<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[bl results for (subject:(True Crime Abductions, Kidnappings & Missing Persons) OR subject:(kidnapping) OR subject:(abduction) ) isolanguage:"eng" audience:"adult" contentclass:"NONFICTION" formatcode:(BK OR LP OR PAPERBACK )]]></title><description><![CDATA[bl results for (subject:(True Crime Abductions, Kidnappings & Missing Persons) OR subject:(kidnapping) OR subject:(abduction) ) isolanguage:"eng" audience:"adult" contentclass:"NONFICTION" formatcode:(BK OR LP OR PAPERBACK )]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/chipublib/rss/search?query=%28subject%3A%28True%20Crime%20Abductions%2C%20Kidnappings%20%26%20Missing%20Persons%29%20OR%20subject%3A%28kidnapping%29%20OR%20subject%3A%28abduction%29%20%29%20isolanguage%3A%22eng%22%20audience%3A%22adult%22%20contentclass%3A%22NONFICTION%22%20formatcode%3A%28BK%20OR%20LP%20OR%20PAPERBACK%20%29&amp;searchType=bl&amp;custom_edit=false&amp;sort=published_date&amp;suppress=true&amp;title=Abductions%2C%20Kidnappings%2C%20Missing%20Persons&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:41:24 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Blood in the Water]]></title><description><![CDATA[A "contemporary true crime narrative ... about Nathan Carman, who was found floating on a raft in the North Atlantic and was later accused of murdering his mother to gain access to his family's fortune of more than $40 million"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2629681</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2629681</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Sherman, Casey]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2629681126</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Untold Story of A Family Tragedy</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781728298191/MC.GIF&amp;client=chicagoplb&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ghost Lab]]></title><description><![CDATA["In 2010, in a small New Hampshire town, next door to a copy center and framing shop, a ghost lab opened. The Kitt Research Initiative's mission was to use the scientific method to document the existence of spirits. Founder Andy Kitt was known as a straight-shooter and was unafraid--perhaps eager--to offend other paranormal investigators by exposing the fraudulence of their less advanced techniques. But when KRI started to lose money, Kitt began to seek funding from the paranormal community, attracting flocks of psychics, alien abductees, witches, mediums, ghost hunters, UFOlogists, cryptozoologists, and warlocks from all over New England--and the world. And there were plenty of them around. The Ghost Lab tells the astonishing story of the wild ecosystem of paranormal profiteers and consumers through the astonishing story of what happened in this one small town. But it also maps the trends of declining scientific literacy, trust in institutions, and the diffusion of a culture that has created space for armies of pseudoscientists to step into the minds of an increasingly credulous public. With his distinct voice, eye for a story, and ability to show how one community's experience reflects that of a society, Matt Hongoltz-Hetling crafts a powerful narrative about just how fragmented our understanding of what is real and what is not has become"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2633934</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2633934</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hongoltz-Hetling, Matthew]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2633934126</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>How Bigfoot Hunters, Mediums, and Alien Enthusiasts Are Wrecking Science</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781541703971/MC.GIF&amp;client=chicagoplb&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Murder in the Dollhouse]]></title><description><![CDATA["The full account of the disappearance and murder of Jennifer Dulos, the Connecticut mother whose life and tragic death captured the minds of America"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2636345</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2636345</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Cohen, Rich]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2636345126</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Jennifer Dulos Story</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780374608064/MC.GIF&amp;client=chicagoplb&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of the Woods]]></title><description><![CDATA["In May 2005, authorities discovered the Groene family murdered in their Idaho home. The family's youngest members--eight-year-old Shasta and her brother, nine-year-old Dylan--were nowhere to be found.  As a community prayed for their return, Shasta and Dylan were already miles away in the woods of Montana at the hands of serial killer Joseph Edward Duncan. After a harrowing forty-eight day ordeal, Shasta was rescued. In many ways, her survival story was only beginning. In the following years, while Shasta struggled to outrun her trauma, a pattern of self-destructive behavior shadowed her like an ever-worsening thunderstorm. She still had hope buried deep inside. Every bit as much as the little girl who had been held captive in the woods. This would be an all-new battle for Shasta. And she was determined not to lose."-- From publisher's description.]]