Títulos en Asesinato

At a remote little inn not far from the Kansas homestead of Laura Ingalls Wilder lived the Bender family. These pioneers welcomed unwary visitors with jackrabbit stew and a sledgehammer to the skull. In time, their apple orchard gave up its secrets - a burial ground for their mutilated victims, each stripped of their possessions. The devilish enterprise on “Hell’s Half-Acre” would earn the Bloody Benders an undying place in the annals of American infamy. But it was the mysterious fate of eldest daughter, Kate, that would make them the stuff of mythic campfire prairie tales.

In the early morning hours of August 13, 2018, Shanann Watts was dropped off at her Frederick, Colorado, home by a colleague after returning from a business trip. It was the last time anyone would see her alive. By the next day, Shanann and her two young daughters, Bella and Celeste, had been reported missing, and her husband, Chris Watts, was appearing on the local news, pleading for his family's safe return. But Chris Watts already knew that he would never see his family again. Less than 24 hours after his desperate plea, Watts made a shocking confession to police.

Using newly declassified information, Dick Russell builds on three decades of painstaking research in On the Trail of the JFK Assassins, offering one of the most comprehensive and authoritative examinations of the assassination of our 35th president. Included are new revelations, such as the theory that Lee Harvey Oswald was subjected to “mind control,” Russell’s personal encounters inside the KGB headquarters, and new information gleaned from an interview with Oswald’s widow.

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.

Koh Tao, a small island in the Gulf of Thailand, surrounded by pristine beaches, swathed in sunshine, and a mecca for tourists, divers, and backpackers. But “Turtle Island” has its dark side. In 2014, Koh Tao was the site of the brutal double murders of two British backpackers, but theirs weren’t the only suspicious backpacker deaths.

¿Quién fue el sangriento asesino escocés que inspiró la historia de Dr. Jekyll y Mr. Hyde? ¿Cómo hizo un famoso anatomista británico para asesinar y además vender los cadáveres de sus víctimas? ¿Cómo se las ingenió Ann Cotton para matar a cuatro maridos, once hijos y dos amantes sin levantar sospechas? El primer juicio "del siglo" lo protagonizó una joven supermodelo. En Alemania levantaron la única estatua en el mundo para homenajear a un ladrón. En Francia un hombre vendió dos veces la torre Eiffel y se animó a estafar a Al Capone.

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. Films such as Silence of the Lambs, Psycho and Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer have not only reached huge...

Una joven y talentosa cantante de música tradicional mexicana es asesinada en un exclusivo restaurante de la Ciudad de México, frente a decenas de testigos. Yrma Lydya Gamboa, de 22 años, recibe tres disparos a manos de su esposo, un hombre de casi 79. Luego de jalar el gatillo, él da un trago a su whiskey y camina hacia la salida con total tranquilidad, como si nada hubiera ocurrido.

In this wild, genre-bending audio documentary, New York Times best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow dives deep into the strange and storied life of high-society socialite and former Miss Arizona Celia (Cece) Doane.

Dramatizada Claude Buffet, un criminal cínico y sin escrúpulos, haciéndose pasar por taxista desvalijaba a sus indefensos clientes. Por este método robó las joyas y el bolso a una señora de la alta sociedad parisina y terminó asesinándola, poniendo a la policía inmediatamente a trabajar, con lo que inevitablemente acabó en prisión. Harto de las duras condiciones de la vida en la cárcel, convence a otro recluso, Roger Bontemps, para intentar una fuga tomando como rehenes a los trabajadores de la enfermería, exigiendo que les liberen a cambio de la vida de éstos.

First dates are a total gamble, especially if your date is a total stranger.

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.

Un'infanzia negata nella più totale assenza d'amore, sfociata in un'adolescenza all'insegna della criminalità, fino alla reclusione nel carcere di massima sicurezza di San Quentin a soli diciannove anni, e in aggiunta a tutto questo l'imputazione infondata per concorso in omicidio di una guardia carceraria costatagli il trasferimento nel braccio della morte. In quel luogo di vite senza futuro, vecchiaia, rimorso e rimpianto, Jarvis si ritrova solo con se stesso, a dover fare i conti con il suo passato di sofferenza subìta e inferta.

In quiet suburbs and familiar neighborhoods, evil often wears the most ordinary face. This collection of twelve meticulously researched cases exposes the chilling reality that the most dangerous predators aren't strangers lurking in shadows—they're the people we trust, the neighbors we greet, and the faces we see every day.

Moments when loss, trauma, and shock alter the meaning of ordinary existence. There’s Still Hope is the true story of a woman whose life was shaped by extraordinary adversity, from severe visual impairment and childhood struggles to profound personal tragedy, abuse, grief, and unimaginable loss.

Best-selling author Bryan Burrough recently made a shocking discovery: The small town of Temple, Texas, where he had grown up, had harbored a dark secret. One of his high school classmates, Danny Corwin, was a vicious serial killer. In this chilling tale, Burrough raises important questions of whether serial killers can be recognized before they kill or rehabilitated after they do. It is also a story of Texas politics and power that led the good citizens of the town of Temple to enable a demon who was their worst nightmare.

Expansivo recuento de los diversos, creativos, frecuentemente extraños y sin embargo increíblemente inquietantes intentos de asesinar a Fidel Castro. Fabián Escalante, el fundador de los servicios de seguridad cubanos y jefe del Departamento de Seguridad del Estado Cubano provee un lúcido recuento en primera persona de sus experiencias defendiendo a Castro contra extraordinarios intentos de homicidio. 

Questa è una storia che si potrebbe raccontare in poche righe: in una notte di fine estate, intorno alle 3.20, in una cittadina di provincia del basso Lazio, un ragazzo italiano di origine capoverdiane, Willy Monteiro Duarte, viene ammazzato di botte da altri quattro suoi coetanei, che non conosceva e che non lo conoscevano. Un pestaggio senza ragione, forse una rissa finita male. I quattro responsabili vengono riconosciuti e arrestati prima che sia giorno.

For weeks, the body count of sexually violated, brutally murdered young women escalated. With increasing alarm, Los Angeles newspapers headlined the deeds of a serial killer they named the Hillside Strangler. The city was held hostage by fear. Darcy O'Brien weds the narrative skill of an award-winning novelist with the detailed observations of an experienced investigator to unravel this chilling true-crime story.