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TOP 5 Arrepiantes
By L Montague, Tut Werneck. 2018
Top 5 Cidades Secretas A maioria de nós esté acostumada a ir e vir da cidade como desejam. Mas isso…
não é verdade para todos. Algumas pessoas estão presas em suas cidades - às vezes até pequenas partes de cidades, enquanto outros vivem em túneis subterrâneos ou em espaços secretos. 5. Edinburgh Vaults 4. Mercury 3. Dixia Cheng 2. Oak Ridge 1. Ozersk Top 5 drogas aterrorizantes Eu não acho que preciso dizer a você que usar drogas pesadas não é a maneira mais saudável de passar o seu tempo livre. Algumas drogas possuem efeitos decastadores no corpo humano, mas até o usuário sentir os efeitos, ele ou ela já foi longe demais para parar. Estas 5 drogas são aterrorizantes e eu espero que ninguém nunca tenha acesso a elas. 5. Sais de Banho 4. O Bafo do Diabo 3. Jenkem 2. Krokodil 1 Whoonga Top 5 histórias paranormais na Inglaterra do séc. XVII As pessoas sempre tiveram interesse no paranormal. Elas sempre quiseram colocar um rosto nas coisas que não podiam explicar. Ainda mais em um tempo onde fadas, fantasmas e bruxas andavam pela terra nas histórias contadas de avós para netas. 5. Anne Jeffries e as Fadas 4. O poltergeist de Isabel Heriot 3. A Sósia de Mary Goffe 2. O demônio de Spreyton 1. O Fantasma de Anne Walker Top 5 segredos interessantes revelados pelos mais novos documentos descobertos de JFK Milhares e milhares de documentos e gravações que foram previamente segurados no que diz respeito às investigações sobre o assassinato de John F Kennedy foram recentemente liberados. Os documentos brilharam uma luz no que foi assunto de teorias da conspiração, intrigas e mistérios pelos últimos 50 anos.Milhares e milhares de documentos e gravações que foram previamente segurados no que diz respeito às investigações sobre o assassinato de John F Kennedy foram recentemente liberados. Os documentos brilharam uma luz no que foi assunto de teorias da conspiraçMulheres assassinas: 10 mulheres assassinas do presente e do passado
By E L Montague, Nat lia Werneck. 2018
Introdução A maioria dos serial killers mais conhecidos e assassinos malignos são homens. Basta digitar as palavras “serial killer” no…
google e uma lista de assassinos do sexo masculino aparecerão. Bundy, Fish, Kemper…, mas pouco sabemos que, apesar de existirem menos serial killers do sexo feminino, elas podem ser tão frias, sem coração e especialmente horríveis. As mulheres matam com veneno, os homens, com os punhos, dizem. Apesar de parecer que as mulheres possuem uma preferência por pequenas garrafas com caveiras no rótulo, como veremos neste documentário, elas amam um massacre tanto quanto suas contrapartes masculinas. A história é repleta de mulheres violentas e matadoras. Podemos ler sobre mulheres lutando nos tempos antigos com não menos ferocidade que homens. Dynamis de Bosphorus, vivendo no que hoje em dia é a Turquia, matou seu marido, o rei, de fome para tomar seu trono e seu reino (Cersei Lannister?). Ou pense em Mary Tudor que se tornou Mary 1 e logo ganhou o apelido “Bloody Mary” por conta de sua sede por sangue de protestantes. E a lista continua… O que estou tentando dizer é que temos uma ideia errônea no que diz respeito à serial killers mulheres. Parece que mulheres sedentas por sangue são criaturas raras, perpetuadas pela mídia popular e claro, a imprensa. Estes 10 contos horríveis de assassinato são todos estrelados por mulheres.Drop Dead: A Horrible History of Hanging in Canada
By Lorna Poplak. 2017
Shining a light on the dark history of hangings in Canada. Take a journey through notable cases in Canada’s criminal…
justice history, featuring well-known and some less-well-known figures from the past. You'll meet Arthur Ellis, Canada’s most famous hangman, whose work outfit was a frock coat and striped trousers, often with a flower pinned to his lapel. And you will also encounter other memorable characters, including the man who was hanged twice and the gun-toting bootlegger who was the only woman every executed in Alberta. Drop Dead: A Horrible History of Hanging in Canada illustrates how trial, sentencing, and punishment operated in Canada’s first century, and examines the relevance of capital punishment today. Along the way, learn about the mathematics and physics behind hangings, as well as disturbing facts about bungled executions and wrongful convictions.The Duke of Wellington, Kidnapped!: The Incredible True Story of the Art Heist That Shocked a Nation
By Noah Charney, Alan Hirsch. 2016
In 1961, a thief broke into the National Gallery in London and committed the most sensational art heist in British…
