{"product_id":"murder-in-california-marques-vickers-9781070182209","title":"Murder in California: Abductions, Assassinations and Police Related Murders: The Topography of Evil: Notorious California Murder Sites","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMurder in California: Abductions, Assassinations and Police Related Murders\u003c\/i\u003e profiles some of California's most infamous murder cases. The edition photographically transports you to actual murder sites along with images related to the case and perpetrator(s). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe images and accompanying profiles offer a descriptive account and follow-up aftermath providing an important understanding into the far-reaching effects of each crime. Convicted killers and their confirmed victims are identified. For criminals still living, their current incarceration location is provided. A directory of precise crime site locations is included. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe captured snapshots portray visual testimonies of extinguished lives removed by acts of violence. Crime scenes often revert back into unremarkable landscape or unassuming buildings over the ensuing years and decades. Several have altered little since their moment of infamy. Many are passed daily by pedestrian and vehicular traffic unaware of a location's unique significance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCalifornia has been the site for many notorious homicides. The following are portrayed in this edition: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSan Jose kidnapping of heir Brooke Hart and resulting mob justice\u003cbr\u003eEureka's Karen Mitchell: vanishing into speculation\u003cbr\u003eAn Epitaph That Embodied The Wasted Life of a Killer (Robert Alton Harris)\u003cbr\u003eKristin Smart: The tangled web involving Fifth Amendment silence\u003cbr\u003eNicholas Markowitz: The \u003ci\u003eStolen Boy\u003c\/i\u003e and unforeseen execution\u003cbr\u003eThe Onion Field Killings: Execution amidst rural darkness\u003cbr\u003eAn Abduction-Murder of Two Innocents (Charles Keever and Jonathan Sellers)\u003cbr\u003eThe Patty Hearst Kidnapping and SLA shoot out\u003cbr\u003ePolly Klaas: The shocking death of innocence\u003cbr\u003eRex Allen Krebs: Predestined towards violence\u003cbr\u003eThe Mob permanently severs relations with Bugsy Siegel\u003cbr\u003eFung \u003ci\u003eLittle Pete \u003c\/i\u003eJing Toy: 19th Century San Francisco's Chinatown gangland slaying\u003cbr\u003eChauncey Bailey: The price of constitutional protection\u003cbr\u003eJoseph \u003ci\u003eThe Animal\u003c\/i\u003e Barboza: East Coast mob contract hit\u003cbr\u003eDr. Marcus Foster: The marginalized assassination\u003cbr\u003eDestroying What One Cannot Fully Possess (Betty Broderick)\u003cbr\u003eThe Marin County Courthouse Shootout: Thirty minutes that forever altered courtroom security procedures\u003cbr\u003eThe Mickey and Trudy Thompson morning driveway execution\u003cbr\u003eThe political killings of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk\u003cbr\u003eThe East\/West Coast vendetta and shooting of Christopher Wallace a.k.a. Biggie Smalls\u003cbr\u003eSenator Robert F. Kennedy: The assassination of hope\u003cbr\u003eThe Contract killing of Vic Weiss: Payback for stealing from the wrong people\u003cbr\u003eCharles Crawford: The fixer loses his Los Angeles influence\u003cbr\u003eThe Wonderland Gang drug executions\u003cbr\u003eA Panic and Impulsive Police Shooting At Grape Street Park (Joselito Cinco)\u003cbr\u003eThe slaying of LAPD Captain Walter Auble and impressive public response\u003cbr\u003eLovelle Mixon: A desperate final and fatal gamble towards escape\u003cbr\u003eAn Absence of Warning Proves Fatal To A Back-Up Officer (Officer Christopher Wilson)\u003cbr\u003eThe Newhall Shootout: Deadliest firefight in California Highway Patrol history\u003cbr\u003eThe North Hollywood Bank of America doomed heist and shootout\u003cbr\u003eA Senseless Police Shooting By A Gunman Wagering on Reincarnation (Officer Jeremy Henwood)\u003cbr\u003eBurbank Policeman Matthew Pavelka: Officer down following up a fateful back up\u003cbr\u003eOscar Grant III: When the facts behind a killing become secondary\u003cbr\u003eA Routine Gang Questioning That Deteriorated Into Tragedy\u003cbr\u003eSanta Barbara Officer Thomas Guerry: A legacy award for an abruptly ended life\u003cbr\u003eThe Vanishing Northridge Salomon Family\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marques Vickers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1070182206\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781070182209\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/24\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 202\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.67lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.46d","brand":"Marques Vickers","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48065334968575,"sku":"9781070182209","price":20.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3c022276-72cc-43ca-8c3a-d18730f4a092.jpg?v=1768674512","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/murder-in-california-marques-vickers-9781070182209","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}