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December 4, 2009 8:00 AM

Book 'Em: The Road Out of Hell

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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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November 20, 2009 11:00 AM

Book 'Em: It Happens Every Day

(CBS/Prometheus Books)
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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sex crimes ,
robin sax ,
it happens every day ,
los angeles ,
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rape ,
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November 9, 2009 8:15 AM

Book 'Em: Mommy's Little Girl -- Casey Anthony and her Daughter Caylee's Tragic Fate

(CBS/St. Martins True Crime )
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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caylee anthony ,
mommys little girl ,
diane fanning ,
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October 28, 2009 11:25 AM

Book 'Em: Shattered Silence

(CBS/Cedar Fort, Inc.)
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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melissa moore ,
serial killer ,
daughter ,
shattered silence ,
keith hunter jesperson ,
murder ,
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October 12, 2009 6:15 AM

Book 'Em: The Snakehead

(CBS/Doubleday )
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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patrick radden keefe ,
chinatown ,
underworld ,
mafia ,
snakehead ,
book em ,
crimesider ,
48 hours
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October 2, 2009 12:50 PM

Book 'Em: Held Hostage

(Penguin/CBS)
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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michelle renee ,
mother ,
daughter ,
kidnapping ,
missing ,
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September 25, 2009 1:30 PM

Book 'Em: Victoria Gotti's "This Family of Mine"

(CBS/Pocket Books)
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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junior ,
john gotti ,
mafia ,
mob ,
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this family of mine ,
boss ,
48 hours ,
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September 18, 2009 9:15 AM

Book 'Em: Seven Days of Rage - The Deadly Crime Spree of the Craigslist Killer

(CBS/Pocket)
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.

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phillip markoff ,
julissa brisman ,
craigslist ,
craigs ,
list ,
killer ,
book ,
crimesider ,
48 hours
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September 11, 2009 9:14 AM

Book 'Em: Deadly Dose

(CBS)
NEW YORK - DEADLY DOSE offers an inside look at the painstaking investigation into the death of a young husband and father, and the four year search to bring his killer—his wife—to justice.

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crimesider ,
book em ,
toxic ,
deadly dose ,
eric miller ,
48 hours
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September 8, 2009 8:21 AM

Book 'Em: Invitation to a Murder

(CBS)
NEW YORK (CBS) Invitation to a Murder is the riveting account of a crime first documented on 48 Hours Mystery. Producer Gail Abbott Zimmerman unravels the lethal secrets inside a seemingly perfect marriage to find out who was behind a chilling double homicide.

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crimesider ,
invitation to a murder ,
48 hours ,
gail abbott zimmerman ,
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The Untold Story of the Wineville Murders Featured in the Clint Eastwood and Angelina Jolie Film, Changeling

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