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The nice guy next door was hiding a dark secret - a homicidal obsession with young girls. It didn't end until his final victim, still bound in handcuffs, escaped while he slept. She recounted the details of a night of horror spent with an elusive serial killer. Neither family nor friends saw Richard Marc Evonitz's dark side - he saved that for his victims - until his double life came undone by a courageous, resourceful 15-year-old. The authorities had questions about many unsolved cold cases, but Evonitz had one more shocking surprise in store for everyone. Into the Water is a cautionary tale about the vulnerability of our children.

A late summer heatwave seems to have triggered an unusually high number of suicides. As the dead bodies pile up, DS Jack Mackinnon and the rest of MIT realise things aren’t as straightforward as they seem, and when similar letters are found at the scene of each "suicide", Mackinnon is convinced they are dealing with a serial killer. A killer who is determined to deliver his own deadly justice.

On the Mediterranean Sea, a vacationer logs on to the security-camera feed from his home in Arizona. He sees an intruder. When he shifts to the bedroom camera, he sees the dead body. Martin T. Livermore is the key suspect in the abduction and murder of at least five women, but he's never been this sloppy before. When the FBI finally catches him in Scottsdale, he declares he'll only talk to one person: a retired police officer from Detroit, now a private investigator living in the tiny town of Paradise, Michigan. A man named Alex McKnight.

Der Versuch, Mordopfer mithilfe großer Koffer und der Eisenbahn verschwinden zu lassen, scheiterte regelmäßig – nicht zuletzt wegen der unhandlichen Größe menschlicher Körper im Vergleich zum verfügbaren Stauraum. Die damit verbundenen technischen Schwierigkeiten – wie das Zerteilen und Spurenbeseitigen – überforderten die Täter häufig. Ein bekanntes Beispiel ist der Fall von Patrick Mahon, der 1924 seine Geliebte Emily Kaye ermordete, zerstückelte und Teile der Leiche in einem Koffer transportierte oder zu verbrennen versuchte.

Ende der 20er Jahre versetzte ein Eisenbahnattentäter die Bevölkerung in Braunschweig und Umgebung in Angst und Schrecken. Die Polizei tappte zunächst ...

Die Freight Train Riders of America (FTRA), sind eine hauptsächlich im Norden der USA aktive Vereinigung Wohnungsloser, die regelmäßig illegal in ...

Im April 1906 wurde am Bahnhof von Frankfurt am Main ein Koffer entdeckt, aus dem starker Verwesungsgeruch drang. Die darin befindliche Leiche einer 76-jährigen Rentnerin war erwürgt worden. Der Hauptverdächtige Wilhelm Meyer behauptete, sie habe Selbstmord begangen, und er habe die Leiche nur versteckt, um nicht unter Mordverdacht zu geraten. Der Fall zeigt, wie der Versuch, eine Leiche im Koffer per Bahn zu entsorgen, nicht unentdeckt blieb und scheiterte.

In den frühen 1930er-Jahren versuchte das Wiener Ehepaar Franz und Marie Laudenbach, seine finanziellen Schwierigkeiten durch Heiratsbetrug mit tödlichem Ausgang zu lösen. Zur Beseitigung der Leichen nutzte Laudenbach sowohl die Eisenbahn als auch die Gepäckaufbewahrung, indem er einen Koffer mit Teilen des Opfers in einen Zug nach Amsterdam stellte und ein weiteres Paket am Nordbahnhof deponierte….

Josiah Flynts "Tramping with Tramps" (Auf der Fahrt mit Landstreichern) aus dem Jahr 1904 gilt als Standardwerk über die frühe Hobo-Kultur. Zehn Jahre lang hatte der Autor in den USA als Tramp unter anderen Tramps gelebt, war mit Hobos auf Güterzügen von Küste zu Küste gereist und hatte auch Ausflüge zu Vagabunden in Deutschland, England und Russland unternommen, um in deren Gesellschaft vergleichende Studien anstellen zu können.

