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Dramatizado En la década de los 60, en la ciudad de Boston, todas las mujeres están aterrorizadas y no quieren estar solas bajo ningun concepto en sus casas debido la actividad de un misterioso estrangulador que se las arregla con pasmosa habilidad para introducirse en las casas de las mujeres de cualquier edad, para violarlas y posteriormente asesinarlas con gran crueldad.

Max Gufler es un viajante de comercio de mediana edad y aspecto anodino, que en su infancia sufrió una lesión cerebral y desde entonces vive atormentado por terribles dolores de cabeza. Lleva una vida aparentemente normal, pero en realidad es un violador y asesino en serie, de aficiones fetichistas. Vamos a poder verle violar y asesinar a una joven autoestopista que ha recogido en la carretera; matar a un compañero de trabajo al que envidia por ser más joven y mejor vendedor que él; y violar y asesinar a una viuda que respondió a un anuncio suyo en el periódico.

Dramatizado Hannover, Alemania, 1918. Son tiempos de escasez y miseria, en los que sólo acudiendo al mercado negro pueden conseguirse alimentos. Friedrich Haarman es un estraperlista que comparte su vida con Rudolph, un joven desertor del ejército que en una noche de locura se suicida de un tiro en la boca.Haarman trocea su cadáver y vende la carne valiéndose de sus relaciones con un policía corrupto, Karl, al que dice que se trata de carne de caballo.

El hijo del secretario de Estado del Presidente Grant fue uno de los más famosos criminales de su tiempo, un sádico asesino de niños que además practicaba el canibalismo con los cuerpos de sus víctimas. Ya en la infancia empezó a descargar sus instintos sádicos sobre los niños negros, vapuleándolos sin piedad y llegando a castrarlos. De adulto, siendo un hombre casado y padre de seis hijos, se aprovechaba de su trabajo como pintor de brocha gorda para ganarse la confianza de los niños, a los que secuestraba, torturaba y asesinaba.

En hemtrevlig doft av matlagning letade sig till hyresgästerna på övervåningen. Men på natten väntade ett helt annat öde... de blev drogade och mördade av den gamla hyresvärden. Dorothea Puente var inte någon stereotypisk mormor. Efter att ha haft otur med män såg hon till att bli självförsörjande genom att inleda en brottskarriär. Hennes aktiviteter inkluderade engagemang i bordeller, förfalskade checkar från ex-partners och att stjäla andras försäkringspengar.

Seriemördaren och våldtäksmannen Peter Tobin levde ett liv fyllt med begravda hemligheter. Han fick tre livstidsdomar efter att ha terroriserat Glasgow i 15 långa år. Vem var han egentligen? Och vad gjorde han sig skyldig till? Studenten Angelika Kluk var 26 år gammal när hon sommaren 2006 besökte Skottland för andra året i rad. Det hade varit en helt vanlig sommar för Angelika, tills hon försvann den 24 september. Senare samma vecka hittade polisen hennes döda kropp under en närliggande kyrkas golv.

American-based foreign correspondent Ivor Davis delivers a gripping "I was there" eyewitness, inside story about the most notorious murder spree of the 20th century. In Manson Exposed: A Reporter's 50-Year Journey into Madness and Murder, Davis is the brutally honest guide to this true crime horror story. In this mix of personal memoir, criticism, and investigative journalism, Davis delivers a truly original take on the byzantine case that terrified and mesmerized the nation, including his new conclusion that the Beatles didn't make them do it.

In December 1932, as the Depression tightened its grip, the body of a woman was found in Queens Park, Sydney. It was a popular park. There were houses in plain view. Yet this woman had been violently murdered without anyone noticing. Other equally brutal and shocking murders of women in public places were to follow. Australia's first serial killer was at large.

In the fall of 1999, a 22-year-old woman was discovered naked and bleeding on the streets of a small New Mexico town south of Albuquerque. She was chained to a padlocked metal collar. The tale she told authorities - of being beaten, raped, and tortured with electric shock - was unthinkable. Until she led them to 59-year-old David Ray Parker, his 39-year-old fiancee Cindy Hendy, and the lakeside trailer they called their "toy box." What the FBI uncovered was unprecedented in the annals of serial crime.

