Serial Killers True Crime

This is the most detailed storytelling of the crimes of the one that came to be known as "The Monster of Florence": Brunoro and Pezzan write about everything, from Vincenzo Spalletti to the Sardinian Lead, from Pietro Pacciani to the picnicking friends, and finally from the esoteric theory to the Narducci story. A detailed map to find your way through a deep mystery.We are talking about an event that has tested all existing criminology theories on serial killers, to the point where we can state that there are traditional crimes, serial killers, and then there is "The Monster of Florence".

The year was 1965. The Beatles, Elvis Presley, and The Righteous Brothers filled the airwaves. Television shows like The Adventures of Ozzy and Harriett and The Andy Griffith Show mirrored the innocence of life in the dusty city of Tucson, AZ. But the sun-baked desert surrounding Tucson was hiding a sinister secret. A psychopath names Charles Schmid, later nicknamed the "Pied Piper of Tucson" by Life magazine, would steal that innocence away, along with the lives of three beautiful teenage girls.

The Truro Murders presents the shocking true story of Christopher Worrell and his accomplice, James Miller. The events in this audiobook unveil one of the worst serial killing sprees in Australian history. Over the course of two months 1976-1977, seven young women were brutally raped and murdered. Worrell and Miller met in prison and upon release developed a dominant and submissive relationship that centered around feeding Worrell's sadistic urges towards women.

In this Notorious USA collection, Death of a Cheerleader, New York Times best-selling author Gregg Olsen and true crime journalist Kevin M. Sullivan write about notorious crimes in the Bluegrass State. In a scene right out of Hitchcock's "Rear Window", a young woman vanishes from a beach on a summer day and a neighbor views the abduction through his telescope. A newlywed disposes of his bride but doesn't know what to do with her head. Selling tickets at a drive-in movie theater proves deadly.

On October 15 1977, Christine Eadie and Helen Scott left the World's End pub after a fun-filled night with two men in their arms. They had their whole lives ahead of them. They had nothing to fear and everything to look forward to. Their naked bodies were discovered the following day. They were found six miles apart from each other. No attempt had been made to conceal their bodies, and both girls had been beaten, gagged, tied, raped and strangled. The case attracted widespread media attention and despite the Police's best efforts, they were unable to identify a culprit.

The lives and adventures of some of history's most prominent Pirate Captains. This volume relates their plundering and murdering as well as the method and way they met their end.

Susan Atkins was one of the more notorious female members of the "Manson Family" headed by Charles Manson. She was part of a gang of serial killers that terrorized Southern California in the summer of 1969. Known as "Sexy Sadie" because of her occupation as a topless dancer, Susan was involved in eight of the nine Manson killings including the gruesome Tate/Labianca Murders. She would be sentenced to death which was later commuted to life in prison. Susan would be denied parole over eighteen times in becoming the longest-incarcerated female inmate in the history of California.

A father kills his three young children and his wife and impersonates a disgraced journalist. Oregon's most famous murderer explains how her jail breaks show she's ready for parole.

> Obeying Evil presents the shocking true story of Ronald Gene Simmons and the most disturbing family killing spree in the United States. Over the course of a week in 1987, he murdered 14 members of his own family, a former co-worker, and a stranger.

Zodiac, il misterioso serial killer dello zodiaco, nel corso degli anni è diventato il simbolo dell'anima nera degli Stati Uniti. A partire dall'estate del '68 questo assassino senza nome ha ucciso uomini e donne nell'area di San Francisco, rivendicando poi le sue azioni con una serie di lettere crittografate spedite alla stampa. Omicidio dopo omicidio, lettera dopo lettera, Zodiac ha sfidato la polizia e il mondo intero con i suoi misteriosi enigmi che ancora oggi restano indecifrabili e, soprattutto, lasciando dietro di sé una terribile scia di sangue e paura.

