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When a routine autopsy on what looked like a straightforward hit-and-run leads the LA Chief Medical Examiner, Dr Carolyn Hove, to discover some puzzling inconsistencies, she calls in Detective Robert Hunter of the LAPD Ultra Violent Crimes Unit. Not only did Dr Hove discover that the death wasn’t caused by a hit-and-run, but she also found indications that the victim had been severely tortured prior to death.

They met for the first time in college. Two of the brightest minds ever to graduate from the prestigious Stanford University. They met again in Quantico, Virginia. Robert Hunter has become the head of the LAPD’s Ultra Violent Crimes Unit. Lucien Folter has become the most prolific and dangerous serial killer in FBI history. The FBI caught Lucien. He's been in prison for years. But Lucien has just escaped. And he’s angry. He's going to make the person who put him away suffer. That person...is Robert Hunter.

When the body of a young woman is discovered in a derelict cottage in the middle of Los Angeles National Forest, Homicide Detective Robert Hunter finds himself entering a horrific and recurring nightmare. Naked, strung from two wooden posts, the victim was sadistically tortured before meeting an excruciatingly painful death. All the skin has been ripped from her face - while she was still alive.

Seven days after being abducted, the body of a 20-year-old woman is found on a grassy area by the Los Angeles International Airport. She has been left with her limbs stretched out and spread apart, placing her in a five-point human star. The autopsy reveals that she has been tortured and murdered in a bizarre way, but the surprises don't end there. The killer likes to play, and he left something behind for the cops to find. Detective Robert Hunter is assigned to the case, but almost immediately a second body turns up.

Equipping you with a toolkit drawn from science, philosophy, and legal reasoning, Oxford-educated physicist Chris Carter facilitates a thorough examination of the evidence and its corresponding counterarguments. Explore compelling case studies of near-death experiences, deathbed visions, apparitions, children who remember previous lives, and communications from the deceased. This book proves beyond all reasonable doubt that our consciousness endures past bodily death.

In 1993, Fox debuted a strange new television show called The X-Files. Little did anyone suspect that the series would become one of the network's biggest hits - and change the landscape of television in the process. Now, on the occasion of the show's 25th anniversary, TV critics Zack Handlen and Todd VanDerWerff unpack exactly what made this haunting show so groundbreaking. Witty and insightful reviews of every episode of the series, revised and updated from the authors' popular A.V. Club recaps, leave no mystery unsolved and no monster unexplained.

A freak accident in rural Wyoming leads the sheriff's department to arrest a man for a possible double homicide, but further investigations suggest a much more horrifying discovery - a serial killer who has been kidnapping, torturing, and mutilating victims all over the United States for at least 25 years. The suspect claims he is a pawn in a huge labyrinth of lies and deception - but can he be believed?

A serial killer will stop at nothing.... The Killer. His most valuable possession has been stolen. Now he must retrieve it, at any cost. The Girl. Angela Wood wanted to teach the man a lesson. It was a bag, just like all the others. But when she opens it, the worst nightmare of her life begins. The Detective. A journal ends up at Robert Hunter’s desk. It soon becomes clear that there is a serial killer on the loose. And if he can’t stop him in time, more people will die.

After 40 years, members of the global conspiracy known only as the Project are finally nearing the completion of their plans. FBI special agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully alone have a glimpse of the nightmare that lies ahead for the rest of the world: an alien invasion fueled by the most devastating virus in human history. And only they know that the truth isn't out there anymore - it's already here.

A freak accident in rural Wyoming leads the sheriff's department to arrest a man for a possible double homicide, but further investigations suggest a much more horrifying discovery - a serial killer who has been kidnapping, torturing, and mutilating victims all over the United States for at least 25 years. The suspect claims he is a pawn in a huge labyrinth of lies and deception - can he be believed?

Robert Hunter und Carlos Garcia stehen vor der entsetzlich zugerichteten Leiche einer Frau. Bei der Autopsie entdecken sie, dass der Mörder ein Gedicht in ihrem Körper hinterlassen hat. Die blutige Art des Tötens ist nicht das Einzige, was diesen Killer antreibt. Für ihn sind Angst, Schmerz und der Tod Teil einer Lektion. Und er ist der Lehrmeister. Als eine zweite Frau grausam umgebracht wird, fragen Hunter und Garcia sich, wie viele Gedichte dieser Serienkiller noch schreiben wird. Ihnen bleibt nicht viel Zeit.

