Kategoria BISAC: True Crime >> Con Artists, Hoaxes & Deceptions

THE CREATION of the world's preeminent Fantasy Role-Playing Game (FRPG), Dungeons & Dragons, is one of the most fascinating tales to be told in all the shared histories of entertainment, play and game design. Two very different men, David Lance Arneson and Ernest Gary Gygax, undertook an unprecedented collaboration which gifted us - as their shared legacy - with one of the most intriguing games the world has yet experienced. Their game did not just simulate one isolate corner of reality; it dared to encompass the entirety of all realms of adventure, the consensual playground of the human...

Suppose you were accused of a crime you did not commit. Now suppose you were denied all available defense and therefore, convicted of this crime and then shipped off to prison where you will spend the next 54 months of your life. Finally, suppose the accusation was proven false, but one judge blocks all of your redemption efforts. Now ask yourself this question, "How far would you go to prove you're innocent." This is the story of a police officer that had been falsely accused of sexual wrongdoings. A true story of corruption, abuse of justice and deception set in Brunswick County, NC....

"S.L. Bowers is transparent in this heartfelt semi-autobiographical" "chronicle of her life. She takes us on her journey as an innocent, naive," "young Christian girl to dipping her toe into an untapped secular world" "as a young adult and finally taking the true plunge of faith." "In this narrative, we see her learning, discovering, sailing, and stumbling her way through in this new world. We follow her as she copes with life's challenges and grapples with the common insecurities many young women are plagued with in today's society. She explores complicated subjects of career plans, dating,...

Twenty chapters, each is a different but complete story of crime, actual and attempted, within the superannuation industry. Contains elements of biography of the author as a General Manager, Trustee and Consultant to several of Australia's top superannuation funds and later as an Investigator. Chapters relate how murderers sought to claim the superannuation of victims, an attempt by a "widow" to claim a death benefit for a still alive husband and an opportunistic couple and their teenage daughters who colluded to bury a "spare" corpse. Attempts by contributors to fraudulently obtain total and...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Bitter Blood comes the story of a greed so powerful it led to an unspeakable crime.

Wealthy Lieth von Stein lay dead and his wife Bonnie near death in their North Carolina home after a vicious assault with knife and baseball bat as they slept. The crime seemed totally baffling until police followed a trail that led to the charming von Stein stepson, Chris Pritchard, and his brilliant, drug-using, Dungeons-&-Dragons playing friends at N.C. State University. Blood Games is the shattering true story of degraded young...

THIS SPECIALLY-PRICED SINGLE-VOLUME BOX SET OF THE UNSOLVED "MURDER" OF ADAM WALSH INCLUDES REVISED 2015 EDITIONS OF BOOKS ONE AND BOOK TWO The disappearance of Adam Walsh, a six-year-old last seen at a shopping mall in Hollywood, Florida, in July 1981 was about the worst nightmare imaginable. Two weeks later, the remains of a child's head were found and identified as Adam. No one has ever been arrested for the crime. For the most part, the case's narration has been told by the victims and local law enforcement. However, there has been another voice, an independent investigative journalist...

This riveting tale of Alice Carroll -- a drug-addled, bipolar wreck of a narrator -- combines poetic prose against a nightmarish backdrop of drugs, lies, and madness. This nonfiction novella opens with a rather ordinary scene of Carroll's 21st birthday and rapidly progresses throughout the months of the year into a story colored with excessive drug use, careless decision-making, exorbitant lying, and the drama & chaos that ensues from the combinations of such during any social interactions with friends, family, and foe. This well-written memoir is a work of art that generates writing styles...

Soon to be a major motion picture from the director of The Hangover starring Jonah Hill, the page-turning, behind-closed-doors account of how three kids from Florida became big-time weapons traders for the government and how the Pentagon later turned on them.

In January of 2007, three young stoners from Miami Beach were put in charge of a $300 million Department of Defense contract to supply ammunition to the Afghanistan military. Instead of fulfilling the order with high-quality arms, Efraim Diveroli, David Packouz, and Alex Podrizki (the dudes) bought cheap Communist-style...

A perfect life. A perfect lie.

