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New York Times best-selling author and renowned prosecuting attorney Robert K. Tanenbaum provides the first insider's account of the historic Wylie-Hoffert case, from the shocking double murder to the wrenching interrogation of an innocent young man and the heroic assistant district attorney who risked everything to unravel a disgraceful injustice. Here is a gripping chronicle of the unnerving crime that led to the Miranda rights and of the courageous stand that forever reformed the American justice system.

James Keene had it all: cars, girls, houses up and down the Gold Coast. But behind his well-connected star athlete façade was a money-obsessed drug dealer desperate to make the big score to get him out of the business. When he was sentenced to prison, it seemed the only lessons he would learn would be about navigating convict society. Instead, he was offered a chance to regain his freedom in return for going undercover in the nation’s highest security prison for the criminally insane.

Stéphane Allix rencontre six médiums, un voyant et un mentaliste, qui ignorent tout de la défunte, et leur présente une simple photo. Chacun va alors tenter d'entrer en communication avec elle et de capter des bribes d'information sur sa vie et sur le féminicide qui y a mis un terme. Pour le découvrir, l'auteur rapporte les éléments recueillis au père et à la meilleure amie d'Aurélie. Les résultats sont sidérants.

Nadine leeft zoals vele andere jonge meiden, dynamisch en bruisend. Op haar zeventiende krijgt ze vlinders in haar buik, ze wordt verliefd op Gerold. Hun relatie ontwikkelt zich, ze beleven mooie momenten samen. Maar er komen geleidelijk ook donkere wolken, de ideeën over wat een goede relatie is, lopen steeds meer uiteen en na bijna drie jaar maakt Nadine het uit. Gerold accepteert dat niet en blijft contact zoeken. Ondanks dat Nadine steeds weer zegt dat niet te willen, weet hij haar toch nog één keer naar zijn huis te lokken.

FEATURING AN EXCLUSIVE PODCAST EPISODE HOSTED BY THE AUTHOR A murdered young woman; a missing wife; a forty-year mystery. In 1986 on Phillip Island, a young woman called Beth Barnard was savagely murdered and her boyfriend’s wife, Vivienne Cameron, went missing. The police immediately jumped...

The evening of November 17, 1978, should have been like any other for the four young crewmembers closing the Burger Chef at 5725 Crawfordsville Road in Speedway, Indiana. After serving customers and locking the doors for the night, the kids began their regular cleanup to ready the restaurant for the following day. But then something went horribly wrong. Just before midnight, someone muscled into the place, robbed the store of $581, and kidnapped the four employees.

A riveting historical narrative of the shocking events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and the follow-up to mega-bestselling author Bill O'Reilly's Killing Lincoln. The basis for the 2013 television movie of the same name starring Rob Lowe as JFK. More than a million people...

A female thief, with four husbands, a lover, and, reportedly, over 12 children, is arrested and tried for the murder of her stepson in 1872, turning the small village of West Auckland in County Durham upside down. Other bodies are exhumed, and when they are found to contain arsenic, she is suspected of their murder as well. The perpetrator, Mary Ann Cotton, was tried and found guilty and later hanged on 24 March 1873 in Durham Gaol. It is claimed she murdered over 20 people and was the first female serial killer in England.

In the closing days of 1799, the United States was still a young republic, its uncertain future contested by the two major political parties of the day: the well-moneyed Federalists, led by Alexander Hamilton, and the populist Republicans, led by Aaron Burr. The two finest lawyers in New York, Burr and Hamilton were bitter rivals both in and out of the courtroom, and as the next election approached - with Manhattan likely to be the swing district on which the presidency would hinge - their animosity reached a fever pitch.

Nannie Doss, born Nancy Agnes Hazel (November 4, 1905-June 2, 1965), was an American serial killer who confessed to the murders of 11 people—four husbands, two children, one of her sisters, her mother, two grandsons, and a mother-in-law—between 1927 and 1954. Doss was also referred to as the Giggling Granny, the Lonely Hearts Killer, the Black Widow, and Lady Blue Beard.

