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By day, Gary Heidnik was a man of God with money, charisma, and a growing congregation. But behind closed doors, he was building a torture chamber by hand and filling it with women.

The Professor, The Cop, And North Carolina’s Most Notorious Cold Case by Brian and Cameron Santana is a true crime investigation that unveils the shocking story behind the brutal 1973 murder on campus of 19-year-old Virginia Marie Olson.

“UNDERCOVER BEAUTY” is the fascinating true story of NYPD Detective Iris “Tina” Moreira, who came from a broken household and at the age of seventeen, left home and dropped out of high school. The former childhood and teenage model missed her Dad, who she had not seen since age seven, and disliked her mother’s new live-in boyfriend. Although she had wanted to be a police officer ever since she could remember, she was on a path of self-destruction. Having taken the NYPD test at age sixteen, she never heard back after being notified she had passed the written and physical exams. Two...

In The Dumond Affair: How Lies and Politics Freed a Killer, first-time author D.R. Bartlette weaves a story of the political corruption and religious zealotry that gave birth to an anti-Bill Clinton conspiracy theory that led to the deaths of two women and, thirty-six years later, the birth of an insurrection.

A Hollywood starlet on a smash-hit sitcom enjoys rising fame, unaware that her greatest fan is hell-bent on meeting his crush. A gameshow winner turns to writing books. When one is given a scathing review, he tracks down the reviewer with bloody results. Men keep turning up at a newlywed's home convinced that she has placed a Craigslist ad for a rough fantasy roleplay. Stalkers takes you into the twisted world of cyberstalking, catfishing, rejected suitors, jealous exes, and celebrity stalkers, and the devastating impact their obsessions can have on their victims.

In the annals of historical serial killers, Cary Stayner's story stands out, because for months he made one of the most beautiful places on earth a nightmare for women when California's majestic Yosemite National Park became his own devil's playground. The case of serial killer Cary Stayner and his psychopathic crime spree is chilling because as far as the outside world was concerned, he was a fairly normal guy who found himself uncontrollably compelled to kill.

18 Shocking True Crime Cases of Women Who Kill, including Darlene Gentry: A beautiful woman with a shopping obsession; a husband who could no longer foot the bill; a 22-caliber solution to the problem. Angelina Rodriguez: Frank Rodriguez is dead and, despite indications to the contrary, his wife insists its murder. Why would she do that when it makes her the main suspect? Mary Pearcey: The murders were so gruesome that some believed they were the work of Jack the Ripper. Could a woman really have done this? Valerie Parashumti & Jessica Stasinowsky: A young lesbian couple obsessed with ...

Apples, a common New England crop, have been called the United States' most endangered food. The iconic Texas Longhorn cattle is categorized at critical risk for extinction. Unique date palms, found nowhere else on the planet, grow in California’s Coachella Valley, but the family farms that caretake them are shutting down. Apples, cattle, dates―these are foods that carry significant cultural weight. But they’re disappearing. In Endangered Eating, culinary historian Sarah Lohman travels the country learning about the distinct ingredients at risk of being lost.

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.

We could swear some people are incapable of murdering another human being. Serial killer Ronald Dominique, also known as the Bayou Killer, was such a man. With an exterior that seems almost normal and some would say pitiful, this serial murderer was on a mission - not one anyone could have ever imagined.

Whether he is in search of a foolproof formula for sourdough bread or the most sublime French fries or the perfect piecrust, he will go to any length to find the answer. At the drop of an apron he hops a plane to Japan to taste Wagyu, the hand-massaged beef, or to Palermo to scale Mount Etna to uncover the origins of ice cream. The love of choucroute takes him to Alsace, the scent of truffles to the Piedmont, the sizzle of ribs on the grill to Memphis to judge a barbecue contest, and both the unassuming and the haute cuisines of Paris demand his frequent assessment.

For nearly a decade, Brett Velicovich was at the center of America's new warfare: using unmanned aerial vehicles - drones - to take down the world's deadliest terrorists across the globe. One of an elite handful in the entire military with the authority to select targets and issue death orders, he worked in concert with the full human and technological network of American intelligence - assets, analysts, spies, informants - and the military's elite operatives to stalk, capture, and eliminate high-value targets in al-Qaeda and ISIS.

Sophie Jenkins is living a happy life in the idyllic Dorset countryside when she meets Martin Brett, the man who will go on to abuse her and haunt her dreams for years to come. A momentary act of neglect leads to a horrible series of events that leaves her changed forever. Badly let down by the adults entrusted to care for her, Sophie’s life begins to spiral downward. However, Sophie’s message is ultimately one of hope and empowerment. She is in the process of rebuilding her life when fate leads her to encounter her childhood attacker once again.

Shocking cases of abusive medical research and the whistleblowers who spoke out against them, sometimes at the expense of their careers. The Occasional Human Sacrifice is an intellectual inquiry into the moral struggle that whistleblowers face and why it is not the kind of struggle that most people imagine.

Throughout history, the dark reality of murderers has often been painted with a malevolent brush. While tales of notorious male killers often dominate the headlines, the stories of lethal women who have taken lives with chilling indifference are no less disturbing. In this book, we delve into the lives of forty women whose capacity for violence defied gender expectations, revealing a disturbing truth: that evil is not defined by one's sex, but by the capacity to commit the most heinous acts. These women ranging from cold-blooded serial killers to one-off murderers share one unifying trait: ...

El escritor Simeon Tegel nos lleva al corazón de un denso bosque en el Chaco Argentino donde mueren asesinados Manuel Roseo, uno de los 10 mayores terratenientes de Argentina, y su cuñada. Su cuerpo mostraba marcas de una sádica tortura, que la policía sospechaba fue a manos de un sicópata “El hombre de las mil caras”. El apasionante relato de El Impenetrable revela paso a paso una trama mucho más compleja que combina poder político, corrupción administrativa y codicia sin límites.

Los asesinos en serie ocupan un lugar en el corazón de la cultura popular. Vistos con desprecio y asco, sus enfermizas acciones, sin embargo, dibujan un aura de curiosidad y fascinación culpable. Ahora, la colección definitiva de asesinos aeriales está aquí para desenterrar los secretos de estos asesinos y sus malvados crímenes.

Aunque es creencia general que las mujeres únicamente asesinan de sus esposos o amantes, aquí se podrá leer que eso no es cierto. Lo que sí parece real es que la mayoría usan el envenenamiento como arma letal. También es bastante habitual que maten por dinero; en casi la mayoría de las veces para cobrar el seguro. Y otro de las características es que usan más la inteligencia y el engaño que la fuerza. No se dan con frecuencia los casos que conocemos de los seriales masculinos: asesinar por el placer de hacerlo, sin ningún beneficio. Ni siquiera lo hacen por esa triste fama que ...