Zur Jahrtausendwende 1999/2000 erschütterte eine Serie brutaler Morde an allein reisenden Frauen in französischen Zügen die Öffentlichkeit. Dem Täter gelang es, trotz intensiver polizeilicher Fahndung, lange unentdeckt zu bleiben. Drei Frauen werden ihm sicher als Opfer zugeordnet, ein vierter Mord bleibt unklar.

Am 6. Juli 1949 wurde eine zerstückelte Leiche auf Gleisen im Adachi-Distrikt von Tokio gefunden. Der Präsidenten der japanischen staatlichen ...

Am Ostersonntag 1998 wurde die Krankenschwester Elisabetta Zoppetti im Waschraum eines Intercity-Zuges auf brutale Weise ermordet: kniend, mit einem ...

Eric’s wife, Anne, has followed the advice of handsome lawyer Mark Fenham and invested a small fortune in a merchant bank also involved in underwriting marine insurance. Now her company must pay out a vast insurance claim for the Sea Dawn, a ship sunk in Spanish waters. Eric Ward smells fraud. His wife could lose everything. And then, one by one, people connected to the Sea Dawn start to die. The murderous trail takes Ward to sunny Spain—where he comes face-to-face with his arch enemy. Will Ward uncover the truth about the sinking of the Sea Dawn?

When the broken body of a seventy-one-year-old woman is found beneath the Humber Bridge, a sign around her neck with the words ‘Pure Evil’ spray-painted in red, Detective Hollie Turner can’t help but wonder–who would want this frail elderly woman dead? As she starts to delve into the victim’s personal life, Hollie discovers that the woman, Sister Brennan, ran a local mother and baby home at the Church of St Mary and the Angels. The unit may have shut down years ago, but the pain and anguish of those who were forced to give up their babies remains.

Running away from a past she’d rather forget, Doctor Alison Wilson has moved to a new town to take up the role of Medical Officer at failing hospital St Margaret’s. Tasked with shaking things up, she quickly learns that things are worse than they initially seem: patient records are in disarray, staff morale is low, and there’s something afoot that she can’t quite put her finger on As Alison starts to dig into the hospital’s past, she gradually discovers a trail of lies that runs deeper and darker than she could have ever imagined.

A body discovered in the river in the centre of Cardiff with its tongue amputated leads to more deaths in the Polish community. John Marco and his team have to delve into the East European immigrant community and uncover the murky world of people trafficking. But what is it that links all the deaths together?

Shayna Darby is finally coming to terms with her parents’ deaths when she’s delivered another blow. The body of her estranged twin sister, Angela - the possible victim of a serial killer - has been pulled from the Seine. Putting what’s left of her life on hold, Shayna heads to Paris. But while cleaning out Angela’s apartment, Shayna makes a startling discovery: a coded message meant for her alone... Alive. Trust no one.

When the body of mother Charlotte Brannon is discovered by her husband, Adam, in their bedroom, Detective Natalie Ward is first on the scene. The killer has left a chilling calling card: The word Why? written on the wall in blood. As Natalie begins to delve deeper into the couple’s lives, she discovers that Adam has a dark past he’s been hiding, and she’s sure that the Brannons' teenage babysitter, Inge, has secrets of her own.

When you search for the missing, there’s no telling what you’ll find. PI Jessie Cole learned that painful truth firsthand when her sister disappeared. Now a new case will test Jessie and Ben once again. Owen Shepard, the public face of one of the country’s biggest health insurance companies, has become the target of a vengeful father. The man blames Shepard for his child’s death and plans to make the CEO know what it’s like to live with a broken heart - and watch others die.

A sensitive orphan, Jane Steele suffers first at the hands of her spiteful aunt and predatory cousin, then at a grim school where she fights for her very life until escaping to London, leaving the corpses of her tormentors behind her. After years of hiding from the law while penning macabre "last confessions" of the recently hanged, Jane thrills at discovering an advertisement. Her aunt has died, and her childhood home has a new master: Mr. Charles Thornfield, who seeks a governess.