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Philippa Langley reveals the findings of a remarkable new research initiative: ‘The Missing Princes Project'. In the summer of 1483, Edward V (aged 12) and his brother Richard Duke of York (aged 9), disappeared from the Tower of London. For over 500 years, history has judged that they were murdered on the orders of their uncle Richard III. Following years of intensive research in UK, American and European archives, astonishing new archival discoveries have been uncovered that change what we know about the fate of the Princes in the Tower.

In the basement of one of the world's most prestigious universities, there was a classroom lined with a collection of human skulls from around the globe. Join award-winning journalist Marc Fennell (It Burns, Nut Jobs, Stuff the British Stole) as he takes you on a captivating global journey through the mysterious Morton Cranial Collection.

In a gay nightclub in Orlando on June 12, 2016, the shooter, Omar Mateen, murdered 49 people and wounded 53 others. The attack was the deadliest act of violence against the LGBTQ+ community in US history and the deadliest terrorist attack in the United States since 9/11. But there’s a story you haven’t heard. The FBI had a secret history with the shooter and his father. To obscure that history, the FBI pushed a false story that the media dutifully carried—that the attacker was a secretly gay Islamist extremist who had chosen to target Pulse and planned the attack for weeks.

Featuring a new preface and afterword by the author. From the host of MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, the riveting story of a 1975 police shooting of an unarmed black man in Boston—one of the first to draw national headlines—and the dramatic investigation and court case...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author who is “among the very small group of top-notch true crime writers” (Booklist) comes the eleventh installment of Ann Rule’s Crime Files, exploring heart-stopping true tales of those who commit murder with no conscience, no remorse, and no...

A Barnes & Noble Best History Book of 2025 Four men in a lifeboat. Two weeks without food. One impossible choice that would reshape the boundaries between survival and murder. “A perfect enunciation of the classic philosophical conundrum: can you sacrifice one innocent life to save many?"...

In 1984, as a New York City subway train made its way downtown, a white man named Bernhard Goetz shot four unarmed Black teenagers he believed were going to rob him.

Paced like a thriller and full of insider information, this book embeds readers in one of the most famous true-crime stories of our generation—the kidnapping of Polly Klaas. On October 1, 1993, a 12-year-old girl was kidnapped at knifepoint from her bedroom in Petaluma, California, during a...

Im Mittelpunkt der Folgen in dieser zweiten „Tatbestand“-Box stehen unter anderem ein Gastwirt, der seine Gäste und die Behörden betrügt, um sich zu bereichern, und ein vereinsamter Jugendlicher, der eine schwere Körperverletzung begeht. Neben anderen Verbrechen geht es auch um durch Geldnot bedingten Kassendiebstahl und um Gewalt in der Ehe. Die 40-teilige DDR-Serie Tatbestand basierte wie das beliebte und populäre Fernsehpendant "Der Staatsanwalt hat das Wort" auf Gerichtsakten und schilderte interessante Fälle, die abschließend von einem Staatsanwalt kommentiert und erläutert wurden.

Londra, 1888. Un enigmatico serial killer terrorizza i quartieri degradati di Whitechapel, avvicinando prostitute che poi sventra senza pietà. Dallas, 1963. lI presidente Kennedy viene ucciso mentre la sua auto attraversa la città. Dopo soli tre giorni anche il suo assassino viene eliminato. Parigi, 1703. Alla Bastiglia muore un prigioniero costretto da trent'anni a indossare una maschera che gli nasconde il volto. Ekaterinburg, 1918. Nicola Il e la sua famiglia vengono trucidati e sepolti in un luogo misterioso.

In 1979, Brenda Spencer, a seemingly average teenage girl living in a nice suburban neighborhood, made and executed plans that would place her in infamy and set a violent and terrifying national precedent. She recieved a rifle for Christmas and a month later set her sights and opens fire on the elementary school across the street. The event is forever glorified by the song "I Don't Like Mondays" by The Boomtown Rats and marks the bloody beginning of the American phenomenon of school shootings.

**A Goodreads Choice Awards Nomination for Best History & Biography** **An NPR Book We Love** A race-against-the-clock narrative that finally illuminates a history-changing event: the IRA’s attempt to assassinate Margaret Thatcher and the epic manhunt that followed. A bomb planted by...

Criminal profiling—the delicate art of collecting and deciphering the psychological “fingerprints” of the monsters among us—holds an almost mythological status in pop culture. But what exactly is it, does it work, and why is the American public so entranced by it? What do we gain, and endanger, from studying why people commit murder? In The Monsters We Make, author Rachel Corbett explores how criminal profiling became one of society’s most seductive and quixotic undertakings through five significant moments in its history.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Read by the author. "A fast-paced debut...Espionage buffs will savor this vibrant account." — Publishers Weekly A U.S. naval counterintelligence officer working to safeguard Pearl Harbor; a Japanese spy ordered to Hawaii to gather information on the American fleet. On...

From a New York Times bestselling author comes the gripping, untold history of science's darkest secrets, "a fascinating book [that] deserves a wide audience" (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Science is a force for good in the world—at least usually. But sometimes, when obsession gets the...

Perfect for readers of Jon Krakauer and Douglas Preston, this "authentic and encyclopedic" book examines real-life cases of those who vanish in the wilderness without a trace (Roman Dial)—and those eccentric, determined characters who try to find them. These are the stories that defy...

Danske kriminalsager gennem 100 år er en samling af nogle af de mest uhyggelige og tankevækkende danske kriminalsager, der har fundet sted op igennem det 20. århundrede. Del 1 består af 41 sande historier om den mørke side af mennesket, og fortæller begivenhedernes gang med fokus på både forbrydernes, ofrenes og de pårørendes skæbner. Dette er første af i alt to bind i serien Danske kriminalsager gennem 100 år . Danske kriminalsager gennem 100 år Den todelte serie Danske kriminalsager gennem 100 år sætter fokus på nogle af de begivenheder, som har rystet det danske samfund op igennem det 20.

Nürnberg 1796: Das Leben der Anna Zwanziger ändert sich schlagartig, als ihr Mann verstirbt und sie mit ihren Kindern aus ihrem Zuhause geworfen wird. Die plötzlich vollkommen mittelose junge Frau jagt verzweifelt einem besseren Leben nach und stürzt sich in die Arme wohlhabender Männer - zunächst als Prostituierte, dann als Hausmädchen. Aber der so sehr erhoffte Wohlstand bleibt aus. Also schmiedet Anna einen ebenso heimtückischen, wie mörderischen Plan.

In 1997 a six-year-old boy questioned by authorities relayed disturbing stories of abuse. The more he talked, the more people were implicated in his shocking revelations. And he was only the first child to come forward. Within a year, fifteen more children with similar tales were transferred out of the Bassa region of Italy to protected locations. Their parents were accused of belonging to a satanic sect that performed sex rituals under the aegis of beloved local priest Don Giorgio Govoni. With each child’s confession, the network of monsters grew.

Dr. William Sargant ran a lucrative private practice and published multiple books on psychiatry, and he was awarded the Starkey medal and prize by the Royal Society of Health for his work on psychiatric medicine. But what he was best known for was the apogee of his career: the Sleep Room in Ward Five. This was a dark gallery where patients selected by Sargant were subjected to deep narcosis, sleeping for more than twenty-one hours per day for weeks at a time, and roused only for sessions of electroconvulsive therapy.