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Did the little girl at the centre of the most heavily reported missing-persons case in modern history ever go “missing” to begin with? If Madeleine was never abducted, if she died on May 3rd, why was it reported as an abduction? Despite the absence of a trial, what we have now is a fairly precise version of events from the McCanns themselves, a by-product of their relentless PR. We also know the original lead investigator Goncalo Amaral’s counter-narrative, which is now a legally defensible matter of public record. The questions that arise from these opposing narratives are dead ...

On April 26th, 2018, Patrick Frazee, a cattle rancher from Florissant near Cripple Creek in Colorado, confided in his elderly neighbor that he'd finally figured out a way to kill his fiancé. "No body, no crime, right?" Joe Moore, a fellow rancher who thought of Frazee as a stepson, and as one of the best cattlemen around, urged the 30-year-old to "get that sh*t out of your head." But Frazee didn't. He persisted. Seven months later, Frazee committed what he hoped was the perfect murder. MURDER MOST FOUL is the definitive narrative of the Frazee case by the world's most prolific true crime ...

True crime's rising stars Nick van der Leek and Lisa Wilson, fresh from the success of three trilogies dedicated to the unsolved JonBenét Ramsey case, have cast about for a new challenge. In the West Memphis Three case, they find a heart of darkness to rival the webs of shadowy intrigue bedeviling Boulder Colorado in 1996. “Having written about the unsolved Ramsey case,” writes van der Leek, “I was looking for a challenging case to rival and to sharpen the true crime saw even further. The West Memphis Three saga does precisely that.” But where the Ramsey case was a murk of ...

After five years it may seem all has been said and done on this case. Far from it. In his final narrative, true crime mastermind Nick van der Leek finally places the last pieces of the puzzle on the board. What precisely happened in the cubicle? Where was Reeva standing and how did she fall when she was shot? Van der Leek’s research potentially turns the entire case on its head – because his version, supported by forensic evidence and the autopsy photos, does not match the state’s version, the Mollett’s research, nor Oscar’s. So – what does that mean? Justice Eventualis is the ...

Doubt persists about the fate of a little girl lost twelve years ago. DEEP INTO DARKNESS challenges and tests the mainstream mythology that is the paedophile-abductor narrative. The current default story for what happened to Madeleine McCann on May 3rd, 2007 has many spin-off conspiracies. DEEP INTO DARKNESS examines the best and worst of these, and debunks almost all of them. But if the conspiracies and crazy theories aren't true, what is? What lies hidden deep in the darkness?

"Buckets brimmed with glinting coins for all who came and played. Even so, Madeleine McCann remained missing." In DOUBT, a raven deals a sweeping view over the rocky terrain of the unresolved, decade-old, McCann case. In DOUBT 2, the foreboding messenger comes home to roost. Where do the first impressions and latest insights lead us? True Crime's rising stars, Nick van der Leek and Lisa Wilson, never mincing words, probe the disturbing questions about the not-quite-right aftermath of the three-year-old's disappearance. If Madeleine died, when did she die? What injuries did she sustain? How ...

What devilry hides in plain sight? What lies buried in the details, something not quite right? True crime maestro Nick van der Leek sat in on Henri van Breda’s testimony-in-chief on Halloween 2017, as well as the state’s multi-day cross-examination. By sitting at arm’s length of the accused and the state prosecutor, Van der Leek absorbs a smorgasbord of direct, first-hand insights beyond the range of the live feed cameras. Who is the strange young man at the centre of this trial, accused of murdering his own flesh and blood with an axe? Van der Leek performs another meticulous ...

Ten years after her cruel and excruciating exit out of this world, can anyone say what the motive was for the murder of Meredith Kercher? In DECEIT, DARK MATTER and UNDER SUSPICION, van der Leek and Wilson examined the immediate aftermath, and year that followed, of the crime that appalled Perugia, and the world. Fast forward to 2009, and the Shakedown team has taken a front row seat in Perugia’s halls of justice for the most globally talked about trial in history. The American media, and Knox-supporters, touted there’s no evidence, Knox and Sollecito will be set free. But 100 witnesses...

In the third ground-breaking book in their series on Amanda Knox, Wilson and van der Leek have done it again! In UNDER SUSPICION they dig out brand new insights that others have overlooked eight years after the original trial. Using powerful detective tools including pattern recognition, graphology, systematic cross-referencing and good-old deep analysis, the SHAKEDOWN TEAM do what they’re supposed to do – they deliver the goods. Effectively our knowledge of what really happened that November 1st night in Italy has taken a real step forward thanks to the insights in this book. In UNDER ...

When was the last time somebody randomly accused you of murder? Fresh from a research trip to Italy, Lisa Wilson adds her voice to the Meredith Kercher murder mystery. Together with South African photojournalist Nick van der Leek this True Crime Detective Team par excellence uncover a staggering number of inconsistencies, insights, errors and startling possibilities. While DECEIT is a broad overview of the events leading up to the crime, DARK MATTER digs deeper into the five days of intense police investigation immediately following the discovery of the British exchange student murdered ...

Is the criminal justice system taking advantage of ordinary Americans, or is Steven Avery [and a pair of filmmakers] playing us for fools? It has to be the one or the other, so which is it? Is there something unsavoury about a pair of defense lawyers [defending a murderer/rapist] becoming celebrities? Is Ken Kratz' sexting more offensive than the murder, and is Ken Krantz more of criminal than Steven Avery? Are Teresa Halbach's family really bigger suspects than any of the Averys? What do we make of Dr Phil's statements about this case? Is the judge working in cahoots with the prosecution/...

SHE SAVED HIM CAN YOU SAVE HER? It was a crime that shocked the community in Coronado to its core. In the days following Rebecca Zahau's death in the summer of 2011, an unfathomable horror closed in around her. By early September the same year, law enforcement announced the case closed, and Zahau's billionaire boyfriend Jonah Shacknai, thanked them for their trouble. Years passed and nothing happened. But it wasn't over. Far from it. Crowdsleuthers rallied to the cause of the Zahau family. Funds were raised to lay charges and re-open the case. The case that seemed mired in red tape, welded ...

The Rebecca Zahau case is one of the most bizarre high-profile homicide cases. It is more holes than fabric. For example, why are there no cell phone records of Adam Shacknai? Why was his girlfriend – whom he supposedly called on the night of the incident – not interviewed? Why are there no cell phone records for Dina Shacknai? Why is there so much mystery surrounding the final call and final message left on Rebecca’s phone? Why was it erased and who erased it? Was Rebecca’s cell phone ever examined for fingerprints? Why it was never established what the blunt object was that caused...