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The Babymaker

By Rick Nelson. "Fertility Fraud and the Fall of Dr. Cecil Jacobson." Yet another serial fraudster/inseminator -- how many of these stories ARE there?? This iteration became a TV movie starring George...

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Exhibit B. Books @exhibitbbooks.bsky.social · 1d

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Toma: The Compassionate Cop

By David Toma with Michael Brett. Per Google Books, Autobiography of a vice, narcotics, and gambling detective whose mastery of disguise has earned him the title "The Man with a Thousand Faces." Toma,...

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Exhibit B. Books @exhibitbbooks.bsky.social · 1d

TIL "Ed McBain" wrote a Lizzie Borden novel: exhibitbbooks.com/products/liz...

Lizzie: A Novel

By Evan Hunter. A recreation of that lethal August morning in Fall River, “the agony of a passionate woman, the depths of a murdering heart.” Hunter, perhaps best known under pen name Ed McBain, might...

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Exhibit B. Books @exhibitbbooks.bsky.social · 3d

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The Poison Tree: A True Story of Family Violence and Revenge

By Alan Prendergast. Richard Chester Jahnke was murdered by his teenage children in a case featured on 60 Minutes. Someone should feature this jacket art, which is, as the kids say, bonkers. Overall t...

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Exhibit B. Books @exhibitbbooks.bsky.social · 3d

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Engaged to Murder: The Shocking True Story of the Nation's Most Brutal

By Loretta Schwartz-Nobel. The Reinert case, sometimes called the Main Line Murders, was a big topic in my grandma's Bryn Mawr, PA ladies' auxiliary; I had but a dim recollection of how bonkers it got...

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Exhibit B. Books @exhibitbbooks.bsky.social · 4d

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Marked Man

By John Florio and Ouisie Shapiro. “Frank Serpico’s Inside Battle Against Police Corruption.” YA nonfiction about Serpico’s fight to clean up NYPD, from the authors of a similar tome on Sacco and Venz...

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Exhibit B. Books @exhibitbbooks.bsky.social · 4d

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Tangled Vines

By John Glatt. "Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders." Prolific genre author Glatt tackles the Low Country craziness that's still dominating headlines; this hardcover is new from the ware...

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Exhibit B. Books @exhibitbbooks.bsky.social · 6d

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Un-Making A Murderer

By Shaun Attwood. “The Framing of Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey,” as seen in Netflix’s Making a Murderer. This UK import is blurbed by…Miriam Margolyes?? Weird, but also: convincing, if I’m being re...

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Exhibit B. Books @exhibitbbooks.bsky.social · 7d

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Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators

By Ronan Farrow. Farrow's investigation into Harvey Weinstein's reign of terror...and the story OF that story, and how long it took to see the light of day. The book became a podcast, which became a d...

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Exhibit B. Books @exhibitbbooks.bsky.social · 7d

Last chance for PB BOGO 50% off! Grab an owner rec, get another half off: exhibitbbooks.com/products/cop...

The Cold Vanish: Seeking The Missing in North America's Wildlands

By Jon Billman. Not sure the "thriller-paced investigation" blurb is accurate, but I really liked this one and found it very atmospheric and compelling. This one's straight from the warehouse, so try ...

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Exhibit B. Books @exhibitbbooks.bsky.social · 9d

Last couple of days on the PB #BOGO sale -- buy one, get the next half off. Plenty of Simpson-case materials qualify, if you wanted to catch up for cheap: exhibitbbooks.com/products/out...

Outrage: The Five Reasons Why O.J. Simpson Got Away With Murder

By Vincent Bugliosi. This book is the only thing that kept me from completely losing it during the NYC blackout of 2003, but whether it's actually that compelling/well-written or it just had an extrem...

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Exhibit B. Books @exhibitbbooks.bsky.social · 10d

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Psycho Killers 3 Ed Gein

From Zone Productions. Fairly rare, this comic is "for mature readers." Black background. Well kept, only mild edgewear; might have been read once or twice. Happy to combine shipping/offer a discount ...

