Murder

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.

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.

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....

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.

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....

Number-one New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen’s shocking and empowering true-crime story of three sisters determined to survive their mother’s house of horrors....

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.

When Cindy Gambino dropped her three boys off at their dad's on Father's Day 2005 she had no idea she would never see them again. By day's end, their bodies lay at the bottom of an icy dam, a tragedy that sparked one of the most controversial and prolonged murder cases in Australian history.

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....

Dulcie Bodsworth was the unlikeliest serial killer. She was loved everywhere she went, and the townsfolk of Wilcannia, which she called home in the late 1950s, thought of her as kind and caring....

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.

Discover the true crime in Australia’s toughest prisons, including Pentridge, Cessnock, Minda, Goulburn, Silverwater, Rison and Lithgow....

The First Time He Hit Her is an attempt to understand why dozens of women are murdered each year by men who profess to love them....

In this fascinating & profoundly chilling account, Detective Kim Mager, a real-life version of Clarice Starling, reveals how she closed in on—and broke—one of Ohio’s most infamous serial killers.

On 29 August 2016, devastating news hit the headlines that an entire family was found dead in a rural community. For Jacqueline Connolly, this was a deeply personal and life-shattering tragedy,.

This Ultimate True Crime Case Collection contains disturbing accounts of some of the most brutal and bizarre true crime stories in history. Often told from the killer’s perspective, Green’s riveting narratives draw the listener into the real-life horror experienced by the victims....

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....

This huge set of 10 Volumes of Curated True Crime - with over 160 stories in total - has some of the most gut wrenching, twisted, and disturbing murders ever.

Gregg Olsen and co-author Rebecca Morris investigate one of the 21st Century's most puzzling disappearances and how it resulted in the murder of two children by their father....

From the co-host of the Australian True Crime Podcast comes the cases you'll never forget and some you've never heard of....

When Delia Balmer entered into a relationship with the attentive John Sweeney, she had no idea he was a serial killer.

first met Douglas in Mindhunter, which told the story of his brilliant and terrifying with the FBI until his retirement in 1995....

A true-crime collection culled from the crime files of the New York Times best-selling series, Notorious USA....

A devastating story of coercive control and domestic homicide....

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.

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.

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.

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.

Marvin Gray entered prison a killer—violent, cunning, and cold. But no one expected what he would become once caged. From solitary confinement, he wrote thousands of pages of confessions. Murders no one could verify. Attacks no one could explain. Guards silenced. Inmates butchered. Every word precise. Every killing calculated.

Se sei alla ricerca della storia di un vero mostro, allora Gertrude Wright, la madre aguzzina, dovrebbe essere il prossimo libro nella tua lista di lettura! Se non hai mai sentito parlare di questa donna… chiediti se sei davvero un appassionato di true crime! La risposta è sì, perché sei qui e dimostri interesse! La discesa nella follia di Gertrude Wright ha previsto torture, mutilazioni perpetrate in modi inaspettati e trattamenti agghiaccianti nei confronti di Sylvia Likens, una ragazza adolescente affidata alle sue cure. Please note: This title is in Italian.

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.

Los desencadenantes más comunes del homicidio son el miedo, la rabia, la venganza, el dinero, la lujuria y, en menor medida, la mera locura. Claro está que no se trata de una ciencia exacta y que los asesinatos pueden surgir de múltiples desencadenantes. El sexo y la venganza parecen ir de la mano en el crimen. La rabia, el dinero y la venganza también son una tríada explosiva de desencadenantes.

Erzählendes Sachhörbuch ab 14 Jahren über die Morde des NSU, authentisch und emotional erzählt. Semiya ist vierzehn Jahre alt, Gamze zwanzig, als ihre Väter von der rechtsextremen Terrorzelle »Nationalsozialistischer Untergrund«, NSU, ermordet wurden. Die beiden in Deutschland aufgewachsenen Jugendlichen verbindet derselbe Schmerz. Die Vorverurteilung der deutschen Polizei und das Desinteresse der Öffentlichkeit trifft die beiden mit voller Wucht.

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.

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.

In queste pagine le storie di Maria Chindamo, Giulia Cecchettin e Saman Abbas diventano non solo testimonianze di orrori privati, ma anche denuncia di un sistema che troppo spesso si gira dall'altra parte o che, nella migliore delle ipotesi, fraintende, lasciando che le vittime diventino numeri in una statistica che cresce di anno in anno.

Richard Ramirez (February 29, 1960 - June 7, 2013) was an American serial killer, sex offender and burglar whose killing spree occurred in Greater Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area in the state of California. From April 1984 to August 1985, Ramirez murdered at least fifteen people during various break-ins, with his crimes usually taking place after dark, leading to him being dubbed the Night Stalker, the Walk-In Killer, and the Valley Intruder.

Stu Armstrong delivers a chilling and unflinching exploration of one of the UK’s most devastating modern crimes, the grooming and murder of 17-year-old Ashleigh Hall by convicted sex offender Peter Chapman. Told through a powerful mix of factual investigation and fictionalised scenes, this book pulls listeners into the shadowy corners of the internet, where predators lurk behind fake profiles and innocent trust can be a fatal mistake.

In his long search to process his grief over the rape and murder of his teenage friend by a fellow classmate, Jim Reese becomes entangled in prisons—both physically and psychologically. Coming to a Neighborhood Near You is the result: his investigative memoir of crime and punishment in the twenty-first-century United States.

なぜストーリーありきの捜査は止まらなかったのか？ 警察庁長官狙撃事件、大川原化工機事件にみる警察組織の‟失敗の本質”

I 1992 blev hele Danmark rystet over det grusomme drab på den kun 12-årige Susan Hansen i Fredericia. På trods af den enorme mediebevågenhed og grundigt og utrætteligt politiarbejde blev sagen aldrig opklaret. 20 år senere giver journalisten Mikkel Milsgaard sig til at grave i sagen for at komme nærmere et svar på, hvem der stod bag den rystende forbrydelse. Undervejs taler han blandt andet med ofrets pårørende og de oprindelige efterforskere, han trækker tråde til lignende forbrydelser og sammensætter en psykologisk profil af gerningsmanden.