Michael Benson
2) Killer twins
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THEY LOOKED ALIKE...Robert Burce Spahalski and Stephen Spahalski were identical twins. Same hair, same eyes, same thirst for blood. Stephen was the first brother to kill--by viciously bashing in store owner Ronald Ripley's head with a hammer. ACTED ALIKE...Unlike Sephen, Robert didn't stop with just one victim. With the cord of an iron, Robert strangled prostitute Morraine Armstrong while having sex. With this bare hands, he choked his girlfriend...
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Case Featured On 20/20
Anti-Freeze For A Husband
It looked like a suicide. A man's corpse on the bathroom floor--next to a half-empty glass of anti-freeze. But fingerprints on the glass belonged to the deceased's wife, Stacey Castor. And a turkey baster in the garbage had police wondering if she force-fed the toxic fluid down her husband's throat.
Pills For A Daughter
In desperation, Stacey concocted a devious plan. She mixed a deadly cocktail...
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This encyclopedic listing of every man who played on or coached the New York Knicks from the team's inception in 1946 to the present is jam-packed with details on everything from a player's careers statistics to his height, weight, and jersey number. Included is information about a player's life before and after the NBA, college career, and dates of birth and death. Relive the glory days of Bill Bradley, Walter "Cylde the Glide" Frazier, Patrick Ewing,...
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With powerful, roaring engines, muscle cars got their name for looking like they could shoulder aside anything on the road. A true American legend, muscle cars have long appealed to a wide range of fans around the world. Inside, read how different car companies created parts of this legend, see the hottest models, and find out how muscle cars made a roaring comeback in recent years. Strap in for an awesome ride! So many cars, so little time! The world...
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Genuine fans take the best team moments with the less than great, and know that the games that are best forgotten make the good moments truly shine. This monumental book of the New York Giants documents all the best moments and personalities in the history of the team, but also unmasks the regrettably awful and the unflinchingly ugly. In entertainingand unsparingfashion, this book sparkles with Giants highlights and lowlights, from wonderful and wacky...
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Drop the top and hit the road! Convertibles have long been one of the most popular and desired types of cars. Inside, take a road trip through convertible history, from the earliest luxury models to the hot sports cars of the 1960's and 1970's, all the way to today's glamorous and windswept vehicles. Make sure it's not raining and get ready to feel the wind in your hair! So many cars, so little time! The world of cars is packed with all shapes and...
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Thanks to the photographic output of a small squadron of interplanetary spacecraft, we have awakened to the beauty and splendor of the solar system. Since Michael Benson's masterful book Beyond: Visions of the Interplanetary Probes, new, more powerful cameras in probes with greatly improved maneuverability have traversed the wheeling satellites of Jupiter; roamed the boulder-strewn red deserts of Mars; studied Saturn's immaculate rings; and shown...
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Discover the darker side of Wexford with this collection of spine-chilling tales from across the county.
This spooky selection features stories of unexplained phenomena, ghostly apparitions and poltergeist activity and includes tales from well-known locations such as Enniscorthy Castle and Duncannon Fort as well as those from private dwellings, Drawing on historical and contemporary sources and including many first-hand experiences and previously...
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SAVING MONEY
You're about to learn how to successfully save more money, through the techniques laid out in this book.
More and more people are struggling to live, paycheck to paycheck, and the reason is bad saving habits. We live in a world of instant gratification, where it is too simple to pay now and worry late. Credit cards and loans, along with improper financial education are a recipe for disaster.
This book covers a range of techniques that...
11) Evil Season
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Deadly Dreams
Joyce Wishart was living out her life's dream, running her own art gallery in sunny Sarasota, Florida. But that dream ended in nightmare when a deranged drifter named Elton Brutus Murphy walked through the door with a knife in his hand and a voice in his head commanding him to rape and kill. In the space of half an hour, Joyce was dead--brutally mutilated--and the tony arts enclave plunged into terror as a frenzied manhunt ensued. Told...
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An incisive, unflinching account of the shocking, summer 2007 Connecticut crime that is still making national headlines, “Murder in Connecticut” examines what happened to Dr. William Petit, his wife Jennifer Hawke-Petit, and their two daughters, Hayley and Michaela, in the early morning hours of July 23 in the quiet town of Cheshire-and how their community rallied bravely around the sole survivor of this vicious home invasion.
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Die For Love.
Sarah Ludemann was new to love. The Pinellas, Florida, 17-year old was a late bloomer. When she fell for a boy she was blind to the world of sex, drugs and drama swirling around her. Soon, Sarah had a bitter enemy in 18-year-old waitress Rachel Wade; both girls were head-over-heels with a cocky two-timer named Joshua Camacho. On a warm spring night, their passions erupted into violence. A knife flashed under the streetlights. When the...
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The stunning true story of the rise of Nazism in depression-era America-and the fearless Jewish gangsters and crime families who joined forces to fight back . . . and fight hard.
As Adolph Hitler rose to power in 1930s Germany, a growing wave of fascism began to take root on American soil. Nazi activists started to gather in major American cities, and by 1933, there were more than one-hundred anti-Semitic groups operating openly in the United...
15) Hell's Judgement
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Only he can save the world from devastation. But does he have any chance against evil incarnate?
Father McClain boldly bears God's strength. When a monstrous tsunami threatens to annihilate England, the devout priest is divinely blessed with abilities to deliver them from certain death. But now charged with slaying a fiendish villain, his seven-year search for the beast yields no clues… until he learns of a recently rescued missing actress and her...
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The bloodsoaked saga of the Murder, Inc. legend who helped create the modern American Mafia-one body at a time-featuring shocking eyewitness accounts...
Umberto "Albert" Anastasia was born in Italy at the turn of the century. Five decades later, he would be gunned down in a barber shop in New York City. What happened in the years in between-and why every crime family had reason to want him dead-is one of the most brutal and fascinating stories in...
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From real-life "Mafia Survivor" Frank Dimatteo, the gripping account of the life and crimes of the most feared mafia boss of all time: Carmine "Lilo" Galante, the prime mover behind the legendary French Connection.
HIS WAR CRY: "I RULE EVERYTHING."
FOR HALF A CENTURY HE ALMOST DID.
The brutal and blood-stained true story of one of the most feared bosses in American Mafia history, who rose from tenement street thug to notorious hit man to a prime...
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WHO REALLY KILLED "CRAZY JOE" GALLO? AT LAST, THE TRUTH CAN BE TOLD. AND IT WASN'T FRANK "THE IRISHMAN" SHEERAN AS HE CLAIMED.
This is the shocking and brutal story of Carmine DiBiase-aka Sonny Pinto-the elusive Mafia killer who went from small-time street punk to FBI's Most Wanted list to Death Row-only to be released on the streets to kill and kill again . . . among those who died by his gun was Joey Gallo.
"Sober, he was nothing, but drunk...
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The shocking true story of the most ruthless and deadly mob boss in the annals of the American Mafia.
In the golden age of organized crime, Carmine "The Snake" Persico was the King of the Streets. The defacto boss of the Colombo Mafia family since the 1970s, he oversaw gang wars, murders, and major rackets, even from prison. He is suspected of personally murdering as many as 60 people and ordering the hits of hundreds more. Sentenced to 139 years...