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Here are the stories of the great gangs that once terrorized New York City, from the Bowery Boys and the Dead Rabbits to the Gophers and the Eastmans—here are the infamous gangsters, from the days of the murderous Five Points Gangs to the later underworld mobs led by Mose the Bowery Boy, Monk Eastman, Paul Kelly, Kid Dropper, Dopey Benny, Gyp the Blood, and Owney Madden, and such feminine underworld luminaries as Gallus Mag and Sadie the Goat.

This book narrates the events that unfolded during those four days. It is recounted by someone who was there–FBI Special Agent R. Scott Crabtree. Telling his story for the first time, Crabtree takes the listener behind the scenes of the investigation and its race to find the killers before they could strike again.

Il sostantivo “mostro” è di genere maschile. Si dice “il mostro”, non “la mostro”. Che può avere, questo è certo, un significato compiuto in italiano, ma per puro caso, e comunque come espressione verbale e non sostantivale. La figura del “mostro” evoca orchi, giganti, figure mitologiche orribili. La letteratura ne è piena. Naturalmente al maschile….

This is the never-before-told story of Harold Derber, the debonair British Merchant Navy veteran who pioneered the modern drug trade with his groundbreaking invention: the drug mothership. Through his ghost fleet of drug ships, Derber eventually became the chief supplier of marijuana to post-war America. This gripping true tale follows Derber from humble beginnings in Manchester, England, to his assassination in the sun-kissed streets of Miami.

À travers ces pages, il plonge le lecteur au cœur de dix mois d'audience en revenant sur les dates et mécanismes qui l'ont le plus marqué : sa déposition, son statut de victime et chroniqueur pour France Info, la constitution partie civile de son épouse, les dépositions clés, la prise de paroles des accusés ou encore l'écoute déchirante de la bande-son de l'attentat du Bataclan... Son récit trace un chemin semé d'embûches où la justice, au-delà de la sanction contre les auteurs, répare les victimes et apaise les blessures.

On a winter's evening in 1673, tragedy descended on the respectable Rhode Island household of Thomas Cornell. His 73-year-old mother, Rebecca, was found close to her bedroom's large fireplace, dead and badly burned.

A story of two halves, documenting the life of Irene Dunroe–the first wife of Michael Peterson, now known as Charles Salvador, Britain’s most notorious and longest serving prisoner. The story will be told from two points of view, a chapter dedicated to Irene’s view from when she first met ‘Mick’, followed by a chapter dedicated to Charlie’s view.

Independence Day weekend, 1960: a young cop is murdered, shocking his close-knit community in Stamford, Connecticut. The killer remains at large, his identity still unknown. But on a beach not far away, a young Army doctor, on vacation from his post at a research lab in a maximum-security prison, faces a chilling realization. He knows who the shooter is. In fact, the man—a prisoner out on parole—had called him only days before. By helping his former charge and trainee, the doctor, a believer in second chances, may have inadvertently helped set the murder into motion.

On May 16, 1922, a young man's body was found on a desolate road in Westchester County. The victim was penniless ex-sailor Clarence Peters. Walter Ward, the handsome scion of the family that owned the largest chain of bread factories in the country, confessed to the crime as an act of self-defense against a violent gang of "shadow men," blackmailers who extorted their victims' moral weaknesses. From the start, one question defined the investigation: What scandalous secret could lead Ward to murder?

It is an explosive true story of survival, betrayal, and the moment America lost its grip on the Middle East. On November 4, 1979, 52 Americans were taken hostage inside the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, an act that stunned the world and sparked a 444-day standoff that shattered U.S. diplomacy and changed global politics forever. In this pulse-pounding narrative, acclaimed historian Davis Truman pulls back the curtain on the backroom deals, psychological torment, and international missteps that defined one of the longest hostage crises in modern history.

