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(Legendary character) Slender Man Attempted murder Attempted murder Comic books, strips, etc Attempted murder Fiction Attempted murder United States Case studies Graphic novels Internet Social aspects Murder Investigation Fiction Murder United States Case studies Princes Comic books, strips, etcRubin, Kathy Kleiner
Summary: "In January 1978, I slept in my bed at the Chi Omega sorority house at Florida State University as Ted Bundy stalked nearby. He grabbed an oak log from a stack of firewood, slipped through a back door with a broken padlock, and headed upstairs.He began twisting doorknobs. Room 9 was open, and he quietly and quickly killed one of my sleeping sorority sisters. Across the hall, he found another...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2024
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Summary: Like a rotten onion peeled away from itself, with seemingly no end to the many layers and stench; was the tragic truth, that four little ones and their torturous murders which set off a fire storm of fear, that for a time crippled a community and forever devastated their families; were, in the landscape of the underbelly of humanity where kings, thieves and killers dwelt; simply small pebbles...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Outskits Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 CRINakamura, Satsuki
Summary: "Dance like a butterfly, fight like a ... rat. After a rocky start, Reirin and Leelee have no time to lose before they must compose themselves for the Ghost Festival at the Maiden Court. There, Reirin must tread a tight line between the villainess role she's been cast and employing a diplomatic tit-for-tat of her own: confronting Kin Maiden Seika and her menacing court lady Gayou's plots....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas 2023
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Summary: "The first full account of the Slenderman stabbing, a true crime narrative of mental illness, the American judicial system, the trials of adolescence, and the power of the internet. On May 31, 2014, in the Milwaukee suburb of Waukesha, Wisconsin, two twelve-year-old girls attempted to stab their classmate to death. Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier's violence was extreme, but what seemed even more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 HALRushdie, Salman
Summary: From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring--and surviving--an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him. Speaking out for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, about the traumatic events of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie answers violence with art, and reminds us of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B RUSHDIE RUSPatterson, James
Summary: MURDER, INTERRUPTED. Rich, cheating financier Frank Howard wants his wife dead, and he's willing to pay Billie Earl Johnson whatever it takes, to the tune of $750,000. When his bullet misses the mark, Billie Earl and Frank will turn on each other in a fight for their lives...MOTHER OF ALL MURDERS. Dee Dee Blancharde is a local celebrity. Television reports praise her as a single mother who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 PATMorley, Jefferson.
Summary: Portrays how the 19th century struggle against slavery erupted in Washington DC, thrusting the ambitious District Attorney Francis Scott Key into a uniquely American battle for justice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 MORPatterson, James
Summary: Murder beyond the grave: "Stephen Small has it all -- a Ferrari, fancy house, loving wife, and three sons. But the only thing he needs right now is enough air to breathe. Kidnapped, buried in a box, and held for ransom, Stephen has forty-eight hours of oxygen. The clock is ticking..." -- Back cover. Murder in paradise: "High in the Sierra Nevada mountains, developers Jim and bonnie Hood...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: 364 PATGriffiths, Elly.
Summary: The death of a ninety-year-old woman with a heart condition should not be suspicious. Detective Sergeant Harbinder Kaur certainly sees nothing out of the ordinary when Peggy?s caretaker, Natalka, begins to recount Peggy Smith?s passing. But Natalka had a reason to be at the police station: while clearing out Peggy?s flat, she noticed an unusual number of crime novels, all dedicated to Peggy....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M GRILupica, Mike.
Summary: When a body is found at the lake in Paradise, police chief Jesse Stone is surprised to find he recognizes the murder victim. The man had been at the same AA meeting as Jesse the evening before. But otherwise, Jesse has no clue as to the man's identity. He isn't a local, nor does he have ID on him. Their single lead is from a taxi company that recalls dropping off the mysterious stranger outside...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LUPPatterson, James
Summary: Two true-crime tales relate the stories of a couple who were tortured and left for dead after a home invasion, and a double homicide in Omaha, Nebraska.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 364 PATButtafuoco, Mary Jo.
Summary: Mary Jo Buttafuoco's life as a suburban wife and mother in sleepy Massapequa, New York, ended in May 1992, when she was shot in the head on her own front porch. The 'Long Island Lolita' saga sparked a media frenzy. As the years passed and Mary Jo steadfastly stood by her man while Joey Buttafuoco and Amy Fisher continued to make headlines, one question lingered in the minds of women everywhere:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Health Communications 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BUTTAFUOCO, MARY JO BUTOhitsuji, Ei
Summary: "The Maiden Court's blazing summer of plots and curses wanes into cooler autumn days. Keigetsu buckles down to restore the Palace of Vermillion Stallion in the turbulent wake left by the ex-Noble Shu, along with Reirin''s bolstering support. That fateful Double Sevens night almost seems like a different lifetime, but the seasonal change also marks a big event--the Harvest Festival, a chance for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas Entertainment 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 THOVaughan, Brian K.
Summary: "Doctor Stephen Strange embarks on the most important paranormal investigation of his career, as he sets out to solve an attempted murder-- his own! And with his most trusted friend also at death's door, Strange turns to an unexpected corner of the Marvel Universe to recruit a new ally."--P. [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide 2013
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DOCGabhart, Ann H.
Summary: "In 1881, Jacci Reed is only five years old when a man attempts to kidnap her from the steamboat her mother, Irena, works on. Badly wounded during the confrontation, Irena takes Jacci aboard the Kingston Floating Palace, a showboat tied up beside them. There, Jacci's actor grandfather tends to her mother and Jacci gets a first taste of the life she will come to lead. Fifteen years later, Jacci...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction GabhartLobdell, Scott.
Summary: Frank and Joe take a fun trip across country on a new bullet train and end up in the middle of a nightmare where they are blamed for everything, including attempted murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Papercutz 2006