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Murder is the most vile crime known to man. It can be triggered by love or money or sex. Those are the three big ticket items for homicide. But people are strange. They will kill for the most obscure and ridiculous of reasons. In 30 years covering murder, I have discovered each one has its own flavour. Cops and friends can be stunned by the evil lurking within a seemingly ordinary man or woman. In this collection of some of the most memorable cases I've reported on, there are serial killers, rich kid monsters, football stars and wives in pursuit of hormone-charged hijinks....

Il 15 luglio 1997 Gianni Versace si è svegliato presto, come sempre quando è a Miami. È una bella giornata e lo stilista va a fare colazione al News Cafè, a pochi passi da Casa Casuarina. Ha acquistato la solita mazzetta di quotidiani, ha fatto una breve passeggiata lungo Ocean Drive e ora sta rientrando tranquillamente a casa. Per Versace è un momento magico: ha da poco superato una brutta malattia, per lui la vita è tornata a splendere. È pieno di idee e nel "buen retiro" di Miami la rockstar della moda sta pianificando le sue prossime collezioni.

Grace Metalious, born and raised in Manchester, New Hampshire, came from humble beginnings. A former mill worker, mother of three, and school principal’s wife, she would shock the nation in 1956 with the publication of Peyton Place, her first novel about a murder in a small town. Quickly becoming the best-selling book of its time, the sexually charged book spawned sequels, two Hollywood movies, and a long-running television series on ABC starring Mia Farrow and Ryan O’Neal.

Ben Field was good looking and charming, and as a passionate English literature student, knew the power of words to seduce. In the village of Maids Moreton in Buckinghamshire, 69-year-old Peter Farquhar, an eminent teacher and author, found Ben’s presence irresistible. They set up home together, underwent a ‘betrothal’ ceremony at a church, but all along Ben was gaslighting his partner and secretly poisoning him. A year later Peter was dead.

A shockingly intimate look at the world of honor killings, as seen through the eyes of both the perpetrator and the victim.

Era il 1991, una ragazzina persa nel bosco della vita abbandona la sua famiglia. Cerca la sua strada. Non sa ancora che un anno dopo, questa l'avrebbe condotta in Italia dove incontrerà il suo lupo cattivo. Sola, spaventata e soprattutto soggiogata, chiede soccorso ad un amico lontano: "Aiutami!! Ci sono ragazze prigioniere, ragazze scomparse e poliziotti coinvolti!". Fu così che la polizia italiana iniziò a indagare i lupi cattivi, seguendo la falsa pista su un presunto traffico di esseri umani.

Almost since the beginning of time, man has committed crimes that have defied our ability to explain. Among these are the most heinous crimes of all, murders. The taking of an innocent life goes against our most basic principles. Yet, murders continue to occur, and sometimes, they go unsolved. Following are some of the most famous and infamous cases that are still waiting. They are murders, unsolved, in audiobook form.

They were the DeMeo gang - the most deadly hit men in organized crime. Their Mafia higher-ups came to know, use, and ultimately fear them as the Murder Machine. They killed for profit and for pleasure, following cold-blooded plans and wild whims, from the mean streets of New York to the Florida Gold Coast, and from coast to coast. Now complete with personal revelations of one of the key players, this is the savage story that leaves no corpse unturned in its terrifying telling.

L'hanno soprannominato il "cannibale di Milwaukee", ma questo termine può descrivere soltanto parzialmente le azioni di Jeffrey Dahmer. Dopo il suo arresto, in quella che è stata subito ribattezzata "la casa dell'orrore", vennero infatti ritrovati quattro busti umani, due teste all’interno del freezer, altre due nel frigorifero, sette teschi e una decina di peni all’interno di una pentola, più una botte piena di ossa e carne umana in dissolvimento. Tra il 1978 e il 1991 Jeffrey Dahmer ha violentato, ucciso, smembrato e in parte mangiato 17 persone.

Inside the minds of the world's most depraved serial killers. Sunday Times best-selling author Christopher Berry-Dee is the man who talks to serial killers. A world-renowned investigative criminologist, he has gained the trust of murderers across the world, entered their high security prisons and discussed in detail their shocking crimes. The killers' pursuit of horror and violence is described through the unique audiotape and videotape interviews which Berry-Dee conducted, deep inside the bowels of some of the world's toughest prisons.

