103 Results for : acquitted
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Bigamy and Bloodshed: The Scandal of Emma Molloy and the Murder of Sarah Graham (True Crime History) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 467min
Emma Molloy - temperance revivalist, prohibitionist, and accessory to murder In the summer of 1885, ex-convict George Graham bigamously married Cora Lee, foster daughter of nationally known temperance revivalist Emma Molloy, and the three took up residence together on the Molloy farm near Springfield, Missouri. When the body of Graham’s first wife, Sarah, was found at the bottom of an abandoned well on the Molloy farm early the next year, Graham was charged with murder, and Cora and Emma were implicated as accessories. As Larry E. Wood notes, this sensational story made headlines across the country and threatened Mrs. Molloy’s career as a prominent evangelist and temperance revivalist. Although Graham confessed, taking sole blame for the murder, he inflamed the scandal surrounding Emma Molloy when he claimed that he’d carried on a passionate affair with her while simultaneously courting her foster daughter. When Graham was lynched by a mob before he could come to trial, critics of Mrs. Molloy even suggested that she and her friends in the temperance movement had instigated the hanging to silence him. Although Cora Lee was eventually acquitted of being an accomplice in Sarah Graham’s murder and the charges against Emma Molloy were subsequently dropped, many of Mrs. Molloy’s detractors remained convinced that she was, at the least, a very indiscreet woman. Her reputation was irreparably tarnished, and she never fully recovered her status as one of the country’s most noted female orators. The book is published by The Kent State University Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ellery Truesdell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/166412/bk_acx0_166412_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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An Element of Peril: Peter Sharp Legal Mystery, Book 10 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 183min
In An Element of Peril, the 10th Peter Sharp legal mystery, Peter faces a unique triple task: First, he must defend a domestic servant who has been charged with the chainsaw-killing of her boss; second, if he can get the servant acquitted, he must then defend the insurance company from being forced to pay a five-million-dollar life insurance policy on the boss's life by proving that she was not murdered and is still alive; and third, he must discover how the alleged corpse of the servant's boss disappeared - and if murder was faked, who planned it - and where the alive missing victim is. And somewhere behind the tangled mess of a downward-spiraling celebrity starlet, neighbor, a battling married couple of servants, a missing crooked currency trader and a disappearing corpse, attorney Peter Sharp and his legal ward Suzi must find where the truth lies...and what, if any, a bottle of booze has to do with anything - or everything. While the murder case against Peter's client's trial nears, Peter, Suzi, and the entire staff of the district attorney's office has failed to come up with any workable solution that can save Peter from certain defeat and humiliation in court, and attorney Peter Sharp isn't alone as the clock ticks down to his defeat, because you're guaranteed to be sitting on the edge of your chair during the courtroom drama that takes place during the last few minutes of the trial, that's so exhilarating, when the most important person in the courtroom suddenly has trouble breathing. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Gene Grossman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/078448/bk_acx0_078448_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Blue Blooded: Lord & Lady Hetheridge Mystery Series, Book 5 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 580min
At last! Return to the world of Emma Jameson’s best-selling Blue series in audiobook five, Blue Blooded. Tony Hetheridge is stepping into a new career - private detective. As a chief superintendent for New Scotland Yard, he spent years presiding over the “Toff Squad”, handling murders that intersected with the rich and powerful. Now that mantle passes to his wife Kate, while Tony is free to pick and choose his cases. The first: the strange suicide of Mariah Keene and the simultaneous disappearance of her twin Mark. The 21-year-old twins were university dropouts, recreational drug users, and dabblers in the unusual spiritual discipline called sacred geometry. But those risk factors pale compare to their association with the unjustly acquitted triple murderer, Sir Duncan Godington. As Tony goes undercover in the City of Westminster to search for Mark and discover what really happened to Mariah, tempestuous Kate struggles to balance family life with work. She and Tony are determined to adopt nine-year-old Henry; her estranged sister, Maura, is suing to regain full custody. At Scotland Yard’s new HQ, her best mate Paul Bhar is being put out to pasture while Kate finds herself up for a long-sought promotion. And her first solo investigation, the high-tech murder of a politician, takes an unexpected turn toward Tony’s case - and Sir Duncan. Is it mere coincidence? Or has Sir Duncan’s reckoning come at last? Emma Jameson's Blue Series #1 Ice Blue #2 Blue Murder #3 Something Blue #4 Black & Blue #5 Blue Blooded ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Matthew Lloyd Davies. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/115277/bk_acx0_115277_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Movie Magic: Suzie B. Mystery, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 176min