Lunedì 8 gennaio 2001, verso le sette di sera, nel giardino di Villa Altachiara a Portofino, scompariva la contessa Francesca Vacca Agusta, per anni protagonista del jet set italiano e internazionale. Prendeva il via quella sera un'indagine che avrebbe riempito le cronache di giornali e tv per settimane, mesi e anni, senza soluzione né requie neppure quando, una ventina di giorni più tardi, il cadavere venne ritrovato in mare, a pochi metri da una baia in Costa Azzurra.

Laura Grillo, carabiniere comandante della sezione forestale di Siena, è stata ritrovata cadavere da alcuni suoi colleghi nella stazione di Greve in Chianti. Era di origine pugliese e aveva 28 anni. L’ipotesi più accreditata per la spiegazione del suo decesso è quella del suicidio.

Всем, кто так или иначе интересуется историей Китая известно понятие хунхуз! У многих при этом слове возникает представление о кровожадном разбойнике, жестоком грабителе, воре, вероломном обманщике, человеке-звере, чуждом всякого понятия о чести. У нас не существовало такого общественного явления, которое было бы похоже на китайское «хунхузничество», поэтому нет и соответствующего слова, которое выразило бы более или менее верно это явление.

The disappearance of fabulously rich Chicago candy heiress Helen Brach and the suspicious deaths of a string of champion racehorses are linked in a celebrated scandal that has reverberated through every level of the glamorous enclaves of thoroughbred horse breeding. When widowed heiress Helen Brach suddenly disappeared on the morning of February 17, 1977, after a visit to the Mayo Clinic, she left behind a lavender Rolls-Royce, Cadillacs in red, pink, and coral, an eighteen-room mansion, and a fortune now estimated at $75 million.

Illuminating and captivating, New York Times bestselling author of Tinseltown and Bogart offers the first definitive account of the Black Dahlia murder—the most famous unsolved true crime case in American history—which humanizes the victim and situates the notorious case within an anxious, postwar country grappling with new ideas, demographics, and technologies.

On August 21, 1992, federal agents surveilled a cabin in Boundary County, Idaho, as part of an operation to arrest white separatist Randy Weaver for failure to appear in court. What followed was a shootout and eleven-day standoff punctuated by shocking bursts of violence. By the time Weaver surrendered to the authorities, his wife, son, and dog lay dead, as did a US Marshal. In End of Days, Chris Jennings uses the gripping story of Ruby Ridge to examine the long history of apocalyptic faith in America and the way it has changed the nation.

Ventuno morti, un'unica guerra: quella, tra opposte ideologie, che per quasi quindici anni sconvolse l'Italia. Cominciando da Genova 1970, Ugo Venturini: «Il primo passo verso gli anni di piombo. Così, quasi per caso». Per finire a Roma 1983, Paolo Di Nella, il «fascista grunge», che chiude con un sigillo di sangue quell'epoca. In mezzo, il rogo di Primavalle, destinato a bruciare per decenni; il «western metropolitano» per le strade di Roma in cui rimane ucciso il greco Mikis Mantakas; l'escalation di tensione nella Milano del 1975 che porta all'omicidio di Segio Ramelli; e molti altri.

Dieser ‚Koffermord' an einem Pariser Gerichtsvollzieher konnte mithilfe intensiver Zeugenbefragungen aufgeklärt werden. Er ging aber auch wegen der Leistungen der beteiligten Gerichtsmediziner und Detektive in die Geschichte der Kriminalistik ein.

Bei diesem mysteriösen Mordfall aus dem Jahr 1859 wurde eine Leiche in einem verschlossenen Koffer in einem Lager in einem Güterbahnhof im polnischen Rzeszow entdeckt, nachdem dieser einen bestialischen Gestank verströmte. Der Koffer war in Wien auf die Reise geschickt worden. Die Ermittlungen überführen schließlich den Täter, einen Buchhalter, der den Mord an seinem Arbeitgeber begangen hatte.

Der Täter, ein gebildeter und musikalisch begabter junger Mann aus gutem Hause, handelte ohne offensichtliches Motiv und passte nicht ins Täterklischee. Das machte diesen Fall kurz nach der Jahrhundertwende zu einer medialen Sensation.