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La sanguinosa epopea del Mostro di Firenze accompagna l'Italia dal 1968 per quasi vent'anni. È una storia dai tratti misteriosi e raccapriccianti, che mette a nudo le contraddizioni e gli orrori di un Paese che cambia volto. Nelle campagne toscane un serial killer assale e distrugge la vita di diverse coppiette, scatenando interrogativi e terrore.

Sono più interessanti le storie belle o le storie tristi, quelle nere o quelle rosa? Le storie sono storie, e raccontano la vita.

Un luogo, un momento, un delitto. Un ritorno sulla scena dei grandi crimini attraverso il racconto coinvolgente e diretto dei cronisti che per primi hanno seguito il caso. Storie di persone, di moventi, di vittime e carnefici, ma soprattutto di emozioni e sentimenti, narrati dal punto di vista inedito di chi, con taccuino e registratore alla mano, ha vissuto in prima persona le indagini su queste terribili vicende. Gli occhi dei giornalisti sulla scena del delitto, le testimonianze raccolte, la tensione e le emozioni di quei momenti, fino allo svelamento della verità.

Un audiolibro che prova a fare il punto su uno dei misteri più cupi della storia italiana. Un'indagine sul campo fatta tra le pieghe di una regione, il Veneto, in cui certi fenomeni eversivi sembrano non essere ancora del tutto sopiti e che, dopo la tremenda scia di sangue lasciata da Ludwig, ha rimosso la memoria di quel terrore assurdo e inspiegabile. Una rimozione pericolosa, come purtroppo hanno dimostrato ampiamente i fatti di cronaca degli ultimi anni.

In 1974, Dennis Lynn Rader stalked and murdered a family of four in Wichita, Kansas. Since adolescence, he had read about serial killers and imagined becoming one. Soon after killing the family, he murdered a young woman and then another, until he had 10 victims. He named himself “B.T.K.” (bind, torture, kill) and wrote notes that terrorized the city. He remained on the loose for 30 years.

For nearly two decades a mysterious serial bomber terrorized America, building and delivering increasingly deadly bombs disguised as packages to scientists, professors and seemingly random people across the country.

Journalist Dennis McAuliffe Jr. grew up believing that his Osage Indian grandmother, Sybil Bolton, had died an early death in 1925 from kidney disease. It was only by chance that he learned the real cause was a gunshot wound and that her murder may well have been engineered by his own grandfather. As McAuliffe peeled away layers of suppressed history, he learned that Sybil was a victim of the "Osage Reign of Terror"....

In this gripping – and sometimes terrifying – account, former South African Police Service (SAPS) head profiler Dr Gérard Labuschagne, successor to the legendary Micki Pistorius, recalls some of the 110 murder series and countless other bizarre crimes he analysed during his career. An expert on serial murder and rape cases, Labuschagne saw it all in his 14 and a half years in the SAPS.

In fall 1967, friends Linda Tomaszewski and Christine Rothschild are freshmen at the University of Wisconsin. The students in the hippie college town of Madison are letting down their hair - and their guards. But amid the peace rallies lurks a killer. When Christine's body is found, her murder sends shockwaves across college campuses, and the Age of Aquarius gives way to a decade of terror. Linda knows the killer, but when police ignore her pleas, he slips away. For the next forty years, Linda embarks on a cross-country quest to find him.

Questa è la storia inedita della figlia di un padrino e della sua ribellione soffocata. Lo hanno svelato i pentiti: Lia Pipitone sarebbe stata uccisa per ordine del padre, uno dei capimafia più fedeli a Riina e Provenzano. La colpa: avrebbe intrattenuto una relazione extraconiugale. Ma dopo un processo il padre è stato scagionato e il giallo è rimasto irrisolto. Adesso l'indagine di un figlio e di un giornalista riapre il caso della giovane assassinata a Palermo il 23 settembre 1983 durante una finta rapina.

Robert Wone and Joseph Price were unlikely friends.

In January 1923, 20-year-old Fritzie Mann left home for a remote cottage by the sea to meet a man whose identity she had revealed to no one. The next morning, the barely clad body of the beautiful and bewitching dancer washed up on lonely Torrey Pines beach, her party dress and possessions strewn about on the sand.

Renee Fehr knew that Gregory Houser killed her sister Sheryl. There was not a single doubt in her mind. Yet for 27 years, Houser walked free. But Renee wouldn’t rest until he was convicted for murder. The Wheels of Justice is equal parts the story of a monstrous killer, a harrowing look at domestic violence, and an inspirational story of a family that wouldn’t quit until justice prevailed.

What would you do if you found out you were living in a real-life murder mystery? Apartment 515 is a true-crime podcast about Rod Covlin, a part-time professional backgammon player in wealthy Westchester, NY, who stood trial for the murder of his millionaire ex-wife.

In the winter of 1913, high in the Canadian Arctic, two Catholic priests set out on a dangerous mission to do what no white men had ever attempted: Reach a group of utterly isolated Eskimos and convert them. Farther and farther north the priests trudged, through a frigid and bleak country known as the Barren Lands, until they reached the place where the Coppermine River dumps into the Arctic Ocean.

A Correggio, fra il 1939 e il 1940, Leonarda Cianciulli uccise tre donne, impadronendosi dei loro beni e distruggendone i corpi. Nel 1946 il processo alla "saponificatrice" ebbe una risonanza enorme in un'Italia che, ormai uscita dal fascismo, riscopriva il fascino un po' morboso dei grandi fattacci di nera. A fare di quest'assassina seriale un archetipo della criminalità femminile non è solo la particolare efferatezza dei tre delitti, ma l'immagine complessiva che la giustizia, la psichiatria, i giornali e l'opinione pubblica restituirono della vicenda.

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.