There's a new detective in town that has earned the respect of local law enforcement agencies for help provided in solving several complicated high-profile cases and assisting a local attorney in getting his clients acquitted of criminal charges - while also providing the District Attorney with valuable information leading to the arrest and conviction of some dangerous criminals. Up until this point, the services of this brilliant, computer-savvy crime-solver have been limited to police departments, prosecutors, and well-known criminal defense attorney Peter Sharp. The reason for this is because she's an adorable, small Chinese girl name Suzie, the legal ward of attorney Peter Sharp, who has become tired of doing all the work and seeing her lawyer guardian and his bitter ex-wife Myra (the District Attorney) take all the credit for her efforts. So the kid has decided to start working only on a case of her own choosing, which means that it may result in some large financial recovery for its solution. This book is the story of her second effort, in which she figures out a way to alleviate the restrictions placed upon a kid her size and age from doing the 'legwork' required for proper crime-solving. She finagles all of the usual adults, including attorney Sharp, District Attorney Myra, plus some police that owe her some favors, to do the heavy lifting while she spends her time on the computer, connecting the dots necessary to solve the case and enhance her reputation as being a "mini Sherlock Holmes." ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: B.J. Harrison. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/063054/bk_acx0_063054_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Dominance: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 594min
The procedure has begun.... Fifteen years earlier. Jasper College is buzzing with the news that famed literature professor Richard Aldiss will be teaching a special night class called Unraveling a Literary Mystery - from a video feed in his prison cell. In 1982, Aldiss was convicted of the murders of two female grad students; the women were killed with axe blows and their bodies decorated with the novels of notoriously reclusive author Paul Fallows. Even the most obsessive Fallows scholars have never seen him. He is like a ghost. Aldiss entreats the students of his night class to solve the Fallows riddle once and for all. The author's two published novels, The Coil and The Golden Silence, are considered maps to finding Fallows' true identity. And the only way in is to master them through a game called the Procedure. You may not know when the game has begun, but when you receive an invitation to play, it is an invitation to join the elite ranks of Fallows scholars. Failure, in these circles, is a fate worse than death. Soon, members of the night class will be invited to play along. Present day. Harvard professor Alex Shipley made her name as a member of Aldiss' night class. She not only exposed the truth of Paul Fallows' identity, but in the process uncovered information that acquitted Aldiss of the heinous 1982 crimes. But when one of her fellow night-class alums is murdered - the body chopped up with an axe and surrounded by Fallows novels - can she use what she knows about Fallows and the Procedure to stop a killer before each of her former classmates is picked off, one by one? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christopher Evan Welch. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/005585/bk_sans_005585_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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One August Morning: The True Story of Lizzie Borden , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 691min
One August Morning: The True Story of Lizzie Borden by Troy TaylorLizzie Borden took an axe...or did she?Lizzie Borden is a name that has lived in infamy. As everyone knows, she’s the young woman who “took an axe and gave her mother 40 whacks” and then “gave her father 41”. Everyone seems to know the rhyme, but most people don’t know the truth behind the grim story of one of America’s most famous unsolved murders. In this new entry in the “Dead Men Do Tell Tales” series, author Troy Taylor delves into the true story of the Borden Murders, revealing what really happened on that morning in August 1892, how Lizzie was hounded by the police, prosecutors, and reporters, and then finally acquitted - yet always believed to be guilty. Was she a murderer or truly innocent? Did she swing the hatchet that killed her parents, or was Lizzie simply part of a plot that accidentally led to murders committed by a madman? You’ll have the chance to decide for yourself as the suspects are revealed, the conspiracies unveiled, and the strange circumstances of this haunting case are presented.Forget everything you already think you know about this compelling case and discover what did - and what did not - happen in the story of Lizzie Borden! What dark secrets have never been told? What happened in the grim aftermath of the murder trial? Do the spirits of the dead still linger in the house where the Bordens were killed? You’ll find these answers and more and you’ll never look at this chilling story in the same way again! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charles Huddleston. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/202685/bk_acx0_202685_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Magic Bullets: Suzi B. Mystery #5 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 141min
This case that the public nicknamed "the Magic Bullets Murder" stumped the police, the District Attorney, and the State Attorney General's forensic department because they all had no idea how a murder could be committed by bullets that were determined to have been fired from a gun that absolutely could not have been used...until someone with a much better brain than theirs started working on the case and amazed everyone with some answers that they never would have thought of. That someone was the new detective in town that has earned the respect of local law enforcement agencies for help in solving several complicated high-profile cases and assisting a local attorney in getting his clients acquitted of criminal charges - while also providing the District Attorney with valuable information leading to the arrest and conviction of some dangerous criminals. Up until this point, the services of this brilliant computer-savvy crime-solver was limited to police departments, prosecutors, and well-known criminal defense attorney Peter Sharp...the reason for this being because she's a brilliant, 13-year-old Chinese girl name Suzi, a computer whiz and the legal ward of attorney Peter Sharp, and has become tired of doing all the work and seeing her lawyer guardian and the District Attorney take all the credit for her efforts, so she's decided to start taking on only cases of her own choosing, and for which the result of solving each will also provide a sufficient financial reward. Suzi finagles all of the adults including attorney Sharp, District Attorney Myra, plus some police into doing the heavy lifting, while she spends her time on the computer connecting the dots necessary to solve the case and enhance her reputation as being a "mini-Sherlock-Holmes". ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: B.J. Harrison. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/063587/bk_acx0_063587_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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All Involved: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 702min
