PrefaceFIG 1 Figure P.1 Rescue personnel speed one of the victims of Brian Nichols’ March, 2005 shooting spree into an ambulance waiting outside of the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta, Georgia.

PrefaceFIG 2 Figure P.2 Ashley Smith’s coauthored memoir was published in 2005, the same year as her ordeal with Brian Nichols. In it, Smith admits for the first time details about her methamphetamine addiction and how she shared her drug stash with her captor.

PrefaceFIG 3 Figure P.3 One of several FEMA debit card designs. Approximately 11,400 were distributed in Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio to those who claimed to be displaced victims of hurricane Katrina.

PrefaceFIG 4 Caption: A tearful Tanja Morin is lead away by police. She plead guilty to kidnapping, child endangering, and felonious assault charges in The dumpster where she placed her child, pictured, was in a gravel parking area less than a block from her home.