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Diane sought out retribution in life. Abandoned, abused and neglected, she managed to find her place in the world. but no matter how hard she tried to belong, someone would always piss her off; her awakening into life would always require the taking of someone else's life, mostly men. Their death was the awakening of her carnal desires and the more she she satisfied those needs the more she wanted. Her murderous routine became an art form and the...
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Howard Watson is an FBI agent who deals with problems that hit America's shores: illicit diamonds, illegal logging, tobacco smuggling, human trafficking, and illegal drugs. These are problems that most Americans are not concerned with until or unless it influences their lives.
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His name is David Berkowitz. Once the notorious "Son of Sam." His former lifestyle consisted of being an arsonist, setting over 1,000 fires, a Satanist, and serial killer, who in the late 1970s brought a wave of terror to the streets of New York. After the biggest manhunt in New York's history, the headlines read, "caught," and David Berkowitz was, sentenced to 350 years behind bars. While in prison, David Berkowitz became a born-again Christian,...
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Her dance partner said the pill was called Rapture. And indeed, it catapulted her senses to a new level-initially. Before long, a strange sensation welled up inside her like a slow rush of water. As seconds ticked by, her pulse rate rapidly increased. Believing her heart would pound right out of her body, she grasped her chest. Her mouth suddenly felt as dry as sun-bleached bone. Bile crept up her throat. She gurgled. Eyes now dilated, her vision...
45) El Coleccionista
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Desde tiempos inmemoriales el arte reflejó el tamaño del pene como algo representativo de fecundación y no de belleza, por lo que generalmente se exageraba su tamaño a la hora de reproducirlo en piedras y otros materiales. Sin embargo, en el Renacimiento Miguel Ángel fue muy exquisito al dotar a su escultura más famosa de un miembro, no por descriptivo y pequeño, menos bello, como sucedía con las reproducciones fálicas de sus antecesores,...
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Colin Wilson, the co-author of the bestselling Encyclopedia of Murder, has written a definitive volume on the world's major cases of violent murder. In doing so, he traces the history of violence from its beginnings. From Sawney Bean and his cannibal family to Ed Gein, the Wisconsin Necrophile, Wilson illustrates the "changing fashions of murder" and indicates some hope for the future.
47) Die For Me
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In 1985, Charles Ng and Leonard Lake were spotted shoplifting. Ng escaped, but Lake's capture led police to a concrete bunker in the Sierra Nevada foothills, where they discovered the grisly evidence of an orgy of sex crimes, torture and murder that claimed at least sixteen victims. Lake committed suicide: Ng fled to Canada, where he was tracked down and extradited to California. This 14-year, $10 million legal case was the costliest and longest criminal...
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to spend time with a convicted serial killer? Or how you would feel when they told you what it was like to take a life? Don't Ever Call Me Helpless is a powerful, chilling true crime story that offers a rare glimpse into the mind of convicted murderer Catherine Birnie. In the late 1980s, Catherine and her defacto partner David Birnie went on a killing spree that shocked and numbed the Western Australian...
49) Tracks to Murder
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A witty and informative look at classic American murder cases. On a 6,000-mile train trip across the North American continent from New York City to the West Coast, then back to New York over a southern route, prize-winning English crime historian Jonathan Goodman visited a number of sites where notorious murders occurred-the Kingsbury Run torso murders in Cleveland; the murder by 'thrill-killers' Leopold and Loeb; the St. Valentine's Day Massacre,...
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"Behind the Mask: The Golden State Killer" delves into the relentless pursuit of one of America's most elusive and notorious serial killers. This gripping book explores the crimes, investigations, and the shocking revelation that led to the identification and capture of the Golden State Killer. Through meticulous research, firsthand accounts, and expert analysis, it unveils the chilling details and the face behind the mask of this decades-long enigma....
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In 1984, abusive father Joseph Fritzl drugged his 18-year-old daughter with ether and imprisoned her in a dungeon under his house - she wasn't to see daylight for 24 years. . Down-and-out millionaire Gary Heidnik wallpapered his hallway with $5 bills, anointed himself bishop of his own religion and began collecting 'wives', women he abducted from the street and kept chained up in a pit. Bondage freak Izabela Lewicka willingly signed a 115-item contract...
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This is Clive Small's personal account of how he led the investigation into the Belanglo State Forest murders and convicted the Backpacker Murderer, Ivan Milat. He brings to this story the unique perspective from his leadership role, and many fascinating and new revelations. He tells it like it happened, and so we follow the detectives' leads and suspicions, until they get their man. Subsequently there was an attempt to link Milat with a very large...
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TRACKRS: On the Cold Trail of a Serial Killer is the true account of the modern-day pursuit of a serial killer who terrorized Orange County, California in the late 1970s. The victims were young females living in apartments, alone when they were attacked. Their murders were gruesome and brutal. All had been sexually assaulted. Beginning in October of 1995, two Orange County deputy district attorneys, Michael Jacobs and Mel Jensen, focus their review...
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A seasonal gift for connoisseurs of true crime. Here are ten murder cases of "the old-fashioned sort"-evoking a nostalgia more obviously associated with fiction-that all took place during the festive period from mid-December to Twelfth Night between 1811 and 1933. The settings of these grisly tales range from the Knickerbocker Athletic Club in New York (where a gentleman named Molineux provided a drastic cure for hangovers by putting cyanide in a...
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IN THE HANDS OF EVIL is a true Australian crime story that the brother of a murder victim was compelled to write. The author is more, at home in his workshop restoring an old classic car than at the keyboard of a computer.
But fate, intervened and placed, him in a position, where he was the only person able, to put together the facts of the death of his sister and the death of two other people, at the hands of a serial killer. The author's aim is...
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Murders and murderers fascinate us – and perhaps serial killers fascinate us most of all. In the twentieth century the term came to be used to describe murders committed by the same person, often with similar methods. But, as Jonathan Oates demonstrates in this selection of cases from London, this category of crime has existed for centuries, though it may have become more common in modern times. Using police and pathologists' reports, Home Office...
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"Dahmer: The Dark Chronicles" takes readers on a chilling journey into the twisted mind of America's most infamous serial killer, Jeffrey Dahmer. Known as the Milwaukee Cannibal, Dahmer shocked the world with his heinous crimes and gruesome acts of violence. This meticulously researched and compellingly written book explores the depths of Dahmer's depravity, examining the factors that led to his murderous tendencies and the horrifying details of his...
58) Cold Cases
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There's nothing more chilling than an unsolved crime, particularly one involving direct harm to human life; be it murder or rape, these are the crimes whose effects extend furthest and cause most pain to humanity: how much worse when they go unsolved and, as such, unpunished? Such crimes, so-called 'cold cases', are all too common, especially...
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El crimen impregna la cultura popular y las artes, en algunos casos incluso como tema exclusivo, esta obra recoge por primera vez la incidencia de los criminales en la cultura contemporánea. El debate sobre si las manifestaciones artísticas, los videojuegos, los cómics o el cine provocan un aumento del crimen en las ciudades contemporáneas sigue abierto. Periódicamente se lanzan desde los medios de comunicación preguntas sobre si la cultura...
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Despite a decline in the number of murders in the United States since the 1960s, thousands go unsolved each year.
As of 2013, the solve rate was at an all-time low at only 65 percent of the total committed.
The 15 murders profiled in this book were committed between 1958 and 2014. The oldest of the set involves the bizarre murder of Pearl Eaton, one of the famous Ziegfeld Follies Girls of the 1920s. From the beginning, the crime had no leads or...
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