All Blog Posts from Crimesider

NEW YORK - As a child of thirteen, Sanford Clark was sent from his home in Canada to live with his uncle, Gordon Stewart Northcott, on a chicken ranch in Wineville, California. It was there that Sanford discovered that his uncle was evil and a rapist and murderer.

Written by acclaimed crime writer Anthony Flacco, with Jerry Clark, Sanford Clark’s son, providing a primary resource, The Road Out of Hell reveals the untold story of the Wineville murders that are featured in the Clint Eastwood and Angelina Jolie film, Changeling.

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NEW YORK - According to crime statistics from the Department of Justice, 67 percent of sexual assault victims in 2008 were juveniles and an astonishing 93 percent of these victims knew their attackers. When Robin Sax worked as a deputy district attorney for Los Angeles County specializing in sex crimes against children, she personally reviewed at least five new cases every day.

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NEW YORK - In the summer of 2008, two-year-old Caylee Anthony was reported missing. Five months later, her body was found near the family home in Orlando, Florida. In MOMMY’S LITTLE GIRL: Casey Anthony and her Daughter Caylee's Tragic Fate, Diane Fanning goes behind the headlines to provide a heartbreaking account of a case that shocked the nation.

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NEW YORK - It's not extreme fighting... It's not boxing... It's not even hockey. But a women's college soccer game offered its own brand of "combat" of a not-very-sporting kind.

In an NCAA west conference semi-final game, Elizabeth Lambert of the University of New Mexico had some physical run-ins with opposing players from Brigham Young University, leading some to question if Lambert's actions crossed the line.

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TAMPA, Fla. – Inmates to the rescue!

A case of role-reversal was caught on security video at a Tampa, Florida jail. Four inmates came to the aid of a guard at the Orient Road Jail, after he was attacked by another prisoner.

The inmates helped save 64-year-old detention deputy Kenneth Moon on Monday afternoon after prisoner Douglas Burden charged him, put him in a choke hold and began strangling him.

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NEW YORK - When Melissa Moore's father took her for extended summer vacations throughout Oregon and Washington in the early 90s, he shared with her grisly details of what he called 'perfect' murders. She had no way of knowing the shocking truth: that these were not fictional stories from his detective novels and magazines, but were, in fact, actual slayings, perpetrated by the hands of her own father.

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NEW YORK - Patrick Radden Keefe’s THE SNAKEHEAD: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream, is a true crime thriller about the rise and fall of an unlikely international crime boss, steeped in the American immigrant saga.

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NEW YORK - HELD HOSTAGE: The True Story of a Mother and Daughter’s Kidnapping by Michelle Renee with Andrea Cagan is the first-person account of a mother’s daring bank heist to save her daughter from a deadly fate.

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NEW YORK - Victoria Gotti, daughter of late mob boss John Gotti, says it's time to set the record straight about "Growing Up Gotti." The daughter of the late Gambino "godfather" John Gotti says of her notorious father, "I loved the man... but I loathed the life, his lifestyle."

Gotti went on to say, "How can anybody worship that life? How could anybody think there was any glory in that life?"

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NEW YORK - THIS FAMILY OF MINE is a memoir by Victoria Gotti that captures "the life" of the late Mafia boss, her father John Gotti, and chronicles the "other life" of the Gottis – the behind-the-scenes world of one of America's most talked about families.

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