Ergebnis für "Anna" in Serienmörder

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.

Whether venturing into a blood-spattered farm in Texas, down a lonely mountain road in Alabama, or into the deceptively sunny Ohio suburbs, acclaimed mystery writer Craig Rice lends her hard-boiled style and a wicked irony to this gallery of real-life murders. A saintly middle-aged widow bludgeoned to death in her New Jersey home; the headless torsos of two women found floating in the Lake of the Ozarks; a New Year’s fire in Pennsylvania set to cover the traces of a more ghastly crime; a traveling evangelist on a divine mission blown to bits in Berkeley....

In the early 1920s, a 5'4" woman in her 40s was incarcerated in Long Bay Gaol, New South Wales, Australia. A small woman, weighing around 126 pounds, and with the little finger of her right finger missing, Eugenia Falleni had just been found guilty of murder and sentenced to death. As shocking as the murder was, it was nothing compared to the revelation that Eugenia Falleni had been living for the past 40 years as a man.

In Santa Rosa, on November 29, 1999, Dr. Xavier Caro lost three of his four children. They had been shot at point blank range while they were asleep in their beds. His sons Xavier Jr., age 11, Michael, eight, and Christopher, five, had become victims as a result of an angry fight between their father, Dr. Caro, and his wife, Socorro. A wife, mother, and senseless killer.

Robert Dorotik had died from blunt force trauma and strangulation. He had several injuries to the face and the back of the head (an expert testified the wounds were consistent with a hammer). There were defensive wounds on his hands. He was still wearing his jogging clothes although according to the detectives his shoes were tied in an odd manner. The rope used to strangle him was still around his neck and had made a laceration on his throat.

Audrey Marie Hilley was an escaped murderer who killed her husband and tried to kill her daughter with arsenic. She was a cunning woman who craved the good life and slipped arsenic to loved ones for money. Audrey eluded police for four years with a clever use of lies and an ability to blend into the background. She even convinced her second husband that she was her own twin sister. They looked like a normal, everyday American family. Until one day Audrey decided she had to kill everyone.