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Ein Bauunternehmer ist ermordet worden. Der Mann hat sich in seinem Leben viele Feinde gemacht, entsprechend groß ist der Kreis der Tatverdächtigen. Doch alle Spuren verlaufen im Sand, bis die Polizei die Sprachnachricht »Der Abriss ist erfolgt« abfängt. Dieser Fall eines Auftragsmordes liegt einer der neun spannenden Geschichten zugrunde, die von Mord, Betrug, Drogenhandel und Raub handeln.

A criminology student studying murder becomes the prime suspect in a quadruple homicide that shocked America. On November 13, 2022, the college town of Moscow, Idaho, woke up to unthinkable horror. Four University of Idaho students—Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen, and Kaylee Goncalves—had been brutally murdered in their off-campus home while they slept. With no forced entry, no clear motive, and minimal physical evidence, investigators faced one of the most challenging cases in modern criminal history.

Todos los asesinatos se parecen. Al fn y al cabo, todos ellos suponen la muerte de una persona inocente. Lo que les confere su particularidad, lo que les imprime su sello único, personalísimo, son los motivos que incitan a un individuo a cometerlos. Descubrir esos factores que llevan a una persona cualquiera a convertirse en un implacable asesino es lo que nos inquieta. Desentrañar qué motivaciones se ocultan tras actos criminales, a menudo difíciles de explicar, es el propósito de este nuevo libro de la jurista y criminóloga Paz Velasco.

Lacey Spears made international headlines in January 2015, when she was charged with the "depraved mind" murder of her five-year-old son, Garnett. Prosecutors alleged that the 27-year-old mother had poisoned him with high concentrations of salt through his stomach tube. To the outside world, Lacey had seemed like the perfect mother, regularly posting dramatic updates on her son's harrowing medical problems. But in reality, Lacey was a textbook case of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy.

This Ultimate True Crime Case Collection contains disturbing accounts of some of the most brutal and bizarre true crime stories in history. Often told from the killer’s perspective, Green’s riveting narratives draw the listener into the real-life horror experienced by the victims with all the elements of a classic thriller. This collection includes the stories of Harold Shipman, Fred and Rose West, the Kurim case, the Mockingbird Hill massacre, the Truro Murders, Herb Baumeister, Katherine Knight, Henry Lee Lucas, and Nannie Doss.

The tragic story of Susan Powell and her murdered boys, Charlie and Braden, is the only case that rivals the Jon Benet Ramsey saga in the annals of true crime. When the pretty, blonde Utah mother went missing in December of 2009 the media was swept up in the story - with lenses and microphones trained on Susan's husband, Josh. He said he had no idea what happened to his young wife, and that he and the boys had been camping in the middle of a snowstorm.

Robert Wone and Joseph Price were unlikely friends.

The Zodiac serial killer claimed the lives of at least five young victims between 1966 and 1974, and mocked the police with telephone calls, taunting letters, and encrypted messages. Thousands of men have been accused; nearly 2,500 have been investigated. Yet the Zodiac has never been identified. This painstakingly researched and meticulously detailed compendium to the Zodiac serial killer case by true crime author Mark Hewitt presents the crimes and their effect on a community.

In this superb work of literary true crime—a spellbinding combination of memoir and psychological suspense—a female journalist chronicles her unusual connection with a convicted serial killer and her search to understand the darkness inside us. ""Well, well, Claudia. Can I call you Claudia?...

A brand new thriller from the internationally bestselling author of A QUIET BELIEF IN ANGELS **** Rookie police officer Rachel Hoffman has never seen a dead body before. It will not be her last. Her first murder case is a young woman - sent off to sleep with a mysterious note that quotes from an...

Through wonderfully descriptive writing, Simon details the work of fifteen detectives, three sergeants and a lieutenant charged with investigating dozens of Baltimore's 234 murders that year. Simon takes listeners inside the detectives' lives, describing the frustration of departmental red tape...

