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A sweeping history of how child sexual abuse has been systematically concealed and minimized for decades—and how a courageous group of survivors, psychologists, and advocates are fighting to expose the truth “An inspiring, enraging, and deeply clarifying journalistic work, An Unthinkable...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Stevie Cameron’s investigative tour de force about one of North America's most prolific serial killers—now widely regarded as a true crime classic. Verteran investigative journalist Stevie Cameron first began following the story of missing women in 1998, when the odd...

Un giorno di novembre del 2020, Gisèle Pelicot viene convocata al commissariato locale; è lì che la vita per come l'ha conosciuta fino a quel momento finisce. Per quasi un decennio, Dominique l'ha drogata in segreto, l'ha stuprata e ha invitato decine di sconosciuti a casa loro per abusare di lei. In Un inno alla vita, Gisèle Pelicot si racconta per la prima volta con onestà e grazia disarmanti; ripercorre l'infanzia difficile, il primo amore, la carriera, la maternità, e poi l'ultimo decennio del suo matrimonio, gli abusi nascosti e infine il processo di guarigione emotiva che ne è seguito.

Trust is the deadliest weapon. The killers in this book weren't strangers. They were husbands and wives, neighbors with friendly dogs, family members who sat across the dinner table. They spent years building the relationships they would eventually destroy. From suburban homes to isolated citrus groves, these twelve cases reveal what happens when ordinary people decide that the lives around them are simply obstacles to be removed.

As an 18-year-old on a gap year in Canberra, Liz Cameron was approached at a shopping centre by a woman who, unbeknownst to her, was a recruiting agent for Providence, a Christian cult that originated in South Korea and currently operates in 72 countries. As a new adult, Cameron was struggling to navigate the world and her identity, and as cults do so skilfully, they took advantage of her vulnerability.

Die Lebensgeschichte einer Frau, die als kleines Kind missbraucht wurde. Sie war noch zu klein, um zu verstehen, was mit ihr geschah. Das Geschehen wurde in ihrem Unterbewusstsein verankert. Es holte sie einige Jahre später auf bittere Art und Weise ein. Nach dem Erkennen verschloss sie ihr Herz. Es begegnete ihr die große Liebe mit einem noch größeren Geheimnis. Ihr war nicht bewusst, was es bedeutet, wenn ein Mann sagt "ich bin ein Fetischist", welche Bedeutung dieses Wort im Leben von Liebenden hat. Sie sollte es aber erfahren ...

Working under California's Sexually Violent Predator Law, Samantha Stein, PsyD, faces such offenders alone, one by one, in a prison interview room. As a forensic psychologist, her high-stakes decisions can determine the difference between a life lived back in society or one condemned to indefinite incarceration.

HOUSES OF THE HOLY: A Nightmare Web of Hate, Crime, Corruption, and Child Abuse is the true story they never wanted you to hear of one man’s battle for truth—and the price he paid. When Mark Harris, a decorated former Air Force Special Operations pilot, filed a routine restraining order to protect his two young sons, he had no idea he was stepping into a nightmare. That single act set off a chain reaction that exposed a hidden criminal empire—an alliance of white supremacists, rogue military operatives, mob families, corrupt officials, government informants, and religious extremists.

In the wake of the controversial two-part documentary Leaving Neverland, which told the stories of two young boys who were befriended by the singer and have claimed they suffered years of agonizing abuse, Dylan Howard set out to investigate Jackson’s life and death in unprecedented depth, to determine - as one lawyer suggested - that the pop star ran “the most sophisticated child sexual abuse procurement and facilitation operation the world has known.”

Fred and Rose West are virtually unique in British criminal history: a husband and wife who loved and killed together. During their long relationship, the Wests murdered a series of young women, burying the remains of nine victims under their home at 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester, including those of their daughter. What was left of Fred West's eight-year-old stepdaughter was dug up from under the Wests' previous Gloucester home; his first wife and nanny were buried in open country. 

“A thrilling page-turner about the pursuit of justice” (New York Post), this is the definitive story of the case against Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and the corrupt system that supported them, told in thrilling detail by the lawyer who has represented their victims for more than a...

In The Lost Girls, John Glatt tells the truly amazing story of Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, and Michelle Knight - who were kidnapped, imprisoned, and repeatedly raped and beaten in a Cleveland house for over a decade by Ariel Castro - and their amazing escape in May 2013, which made headlines all over the world.

12 Disturbing True Crime Stories of Murder and MayhemVolume 28 of the True Crime Case Histories SeriesThe most dangerous thing in these stories isn’t a killer. It’s a convincing answer.Every case here passed through the hands of people whose job was to be certain: detectives, doctors...

Dit is mijn verhaal over hoe het was om meegesleurd te worden door overweldigende, levensgevaarlijke passie. De afwisseling tussen liefde, verlangen, hoop en diepe wanhoop zorgde ervoor dat ik niet alleen de grip op mezelf verloor, maar ook op mijn kinderen. De man die vanaf het eerste moment mijn gedachten binnendrong, mijn volledige aandacht opeiste en me nooit met rust liet, werd een deel van mijn leven. Dit is ook het verhaal over hoe ik me uiteindelijk realiseerde dat ik net als hij aan het worden was. Toen had ik nog maar één optie: weggaan.

The number-one best-selling “master of narrative journalism” (New York Times) and author of Black Hawk Down presents a compelling collection of true crime stories.

From a girl’s abduction by a serial killer to the harrowing aftermath—a gripping and heart-wrenching true-crime story by Gregg Olsen, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of If You Tell. In May 2005, authorities discovered the Groene family murdered in their Idaho home. The family’s...

Bien qu'heureuse chez son parrain et sa marraine, Catherine rêve de connaître ses vrais parents. À 6 ans, à la sortie de l'école, une femme qui se présente comme étant sa mère l'emmène chez elle. La petite Cathy ne peut croire au miracle que quelques heures car, dès l'arrivée dans sa nouvelle maison, l'enfer commence pour elle. Pendant six années, elle sera humiliée, torturée mentalement et physiquement. Esclave de sa mère et de ses frères et sœurs, jouet sexuel du compagnon de sa mère, elle n'a d'autre choix que de se taire. Elle devra sa survie à la Ddass, qui la place à l'âge de 12 ans.

Between 1993 and 1998, eight women went missing from an area around Dublin that became known as the ‘Vanishing Triangle’. Was there a link? Speculation abounded. There were whispers of a serial killer, responsible for some, if not all, of these cases. But nobody was ever brought to justice. Twenty years later, the brutal murder of Jastine Valdez disturbs crime novelist Claire McGowan into action.

From Sarah Weinman, author of Scoundrel and The Real Lolita, comes an eye-opening story about the first major spousal rape trial in America and urgent questions it raised about women’s rights that would reverberate for decades. In 1978, Greta Rideout was the first woman in United States...

For over four decades the story of the extraordinary evil that occurred at the Kincora Boys’ Home in East Belfast in the 1970s and the shocking attempts by MI5 to cover it up have haunted our political and social terrain for decades. Award-winning former BBC journalist Chris Moore has been...