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This highly revelatory book, based on original research and completely new analysis, presents a compelling new suspect as the most notorious serial killer of all time. Using a different analytical approach, for the first time, Sarah Bax Horton identifies a named perpetrator as Jack the Ripper by...

In January 1978, I slept in my bed at the Chi Omega sorority house at Florida State University as Ted Bundy stalked nearby. He grabbed an oak log from a stack of firewood, slipped through a back door with a broken padlock, and headed upstairs.He began twisting doorknobs. Room 9 was open, and he quietly and quickly killed one of my sleeping sorority sisters. Across the hall, he found another unlocked door and murdered again. Then, he turned the knob to my bedroom and found it was open. I remember the attack vividly. But Bundy wasn’t my first brush with death, and he wasn’t my last.

Georgia Williams’ murder at the hands of college pal Jamie Reynolds was a crime that shocked the nation: chillingly executed and horrific in its sexual depravity. But when Georgia’s devastated mother, Lynnette, and father, Steve, questioned the events leading to their daughter’s death...

“It’s me, love … I’m The Yorkshire Ripper.” With new material from personal interviews with Peter Sutcliffe – I’m the Yorkshire Ripper offers a completely new insight into the shocking life and times of one of Britain’s most notorious serial killers. When Peter Sutcliffe spoke...

Lindsey always knew she wanted to be a detective. Her inspiration came after reading about the murders committed by Ted Bundy, who grew up in her hometown of Tacoma, Washington. Also seared into her memory was the 1986 murder of a young girl who'd been out for a bike ride when she went missing. The teen was later found murdered, but the case was never solved. The senseless killing of an innocent young girl would leave a black cloud over Tacoma for three decades.

On February 13, 2017, two Indiana teenagers, Abigail Williams, 13, and Liberty German, 14, went for a walk in the woods near the abandoned Monon High Bridge. They never returned home.

In 2019, Adrian Langenscheid's debut book, True Crime Deutschland, was published and rose from nowhere to the top of the winner's podium in the genre-relevant categories. Almost 2 years and 6 books later, Langenscheid is one of the best-known true crime authors in Germany. For the seventh work in his successful series, the bestselling author once again researched some of the most spectacular German criminal cases of recent decades.

For decades, America has been considered to be the natural home of serial killers. Infamous names like Ted Bundy or Jeffrey Dahmer are internationally known and feared, and rightly so. But what if, just south of the border, there was a far more active network of serial killers? What if the...

I 1997 blev den 11-årige Jun Hases afhuggede hoved fundet hængt op i et gitterværk ved hovedindgangen til en skole i Kobe. I munden havde han en seddel, hvor der med rødt blæk stod, at politiet skulle prøve at finde ham. Det viste sig, at morderen var en kun 14-årig dreng, og at Jun var langt fra hans første offer. DØDEN I SKOLEGÅRDEN 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. Du får et indblik i det mytiske land gennem nogle af de mest spektakulære drab.

I årene 1988 og 1989 fandt nogle af de mest grusomme mord i Japans historie sted. Den unge mand Tsutomu Miyazaki kipnappede i perioden 4 piger, der blot var mellem 4 og 7 år gamle. Han lemlæstede og dræbte dem på brutal vis. Bagefter forgreb han sig seksuelt på ligene, og han gik så langt, at han spiste en af sine ofres hånd. Det gjorde ham til den mest forhadte skikkelse i Japan og i pressen fik han tilnavne såsom rottemanden, Dracula og den lille pigemorder.

I midten af 1970’erne begik seriemorderen Ted Bundy en række brutale voldtægter og drab i USA. Han blev fanget og tiltalt for mord, men det lykkedes ham at flygte under retssagen i 1977 og igen lidt senere på året. Han nåede at begå tre mord til inden, han blev dømt til døden i 1979. CIGARETFLUGTEN er en del af FAMØSE FANGEFLUGTER, en true crime serie om menneskers trang til frihed. Det er sande fortællinger om kriminelle, der kæmper for at undslippe den monotone tilværelse bag tremmer på de mest udspekulerede måder.

