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By day, Sam Smithers was a deacon of his church in Tampa, Florida. But by night, he was a serial killer, who picked up prostitutes and brutally murdered them. This is the story of one man's twisted, double life.

In October, 1996, young, pretty, and petite women began vanishing off the streets of Poughkeepsie, New York. Most were prostitutes and some were addicts. By August, 1998, the toll had reached eight, when a prostitute told police she had barely escaped being strangled by Kendall Francois, 27, a 6'4", 300-lb. middle school hall monitor whose slovenly personal hygiene had earned him the nickname "Stinky". Inside his house, the smell was worse, as investigators discovered a tangle of rotting flesh and bones.

Jack lo Squartatore è stato il primo serial killer dell'età moderna: da quei lontani e fumosi giorni del 1888 a oggi il suo nome è diventato una leggenda, i suoi omicidi brutali oltre ogni immaginazione sono diventati un paradigma del male. Dopo aver seminato il terrore nell'East End londinese con i suoi crimini bestiali, lo Squartatore infatti è entrato nell'immaginario collettivo e, nonostante l'inaudita efferatezza delle sue azioni, oggi è addirittura un'icona pop, con tanto di tour operator che organizzano escursioni nei luoghi dei suoi delitti.

In July 1957, the press descended in droves on Eastbourne. An inquest had just been opened into the suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of Mrs Bobbie Hullett. She died after months of apparent barbiturate abuse - drugs prescribed by Dr. John Bodkin Adams. The inquest brought to the surface years of whispered suspicion that had swept through the town.

Inspirateur de nombreux films et livres, le Zodiaque, appelé aussi le tueur du Zodiaque est un tueur en série non identifié à qui sont attribués de façon certaine 5 meurtres, 2 tentatives de meurtre et un enlèvement commis dans le nord de la Californie en 1968 et 1969.

David Richard Berkowitz, aussi connu sous le surnom de "Fils de Sam", est un tueur en série américain qui a avoué le meurtre de six personnes et en a blessé plusieurs autres à New York dans les années 1970. Après avoir attaqué plusieurs personnes avec un couteau, il achète en 1976 un revolver Charter Arms Bulldog calibre 44 et tire au hasard et à bout portant sur des passants. Il continue pendant plus d'un an ses crimes, sans être inquiété par la police qui n'a aucune piste.

La nuit venue, Richard Ramirez, mieux connu sous le nom de Nightstalker, le prédateur nocturne, arpente les rues à la recherche de sang frais, massacrant au hasard de ses rencontres hommes et femmes jusque dans leurs propres maisons. Le tueur est totalement imprévisible. Ses crimes vont du simple cambriolage, au viol avec violence et au meurtre. Tandis qu'un État tout entier est sous le coup de la peur, un tueur en série hante la Californie, pénétrant dans les maisons de ses victimes la nuit pendant leur sommeil.

Nashville - a haven for aspiring musicians and a magnet for country-music fans. By the time Pat Postiglione arrived there in 1980, it was also the scene of an unsolved series of vicious sex slayings that served as a harbinger of worse to come. As Postiglione was promoted from street-beat Metro cop to detective sergeant heading Music City’s elite cold-case Murder Squad, some of America’s most bizarre, elusive, and savage serial killers were calling Nashville home. And during the next two decades, the body count climbed.

In Sons of Cain - a book that fills the gap between dry academic studies and sensationalized true crime - investigative historian Peter Vronsky examines our understanding of serial killing from its prehistoric anthropological evolutionary dimensions in the pre-civilization era (c. 15,000 BC) to today. Delving further back into human history and deeper into the human psyche than Serial Killers - Vronsky's 2004 book, which has been called "the definitive history of the phenomenon of serial murder" - he focuses strictly on sexual serial killers.

Pezzan e Brunoro hanno realizzato la più completa ed approfondita analisi mai fatta finora su uno dei misteri italiani più inquietanti: il caso di Unabomber. Un incubo che mischia agghiaccianti azioni criminali, clamorosi errori investigativi e, per alcuni, anche sinistri messaggi in codice. Il folle dinamitardo soprannominato Unabomber infatti ha seminato il panico tra Veneto e Friuli Venezia Giulia per anni senza lasciare la minima traccia: mai una rivendicazione, mai un passo falso.

