Politi og kriminalitet

This book examines the history, theological beliefs and current contextual practices of faith-based NGOs who work in the area of human trafficking involving the sex industry.

This gripping hardback guide brings together shocking case histories of the most notorious serial killers and their egregious crimes, illustrated throughout with chilling full-colour photographs.For most people, serial killers only come into view when their vile acts are reported on the news. But for the victims and their families, they are a terrifying and monstrous threat who change lives beyond repair. Whether driven by lust, greed, anger, or simple sadism, they commit unconscionable crimes, and their senseless violence continues until they are finally caught by the authorities.This book features more than 30 cases of the worst killers ever to have walked the earth, including: • Charles Manson, who led a cult of death and destruction in Los Angeles • Ted Bundy, who charmed women into returning home with him before revealing his true self • John Wayne Gacy, who worked part-time as a clown for children''s birthday parties while in secret took home teenage boys to abuse and kill • Jeffrey Dahmer, who stored a human head in his freezer• Richard Ramirez, the ''Night Stalker'' who slipped in through women''s windows in the middle of the night to rob, rape and murder.• and Tamara Samsonova, the ''Granny Ripper'' who chopped up her victims and dumped them outside her apartment. Fully illustrated with maps, photographs, illustrations, and information boxes with key facts on the killers and their crimes, this chilling book is the essential guide to those who decide to kill and kill again. ABOUT THE SERIES: Arcturus Illustrated Case Files are striking, photo-filled hardbacks, delving into sinister cases of true crime, conspiracies and the paranormal, offering a powerful glimpse into darker side of life.

This enthralling hardback guide tells the story of the rise and spread of The Mafia, from the island of Sicily to the United States and beyond, brought to life with striking full-colour photographs and illustrations. The Mafia is full of blood-chilling characters, from Al Capone, who ran Chicago during Prohibition, and hitmen Louis Lepke and Alberto Anastasia who founded Murder, Inc, to Totò Riina, ''boss of bosses'', John Gotti, ''the Teflon don'', and Bernardo ''The Tractor'' Provenzano, who hid out under cover for 43 years... They were extraordinary men who lived through extraordinary times. The Mafia tells the story of their lives, their families, their codes, their crimes and their cold-blooded murders. It''s a long and enthralling tale, drenched in blood and scored with betrayal.Filled with full-colour photographs, illustrations, and special features, this book provides an essential starting point to understanding the world of organized crime.ABOUT THE SERIES: Arcturus Illustrated Case Files are striking, photo-filled hardbacks, delving into sinister cases of true crime, conspiracies and the paranormal, offering a powerful glimpse into darker side of life.

Pre-order this edge-of-your-seat journey into the darkest depths of the human mind from forensic psychiatrist Dr Duncan Harding- A likeable young girl who's burnt her family home to the ground- A man with no memory of the night he killed his wife- A teenager whose visions and voices have had murderous effectOne question binds these and others from the casebook of Britain's leading forensic psychiatrist: Why?What drives a person to commit seemingly inexplicable crimes? Dr Duncan Harding is the person the police and the courts turn to for answers.An expert witness, he must try to establish a defendant's mental state and motivation. And their fitness to stand trial.Growing up in a broken, violent home, Harding became a doctor because he wanted to be good and kind. It led him on a journey that has brought him face to face with psychopaths, taken him to the limits of his compassion and to the darkest corners of his own troubled past.But he's never turned away nor given up hope. Mesmerising, insightful and redemptive, The Criminal Mind is his unforgettable story.

A gripping new history of London during the Blackout—revealing the violent crime that spread across the capital under the cover of darkness

An uncompromising account of the exorbitant greed and systemic corruption that typifies the cultish world of cryptocurrency.

The Instant Top 5 Irish Times BestsellerFrom the creator of The Irish History Podcast comes a fascinating look at Irish history through the lens of murder.

Reveals the darker aspects of the human psyche.

