Murder

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the bestselling, prizewinning author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, a spellbinding account of a family devastated by the sudden death of their nineteen-year-old son, only to discover that he had created a secret life which drew him into the dangerous...

He killed more British citizens than any single criminal in history. And his patients loved him. Harold Shipman was a family doctor in a small town in northern England. He wore glasses. He had a beard. He made house calls. He remembered your name, asked about your grandchildren, and never rushed an appointment. He was, by every measure that mattered to the people of Hyde, the best GP they'd ever had.

Feltus Taylor, Jr., a young man from Louisiana, was raised in poverty, stigmatized and victimized throughout his life, constantly at the mercy of a deeply flawed justice system. He fell into the underworld of drug runners, money troubles, and violence that landed him on Death Row. The early years on Louisiana State Penitentiary's Death Row were bleak and lonely, yet Taylor embarked on a journey of personal redemption through writing and spiritual growth.

What if everything you know about Jack the Ripper is wrong? Since 1888, hundreds of suspects have been proposed for the Jack the Ripper murders–from Polish barbers to Freemason conspiracies. But what if investigators have been asking the wrong question? Instead of asking ‘Who was Jack the Ripper?’, Richard Walker asked ‘How were these murders actually committed?’ What he discovered is truly shocking.

James Miller, ein alternder Außenseiter, lernt im Gefängnis seine einzige wahre Liebe kennen, Christopher Worrell, einen jungen, charismatischen Soziopathen. Miller schreckt vor nichts zurück, um die Forderungen seines sadistischen Freundes zu erfüllen, und versucht, die Beziehung auf eine neue Ebene zu bringen.

The gripping inside story of Nathan Carman’s crimes from the maritime lawyer who solved his multimillionaire mother’s disappearance at sea and his even wealthier grandfather’s shooting death in bed.

The only man he trusted was a killer too. The inspiration for the hit Oxygen True Crime original documentary series Death Row Confidential, produced by Dick Wolf, Vanity Fair Studios, and Universal Television. Also available on Peacock. On death row at San Quentin, artist and inmate William...

A mother is supposed to be loving, protective, caring, and kind. She's supposed to nurture and guide her children from infancy into childhood and adolescence. The very thought of murdering a child—much less their own child—is not only bizarre but perhaps the most disturbing thought a parent could have! Exploring the ultimate betrayal of a mother's duty, Killer Moms: True Stories recounts thirty-one harrowing tales of motherhood gone wrong.

Petie Miller vanishes without a trace two days before his wedding in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley in 1983. Some speculate it's a case of cold feet, but investigators suspect cold-blooded murder. The bride's stepfather, a violent career criminal named Charlie Almond, is the prime suspect...

Atop the Ozark Mountains and in the buckle of the Bible Belt, the murder of an eccentric lawyer reveals a tragic family drama and an examination of a community that would rather see some crimes left unsolved. Rolland Comstock lived in what was described as "a Grimm Fairy tale." With his pet...

A meticulously researched page-turner about one of the Philadelphia suburbs' most shocking twentieth-century crimes. A gunman broke into Jack and Peggy Abt's house moments after the last family member left for the day. He took a seat in the living room and waited for eleven hours. People expect...

Some cases refuse to die. Six of the darkest unsolved murder cases in American history share one thing in common: the highway gave killers everything they needed. Anonymity. Easy victims. An escape route that swallowed them whole. Forensic evidence collected. DNA tested. Leads pursued for decades. Still — nothing. Inside, you'll follow investigators through cases that went cold — and stayed that way: The Santa Rosa Hitchhiker Murders. Seven teenage girls vanished along Highway 101 in the early 1970s. One has never been identified. Nobody was ever charged. The Colonial Parkway Killings.

On October 7, 1964, Debra Miller's life turns upside down when her mother is arrested for the murder of her father. At only 14 years old, Debra becomes a ward of the court, grappling with the unfathomable trauma of watching her mother's trial and conviction—a devastation that is only amplified when her family's tragedy is splashed across headlines and featured in Joan Didion's Slouching Towards Bethlehem. Desperate to escape the notoriety of her family and ill equipped to face the world, Debra spends her young adulthood sinking into mental illness, toxic relationships, and substance abuse.

What is it like to discover that the charming honor student next door is actually a cold-blooded killer? How does a privileged Dutch teenager transform into one of the world's most notorious predators?

El gran maestro del true crime, nos presenta veintiuna historias reales narradas con el sello inconfundible de Carles Porta.