Book 'Em: It Happens Every Day
(CBS/Prometheus Books)
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November 20, 2009 11:00 AM 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.
November 9, 2009 8:15 AM 
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.
Book 'Em: Mommy's Little Girl -- Casey Anthony and her Daughter Caylee's Tragic Fate
(CBS/St. Martins True Crime )
October 28, 2009 11:25 AM 
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.
Book 'Em: Shattered Silence
(CBS/Cedar Fort, Inc.)
October 12, 2009 6:15 AM 
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.
Book 'Em: The Snakehead
(CBS/Doubleday )
October 2, 2009 12:50 PM 
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.
Book 'Em: Held Hostage
(Penguin/CBS)
September 29, 2009 10:58 AM 
SAN FRANCISCO - The queen of drama novels now has a bit of it in her own life.
A former aide to Danielle Steel is facing time in federal prison after admitting she stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from the romance novelist.
Aide to Danielle Steel Stole Half Million From Millionaire Novelist
(AP Photo )
A former aide to Danielle Steel is facing time in federal prison after admitting she stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from the romance novelist.
September 25, 2009 1:30 PM 
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.
Book 'Em: Victoria Gotti's "This Family of Mine"
(CBS/Pocket Books)
September 25, 2009 12:10 PM 
NEW YORK - The mug shots of actor Randy Quaid and his wife Eve have been released by the Presidio County Sheriff's Department in Texas, and it looks like the couple had an excellent time on their "free" vacation.
Randy Quaid Mug Shot: Happy as Clam After Arrest
(Presidio County Sheriff Dept.)
September 18, 2009 9:15 AM 
NEW YORK - When Manhattan model and masseuse Julissa Brisman agreed to meet a client at the Boston Marriott Copley Place Hotel, she thought it would be a routine day on her road to recovering from an alcohol addiction. Instead, she was discovered lying face down in a pool of blood on a hallway carpet, her head battered, a bullet through her heart.
Book 'Em: Seven Days of Rage - The Deadly Crime Spree of the Craigslist Killer
(CBS/Pocket)
September 17, 2009 6:26 PM 
NEW YORK - Who is accused Craigslist killer Phillip Markoff, what are his sexual desires and how did police use Internet technology to track him down? Those are the questions a new book written by two crime reporters hopes to answer.
The intimate details Paul Larosa, a veteran producer for CBS News' 48 Hours Mystery and Maria Cramer, a Boston Globe reporter, have dug up in "Seven Days of Rage," tantalize.
New Book Says Alleged Craigslist Killer Had Bondage and S&M Fantasies
(CBS)
The intimate details Paul Larosa, a veteran producer for CBS News' 48 Hours Mystery and Maria Cramer, a Boston Globe reporter, have dug up in "Seven Days of Rage," tantalize.
