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After more than a decade, when sisters Nikki, Sami, and Tori Knotek hear the word mom, it claws like an eagle’s talons, triggering memories that have been their secret since childhood. Until now. For years, behind the closed doors of their farmhouse in Raymond, Washington, their sadistic mother, Shelly, subjected her girls to unimaginable abuse, degradation, torture, and psychic terrors. Through it all, Nikki, Sami, and Tori developed a defiant bond that made them far less vulnerable than Shelly imagined.

Michael Finkel was a top New York Times Magazine journalist publicly fired and disgraced for making up a composite character for a big investigative news piece about Africa. This audiobook is about how this brilliant, high achieving journalist found himself at that point in his life. But in parallel it's also about Christian Longo, a man accused of the multiple murder of his own wife and three children. After the deaths, Longo fled to Mexico, where he passed himself off as Michael Finkel, New York Times journalist.

Andrew Hamilton thought he had life sorted: beautiful fiancée, a popular pizza restaurant, two beloved dogs and a thriving side business supplying massive quantities of magic mushrooms and LSD to eager Sydneysiders. Then one night police raided his Surry Hills home and it all came crashing down. Andrew's predicament didn't sink in at first, mainly because he was on a three-day cocaine bender and just wanted to sleep it off. When he was transferred to Parklea Correctional Centre, his prison-inspired existential dilemma began.

The untold story of an Israeli spy’s epic journey to bring the notorious Butcher of Latvia to justice - a case that altered the fates of all ex-Nazis.

Zaterdag 2 december 2006, mijn dochter Nadine belde aan bij haar ex-vriend Gerold. Een kwartier later lag ze dood op de vloer, bruut vermoord met een mes. Mijn wereld stortte in... In de jaren die volgden krabbelde ik weer overeind. Ik schreef de pijn van mij af, vocht voor de relatie met mijn man en zag mijn andere dochter Jacqueline mama worden. Het lukte haar de moordenaar van haar zusje te vergeven.

Krimi-Podcast, Thriller, Mara Levin: Episode 1 beginnt mit einem Vermisstenfall, den alle für Routine halten.Doch Mara hört genauer hin. Jonas Keller, 19, ist seit Samstag verschwunden. Für das Team im Dezernat klingt es nach einem Fall, der sich von selbst erledigt: Streit, Party, Drama. Doch Mara Levin, neu als leitende Ermittlerin, merkt schnell, dass zu viele Dinge nicht zusammenpassen. Zwischen unterschwelligen Machtspielen, vorschnellen Urteilen und einem ersten Hinweis beginnt ihr erster Fall. In der ersten Folge…startet Mara Levin in ihren ersten großen Vermisstenfallwird Jonas ...

What really happens when a civil or criminal case makes it to trial and 12 regular people (most of whom have no formal education about the legal system) are expected to be an impartial judge and ultimately make the final decision about a person’s guilt or innocence? Each episode breaks down the case before exploring what it was actually like to sit in the jury box: the pressure, the uncertainty, the conflicts, and the lasting impact of serving on a jury.

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Slavery. Slavery is a socioeconomic institution in which individuals are treated as property, deprived of personal liberty, and compelled to provide unpaid labor or services to owners under coercion, often involving violence or the threat thereof, with the legal right to buy, sell, inherit, or punish the enslaved. This practice, rooted in the exercise of power over war captives, debtors, or conquered peoples, has manifested across diverse forms—from chattel systems denying all autonomy to debt bondage retaining nominal freedoms—but consistently entails the owner's absolute control over ...

Cold Case Unsealed is a gripping true crime podcast that reopens forgotten investigations, unsolved murders, and mysterious disappearances that never received the answers they deserved. Each episode dives deep into cold case files, police reports, witness statements, timelines, and overlooked evidence to uncover the stories buried beneath years of silence. From abandoned leads and vanished suspects to shocking twists and hidden connections, Cold Case Unsealed explores the haunting mysteries that continue to leave families searching for justice. With immersive storytelling, atmospheric ...

Welcome to Something Weird Happened Here, for people who love a twisted tale but aren't afraid to poke at it a bit.We share stories that are postmarked "Peculiar," and then explore elements around the story with curiosity and an open mind. We try not to be judgy. 😉Rest assured, we will always be respectful even if we are skeptical, sarcastic, and a bit sweary. Something Weird Happened Here could be paranormal, psychic, UFOs and aliens, nature oddities, near-death experience, dreams, unexplained or unsolved true crime, parallel dimensions, portals, biological oddities, bigfoot, chupacabra, ...

From Deadwood to Aberdeen, Vermillion to Belle Fourche, the frontier towns of South Dakota were populated by some of the toughest and most dangerous characters in the West. Chief Two Sticks led a starving band of rebels on a desperate path of destruction. Bud Stevens's murder of a cattle king's...

Félix Séguin et Annie Soleil Proteau convient des experts du monde criminel à se confesser. Enquêtes, disparitions, rencontres avec le monde interlope et archives ayant marqué la mémoire collective se croiseront dans le quartier général du crime.

LA FIRME Le balado judiciaire où la loi sort du palais de justice pour entrer directement dans votre réalité. Animé par Me François-David Bernier, avocat généraliste reconnu, La Firme plonge dans de vraies causes vécues par de vrais citoyens québécois. Arrestations, accusations, enquêtes policières, erreurs judiciaires, zones grises, droits bafoués : ici, rien n’est théorique. Chaque épisode, une nouvelle cause. Un nouveau combat. Une nouvelle vérité à exposer.Me Bernier décortique les faits, démonte les mythes, explique vos droits, les règles du jeu, l’historique ...

Les coulisses des histoires criminelles qui ont retenu l'attention cette semaine, racontées par les journalistes des Affaires judiciaires et policières du Journal de Montréal. Dans la salle des archives du Journal, on s’intéresse aux plus récentes affaires juridiques, enquêtes policières, condamnations criminelles, procès, et aux histoires de crimes tirées de nos archives. Avec Valérie Gonthier, Maxime Deland, Michaël Nguyen et Stéphane Alarie

In deze deels autobiografische roman moet een jonge vrouw, die ongewild verstrikt raakt in de wereld van mensensmokkelaars, een fatale keuze maken met verwoestende gevolgen voor haar gezin.

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Peter Rachman dominated housing in post-war London - he owned vast swathes in the west of the city, accumulating huge wealth as his tenants lived in squalor and fear of his hard-nosed collectors and enforcers. He was also at the heart of the city's murky, post-war underworld. In Slumlord, Neil...

The Profession of Violence pulls back the curtain on the rise and eventual fall of Ronnie and Reggie Kray, London's most infamous gangsters. Charting their transformation from East End boys to the ruling figures of London’s criminal underworld during the 1960s, John Pearson's vivid account shows how they ran an empire of organised crime the likes of which London had never seen. Built on lies, extortion, and extreme violence and murder, Pearson also shows the strange brotherly relationship that kept them bound in blood until their eventual downfall and imprisonment.

A true crime story narrated by the photographer Juliet Eden who interviewed the infamous Lee Ann Sabine a year before her death.