True Crime Kidnapping

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.

What was Takako Konishi really doing in North Dakota, and why did she end up dead? Did she get lost and freeze to death, as the police concluded, while searching for the fictional treasure buried in a snowbank at the end of the Coen Brothers’ film Fargo? Or was it something else that brought her there? Unrequited love, ritual suicide, a meteor shower, a far-flung search for purpose? The seed of an obsession took root in struggling film student Jana Larson when she chanced upon a news bulletin about the case.

On December 30th, 1999, in rural Oklahoma, 16-year-old Ashley Freeman and her best friend, Lauria Bible, were having a sleepover. The next morning, the Freeman family trailer was in flames and both girls were missing. While rumours of drug debts, revenge killings and police corruption abounded in the years that followed, the case remained unsolved and the girls were never found. In 2016, crime writer Jax Miller travelled to Oklahoma to discover what really happened.

L'opera ripercorre i giorni del rapimento dell'Ing. Giuseppe Taliercio, Direttore del Petrolchimico di Porto Marghera, puntando però l'attenzione più sull'uomo e sul cristiano (Taliercio era molto credente ed attivo nell'ambito della propria parrocchia e delle istituzioni ecclesiastiche) che, alla fine, con il suo atteggiamento coerente fino all'ultimo con la sua fede, finisce per convertire i suoi carnefici che pure, come sappiamo, portarono tragicamente a compimento il loro folle piano insurrezionale.

Charles Lindberg gjorde sig som ung ett namn genom att vara en ovanligt modig flygare, som först lyckades med att flyga över Atlanten. Men hans namn är också förknippat med något mycket mörkare, mindre känt - ett av de mest uppmärksammade brotten i amerikansk historia. Den första mars 1932 försvinner Charles Lindbergs 20 månader gamla son, Charles Augustus Jr., från barnkammaren i familjens villa. Någon har ställt en stege mot husets yttervägg, och klättrat in genom fönstret till rummet där pojken sov.

"Ved ni-tiden om aftenen den 1. marts 1932 lænede nogen en hjemmelavet stige op ad ydervæggen på flyverikonet Charles Lindberghs nyligt opførte ejendom i udkanten af byen Hopewell i delstaten New Jersey. Inde bag vinduerne til barneværelset på første sal sov Lindbergh-parrets førstefødte søn på 20 måneder. Da barnepigen Betty Gow klokken 22.00 gik ind for at tage drengen med på et planlagt toiletbesøg, var han forsvundet." Sagen om kidnapningen af familien Lindberghs lille barn i 1932 er gået over i historien.

Ex-policeman Colin Butcher had just set up his own pet detective agency. It was running smoothly, but he realised he needed a partner. And that's when inspiration struck.... Enter Molly, an unloved and unwanted cocker spaniel rescued from a classifieds website. Clever and charismatic, she melts Colin's heart, and the two are soon inseparable.

Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is one of the most beloved and notorious novels of all time, selling over 60 million copies worldwide to date. Yet very few of its readers know that the subject of the novel was derived from a real-life case: the 1948 abduction of 11-year-old Sally Horner. Weaving together suspenseful crime narrative, cultural and social history, and literary investigation, The Real Lolita tells Sally Horner's full story for the very first time.

När Bosse Jansson inte kom till jobbet på måndagmorgonen blev alla kollegorna på det lokala postkontoret oroliga. Bosse var en ordentlig ung man som alltid ringde i förväg om han hade förhinder. En av kollegorna begav sig hem till Bosses lägenhet och knackade på dörren, men fick inget svar. Även nästa dag saknades Bosse på arbetsplatsen, och hans vänner började befara det värsta. Bosses chef gick till polisen för att anmäla försvinnandet, men ombads att avvakta. Några dagar senare börjar polisen undersöka Bosses försvinnande. Ingen nära släkt finns till den unge mannen.