Görgen Hellman är på arbetsresa, men kan inte riktigt fokusera. Han kollar hela tiden ner på sin mobil. Det har varit intensiva dagar i hans hemstad Vetlanda efter att en ung kvinna försvunnit. Hon heter Tove och umgicks i samma krets som hans dotter Maja. Görgen ryser när han tänker på att ingen vet var Tove är. Och var är förresten Maja? Han skickar ett sms men får inget svar. Han har inte hört av henne på flera timmar. Till slut ringer han Majas lärare, som drar efter andan i telefonen.

Criminels, policiers, braqueurs, légistes, escrocs, kidnappeurs, espions, terroristes, trafiquants, faussaires et serial killers ont été mes " clients " attitrés durant mes vingt-cinq années Libé à Paris, de 1990 à 2015. Mais, rare femme journaliste pour un quotidien alors catalogué à l'extrême gauche, ce n'est pas une sinécure de s'immiscer dans la " maison poulaga ". Surtout quand je m'incruste en parallèle dans le milieu des voleurs pour recueillir leurs points de vue. Passionnée par les énigmes, j'ai enquêté à ma façon pour dévoiler le dessous des choses.

One day in 1987, Fred Wilkerson up and vanished in Troup County, Georgia. It was a mystery beset with suspicious circumstances, but the evidence never led anywhere, and the case went cold, Wilkerson's whereabouts unknown. That is, until a remarkable set of circumstances allowed author and investigator Clay Bryant to breathe life back into the case nearly two decades later.

Dans la soirée du 16 octobre 1998, le dictateur chilien Augusto Pinochet est arrêté dans une clinique de Londres. Après un règne brutal marqué par des assassinats, des disparitions et des tortures dans le centre de détention et d'interrogatoire situé au « 38, rue de Londres », à Santiago, il est inculpé de crimes de génocide, de tortures, de terrorisme international et d'enlèvements. Il sera empêché de retourner au Chili pendant plus d'un an, en attendant l'aboutissement de la bataille juridique internationale autour de son cas.

Ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes in hotels? Hotels represent nations, hosting visiting monarchs, politicians, and diplomats. Hotels underpin global networks of travel and communication, on which national and international prosperity have increasingly depended since the end of the First World War. Yet hotels are also places where people can be anonymous; where murderers and thieves mix with adulterers and con artists; and where prejudice finds expression in who is refused access, and in the forms of 'service' provided by staff in the lowest-paid roles.

The "endlessly compelling" (NYT Book Review) untold story of a trailblazing Paris correspondent for The New Yorker, who sounded the alarm about the rise of fascism in Europe while becoming enmeshed in the sensational case of a German serial killer stalking the streets of the French capital on...

In dit boek geven advocaten Bart Vosters, Christophe Bielen en Janou Riemis een onthullende kijk achter de schermen van justitie. Ze bespreken de meest beklijvende strafzaken waarin ze zelf een rol hebben gespeeld. Ze fileren elk dossier tot op het bot en leggen diverse pijnpunten van het strafsysteem in België bloot, van het politieonderzoek tot in de rechtszaal. Elke zaak gaat over schuld en boete, maar de grens tussen een veroordeling en de vrijspraak is soms flinterdun.

Læs og gys med, når uhyggelige, uforklarlige og uopklarede hændelser fra alle verdenshjørner vækkes til live i 30 spændende kapitler. Hvem var Jack the Ripper egentlig, morderen som dræbte flere kvinder i Londons gader i 1888? Hvad skete der med Sodder-barnet, som forsvandt sporløst efter en brand i West Virginia juleaften i 1945? Og er Himeji-slottet i Japan hjemsøgt den dag i dag?

Serial killers like Ed Kemper, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer and David Berkowitz have committed some of the most horrible crimes known to man. Their evil deeds seem unthinkable to the rest of us. Yet each had their own twisted logic for their dastardly deeds. In this book, author Al Cimino examines these serial killers by their own words—through the confessions they gave to police, their outbursts in court and the chilling manifestos they left behind.

In this second installment, author Evan Russell examines another roster of history’s most ruthless predators—killers whose intelligence, obsession, and emotional void allowed them to evade capture while leaving devastation in their wake.