A propulsive and ambitious novel as electrifying as The Wire, from a writer hailed as the West Coast's Richard Price—a mesmerizing epic of crime and opportunity, race, revenge, and loyalty, set in the chaotic streets of South Central L.A. in the wake of one of the most notorious and incendiary trials of the 1990s. At 3:15 p.m. on April 29, 1992, a jury acquitted three white Los Angeles Police Department officers charged with using excessive force to subdue a black man named Rodney King, and failed to reach a verdict on the same charges involving a fourth officer. Less than two hours later, the city exploded in violence that lasted six days. In nearly 121 hours, fifty-three lives were lost. But there were even more deaths unaccounted for: violence that occurred outside of active rioting sites by those who used the chaos to viciously settle old scores. A gritty and cinematic work of fiction, All Involved vividly re-creates this turbulent and terrifying time, set in a sliver of Los Angeles largely ignored by the media during the riots. Ryan Gattis tells seventeen interconnected first-person narratives that paint a portrait of modern America itself—laying bare our history, our prejudices, and our complexities. With characters that capture the voices of gang members, firefighters, graffiti kids, and nurses caught up in these extraordinary circumstances, All Involved is a literary tour de force that catapults this edgy writer into the ranks of such legendary talents as Dennis Lehane and George V. Higgins. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Anthony Rey Perez, Marisol Ramirez, Jim Cooper, Adam Lazarre-White, James Chen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/004387/bk_harp_004387_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 676min
Random House presents the audiobook edition of Furious Hours by Casey Cep. The stunning true story of an Alabama serial killer and the trial that obsessed the author of To Kill a Mockingbird in the years after the publication of her classic novel - a complicated and difficult time in her life that, until now, has been very little examined.Willie Maxwell was a Baptist reverend in Alabama; he also happened to be a serial killer. Between 1970 and 1977, his two wives and brother all died under suspicious circumstances - each with hefty life insurance policies taken out by none other than the Reverend himself. With the help of a savvy lawyer, Maxwell escaped justice for years. Then, the teenage daughter of his third wife perished. At the funeral, the victim's uncle shot the Reverend dead in a church full of witnesses - and was subsequently acquitted of the murder, thanks to the same savvy lawyer who had represented the Reverend for all those years. Sitting in the audience during the trial was Harper Lee, who had travelled from New York to her native Alabama with an idea of writing a book about the case.Now, Casey Cep brings this nearly inconceivable, gripping story to life on the page: from the shocking murders to the chicanery of insurance fraud to the courtroom drama. At the same time, it is a vividly told, elegiac account of Harper Lee's quest to write a second book after To Kill a Mockingbird and a deeply moving portrait of this beloved writer's struggle with fame, success and the mysteries of artistic creativity. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Hillary Huber. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/004080/bk_rhuk_004080_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Betrayal , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 568min
Betrayed by the past. Battles with the present. Condemned to an uncertain future.After 15 years of self-imposed exile in Canada, successful businessman Nick Lawrence returns to the Derbyshire village where he grew up, to rescue a company on the verge of bankruptcy and its workforce from mass unemployment. But, it soon becomes clear why he left. He was convicted and later acquitted of the murder of his girlfriend Emily, the daughter of Oliver Fleming - owner of the failing company that is still determined to prove he was guilty all along. Nick decides not just to rescue the company but to clear his name, once and for all. But his return stirs up old memories and new hostilities as the past meets the present. He has to battle with the vindictive attitude of the villagers - all the people of a past life who can’t and won’t forgive him, including his own family - dredging up secrets long thought forgotten.But Emily’s murder is only the first in a number of apparently unconnected crimes. Detective inspector Barbara Forster, heading the cold case investigation, must discover the pattern and reveal the chilling truth. Haunted by her unshakable belief that she knows who killed Emily - an obsession that threatens to end her career - she pursues a treacherous path that leads all the way to the dark and explosive climax of tragedy, terror, and despair. A gripping crime thriller with a shocking double twist that ultimately forces you to question everything in this coldly harrowing exposé of one man’s battle with guilt, betrayal, revenge, and redemption. This is a fraught tale of wrecked lives, family tragedy, and moral consequences in a small Peak District village. This is the latest in the popular, gritty psychological crime thriller series and the best yet! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Rayner Bourton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/171441/bk_acx0_171441_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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