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Nearly five million men and women have served the United States as police officers. Only one has been executed for murder. They called it Satan’s Circus–a square mile of Midtown Manhattan where vice ruled, sin flourished, and depravity danced in every doorway. At the turn of the twentieth...

One of NPR's Best Books of the Year A finalist of the for the 2022 Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime The inside story of how a courageous FBI informant helped to bring down the KKK organization responsible for a brutal civil rights–era killing. By early 1966, the work of Vernon Dahmer was well...

A riveting investigation into a cold case asks how much control women have over their bodies and the direction of their lives. In July 1970, eighteen-year-old Paula Oberbroeckling left her house in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and never returned. A cold case for fifty years, Paula’s story had been...

The complete story of Charles Sobhraj, the serial killer who inspired the hit Netflix series The Serpent. Charles Sobhraj remains one of the world's great conmen, and as a serial killer, the story of his life and capture endures as legend. Born in Vietnam to a Vietnamese mother and Indian father...

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE A “mesmerizing” (The New York Times Book Review) true story about a shocking crime and a mysterious illness that will forever change your notions of how we punish and how we heal—an expansion on one of the most popular This American Life episodes of...

By the award-winning writer of Beautiful Thing, a masterly inquest into how the mysterious deaths of two teenage girls shone a light into the darkest corners of a nation. The girls' names were Padma and Lalli, but they were so inseparable that people in the village called them Padma Lalli...

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER A murder tale "from inside the house where murder is born." Haunting, harrowing, and profoundly affecting, Shot in the Heart exposes and explores a dark vein of American life that most of us would rather ignore. It is a book that will leave no reader...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The epic true crime story of the most successful bootlegger in American history and the murder that shocked the nation, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy “Gatsby-era noir at its best.”—Erik...

The astonishing story of one man’s recovery in the face of traumatic loss—and a powerful meditation on the resilience of the soul On July 23, 2007, Dr. William Petit suffered an unimaginable horror: Armed strangers broke into his suburban Connecticut home in the middle of the night...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Medical Detectives: Roxanne Wood – War es ihr Ehemann? Der rätselhafte Fall von Roxanne Wood wirft eine entscheidende Frage auf: War ihr eigener Ehemann in das Geschehen verwickelt? Ein spannender True-Crime-Fall voller Fragen, Verdachtsmomente und...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Medical Detectives – Die verdeckte Spur entführt Sie in die Welt wahrer Verbrechen, rätselhafter Mordfälle und faszinierender forensischer Ermittlungen. Alte Spuren, verschwundene Beweise und ungelöste Fragen können einen Fall über Jahrzehnte...

David Richard Berkowitz (born Richard David Falco on June 1, 1953), also known as the Son of Sam, the .44 Caliber Killer and the Phantom of the Bronx, is an American serial killer, serial arsonist, and former United States Army soldier who committed a stabbing and a series of shootings in New York City between 1975 and 1977, killing six people and wounding eleven others. Armed with a .44 caliber Bulldog revolver during most of his crimes, Berkowitz terrorized New York City with letters mocking police and promising further crimes, leading to possibly the biggest manhunt in the city's history.

Robert Andrew Berdella Jr. (January 31, 1949 - October 8, 1992) was an American serial killer who kidnapped, raped, tortured, and murdered at least six young men in Kansas City, Missouri, between 1984 and 1987. Berdella became known as the Kansas City Butcher due to his practice of extensively dissecting his victims' bodies, which he would then dispose of in garbage bags. The following recording is from an interview conducted in January 1989.

Samuel Little (June 7, 1940 - December 30, 2020) was an American serial killer who was convicted of 8 murders and confessed to committing 93 murders, across 19 states, between 1970 and 2005. The FBI's Violent Criminal Apprehension Program has confirmed his involvement in at least 60 murders, the largest number of confirmed victims for any serial killer in American history. His crime spree stretched across the country, with a concentration of murders in Miami and Los Angeles.

David Richard Berkowitz (born Richard David Falco on June 1, 1953), also known as the Son of Sam, the .44 Caliber Killer and the Phantom of the Bronx, is an American serial killer, serial arsonist, and former United States Army soldier who committed a stabbing and a series of shootings in New York City between 1975 and 1977, killing six people and wounding eleven others. Armed with a .44 caliber Bulldog revolver during most of his crimes, Berkowitz terrorized New York City with letters mocking police and promising further crimes, leading to possibly the biggest manhunt in the city's history.

A partir de la figura de Luigi Mangione —el estudiante acusado de asesinar al CEO de la mayor aseguradora sanitaria de Estados Unidos y convertido en icono de deseo por miles de seguidores en todo el mundo—, este libro analiza la oscura fascinación que despiertan los criminales bellos y seductores, así como las implicaciones psicológicas, culturales, sociales y legales de convertirlos en un sex-symbol pop. El ensayo recorre el inquietante cruce entre belleza y crimen, para mostrar cómo el atractivo físico puede alterar nuestra percepción de la justicia y del mal mismo.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Ein True Crime Hörbuch über wahre Verbrechen, die nur die Forensik lösen konnte. August 2002, Soham, England: Die zehnjährigen Freundinnen Holly Wells und Jessica Chapman gehen los, um Süßigkeiten zu kaufen – und kehren nie zurück. Was folgt...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Eine junge Frau verlässt ihr Zuhause – doch sie kommt nie wieder zurück. Was ist mit Mickey Schunik geschehen? In diesem packenden True-Crime-Fall führt die Suche nach der vermissten Mickey Schunik tief in ein Netz aus offenen Fragen...

Nach mehr als dreißig Jahren, in denen unzählige Berichte, Dokumentationen, Filme und sogar Theaterstücke über den mutmaßlichen Serienmörder Jack Unterweger erschienen sind, kommt dieser hier erstmals selbst zu Wort: In Form des Tagebuchs, das er während des Jahrhundertprozesses verfasst hat. Zeilen voller Wut, Verzweiflung, aber auch Leidenschaft, die neue, ungeahnte Facetten des Menschen Jack Unterweger zum Vorschein bringen.

A startling profile of one of the most prolific serial killers and the disturbing experience of the journalist who earned his trust for the sake of justice When crime journalist Maria DiLorenzo mailed a letter to Gary Ridgway, she never expected him to reply. He refused to speak to reporters and...