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Los náufragos del Wager es un true crime y una absorbente historia de supervivencia, fruto de una exhaustiva investigación periodística pero que se percibe como una novela de Conrad. Grann nos sobrecoge con su capacidad para contar una historia que tuvo lugar hace más de doscientos años: recupera el eterno debate entre la maldad y la bondad en la naturaleza humana y los pone sobre la mesa de nuestro convulso presente.

Une famille entière manipulée pour commettre les plus horribles crimes, une écolière froidement assassinée par son amie, une hôtesse de bar droguée puis mutilée, l’étrange dégustation d’un curry mortel... Toutes ces histoires réelles se sont déroulées au Japon et ont eu un retentissement important dans la presse nationale... Mais restent encore à découvrir en France ! À la manière d’une HVF, explorez-le déroulé des faits et de l’enquête, la psychologie des protagonistes, les débats pendant les procès et des focus culturels pour bien comprendre le contexte de ces glaçantes histoires nippones.

Rancho Cordova, Kalifornien, 1974: Ein Einbrecher versetzt das sonst so idyllische Städtchen in Angst und Schrecken. Wie ein Schatten bewegt er sich über die Dächer, steigt in Wohnungen ein und prügelt die Haustiere brutal zu Tode. "Cordova Cat Burglar" wird er genannt – nur einer von vielen Spitznamen, die ihm im Laufe der 70er- und 80er-Jahre gegeben werden, als er verschiedene Städte an der Westküste terrorisiert. "Visalia Ransacker", "East Area Rapist", "Original Night Stalker", "Golden State Killer" – die Bezeichnungen spiegeln die wachsende Brutalität seiner Taten wider.

Widowed Blanche Taylor Moore was about to lose her second spouse to symptoms that mysteriously mirrored those that killed her first husband—as well as her previous boyfriend. When an investigation reveals arsenic poisoning, the hideous truth about the wife and mother comes to light. Did the abuse Blanche suffered as a child at the hands of her alcoholic father turn her into a murderer she became?

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 to what they thought was the obvious conclusion: in a jealous...

The explosive true story of a secret group of radicals who launched a clandestine battle to save the planet—and what their legacy illuminates about the past, present, and future of the environmental movement In the early hours of October 28, 1996, a driver in rural Oregon spotted flames rising...

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.

In 1992, the deadliest year in Chicago’s history, seven-year-old Dantrell Davis was shot and killed in front of his elementary school inside the public housing complex Cabrini-Green. What happened to Dantrell led to a truce among Chicago’s gangs, but it also ignited a national panic about poverty and violence in America’s cities. Dantrell’s name would soon be used to demolish all of Chicago’s high-rise public housing, displacing tens of thousands of low-income families.

Will Johnnie Veal—convicted of the murder of two police officers in 1970—be granted parole after 50 years in prison? How can he convince the parole board he’s reformed when he insists he’s innocent? What is prison time even supposed to accomplish? These are the questions that propel The Parole Room forward as it builds toward Johnnie’s 20th parole hearing—after 19 rejections.

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.

The chilling true story of a brutal string of deaths on the post-Revolutionary frontier that reveal the violence at the heart of the young United States Kentucky, 1798: A harrowing series of murders begins. The first body, discovered by cattle drovers, lies bloody at the bottom of a ridge. Then...

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.

Murder, mob rule, and the making of Abraham Lincoln—the story of three racially motivated murders in Mississippi River towns from 1835 to 1838 that inspired the speech that put Lincoln on the national map—the Lyceum Address.

And on its surface, the Chappaquiddick Incident (as it has infamously become known) was a simple but tragic traffic accident. However, its political fallout caused it to become the most speculated-upon car accident until Princess Diana's fatal ride, some 28 years later: Was Kennedy drunk? Was he trying to conceal an affair by deliberately killing Kopechne? Why did he wait for so long before reporting the accident? And who else was involved?

Pittsburgh's small but lucrative Cosa Nostra mafia family was on the rise in 1985 with a newly crowned Don . . . The men who came to dominate the rackets in western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio, and West Virginia opened the family to massive profits from drug trafficking and a street tax on other criminal activities. At the same time, the Youngstown, Ohio, faction of the family launched a brutal mob war against the weakening Cleveland mafia and the Altoona, Pennsylvania, crew violently clamped down on their city.

In December 1832 a farmer found the body of a pregnant young woman hanging near a haystack outside a New England mill town. When news spread that Methodist preacher Ephraim Avery was accused of murdering Sarah Maria Cornell, a factory worker, the case gave the public everything they found irresistible: sexually charged violence, adultery, the hypocrisy of a church leader, secrecy and mystery, and suspicions of insanity. Murder in a Mill Town tells the story of how a local crime quickly turned into a national scandal that became America's first "trial of the century."

This harrowing tale of early twentieth century New York reveals the true stories of an immigrant underworld, a secret vice squad, and the rise of organized crime. In the early 1900s, prior to World War I, New York City was a vortex of vice and corruption. On the Lower East Side, then the most...

The fourth volume of this comprehensive work features hundreds of serial killers from Sacramento to Soviet Russia—plus numerous unsolved cases.