How a skeptical FBI agent reached out to a famous psychic for help on a baffling case—and the twenty-five-year crime-solving journey that followed. This program is read by the authors.

A mysterious disappearance, a brazen murderer and the police who hunted him down. In March 2020 secret lovers Russell Hill and Carol Clay disappeared in Victoria's remote Wonnangatta Valley.

The matriarch of Australia’s most violent and notorious criminal family, and allegedly the inspiration for the award-winning film Animal Kingdom, tells her side of the story....

"In the summer of 1991 I was a normal kid. I did normal things....

Jay Malkoun isn't the type of man who lets a little thing like being blown up slow him down. In March 2019, a car bomb outside a gym in Athens detonated the Mercedes Jay's his children had been riding in less than an hour earlier.

Anyone can see the place where the children died. You take the Princes Highway past Geelong, and keep going west in the direction of Colac....

Lucy Letby seemed like a totally ordinary young woman: fun-loving and popular. She had a happy childhood with devoted parents, and after university she landed her dream job as a nurse looking after sick babies. She even became a poster girl for the hospital where she worked.

Andrew Hamilton thought he had life sorted: beautiful fiancée, a popular pizza restaurant, two beloved dogs and a thriving side business supplying massive quantities of magic mushrooms and LSD to eager Sydneysiders.

We are the people our parents warned us about" is the motto of the Bandidos, one of the world's most feared outlaw motorcycle gangs....

Once one of the most highly decorated police officers in New South Wales, Rogerson would brag of the crims he killed. For too long, the whispers of corruption around him were ignored. But his unholy alliances with heroin dealers and underworld figures would eventually bring about his downfall.

Ann Rule was working on a story tracking the trail of victims left by a brutal serial killer. Little did she know the savage slayer she was hunting was the young man she counted among her closest friends....

Shocking, eye-opening and grimly fascinating, these are the true stories, patients and cases that have characterised a career spent treating mentally disordered offenders....

In Gangland, award-winning investigative reporter Jared Savage shines a light into New Zealand's rising underworld of organized crime and violent gangs....

If you thought you knew the story of The Teacher's Pet, get ready to be shocked. Hedley Thomas takes you behind the scenes with a blow-by-blow account of one of the most intriguing and enduring murder mysteries of our time....

On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues....

Discover the classic behind-the-scenes chronicle of John E. Douglas’ 25-year career in the FBI Investigative Support Unit, where he used psychological profiling....

Let's get the story of Abraham Gilbert Saffron down. Just the facts, Your Honour. Wherever you find entertainers performing in neon-lit pubs and clubs, chances are you will find a wannabe gangster or two hanging around.

Volume two of One Nation Under Blackmail examines the rise of Jeffrey Epstein and his closest associates, such as Leslie Wexner and Ghislaine Maxwell, and contextualizes them within the organized crime-intelligence networks detailed in-depth in volume one....

Caught smuggling half a million euros’ worth of cocaine, Paul Keany was sexually assaulted by Venezuelan anti-drugs officers before being sentenced to eight years in the notorious Los Teques prison outside Caracas....

With over 55,000 disappearances annually in Australia, each story is a heart-wrenching account of unanswered questions and shattered lives.

This raw and true account of the life of a tough cop has all the twists, turns and drama of a rattlingly good thriller.

One Australian woman is hospitalised every three hours and two more lose their lives each week as a result of family violence. But for some women there is a punishment far more enduring than injury or their own death....

In July 1983, James Morgan Kane returned home in the evening to find a corpse in his living room....

Apart from Irish whiskey, good cigars, Pontiac motor cars, and a pistol grip baby .410 shotgun with solid load shells, what I love the most is kidnapping smartarse gangsters....

Their names echo through true crime history like dark legends: John Wayne Gacy, the Zodiac Killer, Richard Ramirez, Aileen Wuornos, Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, and the Golden State Killer. Their infamous deeds have been exhaustively chronicled across every medium imaginable.

In the summer of 1998, FBI agent Bob Hilland reluctantly picked up the phone to call the famous psychic John Edward. Bob didn’t expect much from the call, but he was working on an unsolvable cold case and had nowhere else to turn. What Bob never imagined was that the call would lead to a shattering of all his preconceived notions, a huge break in the cold case, and an unlikely crime-solving partnership that spanned twenty-five years.

Christopher Dale Flannery received his first criminal conviction at the age of 14. Within 20 years, he would become one of the most feared criminals in Australia, believed to be responsible for up to a dozen murders, most of which he was never tried for. Exposing the double-crossings, brutal gangland wars and bloody reprisals of Sydney's dark underbelly, this is the true story of Mr Rent-A-Kill as it has never been told before.