></description><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2649330</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2649330</guid><category><![CDATA[PAPERBACK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Olsen, Gregg]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2649330126</comments><format>PAPERBACK</format><subtitle>A Girl, A Killer, and A Lifelong Struggle to Find the Way Home</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781662522420/MC.GIF&amp;client=chicagoplb&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Scientist and the Serial Killer]]></title><description><![CDATA["Houston, Texas, in the early 1970s was an exciting place to grow up. It was the home of NASA, the city of the future. But a string of missing teenage boys, all from the same neighborhood, spoke to a dark undercurrent that would go ignored for too long. While their siblings and friends wondered where they'd gone, the Houston Police Department dismissed them as runaways, fleeing the Vietnam draft or conservative parents, looking to get high or join the counterculture. It was only after their killer, Dean Corll, was murdered by an accomplice that the boys' bodies were discovered in several mass graves around Houston. Also known as the "Candy Man," Corll was a local sweet shop owner who had enlisted two teenage boys to lure their friends to parties where they would be tortured and killed, their bodies then dumped in mass graves around Houston. But many of Corll's victims, known collectively as the Lost Boys, had never been identified. Forty years later, when forensic anthropologist Sharon Derrick discovered a box of remains marked "1973 Murders" in the Harris County Morgue, she knew she had to bring these boys home. It would take prison interviews with Corll's accomplices, advanced scientific techniques, and years of tireless effort to identify the young men whose lives had been taken. But one by one, their names were returned to them. Veteran investigative journalist Lise Olsen immerses readers in this astonishing story, simultaneously bringing to life a suburban community hunted by a silent killer and the extraordinary woman who, decades later, would finally give his victims back their dignity"--Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2629803</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2629803</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Olsen, Lise]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2629803126</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593595688/MC.GIF&amp;client=chicagoplb&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Swap]]></title><description><![CDATA["Narrated with the propulsive drive of a spy thriller and packed with revelatory reporting, Swap takes you deep inside a shadow war that will upend how you think about global politics. It is the first full account of the Kremlin's game of human poker--and the extraordinary lengths the U.S. had to go to to retrieve its citizens, including Brittney Griner, Evan Gershkovich, Paul Whelan, Alsu Kurmasheva, and numerous others whose arrests were unseen collateral damage in a hidden conflict. Swap unspools the history behind the series of prisoner trades that returned Moscow and Washington to the crude transactional logic of the Cold War, culminating in the two rivals' largest and most complex swap ever. On August 1, 2024, twenty-four people jailed in seven nations were exchanged, including eight Russian spies, smugglers, hackers, and a professional hit man. But that headline moment was only the climax of a secret war two decades in the making."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2663360</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2663360</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Henshaw, Drew]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2663360126</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Secret of the New Cold War</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780063458246/MC.GIF&amp;client=chicagoplb&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between Good and Evil]]></title><description><![CDATA["Behind the Beautiful Forevers meets Under an Afghan Sky in this mesmerizing true story of the Nigerian girls taken captive by the terrorist group Boko Haram In April 2014, the world awoke to the shocking news that the terrorist group Boko Haram had kidnapped nearly 300 school-aged girls and taken them deep into the forests of Nigeria.  When veteran journalist Mellissa Fung travels to Nigeria, she discovers that the scope of the kidnappings has been vastly under-reported.  Hundreds--possibly thousands--more girls have been taken against their will and forced to become child brides of the soldiers and leaders of Boko Haram. Some of the captives have escaped and returned to their villages, many with children in tow. Most of these girls, still children themselves, are shunned by their former friends and family. Other girls are never seen again. A former captive herself, Fung shared her experience in the bestselling memoir Under an Afghan Sky. During several visits to Nigeria over four years, she sits down with the girls who got away and their families, conducting hundreds of hours of interviews, listening to horrific stories of capture, rape and torture, as well as escapes and excommunications. She also portrays strong women who resist the terrorist group in their own powerful ways: Aisha the Hunter, who moves stealthily into the forest, taking out Boko Haram with her faithful followers; and Mama Boko Haram, an Igbo woman who knows the fighters and those haunted by their experiences and tries to empty the forests of terrorists and captives alike. This is raw, honest and heartbreaking storytelling at its best."