Italian True Crime

Blood feuds, billion-dollar cocaine empires, and the mafia you’ve never heard of.... For decades, the Sicilian Cosa Nostra and the Neapolitan Camorra stole the spotlight. But in the shadows of Calabria, another brotherhood was rising — one more disciplined, more secretive, and far deadlier. Today, the Ndrangheta is the richest and most powerful crime syndicate in the world, controlling up to 80% of Europe’s cocaine trade and laundering billions through banks, construction firms, and global finance. From kidnapped heirs chained in mountain caves to multi-ton shipments of cocaine ...

In the nonfiction tradition of John Berendt and Erik Larson, the author of the #1 NYT bestseller The Lost City of the Monkey God presents a gripping account of crime and punishment in the lush hills surrounding Florence as he seeks to uncover one of the most infamous figures in Italian history...

A guided tour of Boston's underworld, revealing the places where deals were made, people were killed, and bodies were buried.

In Windy City Mafia: The Chicago Outfit, retired detective and Gangland Wire podcast host Gary Jenkins dives into his extensive audio archives to bring readers some of the most captivating stories from over 300 episodes. Jenkins recounts notorious tales such as "Al Capone on the Golf Course" and "The Trial of Al Capone," revealing lesser-known details like Al Capone's golf games with Machine Gun Jack McGurn and Fred "Killer" Burke. The book also covers more recent figures in the Outfit, including Anthony "Joe Batters" Accardo's rise from Frank Nitti's enforcer to the boss of the Chicago ...

They were the DeMeo gang - the most deadly hit men in organized crime. Their Mafia higher-ups came to know, use, and ultimately fear them as the Murder Machine. They killed for profit and for pleasure, following cold-blooded plans and wild whims, from the mean streets of New York to the Florida Gold Coast, and from coast to coast. Now complete with personal revelations of one of the key players, this is the savage story that leaves no corpse unturned in its terrifying telling.

In this first volume, Ferrante traces the mafia's phenomenal "rise of empire" through larger-than-life characters and legendary mobsters as they provide alcohol to the American public during Prohibition, penetrate industrial labor unions, practically take over the island of Cuba and, with extraordinary vision, create the gambling mecca of Las Vegas.

In 1997 a six-year-old boy questioned by authorities relayed disturbing stories of abuse. The more he talked, the more people were implicated in his shocking revelations. And he was only the first child to come forward. Within a year, fifteen more children with similar tales were transferred out of the Bassa region of Italy to protected locations. Their parents were accused of belonging to a satanic sect that performed sex rituals under the aegis of beloved local priest Don Giorgio Govoni. With each child’s confession, the network of monsters grew.

"Little Italy Murder" is a gritty crime novel set in the heart of New York City during the dark days of the early 20th century. Witness the birth of organized crime and the infamous "Black-Hand" society as they sew terror into NYC's Italian-American community.The plot unravels amidst urban grime, when on April 14, 1903, a mutilated body tucked into a barrel is discovered on East Eleventh Street, sparking the beginning of citywide panic. What follows is an in-depth exploration into the depths of the Black-Hand gang's heinous activities, led by brutal mafia leaders, Giuseppe Severin and ...

"Johnny Boy" Gotti burst onto the national scene after a double murder catapulted him to the top of the Gambino family, the largest and most feared Mafia family in the USA. Gene Mustain and Jerry Capeci reveal the man behind the headlines.

Un libro che racconta il potere della camorra, la sua affermazione economica e finanziaria, e la sua potenza militare, la sua metamorfosi in comitato d'affari. Una scrittura in prima persona fatta dal luogo degli agguati, nei negozi e nelle fabbriche dei clan, raccogliendo testimonianze e leggende. La storia parte dalla guerra di Secondigliano, dall'ascesa del gruppo Di Lauro al conflitto interno che ha generato 80 morti in poco più di un mese.

Experience the grit and charm of old New York in this vivid portrayal of a Sicilian immigrant's unintended entanglement with the Mafia. In Making My Bones with The Mafia, Gino Leno’s life unfolds against the gritty backdrop of Brooklyn and Queens, painting a vivid picture of a boy growing up in the shadow of the Mafia. At the age of twelve, Gino arrives in America, brimming with the hopes of a bright future. Instead, he finds himself in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, where the streets are rife with challenges from adapting to a new culture and language to confronting local bullies...

