In this true-crime story, Dirty Harry lifts the lid on one of most corrupt regimes in the less-than-stellar history of the Los Angeles Police Department.
When you read a crime story online, the advertisement blinking alongside the text is often an offer of private protection for you and your family against secuestro kidnapping.
And the biggest American crime story of all receives the least mention: that we now incarcerate more of our own people than any other country on earth, or in human history, and that minority males are disproportionately policed, arrested and convicted, and sentenced to harsher sentences.
Since the thieves (who dressed as police) have not been identified, and since every crime story needs a villain, Stolen substitutes a hero with a would-be hero--the crime's investigator, Harold Smith , a respected insurance investigator of 78, disfigured by skin cancer, who has made recovering the Gardner pictures the mission of his retirement.
And the story of guilt the crime of that mother, the guilt of a writer who uses that story in her own, and the fallen judge became wrapped up together in my mind and my work.
When the eyewitnesses, perpetrators and victims are all dead, the real story of a crime dies too.
L.A. Noire is a crime thriller that is the story of Cole Phelps, a decorated World War II veteran and newly-minted detective in the LAPD.
Trying to reconstruct the story of every crime committed by paramilitary fighters, seizing their assets to offer as compensation to their victims, and finding the whereabouts of more than 27, 000 people who disappeared is a daunting task.
After the RJ Ellory story, Northern Ireland crime writer Neville said it was time to speak out about his own experience.
"The tragedy of this crime is that it's a story of betrayal, " Judge Cleland said before handing down the sentence in Centre County Court.
Consider the fact that a mass audience of media consumers is now devouring a story about an alleged sex crime committed by someone most of them never heard of.
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And taking a more complex, dynamic look at crime can provide writers with much more interesting story arcs.
It was a story worthy of magazine articles, true crime books and TV movies.
There's outrage not just because of the crime, but some people are wondering why this story didn't get a lot of national attention.
The Wee Man, starring Martin Compston, tells the story of how Ferris entered Glasgow's crime underworld, working his way up the ranks as an associate of Arthur "The Godfather" Thompson Sr.
Another summer hybrid: a double-barrelled post-adolescent dudefest spliced to a macabre crime thriller that resembles, in many details, a true story from 2003.
Even if her story was true, her punishment would be a political crime which she will be sent to the prison, most likely.
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While each of these crime stories is worthy of news coverage -- especially the Cleveland story, which involved serious questions of alleged law enforcement lapses -- many others are equally worthy yet receive little or no attention, even as every detail of the high-profile stories is pored over and rehashed.
As for Vakhaev, he reportedly kept changing his story to investigators about whether he was at or near the crime scene.
His first album, True Story, released in 1993, graphically depicted life in a crime-ridden, racist New Orleans where schools were like prisons.
Their convenience store, the Green Ale Market, a nondescript one-story cinderblock building just east of downtown Syracuse, is located in a crime-ridden neighborhood.
The story is structured as a mystery, as the film begins at the crime scene and flashes back and forth to explain the strange, disturbing events that led up to it.
It is the story of a girl who condemns a young friend of the family for a crime he did not commit.
Central to the film (and Philip K. Dick's original story) is the idea of Precrime -- the ability to foresee a crime and prevent it from happening.
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If a friend gets mugged in a foreign country, that story is more likely to affect how safe you feel in that country than abstract crime statistics.
"The sole focus of this story should be the investigation as to whether a young girl was the victim of a very serious crime, " she said Tuesday through spokesman Gary Rosen.
Nor does the story of the Dutch Islamist, Mr Bouyeri, suggest any easy correlation between suffering and the impulse to crime.
The most dramatic part of the story unfolded over the last dozen years, as the caviar cartel collapsed and poachers, entrepreneurs and organized crime rushed in to fill the void.
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