The Baby Killers

Author : Thomas Fegan
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473818923
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Baby Killers written by Thomas Fegan and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2013-08-05 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just over a decade after the Wright Brothers triumph of powered flight, the conduct of war was changed for ever. Until the Kaisers Zeppelins raided British cities and towns, it had been unthinkable that civilian populations and property hundreds of miles from the battlefield could be at risk from sudden death and destruction.In the first section of The Baby Killers Thomas Fegan charts the precise chronology of the air raids on Britain in this most thorough and fascinating work. From the start-point of the doom-laden prophecies of HG Wells and others, he describes the development of the German threat and the desperate search for answers to it. He analyses public reaction and assesses the effectiveness of the campaign as it progressed from airships to Gotha heavy bombers and, later, Giants.The second part of this superbly researched book features a gazetteer to the places bombed. The extent of the list, which includes Edinburgh, Hull and Greater Manchester, will almost certainly surprise most readers. Helpfully there are also comprehensive lists of memorials and relevant museums. The Baby Killers provides a chilling insight into an aspect of The Great War which is all too often overlooked. Yet, at the time, these raids, while modest compared with those of the Second World War Blitz, shook nationalmorale and instilled great fear and outrage. This is an important and highly readable work.

Author : Carol Anne Davis
Publisher : Allison & Busby
ISBN 13 : 074901623X
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children Who Kill written by Carol Anne Davis and published by Allison & Busby. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why would two young boys abduct, torture and kill a toddler? What makes a teenage girl plot with her classmates to kill her own father? Society regards children as harmless - but for some the age of innocence is shortlived, messy and ultimately murderous.Mary Bell, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables are infamous for their crimes against other children, but many of the less familiar studies here are equally as shocking. Thirteen murderers - the youngest only ten - used fire, poison, bullets and strangulation on victims from infants to pensioners. In a comprehensive study of juvenile homicide, Carol Anne Davis offers new psychological insights and a hard-hitting look at the role of society in an area too shocking to ignore.

Author : Jay Lake
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781848630932
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Baby Killers written by Jay Lake and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Annie Cossins
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1743314019
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Baby Farmers written by Annie Cossins and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2013 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most common murder victim in 19th century Australia was a baby, and the most common perpetrator was a woman--a fascinating story of the most infamous legal trial in Australia In October 1892, a one-month-old baby boy was found buried in the backyard of Sarah and John Makin, two wretchedly poor baby farmers in inner Sydney. In the weeks that followed, 12 more babies were found buried in the backyards of other houses in which the Makins had lived. This resulted in the most infamous trial in Australian legal history, and exposed a shocking underworld of desperate mothers, drugged and starving babies, and a black market in the sale and murder of children. Annie Cossins pieces together a dramatic and tragic tale with larger than life characters: theatrical Sarah Makin; her smooth-talking husband, John; her disloyal daughter, Clarice; diligent Constable James Joyce, with curious domestic arrangements of his own; and a network of baby farmers stretching across the city. It's a glimpse into a society that preferred to turn a blind eye to the fate of its most vulnerable members, only a century ago.

Author : Vincent Marks
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Insulin Murders written by Vincent Marks and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2007-04-26 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book ever to describe real life cases of murder, and purported murder, using insulin as a weapon. Covers cases from the USA, UK, Europe, Japan and New Zealand, including the well known Claus von Bulow case, the first criminal trial to be broadcast in its entirety on US TV (later the subject of a Hollywood movie, Reversal of Fortune). Written by Vincent Marks, coauthor of the critically acclaimed book Panic Nation: Exposing the Lies We're Told About Food and Health (John Blake Publishing) and a world authority on insulin, and Caroline Richmond, a medical journalist and writer, this gripping account is intended for doctors and laypeople alike, especially those with an interest in forensic medicine or true life crime.

Author : Emerson Draisey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780970672865
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Baby Killers written by Emerson Draisey and published by . This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Fegan
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 0850528933
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Baby Killers written by Thomas Fegan and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2013-08-05 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just over a decade after the Wright Brothers’ triumph of powered flight, the conduct of war was changed for ever. Until the Kaiser’s Zeppelins raided British cities and towns, it had been unthinkable that civilian populations and property hundreds of miles from the battlefield could be at risk from sudden death and destruction. In the first section of The ‘Baby Killers’ Thomas Fegan charts the precise chronology of the air raids on Britain in this most thorough and fascinating work. From the start-point of the doom-laden prophecies of HG Wells and others, he describes the development of the German threat and the desperate search for answers to it. He analyses public reaction and assesses the effectiveness of the campaign as it progressed from airships to Gotha heavy bombers and, later, ‘Giants’. The second part of this superbly researched book features a gazetteer to the places bombed. The extent of the list, which includes Edinburgh, Hull and Greater Manchester, will almost certainly surprise most readers. Helpfully there are also comprehensive lists of memorials and relevant museums. The ‘Baby Killers’ provides a chilling insight into an aspect of The Great War which is all too often overlooked. Yet, at the time, these raids, while modest compared with those of the Second World War Blitz, shook national morale and instilled great fear and outrage. This is an important and highly readable work.

