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During the early 1970s, more than three dozen teenage boys went missing from the working-class neighborhood of Houston Heights, in the south of Texas. The parents of a number of these boys received strange postcards from their sons, telling them that they were fine and that they had found jobs somewhere else in the state, anywhere from Dallas to Austin. Then, in August 1973, the Houston Police Department made a shocking discovery; something that would later become known as the Houston Mass Murders.

For 10 years, the California Interstate 5 highway was haunted by a dangerous serial killer. Incredibly skilled at staying ahead of the investigators as the bodies started to pile up, there wasn't enough evidence to charge the culprit with murder even once he'd been identified. Instead, they had to build a first-degree murder case in a few months while the killer was locked up on an assault conviction. Key to this was a cast of four: Vito Bertocchini, Kay Maulsby, Ray Biondi, and Faye Springer.

In 1888, between August and November, the women of London’s East End were terrorized by a deranged serial killer. A man was stalking the streets at night, seizing random women who worked those streets and killing them. This man mutilated his victim’s bodies after death, removing body parts and organs.

Teenager Lucas Leonard made shocking admissions in front of the altar - he'd practiced witchcraft, conspired to murder his parents, and committed unspeakable crimes. The confessions earned him a brutal beating by a gang of angry church members, including his parents and sister. Lucas was brought to the hospital dead, awakening the sleepy community of Chadwicks, New York, to the horror that had been lurking next door. Nine members of Lucas' church would eventually find themselves facing murder-related charges. But how did they get to that point? And what made Lucas confess?

If you think you know everything about the East End's toughest gangsters, think again. Meet Linda Calvey, a.k.a. the Black Widow. Growing up in the East End of London, Linda falls in with gangsters including the Krays, Freddie Foreman and Ronnie Cook. When the love of her life, Mickey Calvey, is gunned down on a job gone wrong, Linda resolves to carry on his work. But in 1990, after years of living in fear of her lover Ronnie Cook, Linda finds herself accused of his murder in a trial that shocks the nation. Still, Linda sticks to her code of honour, refusing to confess. Until now.

Quando la realtà supera qualsiasi finzione, soltanto una grande scrittrice può raccontarla. Questa è la storia di un figlio affettuoso, di uno studente modello, avviato a diventare un brillante avvocato, di un uomo che ha salvato numerose persone lavorando presso un "telefono amico". Ma questa è, anche, la storia dell'assassino seriale più famoso degli Stati Uniti. Dell'uomo che, con inaudita ferocia, a un certo punto della sua vita ha cominciato a uccidere e ha continuato a farlo per vari anni, senza lasciare la minima traccia, tenendo in scacco la polizia di un intero Paese.

To his neighbors, Wayne Nance, a furniture mover from Missoula, Montana, appeared to be an affable, considerate, and trustworthy guy. No one knew that Nance was the "Missoula Mauler," a psychopath responsible for a series of sadistic sex slayings that rocked the idyllic town between 1974 and 1986. Nance's only requirement for murder was accessibility - a preacher's wife, a teenage runaway, a female acquaintance, a married couple. Putting on a friendly façade, he could easily gain his victims' trust. Then, one September night, thirty-year-old Nance pushed his luck.

A wealthy and well-connected legal ace and the proud owner of a champion show horse, Larry McNabney had every reason to love his life. But when he disappeared in September 2001, his wife, Elisa, claimed he joined a cult. When Larry's body was found in a shallow grave three months later, Elisa was already gone. In a red convertible Jaguar, her brown hair dyed blond, Mrs. McNabney was speeding toward a new life in Florida - and a brand new identity. Who was Elisa McNabney? Beautiful, seductive, and ruthless, she had thirty-eight aliases and a rap sheet a mile long.

John Hron hade sommarlov. Året var 1995, och sommaren hade bjudit på tryckande heta dagar, och varma behagliga nätter. 14-åriga John var som de flesta tonåringar, han gillade att sporta, och var duktig på att paddla kanot. Han älskade bandet Iron Maiden, och brukade dagdrömma under lektionerna i skolan. John och en vän begav sig ut för att tälta en eftermiddag i slutet av augusti. Kvällen var varm och behaglig, de bägge pojkarna grillade korv och njöt av sommarlovets sista dagar. Vid sjön dök det snart upp några andra tonåringar, som John kände till från skolan.

