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A murder at the nexus of Silicon Valley, California surf culture, and the cannabis gold rush reveals the dark side of the legal weed business in this revelatory and thrilling work of investigative journalism.

Un'infanzia negata nella più totale assenza d'amore, sfociata in un'adolescenza all'insegna della criminalità, fino alla reclusione nel carcere di massima sicurezza di San Quentin a soli diciannove anni, e in aggiunta a tutto questo l'imputazione infondata per concorso in omicidio di una guardia carceraria costatagli il trasferimento nel braccio della morte. In quel luogo di vite senza futuro, vecchiaia, rimorso e rimpianto, Jarvis si ritrova solo con se stesso, a dover fare i conti con il suo passato di sofferenza subìta e inferta.

Nombreux sont les meurtres dont le coupable se trouve finalement être un parent, un frère, une tante... Au cœur du drame, la jalousie, la colère, l'argent ou le poison lent d'un lourd secret.

While doing research for his ninth-grade civics class in 1976, Mike Marshall found an article in Time magazine about William Moore, a thirty-five-year-old postman from Binghamton, New York. In 1963, Moore arrived at the Chattanooga bus station from Washington, DC, where he strapped on his protest signs. He planned to walk to the governor's mansion in Jackson, Mississippi, and hand-deliver a letter to Governor Ross Barnett. On the third day of his walk as he pushed his cart through Keener, Alabama, he saw a car parked under a walnut tree, its headlights and motor off.

Nicknamed 'Il Mago' (the Wizard) after bringing European Cup glory to Internazionale in successive years, Helenio Herrera was hailed as one of the finest minds in football. This explosive book explores the enigma of an incredibly charismatic figure: a philanderer, charlatan, trash-talker and serial winner mired in controversy, whose stellar career was halted by the death of one of his star players and his subsequent trial for manslaughter.

Nannie Doss, born Nancy Agnes Hazel (November 4, 1905-June 2, 1965), was an American serial killer who confessed to the murders of 11 people—four husbands, two children, one of her sisters, her mother, two grandsons, and a mother-in-law—between 1927 and 1954. Doss was also referred to as the Giggling Granny, the Lonely Hearts Killer, the Black Widow, and Lady Blue Beard.

Görgen Hellman är på arbetsresa, men kan inte riktigt fokusera. Han kollar hela tiden ner på sin mobil. Det har varit intensiva dagar i hans hemstad Vetlanda efter att en ung kvinna försvunnit. Hon heter Tove och umgicks i samma krets som hans dotter Maja. Görgen ryser när han tänker på att ingen vet var Tove är. Och var är förresten Maja? Han skickar ett sms men får inget svar. Han har inte hört av henne på flera timmar. Till slut ringer han Majas lärare, som drar efter andan i telefonen.

Læs og gys med, når uhyggelige, uforklarlige og uopklarede hændelser fra alle verdenshjørner vækkes til live i 30 spændende kapitler. Hvem var Jack the Ripper egentlig, morderen som dræbte flere kvinder i Londons gader i 1888? Hvad skete der med Sodder-barnet, som forsvandt sporløst efter en brand i West Virginia juleaften i 1945? Og er Himeji-slottet i Japan hjemsøgt den dag i dag?

In dit boek geven advocaten Bart Vosters, Christophe Bielen en Janou Riemis een onthullende kijk achter de schermen van justitie. Ze bespreken de meest beklijvende strafzaken waarin ze zelf een rol hebben gespeeld. Ze fileren elk dossier tot op het bot en leggen diverse pijnpunten van het strafsysteem in België bloot, van het politieonderzoek tot in de rechtszaal. Elke zaak gaat over schuld en boete, maar de grens tussen een veroordeling en de vrijspraak is soms flinterdun.

In this second installment, author Evan Russell examines another roster of history’s most ruthless predators—killers whose intelligence, obsession, and emotional void allowed them to evade capture while leaving devastation in their wake.

One day in 1987, Fred Wilkerson up and vanished in Troup County, Georgia. It was a mystery beset with suspicious circumstances, but the evidence never led anywhere, and the case went cold, Wilkerson's whereabouts unknown. That is, until a remarkable set of circumstances allowed author and investigator Clay Bryant to breathe life back into the case nearly two decades later.

Nicholas Tochka analyses the role of rock music in the life of Charles Manson, the Family, and the August 1969 Tate-LaBianca killings, which also gives larger insight into Sixties counterculture. Failed singer-songwriter. Devious cult leader. A rock Pied Piper. The product of a sick society. Just another dime-a-dozen singing hippy mystic. Did the guitar-playing guru personify the violence that the rock counterculture inflicted on America? Or did his music diagnose the dehumanizing effects of that society’s broken institutions?

Murder and crime are not always a solo affair. Sometimes, when one is confronted by the horrifying truth of their partner's evil deeds, rather than recoiling in horror, they instead join in on the carnage. In other times, it is the love of evil that brings them together, and they share in monstrous fantasies that they enact on the world. Covering up each other's crimes, they can prove difficult to catch.

Dans la soirée du 16 octobre 1998, le dictateur chilien Augusto Pinochet est arrêté dans une clinique de Londres. Après un règne brutal marqué par des assassinats, des disparitions et des tortures dans le centre de détention et d'interrogatoire situé au « 38, rue de Londres », à Santiago, il est inculpé de crimes de génocide, de tortures, de terrorisme international et d'enlèvements. Il sera empêché de retourner au Chili pendant plus d'un an, en attendant l'aboutissement de la bataille juridique internationale autour de son cas.

Cold Cases: A True Crime Collection features case file facts, fascinating details, and chilling testimonies of the world's most famous cold cases. Written for true crime junkies and armchair detectives, this book delves into the investigations of JonBenét Ramsey, the Black Dahlia, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft, the Cleveland Torso Murders, and more.

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...

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of A Very English Scandal by John Preston, read by Daniel Weyman. The bestselling book that inspired the Bafta-winning BBC drama Corruption. Blackmail. Conspiracy to murder. A Very English Scandal has all the hallmarks of a classic...

In 1953, the bodies of three young women are found by a tenant in the walls of a Notting Hill house. He tells the police that he chanced upon them while trying to put up a shelf for his transistor radio. As a series of further horrors are discovered, the eyes of a nation turn to 10 Rillington Place. In this riveting tale of violence, misogyny and tabloid frenzy, Kate Summerscale lifts the veil on what really happened inside the house - and suggests a new solution to one of the twentieth century's most notorious crimes.

Selena Quintanilla Pérez nació en 1971 en Lake Jackson, Texas, en una familia de ascendencia mexicana y cheroqui. Su talento para el canto no tardó en revelarse y desde los nueve años formó parte de una banda de música junto con sus hermanos. Desde el restaurante de comida mexicana de su padre hasta los principales escenarios de música, Selena se convirtió en la reina del tex-mex, la música texana. Durante toda su vida reivindicó su mestizaje y sus raíces latinas y norteamericanas.

On a beautiful October day in the San Fernando Valley, teenager Missy Avila was lured into the woods, beaten, tortured, and drowned. Missy's best friend, Karen Severson, publicly vowed to find the killer and even moved in with Missy's family to help. Three years later, a surprise witness exposed the murderers as Missy's two best friends—one of whom was Karen. New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury delivers a story full of twists, turns, betrayals, and confessions.