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The tragic story of the murders of three women committed over three decades by one cold-blooded man in Maine's North Woods. Jennie Cyr disappeared in 1977. Jerilyn Towers vanished in 1982. Lynn Willette never came home on a night in 1994. Each woman had a relationship with James Hicks, who in 2000 confessed to murdering them, dismembering their bodies, and burying the remains alongside rural roads in Aroostook County. This is their story.

They blended in. They raised families, held steady jobs, and hid in plain sight. But behind the mask of normalcy, they were monsters—responsible for decades of terror, pain, and death. Every Killer Leaves A Trace is a chilling narrative nonfiction thriller that exposes moments that led to the shocking unmasking and ultimate capture of twenty-six of America’s most elusive killers. From accidental slips to cutting-edge forensic breakthroughs, each chapter reveals how justice caught up with murderers who thought they’d never be found.

Close to midnight on May 17, 1951, four north Alabama lawmen drove to a bootlegger's home to serve an arrest warrant. Before the clock struck twelve, the bootlegger lay dead in front of the house he shared with his wife and eight children, and three of the four officers were also dead. Afterward, a sixteen-year-old boy would face a series of trials that would divide a county and thrust the state of Alabama into the national spotlight.

A chilling documentary history of the most notorious cults of the past two thousand years, from the Celtic druids whose ritual sacrifices inspired the folk horror film The Wicker Man all the way up to the Peoples Temple and Heaven’s Gate.

“Not only riveting to read but also shines an essential light on the quest for justice in the modern age of terrorism.” —David Grann, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon In this thrilling true story, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jake Tapper uncovers...

From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Gilbert King comes a chilling exploration of one of America’s most haunting wrongful conviction cases. Based on the hit podcast, Bone Valley dives into the dark heart of rural Florida, where a young man’s life was upended by a tragic miscarriage of...

"Il macellaio di Plainfield" è il soprannome con cui la stampa americana ribattezzò Ed Gein, un solitario contadino del Wisconsin, i cui crimini vennero alla luce alla fine degli anni '50. Dietro l'apparenza di un uomo schivo e insignificante, Gein nascondeva un mondo di ossessioni morbose: profanava tombe e utilizzava resti umani per creare manufatti macabri, tra cui maschere e arredi. L'omicidio di due donne portò a scoprire il suo raccapricciante laboratorio domestico, trasformando un caso di provincia in un incubo nazionale.

When his identical twin brother Simon was kicked to death, all Nick Dawson felt for the killers was hatred. Struggling in a world where his mirror image had vanished, he came to realise there was only one way to stop the torture—acceptance. Travelling to the absolute limits of personal darkness, Nick came face to face with one of his brother's killers. Now a champion of restorative justice, Nick heads behind bars, asking hardened criminals to change, to think of their victims, to make amends.

Even as security has grown ever stronger and the techniques to catch criminals are more advanced than ever, serial killers still find a way to conduct their murderous business. In the 21st century, violent killers have used modern technology to help them commit their horrific crimes. Some look to the internet to stalk their victims, while the dark web is home to a shadowy world of illegal weapon sales, murder-for-hire sites and criminal forums providing tips on how to kill and get away with it.

"Gli assassini della brughiera" è il nome con cui la stampa britannica ribattezzò Ian Brady e Myra Hindley, responsabili di una serie di omicidi che sconvolsero l'Inghilterra negli anni '60. La coppia, all'apparenza ordinaria, attirava giovani vittime per poi torturarle e ucciderle, seppellendone i corpi nelle brughiere di Saddleworth Moor. I loro crimini, rivelati da registrazioni e fotografie raccapriccianti, misero a nudo una malvagità glaciale che colpì profondamente l'opinione pubblica.

In 1931, the tensions of the Great Depression took hold of Detroit at every level—even spilling over into the investigation of a mysterious murder at the Delray boardinghouse. Amid accusations of witchcraft, Hungarian immigrant Rose Veres and her son Bill were convicted of the brutal killing and suspected in a dozen more. Their cries of innocence went unheeded—until one lawyer, determined to seek justice, took on the case.

