Resultados para "Sand" en Crímenes reales

Una sera di gennaio del 1993 in una remota provincia italiana, due giovani carabinieri, fermano un'auto. Una settimana dopo, il 15 gennaio 1993, Totò Riina viene arrestato, dopo 24 anni di latitanza. La cattura è il racconto di quella settimana decisiva. Quei pochi giorni fanno da cornice al racconto della sanguinaria stagione della mafia corleonese, di chi quella stagione l'ha vissuta e del gruppo di uomini che ha catturato Riina. Una settimana che diventa il racconto di un’epoca.

Rob Sand, the youngest attorney in his office, was assigned a new case by his boss, who was days away from retirement. Inside the thin accordion binder that Sand received was meager evidence that had been gathered over the course of two years by Iowa authorities regarding a suspicious lottery ticket. No one expected the case to go anywhere. No dead body, no shots fired, and no money paid out. Why should they care?

Close to midnight on May 17, 1951, four north Alabama lawmen drove to a bootlegger's home to serve an arrest warrant. Before the clock struck twelve, the bootlegger lay dead in front of the house he shared with his wife and eight children, and three of the four officers were also dead. Afterward, a sixteen-year-old boy would face a series of trials that would divide a county and thrust the state of Alabama into the national spotlight.

This riveting sequel to My Bloody Life traces Reymundo Sanchez's struggle to create a "normal" life outside the Latin Kings, one of the nation's most notorious street gangs, and to move beyond his past. Sanchez illustrates how the Latin King motto "once a king, always a king" rings true and details the difficulty and danger of leaving that life behind. Filled with heart-pounding scenes of his backslide into drugs, sex, and violence, Once a King, Always a King recounts how Sanchez wound up in prison and provides an engrossing firsthand account of the Latin Kings.

Looking for an escape from childhood abuse, Reymundo Sanchez turned away from school and baseball to drugs, alcohol, and then sex and was left to fend for himself before age 14. The Latin Kings, one of the largest and most notorious street gangs in America, became his refuge and his world, but its violence cost him friends, freedom, self-respect, and nearly his life. This is a raw and powerful odyssey through the ranks of the new Mafia.

On a warm night in September 1985, teenagers Kimberly Dowell and Ethan Dixon were brutally murdered in Westside Park in Muncie, Indiana. Their killer has never been charged. Early on, police focused on a family member of one of the teens as a primary suspect. The investigation even ruled out fantastic scenarios, including a theory that the perpetrator was a Dungeons & Dragons devotee. The case grew cold. 

Wolfgang "Wolli" Köhler (1932–2017), gelernter Autoschlosser, jobbte als Kohlenhauer, im Zirkus und auf dem Rummelplatz. Mit dem Hamburger Dom kam er 1959 nach St. Pauli, wo er vom Portier und Rotlichtkellner zum Puffboss aufstieg und zu einer Kiezgröße wurde. Der Schriftsteller Hubert Fichte hat Wolfgang Köhler in den späten 60er und Mitte der 70er Jahre dreimal interviewt und ihn als "Wolli Indienfahrer" zu einer literarischen Figur gemacht. Diese endet 1982 mit der Auswanderung Wollis und seiner Frau Linda nach Costa Rica.

Mit Anfang 20 ist Marcel Eris an seinem absoluten Tiefpunkt. Er ist drogenabhängig, hat keine Arbeit und wird obdachlos. Um an Geld für Gras...