Resultados para "The Kill" en Mujeres

One of seven children of a high-ranking government official, Loung Ung lived a privileged life in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh until the age of five. Then, in April 1975, Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge army stormed into the city, forcing Ung's family to flee and, eventually, to disperse. Loung was trained as a child soldier in a work camp for orphans, her siblings were sent to labor camps, and those who survived the horrors would not be reunited until the Khmer Rouge was destroyed.

Irma Grese, dopo un'infanzia difficile e il suicidio della madre, a 15 anni scappa di casa, attratta dalle idee nazionalsocialiste e si arruola nella Lega delle ragazze tedesche iniziando presto la sua carriera come comandante del campo di Ravensbrück. È considerata la più bella e giovane direttrice del campo e ne diviene anche la più crudele, iniziando a curare i simboli del suo potere: la divisa, gli stivali, la frusta.

Rina Fort ebbe una vita travagliata, costellata da lutti e tragedie. Nel 1945 conobbe Giuseppe Ricciardi, un siciliano proprietario di un negozio di tessuti in via Tenca, divenendone prima compagna di lavoro come commessa, poi amante, senza tuttavia essere a conoscenza - così dichiarò - del fatto che fosse già sposato con tre figli a Catania. Con l'arrivo della moglie e dei figli di Ricciardi, la loro relazione era ormai compromessa. Il 29 novembre 1946 Rina Fort si vendicò sulla moglie del suo amante e sui suoi tre bambini, uccidendoli.

Aileen Wuornos, detta Lee, è una ragazza di Troy, Michigan, che sin dall'infanzia subisce abusi d'ogni tipo. Aileen inizia a girare per l'America facendo l'autostop e prostituendosi. Tra drink, guai con la giustizia e uomini sbagliati, arriva in Florida e scopre l'amore dopo aver incontrato la giovane Tyria: ma alla fine degli anni Ottanta la Wuornos uccide sette uomini, tutti suoi clienti. All'accusa dirà che si è trattato di autodifesa, ma questo non la risparmia dalla condanna a morte, che viene eseguita tramite iniezione letale nel 2002.

Enriqueta Martì è ricordata come la killer più prolifica ed efferata della storia spagnola. È stata sicuramente rapitrice e prosseneta di bambini. Le si associano inoltre, senza prove certe, fino a sedici omicidi di bambini ignoti.

Few people know the answers better than Emma Hayes. As the coach of Chelsea FC Women, she has led the club to 14 major trophies. She is a widely celebrated figure in sports media as a woman starting to get equal recognition in this space, and has been named TV pundit of the year by both Broadcast Magazine and the Sports Journalists Association. In this book, Emma shares her experience of managing a high-performance football team to draw out life lessons and techniques that listeners can apply to their own professional and personal circumstances.

"Lady Killer": il fascino perturbante della furia omicida. Da sempre, parlando di serial killer, le cronache e la narrazione si sono concentrate su figure maschili, la cui vita si alternava tra la dimensione pubblica e quella misteriosa del crimine. La storia offre tuttavia altrettante vicende di donne che si sono rese colpevoli di omicidi seriali, in alcuni casi capaci di competere con i più oscuri assassini uomini, in altri rivelando una "via femminile" all'omicidio.

The Three Graces of Val-Kill changes the way we think about Eleanor Roosevelt. Emily Wilson examines what she calls the most formative period in Roosevelt's life, from 1922 to 1936, when she cultivated an intimate friendship with Marion Dickerman and Nancy Cook, who helped her build a cottage on the Val-Kill Creek in Hyde Park on the Roosevelt family land. In the early years, the three women - the "three graces", as Franklin Delano Roosevelt called them - were nearly inseparable.

La vendetta è un danno materiale o morale, di varia gravità fino allo spargimento di sangue, che viene inflitto privatamente ad altri in soddisfazione di offesa ricevuta, di danno patito o per sfogare vecchi rancori. (Enciclopedia Treccani) La vendetta è una forma primordiale di giustizia, un'azione necessaria per ristabilire l'equilibrio perduto.

