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Hay historias que mejoran con el tiempo. Sobre todo si suceden en Italia, porque allí las ondas expansivas de las investigaciones judiciales son interestelares: rascas un poco y aparecen conspiraciones de película de serie B en las que no falta ningún elemento, desde grupos terroristas a tramas vaticanas. Parece muy sofisticado, pero no se engañen: la mafia es una fábula estúpida sin ningún glamour.

Wenn keine Spur zum Täter führt, wenn nichts mehr geht, wenn die Ermittlungen eingestellt werden müssen, dann spricht man von einem "Cold Case". Die Gerichtsakten der "kalten Fälle" vergilben in den Archiven der Ermittlungsbehörden, dicke, prall gefüllte Stehordner voller grausiger Details, mit Bildern blutbesudelter Leichen, zertrümmerter Schädel oder abgetrennter Körperteile. Und auf der letzten Seite findet sich stets der obligatorische Vermerk des Staatsanwalts: "Ein Täter konnte nicht ermittelt werden. Das Verfahren wird vorläufig eingestellt."

Stephan Harbort ist Kriminalhauptkommissar. Aus Gesprächen mit mehr als siebzig Serienmördern entwickelte er international angewandte Fahndungsmethoden zur Überführung von Gewalttätern. Besonders faszinieren ihn Thrill-Killer, Menschen, die morden, weil sie den Drang dazu verspüren: ohne Motiv, ohne Auftrag. Stephan Harbort, der auch als Berater bei TV-Dokumentationen und Krimiserien tätig ist, schildert die Verbrechen, die Ermittlungen und blickt in die psychischen Abgründe der Mörder.

Angy was an activist and spent her days collecting evidence for a commission of inquiry into policing that had the chance to change law enforcement across the country's troubled townships. She was vocal against vigilante violence and a go-to person when demanding better services from the police. But when the commission started its hearings, Angy found herself on trial for murdering - necklacing - a young neighbourhood troublemaker, Rowan du Preez.

There is no doubt that Yolanda Saldívar pulled the trigger and killed Tejano superstar Selena Quintanilla Pérez on March 31, 1995. But does anyone know what really happened in room 158 of the Days Inn moments before the crime took place? María Celeste Arrarás has many answers, and her unrivaled coverage of the murder, trial, and aftermath made her the undisputed expert on the Selena case.

One Sunday morning in 1993 a 16-year-old girl named Eliza Claps goes missing from a church in the centre of Potenza, Italy. Shortly before her disappearance, Elisa had met Danilo Restivo, a strange local boy with a fetish for cutting women's hair on the back of buses. Elisa's family are convinced that Resitvo is responsible for their daughter's disappearance, but he is protected by local bigwigs: by his Sicilian father, by a doctor with links to organised crime, by a priest who had vices of his own. Years go by, and Elisa's family can find only false leads.

No hay duda de que Yolanda Saldívar disparó la bala que mató a Selena el 31 de Marzo de 1995, pero ¿alguien sabe lo que realmente sucedió en la habitación 158 del hotel Days Inn, momentos antes de que el crimen se llevara a cabo? María Celeste Arrarás tiene muchas respuestas. Su cobertura de la muerte, el juicio, y el drama detrás de la tragedia la convirtió en la experta indiscutible del caso de Selena. Arrarás comparte detalles de primera mano sobre el crimen y las personas involucradas.

Non è ancora finita. Lui (o lei) non è ancora riuscito a farla franca. Del resto non esistono delitti perfetti, solo delitti impuniti. Quindi mettiamoci al lavoro e ripartiamo, ancora una volta, da dove tutto è avvenuto. Torniamo sulla scena del crimine. Analizzando le migliaia di pagine riguardanti l'omicidio di Nada Cella, si potrebbe arrivare a pensare che molto sia stato fatto, che ogni pista sia stata seguita con scrupolo, che ogni indagine possibile sia già stata effettuata. Che, insomma, non ci sia altro da fare.

Diese Fälle machen uns sprachlos: Ein neunjähriges Mädchen ersticht eine gleichaltrige Klassenkameradin nach einem Streit um einen Ball. Ein zwölf Jahre altes Mädchen tötet - gemeinsam mit ihrem Freund - Vater, Mutter und Bruder, weil ihre Eltern mit der Beziehung nicht einverstanden gewesen sind. Auf Geheiß des Vaters ersticht ein Elfjähriger eine Greisin, die er vorher beraubt hat. Ein dreieinhalb Jahre alter Junge zieht seine Schwester (vier Monate) aus dem Kinderwagen und schlägt und tritt solange zu, bis der Säugling tot ist.

