Títulos en Crímenes reales

As the Nazi war machine caused death and destruction throughout Europe, one man in the Fatherland began his own reign of terror. This is the true story of the pursuit and capture of a serial killer in the heart of the Third Reich. For all appearances, Paul Ogorzow was a model German. An employed family man, party member, and sergeant in the infamous Brownshirts, he had worked his way up in the Berlin railroad from a manual laborer laying track to assistant signalman. But he also had a secret need to harass and frighten women.

Op 19 december 2024 eindigde het proces van Mazan, waarin 51 mannen werden beschuldigd van verkrachting van dezelfde vrouw, Gisèle Pelicot. Caroline Darian, de dochter van het slachtoffer en de veroordeelde, biedt haar unieke perspectief op deze tragedie, onthult wat in het onderzoek is weggelaten en zet haar onvermoeibare strijd tegen chemische onderwerping en voor het onthullen van de waarheid voort. Zodat we ons blijven herinneren wat er in Mazan is gebeurd. Zodat we de slachtoffers niet vergeten, die zelf beroofd werden van hun herinneringen. Zodat de schaamte definitief van kant wisselt.

Mary Bell’s name to this day is infamous in Newcastle upon Tyne. Aged only 11 in 1968, she murdered two young boys, one aged three and one aged four, in Scotswood, an area of the West End of Newcastle upon Tyne. In both instances, Mary Bell told the victim that he had a sore throat, which she would massage to make them better before her hands became tighter when she would strangle them to death.

In 2012, Steve Green, billionaire and president of Hobby Lobby, announced a purchase of a Biblical artefact—a fragment of papyrus carrying lines from Paul's letter to the Romans, and dated to the second century CE. Noted scholar Roberta Mazza was stunned. When was this piece discovered, and how could Green acquire such a rare item? The answers, which Mazza spent the next ten years uncovering, came as a shock: the fragment had come from a famous collection held at Oxford University, and its rightful owners had no idea it had been sold.

El secuestro, en el año 2002, y el consecuente asesinato de los diputados del Valle del Cauca, cinco años después, por parte de la guerrilla de las Farc, constituyen un punto de referencia importante para quien desea entender la violencia política en Colombia, porque engloba tanto a los...

For over four decades the story of the extraordinary evil that occurred at the Kincora Boys’ Home in East Belfast in the 1970s and the shocking attempts by MI5 to cover it up have haunted our political and social terrain for decades.

Nelson Serrano Sáenz es el prisionero más longevo del corredor de la muerte en los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica. Fue acusado de un crimen cuádruple que se produjo en diciembre de 1997 en la ciudad de Bartow, Florida. En 2002, lo secuestraron en su país, Ecuador, lo encerraron durante la noche en una jaula para perros y lo trasladaron sin documentos en un vuelo comercial a Miami. Fue juzgado y sentenciado sin pruebas a cuatro penas de muerte.

NOW THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE NUREMBERG STARRING RUSSELL CROWE AND RAMI MALEK In 1945, an improbable relationship between the fallen Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goering, and ambitious US Army physician, Douglas Kelley, becomes a hazardous quest into the nature of evil “The book is a page turner...

You probably heard the stories of Pablo Escobar, the Medellín Cartel, and Narcos. But do you know the story of the equally essential founder of the cartel and the guy who appears in FORBES 1988 World's Billionaires List as a Druglord?—Meet José Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha

Read the history behind the series THE HUNTERS (starring Al Pacino) in this “captivating book rooted in first-rate research” (New York Times Book Review) that tells the true story of how America became home to thousands of Nazi war criminals. For the first time, once-secret government...

Esta colección definitiva de casos de crímenes reales contiene relatos perturbadores. A menudo contadas desde la perspectiva del asesino, las fascinantes narraciones d e Green introducen al lector en el horror real experimentado por las víctimas con todos los elementos de u n thriller clásico.

Blood was found at his home in Franklin County, PA. All evidence pointed to one suspect: Scott North, a former employee of Carl’s, a regular attendee of Franklin County courts, and the son of a Chambersburg, PA cop. After burglarizing a tavern, a judge granted him work release, and then another dismissed a recent gun charge. Days later, he ran from his unsupervised worksite and began a crime spree that may have ended with the murder of Carl Wade Ryder.

Widely held as one of the worst serial killers America has ever seen, John Wayne Gacy led a seemingly normal life - but behind his apparently friendly persona and his charity work as a clown to entertain sick kids, he held a dark secret. Now, this harrowing book reveals the disturbing true story behind Gacy’s killing spree, revealing in stark detail the horrific acts that made him one of America’s worst serial killers.

A #1 bestseller from coast to coast, Den of Thieves tells the full story of the insider-trading scandal that nearly destroyed Wall Street, the men who pulled it off, and the chase that finally brought them to justice. Pulitzer Prize–winner James B. Stewart shows for the first time how four of...

In this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, a convicted killer becomes the first prisoner to be executed in the United States. The Executioner's Song follows the true story of cold-blooded murderer Gary Gilmore, who, after being tried and convicted, insisted on being executed for his crimes. To do...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death. A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his...

An unflinching memoir that reframes a national tragedy and demands we reckon with the cost of ignoring intimate partner violence. On April 18, 2020, Lisa Banfield's life shattered. After nineteen years in a controlling and often abusive relationship, she escaped a violent assault by her partner, Gabriel Wortman–unaware he was about to carry out the deadliest mass shooting in Canadian history.

September 1990. In Shaker Heights, Ohio, teenage honors student Lisa Lee Pruett vanishes into the night. A boy calls 911 when she does not arrive for a secret late-night meet-up. Police soon find her nearby, stabbed to death and left exposed. Lisa had just passed an important test and earned her driver’s license. She was a Girl Scout, athlete, musician, and lover of poetry. Then her life was cut short.

The Clown: Part One is a raw and unfiltered memoir of growing up on the edge of St Helier. Told with honesty and grit, it follows a childhood shaped by hardship, loyalty, fear, and survival, where the line between right and wrong is often blurred long before it is understood. Set against the backdrop of working-class London, this story explores family, friendship, violence, humour, and the moments that define a man before he ever realises it. The Clown is not a tale of glamour, but of consequence — and how the choices made in youth echo through a lifetime.

One wrongful conviction. One stolen life. One community rising to confront the lies that put an innocent man behind bars. Free Tony Hunter is the true story of a Black man in Louisiana who has always maintained his innocence—and of the setup, the lies, and the prosecutorial misconduct that took his freedom long before the verdict was read. This book is not just about what happened after Tony went to prison. It takes you back to who Tony was before the conviction: his life, his relationships, his faith, and the moments that led up to the day everything changed.