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In the 1840s, the Donnelly family immigrates from Ireland to the British province of Canada. Almost immediately problems develop as the patriarch of the family is sent to the Kingston Penitentiary for manslaughter, leaving his wife to raise their eight children on her own. The children are raised in an incredibly violent community and cultivate a devoted loyalty to their mother and siblings, which often leads to problems with the law and those outside of the family.

In 1880, an organized mob of the Donnellys' enemies murders four family members and burns their house to the ground. Another sibling is shot to death in a house a short distance away. William Donnelly and a teenage boy are the only witnesses to the murders. The surviving family members seek justice through the local courts but quickly learn that their enemies control the jury and the press. Two sensational trials follow that make national and international headlines as the Donnellys continue to pursue justice for their murdered parents, siblings, and cousin.

Als Zivilfahnder in Deutschlands berühmtestem Vergnügungsviertel: Käufliche Liebe, Revierkämpfe, skurrile Kiez-Originale - St. Pauli und die...

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER A shocking exposé of the deadliest killing spree in Canadian history, and how police tragically failed its victims and survivors. As news broke of a killer rampaging across the tiny community of Portapique, Nova Scotia, late on April 18, 2020, details were oddly hard to...

Roger Reaves grew up a poor farm boy in Georgia and went from making 'moonshine' to becoming one of the most prolific smugglers of the 20th century. He covered six continents, transporting 20 ton ship loads of hash, tons of cocaine, and completed more than 100 sorties across the US border with plane loads of marijuana. His friends and associates spanned the globe - from Medellin Cartel kingpins Jorge Ochoa and Pablo Escobar, to "Mr. Nice" Howard Marks and the infamous Barry Seal who was Roger's close friend and employee.

In Harlem’s tumultuous history, there are many tragedies. For those growing up in this part of New York City, a young man known simply as Fritz from West 112th Street became an urban legend in Harlem. In the 1970s, Richard “Fritz” Simmons is introduced to the drug trade by an associate of the Lucchese crime family, one of the five families of La Cosa Nostra (the Mafia). After negotiating a deal with the Medellín Cartel, Fritz becomes New York’s Cocaine Consignment King. Harlem Holiday brings her inside scoop after almost three decades of silence.

Joined by award-winning Mexican journalist Luis Nájera, leading organized-crime author Peter Edwards introduces a motley assortment of millennial bikers, gangsters and Mafia whose bloody trail of murders and schemes gone wrong led to the arrival in Canada of the world's most dangerous criminal...

Linda Scarpa had the best toys, the nicest clothes, and a close-knit family. Yet her childhood was far from idyllic. Classmates avoided her; boys wouldn't date her. Eventually she learned why: They were afraid of her father. A made man in the Colombo crime family, Gregory Scarpa, Sr., was a stone-cold killer nicknamed the "Grim Reaper." Unlike most tight-lipped mobsters, Scarpa talked business - and murder - in front of his kids.

Frank DiMatteo was born into a family of mob hit men. His father and godfather were shooters and bodyguards for infamous Mafia legends, the Gallo brothers. His uncle was a capo in the Genovese crime family and bodyguard to Frank Costello. Needless to say, DiMatteo saw and heard things that a boy shouldn't see or hear. He knew everybody in the neighborhood. And they knew him...and his family. And does he have some wild stories to tell....

2019 erschien das Erstlingswerk von Adrian Langenscheid True Crime Deutschland und erstürmte aus dem Nichts die Siegertreppchen der genrerelevanten Kategorien. Knapp 2 Jahre und 6 Bücher später ist Langenscheid einer der bekanntesten True Crime-Autoren Deutschlands. Für das siebte Werk seiner Erfolgsserie recherchierte der Bestsellerautor aufs Neue einige der spektakulärsten deutschen Kriminalfälle der letzten Jahrzehnte.

Nicknamed "The Squirrel" for his elusiveness, Thrasher was a daredevil pilot who made millions flying marijuana and cocaine from South America into the US in the '70s and '80s. With his beautiful Portuguese-born wife, Olga, he lived in a mountain estate near Virginia's New River Valley. He owned oceanfront homes and yachts in Florida, spent weekends in the Caribbean, and laundered money in Las Vegas, where he partied with Frank Sinatra's entourage.

