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Durante as mais de duas décadas em que atuou no FBI, o agente especial John Douglas tornou-se uma figura lendária. Em uma época em que a expressão "serial killer" nem existia, Douglas foi um oficial exemplar na aplicação da lei e na perseguição aos mais conhecidos e sádicos homicidas de nosso tempo. Como Jack Crawford em O Silêncio dos Inocentes, Douglas confrontou, entrevistou e estudou dezenas de serial killers e assassinos, incluindo Charles Manson, Ted Bundy e Ed Gein.

Il delitto dell'Olgiata rappresenta a tutt'oggi uno dei casi di cronaca nera più complicati ed intricati che la storia italiana ricordi. Da un punto di vista letterario potrebbe essere addirittura definito come un classico “enigma della camera chiusa”, ma una definizione del genere sarebbe sicuramente riduttiva dato che qui non ci troviamo di fronte ad un'invenzione letteraria. Qui purtroppo abbiamo a che fare con dei fatti.

Il 12 giugno 1983 Francesca Alinovi, giovane professoressa del DAMS di Bologna, viene ritrovata cadavere nel suo appartamento. Il caso della “Musa del DAMS”, come veniva chiamata Francesca Alinovi, nel corso degli anni ha smesso di essere considerato un “semplice” delitto ed ha assunto una forte valenza simbolica: è diventato lo spartiacque che ha segnato il brusco risveglio alla realtà per una generazione. Il DAMS infatti rappresentava in quegli anni un mondo libero e libertario, mal visto dal corpo accademico istituzionale e dai ceti più conservatori della popolazione.

Quando il male assume il volto dell'ombra, può la verità emergere dalle profondità dell'inganno? Fino a che punto si può inseguire un'ombra senza perdersi nell'oscurità? Nel cuore dell'Europa si aggira un'entità sfuggente e mortale, conosciuta come il "fantasma di Heilbronn". La vicenda inizia con il brutale assassinio di Lieselotte Schlenger, pensionata tedesca strangolata in casa. Da quel momento, l'Europa è palcoscenico di una macabra rappresentazione di violenza e inganno, dove ogni nuovo indizio sembra solo approfondire il mistero dell'identità del "fantasma".

In July of 1991, the country was shocked by the unfathomable crimes of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. But no one was more shocked than his parents. In A Father's Story, the listener becomes witness to the incremental unraveling of a parent's image of their child, and the thousand different reactions that follow. In his attempt to understand the nature of his son's psychosis, Lionel Dahmer methodically scrutinizes every possible contributing factor to his son's madness. His desperation is palpable as he searches for clues in the emotional, psychological, and genetic landscape of his son's life.

In the nonfiction tradition of John Berendt and Erik Larson, the author of the #1 NYT bestseller The Lost City of the Monkey God presents a gripping account of crime and punishment in the lush hills surrounding Florence as he seeks to uncover one of the most infamous figures in Italian history...

This chilling true story and “harrowing account of the evil that can lurk around the edges of girlhood” (Carolyn Murnick, author of The Hot One)—reminiscent of Ann Rule’s classic The Stranger Beside Me—follows a little girl longing for love who finds friendship with her charismatic...

This is the first truly comprehensive book examining the life and career of the murderer who has become one of America's great supervillains. It reveals not only the true story but how the legend evolved, taking advantage of hundreds of primary sources that have never been examined before, including legal documents, letters, articles, and records that have been buried in archives for more than a century.

This incredible story shows how John Douglas tracked and participated in the hunt for one of the most notorious serial killers in US history. For 31 years a man who called himself BTK (Bind, Torture, Kill) terrorized the city of Wichita, Kansas, sexually assaulting and strangling a series of women, taunting the police with frequent communications, and bragging about his crimes to local newspapers and TV stations.

