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Twenty-one-year-old Vancouver student Elisa Lam was last heard from on January 31, 2013, after she checked into downtown LA's Cecil Hotel - a 600-room building with a nine-decade history of scandal and tragedy. The next day, Elisa vanished. A search of the hotel yielded nothing. More than a week later, complaints by guests of foul-smelling tap water led to a grim discovery: Elisa's nude body floating in a rooftop water tank, in an area extremely difficult to access without setting off alarms.

In 1968, during Albert Lepard's fifth escape from a life sentence at Parchman Penitentiary, he kidnapped Lovejoy Boteler, then 18 years old, from his family's farm in Grenada, Mississippi. Three decades later, still beset by half-buried memories of that time, Boteler began researching his kidnapper's nefarious, sordid life to discover how and why this terrifying abduction occurred.

A psychopathic criminal on the run from prison. A family of five held hostage in their home. A frantic police manhunt across the snowbound Derbyshire moors. Just one survivor. The definitive account of the terrifying 1977 Pottery Cottage murders that shocked Britain. For three days, escaped prisoner Billy Hughes played macabre psychological games with Gill Moran and her family, keeping them in separate rooms of their home while secretly murdering them one by one.

På morgonen torsdagen den 19 februari 2015 var det som om 16 åriga Becky Watts i Bristol plötsligt försvann från jordens yta. Hennes försvinnande var oförklarligt. Natten innan hade hon sovit över hos en vän och skickat kärleksfulla sms till pojkvännen Luke som hon skulle träffa dagen därpå. Men Becky dök aldrig upp till träffen. Sms:en till pojkvännen från tidigare den morgonen var det sista någon skulle höra från henne. Becky anmäldes försvunnen och en enorm skallgång inleds.

Charles Lindberg gjorde sig som ung ett namn genom att vara en ovanligt modig flygare, som först lyckades med att flyga över Atlanten. Men hans namn är också förknippat med något mycket mörkare, mindre känt - ett av de mest uppmärksammade brotten i amerikansk historia. Den första mars 1932 försvinner Charles Lindbergs 20 månader gamla son, Charles Augustus Jr., från barnkammaren i familjens villa. Någon har ställt en stege mot husets yttervägg, och klättrat in genom fönstret till rummet där pojken sov.

Oskar's school teacher raises the alarm. Oskar's mother is abroad, and he has been left in the care of friends, but has been arriving in school hungry, unkempt and with bruises on his arms, legs and body. Experienced foster carer Cathy Glass is asked to look after him, but as the weeks pass, her concerns deepen. Oskar is far too quiet for a child of six and is clearly scared of something or someone.

"Ved ni-tiden om aftenen den 1. marts 1932 lænede nogen en hjemmelavet stige op ad ydervæggen på flyverikonet Charles Lindberghs nyligt opførte ejendom i udkanten af byen Hopewell i delstaten New Jersey. Inde bag vinduerne til barneværelset på første sal sov Lindbergh-parrets førstefødte søn på 20 måneder. Da barnepigen Betty Gow klokken 22.00 gik ind for at tage drengen med på et planlagt toiletbesøg, var han forsvundet." Sagen om kidnapningen af familien Lindberghs lille barn i 1932 er gået over i historien.

In the tradition of Into the Wild comes an instant classic of outdoor literature, a riveting work of uncommon depth. I’m planning on doing four days in the jungle.... It should be difficult to get lost forever: These were the haunting last words legendary adventurer Roman Dial received from his son, before the 27-year old disappeared into the jungles of Costa Rica. This is Dial's intensely gripping and deeply moving account of his two-year quest to unravel the mystery of his son's fate.

On September 12, 2001, Michele Harris went missing from a small town in upstate New York. She has never been found, and the mystery surrounding her disappearance remains. Four years after she went missing, her wealthy husband Cal Harris was arrested and charged with her murder. With neither a body nor a murder weapon, Cal was shockingly tried and convicted of her murder. Then, new evidence surfaced. His conviction was overturned, and a new trial granted. But once again, he was convicted and sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. That conviction, too, was overturned on appeal.

Serial killer Gary Heidnik's name will live on in infamy, and his home, 3520 North Marshall Street in Philadelphia, is a house tainted with the memory of unbelievable horrors. What police found there was an incredible nightmare made real. Four young women had been held captive - some for four months - half-naked and chained. They had been tortured, starved, and repeatedly raped. But more grotesque discoveries lay in the kitchen: human limbs frozen, a torso burned to cinders, an empty pot suspiciously scorched....

