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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.

George Anastasia in The Summer Wind delves into a tale of a missing woman, deceit, and murder as well as the criminal trial that follows. High off his own arrogance and unrelenting in his manipulations, Thomas Capano—a golden boy in his youth, a successful attorney, a loving father—murdered Anne Marie Fahey, a woman with whom he had a rocky affair, and left her body to sink to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

What creates a serial killer? Many were deeply affected by unimaginable life experiences that defy comprehension. Some were physically and mentally abused by loved ones during childhood, others exposed to the darkest aspects of humanity changing them into monsters, while some have a genetic bias toward extinguishing the life of others. Explore the horror within the individuals that commit the most heinous acts of murder and violence.

At the end of the 1976 football season, more than forty Harvard athletes went to Boston's Combat Zone to celebrate. In the city's adult entertainment district, drugs and prostitution ran rampant, violent crime was commonplace, and corrupt police turned the other way. At the end of the night, Italian American star athlete Andy Puopolo, raised in the city's North End, was murdered in a stabbing. Three African American men were accused of the crime. His murder made national news and led to the eventual demise of the city's red-light district.

Unschuldig schuldig – wie dieser Widerspruch wahr werden kann, zeigt Kriminalreporterin Sabine Rückert in ihrem Werk "Unrecht im Namen des Volkes". Zuvor hatte die Autorin in ihrem aufsehenerregenden Titel "Tote haben keine Lobby" anhand konkreter Fälle erzählt, wie viele Morde ungesühnt bleiben. In ihrem neuen Hörbuch schildert sie nun anhand eines Missbrauchsvorwurfs, wie zwei unschuldige Menschen von der Justiz trotz eindeutiger Beweise fälschlicherweise zu vielen Jahren Haft verurteilt wurden.

Tidsmässigt är inte avståndet särskilt långt från idyllen Sverige, som tillät företrädare från vårt land att röra sig fritt på offentliga platser utan livvakter, till den ödesdigra natt då statsminister Olof Palme brutalt sköts ned på öppen gata i Sveriges huvudstad. Det som dittillls hänt i form av mord på prominenta personer hade den svenska allmänheten ingen nära erfarenhet av. Flertalet människor kände sig därför trygga ända fram till mordet på Olof Palme.

Emily Webb, co-host of the popular Australian True Crime podcast, details chilling cases of murder and crime that have happened in the quiet streets of Australia's suburbs. Featuring contemporary cases as well as some shocking historical murders you've probably never heard of, Suburban True Crime proves you shouldn't say 'it could never happen here'. This collection of cases that are hard to believe, except they really happened—and all in the streets and homes of the Australia many of us know and live. The suburbs.

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....

Nordisk Kriminalreportage indeholder en lang række spændende og autentiske politisager fra Sverige, Norge, Finland og Island. Sagerne er skrevet af de politifolk, der var med i opklaringsarbejdet. Sagerne er alle afsluttede, og domsfældelse har fundet sted. Det er hæsblæsende læsning, og ofte overgår virkeligheden fantasien. Læseren kommer med ind bag nogle af de mest dramatiske sager i skandinavisk politihistorie, og får stiftet bekendtskab med det puslespil, det er at finde frem til gerningsmændene.

"Fløjtemanden" fortæller den uhyggelige historie om Naum Conevski - efterfølgende døbt "Fløjtemanden" i medierne, som natten mellem 19. og 20. maj 1984 dræbte to unge mænd på Amager Strand. Sagen chokerede hele landet, ikke mindst fordi drabsmanden ikke syntes at have noget egentligt motiv. I 2016 dukkede sagen igen op i medierne, fordi den dømtes nye forsvarer mente, at det var på tide, at han blev løsladt. I "Fløjtemanden" gennemgår Bjørn Schiønning ikke bare mordet og den efterfølgende efterforskning og retssag.