This book is for listeners of true crime podcasts and audiences of both fiction and true-crime nonfiction. It's the true story of first-generation Irish-American nurse Jane Toppan, born as Honora Kelley. Jane Toppan was absolutely a monster, but she did not start out that way. When Jane was a young child, her father abandoned her and her sister to the Boston Female Asylum. From there, Jane was indentured to a wealthy family who changed her name, never adopted her, and wrote her out of the will.

When detectives respond to a crime scene in Orlando, Florida, during the "summer of hurricanes" in 2004, they find Charlie Brandt hanging from the rafters in the garage of his niece Michelle Jones' home. Inside the house, they find a scene of horror that reminds them of other murders.

Imagine sitting with an esteemed writer on his or her front porch somewhere in the world and swapping life stories. Dr. Wayne Flynt got the opportunity to do just this with Nelle Harper Lee. In a friendship that blossomed over a dozen years starting when Lee relocated back to Alabama after having had a stroke, Flynt and his wife Dartie became regular visitors at the assisted living facility that was Lee's new home. And there the conversation began, with an invitation to "Come in, sit down, and stay a while."

Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All is the story of the cultural collision between Westerners and the Maoris of New Zealand, told partly as a history of the complex and bloody period of contact between Europeans and the Maoris in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and partly as the story of Christina Thompson's marriage to a Maori man.

Avec une plume aussi bien trempée que son caractère, Nathalie Petrowski a toujours été un esprit libre. Dans La critique n'a jamais tué personne, elle nous livre, sans faux-fuyants et sans règlements de compte, ses mémoires de journaliste. Ceux d'une femme qui, du p'tit Simard à Marie-Mai, de René Lévesque à Manon Massé, du sexisme ordinaire à #metoo et du Jerrold au iPad, jette un regard passionné et critique sur la culture, le journalisme et ses enjeux.

At the start of the 1840s, the Oregon Country had no political boundaries or effective government. The first to begin showing up in large numbers were missionaries...Narcissa Prentiss Whitman became the first white women to cross the Rocky Mountains...A teacher and missionary, she accomplished the journey with her like-minded husband, Dr. Marcus Whitman. Their history-making tenure in the northwestern wilderness caused them to become one of the most well-known couples of the 19th century, and their story was soon known to the entire nation.

Georgia Williams’ murder at the hands of college pal Jamie Reynolds was a crime that shocked the nation: chillingly executed and horrific in its sexual depravity. But when Georgia’s devastated mother, Lynnette, and father, Steve, questioned the events leading to their daughter’s death...

President Gerald Ford suffered two attempts on his life during his term in office: one by a young woman in Charles Manson's Family, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, and the other by a far more unlikely candidate—an average middle-aged mother of five—Sara Jane Moore. After thirty years in contact with Moore in prison, journalist Geri Spieler deconstructs her life in Housewife Assassin, tracing the path from Moore's small-town upbringing in West Virginia to that fateful moment when she tried to assassinate the president.

Sunday Times bestselling author Christopher Berry-Dee seeks to understand the motivation, the amoral urges and the merciless horror behind Dahmer's inhuman behaviour Sunday Times bestselling author Christopher Berry-Dee is the man who talks to serial killers. A world-renowned investigative...

U.S. Army Captain Kimberly N. Hampton was living her dream: flying armed helicopters in combat and commanding D Troop, 1st Squadron, 17th Cavalry, the armed reconnaissance aviation squadron of the 82nd Airborne Division. On January 2, 2004, Captain Hampton was flying an OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopter above Fallujah, Iraq, in support of a raid on an illicit weapons marketplace, searching for an illusive sniper on the rooftops of the city. A little past noon her helicopter was wracked by an explosion....

Marie-Madeleine d'Aubray nasce a Parigi, il 22 luglio 1630. Con lei inizia "L'era dell'arsenico" e lo scoppio del celeberrimo "Affare dei veleni", un processo che smascherò la critica situazione di immoralità nelle coorti francesi del periodo. Marie-Madeleine però, a discapito di quello che si possa pensare, non venne ricordata da lì a poco come la killer spietata che era.