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On the morning of July 1, 1800, a surveyor and mapmaker named Cayetano Diaz opened the window of his study in Guatemala City to find a horrific sight: a pair of severed breasts. Offering a meticulously researched and evocative account of the quest to find the perpetrator and understand the motives behind such a brutal act, this volume pinpoints the sensational crime as a watershed moment in Guatemalan history that radically changed the nature of justice and the established social order.

“Sam, could you do me a favor?” Thus begins a story that has now become part of America's true-crime hall of fame. It is a gory, grotesque tale befitting a Stephen King novel. It is also a David and Goliath saga - the story of a young lawyer fresh from the public defender's office whose first client in private practice turns out to be the worst serial killer in our nation's history. This is a gripping true crime narrative that reenacts the gruesome killings and the famous trial that shocked a nation.

This audiobook is an independent narrative based solely on publicly available documents, including indictments, court filings, press releases, and verified news coverage as of August 19, 2025. It is not affiliated with, nor authorized by, the authors of any existing book, the courts, or law enforcement agencies. All interpretations, summaries, and commentary are original and intended for informational purposes only. The presumption of innocence applies until proven guilty in a court of law.

El 24 de enero del año 2003, Alfredo Galán Sotillo salió de su casa con la intención de dar una vuelta por Madrid y, cuando encontrara una condición favorable, matar a alguien. A cualquiera. Al llegar a una calle céntrica vio una portería abierta y entró. Allí encontró a un hombre dando de comer a su hijo pequeño. Le pidió que se arrodillara y, ante la mirada del niño, lo ejecutó. Aquella fue la primera de las nueve víctimas del que se convertiría en uno de los criminales en serie más buscados en España, apodado por la prensa como el Asesino de la Baraja.

Joaquín Ferrándiz era un buen hijo, un empleado sin tacha y un amigo en el que confiar. Pero el yerno perfecto para cualquier vecina ocultaba a un depredador, capaz de sembrar de cadáveres de mujeres la provincia de Castellón sin que lo descubrieran. El cazador que actuaba los fines de semana estranguló a cinco jóvenes entre 1995 y 1996 y arrojó sus cuerpos en descampados y charcas mientras seguía con su vida anodina. La Guardia Civil lo detuvo en 1998, cuando ya había atacado a otras dos chicas que lograron escapar de una muerte segura.

From the depths of the Grand Canyon to the towering peaks of Yosemite, Murder on the Trail delves into chilling stories of killers, mysterious disappearances, and other harrowing crimes that have occurred in US national parks, including those involving: Cary Stayner, Yosemite Park Killer; Gary Hilton, National Forest Killer; the tragic story of vanlifer Gabby Petito; Toni and Harold Henthorn; and more.

Even as security has grown ever stronger and the techniques to catch criminals are more advanced than ever, serial killers still find a way to conduct their murderous business. In the 21st century, violent killers have used modern technology to help them commit their horrific crimes. Some look to the internet to stalk their victims, while the dark web is home to a shadowy world of illegal weapon sales, murder-for-hire sites and criminal forums providing tips on how to kill and get away with it.

Ole Lindboe ser nærmere på nogle af historiens mest berygtede seriemordere og politiets forsøg på at fange dem og standse deres ugerninger. Bogen undersøger også seriemordernes psykologi, deres historie og de ting, mange af dem har til fælles.

Dennis Lynn Rader (born March 9, 1945), better known as the BTK Killer, the BTK Strangler, or simply BTK, is an American serial killer who murdered at least ten people in Wichita and Park City, Kansas, between 1974 and 1991. Although he occasionally killed or attempted to kill men and children, Rader typically targeted women. His victims were often attacked in their homes, then bound, sometimes with objects from their homes, and either suffocated with a plastic bag or manually strangled with a ligature. The following recording is from Radar’s courtroom sentencing on June 27, 2005.

"Il macellaio di Plainfield" è il soprannome con cui la stampa americana ribattezzò Ed Gein, un solitario contadino del Wisconsin, i cui crimini vennero alla luce alla fine degli anni '50. Dietro l'apparenza di un uomo schivo e insignificante, Gein nascondeva un mondo di ossessioni morbose: profanava tombe e utilizzava resti umani per creare manufatti macabri, tra cui maschere e arredi. L'omicidio di due donne portò a scoprire il suo raccapricciante laboratorio domestico, trasformando un caso di provincia in un incubo nazionale.

