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Truman Capote’s masterpiece of true crime, intensely researched and vividly atmospheric—“as it if were happening before [the reader’s] very eyes” (Time) “Harrowing . . . The best documentary account of an American crime ever written. . . . The book chills the blood and exercises the...

It was a crime that shocked the nation: the brutal murder in Chicago in 1924 of a child by two wealthy college students who killed solely for the thrill of the experience. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb were intellectuals - too smart, they believed, for the police to catch them. When they were apprehended, state's attorney Robert Crowe was certain that no defense could save the ruthless killers from the gallows.

George Russell Jr. had a gift. He could walk into any room, any bar, any party, any crowd, and within minutes everyone knew his name. Women were drawn to him. Men wanted to be around him. He was handsome, magnetic, and unfailingly entertaining. He knew how to make people feel seen, special, and safe. He was also, beneath every carefully constructed smile, a predator. In the summer of 1990, three women were murdered in the affluent suburbs of Seattle. Their bodies were posed, arranged with grotesque deliberateness, as if the killer wanted to send a message.

In this documentary podcast, best-selling crime novelist Michael Connelly returns to his roots in journalism and examines the Wonderland Murders, an iconic and brutal mass murder in a city known for its murders.

A sexual sadist, his pleasure was torture and murder. His first victims were a teenage couple, stalked and shot dead on a lover’s lane. After another slaying, he sent his first mocking note to authorities, promising he would kill again. The official tally of his victims was six. He claimed...

Ben Field was good looking and charming, and as a passionate English literature student, knew the power of words to seduce. In the village of Maids Moreton in Buckinghamshire, 69-year-old Peter Farquhar, an eminent teacher and author, found Ben’s presence irresistible. They set up home together, underwent a ‘betrothal’ ceremony at a church, but all along Ben was gaslighting his partner and secretly poisoning him. A year later Peter was dead.

On March 16, 1992, Elizabeth DeCaro, a 28 year-old mother of four, was found dead in her own home, murdered execution-style with two bullets to the head. Her husband, Rick, was immediately a suspect, having previously struck her "accidentally" with the family van after taking out a $100,000 life insurance policy on her. A Killer Among Us presents the true shocking story of Elizabeth's family and their search for justice against the man who continued to play father to the children whose mother he had killed.

In August 2009, a 39-year-old policewoman went missing in Tamil Nadu. A month later, her heavily decomposed body was discovered in a drain by a graveyard. She had been brutally violated and killed. As the investigation started, the police detected a pattern in more than a dozen unsolved rape-and-murder cases with mutilated bodies of women turning up in graveyards, drains and empty fields along the highways. It didn’t take the police too long to find out that the perpetrator was a trucker named M Jaishankar.

A Financial Times Book Best Book of the Year 2020 A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year 2020 The gripping, untold story of how Saudi Arabia's secretive and mercurial new ruler rose to power. Even in his youth as a prince among thousands of princes, Mohammed bin Salman nurtured sweeping...

Samuel Little was serving life in prison for killing three women, when he began to confess to a string of murders. And once the admissions started, the list didn’t stop - his total murder count reached 93 victims across 19 US States. Most of them were vulnerable women - sex workers, drug addicts, or both.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. On a Sunday afternoon in March 1980, a twelve-year-old boy rides his bicycle to his father's house in Ventura, California. The front door is unlocked. From the bedroom comes the beeping of an alarm clock that nobody has switched off. Evidence from that...

On the afternoon of September 20th, 2012, eighteen-year-old Christian Aguilar got into his best friend's car in Gainesville, Florida. He never came home. What began as a routine meetup between two young men who had known each other since high school ended with Christian buried face down in a...

True Crime in a 2-1-collection A metalworker sealed 24 women inside barrels he soldered shut himself. A hospital electrician used his morgue keycard for 15 years while nobody read the access logs. A criminology PhD student researched how murderers get caught and became one. This audiobook...

A political thriller based on actual tape recordings, reproduced word by word. "As compelling as any Hollywood thriller..." - Daniel Rosenthal, former editor of the Variety International Film Guide. November 1985 - An EgyptAir airliner is forced to land in Malta, its passengers caught between...

Frauen als Täterinnen: Persönliche Schicksale, die unter die Haut gehen. Sie waren Kinder, Teenager, junge Frauen. Sie sind Töchter, Schwestern, Mütter. Dann wurden sie zu Verbrecherinnen. Verbrechen ist männlich: Fast zwanzigmal so viele Männer wie Frauen sitzen in Gefängnissen. Gerade einmal hundert Frauen verbüßen wegen Mord und Totschlag eine lebenslange Freiheitsstrafe. Wer sind diese Frauen? Was haben sie getan? Und was hat sie zu ihrer Tat verleitet?

A haunting, provocative investigation by an award-winning journalist asked to participate in the murder trial of her first boyfriend, who is accused of killing his wife and pleading not guilty by reason of insanity. Fifteen years after breaking up with Steve, her college boyfriend, April...

The searing inside story of the Commonwealth v. Karen Read trial from the perspective of the man who held the fate of the trial in his hands, perfect for true crime fanatics, armchair detectives, and TikTok investigators. On the morning of April 1, 2025, Charlie DeLoach didn’t know Karen Read...

Who lived to regret her "deathbed" confession? Was Amelia Dyer mad or wicked? Why did the judiciary look compassionately on women who committed infanticide? Among over 80 women whose stories appear in this book, some were tragic; some were evil; some were mad; and several were undoubtedly innocent of the murders for which they were hanged.

This book is a testament to how low human nature can get and offers a comprehensive breakdown of the cases’ key dates before looking into the gritty details. In the chapters, you will learn about the origin of the word “serial killer”, dispel common myths about murderers, and get one step closer to understanding why people kill.

In 1955, former nightclub manageress Ruth Ellis shot dead her lover, David Blakely. Following a trial that lasted less than two days, she was found guilty and sentenced to death. She became the last woman to be hanged in Britain, and her execution is the most notorious of hangman Albert Pierrepoint's 'duties'. Despite Ruth's infamy, the story of her life has never been fully told. Often wilfully misinterpreted, the reality behind the headlines was buried by an avalanche of hearsay.