Eine Auswahl der Geschichten umfasst:Der Kreuzworträtselmord: Ein ostdeutscher Junge ging ins Kino, um sich mit Freunden zu treffen, verschwand aber irgendwo auf den schneebedeckten Bürgersteigen. Als seine Leiche später gefunden wurde, war der einzige Hinweis, den die Ermittler hatten, ein mit grüner Tinte ausgefülltes Kreuzworträtsel.

Die Tränen, die in tiefem Rot über die Wangen flossen, ergaben nun einen Sinn. Endlich kam er zur Ruhe, endlich verschwand das Gefühl, getrieben zu sein. Anette Auer muss sich seit dem Tod ihres Mannes alleine um die einjährigen Zwillinge und ihren elfjährigen Sohn Janik kümmern. Gerade als sie glaubt, die traurige Vergangenheit würde hinter ihr liegen, erschüttert ein brutales Verbrechen das Leben der kleinen Familie – Janiks Schulkamerad wird ermordet in einem Heidelberger Freibad aufgefunden! Der Täter hat ihn grausam zugerichtet und eine Botschaft hinterlassen.

Monster stories aren’t just meant to entertain. They’re meant to inform, even educate. Above all, they ask us to question our own humanity. Nowhere is this truer than in stories of serial killers. What are the origins of this monstrous archetype? Why are we so fascinated with such gruesome terror? What do they reveal about our fears and anxieties? Explore these and other questions in Serial Killers: Real and Imagined, where public scholar Emily Zarka looks at the serial-killer trope across history, from murky 17th-century legends to 21st-century true-crime obsessions.

Written by the forensic nurse who transformed the way the FBI profiles and catches serial killers, this thought-provoking book takes an intimate look at the creation of the Behavioral Science Unit–the inspiration for Hulu’s Mastermind documentary. In the 1970s, the FBI created the...

Anstatt ihn wegen Kindesmissbrauch zu verurteilen, wurde Fritz Haarmann als psychisch unzurechnungsfähig eingestuft und in eine psychiatrische Anstalt eingewiesen, bis er durch eine neue Diagnose als ‚moralisch unterbemittelt‘ eingestuft und freigelassen wurde. Seine Kenntnisse über die kriminelle Unterwelt überzeugten die Polizei, über seine ‚Aktivitäten‘ hinwegzusehen und ihm als Informant zu vertrauen.

Read by the author, Sandra Brown. ‘Completely gripping . . . Sandra Brown found evil in the person of her own father; and she confronted it as few could have done . . . Everyone will want to read this amazing story’ – Andrew O’Hagan, author of Caledonian Road Sandra Brown was eight when...

Victim. murderer. Serial killer. What next? The third darkly comic thriller in the highly addictive Sweetpea series featuring serial killer Rhiannon Lewis. Can a serial killer ever lose their taste for murder? Since confessing to her bloody murder spree, Rhiannon Lewis, the now-notorious Sweetpea killer, has been feeling out-of-sorts.Having fled the UK on a cruise ship to start her new life, Rhiannon should be feeling happy. But it’s hard to turn over a new leaf when she’s stuck in an oversized floating tin can with the Gammonati and screaming kids.

In 1974, Dennis Lynn Rader stalked and murdered a family of four in Wichita, Kansas. Since adolescence, he had read about serial killers and imagined becoming one. Soon after killing the family, he murdered a young woman and then another, until he had 10 victims. He named himself “B.T.K.” (bind, torture, kill) and wrote notes that terrorized the city. He remained on the loose for 30 years.

Quella tra Oriana e Pier Paolo è una delle più affascinanti e intense storie di amore-odio della letteratura e del costume italiani del Novecento. Scrittori di primissimo livello, polemisti spietati, personaggi venerati e infangati dall'opinione pubblica del tempo, le loro personalità contrapposte non potevano far altro che incrociarsi. Forse anche perché, a differenza dei loro colleghi italiani, Oriana e Pier Paolo si muovono con agio sullo scenario internazionale.