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Author: John Uwaya Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781987440355 Category : Languages : en Pages : 170
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It is constitutional for governments to protect residents but that is not practicable everywhere and every time. So, individuals and organizations have to take proactive steps that among other objectives, deter, detect and delay crime while law enforcement agencies are awaited to perform their constitutional role of protection. But those steps can only be taken with proper understanding of the kidnap and assassination threats. To that end, kidnapping can be defined as detaining a person by force against his or her will. It's traumatic and understandably, impacts both victim and acquaintances negatively. Even after humiliating political or bankrupting financial concessions, a victim's safety is not guaranteed. In fact, after concessions, only 40% of prolonged kidnap victims are uninjured or not dead according to Control Risks of London. All that calls for proactive threat mitigation plans. Although initially associated with political extremism, kidnapping took on economic dimension by 1999 with a 40% leap in victim haul skyrocketing global annual ransom to $500 million. Hence kidnapping is now largely for economic reasons and neither the scourge of failed or failing states nor are the victims restricted to particular socio-economic brackets. Rather, all - including politicians, business tycoons, performing artists, topflight civil servants, expatriates, clergymen, etc. and their associates are now at risk. On the other hand, assassination or targeted killing as homicide, is carried out by a crime target's business or political rivals for a competitive or political edge. Besides national causal factors, the negative fallouts of globalization including relaxed international borders and InfoTech enhanced anonymity for criminals, are making assassination or targeted killing wide-spread. But as both the kidnap and assassination threats follow identifiable steps to succeed, it is possible to proactively focus on the "how" rather than the "who" to pre-empt pending attacks. Even where a target unfortunately falls victim of kidnapping in particular, prior enlightenment would hone his or her survival instincts to neutralize the destructive power of morbid fear - a captive's worst enemy. So, be proactive! Read this book now and not later.
Author: Robert Alvin Waters Publisher: University of Alabama Press ISBN: 0817318224 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 213
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Informed by thousands of pages of newly released FBI files, The Kidnapping and Murder of Little Skeegie Cash tells the gripping story of the only crime investigated by J. Edgar Hoover himself, the sensational 1938 murder of a five-year-old boy from the Florida Everglades. In his long and storied career, J. Edgar Hoover investigated only one case personally, the 1938 kidnapping and murder of five-year-old Floridian James “Skeegie” Cash. What prompted the director himself to fly from Washington, DC, to a rain-drenched hamlet on the edge of the Everglades? Congress had slashed FBI funding, forcing Hoover to lay off half his agents. The combative Hoover believed if he could bring Skeegie’s killer to justice, the halo of positive publicity would revive the fortunes of the embattled FBI. In The Kidnapping and Murder of Little Skeegie Cash, Robert A. Waters and Zack C. Waters bring to life the drama of the abduction, the payment of a $10,000 ransom, the heartbreaking manhunt for Skeegie and his kidnapper, the arrest and confession of Franklin Pierce McCall, and the killer’s trial and execution. Hordes of reporters swarmed into the little village south of Miami, and for thirteen days until McCall confessed, the case dominated national headlines. The authors capture the drama and the detail as well as the desperate and sometimes extralegal lengths to which Hoover went to crack the case. Using the Freedom of Information Act, the authors obtained more than four thousand pages of FBI files and court documents to reconstruct this important but forgotten case. The tragedy that played out in the swamps of Dade County constituted the backdrop for a political struggle that would involve J. Edgar Hoover, the United States Congress, and even president Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Hoover and the president prevailed, and within two years the FBI grew from 680 employees to more than 14,000. No books and few articles have been published about this historic case.
