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The people in these twelve cases didn't see it coming. A husband walking the dog at dawn. A boy sent away to be saved. A man opening a package addressed to him by name. Each trusted something ordinary, and each was destroyed by it.

Morde, mitten in der Stadt und am Rande der Gesellschaft. Täter, die jahrelang unentdeckt bleiben. Fälle, die Menschen bis heute nicht loslassen. Und die Frage, die nie verstummt: Wie konnte das passieren? „Wahre Verbrechen" erzählt echte Kriminalfälle – tief recherchiert, von der ersten Spur bis zum Urteil.

He promised salvation. What he built was a prison. Gary Heidnik looked like a man of authority. He presented himself as a preacher, a leader, and a figure of purpose. Behind the walls of his Philadelphia home, he was creating something far darker. Women disappeared into his world. Inside that house, Gary Heidnik turned fear into routine, isolation into control, and obedience into a weapon. What appeared ordinary from the outside concealed a nightmare that would become one of Philadelphia’s most disturbing criminal cases.

FROM THE HOST OF THE HIT PODCAST I CATCH KILLERS THE BESTSELLING TRUE CRIME BOOK OF 2022 As a cop, I used to sit on one side of the interview room table facing murderers, child abductors and rapists. Now I'm sitting on the other side: disgraced, forced out of the police and judged to be a...

New York Times bestselling author of Mindhunter John Douglas reveals more unique cases from his time as head of the FBI’s elite Investigative Support Unit. In Mindhunter, John Douglas—who headed the FBI’s elite Investigative Support Unit—told the story of his brilliant and terrifying...

Winner of the CrimeCon Clue Award for True Crime Book of the Year “When a doctor does go wrong, he is the first of criminals,” Sherlock Holmes observed during one of his most puzzling murder investigations. Incredibly, at the time the words of the world’s most famous fictional detective...

After more than a decade, when sisters Nikki, Sami, and Tori Knotek hear the word mom, it claws like an eagle’s talons, triggering memories that have been their secret since childhood. Until now. For years, behind the closed doors of their farmhouse in Raymond, Washington, their sadistic mother, Shelly, subjected her girls to unimaginable abuse, degradation, torture, and psychic terrors. Through it all, Nikki, Sami, and Tori developed a defiant bond that made them far less vulnerable than Shelly imagined.

One was an architect. The other a serial killer. This is the incredible story of these two men and their realization of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893, and its amazing 'White City'; one of the wonders of the world. The architect was Daniel H. Burnham, the driving force behind the White City...

Edmund Emil Kemper III (born December 18, 1948) is an American serial killer convicted of murdering seven women and one girl between May 1972 and April 1973. Years earlier, at the age of 15, Kemper had murdered his paternal grandparents. Nicknamed the "Co-ed Killer," as most of his non-familial victims were female college students hitchhiking in the vicinity of Santa Cruz County, California, Kemper's murders often included necrophilia, decapitation, dismemberment, and possibly cannibalism.

Award-winning author and journalist James Phelps profiles Australia’s most notorious criminals: these are true accounts of Australia’s hardest inmates, in their own words. From Martin Bryant – perpetrator of our country’s worst massacre at Port Arthur twenty years ago, to alleged hitman...

In this groundbreaking book, renowned psychiatrist Michael H. Stone explores the concept and reality of evil from a new perspective. In an in-depth discussion of the personality traits and behaviors that constitute evil across a wide spectrum, Dr. Stone takes a clarifying scientific approach to a topic that for centuries has been inadequately explained by religious doctrines.

The Twisted Psychology of Britain's Loneliest Serial KillerA blocked drain in north London. A polite civil servant on the doorstep with a briefcase and a bottle of rum. Fifteen or sixteen bodies he could not be bothered to deny. Why did Dennis Nilsen, a quiet union man with a steady job and a friendly dog, spend five years strangling young men in his flat and then keeping them as company until the smell forced him to act? This is not another rehash of the Muswell Hill case. This is a forensic psychological excavation of the man behind the wardrobe.

How does a man shake the hand of the First Lady of the United States in May, then drive home and bury a teenage boy under his linen cupboard before midnight? How does a Polish picnic organiser, a precinct captain, a children's hospital clown, run twenty seven young men into the dirt beneath his own kitchen floor across six straight years on a quiet suburban street, while his neighbours bring round Christmas hampers and the postman calls him by his first name?

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Read the shocking true story now featured in the Netflix documentary My Father, The BTK Killer. What is it like to learn that your ordinary, loving father is a serial killer? Discover the true story behind the BTK killer, as told by those closest to him. In 2005, Kerri...

"Creepy crawling" was the Manson Family's practice of secretly entering someone's home and, without harming anyone, leaving only a trace of evidence that they had been there, some reminder that the sanctity of the private home had been breached. Now, author Jeffrey Melnick reveals just how much the Family creepy crawled their way through Los Angeles in the sixties and then on through American social, political, and cultural life for close to fifty years, firmly lodging themselves in our minds.

Pain, torment, and torture. Cruelty, brutality, and violence. The twisted psyches, murder. and yes, even the ability to charm people. Take a deep dive into the terrifyingly real serial murderers, spree killers, and true faces of evil.

Im Elsterflutbecken, mitten in Leipzig, werden 2016 Leichenteile einer Frau gefunden – versteckt im Schilf unter der Landauer Brücke. Für die Ermittler der Kriminalpolizeiinspektion Leipzig beginnt damit die Jagd nach einem Phantom. Alles deutet darauf hin, dass der Täter nicht weit entfernt, im Umfeld des Lindenauer Marktes lebt, dort vielleicht schon auf der Suche nach einem neuen Opfer ist.

‘John Douglas is the FBI's pioneer and master of investigative profiling, and one of the most exciting figures in law enforcement I've had the privilege of knowing’ Patricia Cornwell ‘John Douglas knows more about serial killers than anybody in the world’ Jonathan Demme, Director of The...

While Wisconsin is now perhaps best known for its die-hard love of both the Green Bay Packers and its cheese, deep beneath the surface of Wisconsin history simmers a cesspool of nightmares that began before the term serial killer had been coined. The horror started when Ed Gein tried desperately to bring back his dead mother by first exhuming bodies, then by killing in order to harvest female body parts that he himself would wear.

 The Search for the Green River Killer is the ultimate authoritative account of the Pacific Northwest killing spree that held a nation spellbound - and continues to horrify and fascinate, spawning dramatizations and documentaries of a demented killer who seemed unstoppable for decades.