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Espresso Media International
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2021.
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Brittney left her house unexpectedly in May 2012 in rural Alabama. She was never seen or heard from again. Her mother has campaigned for years to continue the search after the police gave up. Told emotionally by the family and captivating plot twists at the end of each episode, we discover the horrific truth Brittney’s entire family was hiding. Almost all her relatives were implicated in Alabama’s largest child sex ring, and in May 2012, young...
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"Never Answer to a Whistle "It was meant to be a simple task of repossessing an executive jet from Nigeria...Mike became embroiled in a mess created by an English aristocrat involved in illegal currency dealing.At the same time, Mossad agents were plotting the kidnapping of a Nigerian diplomat in Kensington.To escape certain death from two groups of very angry Nigerians, Mike took off from Lagos International Airport, without permission, only to have...
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Tras más de treinta años como cronista judicial y policial, Carlos Quílez nos presenta, de primera mano y de mano de los presos y expresos, las 18 historias criminales que más le han marcado en su trayectoria profesional y que abarcan desde delincuentes comunes, violadores y asesinos, como Rosa Peral, hasta policías de otras épocas o altos cargos como Sandro Rosell.
Condenados relatos (Más mala vida) es un compendio de historias criminales...
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About the Book The Armenian Genocide traces developments which led to the arrest, detention, and finally, the release of Young Turks and their allies accused of committing war crimes during and after World War 1 against the Christian population of Ottoman Turkey – and most notably Armenians. The primary focus of Walter Bandazian's work concerns the role played by British authorities in the Near East in addressing the Armenian Genocide and initiating...
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Get the Summary of Ann Rule's A Rose for Her Grave in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "A Rose for Her Grave" chronicles the chilling true story of Randy Roth, a man whose manipulative and controlling nature led to the suffering and death of women in his life, echoing the Bluebeard legend. Janis Miranda, a single mother, fell for Randy's charms and married him, despite friends' warnings. As their marriage progressed,...
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Get the Summary of Lara Love Hardin's The Many Lives of Mama Love in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Many Lives of Mama Love" by Lara Love Hardin is a memoir chronicling her tumultuous journey from a troubled childhood to a life marred by addiction, crime, and incarceration, and eventually to redemption and success as a writer. Hardin's early escape into the world of books evolves into a series of addictions,...
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El 8 de junio de 2019, los bomberos encontraron el cuerpo calcinado de un hombre en su casa, en Vilanova i la Geltrú. Unas horas más tarde, su hijo Ismael, de manera espontánea, confesó ante los Mossos d'Esquadra ser el autor material del asesinato: «No he visto otra solución y he tenido que matar a mi padre. Le he clavado un cuchillo por la espalda».
Un caso que parecía resuelto, el mismo día de los hechos, da un giro inesperado para el...
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Exchange student Jamie Penich left her small Pennsylvania hometown to see the world, but her journey ended with a brutal attack in a shabby motel room in Seoul, South Korea, where the raven-haired 21-year-old was found naked and stomped to death. Investigators zeroed in on soldiers, turning out barracks and trolling seedy bars for the GIs who partied with Jamie in the hours leading up to her death. But every lead produced only new mysteries. There...
9) Exposed
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Think your child is safe surfing the Web? Think again, says R. Stephanie Good in this chilling expose and personal memoir about her efforts with the FBI to bust child sex predators. Posing as a young girl, Stephanie has helped the federal government catch everyone from common perverts to Fortune 1000 executives, even an executive from a children's cable television channel. Stephanie reveals the near-tragic personal story that compelled her into this...
10) Doctor Dealer: The Rise and Fall of an All-American Boy and His Multimillion-Dollar Cocaine Empire
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By the early 1980s, Larry Lavin seemed to have everything going for him. He was a bright, charismatic young man who rose from working-class upbringings in a Massachusetts mill town to become a dentist with an Ivy League education and a thriving practice-a beloved father with a well-respected family in one of Philadelphia's most exclusive suburbs.
But behind the façade of his success was a dark secret: Lavin was also the mastermind behind a cocaine...
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This chilling collection of murder cases delves into some of the villainous deeds that have taken place in Scunthorpe's past. Among those featured are a woman who beat her teenage daughter to death for refusing to get out of bed, a steelworker who stabbed two people before barricading himself and his children in his home, and a policeman who strangled his wife and set up the crime scene to make it look like the work of an intruder. Illustrated with...
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Get the Summary of Ben Macintyre's A Spy Among Friends in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "A Spy Among Friends" chronicles the intertwined lives of British intelligence officers Nicholas Elliott and Kim Philby, the latter a notorious double agent for the Soviet Union. Elliott, from a privileged background, joined MI6 and developed a close bond with Philby, who was also recruited into British intelligence despite...
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"The narrative unfolds like a high-stakes crime novel."-Kirkus Reviews
In 1898, a group of schoolboys in Bridgeport, Connecticut discovered gruesome packages under a bridge holding the dismembered remains of a young woman.
Finding that the dead woman had just undergone an abortion, prosecutors raced to establish her identity and fix blame for her death. Suspicion fell on Nancy Guilford, half of a married pair of "doctors" well known to police...
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Get the Summary of Ken Englade's Beyond Reason in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Beyond Reason" by Ken Englade recounts the chilling murders of Derek and Nancy Haysom in 1985, and the subsequent investigation and legal proceedings. The Haysoms, who led unconventional lives, were brutally slain in their Boonsboro home. The investigation, led by Sheriff Wells and his deputies, faced challenges due to the lack of...
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La obra periodística más influyente de la historia, que acabó con un presidente y que ganó del premio Pulitzer.
"El libro que acabó con un presidente... Tal vez la obra periodística más influyente de la historia." Así definió la revista Time este libro, publicado por primera vez en 1974, ganador del premio Pulitzer y considerado como uno de los 100 mejores libros de no ficción de todos los tiempos. "Todos los hombres del presidente" vuelve...
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Get the Summary of Ben Macintyre's The Spy and the Traitor in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Spy and the Traitor" by Ben Macintyre chronicles the life of Oleg Gordievsky, a KGB officer born into a Soviet intelligence family. Despite his father's staunch Communist beliefs and his own KGB career, Gordievsky harbored doubts about the regime. His espionage skills were honed at KGB's School 101, and despite initial...
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Get the Summary of Harry N. MacLean's Starkweather in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Starkweather" by Harry N. MacLean explores the life and crimes of Charles Starkweather, a notorious killer from Lincoln, Nebraska. Born in 1938, Starkweather was bullied as a child, leading to a deep-seated rage. His relationship with Caril Ann Fugate, marked by their intense bond and her troubled background, set the stage for...
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London Times journalist John Follain presents the most comprehensive account of the most publicized and controversial trial in a decade
Shortly after 12:30pm on November 2, 2007, Italian police were called to the Perugia home of twenty-one-year-old British student Meredith Kercher. They found her body on the floor under a beige quilt. Her throat had been cut.
Four days later, the prosecutor jailed Meredith's roommate, American student Amanda Knox,...
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