True Criminal

Tauchen Sie ein in die finstere Welt der Wahren Verbrechen mit 13 echten, schockierenden Kriminalfällen und wahren Begebenheiten aus den 1970er Jahren. Dieses Buch ist eine faszinierende Sammlung der schrecklichsten und spannendsten Kriminalfälle und perfekt für alle, die True Crime Bücher lieben.

In the long-awaited return to his bestselling true crime series on life behind bars, James Phelps has finally turned his attention to HM Prison Pentridge—the bluestone behemoth that was home to Victoria's worst criminals for more than a century. Beginning with a gang of guards and a handful of convicts, for more than 145 years Pentridge housed a who's who of Australian criminals and Melbourne's underworld including Ned Kelly and Mark 'Chopper' Read. This is gritty true crime storytelling, on steroids—about what life was really like behind the bluestone walls of Pentridge.

Canadian women judges and criminal lawyers tell of cases that they have found particularly challenging in this fourth book of the Durvile True Cases series. Some were disquieting and perplexing or had surprising turns, many are high-profile, and many continue to have interesting social or personal effect.

Rulloff was a brilliant yet utterly amoral murderer—some have called him a 'Victorian-era Hannibal Lecter'—whose crimes spanned decades, but by 1871 he was captured, chained in a cell—a psychopath holding court while curious 19th-century 'mindhunters' got to work. From alienists (early psychiatrists who tried to analyse the source of his madness) to neurologists (who wanted to dissect his brain) to phrenologists (who analysed the bumps on his head to determine his character), each one thought he held the key to understanding the essential question: is evil born or made?

¿Sientes fascinación por el mundo oculto del crimen organizado? ¿Quieres descubrir qué familia sirvió de inspiración para la aclamada serie de televisión Los Soprano? Si quieres descubrir los secretos de una de las organizaciones criminales más notorias de la historia de los Estados Unidos, entonces debes leer este libro.

La familia Gambino es un ejemplo paradigmático de las familias del crimen organizado, sus luchas internas y diversos estilos de liderazgo han definido la era de la mafia. Desde principios del siglo XX, la familia ha pasado por una serie de nombres y líderes, pero siempre se mantuvo en la cima del régimen mafioso de Nueva York y ha conservado sus vínculos sicilianos.

The instant bestselling story of Lee Mackenzie, who was a capable and confident young woman, studying broadcast journalism and honing her skills of observation and objectivity. She was also a little unworldly, the product of a small, rural Western Canadian community where doors were never locked and life was simple and direct. On a backpacking trip in the UK, she met the man who would become her husband. A man who everyone agreed was one of the most intelligent, charming people they had ever met.

With the help of a newspaper reporter, a legend was created of Jesse James as a hero and defender of the South. That legend gave Jesse James 20 years to rob and kill at will, as it was usually disguised in the press as heroism. No lawman was ever able to bring Jesse James down; ultimately, he died at the hands of one of his own men. This book tells the story of his life from beginning to end.

In the early hours of March 2015, the police receive a call from a nurse at a provincial Danish hospital. She suspects her colleague is deliberately killing patients and fears that it has just happened again. Soon, several witnesses reveal that they too suspect the same nurse of poisoning patients; some have been harbouring their suspicion for years... so why has no one done anything about it before? And now that those patients’ bodies have long been cremated, where is the evidence? To this day, the nurse, Christina Aistrup Hansen, maintains her innocence.

In diesem True Crime Buch tauchen wir ein in 13 der brutalsten Kriminalfälle der 2000er Jahre – wahre Verbrechen, die Schlagzeilen machten und bis heute nachhallen. Von Serienmördern, die unauffällig mitten unter uns lebten, bis zu rätselhaften Fällen, die selbst erfahrene Ermittler an ihre Grenzen brachten – dieses explizite True Crime Buch liefert detaillierte Einblicke in die Ermittlungen, die Täterprofile und die schockierenden Taten. Jeder Fall basiert auf akribischer Recherche und Gerichtsakten, dramatisch erzählt für ein intensives Leseerlebnis.

Murderer, philanthropist, drug dealer, politician, devil, saint: many words have been used to describe Pablo Escobar, but one is irrefutable - legend. For the poor of Colombia, he was their Robin Hood, a man whose greatness lay not in his crimes, but in his charity; for the Colombian rich, he was just a bloodthirsty gangster, a Bogie Man used to scare children in their beds; for the rest of the world flush with his imported cocaine, he was public enemy number one.

