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NATIONAL BESTSELLER Stevie Cameron’s investigative tour de force about one of North America's most prolific serial killers—now widely regarded as a true crime classic. Verteran investigative journalist Stevie Cameron first began following the story of missing women in 1998, when the odd...

In the late hours of July 22, 1991, Detective Patrick "Pat" Kennedy of the Milwaukee Police Department was asked to respond to a possible homicide. Little did he know that he would soon be delving into the dark mind of one of America's most notorious serial killers, the "Milwaukee Cannibal", Jeffrey Dahmer. Kennedy spent the next six weeks locked in an interrogation room with Dahmer. There, the killer described in lurid detail how he lured 17 young men to his apartment, where he strangled, sexually assaulted, dismembered, and in some cases, cannibalized his victims.

Francis Trinipet, uno dei punti di riferimento nella community italiana degli esperti sul caso del Mostro di Firenze, racconta i mesi che vanno dal giugno del 1982 al settembre 1983. Si tratta di un periodo molto particolare all'interno di questa intrigata vicenda, dato che siamo di fronte al più lungo "cooling off" del Mostro negli anni '80. Dal 19 giugno 1982, data del duplice delitto di Paolo Mainardi e Antonella Migliorini, al 9 settembre 1983, quando vennero uccisi Horst Wilhelm Meyer e Jens-Uwe Rusch, passano infatti ben quattordici mesi.

Christopher Berry-Dee is the man who talks to serial killers. A world-renowned investigative criminologist, he has gained the trust of murderers across the world, entered their high security prisons and discussed in detail their shocking crimes. Berry-Dee now delves into the mind of perhaps the most sadistic and psychopathic killer of all time. Using his long experience and psychological expertise, Berry-Dee seeks to understand the motivation, the amoral urges and the merciless horror behind Dahmer's inhuman behaviour: what could make a man do this?

The year 1969: The hippie scene is vibrant in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Long-haired teenagers roam the streets, strumming guitars and preaching about peace and love...and Tony Costa is at the center of it all. To a certain group of smitten young women, he is known as Sire—the leader of their counterculture movement, the charming man who speaks eloquently and hands out hallucinogenic drugs like candy. But beneath his benign persona lies a twisted and uncontrollable rage that threatens to break loose at any moment. Tony Costa is the most dangerous man on Cape Cod.

On Halloween night, 1828, in the West Port district of Edinburgh, Scotland, a woman sometimes known as Madgy Docherty was last seen in the company of William Burke and William Hare. Days later, police discovered her remains in the surgery of the prominent anatomist Dr. Robert Knox. Docherty was the final victim of the most atrocious murder spree of the century. Together with their accomplices, Burke and Hare would be accused of killing 16 people over the course of 12 months in order to sell the corpses as "subjects" for dissection. 

Amb la precisió dels millors True Crime anglosaxons, Ferran Grau ens presenta en aquesta història una dissecció detallada de l'esgarrifós cas de l'Monstre de Machala, un assassí en sèrie que va fer estralls tant a l'Equador com a Espanya. Un duríssim cas que ens torna a demostrar que els monstres no sempre pertanyen a el regne de la ficció.

First dates are a total gamble, especially if your date is a total stranger.

On September 5th, 1934, a young beachcomber made a gruesome discovery on the shores of Cleveland’s Lake Erie: the lower half of a female torso, neatly severed at the waist. The victim, dubbed “The Lady of the Lake,” was only the first of a butcher’s dozen. Over the next four years, twelve more bodies would be scattered across the city. The bodies were dismembered with surgical precision and drained of blood. Some were beheaded while still alive.

En el 2013, una mujer observó horrorizada cómo de un sótano ubicado en el centro de Bilbao intentaba huir una mujer ensangrentada que buscaba desesperadamente una salida a la calle. Su llamada a la Ertzaintza destapó los crímenes del "falso Shaolin", un maestro de kung-fu que durante años engañó a alumnos, conocidos y medios de comunicación.

Marsala, nell'autunno del 1971 nel breve tragitto fra scuola e casa, tre bambine di nove, sette e cinque anni scompaiono.Si chiamano Antonella, Ninfa e Virginia. Nei giorni successivi tremila uomini battono la provincia. Sono poliziotti, carabinieri, militari, vigili e molti volontari, li coordina un giudice di alto profilo: Cesare Terranova. Finché i corpi delle tre bimbe vengono ritrovati Nel 1979 la Corte d'Assise di Messina riconosce colpevole del triplice omicidio lo zio di Antonella, nel frattempo diventato "mostro di Marsala", e lo condanna alla pena di 29 anni.

En ce samedi 31 août 1895, le jeune berger Jean-Marie Robin s'étonne de ne pas voir son ami Portalier veiller sur son troupeau dans la grande prairie, à deux kilomètres d'Onglas. Alors que ses moutons envahissent un champs de trèfles qui ne leur appartient pas, Jean-Marie appelle son nom, puis aperçoit sous un grand noyer une tâche rouge. Il s'en approche, et découvre avec horreur une trainée de sang conduisant à une mare de déjection humaine, de sang et de boyaux. Le cadavre de Portalier git là, éventré, les yeux grands ouverts.

From mild mannered coworkers to doting parents. Some might be your jack-of-all-trades friend, or others might be your family member with an altruistic persona. The Best New True Crime Stories: Well-Mannered Crooks, Rogues & Criminals takes you deeper into the unconventional criminal's psyche...

Seven Bones is the story of one of the more bizarre murder investigations in Australia’s history. Two wives die in suspicious circumstances: co-incidence or, as husband Thomas Keir describes it, ‘bad luck’? Three years after Thomas Keir alleged his first wife, Jean, deserted him and her young son for another man, his second wife, Rosalina, Jean’s cousin, lay scorched and strangled on her bed. Arriving on the scene, Detective Peter Seymour realised he was either dealing with the world’s unluckiest husband or a serial wife killer.

Er is een groot verschil tussen moordenaars die één moord plegen, massamoordenaars die veel mensen tegelijk ombrengen en seriemoordenaars die zorgvuldig gekozen slachtoffers volgens een ritueel vermoorden. Een seriemoordenaar is een kille jager die geniet van de jacht, wordt gedreven door een ritueel of een bepaalde fixatie en steeds afhankelijker wordt van de kick die het moorden hem geeft.

In Unsolved Serial Killers, Volumes 1 and 2, here is just a fraction of what you will discover explorations of the cities and historical contexts of the killings, so you understand the atmosphere when they were taking place, in-depth profiles of the victims of each killer and what happened to them, and much more. If you're a true crime junkie, you may think you know the world of serial killers inside and out, but prepare to be surprised by what you find within these lines.

From singling out victims at bus stops, targeting women with long, blonde hair, saving trophies, or dismembering and even eating their victims, each serial killer set a unique ritual for their murder, and these rituals are what betrays them in the end.

What makes a serial killer? There is a huge difference between killers who kill once in the heat of the moment, mass murderers who slaughter many people at once, and serial killers who follow a specific pattern to kill carefully selected victims.

Written by the forensic nurse who transformed the way the FBI profiles and catches serial killers, this thought-provoking book takes an intimate look at the creation of the Behavioral Science Unit–the inspiration for Hulu’s Mastermind documentary. In the 1970s, the FBI created the...

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