From the outside looking in, Jennifer Pan seemed like a model daughter living a perfect life. The ideal child, the one her immigrant parents saw, was studying to become a pharmacist at the University of Toronto. But there was a dark, deceptive side to the angelic young woman. In reality, Jennifer spent her days in the arms of her high-school sweetheart, Daniel. In an attempt to lead the life she dreamed of, she would do almost anything. For many years she led this double life. But when her father discovered her web of lies, his ultimatum was severe. And so, too, was her revenge.

The definitive account of the O. J. Simpson trial, The Run of His Life is a prodigious feat of reporting that could have been written only by the foremost legal journalist of our time. First published less than a year after the infamous verdict, Jeffrey Toobin's nonfiction masterpiece tells the whole story, from the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman to the ruthless gamesmanship behind the scenes of "the trial of the century".

In the winter of 1873, a small band of prospectors lost their way in the frozen wilderness of the Colorado Rockies. Months later, when the snow finally melted, only one of them emerged. His name was Alfred G. Packer, though he would soon become infamous throughout the country under a different name: "the Man-Eater."

Sunday Times best-selling author Christopher Berry-Dee is back with a companion volume that delves even deeper into the savage world of psychopaths and their hideous crimes. This time, however, he combines sections on killers whom he has known, interviewed or corresponded with, with studies of psychopathic serial killers from the past, including Peter Kürten, the 'Düsseldorf Monster'; John Christie, responsible for the killings at 10 Rillington Place; and Neville Heath, a ladykiller in every sense of the word.

Klockan var tre på eftermiddagen den 16 april 1996 när den 21-årige Richard Allen Montgomery fattade sitt livs sämsta beslut. Människor som kände honom skulle senare vittna om att Richard, som bodde hemma hos sin syster, var en trevlig och godhjärtad man men att han också var alkoholiserad, drogmissbrukare och "skulle gå med på vad som helst om det fanns sprit eller pengar med i bilden".

"Hej mamma. Jag går och hälsar på Jesper i skolan, har gjort läxan och till och med bäddat sängen, kommer hem senare för att hämta träningskläderna. Ciao/Nico" Nicolas skulle aldrig komma hem igen. Han begav sig till Bromma gymnasium en kall januariförmiddag 2001, för att hjälpa sin bror som hamnat i trubbel med en langare. De två annars skötsamma bröderna hade fått tag på en påse blå valiumtabletter, som langaren ville ha tillbaka. Nicolas går med langaren till en av skolans toaletter, för att överlämna sin del.

"Den polisanmälan som knackades ned tidigt denna junimorgon hölls i samma lakoniska stil som polisanmälningar brukar hållas, vare sig det gäller cykelstölder, krogslagsmål eller mord: 'Tid som i fält 31 ringde kassernvakten I 13 och meddelade att det förekom skottlossning i skogspartiet omkring restaurant kullen. Polispersonal sändes till platsen och påträffade minst 5 döda personer.' " Det hade varit övning för de tretton lottorna som befann sig i kasernen. De hade haft en underbar vecka, sommaren hade kommit, befälhavarna hade varit trevliga, och gruppen hade haft roligt.

Rina Fort ebbe una vita travagliata, costellata da lutti e tragedie. Nel 1945 conobbe Giuseppe Ricciardi, un siciliano proprietario di un negozio di tessuti in via Tenca, divenendone prima compagna di lavoro come commessa, poi amante, senza tuttavia essere a conoscenza - così dichiarò - del fatto che fosse già sposato con tre figli a Catania. Con l'arrivo della moglie e dei figli di Ricciardi, la loro relazione era ormai compromessa. Il 29 novembre 1946 Rina Fort si vendicò sulla moglie del suo amante e sui suoi tre bambini, uccidendoli.

Tra la fine degli anni Ottanta e l'inizio dei Novanta, la città di Sacramento in California finisce sulla bocca di tutti per ospitare una delle più inquietanti serial killer della storia dello Stato: Dorothea Puente. Dietro i modi garbati e le fattezze da tenera vecchina, Dorothea nasconde una personalità disturbata e un animo glaciale che la spingono a uccidere nove persone.

È un'infermiera specializzata nell'iniettare dosi mortali di medicine varie a una quarantina di pazienti anziani (la polizia sospetta che le vittime possano essere in numero superiore) tra maggio 2000 e febbraio 2001. Nella confessione, dice di averlo fatto per alleviare le loro sofferenze.

Enriqueta Martì è ricordata come la killer più prolifica ed efferata della storia spagnola. È stata sicuramente rapitrice e prosseneta di bambini. Le si associano inoltre, senza prove certe, fino a sedici omicidi di bambini ignoti.