Atop the hierarchy of Australian bushrangers sits Ned Kelly–the ultimate outlaw–and just below him, the tragic figure of Ben Hall, who joined a gang led by a man whose name today is less well known, but in his time was much more famous than any other: Frank Gardiner. Mastermind of the largest gold robbery in Australia’s history, Gardiner led an extraordinary life, the full telling of which is long overdue. In a tough country and among a group of tough men, Gardiner was the toughest of them all.

Wie viele Mörder sind noch unter uns? Wer hat die junge Frau vor 20 Jahren bestialisch ermordet? Ein Fremder, ein verschmähter Liebhaber, oder war es gar ein Familiendrama? War es die Russenmafia, die den Häftling in seiner Zelle gefoltert und schwer verletzt hat, oder ging es um Streitigkeiten im Drogenmilieu? Es gibt eine erschreckend hohe Dunkelziffer an ungeklärten Todesfällen. Er geht ihnen auf den Grund: Axel Petermann war Mordkommissar und Leiter der "Operativen Fallanalyse" in Bremen. Mit den Methoden des Profiling kommt er den Mördern auf die Spur.

Wie wird ein Mensch zum Serienmörder? Und kann man diese Entwicklung stoppen? Die Psychologin Florence McLean berichtet von dem jahrelangen Briefwechsel, den sie mit einer Reihe berüchtigter Serienmörder geführt hat – unter anderem mit Jeffery Dahmer, der die Köpfe seiner Opfer als Souvenir in der Kühltruhe aufbewahrte, und dem "Prostituiertenmörder" Arthur John Shawcross. Mit Hilfe von Methoden des berühmten F.B.I.-Profilers John E. Douglas analysiert McLean Denken, Fühlen und Handeln der 34 Täter, die zusammen Hunderte Menschenleben auf dem Gewissen haben.

What happens when a black detective goes undercover in the KKK? An extraordinary true story. In 1978, Ron Stallworth is the first black detective in the history of the Colorado Springs Police Department. In the local paper, he finds a classified ad for the Ku Klux Klan - and a PO box for interested enquiries. All he's expecting are some racist brochures and a few scraps of information about the white nationalist terrorists in his community. What he gets is a phone call inviting him to join the KKK. So he does.

Finding True Freedom Behind Bars John Lawson's fighting skills and fearless reputation made him a man to be respected in the nightclubs of Manchester, Liverpool and Edinburgh. Leading a team of ex-soldiers and riding with a biker gang, he graduated to working for the Maltese Mafia running the sex industry in London's Soho. Returning to Scotland he trained as a bodyguard working for the rich and famous and soon became embroiled in a world of kidnap, violence and extortion as an enforcer for gangsters. Even the law couldn't tame him as his pride and arrogance extended to the courtroom where ...

Part murder mystery, part courtroom drama, and part landmark legal case, The Third Degree is the true story of a young man’s abuse by the Washington police and an arduous seven-year journey through the legal system that drew in Warren G. Harding, William Howard Taft, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John W. Davis, and J. Edgar Hoover. The ordeal culminated in a sweeping Supreme Court ruling penned by Justice Louis Brandeis that set the stage for the Miranda warning many years later.

In diesem True Crime-Buch erwarten Sie detaillierte Berichte über berüchtigte Serienmörder, brutale Überfälle und unvorstellbare Taten, die die Öffentlichkeit erschütterten und die Ermittler seinerzeit an ihre Grenzen brachten. Erleben Sie die unermüdliche Arbeit der Polizei, die Hintergründe und Motive der Täter und die unerträgliche Angst der Opfer.

Start Publishing Notes' Summary, Analysis, and Review of Nick Bilton's American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road includes a summary of the book, review, analysis and key takeaways, and detailed "about the author" section. Please note: This is an analysis and key takeaways of the book and not the original book.

Oridinary Criminals is a collection of stories by probation officer Doug Heckbert about real people who have been convicted of real crimes and who have been on probation, on parole, or in prison. The story "Go Ahead and Shoot Me," for example, is about a woman who shot her husband upon his insistence and who, like many other subjects in the book, have come to see their offences as being pretty stupid. These stories show the human side of criminals not just the crimes they committed.