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Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: As New. Peepshow Collective praesentiert Arbeiten des gleichnamigen britischen IllustrationsNr. und Design-Kollektivs aus BrightonLondon. Das Buch dokumentiert die schoepferische Bandbreite der Gruppe: Illustrationen, Animationsstilll, Grafikdesign, Installationen und visuelle Konzepte Nr. komponiert in einem kuenstlerisch inspirierenden Bildband. Zu sehen sind ueber 600 Werke ihrer Studioarbeit aus ikonischen Projekten. Besonders interessant ist es fuer Absolvent:innen der Illustrationskunst, Designinteressierte und Sammler moderner visueller Kultur.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A MURDER. A WRONGFUL CONVICTION. THE ANSWER WAS JUST YARDS AWAY.In June 1996, eighteen-year-old Angie Dodge was found murdered in her Idaho Falls apartment. The crime launched an investigation that would consume decades.Police had something powerful almost immediately: male DNA recovered from the crime scene. What they did not have was a name.Months later, investigators focused on Christopher Tapp, a young man who denied killing Angie and whose DNA did not match the biological evidence. After a prolonged series of interrogations, his story changed. He confessed. Prosecutors argued that the unidentified DNA belonged to another participant.Tapp was convicted. The real source of the DNA remained free.THE CONFESSION SAID ONE THING. THE SCIENCE SAID ANOTHER.Across the Street reconstructs a disturbing wrongful-conviction and cold-case saga.Readers are taken inside the interviews that transformed a denial into a confession, the courtroom where it helped secure a conviction, and the years in which DNA kept pointing away from the man in prison.At the center was an extraordinary contradiction: Tapp had confessed, but the DNA was not his.Appeals failed. Experts scrutinized the interrogation record. Angie Dodge's mother, Carol, examined the evidence and pushed for answers.Then came a remarkable legal outcome. Tapp walked out of prison in 2017, but he was not yet exonerated of Angie Dodge's murder. The conviction remained. The unknown male DNA profile remained. The man who left that evidence was still unidentified.TWENTY-THREE YEARS LATER, EVERYTHING CHANGED.Advances in DNA analysis and investigative genetic genealogy gave detectives a new path. Family trees narrowed the possibilities. A name emerged.Then came the revelation that gives this book its title: the man linked to the crime-scene DNA had lived directly across the street from Angie Dodge.He had even been contacted during the original neighborhood investigation.More than two decades later, detectives tracked him down and waited for something that could provide his DNA. A discarded cigarette butt did.The laboratory result transformed a genealogical lead into a direct forensic match. When investigators confronted the man with the evidence, his account changed. A mystery that had endured for twenty-three years began yielding answers.How could the answer have been that close for so long?MORE THAN A TRUE-CRIME STORYGrounded in court records, law-enforcement documents, forensic evidence, legal filings, and recorded interviews, Across the Street follows Tapp's interrogation and conviction, the fight over the DNA, his release, the genealogy breakthrough, and the final legal reckoning.What happens when a confession conflicts with physical evidence? How can investigators distinguish genuine admissions from statements shaped during repeated questioning? What happens when science refuses to support the story that sent a man to prison?This is a story of murder, wrongful conviction, forensic DNA, interrogation, persistence, institutional failure, and a truth that survived long enough to be discovered.Above all, it is the story of Angie Dodge, whose murder deserved the right answer from the beginning.THE TRUTH WAS NOT FAR AWAY.For readers of investigative true crime, wrongful-conviction cases, forensic mysteries, and cold cases solved through DNA, Across the Street reveals how one murder produced the wrong conviction, how science challenged that verdict, and how the real answer had been astonishingly close all along.Discover the murder, the confession that did not fit, the innocent man who lost decades, and the forensic breakthrough that finally revealed who Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. On a Friday morning in September 1994, sixty-two children walked onto a Zimbabwean playground and into the most haunting unsolved mystery of the modern age. Thirty years later, no one has been able to explain what they saw.This is that story, told in full for the first time.The Morning That Refused to EndIt was recess at the Ariel School in Ruwa, twenty kilometers from Harare. The teachers were inside at a staff meeting. For fifteen minutes, the playground belonged entirely to the young.Then a girl looked toward the trees and stopped.A silver object had settled into the long grass where no silver thing belonged. Beside it stood a small, dark figure with a head too large for its body and enormous black eyes that swallowed its face. It did not look. It stared. And the children, sixty of them, felt themselves seen.What happened in those fifteen minutes has been picked apart for thirty years, and it still cannot be explained to everyone's satisfaction. Dark Visions puts you on that bleached ground with the children, in the hard sun, in the silence that fell when the games stopped and the laughter died in their throats.The Investigation That Divided the WorldThe case drew everyone. Cynthia Hind, Africa's foremost UFO researcher, logged it as Case Number 96 and never let it go. The BBC sent a crew to capture the drawings while the memory was