Novedades

Caroline Fraser grew up in the shadow of Ted Bundy, the most notorious serial murderer of women in American history, surrounded by his hunting grounds and mountain body dumps, in the brooding landscape of the Pacific Northwest. But in the 1970s and ’80s, Bundy was just one perpetrator amid an uncanny explosion of serial rape and murder across the region. Why so many? Why so weirdly and nightmarishly gruesome? Why the senseless rise and then sudden fall of an epidemic of serial killing?

That Day in Dallas: Lee Harvey Oswald Did Not Kill JFK is best described as a prosecution by Robert K. Tanenbaum of those corrupt, unscrupulous government and unelected agency officials, who from inception with predetermined outcomes, deceitfully engaged in insecure, phony pretense probes regarding the assassination in Dealey Plaza. Those responsible are prosecuted while those who speak truth to power are exonerated.

In 1819, a young man outwitted death at the hands of John and Lavinia Fisher and sparked the hunt for Charleston's most notorious serial killers. Former homicide investigator Bruce Orr follows the story of the Fishers, from the initial police raid on their Six Mile Inn with its reportedly grisly cellar to the murderous couple's incarceration and execution at the squalid Old City Jail. Yet there still may be more sinister deeds left unpunished, an overzealous sheriff, corrupt officials, and documents only recently discovered all suggest that there is more to the tale.

Bei diesem mysteriösen Mordfall aus dem Jahr 1859 wurde eine Leiche in einem verschlossenen Koffer in einem Lager in einem Güterbahnhof im polnischen Rzeszow entdeckt, nachdem dieser einen bestialischen Gestank verströmte. Der Koffer war in Wien auf die Reise geschickt worden. Die Ermittlungen überführen schließlich den Täter, einen Buchhalter, der den Mord an seinem Arbeitgeber begangen hatte.

Dieser ‚Koffermord' an einem Pariser Gerichtsvollzieher konnte mithilfe intensiver Zeugenbefragungen aufgeklärt werden. Er ging aber auch wegen der Leistungen der beteiligten Gerichtsmediziner und Detektive in die Geschichte der Kriminalistik ein.

In 1982, Tony West and Avery Brock made a visit to notorious Corpsewood Manor under the pretense of a celebration. They brutally murdered their hosts. Dr. Charles Scudder and companion Joey Odom built the "castle in the woods" in the Trion forest after Scudder left his position as professor at Loyola. He brought with him twelve thousand doses of LSD. Rumors of drug use and Satanism swirled around the two men. Scudder even claimed to have summoned a demon to protect the estate. The murders set the stage for a trial vibrant with local lore.

The spring of 1903 proved disastrous for the Murphy family. On April 22, the infant Ruth Murphy died in her crib. Within an hour, her mother, Gertrude, experienced a violent spasm before she, too, died. Ten days later, John Murphy followed his wife and child to the grave after suffering from a crippling convulsion. While neighbors whispered about a curse and physicians feared a contagious disease, Kalkaska County sheriff John W. Creighton and prosecuting attorney Ernest C. Smith searched for answers. As they probed deeper into the suspicious deaths, they uncovered a wicked web of intrigue.

Zwischen Herbst 1940 und Sommer 1941 verübte der Bahnbeamte und SA-Mann Paul Ogorzow unter Ausnutzung seiner Position als Eisenbahner in Berlin eine Serie brutaler Überfälle auf alleinreisende Frauen, wobei er mehrere von ihnen mit einem stumpfen Gegenstand erschlug und aus.

Im September 1905 wird die Leiche einer Frau im Merstham-Tunnel gefunden. Indizien deuten auf einen tödlichen Übergriff während einer Zugfahrt hin. Trotz zahlreicher Hinweise blieb der Fall ungelöst, bis Jahre später der Bruder des Opfers unter falscher Identität seine beiden Lebensgefährtinnen, drei Kinder und sich selbst ermordet.

Der Täter, ein gebildeter und musikalisch begabter junger Mann aus gutem Hause, handelte ohne offensichtliches Motiv und passte nicht ins Täterklischee. Das machte diesen Fall kurz nach der Jahrhundertwende zu einer medialen Sensation.

È il 29 maggio 1985: Mario ha otto anni e ha giocato tutto il pomeriggio nel campetto vicino casa, con le prime scarpe coi tacchetti di ferro. Sono usate e più piccole di un numero, ma lo hanno fatto sentire grande e importante, pronto per guardare in tv la sua Juventus contendere al Liverpool la Coppa dei Campioni nella finale al vecchio stadio Heysel di Bruxelles. Mario, ancora sporco di terra, sente le strade di Martina Franca svuotarsi e l'emozione crescere. Non può sapere che all'Heysel si è appena consumata una delle più gravi tragedie della storia del calcio.