In this exhilarating and terrifying new book, Emma Kenny explores the bewildering world of cults, looking into the magnetic pull of cult leaders who find, ensnare and indoctrinate followers, transforming them from normal people into devoted acolytes, and, in the most extreme cases, into killers. From Jim Jones and The Peoples Temple to David Koresh and the Branch Davidians; Marshall Applewhite's Heaven's Gate to Order of the Solar Temple, Emma unpicks the interplay between power, manipulation and faith that makes cults work.

Let's get the story of Abraham Gilbert Saffron down. Just the facts, Your Honour. Wherever you find entertainers performing in neon-lit pubs and clubs, chances are you will find a wannabe gangster or two hanging around. Selling sex and drugs has always been a way to make a fast buck - and potential customers are more open to temptation in pubs, bars, dance halls and nightclubs. Abe Saffron figured all this out very quickly. He was a chancer who kickstarted his criminal career SP bookmaking and receiving stolen goods.

For decades, when criminal cases of the most unprecedented nature went to trial, one woman took the stand to separate truth from fiction. Expert Witness is the extraordinary story of forensic and psychiatric pioneer Dr. Ann Burgess—inspiration for Hulu’s forthcoming docuseries Mastermind—and how she revolutionized what it means to be an expert witness in the American court system. Written through Burgess’ singular lens of compassion and lived experience, Expert Witness pulls back the curtain on some of the biggest cases in the last thirty years.

Kathleen Richards was just 17 when she and her sister Deirdre found themselves on the doorstep of 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester, seeking lodgings from a seemingly friendly local couple: Fred and Rose West. While growing up in poverty-stricken Dublin in the 1960s, Kathleen was abused from a young age. A move to England allowed her to escape, but even so life remained difficult, forcing her to seek refuge. At first, Cromwell Street provided freedom for the sisters who were entertained by Fred's quirky behaviour and endless DIY.

Con artists are everywhere—your new boyfriend or girlfriend, your new neighbor or coworker, your new friend—and they don’t outsmart you; they out-feel you to get their hands on your money. In Anatomy of a Con Artist, Walton lays out “the tells” based on hundreds of real-life cases he’s investigated.

トクリュウの拠点は、台湾にあった!トクリュウこと匿名・流動型犯罪グループの大きな拠点の一つは台湾にあり、日本の暴力団は完全に台湾黒社会の下請。そんな情報を仕入れたジャーナリストが、台中のアジトに潜入取材した。

Acompáñame, como si fueras uno de mis pacientes, a descubrir el mundo de la psiquiatría forense y ser testigo de cómo estudiamos el estado mental de las personas víctimas o investigadas en un caso judicial; verás cómo detectamos sustancias clave que explican un accidente o un homicidio; la manera en que averiguamos qué produjo las heridas en un cuerpo, o cómo la sexología forense entiende los hallazgos característicos en una víctima de violación.

Working under California's Sexually Violent Predator Law, Samantha Stein, PsyD, faces such offenders alone, one by one, in a prison interview room. As a forensic psychologist, her high-stakes decisions can determine the difference between a life lived back in society or one condemned to indefinite incarceration.

Mark Dapin was still in school when he met his first murderer—a boy called Ian. In reporting the murder Ian eventually committed, newspapers used the cliché that it ‘shocked even those who knew him best.’ But it didn’t shock Dapin, because he knew Ian in real life, not in clichés. The First Murderer I Ever Met is the truest true crime—it’s what actually happened.

El 15 de enero de 1947 apareció en Los Ángeles el cadáver mutilado de Elizabeth Short, una joven de veintidós años conocida como la Dalia Negra. El crimen nunca se resolvió y acabó convirtiéndose en un juego intelectual para escritores, periodistas y cineastas, quienes inventaron todo tipo de teorías en torno a la víctima y su asesino. Beatriz García Guirado viaja a Los Ángeles para desentrañar la industria macabra que rodea el caso y para desenmascarar los clichés sensacionalistas y los relatos aleccionadores que se esconden detrás.

By the spring of 2024, it will be four and a half years since the publication of Chinn's Sunday Times number 1 best-selling Peaky Blinders. The Real Story. Adopting a chronological approach, it covered the origins of Birmingham's backstreet gangs in the late 1860s through the late 20th century. This much-awaited fourth book in the bestselling series, Peaky Blinders: The Real Gangsters and Gangs differs by taking a thematic approach and delves far more deeply into the crimes as well as the political issues at the heart of this pre-war period.

In 2001, thieves parked a box truck in front of an aging tycoon’s factory, cut the phone lines, and used an overhead crane to lift out their prize: a 1938 Talbot-Lago T150-C SS Teardrop coupe—“the most beautiful car in the world” and one of only two in existence—then they disappeared into the night. The tycoon died. The trail went cold. End of story. Until it wasn’t.

