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For his victims, for their families and for the investigators tasked with finding him, the senselessness and brutality of the Golden State Killer's acts were matched only by the powerlessness they felt at failing to uncover his identity. Then, on April 24, 2018, authorities arrested 72-year-old Joseph James DeAngelo at his home in Citrus Heights, Calif., based on DNA evidence linked to the crimes. Amazingly, it seemed, evil finally had a name. Please note: This work contains descriptions of violent crime and sexual assault and may not be suitable for all listeners.

In the Name of the Children gives an unflinching look at what it's like to fight a never-ending battle against an enemy far more insidious than terrorists: the predators, lurking amongst us, who seek to harm our children. During his 30-year career with the FBI, Jeff Rinek worked hundreds of investigations involving crimes against children: from stranger abduction to serial homicide to ritualized sexual abuse. Those who do this kind of work are required to plumb the depths of human depravity, to see things no one should ever have to see - and once seen can never forget.

Inside a circle of trusted friends...one was a killer. Jerry Harris was a self-made California millionaire who, at age forty-four, had it all: booming businesses, yachts, a mansion, a beautiful wife, and a voice to rival Elvis. No one who knew this well-liked, generous man could make sense of...

Trained by his uncle, an assassin, and initiated in murder at 17 years of age, Julio Santana proved to be a natural. Without moralizing about mass murder, The Name of Death attempts to show how such a career can be not so very different from other ordinary working lives. The portrait that emerges in this riveting narrative based on seven years of phone conversations. Describing in detail only a handful of the almost 500 murders Santana carried out, Cavalcanti reveals just how lawless much of the interior of Brazil has been for the past 50 years.

For fans of I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, Catherine Fogarty investigates a decades-old cold case and uncovers the true story of a Montreal teen murdered in Los Angeles in 1969 In 1969, the body of a young female murder victim was found discarded down a rocky outcropping off Mulholland Drive in Los...

In diesem True Crime-Hörbuch geht es um die schwerwiegendsten Fehlurteile der Justiz, denn sie betreffen Mordprozesse. Ob Ermittlungsskandale, unfähige Richter, zweifelhafte Freisprüche oder falsche Geständnisse, all diese Strafurteile werden "im Namen des Volkes" verhängt und machen uns mit zu Verantwortlichen. Dieses Hörbuch ist so spannend wie ein Krimi und lässt einen aufgrund der Tatsache, dass es eben keine Fiktion ist, nicht mehr los.

This book tells the story of five different homicide cases from Kansas City, Missouri, as told by the prosecutor who handled the cases himself, Phil LeVota. Five different stories are the five chapters that tell the different tale of true crime from the criminal's perspective, the police perspective, and the prosecution perspective. The Jackson County Prosecutor's office and the Kansas City Police department were involved in obtaining justice for the victims.

Unschuldig schuldig – wie dieser Widerspruch wahr werden kann, zeigt Kriminalreporterin Sabine Rückert in ihrem Werk "Unrecht im Namen des Volkes". Zuvor hatte die Autorin in ihrem aufsehenerregenden Titel "Tote haben keine Lobby" anhand konkreter Fälle erzählt, wie viele Morde ungesühnt bleiben. In ihrem neuen Hörbuch schildert sie nun anhand eines Missbrauchsvorwurfs, wie zwei unschuldige Menschen von der Justiz trotz eindeutiger Beweise fälschlicherweise zu vielen Jahren Haft verurteilt wurden.