Murder

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....

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....

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,.

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.

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.

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....

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....

The true story of an abused childhood, of shocking brutality and life as the daughter of notorious serial killer and master manipulator Rose West....

A true insider's story of the backpacker murders from the detective who led the team that arrested Ivan Milat....

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.

Ted Bundy. John Wayne Gacy. Jeffrey Dahmer. The names of notorious serial killers are usually well-known; they echo in the news and in public consciousness. But most people have never heard of Israel Keyes, one of the most ambitious and terrifying serial killers in modern history....

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.

From the disappearance of the Beaumont children to the abduction of William Tyrrell to the double murder of Karlie Pearce-Stevenson and her daughter Khandalyce, Xanthé is determined to expose the truth to maximise dignity for both deceased victims and those left behind....

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....

Everyone thinks they know the story of Milly Dowler. Haunting headlines about the missing schoolgirl splashed across front pages. The family's worst fears realised when her body was found....

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.

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....

In the most extraordinary journey Ann Rule has ever undertaken, she has spent more than two decades researching the story of the Green River Killer....

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.

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

Kate Winkler Dawson's debut, Death in the Air, is a gripping, historical narrative of a serial killer, an environmental disaster, and an iconic city struggling to regain its footing....

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....

Melbourne's gangland war was an era dominated by murders, stings, hits, drug busts, corruption and greed - inspiring best-selling books and even a popular TV series, Underbelly. It took the police a decade to curtail the violence....

In the 1950s, a young Indianapolis minister named Jim Jones preached a curious blend of the gospel and Marxism. His congregation was racially mixed, and he was a leader in the early civil rights movement. Eventually, Jones moved his church, Peoples Temple, to northern California.

The very strange but nevertheless true story of the dark underbelly of a 1960s hippie utopia. Laurel Canyon in the 1960s and early 1970s was a magical place....

In May 2005, authorities discovered the Groene family murdered in their Idaho home. The family’s youngest members—eight-year-old Shasta and her brother, nine-year-old Dylan—were nowhere to be found. As a community prayed for their return, Shasta and Dylan were already miles away in the woods of Montana at the hands of serial killer Joseph Edward Duncan. After a harrowing forty-eight day ordeal, Shasta was rescued. In many ways, her survival story was only beginning.

On Australia Day, 26 January 1966, Jane, Arnna, and Grant Beaumont were abducted from Colley Reserve, Glenelg, South Australia and never seen again, leading to one of Australia's most extensive police investigations and manhunts. Five decades later, no trace of the children has ever been found. Over the years, several individuals have been put forward and investigated as suspects, resulting in false leads and dead ends and with no real suspect until now: Harry Phipps.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Edmund Emil Kemper III (born December 18, 1948) is an American serial killer convicted of murdering seven women and one girl between May 1972 and April 1973. Years earlier, at the age of 15, Kemper had murdered his paternal grandparents. Nicknamed the "Co-ed Killer," as most of his non-familial victims were female college students hitchhiking in the vicinity of Santa Cruz County, California, Kemper's murders often included necrophilia, decapitation, dismemberment and possibly cannibalism.

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.

Two brave journalists dare to expose the music industry's darkest secret; that country music legend, Garth Brooks, may very well be, a blood-thirsty serial killer. Through a combination of interviews with federal law enforcement, criminologists, and music insiders, as well as exhaustive research into Garth’s connection to hundreds of unsolved homicides and missing persons, the authors piece together their satirical case.

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.

Women Who Talk to the Dead chronicles the remarkable journey of Detroit Police Detective Shannon Jones and FBI Special Agent Leslie Larsen. Surrounded by skepticism and bureaucratic roadblocks, these women spearhead Operation UNITED—the largest coordinated exhumation of unidentified murder victims in FBI history.