True Crime Stories von Joe Bausch, dem Experten für Verbrechen und das Böse. "Von unvorstellbarem Ausmaß", so werden Gewaltakte mit tödlichem Ausgang in der Öffentlichkeit häufig genannt. Nur wenige Menschen kennen persönlich so viele Schwerverbrecher wie der langjährige Gefängnisarzt und True-Crime-Spezialist Joe Bausch. In seinem neuen Buch geht er der Frage nach, wie Gewalttaten entstehen. Er erzählt den Fall von der "Eislady", die sich von ihren dominanten Männern nur durch Mord zu befreien wusste. Oder vom dreifachen Familienvater, der auf Jersey elf Jahre lang ein Doppelleben als Sexualstraftäter führen konnte.

On the morning of November 4, 2019, a caravan of women and children was ambushed by masked gunmen on a desolate stretch of road in northern Mexico controlled by the Sinaloa drug cartel. Firing semi-automatic weapons, the attackers killed nine people and gravely injured five more. The victims were members of the LeBaron and La Mora communities-fundamentalist Mormons whose forebears broke from the LDS Church and settled in Mexico when their religion outlawed polygamy in the late nineteenth century.

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.

DI Steven Keogh spent over half of his 30-year police career as a Scotland Yard detective, helping to hunt down terrorists and some of the worst murderers in London. Step inside the mind of an investigator in a never-before-seen look into what it takes to catch killers and bring them to justice. In a journey from crime scene to trial, you will witness the emotional highs and lows of cracking real-life murder cases and discover why people kill, while debunking the myths that surround this detective work.

Cosa è successo ad Anita Garibaldi, in fuga dagli Austriaci, che non ha lasciato viva le paludi di Comacchio? In questo saggio a metà tra una biografia e un reportage, le misteriose circostanze che hanno portato alla morte di Anita Garibaldi vengono affrontate come in un romanzo poliziesco dai toni noir, riprendendo sentenze, testimonianze e articoli di giornale risalenti all'epoca dell'accaduto. Un'indagine che cerca di far luce su una delle pagine oscure del Risorgimento Italiano.

Charles Brandt, who handled over fifty-six homicides as the chief deputy attorney general of Delaware, in charge of all homicides and a private homicide defense attorney in the 1970s, has now used his hands-on professional experience in murder investigation and his analytic skills to conclusively solve every secret of the homicides of JFK, Officer Tippit, and Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas in 1963.

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.

Euel Lee, alias Orphan Jones, was an African American accused of murdering his white employer and family over a single dollar. The tumultuous events and cast of characters surrounding the racially charged crime garnered national media attention and changed the course of Maryland history. With exacting research, former Maryland State's Attorney Joseph E. Moore reconstructs the murders, the ensuing roller coast of a trial, and the eventual conviction and execution of Orphan Jones. Moore details all of this in the context of Jim Crow and American society during the Great Depression.

Nueva Jersey, 1987. Charles Cullen pasa sus días atendiendo a los pacientes del pabellón de quemados. Nadie hubiera creído que en esa sala el tímido enfermero concebiría un macabro método para terminar de una vez por todas con los dolores de los enfermos que contaban con sus cuidados para recuperarse. Rumores sobre inexplicables sobredosis de medicamentos cardiacos, silenciosas muertes ligadas entre sí; una sombra asesina recorre los pasillos de nueve hospitales al noreste de Estados Unidos sembrando casi 400 víctimas.

I slutet av december 1996 och början av 1997 förövades tre våldsbrott med gemensamma drag på olika platser i Stockholmsområdet. En ung kvinna blev rånad och våldtagen i Vårberg, en kvinna blev mördad i centrala Stockholm och ytterligare en kvinna blev rånad och utsatt för ett våldtäktsförsök i en modebutik på Södermalm. Det gemensamma var att de tre kvinnorna arbetade ensamma i en butik eller salong och att gärningsmannens speciella beteende återkom i alla tre fallen.