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True crime is not for everyone. However, there is a small subset of us that, for some reason or another, finds themselves drawn to true crime stories. Perhaps it’s a desire for truth and justice, an obsession with understanding the criminal mind, or just curiosity about how the cases were solved.

Janet March had it all: a corporate lawyer husband, two beautiful children, a promising career as an artist, and a dream house she designed herself. But behind closed doors, her husband led a destructive double life. On August 16, 1996, Janet had an appointment to finally file for divorce. But she never arrived. On the night of August 15, she vanished. Janet's disappearance incited a massive search and media frenzy that revealed her husband Perry's seedy dealings.

Aaron and Grace Templeton will never forget the 1998 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. The day their daughter Kiera got lost in the crowd. Investigative journalist Miren Triggs has spent years trying to help the Templetons find her. But with no leads, Miren fears there's nothing more she can do. Until Kiera's 8th birthday, when a video arrives showing Kiera alive and well, playing in a bedroom. Miren can't believe it - finally, a lead she can follow. Until another video arrives. It's the same bedroom. But Kiera is gone.

Though her name was not divulged, viewers would learn that she was hit over the head near the entrance of her home, abducted, sexually assaulted, and forced into the trunk of her own car. News cameras would capture footage of Michelle’s personal items strewn across the lawn around her home and along the wooded area behind a local restaurant. The community would breathe a sigh of relief after learning that she had somehow survived and that the assailants had been caught, ending a string of similar crimes. But there is so much more to the story.

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National parks are a place for family fun, camping, and adventure. Millions of Americans and foreign tourists flock to national parks around the globe each year. But for some, they go through the entrance, never to come out again.

What goes through the mind of a killer when they commit murder? What motivates someone to take a life? How do murderers remember their lives and crimes? With unprecedented access to high-security prisons all around the country, the creators of Netflix's I Am a Killer set out to get answers to these questions—by talking to the killers themselves.

Rob and his now ex-wife, Victoria, met at university. Their relationship started off happily, they moved to Falmouth in Cornwall before getting married. However, it quickly descended into a nightmare marriage of psychological manipulation, coercive control and emotional abuse - all from the woman who was supposed to love him. Rob's life was gradually destroyed as Victoria extended a web of lies around him, manipulating, suffocating and isolating him from the outside world. It was only through his baby daughter, Grace, that he found the courage to leave Victoria.

Best-selling author, co-host of the hit podcast The Murder Squad, and true-crime investigative journalist Billy Jensen goes to Columbus, Ohio, where he examines the unsolved cases of 18 dead and missing women whom he suspects were the victims of serial killers on the loose and operating under cover of the opioid epidemic in America's heartland.

Get an in-depth look into the probing investigations of some of history's most complicated criminals and cold cases. Learn about murders, kidnappings, unsolved disappearances, and more that took years before the culprits were finally brought to justice. Get a behind-the-scenes peek at these notorious cases and find out how they were cracked!

Verte Regresar cuenta dos historias paralelas: por un lado, la desgracia de una trágica noche en la que el crimen organizado y elementos del Ejército Mexicano, desaparecieron de manera forzada a 43 estudiantes de la Escuela Normal Rural de Ayotzinapa que estudiaban para ser maestros. Por el otro, se entrelaza la vida íntima de estos jóvenes para conocer su origen y sus sueños. Se trata de un ejercicio estético y testimonial que parte desde la ausencia para ir hacia el reencuentro, que se sumerge en la incertidumbre para resignificar la esperanza.

In this true crime anthology, you’re going to explore more insane stories that gave the police sleepless nights. From a hospital worker taking the lives of 30+ patients to a family sacrificing people for their twisted prophet.

From kidnappings to terrorist incidents, violent armed stand-offs to talking someone back from the ledge: all these make up the day-to-day life of Nicky Perfect’s job as a crisis and hostage negotiator. One of the first on the scene in situations that most would run from, Nicky is deployed to defuse the most volatile and fraught situations imaginable. After a decade on the frontlines, confronting the extremes of human behaviour, these are the stories and cases that have shaped a career spent on high alert, where life often hangs in the balance.

Así empieza la historia increíblemente real de uno de los casos más extremos de la crónica negra española. Aquel crimen se transformó en un drama humano cuya investigación, repleta de errores policiales y judiciales, estuvo acompañada de vergonzosos ejemplos de periodismo basura.

Neue Fälle aus Deutschlands bestem True-Crime-Podcast. Im Jahr 2018 ging der Podcast "ZEIT VERBRECHEN" an den Start - und zählt seither zu den beliebtesten und erfolgreichsten Podcasts Deutschlands. Die ehemalige Gerichtsreporterin und stellvertretende ZEIT-Chefredakteurin Sabine Rückert berichtet darin gemeinsam mit Andreas Sentker auf fesselnde Weise von Kriminalfällen, die sie begleitet hat, und begeistert damit regelmäßig Millionen von Fans - inzwischen auch live vor ausverkauften Hallen.

L'affaire Kulik est la première enquête résolue en France avec l'ADN par parentèle et a bouleversé l'histoire judiciaire. Une affaire hors norme : Nuit du 10 au 11 janvier 2002. Élodie Kulik, directrice de banque à Péronne en Picardie, quitte un ami après un dîner en ville. Au matin, on retrouve sa voiture précipitée dans le fossé, son sac à main laissé sur le siège passager. Nulle trace de la jeune femme. On découvrira son corps volontairement incendié quelques kilomètres plus loin à l'abri des regards.

Lindsey always knew she wanted to be a detective. Her inspiration came after reading about the murders committed by Ted Bundy, who grew up in her hometown of Tacoma, Washington. Also seared into her memory was the 1986 murder of a young girl who'd been out for a bike ride when she went missing. The teen was later found murdered, but the case was never solved. The senseless killing of an innocent young girl would leave a black cloud over Tacoma for three decades.

On the night of August 6, 1930, Joseph Force Crater, a newly appointed judge and prominent figure in many circles of Manhattan, hailed a taxi in the heart of Broadway and vanished into thin air. Despite a decades-long international manhunt led by the New York Police Department's esteemed Missing Persons Bureau, the reason for Crater's disappearance remains a confounding mystery.

"I just want to make sure I've got this right. You hanged all three of them?" That's how it began, a case where the cops are crooks and the crooks are cops, a kidnapping where the victim is the bad guy, and the good guys must cross some lines to get him back. Welcome to the upside down and backward world of the undercover agent, where nothing is as it seems, and people may not be what they appear. Going Under by former undercover agent John Madinger takes you into that world, and closer to the truth of the undercover experience than any other law enforcement memoir has ever gone.

Paced like a thriller and full of insider information, this book embeds readers in one of the most famous true-crime stories of our generation—the kidnapping of Polly Klaas. "Riveting … reported with empathy and Cross’s signature combination of unflinching detail and gut-punching...