-- Provided by publisher]]></description><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2585299</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2585299</guid><category><![CDATA[PAPERBACK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Fung, Mellissa]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2585299126</comments><format>PAPERBACK</format><subtitle>The Stolen Girls of Boko Haram</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781443456104/MC.GIF&amp;client=chicagoplb&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children of Darkness and Light]]></title><description><![CDATA["A blonde beauty queen, missing children, six suspicious deaths, and the twisted Mormon doomsday writings of her fifth husband are only the beginning of a tragic crime saga that gripped Americans and instigated frantic searches all over the country. It all started when Lori Vallow met Chad Daybell at a doomsday prepper event. Their story grew like a wildfire that creates its own weather, and what happened next will shock even the most experienced true crime reader. Clinging to and manipulating one another, Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell believed the return of Jesus Christ was imminent and that God had chosen them to lead the 144,000 and usher in the new millennium. When the people closest to them began dying, it became clear they would stop at nothing to be together and fulfill their mission. When the bodies of Lori's missing children--J.J. and Tylee--were discovered in Chad's backyard, the strange and complex story of their fundamentalist Mormon beliefs were revealed in all their true horror. Author Lori Hellis, a retired criminal lawyer, had just moved to Arizona when news of J.J. and Tylee's disappearance broke, and there were reports about these missing children that linked them to a neighboring community. She began to follow the case closely, trying to understand this perfect storm of people and circumstances that culminated in the death of innocents. In Children of Darkness and Light, Hellis digs deep into the investigation, trial, and verdict to craft a haunting narrative that illuminates one of the most confounding crimes in recent memory." -- Publisher provided description.]]></description><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2601826</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2601826</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hellis, Lori]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2601826126</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell and the Story of A Murderous Faith</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781639367108/MC.GIF&amp;client=chicagoplb&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Cold Case Foundation]]></title><description><![CDATA["What started with just a half-dozen or so retired FBI and homicide detectives has now ballooned to over 150 women and men who volunteer their time in an effort to help families of deceased or missing loved ones bring closure to cases that have gone "cold." The Cold Case Foundation shares the most riveting and rewarding cases that the Foundation has helped to solve, from high-profile missing persons cases to decades-old murders"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2623660</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2623660</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Cooper, Gregory M.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2623660126</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>How A Team of Experts Solves Murders and Missing Persons Cases</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781493084647/MC.GIF&amp;client=chicagoplb&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cold Case Indiana]]></title><description><![CDATA["Haunting mysteries from America's heartland. Indiana rightly prides itself as a safe place to live. Nevertheless, the Hoosier State has experienced its share of unexplained deaths and unsolved disappearances. ... Author Autumn Bones explores some of Indiana's least-known unsolved mysteries"--Page 4 of cover.]]></description><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2577725</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2577725</guid><category><![CDATA[PAPERBACK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bones, Autumn]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2577725126</comments><format>PAPERBACK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781467156158/MC.GIF&amp;client=chicagoplb&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilty Creatures]]></title><description><![CDATA["From the ... author and psychoanalyst Mikita Brottman comes the ... retelling of the murder of Mike Williams, committed under the haze of faith and devotion. [Meant] for true-crime and literary fiction fans alike"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2591369</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2591369</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Brottman, Mikita]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2591369126</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781668020531/MC.GIF&amp;client=chicagoplb&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Hunger to Kill]]></title><description><![CDATA["On September 13, 2016, in the small town of Ashland, Ohio, emergency dispatchers received a 911 call from a terrified woman who claimed to be kidnapped. The man holding her hostage was Shawn Grate, a serial killer whom the press later