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Exhibit B. Books @exhibitbbooks.bsky.social · 11d

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Attorney For The Damned

Edited by Arthur Weinberg. Foreword by Justice William O. Douglas. "Clarence Darrow: the words he spoke in his most crucial and daring hours as..." A compendium of some of Darrow's most famous address...

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Exhibit B. Books @exhibitbbooks.bsky.social · 11d

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Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York

By Elon Green. Blurbed by Weinman, Kolker, and Grann; beautifully designed; eagerly anticipated by Bunting, and well worth the wait. I read it in a day. Now a docuseries from HBO! This paperback editi...

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Exhibit B. Books @exhibitbbooks.bsky.social · 12d

This title-hall-of-shamer is a PB -- and the PB BOGO/half-off sale is still on all week: exhibitbbooks.com/products/lob...

Lobster Boy

By Fred Rosen. “The Bizarre Life and Brutal Death of Grady Stiles Jr.” Stiles, who came “from a notorious carny family,” “achieved fame and fortune as ‘Lobster Boy’” — and infamy as an abuser who was ...

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Exhibit B. Books @exhibitbbooks.bsky.social · 12d

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Inside The Walls Of Alcatraz

By Frank Heaney, “Alcatraz’s Youngest Guard and Coauthor Gay Machado.” A 1997 revised edition of Heaney’s memoir of prison-guarding “the Rock” and its “truly incorrigible” inmates. A magazine-size pap...

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Exhibit B. Books @exhibitbbooks.bsky.social · 14d

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Gangster Women and the Criminals They Loved

By Susan McNicoll. Virginia and Bugsy, Bonnie and Clyde, and others. This paperback is a bit smudgy on the page edges, and the spine is creased and has a slight tilt, but inside, the pages are clean a...

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Exhibit B. Books @exhibitbbooks.bsky.social · 15d

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Exhibit B. Books @exhibitbbooks.bsky.social · 15d

Paperback BOGO -- buy one, get the next half off -- really stretches your dollar with #compendia, like this one: exhibitbbooks.com/products/sho...

Shot, Stabbed, and Poisoned: The Story of Assassination Through the Ag

By Jonathan J. Moore. Per the back cover, "takes an informative no-holds-barred look at the history of assassination, from Ancient Greece to modern times." Includes accounts of "creative weapons, from...

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Drew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social · 16d

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE.

If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease!

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Exhibit B. Books @exhibitbbooks.bsky.social · 16d

I had just added Shakur's memoir to an incarceration-testimony reader I'm putting together for @bestevidencefyi.bsky.social -- looks like I'll be chasing down a couple of documentaries this weekend as well. Recommendations welcome.

Talib Kweli @talibkweli.bsky.social · 16d

The impact that Assata Shakur has on me as a man is immeasurable. She is one of the most important Black revolutionaries to have ever lived. My daughter Diani recited one of her speeches as an intro for my latest album with Madlib, Liberation 2. Rest in power sister Assata. youtu.be/joD3kNzRphE?...

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Exhibit B. Books @exhibitbbooks.bsky.social · 18d

From the "titles that go the hardest" shelf*

*that isn't really a shelf I have**
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True Crime and the Justice of God

By Elisabeth T. Vasko and Lyndsie Ferrara. "Ethics, Media, and Forensic Science" go under the scope with the two author/professors, one of theology and one of forensic science and law, to examine the ...

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Exhibit B. Books @exhibitbbooks.bsky.social · 19d

Paperback BOGO 50% off is still on -- and alllll PBs qualify, including the ones fresh-cut from the warehouse: exhibitbbooks.com/products/the...

The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum

By Margalit Fox. “The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss.” “Marm” Mandelbaum’s rise “to Gilded Age splendor” at the end of the 19th century in NYC, via “theft” as “a viable, scalable bu...

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