Come nasce Cosa Nostra? Perché gli affiliati le hanno dato questo nome? Qual è il vero rapporto tra mafia e religione? E con lo Stato? In questo libro si affronteranno questi quesiti e molti altri ancora. Ripercorrendo la storia della mafia siciliana, si arriverà a parlare di feudalesimo, di brigantaggio, del Regno delle Due Sicilie, dell'Unità d’Italia, per poi passare agli eventi più recenti, alle parole pronunciate dai capi più importanti, alla narrazione degli orrori tristemente più noti.

Come nasce Cosa Nostra? Perché gli affiliati le hanno dato questo nome? Qual è il vero rapporto tra mafia e religione? E con lo Stato? In questo libro si affronteranno questi quesiti e molti altri ancora. Ripercorrendo la storia della mafia siciliana, si arriverà a parlare di feudalesimo, di brigantaggio, del Regno delle Due Sicilie, dell'Unità d’Italia, per poi passare agli eventi più recenti, alle parole pronunciate dai capi più importanti, alla narrazione degli orrori tristemente più noti.

For more than 20 years, Joseph "Big Joey" Massino ran what was called the largest criminal network in the US, employing over 250 made men and untold numbers of associates. The Bonanno family was responsible for over 30 murders, even killing a dozen of its own members. He would be brought down by Salvatore "Good Looking Sal" Vitale, the underboss who was not only Massino's closest and most trusted friend but also his brother-in-law. King of the Godfathers is the story of the brutal mob war that made Massino head of the Bonanno family and the most powerful gangster in America.

Tatiana Brillant a été négociatrice au RAID. Pendant plus de 13 ans, elle fut le seul officier féminin à exercer ce métier au sein de cette prestigieuse unité d'élite. "Sa mascotte est la panthère, sa devise tient en trois mots : "Servir sans faillir". Tatiana n'y a jamais dérogé. Elle s'est imposée en prouvant que la négociation n'est pas une question de genre mais avant tout une affaire de spécialistes. C'est la crédibilité de l'interlocuteur ou de l'interlocutrice qui compte."

Vad som är den slutgiltiga sanningen om fallet Quick blir kanske aldrig klarlagt. Kanske finns det tid nu att fundera över om det är rimligt att en dömd seriemördare går fri på det sätt som skett utan att man först gör en ordentlig ny prövning i domstol av skuldfrågan.

Joey O'Callaghan was just 18 years old when he became a ghost - the youngest ever person to be signed up to the Witness Protection Programme. Groomed into a drug gang from the age of 10, a cold-blooded assassination sickened him to his core, and he broke the golden bond of gangland silence. His evidence won murder convictions against two of the most violent drug bosses in Ireland. 

Mardi 11 septembre 2001. 6 h 30. Il fait encore sombre quand le président des États-Unis, en tenue de jogging, court en foulées rapides au milieu des bougainvilliers, entouré d'agents secrets qui lui éclairent le chemin. L'aube se lève doucement sur la Floride... 23 h 08. Pieds nus, en short, son chien dans les bras, suivi de sa femme et de son chat, George W. Bush dévale les escaliers de la Maison-Blanche vers le bunker souterrain, sous le regard inquiet de ses gardes du corps. C'est la dernière alerte de cette terrible journée.

Die bekannte Fernsehmoderatorin Sabine Sauer und der Starnberger Autor und Coach Bernd Späth stellen in einer neuen Hörbuchreihe grausame Verbrechen der Kriminalgeschichte vor. Jede Mordtat hat eine Vorgeschichte und jeder Täter hat ein Motiv. Einfühlsam und mit psychologischem Verständnis nähern sich Sabine Sauer und Bernd Späth dem Geschehen an und versuchen, das Entsetzliche und Unbegreifliche vorstellbarer zu machen. Späth kann dabei auf seine mehr als 20-jährige Erfahrung mit psychoanalytischen Techniken zurückgreifen.

Una historia que parece de ficción pero no lo es. Lucía Garrido, atrapada en una red de corrupción policial y narcotráfico en el sur de España, sabía que la iban a matar. Buscó ayuda pero nunca halló respuesta. Se cansó de denunciar en el juzgado, en los cuarteles de la Guardia Civil, incluso en las asociaciones de mujeres... pero una y otra vez le denegaron la orden de protección.