To neighbors, she was the brave single mother...Raising her five kids alone in a rundown section of Sacramento, Theresa Cross Knorr seemed like the ultimate survivor. But her youngest daughter, 16-year-old Terry, told police another story: one almost too terrible to believe.But accused of impriso...
Written by an investigative journalist, this book looks at professional killers, the people who hire them, and those who die at their hands. Among the true stories described are the story of the ultimate hitman, Carlos the Jackal, and how he was eventually brought to justice; the mother who hired...
Clarence Benkowski was overweight and overbearing. All his life he’d been number one in that miserable household. And even now, after retiring from his job as a welder, he expected to be waited on hand and foot. When his sick and aged mother decided to move in it got worse...
Charles Patrick Ewing, author When bartender Robert Ward walked into work for the night shift at Red’s Place on North Nellis Boulevard, in Las Vegas, on November 7, 1991, he could not have had any idea that he was about to become the next victim of the Knorr family’s sick and twisted household. F...
Hummingbirds hovered silently as they homed in on the bird-of-paradise plants that provide them with a tasty breakfast. Overhead, the constant high-pitched tone of single-engined light aircraft sweeping through the skies was a noisy reminder of the metropolis of Los Angeles which lay just twenty ...
He had been hoping to strengthen his squad with the remainder of the £18 million he’d raked in from Rio’s move to Leeds. Redknapp, a former Upton Park player, had been in charge since August 1994 and was the second-longest-serving manager in the top flight after Sir Alex Ferguson. &nb...
She also claimed that Jimmy had specifically requested that his brother Jeff not attend the funeral. Jim’s parents, Connie and James, were furious. They had a family plot at the Mount Hope Cemetery in Peru, and that was where their son was going to be buried. But Susan was so adamant she insisted...