history. He stole the museum's much prized painting, The Duke of Wellington by Francisco Goya. Despite unprecedented international attention and an unflagging investigation, the case was not solved for four years, and even then, only because the culprit came forward voluntarily. Kempton Bunton, an elderly gentleman, claimed he executed the theft armed with only a toy gun, a disguise purchased for five shillings, and a getaway car inadvertently provided by a drunkard. Shortly after turning himself in, Bunton also invoked language in an obscure law to maintain his innocence, despite the confession. He did not allege that the confession was false, but rather that stealing the painting did not constitute a crime because he intended to return it. On account of this improbable defense strategy, the story took another twist, resulting in a bizarre courtroom drama and extraordinary verdict.Over fifty years later, Alan Hirsch decided to explore the facts behind this historic case and uncovered shocking new evidence that both solved the crime and deepened the mystery. As Hirsch immersed himself in court documents, National Gallery archives, press accounts,Terrorífico Top 5: Parte 2
By L Montague. 2018
El Top 5 de las Ciudades Secretas La mayor parte de nosotros estamos acostumbrados a entrar y salir de la…
ciudad a nuestro antojo. Pero ese no es el caso para toda la gente. Algunas personas se encuentran atrapadas en sus propias ciudades – a veces incluso en áreas reducidas de la ciudad, mientras que otros habitan en túneles subterráneos o en espacios secretos. 5. La Bóvedas de Edimburgo 4. Mercury 3. Dixia Cheng 2. Oak Ridge 1. Ozersk El Top 5 de las Dogas más Terroríficas Creo que no necesito recordarte que consumir drogas duras no es la manera más saludable de pasar tu tiempo libre. Algunas drogas tienen efectos devastadores en el organismo humano, pero para cuando el usuario comienza a sentir los efectos, él o ella ya se han introducido demasiado lejos dentro del agujero del conejo como para detenerse. Estas cinco drogas son completamente aterradoras y espero que nadie se ponga en contacto con ellas. 5. Sales de Baño 4. El Aliento del Diablo 3. Jenkem 2. Krokodil 1 Whoonga El Top 5 de las Historias Paranormales de la Inglaterra del Siglo 17 La gente siempre se ha interesado en lo paranormal. Siempre han querido ponerle un rostro a las cosas que no pueden explicar. Más aún en una época en que las hadas, los fantasmas y las brujas caminaban por la tierra en historias que son transmitidas de abuelas a nietas. 5. Anne Jeffries y las Hadas 4. El Poltergeist de Isabel Heriot 3. El Doble de Mary Goffe 2. El Demonio de Spreyton 1. El Fantasma de Anne Walker El Top 5 de los Secretos más Importantes Revelados por los Documentos de JFK Recientemente Liberados Recientemente, fueron liberados miles y miles de registros y documentos referentes a la investigación del asesinato de John F. Kennedy que habían sido retenidos con anterioridad. Estos documentos hanMujeres asesinas 10 Asesinas del pasado y el presente
By E L Montague. 2018
Mayormente, los más conocidos asesinos en series y astutos homicidas pertenecen al genero masculino. Solo tenemos que colocar en google…
las palabras "asesinos en serie" y una larga lista de hombres aparecerán. Bundy, Fish, Kemper y más... Pero poco sabemos que, a pesar representar una gran población en el gremio, también las mujeres asesinas pueden ser tan frías como el invierno, sin corazón y capaces de actos horripilantes. Es bien conocido el dicho de que las mujeres matan con veneno y los hombres a puño cerrado, a pesar de no parece ser que el género femenino tenga preferencia por botellitas con calaveras a la hora de matar. En este documental descubriremos que a las mujeres les gustan las masacres tanto como a su contraparte masculina. La historia está llena de mujeres asesinas y violentas. Podemos leer de mujeres de la antigüedad que pelearon con igual ferocidad que hombres fuertes. En el estrecho de Bósforo, en el actual Turquía, existió una mujer y esposa que mató a su esposo y rey solo para quedarse con el trono (¿Cersei Lannister?). O quizás pensemos en Mary Tudor, conocida luego como Mary 1 o Bloody Mary (Mary la sangrienta), reputación ganada debido a su gran sed por la sangre de los reformistas protestantes. Y la lista sigue... Lo que trato de decir es que existe un grave concepto erróneo cuando pensamos en mujeres asesinas en serie, parece ser que las mujeres sedienta de sangre son raras criaturas perpetuadas por leyendas populares y la prensa. Esta es la primera parte de mujeres asesinas, un documental acerca de las historias menos conocidas pero igualmente horripilantes de las mujeres más letales a través del tiempo y la historia.Dear Dawn: Aileen Wuornos in Her Own Words