dubbed 'The Ladykiller.' A key to his conviction and death sentence were Grate's extensive recorded confessions--all extracted by one woman: Detective Kim Mager. As an experienced specialist in sex offenses, Detective Mager was one of the officers assigned to Grate's case upon his arrest. Grate immediately latched onto her, repeatedly demanding to speak to her and presumably convinced that he could somehow exercise his power over her in much the same way that he'd overpowered and controlled his female victims. He was wrong"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2584371</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2584371</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mager, Kim]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2584371126</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Serial Killer, A Determined Detective, and the Quest for A Confession That Changed A Small Town Forever</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781250274885/MC.GIF&amp;client=chicagoplb&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Light Through the Cracks]]></title><description><![CDATA["Beth Rodden is twenty years old and already an elite rock climber when a climbing excursion in Kyrgyzstan escalates into a nightmare. Beth, her boyfriend, and two other climbers are kidnapped by militant rebels. After six harrowing days of hiding, marching, and dodging gunfire, they miraculously escape captivity. But fear follows Beth home, and pushing past it becomes a fixation. She and her boyfriend, Tommy, train obsessively, achieving rock-climbing greatness and conquering each groundbreaking goal they set, all the while burying the terrors of Kyrgyzstan deep inside. Then comes an unexpected breaking point. For Beth, a woman at the top of her profession, the only way to overcome the anxiety that still controls her is to let go of the lifeline she's been clinging to. Blowing up her successful and familiar life, Beth clears a path to a new one--a healthy new normal beyond the anxieties of the past and the myopic pursuit of athletic perfection.  Charting a powerful journey of ambition, hope, love, physical and emotional endurance, and the true fulfillment of being oneself, A Light through the Cracks is Beth's story of climbing up and through life" -- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2577037</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2577037</guid><category><![CDATA[PAPERBACK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rodden, Beth]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2577037126</comments><format>PAPERBACK</format><subtitle>A Climber&apos;s Story</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781503903791/MC.GIF&amp;client=chicagoplb&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Redeemed]]></title><description><![CDATA["Penny is just four years old when she is snatched away from her all-American home by the Hungarian father who abandoned her when she was a baby. After facing isolation and neglect in a strange, dysfunctional household where heartache, rejection, and physical abuse rule her life, she escapes--only to find herself in a relationship with a man who's just converted to fundamentalist Christianity. Penny's road is long, winding, and often painful, but gradually she begins to listen to her inner voice, stand up for herself, and refuse to bow to the pressures of either her family or society--freeing herself to build a life on her own terms and find her way to happiness. A rise-from-the-ashes hero's story of overcoming abuse, trauma, and unbearable odds, of being waylaid by both family and religion's promise of love, and harnessing the resilience to find the way home, Redeemed offers a rare window into Eastern European immigrant culture and reads like a page-turning thriller. Especially relevant today--a time when marginalized people are increasingly finding a voice--this memoir will serve as an inspiration to women everywhere, encouraging them to overcome their obstacles and go after their dreams"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2593542</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2593542</guid><category><![CDATA[PAPERBACK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lane, Penny]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2593542126</comments><format>PAPERBACK</format><subtitle>A Memoir of A Stolen Childhood</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781647427009/MC.GIF&amp;client=chicagoplb&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Second Shot]]></title><description><![CDATA["Evelyn Chang and her husband were vacationing in the Philippines when they were ambushed by terrorists. Evelyn's husband was killed. She was kidnapped and disappeared into the lawless netherworld of the Sulu Archipelago. There was no hope of a rescue.  Former Green Beret Gene Yu was five years out of the military, unemployed, and struggling with his transition back to the real world when Evelyn's family asked for help.  His improbable mission: infiltrate one of the most dangerous corners of the world and get her back. Alone.  