Titres dans Police scientifique

In Chase Darkness with Me, you’ll ride shotgun as journalist Billy Jensen identifies the Halloween Mask Murderer, finds a missing girl in the California Redwoods, and investigates the only other murder in New York City on 9/11. You’ll hear intimate details of the hunts for two of the most terrifying serial killers in history: his friend Michelle’s pursuit of the Golden State Killer which is chronicled in I’ll Be Gone In The Dark which Billy helped finish after Michelle’s passing, and his own quest to find the murderer of the Allenstown 4 family.

A “remarkably candid and sensitive” (The Wall Street Journal) true crime memoir from Barbara Butcher, a trailblazing New York City death investigator, who reveals the untold stories behind more than 5,500 death scenes, including the nation’s most horrific tragedy: the 9/11 attacks. When...

In his 26 years in the field, Richard Taylor has worked on well over a hundred murder cases, with victims and perpetrators from all walks of life. In this fascinating memoir, Taylor draws on some of the most tragic, horrific and illuminating of these cases - as well as dark secrets from his own family's past - to explore some of the questions he grapples with every day: why do people kill? Does committing a monstrous act make someone a monster? Could any of us, in the wrong circumstances, become a killer?

Agatha Christie revelled in the use of poison to kill off unfortunate victims in her books; indeed, she employed it more than any other murder method, with the poison itself often being a central part of the novel. Her choice of deadly substances was far from random—the characteristics of each often provide vital clues to the discovery of the murderer. Christie's extensive chemical knowledge provides the backdrop for A Is for Arsenic, in which Kathryn Harkup investigates the poisons used by the murderer in fourteen classic Agatha Christie mysteries.

When Stieg Larsson died, the author of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo had been working on a true mystery that out-twisted his Millennium novels: the assassination on February 28, 1986, of Olof Palme, the Swedish prime minister. It was the first time in history that a head of state had been murdered without a clue who’d done it—and on a Stockholm street at point-blank range. Internationally known for his fictional far-right villains, Larsson was well acquainted with their real-life counterparts and documented extremist activities throughout the world.

This program is read by the author. From the detective who found the Golden State Killer, a memoir of investigating America’s toughest cold cases and the rewards–and toll–of a life solving crime. I order another bourbon, neat. This is the drink that will flip the switch. I don’t even...

New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice An anthropologist working with forensic teams and victims’ families to investigate crimes against humanity in Latin America explores what science can tell us about the lives of the dead in this haunting account of grief, the power of ritual, and...

Professor Angela Gallop has been at the forefront of forensics for more than 45 years. During her remarkable career, she has established and run forensic science laboratories and has worked on thousands of cases in the UK and across the world. In How to Solve a Crime, she describes some of her own and her colleagues most intriguing cases and the wide range of skills and techniques used to solve them.

Wetsdokter Diona D'Hondt werkt voor onder meer het parket van Antwerpen, Dendermonde en Turnhout. In haar bijzondere beroep staat ze oog in oog met de dood - elke dag opnieuw. In Dagboek van een misdaaddokter belicht ze de menselijke gezichten achter de juridische dossiers. Ze deelt aangrijpende verhalen over moord en verlies, over pijnlijke reconstructies en beklijvende plaatsen delict, over de motieven van daders en de veerkracht van slachtoffers.

In Bare Bones, she re-examines missing and murder cases she has covered in her podcast series, and revisits the leads and the interviews she conducted. Much of the information has never been made public before.

Beautiful, accomplished, and beloved, Ellen Greenberg was a vivacious and affectionate teacher of young children she adored. Always upbeat, she deeply loved her family and friends, and especially her fiancée, Sam Goldberg, with whom she was planning a wedding. In fact, they’d just sent out the save-the-date announcements when, on January 26, 2011, Ellen was found in the kitchen of the luxury apartment she shared with Sam, a knife still plunged in her chest.

La pasión por la crónica negra habría de servirle para escribir relatos de ficción a partir de un hecho real, demostrar que había leído abundante bibliografía de criminología y entendía de todos estos temas y, también, que conocía al dedillo las aventuras de Sherlock Holmes, que despreciaba.

Dos mujeres desaparecidas con cinco años de diferencia. No se conocen, jamás se han visto. Solo les unen dos cosas: han vivido en el mismo chalé de Majadahonda (Madrid) en épocas distintas y han conocido a Bruno Hernández Vega. Eduardo cruza el mundo para encontrar a su hermana Adriana, pero su rastro se pierde en ese chalé en el que Bruno le alquilaba una habitación. Las pesquisas pronto pondrán sobre la pista a la Guardia Civil. Descubren que desde hace años tampoco nadie sabe nada de Liria, la tía de Bruno y propietaria de la casa.

Joaquín Ferrándiz era un buen hijo, un empleado sin tacha y un amigo en el que confiar. Pero el yerno perfecto para cualquier vecina ocultaba a un depredador, capaz de sembrar de cadáveres de mujeres la provincia de Castellón sin que lo descubrieran. El cazador que actuaba los fines de semana estranguló a cinco jóvenes entre 1995 y 1996 y arrojó sus cuerpos en descampados y charcas mientras seguía con su vida anodina. La Guardia Civil lo detuvo en 1998, cuando ya había atacado a otras dos chicas que lograron escapar de una muerte segura.

From two-time best-selling author and three-time Emmy®-winning investigative reporter Mark Pettit comes the haunting true story of Nebraska serial killer John Joubert — a case that shocked a nation and still echoes across the true-crime world.

Dive into the shadows of real-life mysteries that have defied logic, eluded justice, and captivated the world for generations. Unsolved: 10 Chilling Cold Cases That Still Haunt the World is a gripping collection of the most perplexing and haunting cold cases ever recorded—brought to life through masterful storytelling and meticulous research by acclaimed historian and true crime author Isabella C. Hayes.

Movies such as The Silence of the Lambs, Seven, American Psycho, and many others have created myths about serial killers that need to be dispelled: If you think that most serial killers are eccentric, white, male intellectuals, then you had better explore Killing for Sport to learn the truth. While other profilers tend to conceal the clear facts behind complex technical language and psychobabble, investigator Pat Brown actually tells it like it is.

Ein verschwundenes Kind, ein ins Koma gespritzter Arzt, ein Sack voller Leichenteile, ein Ehemann, der seine Partnerinnen gleich in Serie vergiftet - in den Fällen, die in Saal 210, dem Schwurgerichtssaal des Kölner Landgerichts verhandelt wurden, geht es um Mord, Totschlag und die Frage nach dem "Warum". Es sind Fälle, die fassungslos machen und Fragen aufwerfen, die oft keine Antwort erhalten. Wer hat versagt? Warum musste das geschehen? Warum haben Behörden - wenn überhaupt - zu spät reagiert? Nicht nur die Tat steht im Mittelpunkt.

The murder of Arlis Perry inside Stanford Memorial Church flummoxed detectives for nearly 44 years. Then the case ended with a bang. Early on the morning of Oct. 13, 1974, a security guard found the body of 19-year-old Arlis Perry underneath a pew inside the historic church at the heart of Stanford's campus. The deeply religious wife of a Stanford sophomore, Arlis had gone to pray in the sanctuary late the night before.

When widow Frances Lacey was murdered in July 1960 on Mackinac Island, only a few meager clues were found by police, and the case soon turned cold. But more than sixty years later, will those same clues finally solve the mystery?