Commissioner, The: A True Story of Deceit, Dishonor, and by Bill Keith

Published March 17, 2017 by admin

By Bill Keith

Fueled through his accountability to discover the reality, Keith delves into D’Artois’s political and private existence. because the research unfolds, the commissioner’s participation in embezzlement, racial prejudice, pay-offs, and abhorrent abuse of authority is uncovered. Years of omitted proof slowly start to show the commissioner as a fraudulent baby-kisser striving to convey geared up crime to the town. even if each point of his profession is termed into query, D’Artois doesn't backtrack. in its place, he makes use of his robust ties to prevent Keith and the 5 brave lawmen that attempt to placed a cease to his felony methods.

Show description

Read Online or Download Commissioner, The: A True Story of Deceit, Dishonor, and Death PDF

Best murder & mayhem true accounts books

Profiling Cop-Killers

Drawing seriously on unique examine designed to coach cops to outlive lethal encounters, Profiling Cop-Killers examines the sociological heritage, psychology, and reasons of fifty murderers of law enforcement officials in 2011. The e-book identifies the commonalities and ameliorations among teams of offenders by means of age, reading the formerly hidden connections among an offender’s deadly offerings, legal historical past, drug and alcohol utilization, and interpersonal relationships.

Secret Witness: The Untold Story of the 1967 Bombing in Marshall, Michigan

Each small city has a second whilst the true international unexpectedly intrudes, shattering the town's notions of itself and its humans. For electorate of Marshall, Michigan, that second got here August 18, 1967. Nola Puyear used to be operating downtown on the Tasty Cafe that morning whilst she obtained a package deal. She opened it and was once immediately killed in a fiery explosion.

Fatal Love: Spousal Killers, Law, and Punishment in the Late Colonial Spanish Atlantic

One evening in December 1800, within the far-off venture outpost of San Antonio in northern Mexico, Eulalia Californio and her lover Primo plotted the homicide of her abusive husband. whereas the sufferer was once dozing, Prio and his brother tied a rope round Juan Californio's neck. considered one of them sat on his physique whereas the opposite pulled at the rope and the lady, grabbing her husband via the legs, pulled within the wrong way.

Homicide 1903

A listing of murder convictions 1903. comprises 103 situations together with the case of Esther Atkins who used to be robbed and murdered in Aldershot, Annie Marshall who was once outraged and murdered at Scampton Grange Farm, George Woodart who killed a toddler 10 years past and confessed in 1903, Herbert Madden who killed his kids, the homicide of Constable Wilkinson , the case of John Guion who shot his partner's mother and the Veronica mutiny.