Mindful of "every young Asian kid in America struggling to fit into a dominant white culture," Gene's harrowing, self-deprecating, and provocative memoir is really the story of two rescues. One, a personal liberation and the discovery of self-identity beyond both literal and figurative battlefields. The other is set amid the excruciating ordeals of a jungle war zone, where an Asian American man, once self-described as "nobody squared," defied all stereotypes and expectations to become a woman's last hope of survival"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2603607</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2603607</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Yu, Gene]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2603607126</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Green Beret&apos;s Last Mission</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781662510564/MC.GIF&amp;client=chicagoplb&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Serial Killer's Apprentice]]></title><description><![CDATA["Elmer Wayne Henley, Jr. was only fourteen when he first became entangled with serial rapist and murderer Dean Corll in 1971. Fellow Houston, Texas, teenager David Brooks had already been ensnared by the charming older man, bribed with cash to help lure boys to Corll's home.  When Henley unwittingly entered the trap, Corll evidently sensed he'd be of more use as a second accomplice than another victim. He baited Henley with the same deal he'd given Brooks: $200 for each boy they could bring him. Henley didn't understand the full extent of what he had signed up for at first. But once he started, Corll convinced him that he had crossed the line of no return and had to not only procure boys but help kill them and dispose of the bodies, as well. When Henley first took a life, he lost his moral base. He felt doomed. By the time he was seventeen, he'd helped with multiple murders and believed he'd be killed, too. But on August 8, 1973, he picked up a gun and shot Corll.  When he turned himself in, Henley showed police where he and Brooks had buried Corll's victims in mass graves. Twenty-eight bodies were recovered -- most of them boys from Henley's neighborhood -- making this the worst case of serial murder in America at the time. The case reveals gross failures in the way cops handled parents' pleas to look for their missing sons and how law enforcement possibly protected a larger conspiracy. The Serial Killer's Apprentice tells the story of Corll and his accomplices in its fullest form to date. It also explores the concept of 'mur-dar' (the predator's instinct for exploitable kids), current neuroscience about adolescent brain vulnerabilities, the role of compartmentalization, the dynamic of a murder apprenticeship, and how tales like Henley's can aid with early intervention. Despite his youth and cooperation, Henley went to trial and received six life sentences.  He's now sixty-five and has a sense of perspective about how adult predators can turn formerly good kids into criminals. Unexpectedly, he's willing to talk. This book is his warning and the story of the unspeakable evil and sorrow that befell Houston in the early 1970s."-- Publisher's description.]]></description><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2572427</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2572427</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ramsland, Katherine M.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2572427126</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The True Story of How Houston&apos;s Deadliest Murderer Turned A Kid Into A Killing Machine</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781613164952/MC.GIF&amp;client=chicagoplb&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Vanishing at Smokestack Hollow]]></title><description><![CDATA[On October 8th, 2009, Bobby Jamison, his wife Sherilynn, and their six-year-old daughter Madyson, set off for a drive from their home in Eufaula, Oklahoma, to the nearby Sans Bois Mountains. They didn't return that day, or the next. A week later, their truck was found abandoned on a mountain road. Inside was their dog, malnourished but alive, the family's cell phones, wallets, and $32,000 in cash.The ensuing eight-month search was the largest in Oklahoma history, but it yielded little evidence. Online, bloggers and web sleuths put forth dozens of theories, fueled by the Jamisons' strange, trancelike behavior on a CCTV video. Some claimed the family was abducted by white supremacists or a religious cult. In 2013, there was a tragic break in the case, when deer hunters stumbled upon the skeletal remains of two adults and a child in the Smokestack Hollow area of Panola Mountain.  Forensic testing confirmed the Jamisons' identities.]]></description><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2612168</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2612168</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Anderson, Jake (Journalist)]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2612168126</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Missing Family, A Desperate Plan, An Unsolved Mystery</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780806542478/MC.GIF&amp;client=chicagoplb&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill]]></title><description><![CDATA["A gripping account of an alien abduction and its connections to the breakdown of American society in the 1960s In the mid-1960s, Betty and Barney Hill became famous as the first Americans to claim that aliens had taken them aboard a spacecraft against their will. Their story--involving a lonely highway late at night, lost memories, and medical examinations by small gray creatures with large eyes--has become the template for nearly every encounter with aliens in American popular culture since. Historian Matthew Bowman examines the Hills' story not only as a foundational piece of UFO folklore but also as a microcosm of 1960s America. The Hills, an interracial couple who lived in New Hampshire, were civil rights activists, supporters of liberal politics, and Unitarians. But when their story of abduction was repeatedly ignored or discounted by authorities, they lost faith in the scientific establishment, the American government, and the success of the civil rights movement. Bowman tells the fascinating story of the Hills as an account of the shifting winds in American politics and culture in the second half of the twentieth century. He exposes the promise and fallout of the idealistic reforms of the 1960s and how the myth of political consensus has given way to the cynicism and conspiratorialism and the paranoia and illusion of American life today."--Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2545237</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2545237</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bowman, Matthew Burton]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2545237126</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Alien Encounters, Civil Rights, and the New Age in America</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780300251388/MC.GIF&amp;client=chicagoplb&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind the Door]]></title><description><![CDATA["The disturbing true story of the notorious Cecil Hotel in downtown LA, by its general manager for a decade and star of the controversial Netflix documentary series Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel."--Publisher's description.]]></description><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2535112</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2535112</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Price, Amy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2535112126</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Dark Truths and Untold Stories of the Cecil Hotel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780063257658/MC.GIF&amp;client=chicagoplb&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Causa de muerte]]></title><description><![CDATA["México es uno de los lugares más peligrosos en el mundo para ejercer el periodismo. En nuestro país, a muchos periodistas ocupados en la cobertura de temas locales se les hostiga, amedrenta y asesina por tomar postura sobre las injusticias que revelan, por señalar el abuso del poder y por dar voz a las inquietudes de su comunidad. Alejandra Ibarra expone en este libro una verdad trágica que llena de dolor e indignación: a numerosos comunicadores en México no se les mata por censura, sino como una forma de castigo por incursionar en la participación política, por señalar la impunidad y corruptelas de funcionarios, alcaldes o aspirantes a gobernadores, por invitar a los ciudadanos a tomar conciencia de los engaños de funcionarios públicos y de las atrocidades del crimen organizado. Y son estos periodistas, que no tienen la atención de los grandes medios de comunicación, a quienes nadie defiende ni se solidariza con su causa, quienes dan su vida por una sociedad mejor. El libro habla de mujeres que son emboscadas por expresar sus opiniones en radios comunitarias o ejecutadas por denunciar abusos de empresas; de reporteros que con sus propios medios y en diversas plataformas, que van del megáfono a Facebook, alertan de malos manejos de funcionarios o de alcaldesas cegadas por el poder; de periodistas que expusieron las acciones del narco o las trampas de grupos políticos y todos, sin excepción, fueron liquidados por denunciar y exigir la justa rendición de cuentas. Con esta obra Alejandra Ibarra confirma que con la muerte de estos también activistas y defensores de los ciudadanos la libertad de expresión sufre una de las mayores vejaciones"-- Back cover.]]></description><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2569450</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2569450</guid><category><![CDATA[PAPERBACK]]></category><category><![CDATA[spa]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ibarra Chaoul, Alejandra]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2569450126</comments><format>PAPERBACK</format><subtitle>cuestionar al poder : acoso y asesinato de periodistas en México</subtitle><language>spa</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9786073832878/MC.GIF&amp;client=chicagoplb&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evidence of Things Seen]]></title><description><![CDATA["True crime, as an entertainment genre, has always prioritized clear narrative arcs: victims wronged, police detectives in pursuit, suspects apprehended, justice delivered. But what stories have been ignored? In Evidence of Things Seen, fourteen of the most innovative crime writers working today cast a light on the cases that give crucial insight into our society. This anthology pulls back the curtain on how crime itself is a by-product of America's systemic harms and inequalities. And in doing so, it reveals how the genre of true crime can be a catalyst for social change. These works combine brilliant storytelling with incisive cultural examinations--and challenge each of us to ask what justice should look like"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2517495</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2517495</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2517495126</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>True Crime in An Era of Reckoning</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780063323926/MC.GIF&amp;client=chicagoplb&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finding Baby Holly]]></title><description><![CDATA["At ten months old, Holly Marie was brought to the door of a church by three barefoot women in white robes and head coverings. Adopted by the pastor and raised in a loving Christian home, Holly nevertheless struggled with the ache of not knowing what had happened to her biological parents. She still felt their absence even as she married and started a family of her own. When two detectives showed up at the restaurant where she worked and informed her that she had a large family in Florida who had been searching for her for over 40 years, Holly's past became the reality of her present, and she began the sometimes painful journey of discovering the truth about her origins: Her parents had been brutally murdered, their case still unsolved."