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Personer som kan medla mellan de tre världarna i det indonesiska universumet kallas "dukun", för trollkarlar eller shamaner, och sägs ha extraordinära förmågor som förs vidare från mästare till lärlingar. Ibland innebär inte mästarens död att lärlingen förlorar kontakten med mästaren. Välsignelsen från den avlidne mästaren kan också ge lärjungen kraft att höja sig till en ny nivå. Det finns särskilda ritualer för att kalla på en död mentor, och om en länk mellan världarna uppstår kan lärlingen få ofattbara krafter. Ibland slutar mötet väldigt illa.

In March 2011, a major police investigation was opened in the search for missing Swindon local, Sian O'Callaghan. When taxi driver Christopher Halliwell was arrested, Detective Superintendent Stephen Fulcher didn't expect what happened next. After the body of another missing girl, Becky Godden-Edwards, was uncovered, the police had two murders on their hands and one suspect, but how many more unsolved murders could Christopher Halliwell be responsible for?

Women have committed some of the most disturbing serial killings ever seen in the United States. Yet scientific inquiry, criminal profiling, and public interest have focused more on their better-known male counterparts. As a result, female serial killers have been misunderstood, overlooked, and underestimated. In this riveting account, Dr. Marissa A. Harrison draws on original scientific research, various psychological perspectives, and richly detailed case studies to illuminate the stark differences between female and male serial killers’ backgrounds, motives, and crimes.

In the mid-1980s, someone stabbed six women to death in the Connecticut River Valley on the border between New Hampshire and Vermont. The murderer remains at large and the total number of his victims is unknown. In this brilliant work of true crime reportage, New York Times-bestselling author Philip E. Ginsburg provides fascinating insights into the groundbreaking forensic methods used to track the killer and paints indelible portraits of the lives he cut so tragically short.

Er is een groot verschil tussen moordenaars die één moord plegen, massamoordenaars die veel mensen tegelijk ombrengen en seriemoordenaars die zorgvuldig gekozen slachtoffers volgens een ritueel vermoorden. Een seriemoordenaar is een kille jager die geniet van de jacht, wordt gedreven door een ritueel of een bepaalde fixatie en steeds afhankelijker wordt van de kick die het moorden hem geeft.

Seriemoordenaars beginnen vaak met een paar vrij willekeurige moorden. Gaandeweg zoeken ze uit aan welke rituelen ze het meeste plezier beleven. Daarna stalken ze hun zorgvuldig uitgekozen slachtoffers of gaan ze ernaar op zoek speciale plekken, waar bijvoorbeeld prostituees of kinderen komen. Elke seriemoordenaar heeft zijn eigen unieke methoden en routines: hij pikt zijn slachtoffers bijvoorbeeld op bij bushaltes, kiest voor vrouwen met lang blond haar, bewaart trofeeën of snijdt zijn slachtoffers in stukken en eet ze op. Die signatuur kan leiden tot een aanhouding.

In 1985, Charles Ng and Leonard Lake were spotted shoplifting. Ng escaped, but Lake's capture led police to a concrete bunker in the Sierra Nevada foothills, where they discovered the grisly evidence of an orgy of sex crimes, torture, and murder that claimed at least 16 victims. Lake committed suicide: Ng fled to Canada, where he was tracked down and extradited to California. This 14-year, $10 million legal case was the costliest and longest criminal prosecution in California history.

En hemtrevlig doft av matlagning letade sig till hyresgästerna på övervåningen. Men på natten väntade ett helt annat öde... de blev drogade och mördade av den gamla hyresvärden. Dorothea Puente var inte någon stereotypisk mormor. Efter att ha haft otur med män såg hon till att bli självförsörjande genom att inleda en brottskarriär. Hennes aktiviteter inkluderade engagemang i bordeller, förfalskade checkar från ex-partners och att stjäla andras försäkringspengar.

Ma Barker är mer ökänd än gängmedlemmarna som faktiskt utförde morden och skapade kaos, men låg hon verkligen bakom allt? Ma Barker lämnade den undre världen och klev in i helvetet i äkta gangsterstil - i ett kulregn av rasande skottlossning. Men var hennes hemska legend mer av en myt än verklighet? Var en bredbent alligator verkligen katalysatorn för Mas undergång? Gjorde FBI 61-åringen ökänd helt enkelt som en del av en katastrofplan för att slippa potentiell dålig publicitet?

Randy Kraft was highly intelligent, politically active, loyal to his friends, committed to his work - and the killer of 67 people - more than any other serial killer known. This book offers a glimpse into the dark mind of a living monster.

For 10 years, the California Interstate 5 highway was haunted by a dangerous serial killer. Incredibly skilled at staying ahead of the investigators as the bodies started to pile up, there wasn't enough evidence to charge the culprit with murder even once he'd been identified. Instead, they had to build a first-degree murder case in a few months while the killer was locked up on an assault conviction. Key to this was a cast of four: Vito Bertocchini, Kay Maulsby, Ray Biondi, and Faye Springer.

In the fall of 1999, a 22-year-old woman was discovered naked and bleeding on the streets of a small New Mexico town south of Albuquerque. She was chained to a padlocked metal collar. The tale she told authorities - of being beaten, raped, and tortured with electric shock - was unthinkable. Until she led them to 59-year-old David Ray Parker, his 39-year-old fiancee Cindy Hendy, and the lakeside trailer they called their "toy box." What the FBI uncovered was unprecedented in the annals of serial crime.

Perhaps the most notorious American murderer of the 20th century, Charles Manson's legacy extends far beyond his horrific crimes. As the wild-eyed, swastika-tattooed, nightmarishly charismatic leader of the Manson Family, he was convicted of the brutal killings of nine people in 1971, including the Tate-LaBianca murders of seven in Los Angeles over two hot August nights in 1969.

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.

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.

Innocent Blood is the true story of Charles Hatcher and his life of crime - a powerful and blood-chilling glimpse into the darkness between sanity and madness. It also chronicles a justice system gone wrong. Throughout his criminal career, Hatcher was able to fool dozens of psychiatrists, who repeatedly failed to identify him as a multiple murderer. Hatcher's astonishing skill was not just in his ability to murder and escape imprisonment. He became an expert at manipulating the criminal justice system.

Seriemördaren och våldtäksmannen Peter Tobin levde ett liv fyllt med begravda hemligheter. Han fick tre livstidsdomar efter att ha terroriserat Glasgow i 15 långa år. Vem var han egentligen? Och vad gjorde han sig skyldig till? Studenten Angelika Kluk var 26 år gammal när hon sommaren 2006 besökte Skottland för andra året i rad. Det hade varit en helt vanlig sommar för Angelika, tills hon försvann den 24 september. Senare samma vecka hittade polisen hennes döda kropp under en närliggande kyrkas golv.

American-based foreign correspondent Ivor Davis delivers a gripping "I was there" eyewitness, inside story about the most notorious murder spree of the 20th century. In Manson Exposed: A Reporter's 50-Year Journey into Madness and Murder, Davis is the brutally honest guide to this true crime horror story. In this mix of personal memoir, criticism, and investigative journalism, Davis delivers a truly original take on the byzantine case that terrified and mesmerized the nation, including his new conclusion that the Beatles didn't make them do it.

For weeks, the body count of sexually violated, brutally murdered young women escalated. With increasing alarm, Los Angeles newspapers headlined the deeds of a serial killer they named the Hillside Strangler. The city was held hostage by fear. Darcy O'Brien weds the narrative skill of an award-winning novelist with the detailed observations of an experienced investigator to unravel this chilling true-crime story.

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.