"Un drogato di merda. Un diverso. Un corpo a perdere. Uno di quelli di cui si dice, nel gergo di certi sbirri, che abbiano il nome all'anagrafe scritto a matita. Perché cancellarlo è un attimo. E nessuno verrà a reclamare." La morte di Stefano Cucchi è uno di quei fatti di cronaca che segnano una generazione e un pezzo di storia italiana.

Madrid, 1980. El asesinato de los marqueses de Urquijo, destacados miembros de la nobleza y las altas finanzas, conmociona al país. Entre los sospechosos, aristócratas y plebeyos. ¿Fue una venganza? ¿Hubo un móvil económico? ¿Se contrató a un sicario? ¿La CIA tuvo algo que ver o la clave del misterio se hallaba en el círculo más íntimo de las víctimas?

On June 7, 1998, James Byrd, Jr., a 49-year-old black man, was dragged to his death while chained to the back of a pickup truck driven by three young white men. It happened just outside of Jasper, a sleepy East Texas logging town that, within 24 hours of the discovery of the murder, would be inextricably linked in the nation's imagination to an exceptionally brutal, modern-day lynching. In this superbly written examination of the murder and its aftermath, award-winning journalist Joyce King brings us on a journey that begins at the crime scene.

Ob Italien, Kolumbien oder Vietnam - wie ein Indiana Jones der Kriminalbiologie wird Mark Benecke in die verschiedenen Länder dieser Welt gerufen, um dunkle Geheimnisse aufzuspüren, brutale Morde und unerklärliche Tötungen zu untersuchen. Dabei begegnet er korrupten Polizeibeamten und trifft auf skrupellose Mörder. Ein ganz besonderer Fall sind die Mumien, die in einem Kapuzinerkloster in Palermo aufgefunden werden. Hunderte, vielleicht tausende.

In The Mysterious Murder of JFK's Mistress, Ron Rosenbaum investigates the murder of Mary Pinochet Meyer, whose affair with President John F. Kennedy became tabloid fodder, and who was found shot to death on October 12, 1964. Immediately after her death, one of the CIA's top priorities was finding the diary in which Meyer chronicled her relationship with the late president and the secrets they shared.

On a frigid February evening in 1805, Amos Babcock brutally murdered Mercy Hall. Believing that he was being instructed by God, Babcock stabbed and disemboweled his own sister before dumping her lifeless body in a rural New Brunswick snowbank. This is the tragic and fascinating story of how isolation, duplicity, and religious mania turned impoverished, hardworking people violent, leading to a murder and an execution.

Just after midnight on April 21, 1842, John McLoughlin, Jr. - the chief trader for the Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Stikine, in the northwest corner of the territory that would later become British Columbia - was shot to death by his own men. They claimed it was an act of self-defence, their only means of stopping the violent rampage of their drunk and abusive leader. Sir George Simpson, the HBC's Overseas Governor, took the men of Stikine at their word, and the Company closed the book on the matter.

On July 6, 2011, Richard Oland, scion of the Moosehead brewing family, was murdered in his office. The brutal killing stunned the city of Saint John, and news of the crime reverberated across the country. In a shocking turn, and after a two-and-half-year police investigation, Oland's only son, Dennis, was arrested for second-degree murder.

Nine of the most controversial violent crimes in America's history are reexamined in these compelling stories of true crime. Dr. Samuel Mudd set John Wilkes Booth's broken ankle, but was he actually part of the larger conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln? Did Lizzie Borden brutally murder her own parents in Massachusetts? Was admitted jihadist Zacarias Moussaoui really involved in the terrorist plot to destroy the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001?

On a freezing Christmas morning, a distraught young man named Jeremy Davies led police to a corpse he had placed in a snowbank some hours before. They found a man's body, naked, bloody and beaten. Davies insisted that he had not killed the man but that he and his fiancée had simply buried a stranger's body. The police investigation confirmed the fact that the victim, Harry Berge, had died in the apartment of Barbara Hoffman.

Kriminalfälle, die die Welt schockierten. Seine Assistenten sind Würmer, Maden und Insekten. Mit ihrer Hilfe kann Mark Benecke Todesumstände von Verbrechensopfern exakt nachweisen. Und oft ist der Täter dann nicht mehr weit. Schauen Sie dem Autor über die Schulter! Mark Benecke erzählt kurzweilig von Kriminalfällen, die die Öffentlichkeit in Atem hielten, schätzt die Ermittlungen aus seiner Sicht neu ein, weist auf folgenschwere Versäumnisse hin.