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Follow a trial lawyer’s career through the demanding, often controversial, and suspenseful world of jury trials, tension-filled appeals and the different worlds of courtrooms, jail cells, corporate boardrooms, and law firms. Each of the cases in the nineteen chapters were selected from a total...

De prisiones, putas y pistolas es la historia de una amistad y también de una promesa, de cómo dos amigos trazan un plan y lo llevan a cabo, no en elegantes despachos ministeriales, ni en los restaurantes más selectos, ni tan siquiera en las agencias de inteligencia estatales, sino en grises oficinas de los funcionarios anónimos, en los pasillos de las prisiones o en conversaciones telefónicas, y que consiguen que los esforzados y a veces desencantados servidores públicos, encargados de lidiar con la decepción y la mala leche, y a los que nadie otorgará nunca medallas al mérito, sean quienes l

The evening of November 17, 1978, should have been like any other for the four young crewmembers closing the Burger Chef at 5725 Crawfordsville Road in Speedway, Indiana. After serving customers and locking the doors for the night, the kids began their regular cleanup to ready the restaurant for the following day. But then something went horribly wrong. Just before midnight, someone muscled into the place, robbed the store of $581, and kidnapped the four employees.

Joseph Leslie 'Squizzy' Taylor was many things to many people: a kind and caring husband, father and stepfather, a reliable son and brother, a generous and considerate neighbour and patron. He was also a criminal willing to consider any type of crime, provided it supported his lifestyle and his ego. Squizzy graduated from teenage pickpocket to adult murderer, from organizing smash-and-grab raids on jewellers to corrupting juries and suborning witnesses.

Step into a world where ancient enigmas meet modern investigation. From the haunting depths of vanished civilizations to cold cases that still chill detectives today, Epic Historical Mysteries takes you on a thrilling journey through humanity’s most captivating unsolved puzzles.

On the night of July 18, 1969, a black Oldsmobile plunged off a narrow one-lane bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts. By morning, the car had been found submerged in the water below. Inside was the body of Mary Jo Kopechne, twenty-eight years old, a former campaign worker for Robert Kennedy. The next morning, Senator Ted Kennedy walked into the Edgartown police station and identified himself as the driver. What happened in those hours has never been fully explained.

This podcast narrates jaw-droppingly suspenseful and mysterious events of world history. The questions are still unanswered, the mysteries nobody knows why. The mystery stories narrate the stories with the fractional details of the incident with the view of the psychological and journalistic analysis of the event.

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 Costa del Sol puede tener el dudoso orgullo de haber sido refugio y residencia de célebres nazis. Algunos, prófugos sin haber podido ser juzgados en su país como autores o responsables directos de horribles crímenes; otros, que fueron juzgados, pero huyeron antes de cumplir condena. Prácticamente todos siguieron negando el delito de genocidio sistemático, planificado y llevado a cabo por el Tercer Reich, y siguieron disfrutando de la hospitalidad del Régimen mientras doraban sus cuerpos a orillas del Mediterráneo.

En 35 ans de carrière dans la PJ parisienne, Claude Cancès a tout connu : de l'Antigang à la Crim' en passant par la Brigade Mondaine avant de devenir le tout puissant patron du 36 Quai des Orfèvres. Dans ce livre, il ne se contente pas de raconter les affaires – nombreuses et retentissantes – qu'il a eu à traiter (François de Grossouvre, Jean de Broglie, le baron Empain, les Irlandais de Vincennes, Thierry Paulin, Guy Georges, attentats de 1995, etc.

Russell Bufalino was considered the most powerful Mob boss of his day, if not all time. But until now, no one has ever traced Russell's career back to the coal fields of Northeastern Pennsylvania, or explored the legacy of the Pittston crime family Russell would inherit. Charles Bufalino, cousin...

Jean-Louis Fiamenghi nous plonge véritablement dans les coulisses de ces unités d'élite, celles qui sont toujours en première ligne lorsque le terrorisme frappe. Le témoignage rare d'un homme au cœur de l'action. Il a connu les grandes heures de l'Antigang du commissaire Broussard et fut l'un des principaux acteurs de l'interpellation de Mesrine. Il révèle, pour la première fois, son rôle capital, porte de Clignancourt : il est l'un des cinq hommes qui se trouvaient dans le fameux camion bâché. Ce camion et ces policiers que personne n'a jamais pu identifier...

In Cartel Nation, listeners are taken deep inside the hidden machinery of Mexico’s drug cartels—a world where criminal networks rival governments, warlords command armies, and pop culture glorifies the very violence that terrorizes entire regions. Through gripping storytelling and meticulous investigation, this book unveils how cartels moved from the shadows into the center of politics, business, and everyday life.

Irish missionaries Fr Des Hartford and Fr Rufus Halley travelled to the Philippines, a country divided by violence and sectarianism, in the late 1960s. For many years they lived peacefully in the Muslim-dominated areas of the island of Mindanao, working to bring about a positive dialogue between the Christian and Muslim communities there. But in a volatile environment where kidnappings and attacks were everyday fears, both priests ultimately found themselves caught up in the conflict, to terrifying effect.

In an era before modern forensics and digital surveillance, a group of clever criminals orchestrated a railway heist so precise, it baffled Victorian law enforcement and captivated the public. On a summer night in 1855, as a train carried war funds from London to Folkestone, thieves swapped the shipment’s gold bars with lead and escaped undetected.

In the quiet valleys of southern Utah, in 1857, over 120 men, women, and children from Arkansas were brutally murdered by Mormon settlers and their allies. It was one of the darkest chapters in American frontier history—an event that has long remained shrouded in silence, misdirection, and denial. The Mountain Meadows Massacre is more than a historical crime; it is a story of how fear, fanaticism, and blind allegiance to religious authority can lead to devastating consequences. And for far too long, it has been treated as an inconvenient footnote by those who should have faced it head-on.

FEATURING AN EXCLUSIVE PODCAST EPISODE HOSTED BY THE AUTHOR A murdered young woman; a missing wife; a forty-year mystery. In 1986 on Phillip Island, a young woman called Beth Barnard was savagely murdered and her boyfriend’s wife, Vivienne Cameron, went missing. The police immediately jumped...

Una joven y talentosa cantante de música tradicional mexicana es asesinada en un exclusivo restaurante de la Ciudad de México, frente a decenas de testigos. Yrma Lydya Gamboa, de 22 años, recibe tres disparos a manos de su esposo, un hombre de casi 79. Luego de jalar el gatillo, él da un trago a su whiskey y camina hacia la salida con total tranquilidad, como si nada hubiera ocurrido.

12 maggio 1957, ventiquattresima edizione della Mille Miglia, la corsa degli italiani. Una Ferrari guidata dal marchese spagnolo Alfonso De Portago esce rovinosamente di strada uccidendo nove spettatori. Saranno colossali e travolgeranno la corsa, che verrà abolita. A Ferrari vengono ritirati il passaporto e la patente, come se alla guida dell'auto di De Portago ci fosse stato lui. Ferrari viene incriminato per omicidio colposo plurimo, e rischia di finire in carcere per qualche decennio.

Per non dimenticare uno dei periodi più bui della storia dell'umanità, tredici racconti ripercorrono le vite dei reggiani deportati ad Auschwitz