-- Front jacket flap.]]></description><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2556941</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2556941</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Holly Marie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2556941126</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Lost to A Cult, Surviving My Parents&apos; Murders, and Saved by Prayer</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781546006442/MC.GIF&amp;client=chicagoplb&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[I Am A Killer]]></title><description><![CDATA["What goes through the mind of a killer when they commit murder? Based on the massively successful Netflix documentary series of the same name, this book features ten of the most compelling cases from the series and is full of exclusive never-seen-before material. In each of the cases the inmate speaks openly about themselves and reflects on their life and their crimes. To gain a complete picture of the impact of the murders, the authors spoke to the families of both the perpetrators and the victims, and those in law enforcement who were involved in the case, leaving it up to the reader to make up their own mind about the killers and their crimes. This book paints and intimate and often disturbing portrait of these criminals, drawing on handwritten letters from the inmates, full transcripts of the interviews, personal pictures, crime scene images, and original police and court documents, this is a fascinating and detailed look at some of America's most gripping murder cases"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2535571</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2535571</guid><category><![CDATA[PAPERBACK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tipping, Danny]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2535571126</comments><format>PAPERBACK</format><subtitle>What Makes A Murderer: Their Shocking Stories in Their Own Words</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781728266152/MC.GIF&amp;client=chicagoplb&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Light of All Darkness]]></title><description><![CDATA[This book "embeds readers in one of the most famous true-crime stories of our generation: the kidnapping of Polly Klaas, a case as pivotal in the history of the FBI as the Unabomber or Oklahoma City bombing. On October 1, 1993, [Polly] was kidnapped at knifepoint from her bedroom in Petaluma, California, during a sleepover with two friends. ... This rarest of all kidnappings--a stranger abduction from the home--triggered one of the largest manhunts in FBI history. Riddled with red herrings, grave mistakes, dead ends, and false leads, from fake ransom calls to junior high pranks to dramatic SWAT raids, the 65-day search for 'America's child' became every FBI agent's--and every parent's--worst nightmare. ... Many of these investigators have never shared their stories-until now"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2534677</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2534677</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Cross, Kim]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2534677126</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America&apos;s Child</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781538725061/MC.GIF&amp;client=chicagoplb&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lay Them to Rest]]></title><description><![CDATA["For Laurah Norton, forensic science was always more of a passion than anything else. But after learning about a mishandled 1990s cold case involving missing twins, she was spurred to action, eventually creating a massively popular podcast and building a platform that helped bring widespread attention and resources to the case. And of course, this book asks why some cases go unsolved, highlighting the "missing missing," the sex workers, undocumented, the cases that so desperately need our attention, but so rarely get it. Engrossing, informative, heartbreaking, and hopeful, LAY THEM TO REST is a deep dive into the world of forensic science, showing readers how far we've come in cracking cases and catching killers, and illuminating just how far we have yet to go"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2540444</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S126C2540444</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Norton, Laurah]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://chipublib.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2540444126</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>On the Road With the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780306828805/MC.GIF&amp;client=chicagoplb&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>