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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.

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.

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.

Few serial killers in history have garnered as much attention as Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer. Although Dahmer killed 17 young men and boys, it was not so much the number of people he killed that makes him stand out among famous serial killers, but more so the acts of depravity that he committed on the corpses of his victims. In this true crime story, you will listen to how Dahmer transitioned from a loner to serial killer, committing numerous unnatural acts along the way such as necrophilia and cannibalism.

"Mindhunter crossed with American Gothic. This chilling story has the ghostly unease of a nightmare."—Michael Cannell, author of Incendiary: The Psychiatrist, the Mad Bomber and the Invention of Criminal Profiling The pulse-pounding account of the first time in history that the FBI’s...

Un audiolibro che prova a fare il punto su uno dei misteri più cupi della storia italiana. Un'indagine sul campo fatta tra le pieghe di una regione, il Veneto, in cui certi fenomeni eversivi sembrano non essere ancora del tutto sopiti e che, dopo la tremenda scia di sangue lasciata da Ludwig, ha rimosso la memoria di quel terrore assurdo e inspiegabile. Una rimozione pericolosa, come purtroppo hanno dimostrato ampiamente i fatti di cronaca degli ultimi anni.

A Correggio, fra il 1939 e il 1940, Leonarda Cianciulli uccise tre donne, impadronendosi dei loro beni e distruggendone i corpi. Nel 1946 il processo alla "saponificatrice" ebbe una risonanza enorme in un'Italia che, ormai uscita dal fascismo, riscopriva il fascino un po' morboso dei grandi fattacci di nera. A fare di quest'assassina seriale un archetipo della criminalità femminile non è solo la particolare efferatezza dei tre delitti, ma l'immagine complessiva che la giustizia, la psichiatria, i giornali e l'opinione pubblica restituirono della vicenda.

Murder is the most vile crime known to man. It can be triggered by love or money or sex. Those are the three big ticket items for homicide. But people are strange. They will kill for the most obscure and ridiculous of reasons. In 30 years covering murder, I have discovered each one has its own flavour. Cops and friends can be stunned by the evil lurking within a seemingly ordinary man or woman. In this collection of some of the most memorable cases I've reported on, there are serial killers, rich kid monsters, football stars and wives in pursuit of hormone-charged hijinks....

As investigators brought out the bagged remains of several dozen young men from a small Chicago ranch home and paraded them in front of a crowd of TV reporters and spectators, attention quickly turned to the owner of the house. John Gacy was an upstanding citizen, active in local politics and charities, famous for his themed parties and appearances as Pogo the Clown. But in the winter of 1978-79, he became known as one of many so-called “sex murderers” who had begun gaining notoriety in the random brutality of the 1970s.

Ben Field was good looking and charming, and as a passionate English literature student, knew the power of words to seduce. In the village of Maids Moreton in Buckinghamshire, 69-year-old Peter Farquhar, an eminent teacher and author, found Ben’s presence irresistible. They set up home together, underwent a ‘betrothal’ ceremony at a church, but all along Ben was gaslighting his partner and secretly poisoning him. A year later Peter was dead.

Sont-elles pires que les hommes ? L'univers des tueurs en série, et tout le fantasme qui entoure ces êtres capables des actes les plus barbares, attire et interroge. Le nombre de séries, de films, de documentaires, de programmes de télévision comme "Faites entrer l'accusé" ou "Snapped", et de livres basés sur ces affaires plus que macabres le montrent. Mais en dépit de cet engouement médiatique, il y a très peu d'ouvrages consacrés aux tueuses en série. Pourtant ces femmes multi-criminelles existent. Un peu moins nombreuses, certes, mais tout aussi tordues que les hommes !

Era il 1991, una ragazzina persa nel bosco della vita abbandona la sua famiglia. Cerca la sua strada. Non sa ancora che un anno dopo, questa l'avrebbe condotta in Italia dove incontrerà il suo lupo cattivo. Sola, spaventata e soprattutto soggiogata, chiede soccorso ad un amico lontano: "Aiutami!! Ci sono ragazze prigioniere, ragazze scomparse e poliziotti coinvolti!". Fu così che la polizia italiana iniziò a indagare i lupi cattivi, seguendo la falsa pista su un presunto traffico di esseri umani.