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The tragic story of the murders of three women committed over three decades by one cold-blooded man in Maine's North Woods. Jennie Cyr disappeared in 1977. Jerilyn Towers vanished in 1982. Lynn Willette never came home on a night in 1994. Each woman had a relationship with James Hicks, who in 2000 confessed to murdering them, dismembering their bodies, and burying the remains alongside rural roads in Aroostook County. This is their story.

Seattle harbors a dark and violent history that stretches back to a bloody battle between natives and settlers in 1856. In the early 1900s, Dr. Linda Hazzard stole money from countless patients after starving them to death in her infamous sanitarium. Three robbers opened fire in the notorious Wah Mee gambling club in 1983, killing thirteen people in the state's deadliest mass homicide. Some of America's most notorious serial killers wrought terror in Seattle, including the Green River Killer, Gary Ridgway.

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."

The behind-the-scenes story of the quintessential film noir and cult classic, Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity—its true crime origins and crucial impact on film history—is told for the first time in this riveting narrative published for the film's 80th anniversary. From real crime to serial...

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.

During the early 1960s, just as Beatlemania was exploding throughout the United Kingdom, a pair of psychopathic British killers began preying on the very young, innocent, and helpless of Greater Manchester. Between 1963 and 1965, Ian Brady and his lover and partner, Myra Hindley, were responsible for the abduction, rape, torture, and murder of five young victims, ranging in age from ten to seventeen years old. The English press dubbed the grisly series of homicides "the Moors Murders," named for the desolate landscape where three of the corpses were eventually discovered.

Henry Louis Wallace terrorized Charlotte, North Carolina, from May 1992 to March 1994. Wallace preyed on lower economic class Black women between seventeen and thirty-five years old. He knew most of his victims, some through his job at Taco Bell, and gained their trust with his friendly demeanor and gentle nature—concealing a monster fueled by drug abuse and rage against women.

By the time he was brought to trial in 1992, Soviet serial killer Andrei Chikatilo had killed more than fifty women and children, often sexually abusing them and leaving their bodies mutilated beyond recognition. Although he was initially arrested in 1984, the police lacked enough evidence to pin the unsolved murders on him and he was able to torture and kill dozens more before his eventual conviction.

Nürnberg 1796: Das Leben der Anna Zwanziger ändert sich schlagartig, als ihr Mann verstirbt und sie mit ihren Kindern aus ihrem Zuhause geworfen wird. Die plötzlich vollkommen mittelose junge Frau jagt verzweifelt einem besseren Leben nach und stürzt sich in die Arme wohlhabender Männer - zunächst als Prostituierte, dann als Hausmädchen. Aber der so sehr erhoffte Wohlstand bleibt aus. Also schmiedet Anna einen ebenso heimtückischen, wie mörderischen Plan.

Rankiem 13 sierpnia 2018 roku, po powrocie z podróży służbowej, koleżanka podwiozła Shanann Watts do domu. Był to ostatni raz, kiedy ktokolwiek widział ją żywą. Następnego dnia zgłoszono zniknięcie kobiety i jej dwóch małych córeczek, Belli i Celeste. Mąż zaginionej Chris Watts, regularnie gościł w lokalnych wiadomościach, błagając o pomoc w odnalezieniu swojej rodziny.

I mitten av 1970-talet begick seriemördaren Ted Bundy en rad brutala våldtäkter och mord i USA. Han greps och åtalades för mord men lyckades först fly under rättegången 1977 och sedan igen senare samma år. Han lyckades begå ytterligare tre mord innan han slutligen dömdes till döden 1979. CIGARETTRYMNINGEN är det sjunde avsnittet i serien BERÖMDA FÄNGELSERYMNINGAR, en true crime-serie om fängslade människors frihetslängtan och deras kamp för att undkomma den monotona tillvaron bakom galler på de mest häpnadsväckande sätt.

