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An in-depth account of an event that shocked the world: the murder of four RCMP officers near Mayerthorpe, Alberta, by a man named James Roszko. Roszko had a serious grudge against the police and had vowed to kill them the first chance he got.Through extensive research and interviews, Robert Knuckle takes us from the start of the tragedy on March 2, 2005, through the suspenseful hours as more and more RCMP members arrive at Roszko's farm, the shooting, and the aftermath: the comments of wives, parents, and friends; the trial of the accomplices; and conclusions. James Roszko left a huge wave of destruction in his wake, destroying families and sowing disillusionment.Knuckle unravels the details of all phases of the story, which is one of the most violent and complex tales in the annals of Canadian crime
Once again author Robert Knuckle combines a meticulous eye for research with a storyteller's touch to recreate an intriguing real-life drama based on one of the most interesting stories in the files of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. A wild-west gunfight and high-speed manhunt ensues when a desperate couple--called Canada's Bonnie and Clyde--are trapped inside a motel, then escape in a police cruiser.
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"When Janice Whiteman met her husband Robert at the airport she was stunned when he was tackled in front of her by plainclothes police and arrested for armed robbery. Since the day they met, Robert had been leading a double life; husband and father at home, spectacularly successful armed robber on the road. In a spree lasting thirty-three months, in cities, large and small from Vancouver to Halifax, he committed fifty-nine robberies, sometimes two in one day, for a combined take of over two million dollars. This is the extraordinary true story of the most daring criminal in the nation's history: Canada's Flying Bandit."--
Since 1977, people have asked Jane Hall over and over what it was like to have been among the first few female members in the RCMP, and, like so many of her peers, she has avoided answering the question. How could one sentence do the question justice? Finally, after years of thoughtful contemplation, she has borrowed a phrase from the father of one of the original members of the North West Mounted Police--Sub-Inspector Francis Dickens : "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." But the reason for avoiding the answer, like the question itself, was a little more complex than simply not having the correct words. To truly tell the complete story, some of the bad as well as the good ...
The Mountie may be one of Canada's best-known national symbols, yet much of the post-nineteenth century history of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police remains unexamined, particularly the period between 1914 and 1939, when the RCMP underwent enormous transformation. The nature of this transformation as it took place in Alberta and Saskatchewan - where the Mounties have traditionally dominated policing - is the focus of Steve Hewitt's Riding to the Rescue. During the 1914-to-1939 period, the nineteenth-century model of the RCMP was evolving into a twentieth-century version, and the institution that emerged responded to a nation that was being transformed as well. Forces such as industrializatio...
She collides with her past; he lets go of his present...will it be enough for a future together? Four years after losing her husband, Elizabeth Farefield's mother-in-law still blames her for his death. Finding it difficult to move forward, she takes a Caribbean cruise to contemplate her future...bumping into the past. Divorced for five years, Robert Burnhamwood is happy with his playboy ways until on a cruise, a chance meeting has him longing for something he hasn't wanted since his first marriage...a monogamous relationship filled with love. But when Robert's youngest daughter retaliates against his new relationship, his oldest daughter takes up with a man against his wishes, and a rapist terrorizes her neighborhood putting his daughter at risk, a peaceful future with new found love may be beyond Elizabeth's grasp.
America has no official royalty by design. Yet there have been the Roosevelts, the Adams, the Bushes, the wanabee Clintons and most intriguing of all -- the Kennedys. The Kennedys have so far only reached the presidency once but the assassination of JFK and his brother Robert, and the trials and tribulations of the family members and society in general continue to fascinate the world. This new book presents more than 1200 citations of books and related materials arranged by family member. The accompanying CD-ROM offers ready access and easy searching.
Former Rolling Stone editor Stayton Bonner tells the true story of of Bobby Gunn, the 73-0 undisputed champion of bare-knuckle boxing. Bonner travels the underground for years with Gunn, shining a light on a secret circuit that's never before been revealed.