Result for "Inside" in Abductions, Kidnapping & Missing Persons

Mystery. Manipulation. Murder. Cults are associated with all of these. But what really goes on inside them? More specifically, what goes on inside the minds of cult leaders and the people who join them? Based on the hit podcast Cults, this is essential reading for any true crime fan. Cults prey...

When Tania Rife was six years old, a child serial rapist and murderer followed her home from school in a gray sedan. She escaped. But the fear he planted that November afternoon in 1987 didn't leave with him. For thirty years, it traveled with her — into classrooms, parking lots, marriage, motherhood, and the middle of the night. It disguised itself as responsibility. Preparedness. Love. Tania became a woman who appeared utterly capable while her nervous system never once stopped scanning for danger.

In the early hours of 27th January 1996, after an evening spent celebrating at Club Bayview in the Perth suburb of Claremont, 18-year-old Sarah Spiers called a taxi to nearby Mosman Park. But when the cab arrived, she’d already gone. She was never seen again. Four months later, on 9th June 1996, 23-year-old Jane Rimmer disappeared from the same area, her body later found in bushland south of Perth. When the body of a third young woman, 27-year-old Ciara Glennon, was found north of the city, having vanished from Claremont in August 1997, it was clear a serial killer was on the loose.

What would be the "right" price for your loved one - and can you avoid putting others at risk by paying it? What prevents criminals from maltreating hostages? How do you (safely) pay a ransom? Kidnap: Inside the Ransom Business uncovers how a group of insurers at Lloyd's of London have solved these thorny problems for their customers. Based on interviews with industry insiders (from both sides), as well as hostage stakeholders, it uncovers an intricate and powerful private governance system ordering transactions between the legal and the criminal economies.

A gripping true crime memoir that fuses firsthand testimony with investigative storytelling to uncover a deeply disturbing hidden world beneath what once appeared to be an ordinary relationship.