homicide

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homicide

Children, violence, and murder

2001
Provides information about child violence, discussing the various sources of the problem, looking at various school shootings at Columbine and elsewhere, and considering ways to curtail violent behavior in children.

Crime and punishment

1981
Raskolnikov, a former Russian student, murders an old pawnbroker and her sister. The guilt with which he struggles results in a tragedy of tension and terror.

Kids who kill

1997
Examines the causes, cases, and social and personal impact of the increasing incidence of murders being committed by children and teenagers.

Chutes and adders

1994
When amateur detective Robin Light becomes a prime murder suspect, she unearths unsavory information about her late husband.

The crocodile bird

1993
Story of an obsessive love between a mother and daughter and its connection to a series of deaths near a remote English manor.

Lieberman's day

1994
Chicago police sergeant Abe Liebermann is stunned early one morning to hear some of the worst news possible. His brother's son, David, has been murdered in a robbery the night before and David's pregnant wife, Carol, has been seriously wounded.

Blood sacrifice

a mystery of the Yucatan
1993
Luis Balam, a full-blooded Mayan and an ex-traffic cop fears one of his people will be accused of the serial killings of young women in Cancun hotels. He becomes unofficially involved in the investigation and finds himself again confronting the cruel forces of brutal power and rampant corruption that control Mexico's coastal playground and that have already cost him a career.

Forty whacks

new evidence in the life and legend of Lizzie Borden
1992
Presents new evidence in the case of Lizzie Bordon accused of killing her parents one hundred years ago, but acquitted, yet always presumed guilty.

Lizzie Borden

the legend, the truth, the final chapter
1991
Presents the true story of the murders of Andrew and Abby Borden in Fall River, Massachusetts in 1892.

Sorry, wrong number

and, The hitch-hiker
1980
Presents two one-act plays by Lucille Fletcher including "Sorry, Wrong Number," based upon the radio classic of the same title in which an invalid woman overhears the plot to her own murder.

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