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Richard Ramirez (February 29, 1960 - June 7, 2013) was an American serial killer, sex offender and burglar whose killing spree occurred in Greater Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area in the state of California. From April 1984 to August 1985, Ramirez murdered at least fifteen people during various break-ins, with his crimes usually taking place after dark, leading to him being dubbed the Night Stalker, the Walk-In Killer, and the Valley Intruder.

Durante as mais de duas décadas em que atuou no FBI, o agente especial John Douglas tornou-se uma figura lendária. Em uma época em que a expressão "serial killer" nem existia, Douglas foi um oficial exemplar na aplicação da lei e na perseguição aos mais conhecidos e sádicos homicidas de nosso tempo. Como Jack Crawford em O Silêncio dos Inocentes, Douglas confrontou, entrevistou e estudou dezenas de serial killers e assassinos, incluindo Charles Manson, Ted Bundy e Ed Gein.

True Crime aus zwei Jahrzehnten. 26 schockierende True Crime-Fälle in einem 2 in 1-Sammelband.

The untold story of one of America's most notorious serial killings and the remarkable drag queen whose boots-on-the-ground detective work revealed the dark underbelly of Houston's gay elite. In 2014, journalist Diana Tourjee came upon a dusty, typewritten manuscript. She had been archiving the...

My monster isn't locked away anymore. He's free. And he's mine. Every wall I once built between us has been demolished, replaced by Ghost's merciless obsession. He isn't my convicted patient anymore. He's my shadow, my captor, and my addiction. Except it's not my fear he wants anymore. It's my...

The ultimate rags to riches story, rising to become an international kingpin earning more money annullay than Chrysler or GM. This unassuming family man with fantastic Southern charm who came from humble beginnings, would build his empire with an iron fist and brute force if needed. While some...

How does a man shake the hand of the First Lady of the United States in May, then drive home and bury a teenage boy under his linen cupboard before midnight? How does a Polish picnic organiser, a precinct captain, a children's hospital clown, run twenty seven young men into the dirt beneath his own kitchen floor across six straight years on a quiet suburban street, while his neighbours bring round Christmas hampers and the postman calls him by his first name?

Er war attraktiv, eloquent und politisch ambitioniert. Er engagierte sich ehrenamtlich bei einer Telefonseelsorge zur Suizidprävention, studierte Jura und hatte eine Freundin, die ihn vergötterte. Er ermordete außerdem mindestens dreißig Frauen in sieben US-Bundesstaaten und kehrte immer wieder zu ihren Überresten zurück, lange nachdem sie tot waren.

Theodore John Kaczynski (May 22, 1942 to June 10, 2023), also known as the Unabomber, was an American mathematician, serial killer, and domestic terrorist. A mathematics prodigy, he abandoned his academic career in 1969 to pursue a reclusive primitive lifestyle and lone wolf terrorism campaign. Kaczynski murdered three people and injured 23 others between 1978 and 1995 in a nationwide mail bombing campaign against people he believed to be advancing modern technology and the destruction of the natural environment.

“Haunting and heartfelt...meticulously recounted with powerful suspense and hard-earned wisdom.” —Robert Kolker, author of Hidden Valley Road A propulsive and “deeply human” (The Minnesota Star Tribune) memoir about a brother’s decades-long investigation into the circumstances...

A superb collection of true-crime stories—written by Texas Monthly’s legendary feature writer Skip Hollandsworth—that reminds us why America is perennially obsessed with the genre. Skip Hollandsworth has been covering true crime since long before the podcasts, networks, and television...

Eines Nachts im Dezember 1972 wird Jean McConville aus ihrem Haus in Belfast entführt. Sie wird nie wieder lebend gesehen. Ausgehend von diesem Moment entfaltet Patrick Radden Keefe eine gewaltige Erzählung über die blutige Vergangenheit des Nordirlandkonflikts.

En sen decembereftermiddag 1939 rövas tioåriga Gerd bort i centrala Stockholm. Alla svenskar sitter vid sina radioapparater och hör efterlysningen och läser senare om det fasansfulla fyndet av hennes skändade kropp. Slaget mot det trygga folkhemmet Sverige är hårt och tidningsskriverierna om händelsen övertrumfar krigs­rubrikerna. Det dånar i folkdjupet. Polisen måste hitta mördaren. Vittnen kan berätta om en mörkhårig man och en svart bil.

Some of them hid behind a name that wasn't theirs. Others hid behind a uniform, a reputation, a famous last name, or a job so ordinary no one thought to look twice. The twelve cases in this volume share one unsettling thread: the distance between who these people appeared to be and what they did when they were certain no one was watching. A few held that distance open for years. Some held it for decades. One died before anyone ever closed it.

Dansk Kriminalreportage indeholder en lang række spændende autentiske sager, som er skrevet af de politifolk, der var med i opklaringsarbejdet.

We tell ourselves we would know. That a killer would carry some visible mark, and that the people we trust could never be capable of the unthinkable. But the most chilling crimes are committed by the husband across the breakfast table, the coworker closing the shop, the polished stranger who remembers your children's names. This collection moves through quiet suburbs, small towns, and faraway cities to reconstruct thirty-six cases where evil wore an ordinary face.

Er tötete zwei Menschen. Nur zwei. Und dennoch hat der Name Ed Gein Serienmörder überdauert, die Dutzende Opfer auf dem Gewissen hatten. Er inspirierte Psycho, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre und Das Schweigen der Lämmer. Er veränderte die Art, wie Amerika über das Grauen denkt. Nicht wegen dessen, was er tat, sondern wegen dessen, was er war. Dies ist keine weitere Biografie. Sie werden hier keine trockene Chronologie aus Daten und Gerichtsprotokollen finden.

'Eatwell writes brilliantly . . . [she] has finally offered [Elizabeth] Short a type of belated justice. Her book reads like a thriller' Sunday Times 'A compelling read, in both style and substance . . . A must-read for anyone with an interest in the Black Dahlia - or indeed any fan of the...

A girl uses her wits to survive a maniacal killer who wipes out her family. A woman is condemned for the "final betrayal of motherhood" for killing her children. A grieving mother becomes convinced that the man convicted of murdering her beautiful teenage daughter is innocent.

Between 1993 and 1998, eight women went missing from an area around Dublin that became known as the ‘Vanishing Triangle’. Was there a link? Speculation abounded. There were whispers of a serial killer, responsible for some, if not all, of these cases. But nobody was ever brought to justice. Twenty years later, the brutal murder of Jastine Valdez disturbs crime novelist Claire McGowan into action.