fresh. And then came the man who would stake his Harvard reputation on it: Dr. John Mack, a Pulitzer Prize winner whose fascination with the children of Ruwa would trigger a formal inquiry into his own career.You will sit in the room as Mack questions the children one by one. You will watch the skeptics build their case, point by careful point, and feel the ground shift beneath every certainty. You will follow the media storm, the memory wars, and the slow, strange unraveling of nearly everyone who got too close.This is not a book that tells you what to believe. It is a book that refuses to look away.Why This Case Still MattersStrange lights are the oldest, easiest reports to dismiss. They come down to one or two witnesses and a shape no one can pin to the sky.Ariel is different. Sixty children. Fifteen minutes. Broad daylight. And the same impossible detail surfacing again and again across their drawings, their interviews, and their adult lives: those black, staring eyes, remembered identically by children standing sixty feet apart.Some of them grew into adults who could not say a word about it. One, Emily Trim, spent her life painting the eyes she could not stop seeing, until something finally drew her back across an ocean to stand on the very ground where it began.Her story holds the secret at the heart of this book: the unbearable distance between the reality of an experience and the reality of its cause. You can know, beyond any doubt, that something profound happened to a person, and still not know, at all, what it was.A True Story You Will Not ForgetWritten with the patience of a detective and the pulse of a thriller, Dark Visions is investigative nonfiction at its most gripping: a real event, real witnesses, and a question that has outlasted everyone who tried to answer it. It carries you from the playground to the death of John Mack on a London street to the documentary that brought the whole case roaring back to a new generation.You will close the last page knowing the mystery cannot be solved. And you will understand, at last, why that is exactly what makes it unforgettable.The children are grown now. The drawings still exist. The eyes are still watching.Open the book. Stand at the fence. Decide for yourself. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. THE ESCAPE BEGAN WHEN THE WAR ENDEDWhen the Third Reich collapsed, the world believed justice was coming. But in the shadows of ruined Europe, another operation had already begun.In the final days of World War II, Nazi officials, SS officers, concentration camp commanders, collaborators, and war criminals knew the Allied armies were closing in. Berlin was falling. The camps were being liberated. Evidence was being uncovered. Trials were being prepared. For the men who had served Hitler's empire, the question was no longer whether Germany would survive.The question was whether they could escape.And many of them did.A HIDDEN PIPELINE OUT OF EUROPEThe Ratlines exposes one of the darkest and most disturbing escape networks of the twentieth century, a secret pipeline that carried wanted Nazi fugitives out of Europe and into new lives across South America, the Middle East, and beyond.Through monastery corridors, diplomatic offices, refugee camps, intelligence channels, and forged identity papers, men who should have faced justice instead found protection, passage, and reinvention.This is not merely the story of criminals running from the past.It is the story of the institutions, governments, priests, spies, bureaucrats, and political operators who helped make their escape possible.THE VATICAN, THE RED CROSS, AND AMERICAN INTELLIGENCEAt the center of this chilling history were three powerful forces: the Vatican, the Red Cross, and American intelligence.Some acted out of anti-communist fear. Some acted from ideological sympathy. Some believed they were saving Europe from Soviet domination. Others simply looked away. But the result was the same: a postwar underground railroad for some of the most wanted men on earth.From Rome to Genoa, from Austria to Argentina, from secret safe houses to forged travel documents, The Ratlines follows the shocking routes that allowed Nazi fugitives to vanish into the modern world.JUSTICE DELAYED. JUSTICE DENIED.This is the story of justice delayed, justice denied, and justice deliberately obstructed.Inside this gripping investigative account, readers will discover how men with blood on their hands slipped past the ruins of Nuremberg and built comfortable lives under new names.They will follow the trail of infamous fugitives who found refuge in Argentina, Syria, Egypt, Paraguay, and other destinations willing to accept them. They will see how postwar chaos created the perfect environment for disappearance, and how the growing fear of communism gave Nazi specialists, intelligence contacts, scientists, propagandists, and security men sudden value to Western powers.What happened after 1945 was not a clean moral reckoning.It was a compromise.A bargain.A shadow war fought before the Cold War had fully begun.And in that bargain, some of the worst criminals of the Nazi era were allowed to escape.THE DARK AFTERLIFE OF THE THIRD REICHThe Ratlines is written with the pace of a historical thriller and the weight of documented reality. It takes readers through bombed-out Europe, refugee camps filled with desperate survivors, clerical offices where new identities were quietly arranged, intelligence files marked by secrecy, and South American capitals where former Nazis stepped off ships and began again.The war ended in 1945.The escape began immediately after.And the consequences are still with us. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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