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‘Each time my mother laid a finger on me… it was another step into the jaws of hell. Her abuse, more so than any other, destroyed me. It was the ultimate betrayal.’ Abused from the age of eight by her older brother and then her step-father, Maureen Wood quickly became numb to the constant...

As gripping as it is gruesome, How to Solve a Murder is a fascinating insight into the career of a pathologist told by experts in the field. Includes a foreword from Dr Richard Shepherd, bestselling author of Unnatural Causes. FRACTURED SKULLS. GAS MASKS. BRAIN BUCKETS. VATS OF ACID. PICKLED...

“Tragic, infuriating, impeccably researched…. [A] remarkable story, brilliantly told.” — John Grisham A shocking story of fire science gone wrong and mob mentality run amok, when Victor Rosario, an immigrant in Lowell, Massachusetts, is wrongfully convicted following a deadly blaze and...

Some cases refuse to die. Six of the darkest unsolved murder cases in American history share one thing in common: the highway gave killers everything they needed. Anonymity. Easy victims. An escape route that swallowed them whole. Forensic evidence collected. DNA tested. Leads pursued for decades. Still — nothing. Inside, you'll follow investigators through cases that went cold — and stayed that way: The Santa Rosa Hitchhiker Murders. Seven teenage girls vanished along Highway 101 in the early 1970s. One has never been identified. Nobody was ever charged. The Colonial Parkway Killings.

This is the fascinating true story of a brutal murderer and the detectives who worked the cold case for six years in order to bring him to justice. Combining cutting-edge forensic techniques with old-fashioned detective work, a team of detectives worked to build a case against their prime suspect. But it was a race against time: would he strike again? No one could predict that the killer's appearance on the gameshow Bullseye would provide bizarre but crucial evidence. The operation is now recognised as one of the greatest cold-case reviews ever undertaken in the UK. 

Plongez au cœur de l’histoire criminelle du XIXᵉ siècle et d’avant avec Dossiers Oubliés – Volume 4. À travers 15 récits authentiques et minutieusement documentés, redécouvrez des affaires réelles — parfois célèbres, souvent effacées de la mémoire collective — qui ont marqué leur époque par leur cruauté, leur mystère ou leur impact judiciaire. Chaque chapitre repose sur des faits vérifiables, issus d’archives, de journaux d’époque et de documents historiques, pour restituer avec précision le contexte et les protagonistes de ces crimes d’un autre temps.

What if the most dangerous part of a serial killer's story happened long before the first victim? Blueprint of a Killer does not sensationalize bloodshed or linger on gore. Instead, it asks the uncomfortable question most true crime books avoid: how did this start? What was happening before the headlines, body counts, and documentaries?

Plongez au cœur de l’histoire criminelle du XIXe siècle et d’avant avec Dossiers Oubliés – Volume 3. À travers 15 récits authentiques et minutieusement documentés, redécouvrez des affaires réelles — parfois célèbres, souvent effacées de la mémoire collective — qui ont marqué leur époque par leur cruauté, leur mystère ou leur impact judiciaire. Chaque chapitre s’appuie sur des faits vérifiables, tirés d’archives, de journaux d’époque et de documents historiques, pour restituer avec précision le contexte, les protagonistes et les zones d’ombre de ces crimes d’un autre temps.

À une époque où la justice avançait à tâtons, sans empreintes digitales, sans ADN ni science médico-légale, les enquêteurs se fiaient à l’instinct, aux rumeurs… et aux erreurs.

La pasión por la crónica negra habría de servirle para escribir relatos de ficción a partir de un hecho real, demostrar que había leído abundante bibliografía de criminología y entendía de todos estos temas y, también, que conocía al dedillo las aventuras de Sherlock Holmes, que despreciaba.

Dos mujeres desaparecidas con cinco años de diferencia. No se conocen, jamás se han visto. Solo les unen dos cosas: han vivido en el mismo chalé de Majadahonda (Madrid) en épocas distintas y han conocido a Bruno Hernández Vega. Eduardo cruza el mundo para encontrar a su hermana Adriana, pero su rastro se pierde en ese chalé en el que Bruno le alquilaba una habitación. Las pesquisas pronto pondrán sobre la pista a la Guardia Civil. Descubren que desde hace años tampoco nadie sabe nada de Liria, la tía de Bruno y propietaria de la casa.

Joaquín Ferrándiz era un buen hijo, un empleado sin tacha y un amigo en el que confiar. Pero el yerno perfecto para cualquier vecina ocultaba a un depredador, capaz de sembrar de cadáveres de mujeres la provincia de Castellón sin que lo descubrieran. El cazador que actuaba los fines de semana estranguló a cinco jóvenes entre 1995 y 1996 y arrojó sus cuerpos en descampados y charcas mientras seguía con su vida anodina. La Guardia Civil lo detuvo en 1998, cuando ya había atacado a otras dos chicas que lograron escapar de una muerte segura.

September 1990. In Shaker Heights, Ohio, teenage honors student Lisa Lee Pruett vanishes into the night. A boy calls 911 when she does not arrive for a secret late-night meet-up. Police soon find her nearby, stabbed to death and left exposed. Lisa had just passed an important test and earned her driver’s license. She was a Girl Scout, athlete, musician, and lover of poetry. Then her life was cut short.

Plongez dans l’histoire criminelle du XIXe siècle et d’avant avec Dossiers Oubliés - Volume 2. À travers 15 récits authentiques, découvrez des affaires réelles, choquantes et souvent oubliées, qui ont marqué leur époque par leur cruauté, leur mystère ou leur impact judiciaire. Chaque chapitre repose sur des faits vérifiables, issus d’archives, de journaux d’époque et de documents historiques authentiques. Un voyage fascinant au cœur du crime, de la justice et de la noirceur humaine.

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.

Mary Jumbelic has been obsessed with death since the loss of her father when she was 13. The sudden departure of her dad, the mother left behind, and her position as an only child led her to grow up quickly. Yet the why and how of her father's death plagued her. She chose to view an autopsy at the age of 15 and discovered a science that explained the process. College, medical school and becoming a forensic pathologist wasn't a given. She struggled before ultimately deciding on a career as a medical examiner.

This giant 6-volume bundle includes a total of 87 real and gripping stories of harrowing crimes. Listen to how detectives and forensic science identified, tracked down, and convicted these twisted offenders, most of whom you will have never heard about before. A new True Crime series of specially curated stories that carry a common theme in each volume.

On her way to Florida, Katy, a 54-year-old, faces some severe consequences of her negligence. The cost she had to pay is a visit to jail, something she wouldn’t ever wish upon anyone, let alone spend a few months there. However, it was her positivity that turned her unpleasant experience into some profound life lessons. So she had much to share and talk about when she returned to the normal world. This book presents the twists and turns of Katy’s life, and how a mistake causes her a severe loss in life that ends up turning her world upside down.

In Volume #6: Contract to Kill you’ll listen about people who tried to avoid suspicion by paying some else to do their evil while presenting themselves as shocked bystanders. Listen to how detectives and forensic science identified, tracked down, and convicted these twisted offenders and their hired accomplices. Volume #6 includes . . .The Principal: Detectives uncover layers of deceit, betrayal, and a horrifying tale of love, lies, and cold-blooded murder of a beloved teacher and her unborn daughter.

Bringing together ground-breaking forensic discoveries – including vital DNA evidence – and gripping historical detective work, Naming Jack the Ripper constructs the first truly convincing case for identifying the world's most notorious serial killer. In 2007, Russell Edwards, fuelled by...