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1) Leaving Vegas: The True Story of How the F.B.I. Wiretaps Ended Mob Domination of Las Vegas Casinos
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Leaving Vegas a fascinating glimpse into the world of Kansas City mobsters in the 1970sYou don't have to be a local history buff to be interested in the chronicles of Kansas City's infamous mob family. Those of us who were around here in the mid-1970s recall the headlines. Gary Jenkins, a former police detective (now attorney and author) takes us back to the players and key events of those days in Leaving Vegas: The True Story of How the FBI Wiretaps...
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The author has written a how to book on the art of conduct a surveillance on criminals. Gary Jenkins is a retired Kansas City Police Intelligence Unit detective and Gary uses real life situations to entertain and educate the reader in the art of surveillance. He tells about sitting in roach infested apartments for days and days, following a serial killer on foot though the back alleys of Kansas City and following professional criminals as they move...
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A man tosses money meant for somebody else into Jane (Lizabeth Scott) and Alan Palmer's (Arthur Kennedy) car. Alan wants to turn it over to the police, but Jane persuades him to hang onto it "for a while." They are tracked down by Danny Fuller (Dan Duryea), who claims the money is his. To hang on to the cash, Jane exercises all her feminine wiles, even if it leads her to criminal behavior.
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The Day Mia Jensen Died, She Finally Got To Live. We've all played the "what if" game. For forty-year-old Mia Jensen, "what if" is a fact of life. Dissatisfied with her choices, she often dreams about what could have been. Now she has the chance to know. But that knowledge will cost her dearly. Only through death can she fully realize the value of her life.
After a terrible day, trying to figure out how she's come to this point-alone, on the cusp...
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New York City. 1975.Nineteen-year old New York Univerisity student Elizabeth Billings is in a coma andon life support, the victim of gang rape.The police have no leads.Elizabeth's parents hire Lee to find the perpetrators and bring them to justice.Or the early graves they so richly deserve.
7) Thunder Road
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A veteran, Lucas Doolin (Robert Mitchum), comes home from the Korean War to the mountains and takes over the family moonshining business. He must battle big-city gangsters who are trying to take over the business & the law, headed by Troy Barret (Gene Barry) who are trying to put him in prison. A Film-Noir spectacular southern cult classic, filled with hot rods & vintage cars. Action-packed!
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A former prostitute (a crackerjack Constance Towers) relocates to a buttoned-down suburb, determined to fit in with mainstream society. But in the strange, hallucinatory territory of writer-director-producer Samuel Fuller perverse secrets simmer beneath the wholesome surface. Featuring radical visual touches, full-throttle performances, and brilliant cinematography by Stanley Cortez.
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Just before the Christmas holiday, Norton, a serial killer is caught by Sherlock Holmes & sentenced to death. He swears to kill the detective before the execution happens. Although he has murdered five wives, his sixth wife still believes in his innocence. Shortly after she delivers a Christmas pudding at his request, the convict escapes! Does Holmes know what was in the pudding, Do you?
10) The Unholy Three
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Three circus freaks, the strongman (Victor McLaglen), Tweedledee, a dwarf (Harry Earles, famous for his role in "Freaks"), & Professor Echo, the ventriloquist (Lon Chaney), form a conspiracy known as "The Unholy Three" & commit a series of crimes. A superior classic beautifully directed by Tod Browning, who also famously directed the 1931 version of "Dracula" with Bela Lugosi. (Silent w/ music).
11) Time Table
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As a train speeds through the night, a man posing as a physician holds up the baggage-car crew. Fake doctor, Paul Bruckner (Wesley Addy), leaves the train with his "patient" and the "patient's wife", really Bruckner's wife, Linda (Linda Brucker). The insurance company investigator, Charlie Norman (Mark Stevens), on the case to work with the railroad's investigator, Joe Armstrong (King Calder).
12) Private Property
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Boots (Warren Oates} & Duke (Corey Allen), two young thugs, hold up a California gas-station. Duke, viral & savage, taunts the slower & psychologically-confused Boots because he never made a sexual conquest. Duke offers to seduce a woman for Boots & they force a passing motorist to pursue a car driven by Ann Carlyle (Kate Manx), the lustful wife of an executive who has some desires of her own.
13) School of Fear
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At a boarding school for boys in Northern Germany, one student named Kurrat vanishes one night without informing anybody after having had a fight with one of the teachers. Soon, the Police learn of Kurrat's ambivalent, at times rebellious personality and that he was admired by many of his fellow students, jealously despised by some and strongly disliked by a few of the teachers.
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18 Truly Horrific Murder Cases, including; In Plain Sight: A young woman is brutally murdered in front of 38 witnesses. So why didn't anyone call the police?Bad Chemistry: John Balaban had a problem with women, one that he resolved at the end of a sharp blade. Fox on the Run: A young mother is found shot to death and the clues point to the unlikeliest of suspects – a gorgeous ex-cop and playboy bunny. Weeds: The Major enjoyed an orderly existence,...
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18 Truly Horrific Murder Cases, including; Wife, Mother, Murderess: Two children lay gravely wounded, another is D.O.A. Could their young mother really be the shooter?A Japanese Cannibal in Paris: A brilliant Japanese student develops a taste for Western women while studying in France. A Passion for Evil: When Snuff movie aficionado, John Maden, decides to indulge his darkest fantasy, no one is safe – not even his 12-year-old niece. Teenage...
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1373A BRUTAL TRADE - A Diana Rivers Mystery Thriller.Even on a small island the darkest secrets can't stay buried forever…It began like any normal day in Cyprus…except it wasn't…the body of a woman brutally murdered and discovered in a shallow grave changes all that.It is only days later when amateur sleuth, Diana Rivers and old flame, Chief Superintendent Adam Lovell discover a second female victim…only this time the discovery is even more...
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18 Shocking True Crime Murder Cases From Around The World, including;The Girl in the Basement: A 16-year-old girl is kept in a basement and systematically tortured to death by a gang of neighborhood children.Secret Sauce: Omaima Nelson had a unique way of getting rid of her husband's corpse. She cooked and ate it.Murder in the Clouds: United Airlines flight 629 explodes soon after take-off. But did someone deliberately plant a bomb on board? And if...
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Fresh from the crypt with another dose of the deadly. While slashers and creeps haunt city alleyways and town streets, Fear Box investigates the deathly side of crime and true stories. The Dossier of Death includes Fear Box's investigations into the death of rumored half-alien secret agent Jeffrey Alan Lash, as well as Granny the Ripper, Michelle the Suicide Temptress, the Satanic Panic, and much more.If you're feeling groggy, I implore you to stay...
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18 Truly Horrific Murder Cases, including; Dark Water: The frantic young woman claimed that her young sons had been abducted by a gunman. The truth was rather more sinister.The Brighton Trunk Murders: Two female corpses are found crammed into luggage trunks. But are the murders related? And if so, how? Death in the Badlands: When an America student goes missing south of the border, suspicion falls on a drug dealer with links to human sacrifice...
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