Romance scams and other confidence schemes are among the world's fastest growing types of fraud. This book, written by two women featured in Netflix's The Tinder Swindler, will flip everything you think you know about relationship scams on its head. As everyone becomes increasingly vulnerable to these crimes, it's crucial to understand how to keep yourself and your loved ones safer.

Sinônimo de eficiência e seriedade, a Polícia Federal faz tremer os mais temidos e audazes criminosos, como mostra Luiz Antonio da Cruz Pinelli aqui em sua autobiografia, Agente 114, o Caçador de Bandidos. Com 40 anos de intensa e exemplar atuação na PF, ele tem muitas histórias extraordinárias para contar. Policial incorruptível, Pinelli atuou, nas últimas décadas, na solução dos mais difíceis, delicados e cinematográficos casos de tráfico de drogas, sequestros e roubos no País, como no Banco Central em Fortaleza.

Step into the chilling world of Britain’s most dangerous women. In Notorious: Volume 6 – The UK’s Most Infamous Women, Stu Armstrong exposes the shocking true stories of female killers, gangsters, and masterminds whose crimes stunned the nation and shattered lives. For centuries, crime has been seen as a man’s domain, but history tells a darker, more complex tale. From sadistic child killers to ruthless crime bosses and manipulative fraudsters, these women defied societal expectations of femininity, wielding power and destruction in equal measure.

He had no degree, no license, no product. Yet Jeffrey Epstein ended up with a $77 million mansion, a private island, and a guest list that reads like the boardroom of the world. The Financier isn’t a biography — it’s an autopsy. This is the story of a man who didn’t just game the system… He revealed it. From classrooms he shouldn’t have taught in to courtrooms that let him walk, this book follows the network that built him, protected him, and quietly erased the evidence when things got too loud. This isn’t about one predator.

On October 29, 1984, 66-year-old beloved Black disabled grandmother Eleanor Bumpurs was murdered in her own home. A public housing tenant 4 months behind on rent, Ms. Bumpurs was facing eviction when white NYPD officer Stephen Sullivan shot her twice with a 12-gauge shotgun. LaShawn Harris, 10 years old at the time, felt the aftershocks of the tragedy in her community well beyond the four walls of her home across the street.

The Canonical Five refers to the five women most commonly identified as the victims of Jack the Ripper: Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly. Each of these women shared a tragic fate, becoming emblematic of the violence and desperation that characterized the Whitechapel district of London in 1888. Their stories are not just about their horrific deaths but also about the lives they led prior to their violent encounters with an unidentified killer.

Theodore John Kaczynski (May 22, 1942 to June 10, 2023), also known as the Unabomber, was an American mathematician, serial killer, and domestic terrorist. A mathematics prodigy, he abandoned his academic career in 1969 to pursue a reclusive primitive lifestyle and lone wolf terrorism campaign. Kaczynski murdered three people and injured 23 others between 1978 and 1995 in a nationwide mail bombing campaign against people he believed to be advancing modern technology and the destruction of the natural environment.

Pendant huit ans, Stéphane Breitwieser, originaire de Mulhouse, a commis avec sa compagne près de 250 vols dans des musées français, suisses et belges, en plein jour, au nez et à la barbe des gardiens et des visiteurs. Entre 1995 et 2001, la valeur totale de leurs larcins a été estimée à plusieurs millions d'euros.

In Tijger, tijger neemt schrijfster Margaux Fragoso een duik in haar verleden, waar ze jarenlang werd misbruikt door een veel oudere man. Met een alcoholverslaafde vader en mentaal instabiele moeder werd ze in de armen gedreven van een pedofiel. Margaux beschrijft haar aangrijpende kinderjaren vanuit de onbevangen blik die ze had als kind, maar met haar krachtige, poëtische inzichten van nu.

The Real Fall of Union Carbide: Fraud, Corruption, and Mismanagement delves into the hidden story of how one of the world’s leading chemical corporations fell from grace. As Union Carbide rose to prominence for its innovation and safety record, it concealed a culture of greed and corruption behind its polished image. Told by a former U.S Treasury Special Agent and Union Carbide's Manager of Special Investigations, the book uncovers a web of fraud, bribery, and negligence within management, ultimately leading to the tragic Bhopal disaster and a total collapse of public trust.

In 2005, Kenia Maxi Jose—known in the streets as La Reina—vanished after a mysterious trip to St. Martin. There was no body, no passport, and no answers. They said she drowned, but her son never believed the story. Who Killed Kenia Maxi Jose is a gripping true story of loss, silence, and the relentless search for truth.