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“A tour de force of storytelling.” —Louise Penny, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Chief Inspector Gamache series “Jobb’s excellent storytelling makes the book a pleasure to read.” —The New York Times Book Review ”When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of...

Due to Sullivan’s extensive writing about Ted Bundy, he’s become a sort of magnet over the years, drawing out many people who were part of the Bundy story but have otherwise kept a low profile over the decades. These first-person contacts continue to this day. As such, this is the first book in a new series of books whose aim is to bring new revelations to the public about Bundy, the victims, the murders, and the almost murders that failed Bundy for one reason or another.

Days after Richard Dorrough violently takes his own life at a public gun range in Perth, Western Australia, his fiancée receives a parcel from him in the post - a book filled with the former sailor’s handwriting. She starts to read and, horrified by the chilling confession inside it, quickly hands the book to police....

This Ultimate True Crime Case Collection contains disturbing accounts of some of the most brutal and bizarre true crime stories in history. Often told from the killer’s perspective, Green’s riveting narratives draw the listener into the real-life horror experienced by the victims with all the elements of a classic thriller. This collection includes the stories of Harold Shipman, Fred and Rose West, the Kurim case, the Mockingbird Hill massacre, the Truro Murders, Herb Baumeister, Katherine Knight, Henry Lee Lucas, and Nannie Doss.

Das Krankenhaus als vermeintlich perfekter Tatort... Krankenhaus Nykøbing Falster: Ein Patient stirbt. Da die Todesursache ungeklärt ist, wird die Polizei hinzugerufen. Ein Routineeinsatz – bis eine Krankenschwester den Verdacht äußert, ihre Kollegin aus der Nachtschicht habe den Patienten vorsätzlich getötet. Schnell stellt sich heraus, dass es weitere verdächtige Todesfälle in den letzten Jahren gab – und Christina Aistrup Hansen gerät mehr und mehr in den Fokus der Ermittlungen.

With a gritty, raw, and compelling account of the lives and crimes of four terrifying murderers, this eerie and disturbing collection paints a vivid picture of their heinous crimes, along with the chilling psychology that drove them to prey on their fellow men and women. Shedding light on the lives and upbringing of Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Richard “Night Stalker” Ramirez, and killer clown John Wayne Gacy, this audiobook delves into the grisly details of their killing sprees, as well as the warped ideas that drove them to murder.

Meurtres de sang-froid, enlèvements dramatiques, tortures sauvages, violences odieuses, drames familiaux tragiques, tueur en série sans pitié et vol du millénaire : autant d’histoires vraies que vous lirez ici. Dans le troisième volume de sa série de livres True Crime International, l'auteur à succès Adrian Langenscheid raconte une fois de plus des histoires de crimes qui se sont produits il n’y a pas si longtemps.

La storia di Gianfranco Stevanin non è quella che si potrebbe immaginare quando si sente parlare di serial killer. Stevanin, infatti, era per tutti un ragazzo normale, tanto che potrebbe essere definito "un tranquillo serial killer di provincia". Al suo paese l'avevano soprannominato Elvis per quella sua espressione da bamboccione, conosceva tutti e nessuno aveva mai sospettato nulla di strano. Fino a quando la polizia non iniziò a rinvenire una serie di cadaveri di donne in quello che venne subito ribattezzato il campo degli orrori.

In March of 2004, Kathleen Savio, the third wife of Police Sergeant Drew Peterson, was found dead in her bathtub. Three years later, in October 2007, twenty-three-year-old Stacy Peterson vanished from the Chicago suburb of Bolingbrook, leaving behind Peterson and their children. Drew Peterson, thirty years Stacy's senior, steadfastly asserted his innocence. Drawing upon exclusive interviews with Stacy's friends and family and even Drew himself, Chicago-area reporter Joseph Hosey presents the most researched account of the Stacy Peterson case.

