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Who was Jack the Ripper?: All the Suspects Revealed

Jack the Ripper is the ultimate cold case. The Whitechapel Murders of 1888 have remained unsolved for over 130 years and hundreds of theories have been suggested as to the killer's identity. Despite numerous books claiming to unmask the infamous Victorian villain, none have come close…until now. The authors of this book are all members of H Division Crime Club, the world's largest body of experts on the Jack the Ripper murders. They have all come together for the first time in history to deliver their own personal research into each suspect and to finally nail down the identity of the man known as Jack the Ripper. Taking the original police reports, eye witness accounts and research by the world's leading authorities into account, we ask two crucial questions: Who did the police suspect at the time? Who was in the area to commit the murders? Using 21st century profiling techniques, it is time to reveal the truth behind the men most likely to have been Jack the Ripper. With each chapter discussing a separate suspect in detail, this book is the ultimate guide to solving the world's greatest murder mystery.

Members Of H Division Crime Club (Author), Bruce Cullen (Narrator)

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Crímenes: Diez casos reales

*****INCREÍBLEMENTE REAL***** El periodismo literario de Carles Porta sigue la estela de Ferdinand von Schirach y Patrick Radden Keefe. Carles Porta probablemente sea uno de nuestros mejores periodistas, pero sin duda se ha coronado, con sus libros, podcasts y series televisivas, como un magistral narrador de relatos reales. En este volumen, que recoge diez de los casos más impactantes de la crónica negra reciente, descubriremos su especialidad literaria: contarnos extraordinarias historias de crimen y trabajo policial mientras nos mantiene en vilo hasta la última línea. La fórmula puede parecer sencilla, pero él la convierte en inimitable gracias al tratamiento riguroso que hace de los grandes personajes que escoge y la manera en que los sabe envolver en tramas tan potentes como verídicas. Aquí encontraremos, entre otros: el caso de Amaia Azkue, la vecina de Zarautz cuyo asesino fue identificado por un detalle trivial; la estremecedora desaparición de los hermanos Òrrit en el hospital de Manresa y la búsqueda que ha llevado a cabo durante décadas su numerosa familia; el asesinato a sangre fría de un hombre en Madrid a causa de un macabro juego de rol; o el sangriento robo que cometió una mujer en Fargo, Dakota del Norte, contra su propia vecina. La crítica ha dicho: «El rey de la crónica negra en España.» El Mundo «Un maestro de relatar crónica negra.» Lídia Penelo, Público «Un profundo ejercicio de depuración de estilo.» ABC «Periodismo en profundidad, y próximo.» La Vanguardia «Combina el rigor y el entretenimiento sin caer en la tentación del morbo ni tampoco rehuir los anzuelos para propulsar la lectura.» El País La crítica ha dicho sobre La farmacéutica: «Se lee todo del tirón y uno no da crédito a que sucediera de verdad. [...] Crónica definitiva de aquel secuestro, es un libro de lectura muy dinámica.» El Mundo «Lo que realmente le gusta a Porta es contar buenas historias. [...] La última es un clásico de 1992, tiene como protagonista a una farmacéutica y la cuenta en un gran libro.» La Vanguardia «Un solo hilo narrativo que combina la vivacidad, el drama y la ironía, además de evidenciar la grandeza y, a su vez, la miseria humana. [...] Sin duda, con esta crónica, Porta se consagra, según los expertos del género, como un maestro del periodismo narrativo.» NacióDigital «Este libro pone orden y claridad a los acontecimientos: Porta narra con dinamismo y rellena todos los agujeros con tal de revertir los malentendidos que circulan en la esfera pública.» El País «Una crónica trepidante.» ABC «Una especie de Fargo en la Garrotxa.» Diari de Girona

Carles Porta (Author), Aleix Peña Miralles (Narrator)

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The Forever Witness: How DNA and Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder

