This is the story of the crime that rocked Melbourne – in January 2009 a law-abiding, church-going father of two from Melbourne's leafy eastern suburbs didn't come home after a business trip, and his burnt remains were found in a northern suburb, the wrong side of town, a week later.
A police investigation uncovered the truth – Rockefeller had met with an alcoholic single mum and her older boyfriend for sex, and the liaison went horribly wrong. Was Rockefeller leading a double life as a swinger? How did a successful businessman worth $400 million find himself in the home of two down-and-outers?
While Rockefeller has taken some answers to his grave, Hilary Bonney pulls us right inside the world of the killers in this classic true crime, drawing on past cases to uncover the motivations of the multi-millionaire who fell from grace.
Thad Roberts, a fellow in a prestigious NASA programme had an idea - a romantic, albeit crazy, idea. He wanted to give his girlfriend the moon. Literally. Thad convinced his girlfriend and another female accomplice, both NASA interns, to break into an impenetrable laboratory at NASA's headquarters - past security checkpoints, and electronically locked door with cipher security codes and camera-lined hallways - and help him steal the most precious objects in the world: Apollo moon rocks from every moon landing in history. Was Thad Roberts - undeniably gifted, picked for one of the most competitive scientific posts imaginable - really what he seemed? And what does one do with an item so valuable that it's illegal even to own? Based on meticulous research into thousands of pages of court records, FBI transcripts and documents, and scores of interviews with the people involved, Mezrich - with his signature high-velocity swagger - has reconstructed the madcap story of genius, love, and duplicity all centred on a heist that reads like a Hollywood thrill ride.
"BiTo the reader: I am 31 years old. I was born the son of the Philadelphia Pagans' most notorious leader. I've been around some of the most hardcore Pagans; Mongo, Conan, S &S, Malicious, Cheese, Terrible Tony and Dominic. The following events happened. This is not fiction. However, some of the names and locations have been changed in the interest of privacy. I was born into madness. This is my story." A gritty memoir about the author's journey through hell ...and his ultimate escape from it. By the time he was thirteen, 'LT' Menginie had already attended thirteen funerals. Abandoned by his mother, and with his father in jail, he was raised inside the outlaw biker club and became inducted into a life of sex, violence, drugs, and dysfunction. When his father, the chapter's president, is released from jail and betrays the club by going over to the rival Hells Angels - touching off the Biker Wars in Philadelphia - the author must decide where his loyalties lie.
