The Murder of Stacey Mitchell and Other Stories

The Murder of Stacey Mitchell and Other Stories
Author: Mark Tasmon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021-06-28
Genre: True Crime
ISBN:

A True Crime anthology of women at their most barbaric... In 2006, two young women shocked the world with a brutal crime that seemed straight out of a torture porn movie. Valerie Parashmuti and Jessica Stasinowsky were two lesbian women who fancied themselves as vampires. They had been living together for a year before they took in a troubled sixteen-year-old named Stacey Mitchell. The attractive Stacey, however, caused a rift between the two lovers. A rift they decided to mend by killing the young girl in the warped belief that this would show how much they actually loved each other. These are the events that led up to that fateful day in 2006.

The Murder of Stacey Mitchell

The Murder of Stacey Mitchell
Author: Mark Tasmon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2019-08-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9781087204345

A True Crime anthology of women at their most barbaric... In 2006, two young women shocked the world with a brutal crime that seemed straight out of a torture porn movie. Valerie Parashmuti and Jessica Stasinowsky were two lesbian women who fancied themselves as vampires. They had been living together for a year before they took in a troubled sixteen-year-old named Stacey Mitchell. The attractive Stacey, however, caused a rift between the two lovers. A rift they decided to mend by killing the young girl in the warped belief that this would show how much they actually loved each other. These are the events that led up to that fateful day in 2006.

The Murder of Rebecca Schaeffer & Other Stories

The Murder of Rebecca Schaeffer & Other Stories
Author: Samantha Reeder
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2018-11-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9781730923166

An anthology of True CrimeMurder is tragic no matter when it happens, but society has a stronger reaction to murder when it happens to someone who is loved and adored by all, someone famous, someone for whom life has been cut too short. When an actress is murdered, when her potential for future success taken away, the world seems to stop for a moment. And in the case of Rebecca Schaeffer, everyone is still asking why. Her friends and family were robbed of years of her life. Her fans were robbed of hours of entertainment that she seemed destined for...But for a crazed stalker named Robert Bardo.

Street Stories

Street Stories
Author: Robert Jackall
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2009-08-05
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 0674264665

Detectives work the streets--an arena of action, vice, lust, greed, aggression, and violence--to gather shards of information about who did what to whom. They also work the cumbersome machinery of the justice system--semi-military police hierarchies with their endless jockeying for prestige, procedure-driven district attorney offices, and backlogged courts--transforming hard-won street knowledge into public narratives of responsibility for crime. Street Stories, based on years of fieldwork with the New York City Police Department and the District Attorney of New York, examines the moral ambiguities of the detectives' world as they shuttle between the streets and a bureaucratic behemoth. In piecing together street stories to solve intriguing puzzles of agency and motive, detectives crisscross the checkerboard of urban life. Their interactions in social strata high and low foster cosmopolitan habits of mind and easy conversational skills. And they become incomparable storytellers. This book brims with the truth-is-stranger-than-fiction violence of the underworld and tells about a justice apparatus that splinters knowledge, reduces life-and-death issues to arcane hair-splitting, and makes rationality a bedfellow of absurdity. Detectives' stories lay bare their occupational consciousness--the cunning and trickery of their investigative craft, their self-images, moral rules-in-use, and judgments about the players in their world--as well as their personal ambitions, sensibilities, resentments, hopes, and fears. When detectives do make cases, they take satisfaction in removing predators from the streets and helping to ensure public safety. But their stories also illuminate dark corners of a troubled social order.

Stacey Schoeck, Valentines Day Killer

Stacey Schoeck, Valentines Day Killer
Author: Ana Benton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 30
Release: 2019-08-14
Genre:
ISBN: 9781686133794

Richard and Stacy Schoeck had a perfect marriage, or at least it looked ideal for their friends and family. Even though they have been together for a long time, they seemed to have eyes only for each other. Richard was Stacy's fifth husband and everyone was certain that he was indeed the love of her life. The couple still went on dates and celebrated their love in every way possible. So when Valentine's Day in 2010 came around, the Schoecks were setting up a romantic little getaway and a card exchange in a picturesque Belton Bridge Park which is located in Lula, Georgia. Lula is a quiet little tourist town so when their Police Department received a frantic phone call with Stacy on the other end of the line, they knew something serious had happened. The town was shocked to discover that a murder occurred right there in their calm little oasis. But soon enough, the sinister plot started to unravel and the law enforcement realized that things were not as they seemed. So what made Stacy Schoeck turn on her loving husband and who helped her with the murderous plan?

Murder Game

Murder Game
Author: Caroline Mitchell
Publisher: Detective Ruby Preston Crime T
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2017-10-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781786811639