Author: S.S. Van Dine Publisher: FelonyandMayhem+ORM ISBN: 1631942123 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 278
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When a playboy is abducted, the highly educated detective “reveals himself as a gun-fighter who can pump hot lead with the best of them” (The New York Times). Recently returned from a refreshing sojourn in Egypt and on his way out the door to enjoy a dog show, Philo Vance is stopped in his tracks by a visit from the New York district attorney. Notorious gambler and ne’er-do-well Kaspar Kenting has been kidnapped from his uptown home, and the culprits are demanding that the fifty-thousand-dollar ransom be left inside a hollow tree at midnight. But things don’t go well—and the sophisticated and aristocratic detective is about to pick up a pistol and get down in the muck with some very unpleasant characters in this witty, suspenseful Golden Age mystery classic. “Mr. Van Dine’s amateur detective is the most gentlemanly, and probably the most scholarly snooper in literature.” —Chicago Daily Tribune
Author: David Stout Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc. ISBN: 1492694800 Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 489
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A chilling true crime book that chronicles the wave of abductions that terrorized the U.S. during the Great Depression, including the most infamous kidnapping case in American history. "A thrilling account that puts the 1932 Lindbergh baby kidnapping case, billed as "the crime of the century," in the context of the thousands of other kidnappings that occurred in the U.S. during the Prohibition and Depression eras...will enthrall true crime fans."—Publishers Weekly, STARRED review The Great Depression was a time of desperation in America—parents struggled to feed their children and unemployment was at a record high. Adding to the lawlessness of the decade, thugs with submachine guns and corrupt law-enforcement officers ran rampant. But amidst this panic, there was one sure-fire way to make money, one used by criminals and resourceful civilians alike: kidnapping. Jump into this forgotten history with Edgar Award-winning author David Stout as he explores the reports of missing people that inundated newspapers at the time. Learn the horrifying details of these abduction cases, from the methods used and the investigative processes to the personal histories of the culprits and victims. All of this culminates with the most infamous kidnapping in American history, the one that targeted an international celebrity and changed legislation forever: the Lindbergh kidnapping. The Kidnap Years is a gritty, visceral, thoughtfully reported page-turner that chronicles the sweep of abductions that afflicted all corners of the country as desperate people were pushed to do the unthinkable. "A fascinating crime book like no other."—David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws Publisher: ISBN: Category : Assassination Languages : en Pages : 238
Author: Mike Mathis Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 1439676739 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 112
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Friday, Aug. 15, 1975 began as a typical summer day in the suburbs. Young children played with their friends, adults prepared for work or planned for their vacation at the Jersey Shore... That all changed in the hours before noon, when Gretchen Harrington, the 8-year-old daughter of a Presbyterian minister and his wife, was kidnapped while walking to a vacation Bible school less than a quarter-mile from her house. Her body was found by a jogger in a state park nearly two months later. The crime forever changed the lives of the children who were near Gretchen's age and their parents, many of whom chose to live in Marple Township because they considered it a safe refuge from the crime-ridden streets of Philadelphia. strongJournalists Mike Mathis and Joanna Falcone Sullivan examine the kidnapping, murder and the nearly five-decade long investigation through rare access to police files in what is still considered an open investigation.
Author: Kieran Crowley Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 1429903309 Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 361
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Ash Wednesday Beautiful, bubbly, 20-year-old Kim Antonakos was returning to her New York City apartment after a night of clubbing with a friend. A business major with wild black hair, long polished fingernails, and a new Honda her loving father had bought her, Kim took good care of herself and looked forward to a bright future. But on her way home in the early morning darkness of that Ash Wednesday, Kim was abducted-and her mysterious kidnappers would be the last people to see her alive. Scorching Betrayal As Kim's father, wealthy computer executive Tommy Antonakos, launched a widespread, feverish search for his daughter, he had no idea that her abductors were right under his nose. A cold mastermind had ordered had ordered Kim to be bound, gagged and left in the freezing basement of an abandoned house, hoping to extract ransom from her father. When the plans fell through, he and his henchman panicked, returned to the basement and doused a near-frozen Kim with gasoline, setting her on fire. Burned Alive When the fire was extinguished, all that was left of the lovely coed were her charred, lifeless remains. What would drive the kidnappers to commit such a cruel and senseless murder? How did their plans to cover their tracks result in another killing? And how were the murderers finally snared? Read all of the fascinating facts in a startling expose of extortion, murder, and ultimate justice.
Author: John Townsend
Author: John Townsend
Author: John Uwaya
Author: Robert Alvin Waters
Author: S.S. Van Dine
Author: David Stout
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws
Author: Mike Mathis
Author: Kieran Crowley