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Mit den hier versammelten Fallerzählungen führt Romy Hausmann den Beweis, dass kein Thrillerautor auch nur annähernd so bizarre Verbrechen schreiben kann wie das Leben. In einfühlsamen Gesprächen mit Angehörigen und Opfern, Tätern und Ermittlern, mit renommierten Richtern, Forensikern, Medizinern und Traumaexperten spürt sie den Fragen hinter dem Offensichtlichen nach. Die Ergebnisse dieser Gespräche verdichtet sie zu einer sehr persönlichen Tagebucherzählung über die Macht der Gefühle von Opfern und Hinterbliebenen.

A gripping true crime memoir that fuses firsthand testimony with investigative storytelling to uncover a deeply disturbing hidden world beneath what once appeared to be an ordinary relationship.

Andrés Mendoza Celis es un feminicida que actuó con total impunidad durante décadas en el municipio de Atizapán de Zaragoza, Estado de México. Su última víctima, Reyna González Amador, de 34 años, desapareció el 14 de mayo de 2021. Su esposo, Bruno Portillo, un policía de carrera y comandante de las fuerzas especiales de Tlalnepantla, en su búsqueda se encontró con una de las peores historias de crímenes de nuestro país: el mayor feminicida serial de México , y quizá del mundo, había sido descubierto.

The compelling, poignant true stories of victims of a notorious adoption scandal—some of whom learned the truth from Lisa Wingate’s bestselling novel Before We Were Yours and were reunited with birth family members as a result of its wide reach From the 1920s to 1950, Georgia Tann ran a...

There is a common misconception that if a body can’t be found, then no one can be brought to trial for murder. That isn’t true, as one Scottish man discovered. Twice!

The true story of the shocking, random abduction of a teenage girl by a stranger in a parking lot that gripped the nation. When 18-year-old Naomi Irion failed to return home from work, her family became alarmed. She was an inspired young woman who’d traveled the world and spoke four languages...

Between 1950 and 1970, the Vatican and the American Catholic Church sent nearly four thousand Italian children to the United States for adoption into “good” Catholic homes. With the religious stigma of unwed motherhood turning families against daughters and a Church and State wanting “illegitimate” children sent abroad, mothers were lied to, given forms to sign that they didn’t understand, or even told their baby had died, all to further supply this international adoption pipeline.

Eighteen missing people, multiple families grieving, and one person looking for answers in this forensic and moving re-examination of some of Australia's most heartbreaking missing persons cases Every 14 minutes in Australia, someone vanishes. Of the 38,000 missing persons reported each year...

Retired DeSoto Parish Sheriff's Detective Lt. Robbo Davidson is awakened night after night by ghosts of his investigations' past.

December 28, 1992, two days before her tenth birthday, Katie Beers disappeared. She had left for an outing with a close family friend, John Esposito, and her whereabouts remained mysterious as the year drew to a close and her family grew frantic, fearing the worst. On January 13th, Katie was found alive in a secret, dungeon-like vault beneath Espositos Bay Shore, Long Island house.

Tödliche Mutterliebe - Die letzten Szenen einer Ehe - Tod im Vorüberfahren: Spannende Kriminalfälle wie diese beschreibt Sabine Rückert im Hörbuch zum beliebten Podcast Zeit Verbrechen. Dabei erweckt sie sachliche Gerichtsurteile zum Leben, stellt Fragen an unsere Gesellschaft, nimmt das Justizsystem genau unter die Lupe und beschäftigt sich intensiv mit Kriminalpsychologie. Vor allem aber sieht sie immer die Menschen hinter einem Fall - ob Täter oder Opfer. Lehrreich und aufrüttelnd!

Will Sandeson seemed like a model son. A member of the Dalhousie University track and field team, he was about to start classes at Dalhousie’s medical school. He worked at a group home for adults with disabilities. He came from a good family. “There’s times for whatever reason that things don’t go quite as planned,” a Halifax police officer told Sandeson shortly after he was arrested for the first-degree murder of Taylor Samson, who also, on the surface, seemed like a model son.

This program is read by the author. An Unexplained Death is an obsessive investigation into a mysterious death at the Belvedere—a once-grand hotel—and a poignant, gripping meditation on suicide and voyeurism. “The poster is new. I notice it right away, taped to a utility pole. Beneath the...

Ten killers. Ten trails gone cold. And no final arrest. Some serial killers become infamous because they are captured. Others disappear. They leave behind victims, frightened communities, boxes of aging evidence, conflicting witness accounts, unidentified fingerprints, forgotten suspects—and one question investigators cannot answer: Who did it? Never Caught investigates ten disturbing serial murder cases in which the person responsible was never conclusively brought to justice.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Some shadows don’t hide you… they hunt you. Archer and Christy wanted nothing more than a quiet escape. One wrong stop changes everything. At a remote truck station, they uncover something no one was meant to find—two missing girls locked inside a...

In late March of 2014, death descended upon the community of Oso, Washington in the form of a massive landslide. Ten million cubic yards of dirt and mud crashed through homes, sweeping a 20-foot-high wall of debris before it and scouring the valley floor. In the cold rain of that morning, an...

A chilling true crime audiobook about truck stops, serial killers, missing women, interstate predators, and murder across America’s highways. In The Highway Killers, Colter Ashborne investigates ten disturbing cases where the open road became a hunting ground—and where some victims were found, some vanished, and some mysteries still refuse to die.

A captivating real-life mystery about two missing hikers that sparks a jarring examination of the contemporary outdoor community, the relationship between news media and police, and distortion of public perception On Christmas morning, 2024, Dean Pommerville and Eric Straughter were reported...

Thirty-two case files. Decades of murder. Predators who thought the truth would stay buried. Across American highways, suburban streets, forgotten properties, quiet neighborhoods, and crime scenes left cold for years, killers moved through ordinary life while families waited in agony for answers. American True Crime Files investigates thirty-two disturbing cases involving serial killers, calculated murderers, unidentified predators, missing women, buried evidence, wrongful convictions, forensic breakthroughs, and investigations that refused to die.

He promised salvation. What he built was a prison. Gary Heidnik looked like a man of authority. He presented himself as a preacher, a leader, and a figure of purpose. Behind the walls of his Philadelphia home, he was creating something far darker. Women disappeared into his world. Inside that house, Gary Heidnik turned fear into routine, isolation into control, and obedience into a weapon. What appeared ordinary from the outside concealed a nightmare that would become one of Philadelphia’s most disturbing criminal cases.