True Mass

As 6 o'clock hits, the employees of the town's Be-Lo grocery store are going through their closing tasks. A cleaning crew loads their equipment in as they prepare to wax the store's floor. What they don't know is that someone else is in the store with them. With the sun falling below the horizon, a call is placed to 911. The caller, fighting to get each word out, has been shot. Police descend on the store to find a grisly scene: three people are dead, two more are seriously injured.

On September 15, 1963, the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL, was bombed, killing four young girls. Who were the perpetrators? Due to reluctant witnesses and racial prejudice, the FBI closed the case without any indictments. But as Martin Luther King, Jr., claimed, "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." Bending Toward Justice is a detailed account of this key moment in our national struggle for equality and the long road to prosecuting those responsible for the tragedy, related by an author who played a major role in the investigation.

Knutby den tionde januari 2004. I en svensk församling mördas den unga pastorsfrun Alexandra Fossmo och grannen Daniel Linde skjuts, men överlever. Händelserna i Knutby och den tillsynes välfungerade församlingen kantades av sex, otrohet och manipulation som tillslut kulminerade i ett mord och ett mordförsök. Vad hände egentligen i Knutby? Innan och efter den omtalade natten? Och vilka var människorna som kom att bli en del av Knutbydramat?

Innocent Blood is the true story of Charles Hatcher and his life of crime - a powerful and blood-chilling glimpse into the darkness between sanity and madness. It also chronicles a justice system gone wrong. Throughout his criminal career, Hatcher was able to fool dozens of psychiatrists, who repeatedly failed to identify him as a multiple murderer. Hatcher's astonishing skill was not just in his ability to murder and escape imprisonment. He became an expert at manipulating the criminal justice system.

Mass Murder in the Sky: The Bombing of Flight 629 is a 7,063 word historical true crime piece about mass killer, Jack Gilbert Graham. It tells the shocking story of hatred, revenge, mass murder, terrorism, and a bizarre dynamite bomb Christmas gift that brought a plane down in the Colorado sky more than half a century ago, killing all forty-four passengers and crew, and the intense investigation that resulted in bringing the killer to justice and paying the ultimate price for his brutal crimes.

Quanti conoscono la parola "Porrajmos"? Porrajmos nella lingua della maggior parte dei rom e dei sinti significa "divoramento" e indica lo sterminio che il Terzo Reich attuò nei loro confronti. Una persecuzione su base razziale che portò alla morte di oltre 500.000 persone. Nell'audiolibro "Porrajmos" abbiamo raccolto l'intensa testimonianza di Otto Rosenberg, un sinto tedesco nato a Berlino nel 1927. Già nel 1936, alla vigilia dei giochi olimpici di Berlino, Otto Rosenberg fu deportato nel lager di Marzhan.

Nothing casts a more sinister shadow over our nation's history than the gruesome lynchings that happened between 1882 and 1937, claiming 4,680 victims. Often, in a show of racist violence, the lynchers tortured their victims before murdering them. Most killers were never brought to justice; some were instead celebrated as heroes, their victims' bodies displayed or even cut up and distributed as trophies.

From Sandy Hook, Connecticut, to Aurora, Colorado, to Tucson, Arizona, this nation has been racked from coast to coast with mass shootings perpetrated by criminals with sick minds. Authors Dr. Liebert and Dr. Birnes believe the increase in violence is an epidemic and dig deep into the causes of mental illness to determine what exactly is going on with these individuals and society as a whole, and what action can be taken to slow this frightening trend toward mass violence.

I 2008 kørte den 25-årige Tomohiro Kato ind i en menneskemængde i et shoppingområde i Tokyo. Bagefter hoppede han ud af bilen med en kniv i hånden og gik amok på alle mennesker, han løb forbi, mens han skreg og råbte. I alt syv mennesker mistede livet ved den frygtelige massakre. MORD I DEN ELEKTRISKE BY er en del af true-crime serien MORD I JAPAN, hvor du får de sande historier om nogle af de mest opsigtvækkende mord i landet med den oprejsende sol. Du får et indblik i det mytiske land gennem nogle af de mest spektakulære drab.

d. 20 marts i 1995 fandt det værste terrorangreb siden 2. verdenskrig sted i Tokyos undergrundbane. Det viste sig senere, at det var sektens Aum Shinrikyo, der stod bag angrebet. Sekten var ledet af den blinde og selverklærede frelserskikelse Shoko Asahara. 12 mennesker mistede livet og sårede flere tusinde mennesker. Angrebet fik store konsekvenser for det ellers meget liberale og religionsfrie Japan. GASANGREBET I UNDERGRUNDBANEN er en del af true-crime serien MORD I JAPAN, hvor du får de sande historier om nogle af de mest opsigtvækkende mord i landet med den oprejsende sol.

