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“A haunting true crime tale of systemic incompetence and racism” (New York Times) – and its devastating effect on innocent lives After two three-year-old girls were raped and murdered in rural Mississippi, law enforcement pursued and convicted two innocent men: Kennedy Brewer and Levon...

At 12.16 a.m. on Wednesday, June 5, 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded in the service pantry of the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles. A 24-year-old Palestinian immigrant, Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, was found holding the smoking gun and convicted of murder. That is the official history - but Tim Tate and Brad Johnson have uncovered a different story.

In 1985, Charles Ng and Leonard Lake were spotted shoplifting. Ng escaped, but Lake's capture led police to a concrete bunker in the Sierra Nevada foothills, where they discovered the grisly evidence of an orgy of sex crimes, torture, and murder that claimed at least 16 victims. Lake committed suicide: Ng fled to Canada, where he was tracked down and extradited to California. This 14-year, $10 million legal case was the costliest and longest criminal prosecution in California history. 

Candy Montgomery and Betty Gore had a lot in common: They sang together in the Methodist church choir, their daughters were best friends, and their husbands had good jobs working for technology companies in the North Dallas suburbs known as Silicon Prairie. But beneath the placid surface of their seemingly perfect lives, both women simmered with unspoken frustrations and unanswered desires. On a hot summer day in 1980, the secret passions and jealousies that linked Candy and Betty exploded into murderous rage. 

Brought to you by Penguin. THE DELICIOUSLY DARK REIMAGINING OF THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HISTORY'S ORIGINAL FEMALE SERIAL KILLER Belle Sorensen loves men. She loves them to death . . . Early in life Belle Sorensen discovers the world is made only for men. They own everything: jobs, property, wives...

“A riveting and infuriating examination of criminal prosecutions, revealing how easy it is to convict the wrong person and how nearly impossible it is to undo the error.” —Washington Post "No one has illuminated this problem more thoughtfully and persistently." —Bryan Stevenson...

A surreal murder mystery set in the heart of a dense forest.

Please note: this series contains mature themes and graphic imagery; and listener discretion is advised.

Zwölf wahre Verbrechen, die verstörenBand 18 der Reihe „Wahre Kriminalfälle“ (True Crime Case Histories)Hinter verschlossenen Türen, in ruhigen Nachbarschaften, trägt das Böse ein gewöhnliches Gesicht.Eine Warnung vorweg: Hier wird nichts beschönigt. Die Zeitungsberichte hörten dort...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Am 20. August 1989 werden der Musik- und Filmmanager José Menendez und seine Frau Kitty in ihrer Villa in Beverly Hills mit Schrotflinten erschossen – die Täter sind ihre eigenen Söhne Lyle und Erik. Dieses True-Crime-Hörbuch erzählt die Tat, das...

Rebecca Abbott Doisy was a student at the University of Missouri in Columbia. On August 5, 1976, she mysteriously disappeared. "Becky" was last seen with Johnny Wright. The cops had their eye on Wright, but there wasn't enough evidence to turn the corner on a murder warrant. Then, nine years...

Wenn das Fest der Liebe zum Tatort wird. Weihnachten. Lichterglanz, Familie, Geborgenheit und die Hoffnung auf Frieden. Doch gerade dort, wo Menschen besonders eng zusammenrücken, treten manchmal auch ihre dunkelsten Seiten zutage. Hinter festlich beleuchteten Fenstern enden Feiern in Gewalt...

12 verstörende wahre Kriminalgeschichten von Mord und ChaosBand 17 der Reihe „Wahre Verbrechen"Diese Reihe kann in beliebiger Reihenfolge gehört werdenZwölf sorgfältig recherchierte Berichte über unaussprechliche Verbrechen, die ganze Gemeinden erschütterten und unser Verständnis des...

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...

Four shocking crimes. Four lives lost. Countless lives shattered. Four shocking tales of young lives cut brutally short that will make you want to hug your daughter and never let her go.

A brilliant narrative investigation into the 1920s case that inspired Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers and Margery Allingham. In 1922, Major Herbert Armstrong, a Hay-on-Wye solicitor, was found guilty of, and executed for, poisoning his wife, Katharine, with arsenic. Armstrong's case has all the...

The Violence Project is about an examination of the phenomenon of mass shootings in America and an urgent call to implement evidence-based strategies to stop these tragedies. Using first-person accounts from the perpetrators themselves, along with data from the writers’ groundbreaking research on mass shooters, The Violence Project charts new pathways to prevention and innovative ways to stop the social contagion of violence.

“Methamphetamine was a huge part of this case . . . It was a horrible murder driven by drugs.” — Prosecutor Cal Rerucha, who convicted Matthew Shepard's killers On the night of October 6, 1998, twenty-one-year-old Matthew Shepard left a bar with two alleged “strangers,” Aaron...

Brought to you by Penguin. From the hit TV series come two true-crime stories where the bonds of matrimony and love can tear you brutally apart TILL MURDER DO US PART (with Andrew Bourelle) Kathi Spiars can't believe she's found such a good man to marry as Steven Marcum. Twelve years later, she...

Some crimes are so horrific they attract the harshest punishment possible: a sentence that means the guilty will die behind bars.