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The buying and selling of human beings for the worldwide sex industry is organized crime’s fastest-growing business with up to two million people globally—mostly women and children—being trafficked into the sex trade every year. 

Covers the highlights of 26 years in the career of Judge Glen McDonald, who was the colorful and often controversial Vancouver Coroner from 1954 to 1980 and supervisory coroner for the province of British Columbia from 1969 to 1980.

As a reporter for a weekly newspaper on Nova Scotia’s South Shore, Vernon Oickle became increasingly aware of the expansion of the drug trade in the region. His research into the situation produced Busted! Nova Scotia’s War on Drugs, a mixture of investigative journalism and case histories of local people who have become involved with drugs and drug trafficking.

Based on new interviews, this revealing account of one of the most notorious criminals in American history puts Manson in the context of his times, the turbulent end of the 60s, revealing a rock star wannabe whose killings were directly related to his musical ambitions. After more than forty years, Charles Manson continues to mystify and fascinate us. Manson and members of his mostly female commune killed nine people, including pregnant actress Sharon Tate.

The last woman executed in this country went to the gallows despite severe doubts about what part she played in the murder of 73-year-old SP bookmaker Pop Kent at Carlton in 1949. The meticulous detail of this book shatters assumptions surrounding one of the century's most legally contentious cases.