Dopo 45 anni, nella coscienza collettiva degli italiani, la strage di Bologna del 2 agosto 1980 si è stabilizzata e, forse, incancrenita, come un atto di inaudita barbarie, ma comunque isolato e reso possibile solo grazie al fanatismo ideologico di alcuni terroristi “estremi”. Insomma, le solite “schegge impazzite”. Dimenticano, gli italiani, che 36 giorni prima si era perpetrata la strage di Ustica, e che la pressoché totale coincidenza temporale dei due eventi si inserisce...

Questo libro contiene il capitolo “I processi” del volume “Il delitto di Garlasco: Fatti. Documenti. Disinformazione.” in cui è riportata, in fac-simile, la sentenza di condanna di secondo grado del processo a carico di Alberto Stasi, e costituisce, dunque, una edizione parziale e ridotta del volume, che include una analisi dei documenti processuali, così come sono stati resi pubblici.

In 2004 and 2005, Robbert van den Broeke, a self-proclaimed paranormal medium, made a meteoric rise in the Dutch media. With appearances on television and even his own TV show There Is So Much More, hosted by ratings queen Irene Moors, his success seemed unstoppable. However, Robbert, the son of a bank director from Hoeven, found himself in deep trouble due to his 'Genverbrander blunder,' which in 2005 not only destroyed his credibility but was also voted the Dutch Word of the Year. Still, he retained a loyal following behind the scenes.

Il caso della morte di Simona Cinà, trovata morta nella piscina di una villa di Bagheria durante una festa di laurea, sottoposto al vaglio della Procura di Termini Imerese è solo l’ultimo esempio, in ordine di tempo, a dimostrarcelo. Una ragazza di 21 anni muore in una piscina, dunque. Il suo cadavere resta in acqua per diversi minuti prima che qualcuno si accorga dell’accaduto.

The Candy Man tells the haunting true story of Timothy O'Bryan's murder, the only confirmed case of poisoned Halloween candy. With deep empathy and rigorous research, Crystal Baynam lays bare the betrayal, the investigation, and the legacy that still haunts a nation.

"Jeg har en sidste gave til Marc," siger den tidligere soldat Bjørn Schaap til sin ekskone Camilla en sommerdag i 2005, da han er på besøg for at fejre Marcs femårs fødselsdag. Fødselsdagshyggen bliver afløst af et usædvanlig voldsomt brag, der kan høres over store dele af Odense. Da Camilla en uge senere vågner efter at have ligget i koma, modtager hun sit livs værste besked. Nu begynder kampen for at leve med tragedien – en kamp, der aldrig helt vil ende.

Aileen Carol Wuornos (February 29, 1956 - October 9, 2002) was an American serial killer. Between 1989 and 1990, while engaging in street prostitution along highways in Florida, Wuornos shot dead and robbed seven of her male clients. She claimed that her victims had either raped or attempted to rape her, and that the homicides were committed in self-defense. Wuornos was sentenced to death for six of the murders and was executed in 2002 after spending more than ten years on Florida's death row. The following recordings are from prison interviews, including the day before her execution.

Edmund Emil Kemper III (born December 18, 1948) is an American serial killer convicted of murdering seven women and one girl between May 1972 and April 1973. Years earlier, at the age of 15, Kemper had murdered his paternal grandparents. Nicknamed the "Co-ed Killer," as most of his non-familial victims were female college students hitchhiking in the vicinity of Santa Cruz County, California, Kemper's murders often included necrophilia, decapitation, dismemberment, and possibly cannibalism.

It has been a century since the massacre at Jallianwala Bagh, but Punjab is still to recover from the shock of it. The British Empire never did either—the impact of those bullets fired for ten minutes at an unarmed, peaceful crowd inside a community park with one narrow exit rang through its remaining years in India. Yet, the true horror of the event itself has been forgotten, as also the volatile atmosphere in Punjab at the time. What was the catalyst for the events of that day and how did it become a turning point in India's struggle for independence?

Theodore Robert Bundy (November 24, 1946-January 24, 1989) was an American serial killer who abducted, raped, and murdered dozens of women and girls between 1974 and 1978. His modus operandi typically consisted of convincing his target that he was in need of assistance or duping them into believing he was an authority figure.