New York Times Bestseller Now a Netflix Film With an Afterword and New Epilogue by the Author The bestselling account of the lives of five young women whose fates converged in the perplexing case of the Long Island Serial Killer. “Rich, tragic...monumental...true-crime reporting at its...

“A provocative and page-turning work of true crime.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “A provocative, eerily lyrical study of the heyday of American serial killers . . . A true-crime story written with compassion, fury, and scientific sense.” —Kirkus (starred review) Named a Most...

After Jack the Ripper and before Son of Sam there was only one name their equal in terror: the deadly, elusive, and mysterious Zodiac. Beginning in 1968 the hooded mass murderer terrified the city of San Francisco and the Bay Area with a string of brutal killings. A sexual sadist, his pleasure was torture and murder.

John Douglas war der erste Profiler des FBI und ist Vorbild für den FBI-Agenten Holden Ford in der Netflix-Serie "Mindhunter". In seinem Buch, auf dem die Erfolgsserie basiert, erzählt Douglas nicht nur, wie er die Praxis des Profilings erfand, etablierte und perfektionierte, sondern auch von seinen Begegnungen mit den gefährlichsten Killern der USA, darunter Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, Ed Kemper und Ed Gein, dem Thomas Harris als Buffalo Bill in "Das Schweigen der Lämmer" ein literarisches Denkmal setzte.

Sweetpea TV series starring Ella Purnell now on Sky Atlantic! She’s back and killing for two… Rhiannon Lewis should be happy. Her cheating fiancé is in jail – framed for the depraved killing spree she committed. Her ex-lover is chopped up and buried where no-one will find him. But...

On Mother's Day night, 2004, award-winning fourth grade teacher Nancy Seaman left the Tudor home she shared with her husband of 32 years in the gated community of Farmington Hills, near Detroit, Michigan, and drove in a driving rain storm to Home Depot, to purchase a hatchet. Three days later, police discovered the mutilated body of Bob Seaman - a successful auto industry engineer, softball coach and passionate collector of vintage Mustangs - in the back of the family's Ford Explorer.

Infamous names like Ted Bundy or Jeffrey Dahmer are known and feared. But what if, just south of the border, there was a far more active network of serial killers? What if the perfect storm of crime, fuelled by this nation's deadly narco wars, has turned Mexico into an ideal hunting ground for many of the most bizarre and blood thirsty serial killers the world has ever seen? Serial Killers of Mexico delves into this criminal underbelly to tell the stories of the psychopathic loners, professional narco assassins and the overwhelmed law enforcement trying desperately to hunt them down.

This is the most detailed storytelling of the crimes of the one that came to be known as "The Monster of Florence": Brunoro and Pezzan write about everything, from Vincenzo Spalletti to the Sardinian Lead, from Pietro Pacciani to the picnicking friends, and finally from the esoteric theory to the Narducci story. A detailed map to find your way through a deep mystery.We are talking about an event that has tested all existing criminology theories on serial killers, to the point where we can state that there are traditional crimes, serial killers, and then there is "The Monster of Florence".

Alex Hanscombe’s powerful, inspirational account as seen on This Morning, BBC Breakfast, Newsnight and in The Sunday Times, Mail on Sunday and The Sun. ‘I was the most famous child in the British Isles…’ The stunning and heartbreaking story of the young son of Rachel Nickell – who...

This memoir was recently discovered and appears to have been written in the 1920s by someone who asserts that he was Jack the Ripper. This person is James Willoughby Carnac, and this memoir was written shortly before his death. It is an account of his entire life, including a few short months in 1888 when he became the murderer known to posterity as Jack the Ripper.

The terrifying story of the most monstrous serial killers through history. Serial killers are the most notorious and disturbing of all criminals, representing the very darkest side of humanity. Yet they endlessly fascinate and continue to capture the public's attention with their strange charisma and deadly deeds. From Jack the Ripper to Ted Bundy and the Moors Murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, these killers transfix us with their ability to commit utterly savage acts of cruelty and depravity.