In 1865 France, a mere youth devises a way to fame and fortune through murder and mayhem. Thomas Hyland, connoisseur of crime, student of violence, and teller of murders tells another true story of crime set in France during the reign of Louis Napoleon. It concerns a missing family and several freshly opened graves.

Some of the scariest and most interesting criminals are broken down and analyzed by Dr. Kris Mohandie, an expert police and forensic psychologist who has met - and evaluated - some of the most dangerous people who have walked among us. This book has numerous first-hand accounts of his work, and interviews for cases like the Angel of Death serial killer, racist serial assassin Joseph Paul Franklin, and even the O.J. Simpson case.

Perhaps the most notorious American murderer of the 20th century, Charles Manson's legacy extends far beyond his horrific crimes. As the wild-eyed, swastika-tattooed, nightmarishly charismatic leader of the Manson Family, he was convicted of the brutal killings of nine people in 1971, including the Tate-LaBianca murders of seven in Los Angeles over two hot August nights in 1969.

One Sunday morning in 1993 a 16-year-old girl named Eliza Claps goes missing from a church in the centre of Potenza, Italy. Shortly before her disappearance, Elisa had met Danilo Restivo, a strange local boy with a fetish for cutting women's hair on the back of buses. Elisa's family are convinced that Resitvo is responsible for their daughter's disappearance, but he is protected by local bigwigs: by his Sicilian father, by a doctor with links to organised crime, by a priest who had vices of his own. Years go by, and Elisa's family can find only false leads.

On a picturesque street in Sacramento County, California, three healthy saplings stand side by side. But what they symbolize are the deaths of three innocent people - two of them children. The man who took their lives, then planted trees in their honor, was their own husband and father. Hearts went out to Jack Barron when his wife, Irene, died mysteriously in her sleep. Soon after, his two young children were also found dead in their beds. Barron claimed they suffered from the same rare genetic disorder as their mother.

As oil-boom money poured into Anchorage, Alaska the city quickly became a prime destination for the seedier elements of society: prostitutes, pimps, con men, and criminals of all breeds looking to cash in. However, something even worse lurked in their midst. To all who knew him, Robert Hansen was a typical hardworking businessman, husband, and father. But hidden beneath the veneer of mild respectability was a monster whose depraved appetites could not be sated. From 1971 to 1983, Hansen was a human predator, stalking women on the edges of Anchorage society.

A gripping true crime story and an insight into the motivations of a truly evil man, Babes in the Wood by Graham Bartlett with Peter James is a fascinating account of what became a thirty-two year fight for justice. On 9 October 1986, nine-year-olds Nicola Fellows and Karen Hadaway went out to...

Georg T. erstickte seine Frau und verbrannte ihre Leiche auf der Straße. Über die Motive schwieg er. Tanja G. tötete ihre neugeborenen Kinder, versteckte sie im Kleiderschrank. Die forensische Psychiaterin Nahlah Saimeh weiß, dass es meist profane Gründe sind, die aus Menschen Mörder machen: Selbsthass, Eifersucht, Einsamkeit oder Angst. Sie zeigt, wie alltäglich das Böse ist und warum sich eine Gesellschaft gerade deswegen ihre Menschlichkeit bewahren muss.

In 1902, at the age of 11, Carl Panzram broke into a neighbour’s home and stole some apples, a pie, and a revolver...During his two-year detention, Carl was repeatedly beaten, humiliated, and raped by the school staff...Kill 'Em All is a chilling and gripping account of one of the most brutal and gruesome true crime stories in American history. Ryan Green’s riveting narrative draws the listener into the real-live horror experienced by the victims and has all the elements of a classic thriller.

Over the course of seven months in 1988, eleven women disappeared off the streets of New Bedford, Massachusetts, a gloomy, drug-addled coastal town that was once the whaling capital of the world. Nine turned up dead. Two were never found. And the perpetrator remains unknown to this day. In Killing Season, Smith takes listeners into a close-knit community of working-class men and women, an underworld of prostitution and drug abuse, and the halls of New England law enforcement to tell the story of an epic failure of justice.

Criminals reveal who they are and where they live not just from how they commit their crimes, but also from the locations they choose. This is the claim of renowned criminal psychologist and profiler David Canter. In this groundbreaking book, now fully revised and updated, Canter leads us into the labyrinthine psyche of serial killers, rapists, and other violent criminals, and reveals how geographical profiling is changing the way police work and our understanding of the criminal mind.