Après le succès des tomes 1 et 2 de Gardez l’œil ouvert, la youtubeuse Victoria Charlton revient avec un ouvrage aussi intrigant que captivant. Dans ce nouvel opus, tueurs en série, kidnappeurs et malfaiteurs en tout genre nous entraînent dans les arcanes du crime. Avec la délicatesse et la rigueur qui la caractérisent, l’autrice prend la peine de discuter avec les proches de certaines victimes, ouvrant ainsi à ses lecteurs des perspectives uniques sur des affaires irrésolues.

How to Find Zodiac includes an exclusive interview between author Jarett Kobek, true crime aficionado Rebecca Lavoie, and host of True Crime Obsessed, Patrick Hinds. This title encourages you to forget everything you think you know about the infamous killer as it reinvestigates what's possible within the case and poses a new suggestion of who's to blame.

Under åren 1988 och 1989 ägde några av de mest brutala morden i Japans historia rum. Den unge mannen Tsutomu Miyazaki kidnappade fyra flickor som bara var mellan 4 och 7 år gamla, lemlästade och mördade dem. Han misshandlade sedan liken sexuellt och åt till och med upp den ena handen på...

Personer som kan medla mellan de tre världarna i det indonesiska universumet kallas "dukun", för trollkarlar eller shamaner, och sägs ha extraordinära förmågor som förs vidare från mästare till lärlingar. Ibland innebär inte mästarens död att lärlingen förlorar kontakten med...

Sie nennen mich den Puppenmacher und sie haben mich gefunden! Ich bin einer der meistgesuchten Serienkiller in den USA, trotzdem will das FBI verhandeln - aus Angst, dass ich die entführte junge Frau töte oder ihr Schlimmeres antue. Vielleicht haben sie Recht, vielleicht auch nicht. Im Grunde mag ich Agent William Carter, aber es wird Zeit für ein Spiel zwischen ihm und mir. Und wir beide wissen, dass es am Ende nur einer schaffen wird. Also dann Carter... lass uns spielen. Aber sage am Ende nicht, du hättest nicht gewusst, auf was du dich einlässt.

Are Psychopaths natural born killers or is society somehow to blame? Many killers have expressed feelings of alienation and have shown evidence of harboring violent fantasies before they commit to killing. Either way, these people are often created by the society they live in. We need to question ourselves and our society to find the answers to why these people kill. It is a mad world mankind has created and such a world is bound to create mad offspring—but for these psychopathic couples, murder is just a game.

Eine Reise in die Vergangenheit mit Berichten von spannenden historischen Kriminalfällen. Wie in ihrem Podcast Früher war mehr Verbrechen skizzieren die beiden Prähistorikerinnen Nina Batram und Katharina Kolvenbach mögliche Lösungen weit zurückliegender Fälle und Cold Cases und deren Relevanz für die heutige Zeit - dabei stets respektvoll, mit viel Empathie und Sachverstand. Sie beleuchten z. B. eine mordende Familie, eine Giftmörderin, eine falsche Ehefrau, einen intriganten Adelsmörder und den vielleicht bekanntesten Serienmörder der Geschichte: Jack the Ripper.

In March 2011, a major police investigation was opened in the search for missing Swindon local, Sian O'Callaghan. When taxi driver Christopher Halliwell was arrested, Detective Superintendent Stephen Fulcher didn't expect what happened next. After the body of another missing girl, Becky Godden-Edwards, was uncovered, the police had two murders on their hands and one suspect, but how many more unsolved murders could Christopher Halliwell be responsible for? 

In the ninth volume of his True Crime series, Germany's bestselling True Crime author Adrian Langenscheid once again unleashes heart-pounding, addictive reading. It offers a breathtaking, deeply harrowing portrait of human abysses that arouses powerful emotions precisely because of its cool, factually neutral depiction. Free of any sensationalism, thirteen True Crime short stories retell some of the most spectacular Canadian criminal cases of recent decades.