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Conspiracy of silence
Par Lisa Priest. 1989
In 1971, a Cree teenager, Helen Betty Osborne, was viciously murdered in The Pas, Manitoba. Although the townspeople knew who…
had committed the crime, no one was arrested for 16 years. This book relates events up to the 1987 conviction of Dwayne Johnston and the resulting public enquiry. 1989.Conspiracy of fools: a true story
Par Kurt Eichenwald. 2005
New York Times journalist's blow-by-blow account of the Enron Corporation's collapse. Details corrupt business practices and complex financial manipulations that…
undermined the profitable firm. Portrays the characters associated with the scandal, from executives who betrayed their stockholders to political figures. 2005.Conviction: solving the Moxley murder : a reporter and a detective's twenty-year search for justice
Par Leonard Levitt. 2004
On the night of October 30, 1975, fifteen-year-old Martha Moxley was murdered with a golf club in her own back…
yard. No arrests were made, despite troubling clues pointing to her neighbours Tommy and Michael Shakel, members of a rich and powerful family related to the Kennedys. In 1982, investigative reporter Leonard Levitt began to look into the murder and the rumours of a police cover-up, his discoveries leading to the case being reopened and a conviction finally being made more than 25 years later. 2005 Edgar Award Finalist. 2004.Boys don't cry: the struggle for justice and healing in Canada's biggest sex abuse scandal
Par David McCann, Darcy Henton. 1995
Journalist Darcy Henton investigates the cases of sexual abuse of young boys at two Ontario training schools run by the…
Christian Brothers. He also relates the story of David McCann, who had been abused at the St. Joseph's Training school for Boys, and who later led the crusade for justice for all of the victims. Some strong language, descriptions of violence and descriptions of sex. c1995.Butterbox babies
Par Bette L Cahill. 1992
For decades, the Ideal Maternity Home, a home for unwed mothers in Nova Scotia, was surrounded by suspicions and controversy…
over the mortality rate at the Home and its methods of offering babies for adoption. A tale of cruelty, neglect and greed. Some violence. 1992.Columbine
Par David Cullen. 2009
Cullen, the journalist who followed the massacre from day one, reconstructs the psychological journey of two teenage boys who became…
killers. Over the course of this narrative, Cullen approaches his subjects with unrivaled care and insight. What emerges are shattering portraits of the killers, the victims, and the community that suffered one of the most socially and historically important shooting tragedies of the twentieth century. Violence and strong language. 2009.Charles Manson: a chilling biography : coming down fast
Par Simon Wells. 2009
Collecting testimony from previous members of the Manson family alongside new evidence linking a cult member to a murder in…
London, this book charts Manson's terrifying rise from petty-criminal drifter to one of the most recognisable icons in criminal history, and explores the long reach of his crimes that to this day, so vex and shock the public imagination. 2009.Canadian crimes
Par Max Haines. 1998
A collection of fifty crime stories from across Canada, including Albert Guay of Quebec City, who blew up a plane…
to get rid of his wife, killing twenty-three other passengers as well, and Albert Johnson (a.k.a. the Mad Trapper of Rat River), who eluded the Mounties for forty-eight days in a running battle along the Arctic Circle. Long-standing crime reporter Haines covers the stories of home-grown serial killers, crimes of passion, murderers who ship their victims to Newfoundland, and of course Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka. Some descriptions of sex and violence. 1998.By persons unknown: the strange death of Christine Demeter
Par George Jonas, Barbara Amiel. 1977
Bothersome bodies
Par Max Haines. 1989
A collection of 17 true murder stories. The focus of these grisly tales is on the imaginative way in which…
each of the murderers and murderesses dispose of the body of their victim, the area which can mean the difference between walking free and the hangman's noose. 1989.Bingo!
Par Roger Caron. 1985
Caron was an inmate when one of the worst riots in Canadian penal history erupted at Kingston Penitentiary in 1971.…
He explains why the riot occurred, and gives a first-hand account of the hostage taking and torture of 14 rapists and child molesters. Descriptions of violence and some strong language. c1985.Big stick-up at Brink's!
Par Noel Behn. 1977
Suspenseful reconstruction of the daring 1950 robbery of nearly three million dollars, master-minded by small-time safecracker, Tony Pino. The FBI…
spent six years and twenty-nine million dollars solving the Boston crime. Some strong language. 1977.Bandits & privateers: Canada in the age of gunpowder
Par Edward Butts, Harold Andrew Horwood. 1987
This book is divided into two sections: "Gentlemen adventurers" which includes fur traders and privateers; and "Rogues' gallery" which includes…
thieves, prostitutes, terrorists and outlaws. Sequel to "Pirates and outlaws of Canada." 1987.Arctic justice: on trial for murder, Pond Inlet, 1923 (McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; #33)
Par Shelagh D Grant. 2002
Although there was no Canadian law enforcement in the Eastern High Arctic when a crazed white fur trader was killed…
by an Inuk, authorities put Nuqallaq and two other Baffin Island Inuit on trial. The Canadian government saw Robert Janes' death as murder; the Inuit saw it as removing a threat from their society according to custom. Some descriptions of violence. Winner of the 2003 Clio Award for northern Canadian history. 2005, c2002.Angels of death: inside the bikers' global crime empire
Par William Marsden, Julian Sher. 2006
Marsden and Sher focus on how head Angel Ralph "Sonny" Barger personally directs a crime organization that has successfully represented…
itself as a bunch of hard-drinking mischief makers guilty only of loving freedom and hedonism too much. Telling tales of murder and revenge at the hands of chopper pilots in the Netherlands, Australia, the U.S., and elsewhere, they cite control of the drug trade as the root of a criminal empire that also embraces prostitution and sundry other interests. Explicit strong language and descriptions of violence, some descriptions of sex. 2006.And then the darkness: the disappearance of Peter Falconio and the trials of Joanne Lees
Par Sue Williams. 2005
All the President's men
Par Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein. 1974
Detroit mortgage broker Mark Unger adored his wife Florence and their two young sons. But after a decade of marriage…
and increasing financial trouble, Mark's life began to slowly unravel. He became desperate to prevent his wife from divorcing him. This chilling true story reveals what drove Unger to murder the woman he couldn't live without. 2017.Police Sergeant Barry Ruhl discusses his belief that criminal Larry Talbot might be responsible for a slew of murders that…
took place in Ontario, including the murder of Lynne Harper in 1959. Despite Ruhl's opinions Larry Talbot was never properly investigated. 2014.Aftermath: the Omagh bombing and the families' pursuit of justice
Par Ruth Dudley Edwards. 2009
In Omagh, on Saturday, 15 August, 1998, a massive bomb placed by the so-called Real IRA murdered unborn twins, five…
men, fourteen women and nine children. Although the police believed they knew the identities of the killers, there was insufficient evidence to bring charges. The families of ten of the dead decided to pursue these men through the civil courts, where the burden of proof is lower. This is their story. Includes violence. 2009.