Rebuilding Your Life After Homicide

Author : Victim Support Services
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781533134059
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rebuilding Your Life After Homicide written by Victim Support Services and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victim Support Services, formerly Families and Friends of Missing Persons and Violent Crime Victims originally published this booklet in 1983 under a different title called "Grief by Homicide". The new title of this book, "Rebuilding your Life after Homicide" has been chosen because it reflects the experience that surviving victims of homicide undergo after the unthinkable happens. Survivors report that they literally had to pick up the pieces of the old, and find a new way to carry on. Rebuilding a new normal and a new way of living. Life as they knew it was different after the violent loss of their loved one. The most important message of this book is to convey that you are not alone. Many mothers, fathers, husbands, wives, sisters, brothers, aunt's, uncle's, steps, grandparents, and close friends have walked a similar path before you. Losing a loved one to homicide is a very misunderstood form of grief, no one is prepared for such a sudden and violent act. We are sorry that you are going through this. This book was written with you, your loved one, and your family in mind. Everyone's story is unique. There is no blue print available to get you through this. There is no right way to grieve or recover. This book has been developed as a guide of what you might expect along the way. This journey will not be easy. It will take everything that you have to make it through it, there will be really difficult moments, as well as positive ones. You are not alone, agencies like Victim Support Services are across the United States to help guide you through this process. Please don't hesitate to reach out to someone if you need help.

Author : Tonya L Whiteside
Publisher : Xulon Press
ISBN 13 : 9781625099136
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rebuilding Life After Trauma written by Tonya L Whiteside and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would you do if you had just become the victim and witness to a murder-suicide? How are you going to process standing between two friends, seeing one friend murder the other? Do you scream? Do you run? The journey from sorry to a sunny day can be long and emotional. In this life-changing book, Tonya L. Whiteside, founder of The Whiteside Group and award winning author of her bestselling book, Change the Atmosphere with Encouraging Words, tells the eye-witness account of the murder of her longtime friend, Stacey Bryant. Sadly, Stacey was tragically murdered by her husband and high school sweetheart, Eddie. In this book, Rebuilding Life after Trauma, Tonya shares of her battles with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, depression and other struggles due to the effects of what she witnessed. Tonya shares that even on her emotional road upward to recovery, you can rebuild your life and that you may already have in your possession useful components. You can retrain your brain with the right resources and guidance. How we handle depression, adversity, personal crisis, and stress is crucial. Drawing from the wisdom and knowledge gained, Tonya discusses how you can find: healing for your heart, happiness in your relationships, and hope for better days. If you have lost a loved one tragically due to violence or are trying to move forward in your life due other effects of a traumatic experience, follow Tonya on this journey. Rebuilding Life after Trauma will propel you toward lifelong transformation. By using the positive strategies in the book, you will realize greater possibilities and outcomes for your life. You will discover that everything happens for a reason and nothing is an accident.

Author : Robyn Beveridge
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1490719814
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Shopping List for Murder - Part Ii written by Robyn Beveridge and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story is about a woman who suffered a serious assault as a result of her husbands actions. Once he had been through the court system, and was imprisoned the story didn't end. Robyn had to rebuild her world and start again, always considering she could be harmed again. Slowly, step by step, she did the things she could to start her new life. Her world had to change totally. The story tells of that rebuilding, of the laughs, tears, and challenges that she faced every step of the way. In the background, she had the support of members of New Zealand Police, both working and retired who supported, encouraged, laughed with her. Without their support the story would have been totally different. This story tells of one woman's life after a crime that the Public would never see.

Author : Sarah Perry
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544302214
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After the Eclipse written by Sarah Perry and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. “A heartfelt memoir and a suspenseful story” of a murdered mother (Gabourey Sidibe, Book of the Month Club). When Sarah Perry was twelve, she saw a partial eclipse; she took it as a good omen for her and her mother, Crystal. But that moment of darkness foreshadowed a much larger one: two days later, Crystal was murdered in their home in rural Maine. It took twelve years to find the killer. In that time, Sarah rebuilt her life amid abandonment, police interrogations, and the exacting toll of trauma. She dreamed of a trial, but when the day came, it brought no closure. It was not her mother’s death she wanted to understand, but her life. She began her own investigation, one that drew her back to Maine, deep into the darkness of a small American town. “Pull[ing] the reader swiftly along on parallel tracks of mystery and elegy” in After the Eclipse, “Perry succeeds in restoring her mother’s humanity and her own” (The New York Times Book Review). “Raw and perfect . . . After the Eclipse [has] an eerie, heartbreaking power that it shares with the very best of true crime.” —Laura Miller, Slate “A gut punch . . . A heartbreaking yet hopeful testament to human resilience.” —Samantha Irby, Marie Claire “With clear, powerful prose, Perry paints a portrait of unconventional motherhood while questioning society’s handling of violence against women. Reminiscent of Maggie Nelson’s The Red Parts, After the Eclipse tells the very human story at the center of a needless crime.”—W Magazine

Author : Connie Saindon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780989691307
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murder Survivor's Handbook written by Connie Saindon and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murder Survivor's Handbook: Real-Life Stories, Tips & Resources provides information, resources, and strategies for learning to live with the aftermath of a homicide, including safety issues, dealing with the criminal justice system, addressing the news media, and coping with traumatic grief, while preserving the memory of a loved one. In the book, Survivor Writers describe their own experiences and, through their tips and suggestions, lend a helping hand to those who follow in their footsteps.

