Kategoria BISAC: True Crime >> Murder - General

A remarkable story of how the U.S. military tortured German POWs into confessing their guilt

"An expert dissection of the crime, its witnesses, and Washington's shifting goals. Murder and Martial Justice is a good murder mystery, based on a solid examination of the various contradictions and irritating bureaucratic villains." --Arnold Krammer, author of Nazi Prisoners of War in America and Undue Process: The Untold Story of America's German Alien Internees

During World War II, the United States maintained two secret interrogation...

The events surrounding the 1913 murder of the young Atlanta factory worker Mary Phagan and the subsequent lynching of Leo Frank, the transplanted northern Jew who was her employer and accused killer, were so wide ranging and tumultuous that they prompted both the founding of B nai B rith s Anti-Defamation League and the revival of the Ku Klux Klan. "The Leo Frank Case" was the first comprehensive account of not only Phagan s murder and Frank s trial and lynching but also the sensational newspaper coverage, popular hysteria, and legal demagoguery that surrounded these events.

Forty years...

Francesca Biagi-Chai's book - a translation from the French of Le Cas Landru - tackles the issue of criminal responsibility in the case of serial killers, and other 'mad' people who are nonetheless deemed to be answerable before the law. The author, a Lacanian psychoanalyst and senior psychiatrist in France, with extensive experience working in institutional settings, analyses the logic informing the crimes of famous serial killers. Addressing the Landru case (which was the inspiration for Chaplin's Monsieur Verdoux), as well as those of Pierre Riviere and Donato Bilancia, Biagi-Chai casts...