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Whether venturing into a blood-spattered farm in Texas, down a lonely mountain road in Alabama, or into the deceptively sunny Ohio suburbs, acclaimed mystery writer Craig Rice lends her hard-boiled style and a wicked irony to this gallery of real-life murders. A saintly middle-aged widow bludgeoned to death in her New Jersey home; the headless torsos of two women found floating in the Lake of the Ozarks; a New Year’s fire in Pennsylvania set to cover the traces of a more ghastly crime; a traveling evangelist on a divine mission blown to bits in Berkeley....

La quinta temporada del éxitoso podcast original: ¿Por qué matamos? ya está aquí. Crímenes reales, diversos, dentro de la geografía española. Casos ya sentenciados sucedidos en las últimas décadas, trabajados con rigor, explicados con técnicas narrativas específicas y con un punto sociológico, como su título sugiere, intentando entender a través de la serie por qué los humanos matamos a humanos.

Outside the dining hall of the Alpine Manor nursing home, there is a sign that reads, "This is Grand Rapids, Michigan", a reminder for those who can no longer trust their own minds. For months, Cathy Wood has fed these residents, bathed them, and even moistened their eyes with artificial tears. To her, they live in a state worse than death - and she has decided to relieve them of their pain. Wood and her lover, Gwen Graham, make a pact to kill those whom they were hired to care for.

Dopo 45 anni, nella coscienza collettiva degli italiani, la strage di Bologna del 2 agosto 1980 si è stabilizzata e, forse, incancrenita, come un atto di inaudita barbarie, ma comunque isolato e reso possibile solo grazie al fanatismo ideologico di alcuni terroristi “estremi”. Insomma, le solite “schegge impazzite”. Dimenticano, gli italiani, che 36 giorni prima si era perpetrata la strage di Ustica, e che la pressoché totale coincidenza temporale dei due eventi si inserisce...

Thirty-six true crime stories of murder and mayhem. Listeners love this three-book collection, containing volumes four, five, and six.

Roger Reece Kibbe (May 21, 1939-February 28, 2021) was an American serial killer and rapist known as the "I-5 Strangler". Kibbe found all but one of his victims on freeways around Sacramento, California. In 1991, he was sentenced to 25 years to life imprisonment for the death of Darcie Frackenpohl. On February 28, 2021, in Mule Creek State Prison, Kibbe was strangled to death by his cellmate.

What went wrong in the O.J. Simpson double-murder trial, which was deemed the trial of the 20th century? Former prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi, who was well-acquainted with high-profile murder trials—including the successful prosecution of Charles Manson and his followers—dares to lay bare the bungling in the O.J. case. Incriminating evidence was never presented and lapses in strategy left prosecutors Marcia Clark and Christopher Darden at a disadvantage.

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From the 1910 disappearance of New York heiress Dorothy Arnold to the 1977 vanishing of teenager Simone Ridinger, author Brunelle details both famous and lesser-known cases that remain unsolved.

On Valentine’s Day 1988, twenty-year-old Lynette White was brutally murdered in a dark corner of Cardiff’s world-famous, and infamous, Tiger Bay. Stigmatised by a bad reputation, the area was on the brink of major redevelopment which would change the historic community forever. South Wales Police launched its biggest murder hunt to date, and within weeks detectives released a photofit of a prime suspect seen outside the murder scene, his hands covered in blood. A white man. But as the months passed by and no arrest was made, the police came under inevitable pressure.

Winner of the 2018 Popular Bookstores' Readers Choice Awards, Adult Book Category. Finalist for Best Non-Fiction Title at the 2018 Singapore Book Awards. This book recounts 25 infamous crime cases that have taken place in Singapore since 1965. Some of the victims' names are still remembered...

Denne sidste episode af Skyldig i drab handler om forfatterens egne besøg i fængslet og om de mere personlige grunde, han har til at skrive bogen. Den handler om drabet, både det drab, vi hører om i medierne eller ser i film og tv, og virkelighedens drab. Den sidste type drab har vi allerede hørt meget om i de foregående episoder. Episoden handler også om, hvordan drab er blevet straffet gennem tiderne, og om nogle af de vigtige begreber, som de drabsdømte har gjort sig tanker om i de tidligere episoder: skyld, skam, soning, livsmening, tilgivelse.

En forårsaften i 2007 blev borgmesteren i Nagasaki, Iccho Itoh, likvideret, da han blev skudt på åben gade. Iccho Itoh var han i gang med at føre sin tredje valgkampagne, da han blev dræbt. Morderen var en mand ved navn Tesuya Shiroo, der var leder af en lokal bande med tilknytning til den japanske mafia, men det viste sig, at mordet ikke havde noget at gøre med den japanske mafia. I stedet var der tale om en personlig hævn. BORGMESTEREN I NAGASAKI er en del af true-crime serien MORD I JAPAN, hvor du får de sande historier om nogle af de mest opsigtvækkende mord i landet med den oprejsende sol.

تعرّضت قصة الطبيب هنري هوارد هولمز الذي عرف اختصارًا باسم الدكتور إتش إتش هولمز (H.H. Holmes) إلى الكثير من الأقاويل والإشاعات خلال سنوات طويلة حتى بات التفريق بين...