Author : Diane Thorston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781980715993
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baby Killers written by Diane Thorston and published by . This book was released on 2018-04 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of True Crime focused on women who killed children, even their own. ALEXANDRA TOBIAS - On January 19th, 2010, 22 year old Alexandra Tobias was playing Farmville on Facebook at home in Jacksonville, Florida when she was interrupted by the cries of her three month old baby, Dylan. She tried to silence him by shaking him roughly - hitting his head in the process. The child fell unconscious and she placed a frantic call to 911. The child would be taken to the hospital where he would die the next day. Alexandra would be arrested for second degree murder. Just over a year later, on February 1st 2011, Tobias was sentenced to 50 years in prison. "He who is the most defenceless among us was murdered by his own mommy. And why? Because he was crying during a game of Fishville or Farmville or whatever was going on during Facebooking time that day," the presiding Judge Adrian G Soud said. In the time between the crime and the sentencing , news organizations across America picked up the story.Why would Alexandra kill her baby?KATHLEEN FOLBIGG - Kathleen Folbigg was a serial child killer who murdered her three infant children and was convicted for the manslaughter of a fourth. Her killings would take place over the course of an eight-year period during in which she was never suspected. She would only be discovered after her husband discovered her personal diary in which she detailed the motivations behind her killing spree. This is her story.SUSAN SMITH - The idea of a mother who kills her children will always capture the attention of the nation, and in some cases the entire world will tune in as they did in Smith's situation, at first with sympathy and then with outrage. Why would someone commit the most unspeakable of acts? How could a mother kill her child? In 1994, these questions were asked of Susan Smith, a young woman living in Union of South Carolina during an unusual case.CHRISTINE RIGGS - Christina Marie Riggs was convicted of murdering her two young children in Arkansas in 1997. Three years later, she would become the first woman executed in that state since 1845. Struggling with depression and mental health issues, Riggs succumbed to her own warped world view in a botched murder/suicide of her own children leaving an entire nation asking "why"?

Author : Diane Thorson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781086187212
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baby Killers written by Diane Thorson and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-29 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of True Crime focused on women who killed children, even their own. ALEXANDRA TOBIAS - On January 19th, 2010, 22 year old Alexandra Tobias was playing Farmville on Facebook at home in Jacksonville, Florida when she was interrupted by the cries of her three month old baby, Dylan. She tried to silence him by shaking him roughly - hitting his head in the process. The child fell unconscious and she placed a frantic call to 911. The child would be taken to the hospital where he would die the next day. Alexandra would be arrested for second degree murder. Just over a year later, on February 1st 2011, Tobias was sentenced to 50 years in prison. "He who is the most defenceless among us was murdered by his own mommy. And why? Because he was crying during a game of Fishville or Farmville or whatever was going on during Facebooking time that day," the presiding Judge Adrian G Soud said. In the time between the crime and the sentencing, news organizations across America picked up the story.Why would Alexandra kill her baby?KATHLEEN FOLBIGG - Kathleen Folbigg was a serial child killer who murdered her three infant children and was convicted for the manslaughter of a fourth. Her killings would take place over the course of an eight-year period during in which she was never suspected. She would only be discovered after her husband discovered her personal diary in which she detailed the motivations behind her killing spree. This is her story.SUSAN SMITH - The idea of a mother who kills her children will always capture the attention of the nation, and in some cases the entire world will tune in as they did in Smith's situation, at first with sympathy and then with outrage. Why would someone commit the most unspeakable of acts? How could a mother kill her child? In 1994, these questions were asked of Susan Smith, a young woman living in Union of South Carolina during an unusual case.CHRISTINE RIGGS - Christina Marie Riggs was convicted of murdering her two young children in Arkansas in 1997. Three years later, she would become the first woman executed in that state since 1845. Struggling with depression and mental health issues, Riggs succumbed to her own warped world view in a botched murder/suicide of her own children leaving an entire nation asking "why"?

Author : Chelsea Hilton
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781540800732
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baby Killer written by Chelsea Hilton and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-12-03 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kathleen Folbigg was a serial child killer who murdered her three infant children and was convicted for the manslaughter of a fourth. Her killings would take place over the course of an eight-year period during in which she was never suspected. She would only be discovered after her husband discovered her personal diary in which she detailed the motivations behind her killing spree. This is her story.