"Thought-provoking true-crime thriller…the book raises urgent questions of balancing public and private good that we'll likely be dealing with as long as the title implies."-Wall Street Journal A relentless detective and a civilian genealogist solve a haunting cold case-and launch a crime-fighting revolution that tests the fragile line between justice and privacy. In November 1987, a young couple on an overnight trip to Seattle vanished without a trace. A week later, the bodies of Tanya Van Cuylenborg and her boyfriend Jay Cook were found in rural Washington. It was a brutal crime, and it was the perfect crime: With few clues and no witnesses, an international manhunt turned up empty, and the sensational case that shocked the Pacific Northwest gradually slipped from the headlines. In deep-freeze, long-term storage, biological evidence from the crime sat waiting, as Detective Jim Scharf poured over old case files looking for clues his predecessors missed. Meanwhile, 1,200 miles away in California, CeCe Moore began her lifelong fascination with genetic genealogy, a powerful forensic tool that emerged not from the crime lab, but through the wildly popular home DNA ancestry tests purchased by more than 40 million Americans. When Scharf decided to send the cold case's decades-old DNA to Parabon NanoLabs, he hoped he would finally bring closure to the Van Cuylenborg and Cook families. He didn't know that he and Moore would make history. Genetic genealogy, long the province of family tree hobbyists and adoptees seeking their birth families, has made headlines as a cold case solution machine, capable of exposing the darkest secrets of seemingly upstanding citizens. In the hands of a tenacious detective like Scharf, genetic genealogy has solved one baffling killing after another. But as this crime-fighting technique spreads, its sheer power has sparked a national debate: Can we use DNA to catch the murderers among us, yet still protect our last shred of privacy in the digital age-the right to the very blueprint of who we are?

Edward Humes (Author), Edward Humes (Narrator)

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The Unveiling: A Mother's Reflection on Murder, Grief, and Trial Life

Ruth Markel is the mother of the late Dan Markel, a noted law professor who was murdered in Tallahassee, Florida, in 2014. In The Unveiling, she describes her experiences since the day of Dan's death from several distinct perspectives: - As a devastated mother with the unique human perspective of becoming a homicide survivor and victim. - As a woman whose attempts to achieve normalcy and live a healthy life are continually interrupted by painful reminders, a rollercoaster of hearings, frequently changing trial dates, verdicts, and appeals. - As an engaged citizen using what she has learned to help other victims of homicide and violent crimes recover from trauma and begin an optimistic outlook on life. - As an insider who shows how our collective network of family, friends, and experts have helped her family remain involved, motivated, and hopeful. - As a grandmother who had not been allowed to see her grandchildren in many years, she used advocacy to inspire the Florida State Legislature to pass a grandparent visitation bill. - And as an experienced author of nine books using the written word to effectively address the shift from grief to promise.

Ruth Markel (Author), Ann Marie Lee (Narrator)

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Maldita entre todas las mujeres: el rostro de los feminicidas: Testimonios y reflexiones de feminici

No es maldita la mujer asesinada porque era malvada o perversa, sino porque cayó sobre ella la maldición de ser víctima de un feminicida; maldita porque sobre su muerte se abrieron las horas más trágicas y dolorosas para su familia. Más de una decena de mujeres es asesinada a diario en México. Y con cada muerte se abre una herida profunda en sus familias que nunca cierra ni deja de doler. ¿Por qué se mata a las mujeres en este país? ¿Cómo viven las familias después de esta tragedia? Saskia Niño de Rivera ofrece en este libro de testimonios y revelaciones sin precedentes las respuestas y las explicaciones para entender desde lo más hondo este delito y el purgatorio que desencadena. A partir de las confesiones de agresores de mujeres y feminicidas, podemos saber de forma directa las causas y contextos de estas muertes, cómo fue la infancia de los perpetradores, quién los educó, en qué momento la violencia que soportaron se convirtió en estigma. Y, en consecuencia, qué suplicio viven las madres de las mujeres violentadas, por qué el duelo se agudiza cuando empiezan las investigaciones y se enfrentan a la insensibilidad de juezas, ministerios públicos, policías, funcionarias o abogados: ¿por qué como sociedad nos hemos vuelto tan indiferentes? Maldita entre todas las mujeres es una obra terrible y enternecedora que ahonda en las vidas de los criminales y las acciones de quienes buscan la justicia para sus hijas, madres o hermanas muertas. Con una visión sensible y muy humana, el libro confirma que hoy más que nunca debemos entender intensamente el delito para evitarlo, no se trata de justificar ni revictimizar, urge una mirada consciente para también decir basta a la corrupción, impunidad e ineptitud del Sistema de Impartición de Justicia de México.

