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The first edition of Greentown helped reopen one of America's most shameful unsolved murder cases, the savage slaying of 15-year-old Martha Moxley in an exclusive enclave of Greenwich, Connecticut, the night before Halloween 1975. Soon after Martha's body was discovered, attention focused on members of the Skakel family, who lived across the street from the Moxleys. Ethel Skakel and Robert Kennedy had married in Greenwich, and the two families were close.

It started with a college course assignment, then escalated into a dangerous obsession. Eighteen-year-old honor student Jason Moss wrote to men whose body counts had made criminal history: men named Dahmer, Manson, Ramirez, and Gacy. Posing as their ideal victim, Jason seduced them with his words. One by one they wrote him back, showering him with their madness and violent fantasies. Then the game spun out of control. John Wayne Gacy revealed all to Jason - and invited his pen pal to visit him in prison.... It was an offer Jason couldn't turn down. Even if it made him....

From bestselling author Ann Rule comes the engrossing true story of two beautiful, loving women, and their murder by the man in their life—handsome, charming, rich, a man marked for unlimited success—but one who would never allow any woman to leave him, no matter what the provocation. Jenn...

For weeks, the body count of sexually violated, brutally murdered young women escalated. With increasing alarm, Los Angeles newspapers headlined the deeds of a serial killer they named the Hillside Strangler. The city was held hostage by fear. Darcy O'Brien weds the narrative skill of an award-winning novelist with the detailed observations of an experienced investigator to unravel this chilling true-crime story. 

This program includes an introduction read by the author. “Mikita Brottman is one of today’s finest practitioners of nonfiction.” —The New York Times Book Review Critically acclaimed author and psychoanalyst Mikita Brottman offers literary true crime writing at its best, taking us into...

The gripping inside story of Nathan Carman’s crimes from the maritime lawyer who solved his multimillionaire mother’s disappearance at sea and his even wealthier grandfather’s shooting death in bed.

In 1955, following the devastation of the Korean War, Bertha and Harry Holt made headlines for adopting eight Korean children. Driven by evangelical convictions and emboldened by a special act of Congress, the couple founded the Holt Adoption Program, which would facilitate the migration of tens...

Was geht in einem Menschen vor, der über Jahre hinweg ungestört morden kann – mitten in einer Stadt, in der niemand genau hinschaut? Jeffrey Dahmer ist die erschütternde Geschichte eines Mannes, dessen Taten die Welt schockierten, dessen Leben aber auch Fragen aufwirft: über Einsamkeit, psychische Abgründe und ein System, das Warnsignale ignorierte.

What if the most dangerous part of a serial killer's story happened long before the first victim? Blueprint of a Killer does not sensationalize bloodshed or linger on gore. Instead, it asks the uncomfortable question most true crime books avoid: how did this start? What was happening before the headlines, body counts, and documentaries?

It's the 1920s. It's the beginning of the jazz age in Bridgeport Connecticut. A horrible and tragic murder has taken place. A murder that was front page news nationwide. As quickly as the murder of George Nott appeared in newspapers it vanished due to the privacy request of the families involved in the murder. This book tells the story of how Mrs. Nott escaped the gallows by sheer luck and having a somewhat feeble judge who was not interested in hanging a woman regardless of the facts.

The Butcher of Aberdeen explores the chilling true crime story of Katherine Knight, delving into a life shaped by childhood trauma, violent relationships, and a relentless descent into madness. A mother living in a small country town stabs her partner to death thirty-seven times before...

Ci sono fatti di cronaca destinati a rimanere per sempre nell'immaginario collettivo, storie capaci di dividere l'opinione pubblica e toccare corde insospettate. Il caso Garlasco è uno di questi: un delitto che ha segnato il Paese, una storia giudiziaria solo apparentemente conclusa e che oggi torna con nuovi interrogativi e nuove ombre. Per anni l'unico indagato è Alberto Stasi, compagno della vittima, il «biondino dagli occhi di ghiaccio». Viene condannato a sedici anni di carcere, eppure manca il movente, le testimonianze vanno in un'altra direzione, il suo alibi viene accertato.

Bringing together ground-breaking forensic discoveries – including vital DNA evidence – and gripping historical detective work, Naming Jack the Ripper constructs the first truly convincing case for identifying the world's most notorious serial killer. In 2007, Russell Edwards, fuelled by...

In 1953, the bodies of three young women are found by a tenant in the walls of a Notting Hill house. He tells the police that he chanced upon them while trying to put up a shelf for his transistor radio. As a series of further horrors are discovered, the eyes of a nation turn to 10 Rillington Place. In this riveting tale of violence, misogyny and tabloid frenzy, Kate Summerscale lifts the veil on what really happened inside the house - and suggests a new solution to one of the twentieth century's most notorious crimes.

Ed Gein stammt aus dem ländlichen Wisconsin, aus einer Welt der Felder, der Stille und der strengen moralischen Ordnung. Nach außen wirkt sein Leben unscheinbar: ein zurückgezogener Mann, bekannt im Ort, höflich, unauffällig. Doch hinter dieser Oberfläche verbirgt sich eine Biografie, die von Isolation, religiösem Fanatismus und emotionaler Abhängigkeit geprägt ist.

THE MULTIMILLION-COPY BESTSELLING QUEEN OF CLASSIC CRIME, DOROTHY L SAYERS 'Dorothy L. Sayers is one of our best detective story writers' Daily Telegraph 'One of crime fiction's most memorable detectives' The New York Times 'She brought to the detective novel originality, intelligence, energy...

Game Warden Art Teed vanished on a smoke-choked August day in 1934, last seen pursuing wildlife thieves in the backwoods of Idaho. What followed was the largest manhunt in the state’s history–more than a thousand men scouring mountains, forests, and rivers for answers that never came. His wife and two sons lived out their lives haunted by a single question: Did he die in the line of duty, or did he choose to disappear? Nearly ninety years later, one unexpected phone call shattered the silence–and reopened a mystery everyone thought was buried–Idaho’s oldest cold murder case.

At 10 o'clock on the evening of 4th February 1929, the small clifftop bungalow colony of Limeslade was awoken by a woman's screams. People came out onto their terraces in the bitter night and stood in silence to listen to the terror they heard in her voice...

From Whitewash, the first critical book on the Warren Report, through numerous Freedom of Information (FOIA) lawsuits, to Never Again!, his last published work, Harold Weisberg worked tirelessly to lift the veil of secrecy and deceit from the investigation of the assassination of President Kennedy. Based on the government’s own evidence, he demonstrated beyond question that the accused assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, did not kill President Kennedy. In his final years, Weisberg focused on making a record for history, producing over two dozen unpublished manuscripts on the subject.

Elmendorf, Texas, Ende der 1930er Jahre: In der staubigen Hitze des Südens betreibt Joe Ball seine Bar, The Sociable Inn. Bekannt für seine wilden Partys und die Faszination, die seine lebenden Alligatoren auf die Gäste ausüben, genießt Ball das Leben in vollen Zügen. Doch hinter der Fassade des charismatischen Gastwirts verbirgt sich ein dunkles Geheimnis – Frauen verschwinden spurlos, und in den trüben Wassern seines Alligatorpools lauert die tödliche Wahrheit.