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Investigative reporter James Renner reopens cold cases that have baffled Clevelanders for years.

Illuminating and captivating, New York Times bestselling author of Tinseltown and Bogart offers the first definitive account of the Black Dahlia murder—the most famous unsolved true crime case in American history—which humanizes the victim and situates the notorious case within an anxious...

The infamy of Miami’s cocaine wars of the 1970s and 80s is forever etched into the darkest chapters of US history, and Lt. Raul Diaz was on the frontlines for all of it. The decorated and controversial law enforcement figure identified the shifting tide in the Magic City when law enforcement lost their grip on crime as a new breed of criminal flooded South Florida to ply their billion-dollar trade. In a deadly exclamation mark, Colombian cocaine godmother Griselda Blanco and her assassins swept through the city with a bloody and ruthless ambition that left countless dead bodies along the way.

Step back into the soot-stained streets of Victorian Sheffield — a city where the clang of steel mingled with whispers of scandal, and respectability was often just a mask for something far darker beneath. The Sins of Sheffield, storyteller and historian Adrian Finney unearths the true tales that polite society tried to forget. These are stories of murderers and martyrs, forgers and fraudsters, con artists and outcasts — each revealing something about the city’s beating, human heart.

The Whitechapel murders of 1888 were once recorded in precise detail—five women, five names, five crime scenes. But over the decades, the facts have been buried by theory, distortion, and narrative excess. What followed wasn’t justice. It was noise. Ripperology began with real investigation. It devolved into a kind of open casting call—a parade of improbable suspects, each auditioning for the part of the killer.

In this book, former South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) forensic photographer Lt. Rita Y. Shuler recounts twenty-eight days of terror and shocking developments in one of the most notorious double murders and manhunts in South Carolina history. Shuler shares her own personal interactions with some of the key players in this famous manhunt and investigation. Also included are Bell's chilling calls from area phone booths to the Smith family, along with his disconcerting interviews and bizarre actions in the courtroom.

College student Lauren Spierer was pursuing her dreams, joining her boyfriend at a party school eight hundred miles from home. Social and gregarious, studying fashion and rooming with friends, Lauren embraced her new adventure with the zeal of a young woman who suddenly had everything she desired. But there was a dark side that she and her inner circle kept secret. And one warm June evening, after heading out with friends, she seemingly vanished.

The full story of an industry, a city, and two men—one who got everything he ever wanted, one who never got what he thought he deserved—and what happened the night it all came apart.

There’s a California that everyone imagines, a world of Hollywood glitz and Silicon Valley, and then there’s the real California. The one where everything is the color of dirt. Where the speed freaks gangbang on Haight Street, where evil is lurking, where violence erupts like cystic acne. The place was never crazier than the ’60s and the ’70s, a time when Dad transformed from a hippie-hating Reagan voter into a weed-addled swinger with a crash pad in the Valley. And right in that moment? There’s this guy who calls himself Zodiac.

The Phantom Prince chronicles Elizabeth Kendall’s intimate relationship with Ted Bundy and its eventual unraveling. As much as has been written about Bundy, it’s remarkable to hear the perspective of people who shared their daily lives with him for years. This gripping account presents a remarkable examination of a charismatic personality that masked unimaginable darkness.

عشت الحياة كما يحلو لي، تزوجت مرات عدة، قضيت عمرًا أمقت الثبات، أتحرك من مكان إلى الآخر، ألتقى عصابتي الصغيرة للتخطيط لمغامرة جديدة. ولدي عالم آخر أعيشه في كُل يوم...

26 Chilling True Crime Cases from across the globe. From the neon-drenched streets of Pattaya to the forests of the Pacific Northwest, these cases expose the raw, terrifying truth behind some of history’s most depraved killers. This anthology pulls back the curtain on serial murderers, ruthless kidnappers, and cold-blooded psychopaths; presenting the grim facts, intricate investigations, and psychological darkness that define true crime at its most disturbing.

Sono le nove del mattino, del 20 gennaio 1964. A due passi da via Veneto, cuore della mondanità romana, una giovane segretaria scopre negli uffici della società tessile Tricotex un cadavere immerso in una pozza di sangue, crivellato da quattro colpi d'arma da fuoco. La ragazza lancia un grido disperato. Il morto è il suo principale, Farouk El Chourbagi, un giovane industriale egiziano, figlio di un ex ministro delle Finanze, protagonista delle notti della capitale.

Il 13 agosto 2007, all'ora di pranzo, la quiete di Garlasco, un piccolo paese in provincia di Pavia, viene improvvisamente sconvolta: nella villetta in cui viveva con la sua famiglia i carabinieri trovano il corpo senza vita di Chiara Poggi, immerso in una pozza di sangue. Ad avvertirli, recandosi in caserma dopo una strana telefonata al 118, è il fidanzato della ragazza, Alberto Stasi: un giovane biondo, dagli occhi di ghiaccio e dall'aria insopportabilmente perfetta.

You have seen the grainy footage of the white tent in the back garden. You have caught the documentaries on a wet Sunday afternoon. You have argued over a pint about how a quiet Gloucester terrace ended up with twelve young women under its floors and patios. The headlines gave you the bones of the case. They never gave you the brain. This audiobook gives you the brain. Forget the lazy version where Fred is the leering monster and Rose is the puppet. That story is comforting, and it is wrong.

He was a teacher, a father—and a predator who haunted the USSR. Between 1978 and 1990, Andrei Chikatilo terrorized the Soviet Union with a series of brutal, sexually sadistic murders. Operating in an era of state secrecy, his crimes went undetected for years as innocent men were blamed, files were buried, and authorities denied the existence of serial killers. The Soviet Monster is the definitive account of Chikatilo’s life, crimes, and the political climate that enabled him. True crime author David G.

Dark passions, dark deeds—a deep dive into true crime stories of criminal couples. From harrowing heists to murderous mayhem, this collection of true crime stories will have you on the edge of your seat as you discover why two criminal minds are scarier than one—especially when they belong...

He killed two people. Just two. And yet Ed Gein's name has outlasted serial killers with dozens of victims. He inspired Psycho, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambs. He changed the way America thinks about horror. Not because of what he did, but because of what he was.

In partnership with Texas Monthly, Pamela Colloff's "A Kiss Before Dying" is now available as an audio download, where the length and timeliness of a podcast meets the high-quality production of a full-length audio program. Few stories feel as classic as a well-told ghost story, the kind that...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER An enormously engaging portrait of a most beguiling Southern city: “Elegant and wicked.... [This] might be the first true-crime book that makes the reader want to book a bed and breakfast for an extended weekend at the scene of the crime." —The New York Times Book...