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I december 1975 hittades en kvinna svårt knivskuren och mördad invid Saltsjöbadsvägen, Nacka, utanför Stockholm. Utgångsläget för att klara upp fallet komplicerat -- oidentifierat offer, ingen känd brottsplats. Dessutom: när man så småningom kunde fastställa vem kvinnan var, visade det sig att hon tillhörde den kategori, som i storstaden lever isolerade och anonyma. Polisen stod inför ett svårlöst fall. Först när mördaren skördat ännu ett offer kom upplösningen.

In the late 1970s, a string of seemingly unconnected murders had Harlem police and federal authorities at their wits' end until they realized several commonalities. The victims were all either Mafia members or potential witnesses of Mafia activity and they'd all been shot from .22 pistols traced back to a single private sale in Florida. From these details, the FBI and police were able to build a profile of a rogue sect of Mafia hitmen known as the East Harlem Purple Gang.

1977 är det år som kommer att gå till historien som ett av det terrordrabbade Västtysklands mest händelsemättade under hela efterkrigstiden. Under året tvingades myndigheter och allmänhet notera en kedja av dramatiska skeenden: utpressning, kidnappning, flygplanskapning och mord. Men det på sikt mest betydelsefulla inslaget under 1977 måste ändå sägas vara upplösningen och "resultatet" av Västtysklands hittills mest utdragna kidnappningsdrama, Schleyer-fallet.

Jamie Pamela Rasmussen recounts the long and fascinating history of the place, focusing on the stories of inmates and the struggles by prison officials to provide opportunities for reform while keeping costs down. Tales of prominent prisoners, including Pretty Boy Floyd, Sonny Liston, and James Earl Ray, provide intrigue and insight into the institution’s infamous reputation. The Missouri State Penitentiary provides a fitting account of an institution that was part of Missouri’s history for well over a century.

Denn die Wahrheit stirbt mit − Alexander Stevens über neue spektakulärsten Kriminalfälle. Acht wahre Fälle, acht Urteile, acht Unschuldige? Ein Familienvater, der die dreiköpfige Nachbarsfamilie erschossen haben soll, aber keinerlei Motiv hat. Ein verurteilter Mörder, der behauptet, die Polizei habe Beweise am Tatort gefälscht. Ein Verdächtiger, der zunächst freigesprochen, dann aber wegen Mordes verurteilt wird. Allen Fällen gemein: Die Verurteilten behaupten, unschuldig zu sein und das mit guten Argumenten.

Preventing Domestic Homicides: Lessons Learned from Tragedies focuses on the diverse nature of domestic homicides and what has been learned about the most effective prevention strategies from domestic violence death review committees in Canada, the US, the UK, NZ, and AU. Each chapter focuses on different populations—specifically older women, youth dating relationships, indigenous women, immigrant and refugee populations, rural/remote communities, same-sex relationships, and homicides with police and military.

A gripping and empathetic work of reportage, Free reveals what awaits them and the hundreds of thousands of others who are released from prison every year: the first rush of freedom followed quickly by institutionalized obstacles and logistical roadblocks, grinding bureaucracies, lack of resources, societal stigmas and damning self-perceptions, and the sometimes overwhelming psychological challenges. Veteran reporter Lauren Kessler, both clear-eyed and compassionate, follows six people whose diverse stories paint an intimate portrait of struggle, persistence, and resilience.

Gangsters, hitmen, murderers and terrorists...Kate Kray has met them all. Using her unrivalled links to the criminal underworld, she has asked the questions many would be too terrified to utter. From seasoned hard man Roger Shaw to feared detainee Charles Bronson, Kate lifts the lid on the crimes they committed and speaks to the men themselves to find out what exactly makes them tick. Infamous criminals, now seen as legends of British crime, open up to reveal their fated paths and the instrumental moments that caused them to turn to a life outside the law.

In the winter of 1979, aged just 27, the inmate who would come to be known as 'Charlie Bronson' was considered uncontrollable by the prison system. Certified insane, he was transferred from Parkhurst Prison to the most infamous high-security psychiatric hospital in England, Broadmoor Asylum for the Criminally Insane. There he embarked on a one-man campaign to retain his sanity, and to fight against the brutality of a largely hidden regime that relied on enforced drug control.