Between 1993 and 1998, eight women went missing from an area around Dublin that became known as the ‘Vanishing Triangle’. Was there a link? Speculation abounded. There were whispers of a serial killer, responsible for some, if not all, of these cases. But nobody was ever brought to justice. Twenty years later, the brutal murder of Jastine Valdez disturbs crime novelist Claire McGowan into action.

Ventiquattro omicidi. Centodue feriti. La cruda contabilità della Uno bianca è quella di una strage. Novantuno rapine. Spesso per pochi spiccioli, per massacrare benzinai, zingari, extracomunitari, carabinieri, impiegati, semplici testimoni. Un eccidio pianificato. Una violenza bestiale per un rebus che pare senza soluzione. Un enigma complicato perché, questa volta, gli assassini vestono la divisa. Roberto Savi - ex attivista del Fronte della Gioventù, un uomo aggressivo, taciturno, schivo, che frequenta solo i fratelli e passa gran parte del suo tempo a giocare con i videogiochi.

Così è stato ucciso Giulio Regeni: Regeni, il vertice flop riaccende lo scontro. "Dal Cairo solo bugie", di Giuliano Foschini; Conte avvisa Al Sisi: "Risposte su Regeni, il tempo è scaduto". Il gelo di Di Maio, di Tommaso Ciriaco, Giuliano Foschini; Regeni, su Conte il pressing di Fico e le critiche di Renzi, di Giuliano Foschini; Caso Regeni. La scappatoia bizantina dei due procedimenti. Via di fuga per i governi, di Carlo Bonini; La via sbagliata del silenzio, di Carlo Bonini; Regeni, l'orrore della stanza 13. "Ucciso da quattro 007 egiziani", di Giuliano Foschini.

Framgångsrika svindlare har alltid väckt vår motvilliga beundran. Vi fascineras av personer som inte plockar sina offer med skjutvapen, utan med fräck elegans. I boken får du lyssna på underhållande historier om världens största bedragare, som till exempel Victor Lustig - mannen som sålde Eiffeltornet två gånger. Och dessutom på historier om kvinnliga svindlare, svenska svindlerier, nätsvindlerier, kriminalitet i krinoliner och mycket mer.

Alla fine degli anni Sessanta, nel triangolo fra Padova, Treviso e Venezia abitano alcuni degli uomini più feroci del terrorismo italiano. Hanno un disegno: spargere terrore per instaurare un regime militare autoritario, proprio come era accaduto in Grecia con il golpe dei colonnelli. Alle 16.37 del 12 dicembre 1969, a Milano, sotto il grande tavolo al centro della sala aperta al pubblico della Banca nazionale dell'Agricoltura esplode una bomba. Diciassette persone muoiono. Centinaia rimangono ferite. Da allora sono passati anni di inchieste e decine di sentenze.

In June 2004, 16-year-old Liam Kelly was lured to a location in Liverpool in the early hours of one morning and shot dead. The following year, another Liverpudlian, 22-year-old mother of three Lucy Hargreaves, was shot dead in her own home. Her partner and their two-year-old daughter escaped after the house was set alight by leaping from a first-floor bedroom window.

The depraved crimes of both real and imagined serial killers and mass murderers have long transfixed us in newspapers and books, but perhaps nowhere more so than on the big screen. Best-selling author Christopher Berry-Dee talks to the serial killers whose wicked stories have most thrilled and fascinated us at the movies, and, through far-ranging and disturbing interviews, he tells the stories of the mass murderers who provided the inspiration for some of cinema’s most shocking films.

In 1908, Hazel Drew was found floating in a pond in Sand Lake, New York, beaten to death. The unsolved murder inspired rumors, speculation, ghost stories, and, almost a century later, the phenomenon of Twin Peaks. Who killed Hazel Drew? Like Laura Palmer, she was a paradox of personalities - a young, beautiful puzzle with secrets. Perhaps the even trickier question is, Who was Hazel Drew? The investigation that followed her brutal murder was fraught with red herrings, wild-goose chases, and unreliable witnesses.

Dennis Nilsen was jailed for life in 1983 after the murders of 12 men and the attempted murders of many more. Seven years after his conviction, Nilsen began to write his autobiography, and over a period of 18 years, he typed 6,000 pages of introspection, reflection, comment, and explanation. History of a Drowning Boy - taken exclusively from these astonishing writings - uncovers, for the first time, the motives behind the murders, and delivers a clear understanding of how such horrific events could have happened, tracing the origins back to early childhood.

Why do serial killers kill? Out of the Mouths of Serial Killers is as close as you will ever come to discovering the answer...and in the killer’s own words!