MIKE MURDOCK QUICK FACTS ABOUT SAFE ROBBERY: Murdock claimed to once keep a coin and jewelry collections valued at least $125,000. He reported this information to the Denton County Sheriff's Department after a theft / safe robbery. Following the robbery, Murdock reported to audiences, private individuals and possibly an insurance company that he had lost millions and needed "desperate help" to replace it. Sheriff's spokesman Kevin Patton said investigators dropped the case because Murdock would not list exactly what had been stolen. - Information based on the investigative report from the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram

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Thieves is the true story (nonfiction narrative) about the safe robbery of the multi-millionaire television evangelist, Mike Murdock. Witnessing first-hand some of the most shockingly depraved acts and blatant corruption in the secretive world of "profit-preaching" Christianity; Trey takes you on the journey through his decisions, planning and ultimate execution of stealing the well-known minister's tightly guarded safe. After the robbery, it is a gripping thrill ride of the most engagingly unique kind: A man on the run from a TV preacher.

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Accounts of true crime have always been enormously popular among readers. The subgenre would seem to appeal to the highly educated as well as the barely educated, to women and men equally. The most famous chronicler of true crime trials in English history is the amateur criminologist William Roughead, a Scots lawyer who between 1889 and 1949 attended every murder trial of significance held in the High Court of Justiciary in Edinburgh, and wrote of them in essays published first in such journals as The Juridical Review and subsequently collected in best-selling books with such titles as Malice Domestic, The Evil That Men Do, What Is Your Verdict? True Crime has progressed / evolved however to now include works of amazement far beyond such humble beginnings, on top of the list of such works may easily be Trey Smith's Thieves. ----Redman Review Article

----- My favorite Thieves book review so far ----"It actually put my wife into labor! (I was) reading the book to her between her contractions." After 24-hours of labor, Duffy's wife gave birth to an 8lb 7oz baby boy. While his wife was in recovery, he said that he read aloud to her and that those from ajoining medical rooms asked if they also could sit in and listen....." click here for this article -- I (Trey Smith) actually had the honor to hand this man Duffy a signed copy of the book and see the baby that was born while he read his wife my book Thieves.

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Amazon books Trey Smith in true crime - Trey Smith is the author of the true crime / true story, Thieves: One dirty TV pastor and the man who robbed him. Thieves is exactly that --- It is the true story of the "TV Pastor safe robbery." Trey Smith takes you on an emotional, gritty and fast-paced 340 page ride through all the events that led up to the safe robbery, everything that came after the safe robbery, running from a TV Pastor in Mexico and the moments of the safe robbery itself. The most common review is that the book is impossible to put down. There is no doubt that it is one of the most unusual and gripping tales on the planet earth. -- Megan