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Mit den hier versammelten Fallerzählungen führt Romy Hausmann den Beweis, dass kein Thrillerautor auch nur annähernd so bizarre Verbrechen schreiben kann wie das Leben. In einfühlsamen Gesprächen mit Angehörigen und Opfern, Tätern und Ermittlern, mit renommierten Richtern, Forensikern, Medizinern und Traumaexperten spürt sie den Fragen hinter dem Offensichtlichen nach. Die Ergebnisse dieser Gespräche verdichtet sie zu einer sehr persönlichen Tagebucherzählung über die Macht der Gefühle von Opfern und Hinterbliebenen.

New York City is thrown into chaos by the assaults of the Bone Collector, a serial kidnapper and killer who gives the police a chance to save his victims from death by leaving obscure clues. The cops go to Lincoln Rhyme, an ex-NYPD forensics expert left paralysed after an accident on the job...

After more than a decade, when sisters Nikki, Sami, and Tori Knotek hear the word mom, it claws like an eagle’s talons, triggering memories that have been their secret since childhood. Until now. For years, behind the closed doors of their farmhouse in Raymond, Washington, their sadistic mother, Shelly, subjected her girls to unimaginable abuse, degradation, torture, and psychic terrors. Through it all, Nikki, Sami, and Tori developed a defiant bond that made them far less vulnerable than Shelly imagined.

Der Literatur- und Sozialwissenschaftler, Publizist, Mäzen und Multimillionär Jan Philipp Reemtsma wurde am 25.03.1996 vor seinem Haus in Hamburg-Blankenese überwältigt und entführt. 33 Tage sollte er angekettet in einem Keller eines eigens angemieteten Hauses verbringen – und in Todesangst versuchen, seine Freilassung zu erwirken. Parallel versuchte seine Familie in Blankenese, die Lösegeldforderung von 20 Millionen Mark zu erfüllen und die Übergabe zu bewerkstelligen.

Jede Episode beleuchtet neue Facetten des Falls und trennt Fakten von wilden Gerüchten. Der Fall Kris und Lisanne beflügelt die Fantasie von Internet-Detektiven weltweit, die ihre eigenen, oft bizarren Theorien entwickeln. Die Untersuchung folgt den Spuren der Unfalltheorien und zeigt auf, warum selbst erfahrene Wanderer an den offiziellen Erklärungen zweifeln.

In an explosive Audible Original investigative series, executive produced by James Patterson, veteran journalist and New York Times best-selling author Vicky Ward chronicles her 19-year quest to uncover what - or who - is behind Jeffrey Epstein’s wealth, influence, and criminality.

True Crime-Erfolgsautor Adrian Langenscheid entfacht erneut mit seinen schockierenden Kurzgeschichten über wahre Verbrechen aus der Schweiz herzklopfendes Lesevergnügen. Es ist ein atemberaubendes, zutiefst erschütterndes Portrait menschlicher Abgründe, das gerade wegen seiner kühlen, sachlich-neutralen Schilderung gewaltige Emotionen weckt. Eiskalte Serienmörder, verhängnisvolle Familiendramen, tragische Entführungen, niederträchtige Folter und skrupelloser Missbrauch: dreizehn schockierende True Crime-Kurzgeschichten zu wahren Kriminalfällen aus der Schweiz erwarten Sie.

Eine Sammlung spannender, echter Kriminalfälle aus Dänemark, Schweden und Norwegen: Eine entstellte Frauenleiche in einem Kopenhagener Hotelzimmer; ein exzentrischer norwegischer Maler, der der Steuerhinterziehung angeklagt wird; zwei grausame Mädchenmorde im ländlichen Schweden; ein mysteriöser Leichenfund in einem Kopenhagener Park; ein Mini-U-Boot, das auf Leichensuche in einen norwegischen Fjord geschickt wird - diese Zusammenstellung unterschiedlicher True-Crime-Fälle kann es mit jedem Krimi aufnehmen.