This book gives the most up-to-date story of the serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, AKA the Yorkshire Ripper. His confessions to police in 1981, and his later confession in 1992 to two further attacks, are gone into in greater detail than ever before, as are attacks on women that the police later felt they had enough evidence to charge him with. We also delve deep into the police investigation and highlight the many failings of the West Yorkshire Police Force and the many times Peter Sutcliffe should have been caught. Using Home Office files that the author had released under the FOI Act at the National Archives, this is the true story of the Yorkshire Ripper âEUR" and the 32 girls and women whose lives he affected forever. In researching this book, the author contacted some of the those whose lives were affected by Sutcliffe. One of those, Mo Lea, kindly agreed to write the foreword for the book having read it in full:_This book is a very valuable contribution, knocking all the other books out there about Sutcliffe well off the shelf!__This is a very thorough and incredibly well researched account of the murders and attacks of Peter Sutcliffe. Chris has produced a comprehensive report that is the best reference book on Peter SutcliffeâEUR(TM)s killing spree. Aspects of the consequences of the investigation are laid bare, clearly underlining where procedures went wrong, especially relating to how the police took John HumbleâEUR(TM)s hoax seriously.__Chris provides insight with an intelligent overview of how the findings of the Byford and Sampson Reports show how the West Yorkshire Police mishandled the investigation.__Compact, condense and a valuable read to anyone interested in his crimes._- Mo Lea, survivor of an attack by Peter Sutcliffe

When Patrick OâEUR(TM)Connor went missing in August 1849, his friends were suspicious. The London dock worker was last seen in the company of Swiss-born Maria Manning and her husband in Bermondsey. By the time police officers discovered his remains under the kitchen floor, the couple had fled. This shocking crime sparked a race against time to bring these cold-blooded killers to justice. After almost a decade of unsolved murders in the capital, could Scotland Yard detectives find the murderous pair and restore public confidence in their sleuthing skills?The search for the Mannings spread beyond England and was closely followed by the Victorian public, including prominent writers such as Charles Dickens who was haunted by the case and later immortalised some of the key characters in _Bleak House_, which was published just four years later. To this day, the Bermondsey Murder remains a legendary crime in the history of Scotland Yard and mid-nineteenth century London. Using primary source material, this book delves into the background of the Mannings, including MariaâEUR(TM)s link with royalty and FrederickâEUR(TM)s previous criminal activities. It also offers a full biography of the victim, Patrick OâEUR(TM)Connor, and his shady past, as well as presenting the original court documents which shed further light on the case and the Mannings' relationship.

A fascinating look at the culture that fuelled the gang violence between rival groups of Italian gangsters, from the 19th century to the present day.

A look at the dark side of life in Kent through the centuries to the present day. This book will fascinate anyone with an interest in the history of crime as well as those who want to know more about the history of this county in the South East of England.

This text offers an insight into the workings of the criminal mind through interviews conducted by the author with some of the world's most evil serial killers. The text reproduces, verbatim, their very words as they describe their crimes and discuss their remorse - or lack of it.

The women in Nagyrev are desperate. They are suffering.The Women Are Not Fine brings together newspapers, court documents and police records to explore "one of the biggest mass poisoning events in modern history" when midwife Zsuzsanna Fazekas arrived at the village of Nagyrev in Hungary in 1911. When Fazekas began listening to the problems women were having at home, she offered a solution - arsenic - and a group of women, who became known as the "Angelmakers", began poisoning their husbands. Nearly 20 years later, it had turned into an epidemic, spiraling into the greatest poisoning case of the 20th century. In 1929, after an anonymous letter was sent to a newspaper in a nearby town, Szolnok, a police investigation unearthed 50 graves; 40 showed signs of arsenic poisoning. But estimates say that up to 300 people in Tiszazug -- a rural region south of Budapest, along the Tisza River -- may have been killed. Nagyrev was dubbed "the murder district" of Hungary. More than 100 women were held in Szolnok prison, charged with murder.

Bitingly feminist true crime book about 1900 mass poisoning of men by women

THE NEW EDITION OF THE BESTSELLING CLASSIC FROM THE UK'S NO.1 TRUE CRIME AUTHOR 'No one else does true crime quite like it,' Crime Monthly Magazine'Terrifying and chilling... True crime at its best.' Daily ExpressLook around you, because the person sitting right next to you could be a cold, heartless murderer. . . In Talking With Psychopaths, bestselling author and criminologist Christopher Berry-Dee takes readers deep inside the dark minds of some of the most pitiless and dangerous people alive. Having spent years interviewing imprisoned criminals - including notorious serial killers - he discovered that the lack of remorse these people showed was in many ways even more terrifying than the crimes they had committed. Yet in the course of these conversations, the author also had the chance to interview his subjects' psychiatrists and, in doing so, uncovered a terrible truth: a monster can be hidden behind a friendly face. Some of these experts, he found, proved to have more in common with their patients than he would ever have expected. This book examines horrific crimes committed by some of the most remorseless and merciless people ever to have lived. If it reveals a mindset wholly alien to most people, it also, shockingly, demonstrates that some of the people who treat these psychopaths have their own demons. This chilling study of darkest of criminal minds will inevitably shift the reader's view of psychopaths, and in doing so, reveals that horror can be much closer to us than we think...

