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It was heaven on earth—and, some whispered, the devil’s garden. Thousands came by trains and carriages to see this new Eden, carved from hundreds of acres of wild woodland. They marveled at orchards bursting with fruit, thick herds of Ayrshire cattle and Cotswold sheep, and whizzing mills. They gaped at the people who lived in this place—especially the women, with their queer cropped hair and shamelessly short skirts. The men and women of this strange outpost worked and slept together—without sin, they claimed.

V13: So lautet der Codename für den Prozess um die Terroranschläge in Paris, bei denen am Freitag, den 13. November 2015 in der Konzerthalle Bataclan, auf Caféterrassen im Osten der Stadt und vor dem Stade de France, wo das Länderspiel Frankreich – Deutschland ausgetragen wurde, 130 Menschen in den Tod gerissen wurden. Emmanuel Carrère besuchte die Verhandlungen vom ersten bis zum letzten Tag und berichtet über die daran Beteiligten, das Grauen, unverhoffte Menschlichkeit und die Maschine der Rechtsprechung.

Plongez au cœur de l’histoire criminelle du XIXe siècle et d’avant avec Dossiers Oubliés – Volume 3. À travers 15 récits authentiques et minutieusement documentés, redécouvrez des affaires réelles — parfois célèbres, souvent effacées de la mémoire collective — qui ont marqué leur époque par leur cruauté, leur mystère ou leur impact judiciaire. Chaque chapitre s’appuie sur des faits vérifiables, tirés d’archives, de journaux d’époque et de documents historiques, pour restituer avec précision le contexte, les protagonistes et les zones d’ombre de ces crimes d’un autre temps.

Now a major TV series, Mary & George, starring Julianne Moore and Nicholas Galitzine. The King’s Assassin is the scandalous story of George Villiers, lover – and murderer – of King James I. The rise of George Villiers from minor gentry to royal power seemed to defy gravity. Becoming...

A delightfully comic and touchingly romantic interlude in which Colin Clark describes for the first time what happened between Marilyn Monroe and himself during the missing week in The Prince, the Showgirl and Me. In 1956, fresh from Eton and Oxford, the 23-year-old Colin Clark (son of ‘Lord...

Volume two of One Nation Under Blackmail examines the rise of Jeffrey Epstein and his closest associates, such as Leslie Wexner and Ghislaine Maxwell, and contextualizes them within the organized crime-intelligence networks detailed in-depth in volume one. It subsequently details their ties, with a focus on Epstein, to intelligence networks, espionage activity, and the subversion of American institutions, as well as the role of Epstein and the Maxwell family in the evolution of blackmail in the digital era.

Pat Marry, former colleague of Adrian Donohoe and the detective inspector in charge of the investigation, and journalist Robin Schiller take us inside the notorious case, describing the gardai's unprecedented collaboration with the FBI, the NYPD and Homeland Security which finally brought Brady...

Dr. Josef Mengele wurde zum Synonym des Bösen schlechthin: Intelligent, ehrgeizig, skrupellos. Er gilt als einer der berüchtigtsten Kriegsverbrecher der NS-Zeit. An der Rampe des Konzentrationslagers Auschwitz II (Birkenau) begutachtete er die neu angekommenen Juden und pfiff während der Selektion Arien. An unzähligen Gefangenen führte Mengele unmenschliche Experimente durch. Obwohl er seit 1945 auf internationalen Fahndungslisten stand, konnte er bis zu seinem Tod 1979 unbelangt in Südamerika leben.

The FBI’s chief hostage negotiator recounts harrowing standoffs, including the Waco siege with David Koresh and the Branch Davidians, in a memoir that inspired the miniseries Waco, now on Netflix. “Riveting . . . the most in-depth and absorbing section is devoted to the 1993 siege near Waco...

The wealthy playboy, the beautiful French teenager, and the bad trip that put LSD on trial at the glamorous center of London’s Swinging Sixties—New York Times bestselling author John Glatt’s kaleidoscopic investigation into the murder case that shattered the Summer of Love. In 1967, London...

The riveting story of the hunt for a Berlin serial killer at the height of Nazi rule, uncovering the deep connections between German criminal science and policing and the horrors of the Holocaust. December 1940, Berlin. Under the cover of citywide blackouts, the city’s commuter rail system...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen and his daughter Morgan Olsen, the gripping true-crime story of America’s Lady Bluebeard—a seemingly ordinary wife accused of poisoning husband after husband, who very nearly got away with all of it. On a hot August afternoon in 1920 at...

Bloomsbury presents Koresh by Stephan Talty, read by Sean Pratt. In the Spring of 1993, federal agents raided the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. A 51-day standoff ensued. Known as the Waco Siege, it has become a founding myth of the extreme wing of American conservatism, invoked by...

On May 2, 1963, Robert Killins, a former United Church minister, slaughtered every woman in his family but one. She (and her brother) lived to tell the story of what motivated a talented man who had been widely admired, a scholar and graduate from Queen's University, to stalk and terrorize the women in his family for almost twenty years and then murder them. Through extensive oral histories, Cook and Carson painstakingly trace the causes of a femicide in which four women and two unborn babies were murdered over the course of one bloody evening.

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.

Thirty years ago, award-winning journalist Jon Ronson stumbled on the mystery of Carol Howe—a charismatic, wealthy former debutante turned white supremacist spokeswoman turned undercover informant. In 1995, Carol was spying on Oklahoma’s neo-Nazis for the government just when Timothy McVeigh blew up a federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people.

The wealthy playboy, the beautiful French teenager, and the bad trip that put LSD on trial at the glamorous center of London's Swinging Sixties—New York Times bestselling author John Glatt's kaleidoscopic investigation into the murder case that shattered the Summer of Love. In 1967, London was...

The shocking true story of the highest-ranking Mafia Boss in history to betray the organization and strike a deal with federal authorities, ending the Mafia’s reign. After his conviction in 1983, Cleveland Mafia Boss Angelo Lonardo became the highest-ranking Mafia Boss to betray his legacy...

Forget what you think you know about the Winter Hill Gang; this is the ruthless truth of the Boston underworld and its most ominous figure — his tragic origins, unsolved murders, and his daughter who broke the silence around him. In 2020, author Springs Toledo set out to find a ghost in the...

Manche Geschichten überdauern Generationen. Sie erzählen von unheimlichen Begebenheiten, rätselhaften Erscheinungen und Plätzen, denen bis heute etwas Geheimnisvolles anhaftet. Der Sage nach – Auf unheilvollen Wegen dunkler Legenden begibt sich dorthin, wo Überlieferung und Wirklichkeit ineinanderfließen. In jeder Folge gehen wir einer Sage oder Legende auf den Grund und suchen nach dem, was sich hinter der Überlieferung verbirgt.