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Tauchen Sie in den abgrundtiefen Rotlichtsumpf Thailands ein. Der erfahrene Autor entführt Sie in die magische Welt des ältesten Gewerbe der Welt. Eine Reise in die Schattenwelt der Thailadys, Ladyboys, der Ostblockmafia und den Jungfrauenfängern in den Grenzgebieten. Ein Kathoey (Transsexueller) erzählt seine haarsträubende Geschichte über die raffiniertesten Abzockmethoden im Prostitutionsmoloch Thailand. Authentische Schicksale von "gehörnten" Farangs (europäisch aussehende Menschen), die sich auf eine exotische Beziehung oder eine Ehe mit einer Thailänderin einließen.

In the 1870s, Deadwood was a thriving—and largely lawless—boomtown. And as any fan of western history and films knows, stagecoach robberies were a regular feature of life in this fabled region of Dakota Territory. Now, for the first time, Robert K. DeArment tells the story of the "good guys and bad guys" behind these violent crimes: the road agents who wreaked havoc on Deadwood's roadways and the shotgun messengers who battled to protect stagecoach passengers and their valuable cargo.

Solingen, 2020. Christiane K. ist 27 Jahre alt, als sie fünf ihrer sechs Kinder umbringt und sich dann vor einen Zug wirft. Sie überlebt. Prune Antoine, eine französische Reporterin, die zu dem Zeitpunkt selbst gerade Mutter geworden ist, entwickelt eine journalistische Obsession für diese Tragödie. Sie will nicht erklären, schon gar nicht entschuldigen, sie will verstehen. Auf der Suche nach einer Wahrheit jenseits von Voyeurismus und Dämonisierung dringt Antoine immer tiefer in die Welt der Christiane K. vor, bis sie ihr schließlich im Gefängnis gegenübersitzt.

Begleitet uns auf den Spuren der wahren Verbrechen in den wilden Osten von Deutschland. Alle 14 Tage erscheint eine neue Folge. Weitere Informationen zu dem Podcast auf unsere Webseite, bei Facebook oder bei Instagram.

The Wall Street Journal called him “a living legend.” The London Times dubbed him “the most famous art detective in the world.” In Priceless, Robert K. Wittman, the founder of the FBI’s Art Crime Team, pulls back the curtain on his remarkable career for the first time, offering a...

A Black Person Could NeverWhere High-Stakes Crimes Meet the Reality of the "Slap on the Wrist."We’ve all seen the headlines: A billionaire siphons off $50 million, ruins thousands of lives, and gets "sentenced" to a luxury house arrest. Meanwhile, a Black man gets a decade for a fraction of the offense. In this house, we call that what it is: The Audacity.A Black Person Could Neva is a true-crime and culture podcast that pulls back the curtain on the world of elite financial crimes. We dive deep into the "juicy" details—the massive deceptions, the multi-million dollar thefts, and the dark ...

LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE A “powerful and devastating” (The Washington Post) call to free those buried alive by America’s legal system, and an inspiring true story about unwavering belief in humanity—from a gifted young lawyer and...

From the first call to a Portland detective about a missing woman to the police’s growing certainty that she had been murdered, from the heroic efforts to locate the body to the flight from Maine of their chief suspect, and from the painstaking work of collecting evidence and building a case to the struggles over jurisdictional questions to the twists and turns of the eventual trial, Finding Amy is a dramatic story of brutal murder and exemplary police work with the human beings and emotion behind the shield.

Step back in time to the early 1900s, a period when life was simpler, free from the distractions of the internet and smartphones. Yet, it was also a time fraught with danger and austerity. Join us on a gripping journey through "The Trail of the Tramp," a tale of adventure, hardship, and redemption. Follow the lives of Joe and Jim McDonald as they navigate the treacherous world of tramps, beggars, and criminals, seeking to reunite with their lost family and reclaim their honor.