Der Kriminalhauptkommissar im Ruhestand Heinrich Weber schnappte sich die Hundeleine um mit Lucy, seiner Schäferhündin, die übliche Runde durch das Lechlumer Holz zu gehen. Als er Lucy laut bellen hörte, schreckte er aus seinen Gedanken auf. Er sah sich um, doch seine Hündin war nicht zu sehen. Auch mit seinen mehrfach gerufenen Kommandos: Lucy, bei Fuß hatte er keinen Erfolg. So blieb ihm nichts anderes übrig, als sich an ihrem heftigen Gebell zu orientieren und tiefer ins Unterholz zu gehen. Endlich sah er Lucy an einem Reisighaufen scharrend und wollte sie gerade an die Leine nehmen, da sah er den kleinen nackten Fuß, den die Hündin frei gescharrt hatte. Der Form und der Farbe nach zu urteilen, lag der Fuß eines Kindes, schon mehrere Tage. Mit diesen Gedanken und heftigen Stichen in der Brust brach er zusammen. Denn es war nicht die erste Leiche, die im Landkreis Wolfenbüttel und angrenzenden Gemeinden gefunden worden war. Etliche Ermittlungsdetails waren an die Öffentlichkeit gelangt, und so ging in der Bevölkerung die Angst um, dass hier ein Serientäter sein Unwesen trieb. Das LKA mit seinen beiden Hauptermittlern, den KHKen Erwin Schirmer und Berthold Korff, intern in Polizeikreisen Ernie und Bert genannt, hatte die Ermittlungen übernommen. Doch über Jahre wurden immer wieder Jungenleichen, post mortem grausam verstümmelt, in den Wäldern Norddeutschlands gefunden. Auch die Art der Fundorte, die Leichen befanden sich einer Art Zweighütte, gaben lange Zeit Rätsel auf.

Grégori de la Rochemote, passionné depuis son enfance par la recherche d'indices est aujourd'hui un officier de police respecté oeuvrant au sein d'une Brigade Criminelle renommée. Il n'aurait jamais imaginé qu'au retour d'une partie de pêche, il puisse se retrouver mêlé à à une enquête des plus étranges se rapportant à un homicide perpétré cent-cinquante-cinq ans auparavant. Au fil des investigations, il apprendra à ses dépends que son existence même est au coeur de l'intrigue. Prisonnier d'un lien immatériel qui le prive de son libre arbitre, il comprendra très vite que son futur ne saurait exister sans que ce passé qui le poursuit ne soit exhumé. Pour résoudre cette énigme hors du commun, Grégori de la Rochemote devra dépasser ses propres appréhensions afin de redorer le blason familial terni par les agissements criminels d'un assassin sans scrupule.

Texas Ranger Rhyden Trammell walks a tightrope. The single dad battles crime in Bennett County while fighting a demon far more insidious: a growing opioid addiction fueled by the pain of his past. His daughters, already scarred by trauma, deserve better than a fading hero wrestling with his own darkness.With a vicious serial rapist stalking Bennett County leaving a growing trail of terror in his wake, small town whispers point to the unthinkable. Could the rapist be a sheriff's deputy?When his investigation places his middle daughter, seventeen-year-old Samantha, in the crosshairs of a rapist-turned-murderer, Rhyden knows justice hangs by a thread. Can he hunt a monster while warring with himself? As addiction tightens its grip, he faces a chilling ultimatum: confront his demons or risk losing everything.Can he expose the true predator before another life is shattered? Or will his personal demons claim him first, leaving his daughters forever tormented by tragedy?Broken Dreams was originally published on Kindle Vella.

Book 11 in the Gabriel Hawke SeriesA church fire.An unconscious woman on Starvation Ridge.Gabriel Hawke, fish and wildlife officer with the Oregon State Police, helps with a fire at the Lighted Path church before heading out to check turkey hunters. He discovers a car wedged between two trees and a woman with a head injury reeking of smoke. Is she the arsonist? Hawke encounters the county midwife gloating over the burnt church and learns she and the victim in the car know one another. Two seemingly separate events lead Hawke to a serial rapist and a county full of secrets.