Era affascinante, colto, gentile — e uccideva senza pietà. Ted Bundy è uno dei serial killer più famigerati del XX secolo: un uomo dall’aspetto impeccabile che ha sconvolto l’America con una scia di omicidi, fughe e processi che hanno cambiato per sempre la storia del crimine. In questo libro, Prof. Heinrich Müller ricostruisce con stile chiaro e coinvolgente l’intera vicenda: dall’infanzia segnata dalle menzogne, alle prime sparizioni nel Nord-Ovest degli Stati Uniti, fino alla cattura e alla sedia elettrica in Florida. Un racconto documentaristico, preciso e allo stesso ...

Era il 6 maggio 1971. Lorenzo Bozano, passato alla storia come il “biondino della spider rossa”, rapisce fuori da scuola la figlia tredicenne del re della cera per pavimenti, Arturo Sutter, per poi strangolarla e lasciarla affondare in mare. Si riannodano i fili della memoria, attraverso le pagine mai lette del diario di Milena e le parole, dopo cinquant’anni di silenzio, della madre Flora e del fratello Aldo.

FBI Witness Rick Porrello writes about the important connection with mega-mobsters Charles Lucky Luciano and Meyer Lansky, the Cleveland mob's move to Las Vegas, and the first top-level national meeting of the Sicilian-American Mafia.

Se sei alla ricerca della storia di un vero mostro, allora Gertrude Wright, la madre aguzzina, dovrebbe essere il prossimo libro nella tua lista di lettura! Se non hai mai sentito parlare di questa donna… chiediti se sei davvero un appassionato di true crime! La risposta è sì, perché sei qui e dimostri interesse! La discesa nella follia di Gertrude Wright ha previsto torture, mutilazioni perpetrate in modi inaspettati e trattamenti agghiaccianti nei confronti di Sylvia Likens, una ragazza adolescente affidata alle sue cure. Please note: This title is in Italian.

In 1895, a 22-year-old Italian seamstress named Maria Barbella was accused of murdering her lover, Domenico Cataldo, after he seduced her and broke his promise to marry her. Following a sensational trial filled with inept lawyers, dishonest reporters and editors, and a crooked judge repaying political favors, the illiterate immigrant became the first woman sentenced to the newly invented electric chair at Sing Sing, where she was also the first female prisoner. Enter Cora Slocomb, who launched the first campaign against the death penalty to save Maria.

Ventuno morti, un'unica guerra: quella, tra opposte ideologie, che per quasi quindici anni sconvolse l'Italia. Cominciando da Genova 1970, Ugo Venturini: «Il primo passo verso gli anni di piombo. Così, quasi per caso». Per finire a Roma 1983, Paolo Di Nella, il «fascista grunge», che chiude con un sigillo di sangue quell'epoca. In mezzo, il rogo di Primavalle, destinato a bruciare per decenni; il «western metropolitano» per le strade di Roma in cui rimane ucciso il greco Mikis Mantakas; l'escalation di tensione nella Milano del 1975 che porta all'omicidio di Segio Ramelli; e molti altri.

L’omicidio di Pamela Genini, che altri chiama impropriamente “femminicidio” è un atto di inaudita barbarie che grida vendetta. E va da sé che viviamo in uno Stato di diritto e non di vendetta. Come tutto ciò che ci destabilizza e che assurge alle cronache, anche questo delitto è costituito da fatti e da narrativa.

Everything I've done, everything I will do, there will be no regret. The world is a vicious place for a woman. It's even crueler to the daughter of the Ceann na Conairte - discarded, married off, left powerless. But I am no ordinary daughter of the mafia. Unlike every other mafia family, my mother was Melody Callahan, Bloody Mel, the Don of the Italian Mafia, and the Don didn't raise some precious mafia princess. Bone by bone she broke me first, so no one else could - and bone by bone, I pieced myself back together.

13 gennaio 2012, 21.45. La nave da crociera Costa Concordia, con più di 4.200 persone a bordo, urta uno scoglio delle Scole davanti all'Isola del Giglio. Lo scafo si squarcia e inizia l'inabissamento. Durante uno dei più grandi disastri della storia marinaresca italiana, la maggioranza dei passeggeri si fa dominare da un panico cieco e assoluto. Tuttavia, mentre il caos si scatena e tutti cercano disperatamente di mettersi in salvo, Mario Pellegrini, vicesindaco del comune di Isola del Giglio, è il primo a salire a bordo per soccorrere i passeggeri intrappolati.