El hijo del secretario de Estado del Presidente Grant fue uno de los más famosos criminales de su tiempo, un sádico asesino de niños que además practicaba el canibalismo con los cuerpos de sus víctimas. Ya en la infancia empezó a descargar sus instintos sádicos sobre los niños negros, vapuleándolos sin piedad y llegando a castrarlos. De adulto, siendo un hombre casado y padre de seis hijos, se aprovechaba de su trabajo como pintor de brocha gorda para ganarse la confianza de los niños, a los que secuestraba, torturaba y asesinaba.

John George Haigh es un asesino y ladrón de apariencia impecable y gran frialdad de ánimo, que en el Londres de principios del siglo XX no va a poder evitar que su terrible maldad salga a la luz. Sin embargo frente a la sociedad es un hombre ejemplar: el director de una empresa de cosméticos con una exquisita educación, amable y cortés. Pero en la fábrica de Haigh se esconden muchos secretos... atrévete a encontrarlos....

Ma Barker är mer ökänd än gängmedlemmarna som faktiskt utförde morden och skapade kaos, men låg hon verkligen bakom allt? Ma Barker lämnade den undre världen och klev in i helvetet i äkta gangsterstil - i ett kulregn av rasande skottlossning. Men var hennes hemska legend mer av en myt än verklighet? Var en bredbent alligator verkligen katalysatorn för Mas undergång? Gjorde FBI 61-åringen ökänd helt enkelt som en del av en katastrofplan för att slippa potentiell dålig publicitet?

Seriemördaren som kallas BTK terroriserade Wichita i Kansas i 30 år. Han skrev till polis och media för att ge dem detaljer om brotten. Don Granger hade ansvaret för tipstelefonen för tidningarna Wichita Eagle och Beacon i oktober 1974. Staden Wichita var skadad efter att en hel familj mördats. En man på ett mentalsjukhus erkände brottet och menade att även hans bror och en annan man var involverad. Alla tre männen led dock av mental ohälsa, och polisen kunde snart visa att erkännandet var falskt.

Seriemördaren och våldtäksmannen Peter Tobin levde ett liv fyllt med begravda hemligheter. Han fick tre livstidsdomar efter att ha terroriserat Glasgow i 15 långa år. Vem var han egentligen? Och vad gjorde han sig skyldig till? Studenten Angelika Kluk var 26 år gammal när hon sommaren 2006 besökte Skottland för andra året i rad. Det hade varit en helt vanlig sommar för Angelika, tills hon försvann den 24 september. Senare samma vecka hittade polisen hennes döda kropp under en närliggande kyrkas golv.

Dolores Oliver, fondly nicknamed "Lert" by her friends as a term of endearment, was out an outgoing and friendly woman who was well liked by all who knew her. Yet, on September 7, 1974, while on a visit to a local bar to chat with friends, she simply vanished without a trace. Foul play was immediately suspected by her family, who knew in their hearts that they could think of absolutely no one who would want to do her any harm. Yet her lifeless body was found at the end of October in a bean field by a farmer in Illinois.

By using the legal term probable cause the author makes a case that his suspect and Jack the Ripper are the same person.

Charles Milles Manson was an American criminal and cult leader. In the late 1960s, he formed what became known as the Manson Family, a quasi-commune in California. Manson's followers committed a series of nine murders at four locations in July and August 1969. In 1971, he was convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder for the deaths of seven people, all of which members of the group carried out at his instruction. Manson was also convicted of first-degree murder for two other deaths.

A boy with a rifle walks into a middle school, intent on carrying out Western-style vigilante justice. A wife and mother of four kisses her twelve-year-old student and forever changes our definition of student-teacher conferences. The world's most famous serial killers put Washington on the map. A bathtub, a handgun, a meat grinder, and a burn barrel play a role in the murder of the captain of a freighter.

In August 1982, a 30-year-old woman, Jane Goodwin, was found murdered in her Newark, New Jersey apartment. Her killer had strangled Jane until she passed out. Then, reportedly, he ripped open her blouse, posed her with her breasts exposed, and repeatedly stabbed Jane in the chest. He left no fingerprints or DNA-just a shattered, grieving family. Over the next 19 years, three other women were attacked in a similar fashion. Police eventually caught their assailant, Edwin “Ned” Snelgrove, a promising college grad with an uncontrollable desire to hurt women.