I 1998 døde fire personer, inklusiv to børn, og 63 andre blev syge efter have spist af en karryret ved en sommerfestival i byen Wakayama. Sagen rystede Japan. Det viste sig senere, at det var en 47-årig kvinde, ved navn Msumi Hayashi, der boede i nabolaget, som havde puttet arsenik i karryretten, mens hun var alene i den garage, hvor retten blev lavet. Men hvad fik kvinden til at gøre det? MORD I KARRY er en del af true-crime serien MORD I JAPAN, hvor du får de sande historier om nogle af de mest opsigtvækkende mord i landet med den oprejsende sol.

2008 körde den 25-årige Tomohiro Kato in i en folkmassa i ett av Tokyos shoppingområden. Efteråt hoppade han ur bilen med en kniv i handen och rusade mot alla människor medan han skrek och skrek. Totalt miste sju personer livet i den fruktansvärda massakern. MORD I ELECTRIC TOWN är första delen i true crime-serien MORD I JAPAN, där du får de sanna berättelserna om några av de mest sensationella morden i den uppgående solens land.

Den 20 mars 1995 ägde den värsta terrorattacken sedan andra världskriget rum i Tokyos tunnelbana. Bakom attacken låg sekten Aum Shinrikyo, ledd av den blinda och självutnämnda frälsarfiguren Shoko Asahara. Tolv människor miste livet, flera tusen skadades. Attacken fick stora konsekvenser för det annars mycket liberala och religionsfria Japan. GASATTACKEN I TUNNELBANAN är sjunde delen i true crime-serien MORD I JAPAN, där du får de sanna berättelserna om några av de mest sensationella morden i den uppgående solens land.

1998 dog fyra personer, inklusive två barn och 63 andra blev sjuka efter att ha ätit en curryrätt på en sommarfestival i staden Wakayama. Fallet skakade Japan. Det visade sig senare att det var en 47-årig kvinna vid namn Msumi Hayashi, som bodde i grannskapet, som hade lagt arsenik i curryn medan hon var ensam i garaget där måltiden tilllagades. Vad fick henne att göra det? CURRYMORDEN är fjärde delen i true crime-serien MORD I JAPAN, där du får de sanna berättelserna om några av de mest sensationella morden i den uppgående solens land.

While Waco remains notorious more for the federal agents’ siege of David Koresh’s compound and the deaths of the Branch Davidians, it was followed a few years later by a mass suicide carried out by one of the most notorious doomsday cults in American history. On paper, the extraordinarily unorthodox ideology spouted by Heaven's Gate ranks near the top of the list of most outlandish end-of-the-world prophecies, and it was built on a blend of Christian, Gnostic, supernatural, New Age, and extraterrestrial lore.

Ted Bundy was one of the most infamous rapists and sexual predators, necrophiles, and murderers in the western part of the United States. Having been abused in his childhood and fed pornographic material from an early age, his crimes became more daring, violent, and vicious as he got a thrill from dismembering or sexually tormenting one victim after another.

At the time of her first journey from Southampton to New York City, RMS Titanic hit an iceberg and died in the North Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912. An overall of 2,224 guests and team were reported to have been on board when the ship sank, making it one of the absolute worst single ship catastrophes and the absolute worst peacetime superliner or cruise liner sinking to date. As a result of the general public's interest in the aftermath, the mishap has acted as a structure for the category of catastrophe movies.

The goal of some cult leaders was wealth and power, while others were after comfort or sex. The darkest and most notorious cults and their leaders sought to spread their evil messages through violence and mass murder, through war and genocidal acts. From the Thuggee cult that inspired the term "thug" to the brown shirts of Germany who would become the most destructive cult of all time, the Nazis.

Welkom in de sinistere wereld van seriemoordenaars, waar de dunne lijn tussen fictie en realiteit vervaagt. Deze verhalen gaan verder dan onze alledaagse angsten; ze graven diep in de donkerste uithoeken van de menselijke geest. Dit boek is een reis door de geheimzinnige gangen van de psychopathie, een poging om te begrijpen wat zich afspeelt in de hoofden van degenen die ervoor kiezen om onschuldigen te terroriseren.

Initially diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and after a separation of his parents, Edmund Kemper already showed his twisted mind at 15 years old, when he murdered both his grandparents, who were taking care of him. Whether through nature or nurture, this man didn’t show a promising future from the get-go. But perhaps nobody could have suspected the horrors he would inflict on his many victims later in his life.