When Nancy Cooper moved from Canada to Cary, North Carolina with her new husband Brad, their future was bright: living in one of the most picturesque towns in the US, the couple mingled with neighbors, attended parties, and raised two daughters.

Then, on July 14th, 2008, the facade came crashing down when Nancy's strangled body was found in a storm pond.

Nancy's husband claimed that she had gone for a jog and never come back. But as the police investigation deepened, and as Brad was brought to trial for murdering his wife, a complex web of affairs...

In 1998, Congressman Sonny Bono, who came to fame as part of the singing duo Sonny & Cher, died while skiing alone near South Lake Tahoe, Nevada. After his music career ended, Salvatore Phillip "Sonny" Bono became mayor of Palm Springs, California, and in 1995 was named congressman for California's 44th district. As a freshman congressman, he tried to shake things up in Washington. Former policeman Thomas Lee Gorzynski's new investigative book Like Sonny Hit a Tree probes into whether his death was really an accident. The author also delves into the mysterious death of writer Danny Casolaro,...

In this stunning true crime thriller of Facebook, catfishing, and jealousy, a double-murder begins with the click of a button.

When Bill Payne and Billie Jean Hayworth began their romance, they unknowingly set in motion a diabolical plot that would end with them murdered in their own home, Hayworth holding their mercifully unharmed infant.

Chris was a CIA agent who was concerned about Jenelle. Seeing the cyberbullying she had endured, and worried for her safety, Chris got in touch with Jenelle's protective parents, and her devoted boyfriend, warning them that Payne and...

'You said I was the perfect boyfriend. If you can prove you really love me, perhaps I can be that way again.'

This book was featured on Fox News. Did President Clinton know the 9-11 attack was coming? After reading this book, many will conclude he did. If you don't believe in government conspiracies, this book will change you forever. Throughout the book, the governments own top-secret documents details their conspiracies to commit assassinations and much more. New York Times Bestselling author and former LAPD Intelligence Detective Mike Rothmiller has spent decades painstakingly scouring various governmental archives in the United States and England to obtain these shocking and sometimes appalling...

A hair-raising expose of child abuse, drug addiction, demonic oppression, suicide, psych wards, false diagnosis, corruption, and deceptions in the church in a bomb-dropping testimony. Destroyed twice, once deliberately by the author, this book took 15 years to bear the light.

Nashville 1964. Eighteen-year-old babysitter Paula Herring is murdered in her home while her six-year-old brother apparently sleeps through the grisly event. A few months later a judge's son is convicted of the crime. Decades after the slaying, Michael Bishop, a private citizen, stumbles upon a secret file related to the case and with the help of some of the world's top forensic experts--including forensic psychologist Richard Walter (aka "the living Sherlock Holmes")--he uncovers the truth. What really happened is completely different from what the public was led to believe.

Now, for the...

Three internationally-known illusionists boldly reveal the powerful secrets behind the supernatural, psychic ability and the limits of Satan:
Do some humans have supernatural powers?

Is it possible to read minds?

How do psychics get their secret information?

Could the miracles of Jesus have been an illusion?

Should we be afraid of Satan?

Solid answers and amazing personal stories make this a fascinating read. Unmasking the Masquerade: Three Illusionists Investigate Deception, Fear, and the Supernatural is well documented and endorsed by...

Three internationally-known illusionists boldly reveal the powerful secrets behind the supernatural, psychic ability and the limits of Satan:
Do some humans have supernatural powers?

Is it possible to read minds?

How do psychics get their secret information?

Could the miracles of Jesus have been an illusion?

Should we be afraid of Satan?

Solid answers and amazing personal stories make this a fascinating read. Unmasking the Masquerade: Three Illusionists Investigate Deception, Fear, and the Supernatural is well documented and endorsed by...

The High Price I Had To Pay, Volume IV, is a captivating real-life story about the travails of Brandi Davis, a young, single mother, who entered the drug game after the sudden death of her child's father, a notorious drug dealer. As the girlfriend of a well-known member of the infamous Black Mafia Family (BMF) organization, Davis was showered with a lavish lifestyle that she was unwilling to give up so easily. Feeling as though her back was against the wall, determined to stay afloat, she accepted an invitation to enter the drug game.

As the daughter of a legendary hustler, Davis...