En ny deckare i skärgårdsmiljö av Lars Bill Lundholm - en av manusförfattarna bakom SVT:s succéserie Skärgårdsdoktorn. En trettonårig flicka försvinner på Saxarön i Stockholms skärgård. Hennes cykel hittas i ett igenväxt kärr i öns naturskyddsområde. Snart upptäcks också att en kvinnlig gäst på öns ärevördiga hotell är borta. Semesteridyllen förvandlas till en mardröm. Polisledningen i Stockholm vill att kommissarie Jack Larsson ska leda sökandet efter de två personerna. Han är uppväxt på ön och kan skärgården utan och innan.

On Monday, February 13, 1905, eight- year-old Kenneth Beasley walked to the back of his school's playground and into the melting snow of the woods beyond. He never returned. A massive search was undertaken for the North Carolina state senator's son, and a reward was offered. Despite clues, rumors, and even a ransom note, he was never found. A year and a half later, a political rival hurriedly was charged. Accused of the most bizarre and twisted of plots, he faced a courtroom overflowing with jurors, star lawyers, spectators, and newspaper reporters.

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.

L'opera ripercorre i giorni del rapimento dell'Ing. Giuseppe Taliercio, Direttore del Petrolchimico di Porto Marghera, puntando però l'attenzione più sull'uomo e sul cristiano (Taliercio era molto credente ed attivo nell'ambito della propria parrocchia e delle istituzioni ecclesiastiche) che, alla fine, con il suo atteggiamento coerente fino all'ultimo con la sua fede, finisce per convertire i suoi carnefici che pure, come sappiamo, portarono tragicamente a compimento il loro folle piano insurrezionale.

From podcasts and documentaries to online forums, true crime is booming. But as one Audible editor and self-professed crime obsessive observes, the genre is being pulled in new and different directions along with a changing social landscape. She wanted to know: Can we ethically engage in true crime as real concerns surface around the crimes, victims, and systemic issues that directly impact the humans we are hearing about?

From the 1920s to 1950, Georgia Tann ran a black-market baby business at the Tennessee Children’s Home Society in Memphis. The publication of Lisa Wingate’s novel Before We Were Yours brought new awareness of Tann’s lucrative career in child trafficking. Adoptees who knew little about their pasts gained insight into the startling facts behind their family histories. Encouraged by their contact with Wingate and award-winning journalist Judy Christie, who documented the stories of 15 adoptees in this book, many determined Tann survivors set out to trace their roots.

När Bosse Jansson inte kom till jobbet på måndagmorgonen blev alla kollegorna på det lokala postkontoret oroliga. Bosse var en ordentlig ung man som alltid ringde i förväg om han hade förhinder. En av kollegorna begav sig hem till Bosses lägenhet och knackade på dörren, men fick inget svar. Även nästa dag saknades Bosse på arbetsplatsen, och hans vänner började befara det värsta. Bosses chef gick till polisen för att anmäla försvinnandet, men ombads att avvakta. Några dagar senare börjar polisen undersöka Bosses försvinnande. Ingen nära släkt finns till den unge mannen.

What would be the "right" price for your loved one - and can you avoid putting others at risk by paying it? What prevents criminals from maltreating hostages? How do you (safely) pay a ransom? Kidnap: Inside the Ransom Business uncovers how a group of insurers at Lloyd's of London have solved these thorny problems for their customers. Based on interviews with industry insiders (from both sides), as well as hostage stakeholders, it uncovers an intricate and powerful private governance system ordering transactions between the legal and the criminal economies.

Fifty years ago, a serial killer prowled the quiet city of London, Ontario, marking it as his hunting grounds. As young women and boys were abducted, raped, and murdered, residents of the area held their loved ones closer and closer, terrified of the monster - or monsters - stalking the streets. Homicide detective Dennis Alsop began hunting the killer in the 1960s, and he didn’t stop searching until his death 40 years later.

Growing up in a poor Yiddish speaking home in 1950s London, Lillian - then just a teenager - marries charming older man Raymond. One day he takes their children to the local park. But he never returns. When they reappear 40 years later - the search for the truth begins. Unfolding like a mystery, we follow Danny Ben-Moshe and his eccentric Jewish family as they unearth secrets, attempt to reconcile, and hear shocking news that sheds a new light on events.