May Hanna gave her millionaire ex-husband's hired Pinkerton detectives the slip to sneak out of the country. To escape financial embarrassment, James Potter, the manager of a prominent Euclid Avenue apartment building, gave his family cough medicine laced with poison, killing his entire family including himself. Married to a Millionaires' Row doctor, the infamous con woman Cassie Chadwick posed as Andrew Carnegie's illegitimate daughter and forged a fake $5 million check.

Now with a new afterword read by the author. From the author of “top-drawer true crime” (Booklist) books comes the definitive account of Ed Gein—the man whose shocking crimes inspired Psycho, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambs. The year was 1957. To his Wisconsin...

Seattle harbors a dark and violent history that stretches back to a bloody battle between natives and settlers in 1856. In the early 1900s, Dr. Linda Hazzard stole money from countless patients after starving them to death in her infamous sanitarium. Three robbers opened fire in the notorious Wah Mee gambling club in 1983, killing thirteen people in the state's deadliest mass homicide. Some of America's most notorious serial killers wrought terror in Seattle, including the Green River Killer, Gary Ridgway.

The disappearance of fabulously rich Chicago candy heiress Helen Brach and the suspicious deaths of a string of champion racehorses are linked in a celebrated scandal that has reverberated through every level of the glamorous enclaves of thoroughbred horse breeding. When widowed heiress Helen Brach suddenly disappeared on the morning of February 17, 1977, after a visit to the Mayo Clinic, she left behind a lavender Rolls-Royce, Cadillacs in red, pink, and coral, an eighteen-room mansion, and a fortune now estimated at $75 million.

In the fall of 1916, New York housemaid Augusta Steinbach fell in love with a man she met through a matrimonial advertisement in her local newspaper. She traveled to Detroit to marry her correspondent, but in March 1917, she mysteriously disappeared. What began as a routine search for a missing person turned into a baffling case of deception, bigamy and murder. Follow detectives as they unravel the tangled web spun by Michigan's original lonely hearts killer—a criminal mastermind the Detroit News dubbed "one of America's master outlaws."

In "True Crime - Die grausamsten Mörder" öffnet Alexander Dragone die Tür zu einer Welt unvorstellbarer Grausamkeit und psychologischer Abgründe. Bekannt für seine True Crime-Bücher, die nach Jahrzehnten geordnet die dunkle Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts beleuchten, schlägt Dragone diesmal einen neuen, globalen Pfad ein: Statt chronologischer Reihenfolge fasst er die abscheulichsten Serienmörder-Fälle aus aller Welt zusammen – von den eisigen Straßen Russlands über das Rotlichtviertel Pattayas bis hin zur neonbeleuchteten Metropole New York.

Si vous êtes à la recherche d’une histoire avec un véritable monstre, Gertrude Wright, La mère tortionnaire, devrait être votre prochaine lecture! Si vous n'avez jamais entendu parler de cette femme, êtes-vous au moins un fan de true crime ? Oui, probablement vous l'êtes, car vous êtes ici et intéressé ! La descente dans la folie de Gertrude Wright s'est accompagnée de tortures, de mutilations inattendues et de traitements horribles infligés à Sylvia Likens, une adolescente qui lui avait été confiée.

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Dennis Lynn Rader (born March 9, 1945), better known as the BTK Killer, the BTK Strangler, or simply BTK, is an American serial killer who murdered at least ten people in Wichita and Park City, Kansas, between 1974 and 1991. Although he occasionally killed or attempted to kill men and children, Rader typically targeted women. His victims were often attacked in their homes, then bound, sometimes with objects from their homes, and either suffocated with a plastic bag or manually strangled with a ligature. The following recording is from Radar’s courtroom sentencing on June 27, 2005.