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John Morris' new book is an investigation into the Clydach murders in South Wales in 1999 in which Mandy Power, her mother and her two daughters were battered to death. Dai Morris was tried twice for these cruel murders and finally convicted in 2006. Yet John Morris, a legal specialist, is certain that Dai Morris is innocent. No fingerprint evidence or DNA connected Morris to the crime; his conviction was based on the lack of a solid alibi, the presence of his gold chain in Power's house and the lies he initially told the police in explanation.

In October, 1996, young, pretty, and petite women began vanishing off the streets of Poughkeepsie, New York. Most were prostitutes and some were addicts. By August, 1998, the toll had reached eight, when a prostitute told police she had barely escaped being strangled by Kendall Francois, 27, a 6'4", 300-lb. middle school hall monitor whose slovenly personal hygiene had earned him the nickname "Stinky". Inside his house, the smell was worse, as investigators discovered a tangle of rotting flesh and bones.

On June 6, 2015, inmates Richard Matt and David Sweat escaped from Clinton Correctional Facility, New York State's largest maximum security prison. The media was instantly obsessed with the story: aided by a prison seamstress who smuggled hacksaw blades, chisels, and drill bits inside the facility via a vat of raw hamburger meat, the two convicted murderers sliced their way through steel cell walls, meandered through a maze of tunnels, climbed out of a manhole, and walked off into the night.

A savage murder, committed the same day Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech. A young black man is falsely accused. In the style of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, Erik German's Kindle Single Dead Girls picks up where the reporters left off - just in time for the 50th anniversary of a crime that captivated the nation. On August, 28, 1963, two young white women were found slain and mutilated in their apartment on New York's Upper East Side.

En Australie, environ 38 000 personnes - des jeunes pour la moitié - sont portées disparues chaque année. 64 %, soit les deux tiers de ces dossiers, sont résolus dans les 24 heures. Néanmoins, une proportion non négligeable de ces hommes, femmes et enfants ne sont jamais retrouvés. Sans preuve claire de vie ou de mort, nous sommes dans l'incapacité de savoir ce qui leur est arrivé. Par ailleurs, un certain nombre de faits divers choquants - meurtres, agressions, enlèvements etc. - ont émaillé l'actualité australienne de ces quarante dernières années.

Munoz provides new insight into Benazir Bhutto’s unprecedented rise and an unflinching, minute-by-minute narrative of the assassination itself. With impeccable research, Munoz also situates Bhutto in the decades-long history of U.S.-Pakistan relations and the emergence of global terrorism, pinpointing her death as the moment when those relations changed forever. The result is a gripping narrative of Pakistan’s turbulent political realities and the death of its leading politician.

After her mother's untimely death, Clara Schwartz became distant, withdrawn. Her father, a renowned DNA researcher, lived in a farmhouse outside Leesburg, Virginia, where in December 2001 he was fatally stabbed by what seemed to be a ninja-style sword. Police arrested Kyle Hulbert, a troubled teen - and aspiring vampire. Kyle was Clara's friend, one of a circle obsessed with role-playing games.

On a snowy November day in 1997, in Flint, Michigan, police found the body of 45-year-old waitress Nancy Billiter. Her corpse had survived a botched attempt to burn it. An autopsy revealed that she'd been bound, beaten, sexually violated, and then injected with a lethal mixture of battery acid and heroin. Police suspected Nancy's friend, Carol Giles, 26, and Giles' boyfriend, Tim Collier, who had often boasted of a murderous gangland past.

Who Shot Ahmed? recounts the murder of a 22-year-old videographer, killed in cold blood in the dead of night at the height of Bahrain’s Arab Spring revolution. On a small island Kingdom swirling with political, economic, and sectarian tensions, Ahmed’s murder epitomized everything that had gone wrong since 2011, when pro-democracy protesters took to the streets in droves. Drawing on dozens of testimonies, journalist Elizabeth Dickinson traces the tale of Ahmed’s death and his family’s fearless quest for justice.

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.

True Crime aus dem Blickwinkel der Opfer: In seinem neuen Sachbuch berichtet der Münchner Bestseller-Autor und Rechtsanwalt Stephan Lucas über wahre Verbrechen und stellt die Frage, wie man zum Opfer eines Verbrechens wird und ob man es verhindern kann.