Syväluotaava katsaus Aasian julmimpiin sarjamurhaajiin. Eräänä epämiellyttävän kylmänä ja kosteana iltana vuonna 1948 kaksi poliisia partioi Shinjukun alueella Tokiossa. Jostakin tuntemattomasta syystä toinen poliiseista huomasi jotain epäilyttävää kadulla liikkuvassa yksinäisessä pyöräilijässä, ja päätti pysäyttää tämän. Mies osoittautui paikalliseksi hautaustoimitsijaksi, joka kertoi kuljettavansa kotiin sukulaiseltaan saamiaan hedelmiä. Pyörän tarakalle kiinnitetystä hedelmälaatikossa ei kuitenkaan ollut mandariineja, kuten mies väitti.

Syväluotaava katsaus Aasian julmimpiin sarjamurhaajiin. Indonesian rikkaaseen mytologiaan kuuluu käsitys kolmesta rinnakkaisesta maailmasta sekä ihmisistä, jotka voivat liikkua näiden maailmojen välillä ja toimia viestinvälittäjinä. Tällaisia henkilöitä kutsutaan shamaaneiksi, meedioiksi tai velhoiksi. Jaavan kielessä heidät tunnetaan nimellä dukun, ja heillä katsotaan olevan erikoisia kykyjä, jotka siirtyvät usein mestarilta oppipojalle. Uskotaan, että mestaridukunit opastavat oppilaitaan jopa haudan takaa.

Syväluotaava katsaus Aasian julmimpiin sarjamurhaajiin. Lokakuun viimeisenä päivänä vuonna 2017, muun maailman juhliessa Halloweenia amerikkalaisten jalanjäljissä, kohautti Japania sanomalehti Mainichi Shimbun julkaisema juttu Tokion esikaupunkialueelta löytyneistä ruumiista. Aivan tavanomaisen oloisen 27-vuotiaan Takahiro Shiraishi-nimisen nuoren miehen asunnosta oli löydetty kahdeksan pakastinta täynnä erilaisessa mätänemisen vaiheissa olevia ruumiinosia.

Дарья Николаевна Салтыкова по прозвищу Салтычиха и "Людоедка" (1730 — 1801) — русская богатая помещица, вошедшая в историю как изощрённая садистка и серийная убийца, в отношении которой было доказано убийство 138 подвластных ей крепостных крестьян. Решением Сената и императрицы Екатерины Второй в 1768 году была лишена достоинства столбовой дворянки и приговорена к смертной казни, но позже мера наказания была изменена на пожизненное заключение в монастырской тюрьме, где осуждённая и умерла.

Til Halloween i 2017 beskrev en kryptisk artikel i en japansk avis, at politiet havde anholdt en mistænkt, efter de havde fundet ni lig i hans lejlighed uden for Tokyo. Den anholdte var en ung mand med et umiddelbart normalt liv, og ingen af naboerne havde haft fantasi til at forestille sig, at den mærkelige lugt fra mandens lejlighed stammede fra menneskelige rester.

Politiet og politikerne indså snart, at de aldrig havde oplevet en lignende forbrydelse på japansk jord, og der var ingen retningslinjer for, hvordan den makabre sag skulle håndteres …

When Peter Sutcliffe spoke those words to his wife Sonia following his arrest in 1981, it marked the end of a killing spree which had terrorised northern England for five years. The nation had been appalled yet gripped by the Ripper and was now fascinated by the man behind the headlines. But despite millions of words being written about the case since his arrest 40 years ago, the full Peter Sutcliffe story has never been told–until now.

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.

The Co-Ed Killer, Son of Sam, Hillside Strangler, and Dating Game Killer—in many ways, terrifying serial killers were as synonymous with the 1970s as Watergate, disco, and the oil crisis. This fascinating collection of profiles presents the most notorious as well as lesser-known serial murderers of that decade. Beyond Ted Bundy and David Berkowitz, it includes more obscure killers like Coral Eugene Watts, known as “The Sunday Morning Slasher,” who killed 80 women; Edmund Kemper, the "Co-Ed Killer"; and Rodney Alcala, who is believed to have killed between 50 and 130 people between 1971-1979.