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Ms. Rentschler/Ms. Despines/Ms. Erwin
Spring 2012 Forensics
Unsolved Crimes Pathfinder
The following books have been pulled for you and are on a cart:
Guide to American Law
Great American Trials
The Gamblers
The Wild West
The Politics of Assassination
Assassinations
Anatomy of an Assassination
The Century of the Detective
Famous Trials
Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice
The Forensic Science of C.S.I.
Forensic Anthropology
Police Lab
Forensic Science
Crime Science
Solving Crimes
Forensic Science
The Forensic Casebook
Fingerprints
Threads of Evidence
Hidden Evidence
Crime Scene
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The following databases will be helpful to you:
Points of View
From home and from school:
From USCHS website, click on “Academics” and scroll down to “Student Links”
Click on “Points of View”
Username: uschs
Password: panther
Keyword search: [last name, first name of criminal]
Discovering Collection
From home and from school:
From USCHS website, click on“Academics” and scroll down to “Student Links”
Click on “Gale’s Discovering Collection”
Username: uschs [at home]
Password: panther [in school]
Keyword search: “trials” or “criminals” or last name of your criminal
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EBSCOhost History Resource Center
From home and from school:
From USCHS website, click on “Academics” and scroll down to “Student Links”
Click on “History Reference Center”
Username: uschs
Password: panther
Keyword search: Criminals, or specific name of your criminal
POWERLibrary OmniFile Mega or Select
From school:
From USCHS website, click on “Academics” and scroll down to “Student Links”
Click on “POWERLibrary” then “OmniFile Mega” and “Full Text”
Keyword search: specific name of your criminal
From home:
YOU NEED AN ALLEGHENY COUNTY LIBRARY CARD
Go to the USC Township library website:
www.twpusc.org/library/index.html
Click “Online Databases then POWERLibrary
World Book Online Reference Center
From home and from school:
From USCHS website, click on “Academics” and scroll down to “Student Links”
Click on “World Book Online Reference Center”
Username: uschs
Password: panther
Keyword search: “crime,” “cults” or specific name of your criminal
The following web sites will also be helpful to you and are available on www.google.com”
CNN Crime
www.cnn.com/CRIME/archive/index.html
Keyword search
Crime Library: crime stories on serial killers, the mafia ...
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/index.html
Excellent site –search your criminal for articles
Serial Killers
http://www.crimezzz.net/
A good site for serial killer information
Notorious Crimes and Criminals in History
crime.about.com/.../history/Notorious_Crimes_and_Criminals_in_History.htm
Crimes, Criminals, and Disasters - Trivia-Library.com
http://www.trivia-library.com/crimes-criminals-disasters.htm
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Encyclopaedia of USA History: Crime and Criminals 1860-1970
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAcrime.htm - 25k
Good site for criminal information
FBI’s Famous Cases
www.fbi.gov/about-us/history/famous-cases
Famous Criminals
crime.about.com/cs/famouscriminals/ - 16k
Crimes and Criminals, from ancient times to the most recently ...
crime.about.com/od/pastcrimesandcriminals/ - 20k –
[ More results from crime.about.com ]
Jon Benet Ramsey
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25608543/
Jon Benet Ramsey
jonbenetramsey.pbworks.com/
JonBenet Ramsey Murder, an investigative analysis — Exposure ...
www.trutv.com › NOTORIOUS MURDERS › MOST FAMOUS
JFK Assassination
November 22, 1963: Death of the President - John F. Kennedy ...
www.jfklibrary.org › JFK › JFK in History
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JFK Assassination Media
www.maryferrell.org/wiki/index.php/JFK_Assassination
Kurt Cobain
www.justiceforkurt.com/ More questions in Kurt Cobain death? - Dateline NBC - Newsmakers ...
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4645881/ns/dateline_nbc-newsmakers
Dr. Sam Sheppard
The Dr. Sam Sheppard Trials (1954 trial and 1966 retrial)
law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/.../sheppard/samsheppardtrial.html
Sam Sheppard Biography from Who2.comSam Sheppard was a young, successful
www.who2.com/samsheppard.html
Black Dahlia
blackdahliasolution.org/
The Black Dahlia
The Black Dahlia Web Site: The Life and Death of Elizabeth ShortSep 15, 2006 ...
www.bethshort.com/dahhome.htm -
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Zodiac Killer
The Zodiac Killer - The Unsolved Case of the Zodiac Killer
crime.about.com/od/history/a/zodiackiller.htm
Woman Claims Her Father Was Zodiac Killer - News Story - KTVU San ...Apr 29, 2009
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/notorious/zodiac/river_1.html
Jimmy Hoffa
The Disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa
www.trutv.com › ... › MOST FAMOUS –
Theory: The Mafia
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKSinvestigation.htm
Tupac Shakur
The Murders of gangsta rappers Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. ...
www.trutv.com › ... › CELEBRITY CRIMES
Tupac's Murder
www.angelfire.com/hiphop2/lifeanddeathof2pac/death.html Martin Luther King
http://www.npr.org/2010/04/28/126220703/hellhound-trails-king-assassin-james-earl-ray
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr
http://history1900s.about.com/cs/martinlutherking/a/mlkassass.htm
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr - 20th Century History - About ...
history1900s.about.com/cs/martinlutherking/a/mlkassass.htm
Natalie Holloway
Natalee Holloway Snorted Coke, Fell to Death, Suspect Says
http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/latest-confession-natalee-holloway-suspect/story?id=9954650
Natalie Holloway
New Search for Natalee Holloway's Body as Joran van der Sloot Questioned in Peru Murder?
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20006938-504083.html
NOTORIOUS B.I.G.
Notorious B.I.G.Died: 9-Mar-1997.
www.nndb.com/people/547/000024475/
Notorious B.I.G. Informant Recants
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/06/03/entertainment/main699564.shtml?tag=mncol;lst;1
Jack the Ripper
Casebook: Jack the Ripper
www.casebook.org/ -
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HowStuffWorks "How Jack the Ripper Worked"
history.howstuffworks.com › ...
Marilyn Monroe
Death of Marilyn Monroe Was it Murder or Suicide
modern-us-history.suite101.com/.../the_death_of_marilyn_monroe –
HowStuffWorks "Marilyn Monroe\'s Death"
http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/marilyn-monroe-final-years7.htm
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe Mystery
www.umm.edu/news/releases/news-releases-17.htm The Murder of Edgar Allan Poe — Natural Causes — Crime Library on ...
www.trutv.com › ... › CELEBRITY CRIMES
Be sure to ask a library staff member for help if you need it.