Mark c ching (8 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Mark C. L. Ching (illustrator).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Mark C. L. Ching (illustrator).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Mark C. L. Ching (illustrator).

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - She stepped off the bus. She never came home.On a Tuesday afternoon in April 1986, thirteen-year-old Robyn Star Field stepped off her school bus in Berea, Ohio, walked toward home, and vanished.The boy who killed her lived less than a block away. He was fifteen years old, a classmate she had dated and then broken up with that spring. He had told his aunt what he planned to do. He had told his best friend on the school bus, in writing. No one stopped him.Robyn was found the next morning at Mill Stream Run Reservation, nine miles from her front door, wrapped in a bed sheet. The trial that fall produced a conviction for aggravated murder and a sentence of twenty years to life. The judge called him a cold, calculating, violent murderer.That should have been the end. It was the beginning.For nearly forty years, Robyn's family showed up at every parole hearing the State of Ohio scheduled. Five times the man who killed her asked to be released. Five times the family appeared, gave their testimony, and watched the board deny him. They did it for the rest of their lives.On December 30, 2025, in a prison medical bed in Columbus, Ohio, Warren Paxton Brown died. He had spent four decades inside. He never walked free.This is the story of how Robyn lived. How she was taken. And how a family refused, year after year, to let her killer be forgotten by the system that held him.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - On the morning of January 29, 2022, Boston police officer John O'Keefe was found dying in the snow on the front lawn of 34 Fairview Road in Canton, Massachusetts. His girlfriend, Karen Read, told first responders she thought she hit him. Within days she was charged. Within months, the case against her began to unravel, and America started watching.Was it a drunk driving death, plain and terrible Or was John O'Keefe killed inside that house and left on the lawn, with an outsider framed by police protecting their own 34 Fairview Road is the definitive account of the case that split a town and a country: two murder trials, a hung jury whose members later said they had already agreed to acquit, a lead investigator fired over texts he read aloud in open court, a federal grand jury, an independent police audit, a blogger under indictment, a pink-shirted movement, and a verdict that ended the criminal case while settling almost nothing. It follows the evidence wherever it leads, the taillight and the phone data, the unsearched house and the 2:22 a.m. call, the science on both sides, and the web of civil lawsuits still burning through the courts today.Written with rigor and restraint, this book gives both of the case's stories at full strength and refuses to convict anyone the courts did not. It is the story of a catastrophic investigation, a defense unlike any in American history, a family's unbearable loss, and a justice system colliding with the internet age. Above all, it is the story of John O'Keefe, the man who raised his sister's orphaned children as his own, whose death became a national argument, and whose question remains unanswered on a quiet suburban lawn.Two juries could not say what happened in those twenty minutes. This book tells you everything that is actually known, and exactly why the rest may never be.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Zustand: New.

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.