When his daughter Samantha calls in the dead of night, John Rebus knows it's not good news. Her husband has been missing for two days. Rebus fears the worst - and knows from his lifetime in the police that his daughter will be the prime suspect. He wasn't the best father - the job always came first - but now his daughter needs him more than ever. As he leaves at dawn to drive to the windswept coast - and a small town with big secrets - he wonders whether this might be the first time in his life where the truth is the one thing he doesn't want to find....

In this provocative and eye-opening classic of investigative journalism, the #1 New York Times bestselling author, Ann Rule, explores the nearly twenty-year long search for America’s most prolific and horrifying serial killer. On July 15, 1982, eighteen-year-old Wendy Coffield's body is found...

In Bare Bones, she re-examines missing and murder cases she has covered in her podcast series, and revisits the leads and the interviews she conducted. Much of the information has never been made public before.

What turns a bedwetting twelve-year-old girl with bruises she does not talk about into the woman the cameras would, two decades later, call America's first female serial killer? The answer is not the one the headlines gave you. Aileen Wuornos killed seven men along the Florida highways in twelve months. She confessed to all of them, took the stand against her own lawyers, and screamed at the jury that she hoped their wives and daughters would suffer the same fate she claimed had been done to her. The state of Florida killed her by lethal injection in October 2002.

How does a man shake the hand of the First Lady of the United States in May, then drive home and bury a teenage boy under his linen cupboard before midnight? How does a Polish picnic organiser, a precinct captain, a children's hospital clown, run twenty seven young men into the dirt beneath his own kitchen floor across six straight years on a quiet suburban street, while his neighbours bring round Christmas hampers and the postman calls him by his first name?

El 26 de enero de 2016, Omar y Luis Viñas, dos hermanos de origen canario afincados en Venezuela, son secuestrados por una de las bandas más peligrosas de Sudamérica. Este secuestro, que se prolongará durante 38 días, movilizará a la Guardia Civil, al FBI, a la policía panameña y a las unidades antisecuestro venezolanas, y será uno de los más complejos a los que han tenido que enfrentarse estos cuerpos policiales.

The twelve cases in this volume span half a century and four countries, but they share something underneath: none were accidents, and none were the work of a single hot second the killer would have taken back. These were choices, made and remade by people who had every chance to stop and chose to keep going.

In 1981, PK326 was on a routine domestic flight from Karachi, Pakistan when it was hijacked and diverted to Afghanistan.

New York Times Bestseller A victim of her mother’s Munchausen by proxy and child abuse survivor, Gypsy-Rose Blanchard’s unique and controversial case made headlines across the world. Now, she’s finally free to start living her life on her terms—and to tell her own story as only she can...

From bestselling author Ann Rule comes the true story of Bradly Morris Cunningham, the handsome and successful entrereneur who married five different women and destroyed each of them. The author of eight New York Times bestsellers, Ann Rule first won nationwide acclaim with The Stranger Beside...

The Twisted Psychology of Britain's Loneliest Serial KillerA blocked drain in north London. A polite civil servant on the doorstep with a briefcase and a bottle of rum. Fifteen or sixteen bodies he could not be bothered to deny. Why did Dennis Nilsen, a quiet union man with a steady job and a friendly dog, spend five years strangling young men in his flat and then keeping them as company until the smell forced him to act? This is not another rehash of the Muswell Hill case. This is a forensic psychological excavation of the man behind the wardrobe.

On Sunday, February 3rd 1990, seven-year-old Danny Redpath disappeared from his home. Four months later, his body was found in the nearby forest, washed clean of all evidence. Over time, more bodies were discovered; more families devastated forever. Apprehended while attempting to abduct another child, Jonathan Egan-Walsh was charged with the murders of thirteen boys. Convicted on all counts, he received life in prison and went unrepentant, still refusing to reveal the whereabouts of one of his victims, Zachery Marshall.