By Phyllis Chesler, Daphne Gottlieb, Lisa Kester, Aileen Wuornos. 2012
Between 1989 and 1990, Aileen Wuornos, a hitchhiking prostitute, shot, killed, and robbed seven men in remote Florida locations. Arrested…
in 1991, Wuornos insisted she had acted in self-defense, but the jury had little sympathy. Condemned to death on six separate counts, she was executed by lethal injection in 2002.An abused runaway who turned to prostitution to survive, Wuornos has become iconic of vengeful women who lash out at the nearest target. She has also become a touchstone for women's, prostitutes', and prisoners' rights advocates. Her story has inspired myriad books and articles, as well as the 2003 movie Monster, for which Charlize Theron won an Academy Award. But until now, Wuornos's uncensored voice has never been heard.Dear Dawn is Wuornos's autobiography culled from her ten-year death row correspondence with beloved childhood friend Dawn Botkins. Authorized for publication by Wuornos and edited under the guidance of Botkins, the letters not only offer Wuornos's riveting reflections on the murders, legal battles, and media coverage, but go further, revealing her fears and obsessions, her rich humor and empathy, and her gradual disintegration as her execution approached. A candid life story told to a trusted friend, Dear Dawn is a compelling narrative, unwaveringly true to its source.PEOPLE True Crime: Cults
By The Editors of PEOPLE. 1978
Dirty John and Other True Stories of Outlaws and Outsiders
By Christopher Goffard. 2018
A collection of newspaper stories by award-winning Los Angeles Times reporter Christopher Goffard—including “Dirty John,” the basis for the hit…
podcast and the upcoming Bravo scripted series starring Connie Britton and Eric Bana.Since its release in fall 2017, the “Dirty John” podcast—about a conman who terrorizes a Southern California family—has been downloaded more than 20 million times, and will soon premiere as a scripted drama on Bravo starring Connie Britton and Eric Bana. The story, which also ran as a print series in the Los Angeles Times, wasn’t unfamiliar terrain to its writer, Christopher Goffard. Over two decades at newspapers from Florida to California, Goffard has reported probingly on the shadowy, unseen corners of society. This book gathers together for the first time “Dirty John” and the rest of his very best work. “The $40 Lawyer” provides an inside account of a young public defender’s rookie year in the legal trenches. “Framed” offers an unblinking chronicle of suburban mayhem (and is currently being developed by Netflix as a film starring Julia Roberts). A man wrongly imprisoned for rape, train-riding runaways in love, a Syrian mother forced to leave her children in order to save them, a boy who grows up to become a cop as a way of honoring his murdered sister, another boy who struggles with the knowledge that his father is on death row: these stories reveal the complexities of human nature, showing people at both their most courageous and their most flawed. Goffard shared in the Los Angeles Times’ Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2011 and has twice been a Pulitzer finalist for feature writing. This collection—a must-read for fans of both true-crime and first-rate narrative nonfiction—underscores his reputation as one of today’s most original journalistic voices.Hockey: A Global History (Sport and Society #125)
By Andrew Holman, Stephen Hardy. 2018
Long considered Canadian, ice hockey is in truth a worldwide phenomenon--and has been for centuries. In Hockey: A Global History,…
Stephen Hardy and Andrew C. Holman draw on twenty-five years of research to present THE monumental end-to-end history of the sport. Here is the story of on-ice stars and organizational visionaries, venues and classic games, the evolution of rules and advances in equipment, and the ascendance of corporations and instances of bureaucratic chicanery. Hardy and Holman chart modern hockey's "birthing" in Montreal and follow its migration from Canada south to the United States and east to Europe. The story then shifts from the sport's emergence as a nationalist battlefront to the movement of talent across international borders to the game of today, where men and women at all levels of play lace 'em up on the shinny ponds of Saskatchewan, the wide ice of the Olympics, and across the breadth of Asia. Sweeping in scope and vivid with detail, Hockey: A Global History is the saga of how the coolest game changed the world--and vice versa.Strange: True Stories of the Mysterious and Bizarre (World Famous Ser.)
