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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...

Standing at the towering height of 6 ft 9 in, Ed Kemper could make for an intimidating figure. He meticulously planned out his crimes, and for years went undetected. This is the story of the so-called 'Co-Ed Killer', whose brutal murders shocked America. Over the course of a decade, he killed ten victims, including several young female students as well as his own mother. Offering rides to unsuspecting hitchhikers, he took them back to his place, raped them and then dismembered the bodies.

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.

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 In his final years, Weisberg focused on making a record for history, producing over two dozen unpublished manuscripts on the subject.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.

A deathly funny, unputdownable murder mystery filled with delicious twists and devious suspects - perfect for fans of KNIVES OUT! 'Highly original and relentlessly funny!' M. W. CRAVEN 'Dark, dazzling and deliciously twisty' JAMIE WEST A shocking murder. A ship full of suspects. On a luxury...

At once a cold case investigation and self-help memoir, The Trauma Monster follows retired trauma therapist Barb Dorrington as she investigates the unsolved 1968 murder of her childhood friend, Scott Leishman. She meets many survivors during her search for clues. Their stories of abduction, sexual assault, and home invasion are terrifying, but they also serve as catharsis for those who have kept their stories secret for far too long.

An Aussie father’s relentless quest of justice after his daughter’s mysterious death in Mozambique exposes a web of silence, failure, and enduring love. When 20-year-old Elly Warren was found dead in a coastal village in Mozambique, her devastated father, Paul Warren, was thrust into a...

In February 1890, in a remote swamp in rural southwestern Ontario, two woodsmen discovered the frozen body of a well-dressed young stranger killed by two bullets to the back of the head. Before long, police laid a murder charge on Reginald Birchall, a handsome young gentleman from London just arrived in Canada to conduct an emigration scam. Although accused of the cold-blooded murder, Birchall charmed everyone he met and delighted in the attention lavished by the press of Canada, the United States, and Britain.

La vicenda del Mostro di Firenze costituisce la più lunga inchiesta giudiziaria del nostro Paese: una serie di duplici delitti dal 1968 al 1985, una sentenza finale che lascia casi irrisolti e non convince nemmeno gli stessi magistrati. La prima parte è dedicata al racconto delle circostanze di tutti gli otto duplici omicidi del Mostro di Firenze, e alla ricostruzione, quasi sempre controversa, della loro dinamica. La seconda parte è un excursus nella ramificata gamma di teorie, con i loro pro e i loro contro, sull'identità del (o dei) "serial killer delle coppiette".

Trust is the deadliest weapon. The killers in this book weren't strangers. They were husbands and wives, neighbors with friendly dogs, family members who sat across the dinner table. They spent years building the relationships they would eventually destroy. From suburban homes to isolated citrus groves, these twelve cases reveal what happens when ordinary people decide that the lives around them are simply obstacles to be removed.

A Russian predator who bound victims with homemade garrotes while police struggled to connect the dots across jurisdictions. A midnight attack on teenage campers in a Finnish forest—three dead, one survivor, zero arrests. An Ohio butcher so surgically precise that even legendary lawman Eliot Ness couldn't stop them. A 450-mile Canadian highway where dozens vanished while authorities looked the other way. A Nigerian forest where urban legend became horrifying reality.

A society wife shoots her husband on a crowded street, shouting 'I did it!' Then she pleads Not Guilty. The courtroom becomes a battleground as two of Melbourne's fiercest legal minds face off: the principled prosecutor who plays for justice, and the flamboyant showman who plays to the crowd. Newspapers howl. The city takes sides. And at the centre stands Mrs Kathleen Fraser: volatile, defiant, and impossible to ignore.

In True Crime: The 90's, author Alexander Dragone strips away the nostalgia to expose 13 shocking true crime cases that shattered the world's sense of security.

Buckle up and prepare to dive into the adrenaline-charged world of an extraordinary FBI agent whose career redefined the battle against crime. This gripping narrative takes you behind the badge and into the heart of covert operations where split-second decisions and high-stakes missions determined the fate of hundreds.

On October 7, 1964, Debra Miller's life turns upside down when her mother is arrested for the murder of her father. At only 14 years old, Debra becomes a ward of the court, grappling with the unfathomable trauma of watching her mother's trial and conviction—a devastation that is only amplified when her family's tragedy is splashed across headlines and featured in Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem. Desperate to escape the notoriety of her family and ill equipped to face the world, Debra spends her young adulthood sinking into mental illness, toxic relationships, and substance abuse.

The unbelievable account of life as a hitman from a man who has been doing it for decades. Hitmen commit heinous crimes virtually every day of the week and, in most instances, we don't even realise. I've been a killer for hire for more than twenty years now, but life as a fulltime professional...

New York Times bestselling author Ann Rule brings several riveting accounts of seemingly normal men and women who are compelled by a murderous rage to suddenly lash out in this installment of her Crime Files. Ann Rule dives into one of Seattle’s most infamous crimes: a city bus ride that...

A brand new thriller from the internationally bestselling author of A QUIET BELIEF IN ANGELS **** Rookie police officer Rachel Hoffman has never seen a dead body before. It will not be her last. Her first murder case is a young woman - sent off to sleep with a mysterious note that quotes from an...