‘Do you believe the Devil exists, Detective?’ the officer at the end of the line asks. ‘Because if you don’t...I’m sure you will once you get here.’ This is how Robert Hunter is called to one of the most vicious crime scenes he has ever attended. The disturbing nature of the murder is heightened when the autopsy reveals a poem, left by the killer, inside the body of their victim. When another murder occurs, the methods and signature of each death differ so greatly that forensics fail to link the two crimes.

Der neue Chris Carter – nie war er besser! Bei der Autopsie eines Verkehrsopfers entdeckt Gerichtsmedizinerin Dr. Hove etwas Seltsames. Tödliche Wunden unter der Haut, die nicht vom Unfall stammen können. Sie ist auf das Werk eines Serienkillers gestoßen. Unbemerkt und mit enormer Expertise lässt er jeden seiner brutalen Morde wie ein zufälliges Unglück aussehen. Dr. Hove meldet ihren Verdacht Robert Hunter und Carlos Garcia vom LAPD Ultra Violent Crimes Unit. Die Detectives stehen vor einem Problem. Wie ermittelt man in einer Mordserie, wenn die Opfer nicht bekannt sind?

Los Angeles: Die Leiche einer wunderschönen Frau wird gefunden, zu Tode gequält und bestialisch verstümmelt. Keinerlei Spuren. Bis auf ein in den Nacken geritztes Kreuz, ein Teufelsmal: das Erkennungszeichen eines hingerichteten Serienmörders. Detective und Profiler Robert Hunter wird schnell klar, dass der Kruzifix-Killer lebt. Er mordet auf spektakuläre Weise weiter. Und er ist Hunter immer einen Schritt voraus - denn er kennt ihn gut. Zu gut.

'Thirty-seven years in the force, and if I was allowed to choose just one thing to erase from my mind, what's inside that room would be it.' That's what a LAPD Lieutenant tells Detectives Hunter and Garcia of the Ultra Violent Crimes Unit as they arrive at one of the most shocking crime scenes they have ever attended. In a completely unexpected turn of events, the detectives find themselves joining forces with the FBI to track down a serial killer whose hunting ground sees no borders, a psychopath who loves what he does.

Inside a Los Angeles church, on the altar steps, lies the blood-soaked, decapitated body of a priest. Carefully positioned, legs stretched out, arms crossed over the chest, the most horrifying thing of all is that the priest's head has been replaced by that of a dog. Later, the forensic team discover that on the victim's chest, the figure 3 has been scrawled in blood.

Der zehnte Fall für Polizeiprofiler Robert Hunter! Der grausamste Killer, den das FBI je gejagt hat. Lebenslang in Sicherheitsverwahrung. Doch er ist entkommen. Sein Name: Lucien Folter. Robert Hunter wird nicht ruhen, bis er ihn wieder gefasst hat. Zusammen mit seinem Partner Carlos Garcia jagt Hunter in L.A. nur die brutalsten und gefährlichsten Serienkiller. Definitv keine Hörbuchreihe für Zartbeseitete!

Tu única esperanza es morir. ¡Cuanto antes! El cuerpo de una mujer brutalmente asesinada es hallado en una cabaña abandonada en el Parque Nacional de los Los Angeles. Desnuda, atada a dos postes de madera y con la piel de la cara desollada - cuando aún seguía con vida. En la nuca tiene grabado un extraño símbolo, un crucifijo doble: la firma de un psicópata conocido como el Asesino del Crucifijo. Pero no es posible porque el Asesino del Crucifijo fue arrestado y ejecutado dos años atrás. ¿Podría tratarse de un imitador?

Detective Robert Hunter of the LAPD's Homicide Special Section receives an anonymous call asking him to go to a specific web address - a private broadcast. Hunter logs on, and a show devised for his eyes only immediately begins. But the caller doesn't want Detective Hunter to just watch; he wants him to participate, and refusal is simply not an option. Forced to make a sickening choice, Hunter must sit and watch as an unidentified victim is tortured and murdered live over the Internet.

Ein Priester wird geköpft, seiner Leiche ein Hundekopf aufgesetzt. Eine Frau verbrennt bei lebendigem Leibe in einem verlassenen Haus. Eine weitere wird an den Füßen aufgehängt und in ihrer eigenen Badewanne ertränkt. Detective Robert Hunter und sein Kollege Garcia sind auf der Jagd nach einem brutalen und gewissenlosen Killer. Ein Killer ohne Erbarmen, der weiß, was seine Opfer am meisten fürchten. Über die Serie: In der Hunter-und-Garcia-Reihe von Chris Carter steht der Polizeiprofiler Robert Hunter im Mittelpunkt.