By Colin Wilson, Damon Wilson. 2014
Over fifty of the most fascinating accounts of history's greatest unsolved mysteries.Did werewolves roam the countryside of fifteenth century France?…
What exactly is El Chupacabra, a creature whose name translates to "The Goat Sucker" in English? What phantoms and apparitions drift the halls of Borley Rectory, earning it the nickname of "The Most Haunted House in England"? Featuring maps, callouts, and facts that locate these mysterious happenings, Strange is a groundbreaking book and the first of its kind.In this riveting account of history's most baffling mysteries, two of the world's leading authorities on the supernatural, writer Colin Wilson and his son, Damon, search for the elusive answers to the most puzzling questions of the all time-from the fate of Atlantis to the curses of the ancient Egyptians to the Bermuda Triangle. Dozens of mysteries, some that have puzzled scientists and thinkers for centuries, are collected, illustrated, and explained in this captivating-and chilling-book.Lavishly illustrated and expertly written, Strange continues the Wilsons' quest for answers to the great mysteries of the universe, taking readers on a journey beyond the imagination where fact seems stranger than fiction.Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were brutally murdered at her home on Bundy Drive in Brentwood, California, on the…
night of June 12, 1994. The days and weeks that followed were full of spectacle, including a much-watched car chase and the eventual arrest of O. J. Simpson for the murders. The televised trial that followed was unlike any that the nation had ever seen. Long since convinced of O. J.'s guilt, the world was shocked when the jury of the "trial of the century" read the verdict of not guilty. To this day, the LAPD, Los Angeles District Attorney's office, mainstream media, and much of the world at large remain firmly convinced that O. J. Simpson got away with murder.According to private investigator William Dear, it is precisely this assuredness that has led both the police and public to overlook a far more likely suspect. Dear now compiles more than seventeen years of investigation by his team of forensic experts and presents evidence that O. J. was not the killer. In O. J. Is Innocent and I Can Prove It, Dear makes the controversial, but compelling, case that it may have been the "overlooked suspect," O. J.'s eldest son, Jason, who committed the grisly murders. Sure to stir the pot and raise some eyebrows, this book is a must-read.Greentown: Murder and Mystery in Greenwich, America's Wealthiest Community
By Timothy Dumas. 2013
The first edition of Greentown helped reopen one of America's most shameful unsolved murder cases, the savage slaying of fifteen-year-old…
Martha Moxley in an exclusive enclave of Greenwich, Connecticut, the night before Halloween 1975. Soon after Martha's body was discovered, attention focused on members of the Skakel family, who lived across the street from the Moxleys. Ethel Skakel and Robert Kennedy had married in Greenwich, and the two families were close. Thomas Skakel, Ethel's nephew, was the last known person to see Martha alive. The murder weapon, a ladies' golf club, came from the Skakel household. When the Greenwich police tried to pursue its investigation, however, the community closed in upon itself. Lawyers were summoned, walls went up, information was suppressed, and no one was charged. And yet, continuing to haunt Greenwich, the case refused to go away--until, twenty-three years later, following the publication of this book, a grand jury was convened, and two years after that a man--Thomas's brother Michael--was finally indicted for the crime.This revised edition now brings the Martha Moxley murder case to a close. Updated to include the indictment, trial, and conviction of the murderer, Greentown offers the suspenseful and chilling account of a terrible crime. More than that, while relating a tale of seductive power, it uses the murder to tell the heartrending story of a family and a community responding to the unthinkable.Reclaiming Parkland: Tom Hanks, Vincent Bugliosi, and the JFK Assassination in the New Hollywood
By Oliver Stone, James DiEugenio. 2016
