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PREPARE TO BE HOOKED by the brand new thriller from Lisa Jewell, author of the Sunday Times bestselling novels None of This Is True and Don't Let Him In. This audiobook is read by a full cast including Lesley Sharp, James Norton, Joanna David, Emilia Fox, Freddie Fox, Tim McInnerny, Ella Rae...

Midwest roots. Dark stories. Strong coffee.Two best friends uncovering Wisconsin and Midwest true crime, one cup at a time.

To this day, the LAPD, Los Angeles District Attorney’s office, mainstream media, and much of the world at large remain firmly convinced that O. J. Simpson literally got away with murder. According to private investigator William Dear, it is precisely this assuredness that has led both the police and public to overlook a far more likely suspect. Dear now compiles more than 16 years of investigation by his team of forensic experts and presents evidence that O. J. was not the killer.

La vida de Fabiola da un giro inesperado al aceptar escribir la biografía de un desconocido. Desde ese momento se ve arrastrada por acontecimientos que no puede controlar. El miedo, el desconcierto y la búsqueda de una salida del lugar donde se encuentra, un pueblo desconocido e incomunicado, marcarán su destino y su vida para siempre. Esta obra, cargada de realidad mágica, nos llevará a un mundo en el que nada es lo que parece.

It was a crime that shocked the nation: the brutal murder in Chicago in 1924 of a child by two wealthy college students who killed solely for the thrill of the experience. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb were intellectuals - too smart, they believed, for the police to catch them. When they were apprehended, state's attorney Robert Crowe was certain that no defense could save the ruthless killers from the gallows.

Gloria Burtzlaff feared for her life one day back in April of 1991 when her abusive husband, Larry, drunk and violent, slapped her, hit her, and began pelting her with glasses. After he tried to drown her in a tub, she got the family shotgun and confronted him in his underwear. “Larry, I’m going to kill you,” she declared. Defense lawyers would later claim he lifted a glass as if to say, “Have at it, sister.” Have at It, Sister is a true-crime tale about Gloria, a South Dakota woman who shot her abusive husband and was put on trial in a precedent-setting case.

'Murderland reads like a true crime thriller' SUNDAY TIMES 'Haunting, elegant and fiercely intelligent' OBSERVER 'Lyrically luminescent' NEW YORK TIMES A terrifying true-crime history of serial killers in the Pacific Northwest and beyond - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Prairie Fires...

La Banda Battestini, così chiamata per il cognome di due fratelli che ne facevano parte, è stata una banda criminale pescarese, attiva dalla fine degli anni 70 all'inizio degli anni 80 e protagonista di una serie di rapine. Ne facevano parte i fratelli Rolando e Pasquale, Italo Ceci (freddato poi nel 2012 a Pescara), Massimo Ballone, Raimondo Coletta e altri.

A Casual Temptation - a suspenseful real-life Financial Crime thriller with plenty of plot twists. A Casual Temptation: what would you do? What would you do if you were confronted with having to make a choice? A choice between doing what´s right and what´s wrong? Choosing to do what´s right...

A former homicide and narcotics detective tells his daughter the real stories behind 23 years in law enforcement — for the first time. True crime, undercover operations, murder investigations, faith, and the emotional cost behind the badge. Instagram: @authorsidcovington TikTok: @authorsidcovington YouTube: It Would Be A Crime Podcast

Allie McMurphy lives the sweet life running her world-famous fudge shop on Mackinac Island—but when a killer strikes, she has to turn from creating confections to extracting confessions . . . TAKING A BITE OUT OF CRIME As a gesture of goodwill, Allie is bringing a tray of assorted fudge to her...

Let This Be Our Secret is a remarkable true crime story set on Ireland's north coast where the bodies of a couple were found in a car filled with carbon monoxide fumes - the apparent victims of a suicide pact....

We sit down with Wes, who was working call centers as a broker for clients wanting to sell their time shares. Wes would sell the time share and keep the money and or the time share never existed. He made 24.5 million selling fake dreams of a time share that did not exist or the client would never get. He was spending $30,000 a week at the club at one point. In the end the mother of his first child ended up contacting the police about his operation. The was the beginning of the end. When indicted he was known as the "King Of Wire Fraud" at the time. This is a true story.

I Did It is the story of Gina Champion-Cain, the mastermind behind the largest woman-led Ponzi scheme in US history—$400 million. This real-life story includes a multitude of participants, banks, hedge funds, egomaniacs, and small-time crooks, all fueled by greed, stupidity, and a keen desire to look the other way. And even when they were looking in the right direction, all of these people and entities saw nothing.

La segunda aventura del comisario Anders Knutas y del periodista Johan Berg promete muchas emociones en un mundo oscuro y depravado. Cuando el fotógrafo alcohólico Henry Dahlström aparece asesinado en pleno centro de Gotland, las pesquisas policiales apuntan directamente a sus compañeros de juerga. El caso no parece revestir mayor misterio, hasta que el comisario Anders Knutas descubre que el fallecido recibió una importante cantidad de dinero el día anterior a su muerte.

Nine of the most controversial violent crimes in America's history are reexamined in these compelling stories of true crime. Dr. Samuel Mudd set John Wilkes Booth's broken ankle, but was he actually part of the larger conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln? Did Lizzie Borden brutally murder her own parents in Massachusetts? Was admitted jihadist Zacarias Moussaoui really involved in the terrorist plot to destroy the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001?

True Southern Gothic Tales

Minnie was just 16 when she stood trial for the wrongful death of her first husband, a successful businessman and politician almost 40 years her senior. Despite overwhelming witness testimony that the Creole beauty from New Orleans had purchased the arsenic that killed him, Minnie's own testimony brought the entire courtroom to tears. She was acquitted. Minnie returned to New Orleans with James Walkup's fortune, but she still didn't have enough cash for her liking, so she successfully targeted, seduced, and murdered two more wealthy older men while evading justice in the courtroom.

In 1994, Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson were brutally murdered at her home in Brentwood, California. O. J. Simpson was tried for the crime, but was ultimately found not guilty of criminal charges. The victims' families brought civil cases against Simpson, in which he was found liable for willfully and wrongfully causing the deaths of Ron and Nicole by committing battery with malice and oppression. The Goldman family views this book as Simpson's confession.

Rarely does a week go by without a well-known executive being indicted for engaging in a white-collar crime. Perplexed as to what drives successful, wealthy people to risk it all, Harvard Business School professor Eugene Soltes spent seven years in the company of the men behind the largest corporate crimes in history - from the financial fraudsters of Enron, to the embezzlers at Tyco, to the Ponzi schemers Bernie Madoff and Allen Stanford.