder. She explores important factors including: the role of addiction; homelessness and vulnerability; the intergenerational transmission of abuse; sadomasochistic relationships; honour-based violence. The book emphasizes the significance of female- as well as male-perpetrated violence and outlines the powerful impact on the children of abusive parents, extending the clinical awareness of professionals working with those affected. Toxic Couples: The Psychology of Domestic Violence is ideal for clinicians working with the victims and perpetrators of intimate partner violence, for students of psychology, gender studies and social care courses and for anyone interested in the psychological forces behind violence in relationships. ]

Author: Tomás Guillén
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504059107
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 327

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The chilling true story of romantic obsession and murder by cancer from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Search for the Green River Killer. Omaha, Nebraska, 1978. Sandy Johnson was in shock. Her husband, Duane, and young daughter, Sherrie, were violently ill when word arrived that her infant nephew just died of mysterious causes. Days earlier, the entire family was happy, healthy, and living the American dream. Now they were at the center of a terrifying medical crisis. Duane soon died in a condition unlike anything the doctors had ever seen. As they raced to discover what disease or toxin could have done so much damage so quickly, Lt. Foster Burchard of the Omaha police began to suspect foul play. Sandy herself became a primary suspect, as did her ex-boyfriend Steven Harper—a man prone to violence who never got over their breakup. In Toxic Love, investigative reporter and true crime author Tomás Guillén offers a detailed and vivid account of this baffling case from the day of the poisoning to the harrowing trial and the murderer’s eventual suicide on death row.

Author: R. Barri Flowers
Publisher: R. Barri Flowers
ISBN:
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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SERIAL KILLER COUPLES: Bonded by Sexual Depravity, Abduction, and Murder chronicles the true crimes of sexually motivated serial killers who are intimates. In this latest true crime book from award winning, bestselling criminologist R. Barri Flowers, nine gripping tales examine killer couples from America, England, and Canada whose murderous reign of terror knows no end till they are brought to justice. Chapter 1: Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck, Chapter 2: Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, Chapter 3: Fred West and Rosemary West, Chapter 4: Gerald Gallego and Charlene Gallego, Chapter 5: Douglas Clark and Carol Mary Bundy, Chapter 6: Alvin Neelley and Judith Ann Neelley, Chapter 7: Alton Coleman and Debra Denise Brown, Chapter 8: James Gregory Marlow and Cynthia Coffman, Chapter 9: Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka. Bonus material includes excerpts from the author's international bestselling true crime book, THE SEX SLAVE MURDERS; historical true crime short, MASS MURDER IN THE SKY: The Bombing of Flight 629, Jack the Ripper thriller novel, DARK STREETS OF WHITECHAPEL, and medical mystery and police procedural, MURDER IN MAUI.

Author: Charles D. Ellis
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781594201899
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 754

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Traces the half-century ascent of Goldman Sachs from a marginal family firm with limited prospects to one of the world's most profitable investment banks, evaluating the contributions of such pivotal figures as Sidney Weinberg, Gus Levy, and John Whitehead. 75,000 first printing.

Author: A. J. Flick
Publisher: Wildblue Press
ISBN: 9781947290853
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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Three years after Stidham moved to Tucson, his life ended in an empty, darkened parking lot. But who would murder such a nice man in such a violent manner? Lourdes, who had witnessed Schwartz's toxic rage toward his former partner, feared she knew. But would her suspicions be enough to catch the killer?

Author: Harold Schechter
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0345472004
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 434

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THE DEFINITIVE DOSSIER ON HISTORY’S MOST HEINOUS! Hollywood’s make-believe maniacs like Jason, Freddy, and Hannibal Lecter can’t hold a candle to real life monsters like John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and scores of others who have terrorized, tortured, and terminated their way across civilization throughout the ages. Now, from the much-acclaimed author of Deviant, Deranged, and Depraved, comes the ultimate resource on the serial killer phenomenon. Rigorously researched and packed with the most terrifying, up-to-date information, this innovative and highly compelling compendium covers every aspect of multiple murderers–from psychology to cinema, fetishism to fan clubs, “trophies” to trading cards. Discover: WHO THEY ARE: Those featured include Ed Gein, the homicidal mama’s boy who inspired fiction’s most famous Psycho, Norman Bates; Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi, sex-crazed killer cousins better known as the Hillside Stranglers; and the Beanes, a fifteenth-century cave-dwelling clan with an insatiable appetite for human flesh HOW THEY KILL: They shoot, stab, and strangle. Butcher, bludgeon, and burn. Drown, dismember, and devour . . . and other methods of massacre too many and monstrous to mention here. WHY THEY DO IT: For pleasure and for profit. For celebrity and for “companionship.” For the devil and for dinner. For the thrill of it, for the hell of it, and because “such men are monsters, who live . . . beyond the frontiers of madness.” PLUS: in-depth case studies, classic killers’ nicknames, definitions of every kind of deviance and derangement, and much, much more. For more than one hundred profiles of lethal loners and killer couples, Bluebeards and black widows, cannibals and copycats– this is an indispensable, spine-tingling, eye-popping investigation into the dark hearts and mad minds of that twisted breed of human whose crimes are the most frightening . . . and fascinating.

Author: Tammy Cohen
Publisher: Kings Road Publishing
ISBN: 1857827376
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 207

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Love and lust are among the most powerful of emotions, but when joint thirst for violence is thrown into the mix, it creates the ultimate lethal cocktail. Exploring the deadly dynamic that exists within the relationships of men and women whose romantic obsession leads them to commit acts of bloody devastation. Includes case histories from around the world - some well known, others whose shocking truth is revealed for the first time. The horrific details of couples, that had they never met may have continued living 'normal' lives in unremarkable obscurity, but who have instead acted upon joint sadistic, monstrous fantasies.

Author: Tammy Cohen
Publisher: Blake Publishing
ISBN: 9781844545728
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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Love and lust are among the most powerful of emotions, but when a joint thirst for violence is thrown into the mix, it creates the ultimate lethal cocktail. This title explores the deadly dynamic that exists within the relationship of men and women whose romantic obsession leads them to commit acts of bloody devastation.

Author: R. Barri Flowers
Publisher: R. Barri Flowers
ISBN:
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages :

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From R. Barri Flowers, award winning criminologist and international bestselling author of The Sex Slave Murders and The Sex Slave Murders 2, comes a gripping new true crime short, Killers of the Lonely Hearts: The Tale of Serial Killers Raymond Fernandez & Martha Beck. In this gripping tale of sex, jealousy, con artists, and murder, the author gets to the root of the violent crimes perpetrated by 1940s serial killers Fernandez and Beck, who preyed on lonely women through personal ads, stealing from them, and murdering them before the ultimate justice was served on the killer lovers. As a bonus, included is a complete true crime short, The Sinful Killers, about serial killers James Gregory Marlow and Cynthia Coffman, who murdered at least five people over three states in 1986, including four women, who were targeted for abduction, sexual assault, and robbery. An added bonus is excerpts from R. Barri Flowers bestselling true crime shorts, Mass Murder in the Sky, in which an airliner is brought down over Denver by dynamite and Murder at the Pencil Factory, chronicling the century old murder of Mary Phagan and the lynching of her purported killer Leo Frank. Also included are excerpts from the author's bestselling novel, Dark Streets of Whitechapel, a Jack the Ripper historical thriller.