Reclaiming Parkland details the failed attempt of Academy Award-winning actor Tom Hanks and producer Gary Goetzman to make Vincent Bugliosi’s…
mammoth book about the Kennedy assassination, Reclaiming History, into a miniseries. It exposes the questionable origins of Reclaiming History in a dubious mock trial for cable television, in which Bugliosi played the role of an attorney prosecuting Lee Harvey Oswald for murder, and how this formed the basis for the epic tome. Author James DiEugenio details the myriad problems with Bugliosi’s book, and explores the cooperation of the mainstream press in concealing many facts during the publicity campaign for the book and how this lack of scrutiny led Hanks and Goetzman?cofounders of the production company Playtone?to purchase the film rights. DiEugenio then shows how the film adapted from that book, entitled Parkland, does not resemble Bugliosi’s book and examines why. This book reveals the connections between Washington and Hollywood, as well as the CIA influence in the film colony today. It includes an extended look at the little-known aspects of the lives and careers of Bugliosi, Hanks, and Goetzman. Reclaiming Parkland sheds light on the Kennedy assassination, New Hollywood, and the political influence on media in America.Judas: Así traicioné a mi hermano, el gángster más famoso de Holanda
By Astrid Holleeder. 2018
A un mal perro, a un perro que muerde, hay que meterlo en una jaula. O sacrificarlo. Willem Holleeder es…
uno de los criminales más celebres de Europa. Obtuvo cierta notoriedad al secuestrar, en 1983, al presidente de la cervecera Heineken. Durante décadas ha manejado a sus parientes como si fueran un apéndice más de sus negocios mafiosos, llegando a amenazarlos de muerte si se atrevían a traicionarle. A su hermana Astrid, sin embargo, Willem la consideró siempre su confidente. Vive escondida porque tuvo el valor de escribir este libro. Tras observar cómo su hermano se abría paso en el hampa, apenas cumplía ninguna de las condenas que recibía y morían tanto sus socios como quienes osaban denunciarle, Astrid decidió cambiar las tornas. Empezó a colaborar con la fiscalía y a grabar las conversaciones con Willem, para obtener pruebas que permitieran condenarlo definitivamente. Nadie sabe cómo terminará la partida. Judas no es solo una historia de crimen real: es un retrato espectacular sobre las relaciones de familia y el sentido de la traición. La crítica ha dicho...«Un libro arrebatador donde no sobra ningún detalle.»Berliner Zeitung «Un relato real inesperadamente siniestro y cruel que, al estar narrado con solvencia, se convierte en una lectura fabulosa, trufada con el típico humor negro de Amsterdam.»De Telegraaf «Un libro en el que se mezclan la repulsión, el amor y la venganza. Este es el relato real de una familia que ha sido dominada por el crimen.»NRC Handelsblad «Escrita desde un lugar secreto, en protección de testigos, Judas es una historia sobre el engaño, el fraude y, por encima de todo, el coraje. Una denuncia contra los lazos familiares que llegan a estrangular las vidas de muchos.»The Washington Post «Un drama fascinante y conmovedor.»De Volkskrant «Astrid Holleeder es una Sherezade actual. Es muy buena explicando historias para salvar la vida día tras día.»Literaturspiegel «Holleeder es un apellido poco conocido fuera de Holanda. Con este libro, todo va a cambiar.»The New York Times «Un relato autobiográfico espléndido, sensacional, inolvidable.»KirkusBirth of a Dynasty: The 1980 New York Islanders
By Alan Hahn, Bob Nystrom. 2017
The National Hockey League saw the birth of a new dynasty in 1980. The New York Islanders had been an…
expansion franchise in 1972 in the New York City suburbs of Long Island. For years they played in the long shadow of the big-city New York Rangers and were considered the league’s laughingstock during their first season. Miraculously, eight years later, they were champions. Despite their mercurial rise in the 1970s—which included a first-place overall finish in the 1978-79 season—the Islanders were still considered chokers because of playoff failures. The most frustrating failure of all came at the hands of the rival Rangers, who beat them in 1979 to advance to the Stanley Cup Finals. A year later they stumbled through an injury-plagued and inconsistent regular season. When the playoffs arrived