Murders don't happen in Kaufman County, Texas, a sleepy community where people raise their kids quietly and drive into Dallas for work and entertainment. In 2013, murder came to town when two professional prosecutors were slain in cold blood, simply for doing their jobs: one in broad daylight in plain view of the courthouse, and one in his home, along with his wife. Eric Williams is responsible for all the bloodshed, and he has a list of who to kill...

The dramatic love story of two extraordinary individuals--Nancy Mitford and free French commander Gaston Palewski--living in extraordinary times. "Oh, the horror of love!" Nancy Mitford once exclaimed to her sister Diana Mosley. Elegant and intelligent, Nancy was a reknowned wit and a popular author. Yet this bright, waspish woman gave her heart to a well-known philanderer who went on to marry another woman. Was Nancy that unremarkable thing-a deluded...

The first policewomen were established during the Great War, but with no powers of arrest; the first women lawyers did not practise until the early twentieth century, and despite the fact that women worked as matrons in Victorian prisons, there were few professional women working as prison officers until the 1920s. The Justice Women traces the social history of the women working in courts, prisons and police forces up to the 1970s. Their history includes...

Representing Michigan for thirty-six years in the U.S. Senate, Carl Levin, the longest-serving senator in Michigan history, was known for his dogged pursuit of the truth, his commitment to holding government accountable, and his basic decency. Getting to the Heart of the Matter: My 36 Years in the Senate is his story — from his early days in Detroit as the son of a respected lawyer to the capstone of his career as chair of both the Senate Armed...

Qui sont ces êtres tristement célèbres ? Ils sont devenus les couples de tueurs en série les plus tristement célèbres. Ils s'appellent Marc Dutroux et Michelle Martin, Fred et Rosemary West, Paul Bernardo et Karla Homolka ou encore Michel Fourniret et Monique Olivier. Ils ont commis les pires atrocités, les pires crimes. En couple, ils ont enlevé, séquestré, torturé, violé et tué. Les faits se sont déroulés aux États-Unis, en Australie,...

In suburban Georgetown a killer's Reeboks whisper on the floor of a posh home. In a seedy D.C. porno house, a patron is swiftly garroted to death. The next day America learns that two of its Supreme Court justices have been assassinated. And in New Orleans, a young law student prepares a legal brief.

"We gotta kill 'em. They know what we look like." On a hot summer night in Houston, two teenage girls-bright, beautiful, success-bound friends-took a shortcut home from a friend's apartment to make their curfew. They never reached their homes. The next morning, the families of the two girls began a frantic search, organizing friends and neighbors and posting thousands of fliers across the sprawling city. But not until an anonymous 911 call four...

José Francisco Torres was born and raised "up the river" above Trinidad, Colorado and his life spanned from the cowboy days of the late 1800s to the technological era of the late 1900s. Despite the security of his home in the rural Spanish community, there was something lacking: opportunity and respect for his people from the outside world. Early on, he conceived the notion that this was wrong, that he and his people deserved better and, as a child,...

Compilation of cases decided by the Supreme Court of the United States in which Ruth Bader Ginsburg presented oral arguments as an attorney in the 1970's, and written majority opinions and dissents as a Supreme Justice from 1993 to the present. Oral Arguments: • Frontiero v. Richardson - • Kahn v. Shevin - • Weinberger v. Wiesenfeld - • Edwards v. Healy - • Califano v. Goldfarb - • Duren v. Missouri - Majority Opinions: - • Reed v....

A Poignant Memoir of Inspiration and Wisdom Judie Dziezak is no stranger to adversity. Those who kn​o​w her as an attorney, technology writer, or scientist s​ee​ a soft-spoken, pleasant, competent professional who courageously st​ands​ up for what's right even when she ​is​ the only one standing. What they ​don't​ know ​is​ that growing up, she wrestled with a tumultuous crescendo of abuse from her mentally ill mother....