Saskia Niño De Rivera, Saskia Niño De Rivera Cover (Author), Adriana Galindo, Dan Osorio, Gwendolyne Flores, Mauricio Pérez Castillo, Saskia Niño De Rivera Cover (Narrator)

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Justice in the Age of Judgment: From Amanda Knox to Kyle Rittenhouse and the Battle for Due Process

When unscrupulous Italian prosecutors waged an all-out war in the media and courtroom to wrongly convict American exchange student Amanda Knox for a murder she didn’t commit, family and friends turned to Seattle attorney and media legal analyst Anne Bremner to help win her freedom. The case was dubbed the “trial of the decade” and would coincide with the explosion of social media and a new era of trying cases in public as much as the courtroom. While Italian prosecutors, the press, and online lynch mobs convicted Knox in the court of public opinion, Bremner would draw upon her decades in the courtroom and in front of the camera to turn the tide with a new kind of defense in pursuit of justice. Bremner takes us inside some of the biggest cases of recent times and offers her expert insights and analysis as our legal system faces unprecedented forces fighting to tip the scales of justice their way. Why couldn’t prosecutors convict O.J. Simpson despite all of the evidence seemingly proving he killed his wife Nicole? Could a jury remain unbiased in the face of overwhelming public pressure in the trial of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd? Justice in the Age of Judgement is Bremner’s unparalleled and unflinching look at the captivating cases tried on Twitter and TV, where the burden of proof and fundamental legal tenet of “innocent until proven guilty” is under assault from the court of public opinion.

Anne Bremner, Doug Bremner (Author), Janet Metzger (Narrator)

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The Deadly Triangle: 'Famous Architect, His Wife, Their Chauffeur, and Murder Most Foul, The'

'The 1935 murder of architect Francis Mawson Rattenbury, world famous for his design of the iconic Parliament Buildings and Empress Hotel in Victoria, British Columbia, and the arrest and lurid trial of his thirty years younger second wife, Alma, and the family chauffeur, George Percy Stoner, her lover, who was half her age, riveted people. Debate continues even today as to which one of them really was responsible. Francis and Alma had moved to Bournemouth, England, when Victoria had ostracized them for their scandalous, flagrant affair while Francis was married to his first wife. Their life in Bournemouth was tangled. Francis became lush and impotent. Sex-starved, Alma seduced George, previously a virgin. They conducted their affair in her upstairs bedroom with her and Francis’s six-year-old son in a nearby bed, “sleeping” she said, and the near-deaf Francis, apparently unaware, downstairs in his armchair in a drunken stupor. The lovers were tried together at the historic high-profile Old Bailey Criminal Court in London, U.K., resulting in intense public interest and massive, frenzied media coverage. The trial sparked widespread debate over sexual mores and social strata distinctions.'

Susan Goldenberg (Author), Jennifer Blom (Narrator)

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The Unquiet Grave: The FBI and the Struggle for the Soul of Indian Country

In 1976 the body of Anna Mae Aquash, an American Indian luminary, was found frozen in the Badlands of South Dakota-or so the FBI said. After a suspicious autopsy and a rushed burial, friends had Aquash exhumed and found a .32-caliber bullet in her skull. Using this scandal as a point of departure, The Unquiet Grave opens a tunnel into the dark side of the FBI and its subversion of American Indian activists. But the book also discovers things the Indians would prefer to keep buried. What unfolds is a sinuous tale of conspiracy, murder, and cover-up that stretches from the plains of South Dakota to the polished corridors of Washington, D.C. Author Steve Hendricks sued the FBI over several years to pry out thousands of unseen documents about the events. His work was supported by the prestigious Fund for Investigative Journalism. Hendricks, who has freelanced for The Nation, Boston Globe, Orion, and public radio, is one of those rare reporters whose investigative tenacity is accompanied by grace with the written word.

Steve Hendricks (Author), Charles Constant (Narrator)

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American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper

New York Times bestselling author and Edgar Award-winner Daniel Stashower returns with American Demon, a historical true crime starring legendary lawman Eliot Ness. Boston had its Strangler. California had the Zodiac Killer. And in the depths of the Great Depression, Cleveland had the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run. On September 5th, 1934, a young beachcomber made a gruesome discovery on the shores of Cleveland’s Lake Erie: the lower half of a female torso, neatly severed at the waist. The victim, dubbed “The Lady of the Lake,” was only the first of a butcher’s dozen. Over the next four years, twelve more bodies would be scattered across the city. The bodies were dismembered with surgical precision and drained of blood. Some were beheaded while still alive. Terror gripped the city. Amid the growing uproar, Cleveland’s besieged mayor turned to his newly-appointed director of public safety: Eliot Ness. Ness had come to Cleveland fresh from his headline-grabbing exploits in Chicago, where he and his band of “Untouchables” led the frontline assault on Al Capone’s bootlegging empire. Now he would confront a case that would redefine his storied career. Award-winning author Daniel Stashower shines a fresh light on one of the most notorious puzzles in the annals of crime, and uncovers the gripping story of Ness’s hunt for a sadistic killer who was as brilliant as he was cool and composed, a mastermind who was able to hide in plain sight. American Demon reconstructs this ultimate battle of wits between a hero and a madman. A Macmillan Audio production from Minotaur Books.