"Gli assassini della brughiera" è il nome con cui la stampa britannica ribattezzò Ian Brady e Myra Hindley, responsabili di una serie di omicidi che sconvolsero l'Inghilterra negli anni '60. La coppia, all'apparenza ordinaria, attirava giovani vittime per poi torturarle e ucciderle, seppellendone i corpi nelle brughiere di Saddleworth Moor. I loro crimini, rivelati da registrazioni e fotografie raccapriccianti, misero a nudo una malvagità glaciale che colpì profondamente l'opinione pubblica.

Luigi Chiatti, noto come il "mostro di Foligno", sconvolse l'Italia nei primi anni '90 con i suoi efferati delitti. Giovane geometra dall'apparenza insospettabile, rapiva e uccideva bambini, spinto da impulsi oscuri e da un profondo disagio interiore. I suoi crimini, accompagnati da lettere anonime inviate alla stampa e alle autorità, gettarono nel panico la comunità umbra e segnarono una delle pagine più cupe della cronaca nera italiana.

Kathleen Richards was just 17 when she and her sister Deirdre found themselves on the doorstep of 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester, seeking lodgings from a seemingly friendly local couple: Fred and Rose West. While growing up in poverty-stricken Dublin in the 1960s, Kathleen was abused from a...

From the true crime author of Murderabilia, a geographic telling of some of the most notorious but lesser-known murders for each US State. Filled with hundreds of entries organized by location, 50 States of Murder is a lively and chilling work of storytelling and an authoritative survey of the...

In the fall of 1916, New York housemaid Augusta Steinbach fell in love with a man she met through a matrimonial advertisement in her local newspaper. She traveled to Detroit to marry her correspondent, but in March 1917, she mysteriously disappeared. What began as a routine search for a missing person turned into a baffling case of deception, bigamy and murder. Follow detectives as they unravel the tangled web spun by Michigan's original lonely hearts killer—a criminal mastermind the Detroit News dubbed "one of America's master outlaws."

Movies such as The Silence of the Lambs, Seven, American Psycho, and many others have created myths about serial killers that need to be dispelled: If you think that most serial killers are eccentric, white, male intellectuals, then you had better explore Killing for Sport to learn the truth. While other profilers tend to conceal the clear facts behind complex technical language and psychobabble, investigator Pat Brown actually tells it like it is.

" Personne ne sortira indemne de l’affaire Fourniret, pas FRANCIS NACHBAR même vous, Monsieur le Procureur." Cette phrase, Fourniret l’a assénée quelques minutes après sa première rencontre avec le procureur Nachbar. C’était le 3 juillet 2004, lors des fouilles dans le parc du château du Sautou, dans les Ardennes, où furent découvert les corps de deux de ses victimes. Le monstre ne s’est pas trompé. Dix-huit ans après, ces mots résonnent encore comme une mauvaise litanie.

Susan Denise Atkins (May 7, 1948-September 24, 2009) was an American convicted murderer who was a member of Charles Manson's "Family." Manson's followers committed a series of nine murders at four locations in California over a period of five weeks in the summer of 1969. Known within the Manson family as Sexy Sadie, Atkins was convicted for her participation in eight of these killings, including the most notorious, the Tate murders in 1969. The following interview is from 1978 while Atkins was incarcerated at the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla, CA.

Kenneth Alessio Bianchi (born May 22, 1951) is an American serial killer, kidnapper, and rapist. He is known for the Hillside Strangler murders which he committed with his cousin Angelo Buono Jr. in Los Angeles in 1977, as well as for two more murders in Washington State as the sole perpetrator. Bianchi is currently serving a sentence of life imprisonment in Washington State Penitentiary for these crimes. He was also at one time a suspect in the Alphabet murders, three unsolved murders in his home city of Rochester, New York, from 1971 to 1973. Bianchi was most recently denied parole in 2025.

Roger Reece Kibbe (May 21, 1939-February 28, 2021) was an American serial killer and rapist known as the "I-5 Strangler". Kibbe found all but one of his victims on freeways around Sacramento, California. In 1991, he was sentenced to 25 years to life imprisonment for the death of Darcie Frackenpohl. On February 28, 2021, in Mule Creek State Prison, Kibbe was strangled to death by his cellmate.