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A groundbreaking history of pirates, Enemies of All combines narrative adventure with deeply researched analysis, engrossing listeners in the rise of piracy in the later seventeenth century, the debates about piracy in contemporary law and popular media, as well as the imperial efforts to suppress piracy in the early eighteenth century.

The World Encyclopedia of Serial Killers is the most comprehensive set of its kind in the history of true crime publishing. Created and compiled by Susan Hall, the four-volume set has more than 1,600 entries of male and female serial killers from around the world.

In Blood on Her Hands, award-winning journalist Tanya Farber investigates the lives, minds and motivations of some of South Africa’s most notorious female murderers, from the poisonous nurse Daisy de Melker, to the privileged but deeply disturbed Najwa Petersen, to the mysterious Joey Haarhoff, who died before revealing the fate of her victims. Written in a style lighter than the subject matter might suggest, Blood on Her Hands will keep you listening until late at night.

Coal Country Killing revolves around the cold-blooded 1969 assassination of United Mineworkers of America "reform candidate" Jock Yablonski, and the murder of his wife and daughter in their Pennsylvania farmhouse. But driving the story are the extraordinary efforts of a special prosecutor and his "army" of investigators to bring the gunmen, the union boss who ordered the murders, and his henchmen who saw them carried out, to justice.

In the early 1900s, at the dawn of the “American Century,” few knew the intoxicating power of greed better than white men on the forefront of the black gold rush. When oil was discovered in Oklahoma’s Indian Country, these tycoons impersonated, defrauded, and murdered Native property owners to snatch up hundreds of acres of oil-rich land. Journalist and fourth-generation Oklahoman Russell Cobb sets the stage for one such oilman’s chicanery: Tulsa entrepreneur Charles Page’s campaign for a young Muscogee boy’s land in Creek County.

Many tales from the Jazz Age reek of crime and corruption. But perhaps the era’s greatest political fiasco—one that resulted in a nationwide scandal, a public reckoning at the Department of Justice, the rise of J. Edgar Hoover, and an Oscar-winning film—has long been lost to the annals of history. In Crooked, Nathan Masters restores this story of murderers, con artists, secret lovers, spies, bootleggers, and corrupt politicians to its full, page-turning glory.

Searing, yet strangely moving and even sympathetic, The Last Brother presents a detailed, tragic portrait of a man at war with himself, doomed to live in the giant shadow of his brothers, trapped in the glorious but hollow Kennedy myth, longing - but unable - to escape.

The true crime tale of Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald, who murdered his pregnant wife and two young daughters and blamed it on hippies.

The Marshalls were the perfect family in the perfect town. They had new cars and a permanent place in the country-club set. Then, on a chilly September night, Maria Marshall - the beautiful wife and mother - was murdered in cold blood. The tragedy had only just begun.

The chilling account of America's first serial killers, whose brutal string of murders on the post-Revolutionary frontier reveal the violence at the heart of the young United States No one knew Wiley Harp’s name in 1797 as he stood in line at the Knoxville Courthouse to register the deed for...

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.

Læseren kommer med ind bag nogle af de mest dramatiske sager i skandinavisk politihistorie, og får stiftet bekendtskab med det puslespil, det er at finde frem til gerningsmændene. Det er hæsblæsende læsning, og ofte overgår virkeligheden fantasien.

Danske kriminalsager gennem 100 år er en samling af nogle af de mest uhyggelige og tankevækkende danske kriminalsager, der har fundet sted op igennem det 20. århundrede. Del 1 består af 41 sande historier om den mørke side af mennesket, og fortæller begivenhedernes gang med fokus på både forbrydernes, ofrenes og de pårørendes skæbner. Dette er første af i alt to bind i serien Danske kriminalsager gennem 100 år . Danske kriminalsager gennem 100 år Den todelte serie Danske kriminalsager gennem 100 år sætter fokus på nogle af de begivenheder, som har rystet det danske samfund op igennem det 20.

In Mafia: A Global History, Ryan Gingeras takes listeners on a fascinating journey into the shadowy world of organized crime and its far-reaching impact on contemporary society. From backroom deals to global power plays, this compelling narrative spans two centuries, unraveling the complex ties between crime syndicates and law enforcement—and how these relationships have reshaped both sides in unexpected ways.

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.

Im Jahre 1589 wird der verwitwete Bauer Peter Stump angeklagt, einen Pakt mit dem Teufel geschlossen zu haben. Dieser soll ihm einen magischen Gürtel gegeben haben, mit dessen Hilfe er sich in einen Wolf verwandeln und in diese Gestalt über Jahrzehnte hinweg gemordet habe. Noch heute fasziniert der, nur aus alten Flugschriften überlieferte Fall des Werwolfs von Bedburg die Menschen.

A mother is supposed to be loving, protective, caring, and kind. She's supposed to nurture and guide her children from infancy into childhood and adolescence. The very thought of murdering a child—much less their own child—is not only bizarre but perhaps the most disturbing thought a parent could have! Exploring the ultimate betrayal of a mother's duty, Killer Moms: True Stories recounts thirty-one harrowing tales of motherhood gone wrong.