On July 20, 2012 in Aurora, Colorado, a man in dark body armor and a gas mask entered a midnight premiere of The Dark Knight Rises with a tactical shotgun, a high-capacity assault rifle, and a sidearm. Soon twelve were dead and fifty-eight were wounded. A Dark Night in Aurora uses the twenty-three hours of unredacted interview transcripts never seen by the public and Reid’s research to bring the listener inside the mind of a mass murderer. The result is chilling, gripping study of abnormal psychology and how a lovely boy named Jimmy became a killer.

Charles Manson è l'uomo che ha annegato in un mare di sangue il sogno del flower power: insieme alla sua "Family" è stato il protagonista di alcuni dei crimini più efferati della storia americana, come il massacro di Cielo Drive, in cui l'attrice Sharon Tate (all'epoca incinta) venne trucidata con più di 160 coltellate, o gli omicidi LaBianca.

Who was Inspector Frederick Abberline, the lead detective in the Jack the Ripper case? Why did he and his fellow policemen fail to catch the most notorious serial killer of Victorian England? What was he like as a man, as a professional policeman, one of the best detectives of his generation? And how did he investigate the sequence of squalid, bloody murders that repelled - and fascinated - contemporaries and has been the subject of keen controversy ever since? Here at last in M. J. Trow’s compelling biography of this preeminent Victorian policeman are the answers to these intriguing questions.

Albert Henri DeSalvo, "L'étrangleur de Boston", a été condamné le 18 janvier 1967 à la prison à vie pour agressions sexuelles et vols à main armée. Il a également été accusé, suite à ses propres aveux d'être "l'étrangleur de Boston", responsable du meurtre de 13 femmes entre 1962 et 1964. Il pénétrait dans l'appartement de femmes seules, les agressait sexuellement et les tuait par strangulation.
Voici son histoire.

As a child, she was abandoned, abused and raped. By her teens, she was deep into a lifestyle of hitchhiking, petty crime, and the sex trade. In her twisted mind, uncontrollable bouts of violence were pure survival skills.

Il delitto dell'Olgiata rappresenta a tutt'oggi uno dei casi di cronaca nera più complicati ed intricati che la storia italiana ricordi. Da un punto di vista letterario potrebbe essere addirittura definito come un classico “enigma della camera chiusa”, ma una definizione del genere sarebbe sicuramente riduttiva dato che qui non ci troviamo di fronte ad un'invenzione letteraria. Qui purtroppo abbiamo a che fare con dei fatti.

Theodore Robert Bundy, dit "le tueur de femmes", est né le 24 novembre 1946 à Burlington. Il est mort le 24 janvier 1989 à Starke. Ted Bundy est un tueur en série américain. Il faisait des études d'avocat et travaillait notamment pour le ministère de la justice et en tant que bénévole auprès d'institutions publiques.

In 1860, a sloop drifted into New York Harbor. Not a soul on board - just blood from cabin to deck. Looted coins led to Bowery thug Albert Hicks, the ax slayer who turned his shipmates into chum. His crimes were absolutely fiendish. His execution was pure ballyhoo. It drew nearly ten thousand bloodthirsty sightseers to the city - including the enterprising showman P. T. Barnum. Refreshments were served as the most notorious and unrepentant mass murderer of the era made history as one of America’s first celebrity killers.

With makeup and an affected Elvis pout, Tucson’s Charlie Schmid was a crude parody of a bad-boy heartthrob. In 1964, he still had a hold on girls who’d follow him anywhere. He murdered three of them. It was the dawn of the free-love movement - perfect for a magnetic madman who’d also foreshadow its end a few years later in the malignant charisma of Charles Manson. The inspiration for a classic story by Joyce Carol Oates, Schmid, the most bizarre serial killer of any era, was the epitome of a narcissist flattered into believing he could get away with murder.

A series of brutal home invasions terrified Los Angeles in 1937. They ended in Chicago a year later with the arrest of African American teenager Robert Nixon, igniting racial tensions in an already appallingly divided city. Tortured in custody and portrayed by the press in the most lurid and flagrantly racist terms, Nixon faced an all-white jury. It would be the fastest conviction in the history of Cook County. The case against Nixon is a still-relevant examination of bigotry, suppressed rage, and the making of a murderer.