'What a dizzying roller-coaster ride Now that I've finished this book, I can finally take some deep breaths and allow my heart beat to return to normal. The author took me through twists, turns and an intricate and fast-paced plot...The ending just made me gasp.' Relax and Read reviews, 5 stars A serial killer is playing a terrifying game of life or death with his victims. After he captures them, a countdown begins. He marks the time by sending clues to the whereabouts of the women he has taken in three disturbing images: alive, tortured, dead. In a race against the clock, East London Detective Ruby Preston must play the twisted killer's terrifying murder game and decipher the clues before more women die... But this isn't the first time the police have seen such a sickening crime. The notorious Lonely Hearts Killer, Mason Gatley, was put behind bars ten years ago for murdering six women in exactly the same chilling way. Desperate for more information, Ruby persuades her boyfriend, Nathan Crosby, to use his criminal connections to set up a dangerous meeting. Because to catch this killer, she needs to think like one... But the closer Ruby grows to the dark and charming Mason Gatley, the more worried her team become. Is Mason really helping her catch the killer? Or is he lining Ruby up to be his next victim? Fans of Angela Marsons, Rachel Abbott and Peter James will be hooked by this dark and utterly disturbing thriller, packed with twists until the final page. What readers are saying about Murder Game: 'Oh my goodness... Caroline Mitchell What a book I devoured this book this afternoon, I could not stop reading it. I love Ruby Preston and her team... Absolutely 5 stars all the way for me.' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars 'Wow Caroline Mitchell really outdid herself here I wasn't able to guess who the killer was until Mitchell had it flashing on a sign for me at 92%, but of course, that wasn't all... she threw a massive twist in on top of it Hold on for the wild right she'll pull you through with Murder Game.' Next Book Review, 5 stars 'Absolutely love this Ruby Preston series. I couldn't put this book down as the killings and the plot escalated. I was certain I had fathomed who the killer was. But, oh, how wrong I was. Brilliant book ' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars 'Brilliant fast paced and gripping story that keeps you on the edge of your seat. Ruby is fast becoming my favourite detective.' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars ​'This book was a first class gripping read. I absolutely loved it.' I Love Reading UK, 5 stars 'Once again Caroline Mitchell delivers an amazing book. With twists and turns throughout. Right to the end I was kept on the edge of my seat.' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars 'The author's background in the police force adds authenticity to Murder Game... The plot is fast paced very much like the investigation, and I'm sure my heart was pounding as Murder Game reached its dramatic conclusion... the perfect crime thriller read.' The Book Review Caf , 5 stars

The Devil's Closet

The Devil's Closet
Author: Stacy Dittrich
Publisher:
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2013-01-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781936724246

Detective CeeCee Gallagher is no stranger to high-pressure cases. But this one could easily cost her career...and her life. A macabre serial killer is on the loose, leaving the bodies of his young victims made up to resemble dolls. With only a Bible passage sent by the killer to guide her, CeeCee will have to sacrifice everything to find him and end his reign of terror before another child is murdered.

Institutional Legacies, Decision Frames and Political Violence in Rwanda and Burundi

Institutional Legacies, Decision Frames and Political Violence in Rwanda and Burundi
Author: Stacey Mitchell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2018-10-09
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0429019092

Rwanda and Burundi are strikingly similar countries that underwent democratization in the early 1990s. In both, resistance to democratic reforms led to coups d’état and presidential assassinations. A conundrum arises in terms of what transpires next. In Rwanda, total genocide was perpetrated by extremist Hutu actors, including government officials, upon the country’s Tutsi and politically moderate Hutu populations. In Burundi the coup d’état failed and instead ushered in a lengthy period of civil war. This divergence in outcome is puzzling given the similarity of these two countries, and it is not adequately explained by studies that address collective violence in each. This book utilizes an integrative approach that facilitates the formation of an explanation that more fully accounts for variation in the type of collective violence that occurred in Rwanda and Burundi. Showing that political actors – during periods of major institutional change – do not all respond to or perceive reform in the exact same manner or in a necessarily rational manner, this book makes an important contribution to the literature on ethnic conflict, collective violence and democratization in Africa.

Legalization of International Law and Politics

Legalization of International Law and Politics
Author: Henry (Chip) Carey
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2023-01-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 3031171691

This book provides an expanded conceptualization of legalization that focuses on implementation of obligation, precision, and delegation at the international and domestic levels of politics. By adding domestic politics and the actors to the international level of analysis, the authors add the insights of Kenneth Waltz, Graham Allison, and Louis Henkin to understand why most international law is developed and observed most of the time. However, the authors argue that law-breaking and law-distorting occurs as a part of negative legalization. Consequently, the book offers a framework for understanding how international law both produces and undermines order and justice. The authors also draw from realist, liberal, constructivist, cosmopolitan and critical theories to analyse how legalization can both build and/or undermine consensus, which results in either positive or negative legalization of international law. The authors argue that legalization is a process over time and not just a snapshot in time.

Trials and Tribulations of International Prosecution

Trials and Tribulations of International Prosecution
Author: Henry F. Carey
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2013-02-14
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0739169416

There have been many political dilemmas that impose structural constraints on the effort to legalize, judicialize, and criminalize normatively deviant behavior in international politics. The annual costs of these tribunals has peaked at approximately $400 million, of which $140 million is allocated to the ICC, the latter now having spent $1 billion in its first decade of existence. What has been the track record of these international criminal courts with jurisdiction to try heads of states and leading official and military officers? Has the domestic political will of states increased to prosecute their own leaders, following the ICC’s complimentary jurisdiction? How have powerful states supported these courts and how have they undermined them? In succeeding in punishing a number of high-profile cases, the tribunals arguably constitute what Habermas called communicative action that expresses the aspirations and nascent norms of international society. Beyond the confines of a specific of international cooperation, these courts are increasingly becoming norm entrepreneurs, defining the norms of coexistence among states, such that internal atrocities are seen not only as international crimes, but threats to the stability and order of international society. These courts are also redefining the attributes of what states must practice to preserve their reputations, a breach of which will prove increasingly costly. The tribunals are increasingly incentivizing and mobilizing informational networks from NGOs, IGOs, and states to document and publicize violations of international criminal law, thereby increasing exposure risks of perpetration. To be sure the patchwork of compliance and norm communication is fraught with double standards, hypocrisy, selective enforcement, and neoimperial delegitimation of the subaltern. Still, what has begun as institutions created in the absence of humanitarian action by the powerful may come to constitute normal state attributes similar to sovereignty, whose violation will be seen as not only illegitimate, but also meriting humanitarian action to correct and punish such behavior. The question remains whether ongoing impunity of both the powerful and the powerless will undermine or limit this potential.