again, however, they were ready. Bolstered by the late-season addition of speedy center Butch Goring and the bitterness of the previous year’s defeat, the Islanders overcame their past failures and put together an exhausting and dramatic run to their first-ever appearance in the Stanley Cup Finals. In the Finals they met the still-dominant Philadelphia Flyers, two-time champions in the 1970s. The ensuing battle demonstrated not only the promise with which the Islanders had always teased their fans, but also the maddening struggles that seemed to hold them back every year. That is, until Game Six, when Bob Nystrom, an everyman’s everyman, scored the clinching goal at 7:11 of overtime to make history in both the NHL and on Long Island. It is a moment that still lives in the hearts of Islanders fans and in the annals of Long Island, as a region and a community. It is a moment that spawned a run of four consecutive championships, the longest by any United States-based professional team and a run that has since gone unmatched. Newly revised, Birth of a Dynasty: The 1980 New York Islanders is the story of how it happened, how it came together, and what it felt like to be there.Wicked Pittsburgh (Wicked)
By Richard Gazarik. 2018
Muckraking journalist Walter Liggett dubbed Pittsburgh the "Metropolis of Corruption" in 1930 when he reported the city had more vice…
per square foot than New York, Detroit, Cleveland or Boston. Decades earlier, the Magee-Flinn political machine ruled public officials, and crooked police helped racketeers protect brothels and gambling dens. Mayor (later Governor) David Lawrence was indicted several times for graft but acquitted each time. Even Pittsburgh Steelers founder Art Rooney Sr. colluded with gangsters, according to FBI reports. Join author Richard Gazarik as he reveals the wicked history of the Steel City.Wicked Wichita (Wicked)
By Joe Stumpe. 2018
Early Wichita earned a wicked reputation from newspapers across Kansas thanks to a bevy of madams and murderers, bootleggers and…
bank robbers, con men and crooked cops. Gambler and saloonkeeper "Rowdy Joe" Lowe was the toast of the town before shooting down his rival, "Red" Beard, and skipping town. Robber and cop killer "Clever Eddie" Adams spread a wave of terror until the police evened the score. Dixie Lee ran the city's classiest brothel with little interference from authorities. Notorious quack "Professor" H. Samuels made a fortune selling worthless eye drops. And county attorney Willard Boone was chased out of town when he was caught with his hand in the bootlegger's cookie jar. Local author Joe Stumpe tells the real stories of the city's best-known and least-known criminals and misfits.Wicked Milwaukee (Wicked)
By Yance Marti. 2018
The Cream City of yesteryear was a dingy haven for scofflaws and villains. Red-light districts peppered downtown's landscape, but none…
had the enduring allure of River Street, where Kitty Williams and Mary Kingsley operated high-class brothels. Chinese opium dens flourished in the backrooms of laundries. The demise of the Whiskey Ring brought down local distillers in a nationwide scandal that nearly reached the Oval Office. As a result, Police Chief John Janssen and the Committee to Investigate White Slavery and Kindred Vice waged a protracted battle to contain the most brazen offenses. Local historian and founder of OldMilwaukee.net Yance Marti uncovers the rough and rowdy blackguards who once made Milwaukee infamous.Wicked Fairfax County (Wicked)
By Cindy Bennett. 2018
Fairfax County is far more than just a bedroom community for Washington, D.C. The county has been the site of…
crimes as shocking and fascinating as anything that happens across the Potomac. In 1898, troops from a Spanish-American War training camp looted their way across the area, even robbing a few graves. The twentieth century brought horrific murders, hysteria over a hatchet-wielding rabbit and an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus. The tenacity of suffragists jailed in the Lorton Workhouse changed the very character of our nation. Later, spies crisscrossed the county, leaving our country's Cold War secrets and millions in cash stuffed under bridges. Join author Cindy Bennett as she chronicles the wicked and wild side of Fairfax County.