Selbstmörder, die zu Mördern werden - ein neues Thema von True Crime! War es ein Unfall, oder war es Mord? Der Neurologe Dr. Milan Zimmermann beantwortet diese Frage am Beispiel wahrer Geschichten über Familientragödien, Beziehungsdramen und Amokläufe mit unschuldigen Toten - sogenannte erweiterte Suizide. Ob bei spektakulären Verbrechen wie einem Amoklauf oder dem Germanwings-Absturz, ob bei Familientragödien oder dem gemeinsamen Tod eines betagten Ehepaars: Erweiterte Suizide sind immer Tragödien, denn unschuldige Menschen werden aus dem Leben gerissen.

Así arranca esta autoficción, novela ficcionada o true fiction. Macarena López-Roberts recibe una llamada: alguien atenta -de nuevo- contra el honor de su padre, maltratándolo en un programa de televisión. El "caso Urquijo" persigue a su familia desde hace más de cuarenta años y es hora de buscar la fórmula para acogerse al derecho al olvido y borrar las más de 7000 entradas que hay sobre Mauricio, relacionadas con el crimen de los marqueses.

True Crime in der Folge von Mark und Lydia Benecke und Michael Tsokos.

Prendendo le mosse dal declinare dell'impero ottomano, il audiolibro mostra come già sul finire dell'800 il governo metta in opera un piano demografico-sociale per insediare in Anatolia i turchi espulsi dai territori perduti dall'impero. Nel corso della prima guerra mondiale il governo ultranazionalista dei Giovani Turchi compie la scelta di turchizzare totalmente l'Anatolia e decide di deportare e sterminare la minoranza armena che viveva lì da secoli.

"Enquêter sur ce meurtre a été une montagne russe de fausses pistes et d'indices improbables. Mais aujourd'hui, je sais qui est l'assassin de Sophie Toscan du Plantier." Nick Foster.

Marsala, nell'autunno del 1971 nel breve tragitto fra scuola e casa, tre bambine di nove, sette e cinque anni scompaiono.Si chiamano Antonella, Ninfa e Virginia. Nei giorni successivi tremila uomini battono la provincia. Sono poliziotti, carabinieri, militari, vigili e molti volontari, li coordina un giudice di alto profilo: Cesare Terranova. Finché i corpi delle tre bimbe vengono ritrovati Nel 1979 la Corte d'Assise di Messina riconosce colpevole del triplice omicidio lo zio di Antonella, nel frattempo diventato "mostro di Marsala", e lo condanna alla pena di 29 anni.

Londra, 1888. Un enigmatico serial killer terrorizza i quartieri degradati di Whitechapel, avvicinando prostitute che poi sventra senza pietà. Dallas, 1963. lI presidente Kennedy viene ucciso mentre la sua auto attraversa la città. Dopo soli tre giorni anche il suo assassino viene eliminato. Parigi, 1703. Alla Bastiglia muore un prigioniero costretto da trent'anni a indossare una maschera che gli nasconde il volto. Ekaterinburg, 1918. Nicola Il e la sua famiglia vengono trucidati e sepolti in un luogo misterioso.

26 agosto 2010. In Salento, una giovane scompare. È una ragazza bionda, silenziosa, misteriosa. Si chiama Sarah Scazzi. L'Italia intera rimane sconvolta: cosa può essere successo a una quindicenne dall'aria così innocente? Molte saranno le ipotesi che si alterneranno durante i quarantadue giorni di ricerca. Ipotesi che sveleranno intimi segreti e rancori taciuti, arrivando a costruire un incredibile reality show dell'orrore e del grottesco in salsa pugliese. Avetrana, il paese dove tutto si svolge, ne sarà l'inaspettato set a cielo aperto.

Avril 2011, Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès s'évanouit quelque part dans le sud de la France, laissant derrière lui sa famille assassinée, enterrée avec soin sous la terrasse de leur maison. Au-delà du fait divers, une question demeure : comment devient-on le meurtrier présumé de ses enfants, de sa femme, de ses deux chiens ?