True Mass

Det telefonsamtal som söndagen 21 februari 1999 klockan 16.15 nådde larmcentralen i Helsingfors inledde en för finska förhållanden unik brottsutredning. Personen som ringde in förklarade att han genast behövde ambulanser och polis till Skytteföreningen, då en kvinna hade anlänt till föreningen och öppnat eld mot ett flertal personer. När polisen anlände möttes de av en makaber syn. Tre unga män låg livlösa på golvet, och en hade livshotande skador.

At 2 a.m., the Pulse nightclub was winding down on its weekly Latino night. The building was dark, crowded, and loud. Patrons were making plans to leave when they were ambushed by a gunman, who began firing in every direction. Customers tried to escape, but the killer followed. For the next three hours, the gunman terrorized victims while playing a cat-and-mouse game with the police.

This audiobook will document the rise to power of the most notorious cult leader of all time. Jim Jones was directly responsible for the deaths of over 900 of his followers. Many of them children. The story of the Jonestown is one of betrayed hope. Jones offered poor and needed people a promised land and in return for giving him their resources and trust, he took their lives.

During the war period, an estimated 5,000 females served as guards in concentration camps. These Nazi wardresses would often times be more brutal than their male counterparts. The graphic violence that occurred under the watch of these women would go on to shock and terrify the public. Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS, the movie that essentially spawned the cult subgenre that is now known as Naziploitation, or Nazi Exploitation, was based on Ilse Koch, an overseer at several concentration camps run by her husband, Karl-Otto Koch.

Al Capone was an infamous mob boss between the two world wars in the city of New York and surrounding areas. His name and style have been emulated in movies. The mass shootings, tax evasion, and revenge on Italian murders in the mafia gangs on the United States' East Coast were so notorious that they have become iconic and stereotyped. How did Al Capone get the scars on his face? How did he manage to control so many of the gangs in the cities? How was he able to bribe the police, evade taxes, and become a terror for anyone who opposed him? And how did his life finally come to an end?

One of the big lords of the drug cartels in Colombia is Pablo Escobar, a criminal who became a leader and expanded his influence on organized crime throughout the North and South American continents. With billions in his bank account, in cash, and in other assents, it’s not easy to ignore his name and the power he gained.

Jack the Ripper was an unknown serial killer active in the mainly poor parts around the Whitechapel district of London in the year 1888. In both the criminal case files and modern journalistic books, the killer was referred to as the Whitechapel Killer and Leather Apron.

Il racconto dell'epopea criminale della "mala del Brenta", l'organizzazione malavitosa guidata da Felice Maniero, il boss con la faccia d'angelo ed il cuore da diavolo che per vent'anni insanguinò il Nord Est.

"Den polisanmälan som knackades ned tidigt denna junimorgon hölls i samma lakoniska stil som polisanmälningar brukar hållas, vare sig det gäller cykelstölder, krogslagsmål eller mord: 'Tid som i fält 31 ringde kassernvakten I 13 och meddelade att det förekom skottlossning i skogspartiet omkring restaurant kullen. Polispersonal sändes till platsen och påträffade minst 5 döda personer.' " Det hade varit övning för de tretton lottorna som befann sig i kasernen. De hade haft en underbar vecka, sommaren hade kommit, befälhavarna hade varit trevliga, och gruppen hade haft roligt.

"Hej mamma. Jag går och hälsar på Jesper i skolan, har gjort läxan och till och med bäddat sängen, kommer hem senare för att hämta träningskläderna. Ciao/Nico" Nicolas skulle aldrig komma hem igen. Han begav sig till Bromma gymnasium en kall januariförmiddag 2001, för att hjälpa sin bror som hamnat i trubbel med en langare. De två annars skötsamma bröderna hade fått tag på en påse blå valiumtabletter, som langaren ville ha tillbaka. Nicolas går med langaren till en av skolans toaletter, för att överlämna sin del.

"Zodiac Killer" is a deadly, incredibly elusive, and very much mysterious serial killer who had terrified many people with his strings of brutal, inhumane killings in San Francisco City and Bay Area. Who would think that a person is capable of butchering others, sending letters to the authorities, boasting of his killings and explicitly saying he had enjoyed killing people as much as killing games?