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For more than two years, a rapist prowled the night streets of the homey, All-American city of Spokane, Washington, terrorizing women, sparking a run on gun stores, and finally causing one newspaper to offer a reward—the calls taken by the distinguished managing editor himself, Gordon Coe. In March 1S81, luck and inspired police work at last produced an arrest, and Spokane shuddered. The suspect was clean cut and conservative…and Gordon Coe’s son.

James Dommek, Jr., an Alaska Native writer and musician, sheds new light on a real-life mystery that pits Native American folklore against the US justice system. In the vast Alaskan Arctic, legend has it there once lived a mythic tribe—Iñukuns—that only existed in rumors and whispers. This changed forever when an actor-turned-fugitive, Teddy Kyle Smith, had an encounter that brought Iñukuns from myth to reality. Smith was an aspiring actor with a promising career until it all came quickly crashing down with a gunshot, a manhunt, bloodshed, and other frightful events.

As the adopted son of two cult leaders, Benjamin Risha was raised to someday assume a place of leadership in the Tony and Susan Alamo Christian Foundation with the Bible, and his parents’ interpretation of it, as his guide. He believed the prophecies of his adoptive mother and father. However, when none of it happened, and the foundation slid from bucolic communal lifestyle to insufferable criminality that included absolute obedience to the Alamos, Benjamin knew he had to escape.

When a hideous murder makes the headlines, a barrage of questions usually appears in its wake: Why did this happen? Could it have been prevented? What kind of family was the criminal from? Are his parents in some way to blame? Any crime writer worth his salt would attempt to answer these questions - but how do you address such questions when the killer is your own son? In a brave, honest, and moving work, best-selling true-crime writer Carlton Stowers examines the downfall of his eldest son, once a happy child full of promise, now a convicted murderer serving a 60-year sentence.

An account of the crimes of Arthur Shawcross describes how the paroled child killer shot, stabbed, suffocated, and strangled 16 Rochester, New York, prostitutes and examines how the legal system failed his victims.

One night in October 2015, twenty-year-old Morgan Hehir went out with friends and never came home. In the aftermath of his funny, talented son's murder, Morgan's father Colin began to keep an extraordinary diary. It became a record of his family's grief, the ensuing trial, and his determined quest to uncover the shocking truth that the police had kept hidden.

""A brave and marvelous book. A page-turner that will rip your heart out.""—Jon Krakauer In the tradition of Into the Wild comes an instant classic of outdoor literature, a riveting work of uncommon depth. I’m planning on doing 4 days in the jungle. . . . It should be difficult to get lost...

Min lillebror Mehdi har alltid varit morsans lilla älskling, men kvinnan hade inte räknat med att snorungen skulle bli värsta banditen. Ärligt talat, än idag fattar familjen nada. Hur gick det hela till? Lillbrorsan har fått samma uppfostran som vi: Kärlek, omvårdnad, ett bra hem. En familj som tar hand om varandra. Vår kära mor gjorde allt för oss och ännu mer för den där-a bortskämda ungen. Vi smugglades ut från Iran under kriget och kom till Sverige, självaste himlen. Vi trodde att våra problem var över, men oj, oj, oj vad fel vi hade.

In Sons of Cain - a book that fills the gap between dry academic studies and sensationalized true crime - investigative historian Peter Vronsky examines our understanding of serial killing from its prehistoric anthropological evolutionary dimensions in the pre-civilization era (c. 15,000 BC) to today. Delving further back into human history and deeper into the human psyche than Serial Killers - Vronsky's 2004 book, which has been called "the definitive history of the phenomenon of serial murder" - he focuses strictly on sexual serial killers.

Forty years before the names Snowden and Manning entered the world's cultural lexicon, Christopher Boyce and Andrew Daulton Lee became America's youngest convicted spies - condemned to federal prison in 1977 for their roles in one of the most highly publicized espionage cases in Cold War history. Yet the story of their crime, as told in the book and movie The Falcon and the Snowman, was only the beginning.

A young American lost in Russia. An FBI-cover up. A mystery leading from Washington to the heart of the Kremlin's war in Ukraine. When Billy Reilly vanished, his parents embarked on a desperate search for answers. Was their son’s disappearance connected to his mysterious work for the FBI, or...

Jim Nicholson was one of the CIA's top veteran case officers. By day he taught spycraft at the CIA's clandestine training center, The Farm. By night he was a minivan-driving single father racing home to have dinner with his kids. But Nicholson led a double life. For more than two years, he had met covertly with agents of Russia's foreign intelligence service and turned over troves of classified documents. In 1997 Nicholson became the highest-ranking CIA officer ever convicted of espionage.

The true crime cult classic that inspired an upcoming Netflix documentary series and companion podcast, The Ultimate Evil follows journalist Maury Terry’s terrifying investigation into the true evil behind the Son of Sam murders.

Through never-before-heard family tape recordings, this 4-part true crime series offers a brand new insight into Jeffrey Dahmer, one of the world’s most infamous serial killers and his victims.

The (adoptee) podcast about searching, identity and secrecy

I was raised in a "wholesome" ELCA Lutheran Family from the outside, but inside the home the torture and sexual abuse started, once my father broke me, I created another personality to survive his abuse, and went on to create a closet full of alternative personalities, as he began to first dispose of me, then profit, status, and access to more victim's for sexually trafficing me. Listen to hear the horror story called my life. It does not end well...

När länskriminalen i Södermanlands län larmades om ett misstänkt mord i Katrineholm, florerade redan rykten. Dessa rykten berättade att man hittat en kropp. En kropp där huvudet saknades. Kroppen hade varit inlindad i en mattrulle som bränts upp. Fallet döps därför ganska snart till Mattmordet. Det hela startar klockan 08.47 den 20 april 1998. Då kommer larm om en källarbrand på Fredsgatan i Katrineholm. Räddningstjänsten kan snabbt konstatera att det brinner i en mattrulle i ett källarutrymme i anslutning till matkällarförråden. Branden i källaren släcks snabbt.

David Berkowitz terroriserade New York med sina hemska brott, och hånade polisen med de brev som han lämnade på mordplatserna. David Berkowitz stod blickstilla i en gränd, med en kniv i ett fast grepp i handen. Det var julafton 1975 och han skulle döda. Han fick syn på en ung flicka på skridskor ute på skridskobanan. Allt han såg var ett potentiellt offer. Han hade burit sitt raseri i tio år, och nu skulle det bryta igenom den lugna fasaden och visa sig för världen.

Damien Dickies dad Robert went missing in June 2016, then 9 days later his only son Dylan also went missing. This is his story Thanks to our season sponsor. My Pay Now, Click below to find out more. www.mypaynow.com.au

Filmmaker Josh Zeman wasn’t expecting to unearth a bombshell when he first met journalist Maury Terry. Obsessed with the infamous Son of Sam case, Maury had dedicated his life to its intricacies and had serious doubts about its conclusion. He believed that David Berkowitz didn't act alone, that there were more Sons of Sam still out there, and that the police knew it. In this podcast, Josh follows Maury's trail, examining the terrifying connections and plausible clues, sending him deeper down the rabbit hole. But where does it end? Searching for the Sons of Sam is a companion to the Netflix ...