Serial killers haunt our dreams and inspire the terrifying villains of TV shows and horror movies. But how much do you really know about the minds behind the world's deadliest killers? What drives these murderers to kill and kill again? And what fuels our fascination with the true stories of their horrific crimes? Dr. Joni E. Johnston brings you the answers to these questions and more! Serial Killers: 101 Questions True Crime Fans Ask dives into the case files of the most infamous murderers in history, and answers the questions true crime fans have been dying to ask.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Stevie Cameron’s investigative tour de force about one of North America's most prolific serial killers—now widely regarded as a true crime classic. Verteran investigative journalist Stevie Cameron first began following the story of missing women in 1998, when the odd...

In the late hours of July 22, 1991, Detective Patrick "Pat" Kennedy of the Milwaukee Police Department was asked to respond to a possible homicide. Little did he know that he would soon be delving into the dark mind of one of America's most notorious serial killers, the "Milwaukee Cannibal", Jeffrey Dahmer. Kennedy spent the next six weeks locked in an interrogation room with Dahmer. There, the killer described in lurid detail how he lured 17 young men to his apartment, where he strangled, sexually assaulted, dismembered, and in some cases, cannibalized his victims.

En Australie, environ 38 000 personnes - des jeunes pour la moitié - sont portées disparues chaque année. 64 %, soit les deux tiers de ces dossiers, sont résolus dans les 24 heures. Néanmoins, une proportion non négligeable de ces hommes, femmes et enfants ne sont jamais retrouvés. Sans preuve claire de vie ou de mort, nous sommes dans l'incapacité de savoir ce qui leur est arrivé. Par ailleurs, un certain nombre de faits divers choquants - meurtres, agressions, enlèvements etc. - ont émaillé l'actualité australienne de ces quarante dernières années.

Francis Trinipet, uno dei punti di riferimento nella community italiana degli esperti sul caso del Mostro di Firenze, racconta i mesi che vanno dal giugno del 1982 al settembre 1983. Si tratta di un periodo molto particolare all'interno di questa intrigata vicenda, dato che siamo di fronte al più lungo "cooling off" del Mostro negli anni '80. Dal 19 giugno 1982, data del duplice delitto di Paolo Mainardi e Antonella Migliorini, al 9 settembre 1983, quando vennero uccisi Horst Wilhelm Meyer e Jens-Uwe Rusch, passano infatti ben quattordici mesi.

“Thought-provoking true-crime thriller…the book raises urgent questions of balancing public and private good that we’ll likely be dealing with as long as the title implies.”—Wall Street Journal A relentless detective and a civilian genealogist solve a haunting cold case—and launch a...

Christopher Berry-Dee is the man who talks to serial killers. A world-renowned investigative criminologist, he has gained the trust of murderers across the world, entered their high security prisons and discussed in detail their shocking crimes. Berry-Dee now delves into the mind of perhaps the most sadistic and psychopathic killer of all time. Using his long experience and psychological expertise, Berry-Dee seeks to understand the motivation, the amoral urges and the merciless horror behind Dahmer's inhuman behaviour: what could make a man do this?

The year 1969: The hippie scene is vibrant in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Long-haired teenagers roam the streets, strumming guitars and preaching about peace and love...and Tony Costa is at the center of it all. To a certain group of smitten young women, he is known as Sire—the leader of their counterculture movement, the charming man who speaks eloquently and hands out hallucinogenic drugs like candy. But beneath his benign persona lies a twisted and uncontrollable rage that threatens to break loose at any moment. Tony Costa is the most dangerous man on Cape Cod.

On Halloween night, 1828, in the West Port district of Edinburgh, Scotland, a woman sometimes known as Madgy Docherty was last seen in the company of William Burke and William Hare. Days later, police discovered her remains in the surgery of the prominent anatomist Dr. Robert Knox. Docherty was the final victim of the most atrocious murder spree of the century. Together with their accomplices, Burke and Hare would be accused of killing 16 people over the course of 12 months in order to sell the corpses as "subjects" for dissection.

Amb la precisió dels millors True Crime anglosaxons, Ferran Grau ens presenta en aquesta història una dissecció detallada de l'esgarrifós cas de l'Monstre de Machala, un assassí en sèrie que va fer estralls tant a l'Equador com a Espanya. Un duríssim cas que ens torna a demostrar que els monstres no sempre pertanyen a el regne de la ficció.

First dates are a total gamble, especially if your date is a total stranger.