That Day in Dallas: Lee Harvey Oswald Did Not Kill JFK is best described as a prosecution by Robert K. Tanenbaum of those corrupt, unscrupulous government and unelected agency officials, who from inception with predetermined outcomes, deceitfully engaged in insecure, phony pretense probes regarding the assassination in Dealey Plaza. Those responsible are prosecuted while those who speak truth to power are exonerated.

The plot to assassinate President John F. Kennedy has been shrouded in secrecy and deceit, leading most Americans to doubt the veracity of the Warren Commission's findings. Now, after forty years, Barr McClellan exposes the secret, high-level conspiracy in Texas that led to Kennedy's death and L.B.J.'s succession as President.

Detective Peter Seymour has seen every type of death imaginable in his time in the NSW Coroner's Court and, after many years in law enforcement, the tragedies are beginning to take their toll. Dealing with death day in day out becomes too much for Seymour and this seasoned veteran starts to grapple with overwhelming feelings of fear and doubt. He decides to return to the police force hoping the operational work might offer some reprieve. Fate would have it otherwise as he is thrust straight back into an intense murder investigation.

What drives someone to commit the unthinkable? How do investigators piece together the truth from the chaos of a crime scene? Why are we so captivated by the darker aspects of human behavior? Caught takes you beyond the headlines and into the heart of some of the most compelling, yet overlooked, true crime cases. This book combines meticulous research with compassionate storytelling, ensuring the victims' stories are honored and remembered.

'The only way to comprehend this tragic story of mine is to write it.' On the 10th of February 2017, there was a sentencing hearing for murder in the Victorian Supreme Court. The young woman in the dock, who sat quietly with her hands in her lap, had perfect skin and light-brown hair tied back...

Even after WWI had ended, the region of Arizona, New Mexico, and West Texas stubbornly refused to be tamed. It was still a place where frontier gunfights broke out at an alarming rate. Utilizing official records, newspaper accounts, and oral histories, Cowboys and Gangsters tells the story of the untamed "Wild West" of the Prohibition era of the 1920s and early 1930s and introduces a rogues' gallery of six-gun-packing Western gunfighters and lawmen.

This candid and darkly witty memoir recounts an exhilarating life - and a few close brushes with death. With remarkable sangfroid and a humorist's eye for absurdity, H. K. Roy describes his many strange and risky exploits in his long career with the CIA. Whether he was pursuing Soviet and Cuban spies, running "denied area" operations in Eastern Europe, hunting Bosnian War criminals, or providing actionable intelligence to US government and coalition forces in Iraq, Roy usually found himself at the right place at the right time.

A monster was on a killing spree. In just nine months, seven people went missing; all of their bodies eventually discovered in a wooded lot behind a suburban strip mall. But the investigation that led law enforcement to their suspect, William Devin Howell, is only part of the story behind His Garden: Conversations with a Serial Killer. A practicing attorney, author Anne K. Howard first contacted Howell while he was serving a 15-year sentence for the murder of one of his seven victims. He was about to be charged for the remaining six murders.

On August 28, 1997, just as she was starting her junior year of college at the University of Kentucky, Holly Dunn and her boyfriend, Chris Maier, were walking along railroad tracks on their way home from a party when they were attacked by notorious serial killer Angel Maturino Resendiz, a.k.a. The Railroad Killer. After her boyfriend is beaten to death in front of her, Holly is stabbed, raped, and left for dead. In this memoir of survival and healing from a horrific true crime, Holly recounts how she lived through the vicious assault.

In 1987, a heroin addict murdered an Emmy Award-winning choreographer in Manhattan. Then a wealthy LA surgeon and his teenaged son were targeted. In 1991, an out-of-work redneck flew to London with cyanide to poison three members of a male exotic dance review. If the poison didn’t work, he was told to use a hammer to beat them to death. The true story behind the Hulu/Twentieth Century Fox TV eight-part series Welcome to Chippendales.