Daniel Stashower (Author), Will Damron (Narrator)

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Nothing but the Night: Leopold & Loeb and the Truth Behind the Murder That Rocked 1920s America

Greg King and Penny Wilson turn the original crime of the century on its head in Nothing But the Night, a riveting new exploration of the murder trial of Leopold & Loeb. Nearly a hundred years ago, two wealthy and privileged teenagers—Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb—were charged and convicted in a gruesome crime that would lead to the original “Trial of the Century”. Even in Jazz Age Chicago, the murder was uniquely shocking for the motive of the killers: well-to-do Jewish scions, full of promise, had killed fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks for the thrill of it. The trial was made even more sensational by the revelation of a love affair between the defendants and by defense attorney Clarence Darrow, who delivered one of the most famous defense summations of all time to save the boys from the death penalty. The story of their mad folie à deux, with Loeb portrayed as the psychopathic mastermind and Leopold as his infatuated disciple, has been endlessly repeated and accepted by history as fact. And none of it is true. Using twenty-first century investigative tools, forensics, and a modern understanding of the psychology of these infamous killers, Nothing but the Night turns history on its head. While Loeb has long been viewed as the architect behind the murders, King and Wilson’s new research points to Leopold as the dominant partner in the deadly relationship, uncovering a dark obsession with violence and sex. Nothing but the Night pulls listeners into the troubled world of Leopold and Loeb, revealing a more horrifying tale of passion, obsession, and betrayal than history ever imagined. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.

Greg King, Penny Wilson (Author), Armando Riesco (Narrator)

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Serienmörder - Der Mensch hinter dem Monster

Wie wird ein Mensch zum Serienmörder? Und kann man diese Entwicklung stoppen? Die Psychologin Florence McLean berichtet von dem jahrelangen Briefwechsel, den sie mit einer Reihe berüchtigter Serienmörder geführt hat - unter anderem mit Jeffery Dahmer, der die Köpfe seiner Opfer als Souvenir in der Kühltruhe aufbewahrte, und dem 'Prostituiertenmörder' Arthur John Shawcross. Mit Hilfe von Methoden des berühmten F.B.I.-Profilers John E. Douglas analysiert McLean Denken, Fühlen und Handeln der 34 Täter, die zusammen Hunderte Menschenleben auf dem Gewissen haben. Und sie untersucht die Möglichkeit, potenzielle Täter zu identifizieren, bevor sie den ersten Mord begangen haben, indem man konventionelle Profiling-Techniken neu denkt und anwendet.'Dieses Buch öffnet die Augen dafür, was Profiling wirklich ist - jenseits aller Mythen.' Bent Isager-Nielsen, ehemaliger Leiter der dänischen Mordkommission -

Florence Mclean (Author), Birgit Arnold (Narrator)

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Survival of the Fastest: Weed, Speed, and the 1980s Drug Scandal that Shocked the Sports World

As featured on Netflix's "Bad Sport," the high-octane, Seabiscuit-meets-Scarface story of how Randy Lanier became a 1980s international sports star, soaring through the ranks of car racing while holding a dark secret: he was also one of the biggest pot smugglers in American history As a kid, Randy Lanier dreamed of achieving four-wheel glory at the Indianapolis 500, but knew he'd never be able to afford the most expensive sport on earth. That all changed when he bought a speedboat and began smuggling pot from the Bahamas. Fueled by what would become a historically massive smuggling operation, he started racing cars and became an overnight sensation. For Randy and his teammates, money was no object, and bigger hauls meant faster cars. At every event they attended, they were behind the wheel of the best machinery, flaunting their secret in front of huge crowds and live television cameras. But no matter how fast they drove, they couldn't outrun the law. As Randy came ever closer to reaching his dream of high-speed glory, one of the biggest drug scandals ever to hit the professional sports world was about to unfold. Set in the 1980s Florida of Miami Vice, this is the unbelievable, unforgettable, unparalleled story of an ordinary guy whose attempts to become famous doing the thing he wanted most-become a world class race car driver-devolved into a you-can't-make-this-up tale of one of the biggest crime rings and drug scandals of the 1980s. Now, with the help of New York Times bestselling author A.J. Baime, Randy tells the whole truth for the first time ever, a gripping narrative unlike any other, a sports story for the ages, and shocking a true crime epic.

Randy Lanier (Author), Jonathan Beville (Narrator)

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