Catalog Search Results
NoveList Plus: Find reading recommendations for all ages, series lists, and more. Great for learning about popular books and topics. Includes fiction, nonfiction and audiobook recommendations and reviews.
1) The First 48
Publisher
A&E®
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The First 48 follows the nation’s top police departments during the critical first 48 hours of murder investigations.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions. In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belfast home by masked intruders, her children clinging to her legs. They never saw her again. Her abduction was one of the most notorious episodes of the vicious conflict known as The Troubles. Everyone in the neighborhood knew the I.R.A. was...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Presents a true account of the early twentieth-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history. --Publisher
Author
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the life of Ronald Keith Williamson, who left his small town in Oklahoma in 1971 as a second-round draft pick of the Oakland A's and seemed destined for a major league career. He was later convicted in the same town, sent to death row, and came within five days of being executed for a murder he did not commit. After 12 years in prison, Mr. Williamson was freed in 1999. He died at the age of 51 on Dec. 4, 2004. In a true legal thriller Grisham...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summers crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins. A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix's children's school. Josie has been listening to Alix's podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An account of the unsolved murder of two women in Shenandoah National Park, by a journalist with unprecedented access to all key elements of the case, and a story that reveals the challenges of wilderness forensics and the failures of our justice system"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A masterful true crime account of the Golden State Killer-- the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California for over a decade-- from Michelle McNamara, the gifted journalist who died tragically while investigating the case. For more than ten years, a mysterious and violent predator committed fifty sexual assaults in Northern California before moving south, where he perpetrated ten sadistic murders. Then he disappeared, eluding...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Many famous cases have been reexamined in recent years using the great advances made in forensic science. Cold cases have been reopened. Supposedly solved crimes have been analyzed anew. Explore how cutting-edge investigative techniques are being applied to help unravel criminal enigmas all over the world.
Publisher
Cineverse
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Tania Head's jaw-dropping tale of escape from the south tower was the most astounding: the unimaginable hell she witnessed, the injuries she suffered, and the tragic loss of her fiancé, Dave, in the north tower. She rose to national prominence when she became President of the World Trade Center Survivors' Network. But years later, it came to light that Tania Head was never in the Twin Towers on September 11th, 2001 and her entire story was an invention...
11) Cold Case Files
Publisher
A&E
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Bill Kurtis hosts "COLD CASE FILES," in which forensic evidence is used to re-examine real criminal cases that have long been considered cold.
12) Mr. Untouchable
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A dramatic account of the rise and fall of Nicky Barnes, a poor black kid from the streets of Harlem who became the biggest heroin dealer in the United States. Eventually jailed, Nicky lost control of his empire. Rather than giving up the reins, he committed one final audacious act, which brought down the entire organization and led to the arrests of over 100 of his closest allies. Was he the ultimate coward, or was this the ultimate act of revenge?...
Publisher
University of Southern California Cinematic Arts
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The Dope Years: The Story of Latasha Harlins is a 19 minute documentary that explores and retells the life of Latasha and how her death is directly connected to the Los Angeles climate of the 1990s. Through reimagined scenes from Latasha’s life, the audience gains insight into who she was as a person and the impact she made on her community. The Dope Years explores perspectives of those who were children at the time and identifies the issues that...
14) Blue Caprice
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Isaiah Washington stars in this ripped-from-the-headlines thriller about the notorious DC sniper attacks.
16) The Legal Death
Publisher
Audiovisiva
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Italiano
Description
Boston, Massachusetts, 1920. Two Italians, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, were sentenced to death, the only crime they were guilty of was of being anarchists. The whole world stood up, the people crowded into the town squares, not just the lives of two men were at stake but also the beliefs which they represented. Millions of voices in many languages were raised in protest. They sought justice for Sacco and Vanzetti, but nothing could save...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Framed around one salacious trial in 1891 London, a fascinating and vividly told true-crime narrative about the hunt for one of the first known serial killers, whose poisoning spree in the US, Canada, and England coincided with the birth of forensic science as well as the public's growing appetite for crime fiction such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novels." -- Provided by publisher.
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A fascinating documentary portrait of a 1930's murder mystery as strange and alluring as the famous archipelago itself. Fleeing conventional society, a German doctor and his mistress start a new life on uninhabited Floreana Island. But after the international press sensationalizes the exploits of the Galapagos’ “Adam and Eve”, others flock there, including a self-styled Swiss Family Robinson and a gun-toting Viennese Baroness and her two lovers....
20) Bei Bei
Publisher
Cine Qua Non
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
An award winning dramatic narrative tells the true story of Bei Bei Shuai, a Chinese immigrant in Indianapolis, and her lawyer, Linda Pence, battling charges of first-degree murder and attempted feticide. The crime? Attempting suicide while pregnant. This behind-the-scenes legal documentary weaves an intimate personal story with the dramatic intensity of a high stakes criminal case, raising questions about reproductive justice, personhood laws, immigrants’...
In NHAIS Interlibrary Loan System
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by NNHLC libraries can be requested statewide to be delivered here for pickup. Click the button below to search, login with the same 14 digit barcode and password you use to login here. We will contact you when it's here for you to pick up.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Send us a purchase suggestion. Submit suggestion