In June 1985, a young Black man named Darryl Hunt was falsely convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the rape and murder of a white copyeditor at the local paper. Many in the community believed him innocent and crusaded for his release even as subsequent trials and appeals reinforced his sentence. Finally, in 2003, the tireless efforts of his attorney combined with an award-winning series of articles by Phoebe Zerwick in the Winston-Salem Journal led to the DNA evidence that exonerated Hunt.

What's Prison For? examines the “incarceration” part of mass incarceration. Our prisons remain a shameful waste of lives and money, feeding a pathological cycle of poverty, community dysfunction, crime and hopelessness. What is the alternative? This book makes the case for better rehabilitation and examines attempts to assure that people return from prison better equipped than when they arrived for the challenges life presents.

The Black and Latina daughter of a working-class family, Victoria Pratt learned to treat everyone with dignity, no matter their background. When she became Newark Municipal Court’s chief judge, she knew well the inequities that poor, mentally ill, Black, and brown people faced in the criminal justice system. Pratt’s reforms transformed her courtroom into a place for problem-solving and a resource for healing.

Sharon Marshall was a brilliant and beautiful student whose future was filled with promise—until her murderous, fugitive father drew her into a lifetime of deception that became one of the most baffling cases in the annals of American true crime.

In 1929, in the blue-collar city of Portsmouth, Ohio, a company built a swimming pool the size of a football field; named Dreamland, it became the vital centre of the community. Now, addiction has devastated Portsmouth, as it has hundreds of small rural towns and suburbs across America—addiction like no other the country has ever faced. How that happened is the riveting story of Dreamland.

Keri Blakinger always lived life at full throttle. Growing up, that meant throwing herself into competitive figure skating with an all-consuming passion that led her to nationals. But when her skating career suddenly fell apart, that meant diving into self-destruction with the intensity she once saved for the ice. For the next nine years, Keri ricocheted from one dark place to the next: living on the streets, selling drugs and sex, and shooting up between classes all while trying to hold herself together enough to finish her degree at Cornell.

Wie viele Mörder sind noch unter uns? Wer hat die junge Frau vor 20 Jahren bestialisch ermordet? Ein Fremder, ein verschmähter Liebhaber, oder war es gar ein Familiendrama? War es die Russenmafia, die den Häftling in seiner Zelle gefoltert und schwer verletzt hat, oder ging es um Streitigkeiten im Drogenmilieu? Es gibt eine erschreckend hohe Dunkelziffer an ungeklärten Todesfällen. Er geht ihnen auf den Grund: Axel Petermann war Mordkommissar und Leiter der "Operativen Fallanalyse" in Bremen. Mit den Methoden des Profiling kommt er den Mördern auf die Spur.

The wartime double agent with a transmitter in his cell to contact suffragettes; the doctor hanged as he smiled to the farewells of lovers on the scaffold; the con who defied a gangland godfather and escaped the bromide in the prison tea; aristocrats and arsonists.... The screws who guard Britain's prisons have seen them all. Banged Up! is the story of six of the country's most notorious jails—Durham, Wandsworth, Pentonville, Wormwood Scrubs, Dartmoor and Holloway—and of the men and women who entered their gates.

Serial killers haunt our dreams and inspire the terrifying villains of TV shows and horror movies. But how much do you really know about the minds behind the world's deadliest killers? What drives these murderers to kill and kill again? And what fuels our fascination with the true stories of their horrific crimes? Dr. Joni E. Johnston brings you the answers to these questions and more! Serial Killers: 101 Questions True Crime Fans Ask dives into the case files of the most infamous murderers in history, and answers the questions true crime fans have been dying to ask.

Hollywood non è soltanto la capitale del cinema ma, per qualche strana ragione, anche il luogo che personaggi infidi e perversi hanno scelto come loro domicilio ideale. E poiché nessun'altra città è ambigua come questo scintillante quartiere di Los Angeles, la cronaca che coinvolge le stelle del grande schermo è un susseguirsi di morti e di eventi misteriosi.

Desde hace varios lustros Veracruz dejó de ser una tierra festiva para convertirse en un estado del país con los males sociales más demoledores: huachicoleo, secuestro, narcofosas, levantones capiteneados por policías y sicarios, complicidad de políticos y asesinos, desapariciones forzadas... en estas páginas se ofrece un recuento de los daños que es, al mismo tiempo, una denuncia, un relato de la pesadilla política y social que hoy padece Veracruz... y todo México.