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The expert author of Murderabilia brings a fresh new approach to the irresistible subject of true crime with this statistic-based telling of some of the most notorious murders of all time. Veteran true crime master Harold Schechter presents hundreds of chilling tales of murder and mayhem told...

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.

The sensational true story of George Dinning, a freed slave, who in 1899 joined forces with a Confederate war hero in search of justice in the Jim Crow south. “Taut and tense. Inspiring and terrifying in its timelessness.”(Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground...

For several years, a prolific predator haunted Bristol. Avon and Somerset Police had tried all their usual tactics to catch the ‘Clifton Rapist’, and public pressure was mounting. In 1979, a daring new plan was introduced. A small group of young female officers – some aged just 18 – put their lives on the line, walking the quiet residential roads late at night, acting as bait. Drawing on in-depth research and first-hand interviews with the women at the heart of the operation, Decoy is a dramatic retelling of one of the most groundbreaking agent provocateur stings in British history.

The Badge Between Us is a raw, unfiltered account of policing that tracks the impact of secondary trauma and moral injury, infused by instances of organizational betrayal and police officer corruption. It is a first-person account of author Terrence P. Dwyer's final year as a New York State Police Investigator, with flashbacks from a 22-year career spent responding to and investigating violent crime and organized criminal gangs, and its impact upon him and his family.

Удивительная история об успешном пирате Генри Эвери, который совершил самое крупное в мире ограбление — захватил корабль «Ганг-и-Савай» с сокровищами и свитой падишаха Великих Моголов. Нападение спровоцировало международный скандал, а Эвери стал первым преступником, объявленным во всемирный розыск. Тайна исчезновения Генри Эвери оставалась нераскрытой больше трёх веков. И вдруг авторы книги нашли в архиве зашифрованное письмо.

Læs og gys med, når uhyggelige, uforklarlige og uopklarede hændelser fra alle verdenshjørner vækkes til live i 30 spændende kapitler. Hvem var Jack the Ripper egentlig, morderen som dræbte flere kvinder i Londons gader i 1888? Hvad skete der med Sodder-barnet, som forsvandt sporløst efter en brand i West Virginia juleaften i 1945? Og er Himeji-slottet i Japan hjemsøgt den dag i dag?

Op 22 maart 1986 verdwijnt Ludwig – multimiljonair en beroemd casinobaas met meer dan 26 casino's in de Benelux – op klaarlichte dag. Na zijn verdwijning krijgt zijn familie een brief waarin een geldsom van 3,2 miljoen Duitse mark wordt geëist. In haar boek LUDWIG onderzoekt Palmaccio wie Ludwig was en wat er met hem is gebeurd. Voor het eerst praat ze met haar vader over zijn verleden: hoe was het om als jonge jongen uit een gastarbeidersgezin opeens aan de top van de casinowereld te belanden?

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.

Here are the stories of the great gangs that once terrorized New York City, from the Bowery Boys and the Dead Rabbits to the Gophers and the Eastmans—here are the infamous gangsters, from the days of the murderous Five Points Gangs to the later underworld mobs led by Mose the Bowery Boy, Monk Eastman, Paul Kelly, Kid Dropper, Dopey Benny, Gyp the Blood, and Owney Madden, and such feminine underworld luminaries as Gallus Mag and Sadie the Goat.

The untold story of the Edinburgh doctor who became Arthur Conan Doyle's model for Sherlock Holmes, and his adventures in the criminal underworld of Victorian Britain. Throughout nineteenth-century Edinburgh, the surgeon Joseph Bell was known for his extraordinary talent for detection and...

En el verano de 1915, cinco víctimas —entre ellas dos niñas y una mujer embarazada— fueron masacradas a hachazos en una finca remota de un municipio fronterizo al noroeste de Cáceres, y como consecuencia cinco campesinos del lugar fueron arrestados y condenados a cadena perpetua. La condena fue el inicio de un largo proceso de búsqueda de la verdad protagonizado por los abogados defensores, convencidos de la inocencia de sus defendidos y de que se había cometido un gravísimo error judicial.

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De prisiones, putas y pistolas es la historia de una amistad y también de una promesa, de cómo dos amigos trazan un plan y lo llevan a cabo, no en elegantes despachos ministeriales, ni en los restaurantes más selectos, ni tan siquiera en las agencias de inteligencia estatales, sino en grises oficinas de los funcionarios anónimos, en los pasillos de las prisiones o en conversaciones telefónicas, y que consiguen que los esforzados y a veces desencantados servidores públicos, encargados de lidiar con la decepción y la mala leche, y a los que nadie otorgará nunca medallas al mérito, sean quienes l

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author who is “among the very small group of top-notch true crime writers” (Booklist) comes the eleventh installment of Ann Rule’s Crime Files, exploring heart-stopping true tales of those who commit murder with no conscience, no remorse, and no...

La Costa del Sol puede tener el dudoso orgullo de haber sido refugio y residencia de célebres nazis. Algunos, prófugos sin haber podido ser juzgados en su país como autores o responsables directos de horribles crímenes; otros, que fueron juzgados, pero huyeron antes de cumplir condena. Prácticamente todos siguieron negando el delito de genocidio sistemático, planificado y llevado a cabo por el Tercer Reich, y siguieron disfrutando de la hospitalidad del Régimen mientras doraban sus cuerpos a orillas del Mediterráneo.

The scandal. The genius. The murder that shocked America. Frank Lloyd Wright was more than the mind behind America's most iconic buildings—he was a man whose turbulent private life captivated a nation. The famous architect's stormy marriage to Kitty Wright and his infamous affair with another...

Eine faszinierende Reise durch die dunkelsten Abgründe der Kriminalgeschichte Patrick Temp, der Betreiber des Youtube-Kanals Insolito , nimmt seine hörerschaft innen mit auf die Spur spektakulärer und bis heute ungelöster Fälle: vom Mord an Julia Wallace im Liverpool der 1930er-Jahre über die rätselhafte mit Blut geschriebene Botschaft »Omar m'a tuer« im französischen Mougins bis hin zum mysteriösen Verbrechen in Zimmer 1046 des Hotel President in Kansas City.

Duik in de duistere wereld van de jaren 60 en ontdek waargebeurde misdaden die hele naties in angst en afschuw deden sidderen. Stemacteur Sam van Megen neemt je mee op een schokkende reis door 13 authentieke misdaadzaken uit een decennium dat niet alleen bekend stond om Flower Power en Rock 'n' Roll, maar ook om enkele van de gruwelijkste misdaden in de criminele geschiedenis.

In Cartel Nation, listeners are taken deep inside the hidden machinery of Mexico’s drug cartels—a world where criminal networks rival governments, warlords command armies, and pop culture glorifies the very violence that terrorizes entire regions. Through gripping storytelling and meticulous investigation, this book unveils how cartels moved from the shadows into the center of politics, business, and everyday life.