Author : Genie Massey
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1642589217
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murdered Without Cause written by Genie Massey and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tresia was murdered on March 21, 1992. She was in her BMW in a gas station parking lot, attempting to use a payphone to call her husband, who was three blocks away in his office building. Three gang members approached her car. One of those killers brandished a sawed-off twelve-gauge shotgun. He then shot her, at point-blank range, through her driver window. The fired shot blew a hole through her driver's window and entered her body (just below her left arm and shoulder), exploding her heart. We were later informed that her husband, only one minute away, in his railroad employment office, drove to the gas station parking lot where Tresia was shot, removed her body from her car, then placed her in his truck, driving her the furthest distance until she died on the way to the nearest hospital, Jefferson Regional Medical Center, where she was pronounced DOA in the emergency room. Years of doubt, anger, and grief have crippled my family, leaving us with unanswered questions, hurt, and enormous loss. We felt that no one understood what we were going through. It seemed to us no one cared, and the ones that acted as if they did slowly fell away like leaves on a tree approaching fall season. We felt ostracized and discarded, like we had a disease. Even those who were close to us avoided our family. We felt very alone and isolated. We were suffering. We were grieving. We had no one to tell us what was about to unfold in our lives or how Tresia's murder was going to change the course of our lives. We didn't understand the anger that we were feeling. Each and every task we set out to accomplish seemed to have stumbling blocks in front of them. The Christian family we had once known and grown to love over the years washed away like waves in the sea and disappeared from our memories as well because they did not reach out to us in our time of mourning. This was an added loss to us because we believed they loved us, would be there for us if we ever needed them, and that they cared about us. Instead, they acted afraid, like they did not want to be involved. Some of my former friends acted as though they were thinking my family was cursed, and even stated in our presence that we possibly did something to anger God and that we were being punished, that perhaps God was unleashing his wrath on us. This couldn't have been further from the truth. Murdered without Cause was written with the sole intention(s) of sharing Tresia's story to help others in overcoming their loss of a loved one by murder. This book was also written to restore peace in my family to obtain a sense of closure that we never knew existed and to establish unspeakable justice by assisting survivors. The only way to cope with any loss by murder is to continue to pray and seek God's divine purpose for your own life. By reaching out to you, the survivor of a loved one murdered, I want you to know that you are not alone. There was no book written, in 1992, that could tell us how we were going to feel or what we were going to go through. With this writing, my wish is to guide you through the stages of shock, anger, and grief, so you are able to rediscover a hope that moves you forward out of your sorrow, courage to lift your journey and a vision to claim a new purpose in life.

Author : Richard G. Tedeschi
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1583913645
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Helping Bereaved Parents written by Richard G. Tedeschi and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Jessica Fletcher
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440673616
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murder, She Wrote: You Bet Your Life written by Jessica Fletcher and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A SETUP IN SIN CITY When her old friend Martha decided to get married in Las Vegas, Jessica Fletcher made the trip to watch her walk down the aisle. But what were the odds that she’d be back two years later—to watch Martha stand accused of her husband’s murder? Jessica’s never been one to gamble, but she’s willing to bet that Martha isn’t guilty. Martha’s husband was a high-rolling Las Vegas local with three ex-wives and plenty of jealous acquaintances. After joining Martha’s defense team, Jessica combs through the man’s past to find the real killer. But as the media attention grows—and Jessica is interviewed by the news anchors of Court TV—the stakes are raised, and Jessica learns how to play for keeps.

Author : Jean Ritchie
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN 13 : 1789292301
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kiss of Death written by Jean Ritchie and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Obsession, jealousy, lust, revenge ... There is nothing more dangerous than a passion that curdles and spills into murder. Love, when it goes wrong and spirals into violence, leads to the most chilling and tragic consequences. Death at the hands of a partner or ex-partner is the most common form of murder for women, far outnumbering the risk of death from a stranger. Obsessional sexual desire is the common thread through the stories in this book, tragic examples of how death can come at the hands of a once trusted and loved partner. There is the story of talented US landscape artist Jill Cahill, whose husband was not content with battering his wife to a pulp but went back to finish the job while she lay in her hospital bed. There is the case of Martha Freeman from Tennessee, who hid her lover in her wardrobe, and then teamed up with him to murder her husband. There is the wife whose body was found in the boot of her own car, and whose husband had framed his girlfriend for the crime, hoping to get rid of two women from his life. UK student John Tanner served a twelve-year sentence for the murder of his girlfriend, and is now back behind bars for another attack, on another partner. British soldier Emile Cilliers tried to murder his wife by cutting the cords of her parachute; however, while he may not have succeeded, Belgian teacher and amateur skydiver Els Clotterman did when she cut her love rival's cords five years earlier. These, and many others, are the stories of fatal attraction that dominate the pages of this book.

Author : Jill Leovy
Publisher : One World/Ballantine
ISBN 13 : 0385529988
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghettoside written by Jill Leovy and published by One World/Ballantine. This book was released on 2015 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Discusses the hundreds of murders that occur in Los Angeles each year, and focuses on the story of the dedicated group of detectives who pursued justice at any cost in the killing of Bryant Tennelle"--Publisher's description.