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Most of what we know of the life of Jesus comes to us from four Gospels in the New Testament, specifically, the Synoptic Gospels of Mark, Matthew, and Luke. These books present a more human, historical view of Jesus. The Gospel of John, much different, provides the view of a divine Jesus. These four Gospels are unique endeavors regarding Jesus' social situations, his loved ones, and his reactions to stress. In this study I looked at Jesus' behavior through the Synoptic Gospels, and analyzed Jesus' behavior against the field of criminology. My hope is that we derive more of Jesus' motivation and social situation than what one typically accepts. This is but one view, under a small ...

The Civil War is finally over, in the small town of Monterey, Virginia., people find themselves tryng to reach a normalcy in the rubble that the war left behind, but the hearts of many remain deeply affected and forever changed. Around this time, a man by the name E. D. Atchison wanders into town. No one has heard of him before, but soon everyone knows his name. Where E. D. Atchison goes, trouble seems to follow. The townfolk. wanting to protect their families from fear of the unknown in this unsable time of regrowth, take matters into their own hands. In this riveting and colorful Back To The Alleghenies sequel, Harold Crist explores the circumstnces that led a group of men i ...

How to Burn a Witch In the name of God, the Church, and/or the King and Other Ghastly Tales of Imaginary Fixations Resulting in True Terror and Un-Godly Horror or How the Roman Catholic Church and its agents, joined by European and English Kings, along with Presbyterian and Episcopalian ministers, tortured, executed, and burned 250,000 so-called witches and heretics in Europe in order to execute extortion and revenge schemes, control the people, and rid the earth of those who would challenge Papal, biblical, and/or Monarchial authority. This book is a compilation of extremely detailed historical writings on the subject of witches, heretics, and judicial torture. Compiled a ...

Since Otto Wood was seven years old, he had been in trouble with the law, and was notorious for his escapes from the law. He wrote his life history while serving a thirty-year sentence for killing a man in 1923. His hopes were that the book would help a lost soul from going down the same road as he. While, he did not take his own advice, for the last time, he again escaped prison and was killed in a shootout with the Law on December 31, 1930.

New research breathes life into the true story of the life and brutal death of Madge Oberholtzer, the young Irvington woman whose death brought down D.C. Stephenson and the Ku Klux Klan in Indiana.

For the first time, read about the most horrendous crimes carried out in the bluegrass state and how the state executed them. All the grizzly details of the true and shocking stories.

Every society has those that choose not to follow the laws set forth by the community. Regardless if their actions are based on greed, passion, or ignorance those people are punished for their actions. The way that Criminals have been punished has changed over time. From the time that Kentucky was a vast wilderness filled with renegades where justice was handled by the people and was instant to the time where statehood was achieved and the punishments were carried out by the courts. This book will take you through the process of punishments used before statehood, the implementation of a criminal justice system where Criminals were hanged in the street to illegal lynching's used during Ke ...

The history of the Carthage Police Department is not unlike that of agencies in many towns. Early Carthage policemen were not well paid, worked seven days a week and were subject to local political whims. There was no academy training - they depended on their wits and their brawn. But these brave lawmen dedicated themselves to maintaining the peace and security of their community, often at the risk of their own lives. Over time, conditions improved, with better pay and training, less political interference, improvements in equipment and technology, and a higher level of professionalism. The sense of dedication felt by our early policemen is still prevalent in our officers today. Thi ...

Dr. H.H. Holmes was originally arrested for insurance fraud. Philadelphia Detective Frank Geyer was dispatched to prove that Holmes actually murdered Pietzel and to see what he had done with three of his children. This reprint of the Detective Geyer's contemporary account details his year long search for the final victims of America's first Serial killer, Dr. H.H. Holmes. Sales of this Irvington Historical Society Edition supports the mission and program of the Irvington Historical Society.