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An inside look at the gritty, brutal world of Mexican drug trafficking.

Top journalist Cyril Dixon - who attended the hearing - tells the chilling story of how an attention-seeking oddball fashioned himself into a serial killer for the sole purpose of becoming famous.

On Wednesday 2nd June 2010, the villages and towns of West Cumbria awoke to an ordinary sunny day. Hours later, 12 people lay dead and 11 more were wounded after taxi driver Derrick Bird embarked on a terrifying killing spree. This is the tragic story of one of Britain's most shocking criminal atrocities.

Gitta Sereny pieces together the fractured life of Mary Bell, convicted of manslaughter when she was only eleven years old.

The shocking true story of Britain's most savage killer.

A lively history set in sixteenth-century England, detailing the hitherto unknown case of an extraordinary physician, magician, and con-man named Gregory Wisdom - and the London underworld to which he belonged.

Billy Hill was Britain's first celebrity gangster. Born in London's King's Cross, Hill was a charming character with a deadly edge who elevated himself to the top of the pantheon of organised crime. By the early 50's he had control of the city's gambling rackets & masterminded a heist that set the template for the Great Train Robbery.

He built a torture chamber and murdered 14 women. This is the shocking true story of America's worst serial killer.

Investigating the way Hollywood scoops up notorious criminals and turns them into legends, this who's-who guide provides thumbnail sketches of such killers as Ma Barker, Black Beard, Al Capone, John Wesley Hardin, and Charles Starkweather. It explores the legends' emotional truths as depicted in movies, stories, and songs.

Skinheads, Mods, Teddy Boys, Hell's Angels, Punks, Glory Boys to name just a few ... this fascinating book is the definitive guide to hooligan history in the UK. It examines who the men behind the cults were, what made them tick and why they fought their battles.

What goes through the dark minds of notorious killers such as Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, David Berkowitz ('Son of Sam'), John Wayne Gacey, and Dennis Rader (the 'BTK Killer'). Using court transcripts and police interviews, the author has compiled the testimony of twenty of the world's most infamous serial killers - nineteen men and one woman.

It was a crime that shook the nation, a story of grifters, mobsters and stalwart citizens of the American heartland that has all the ingredients of the greatest film noir classics.

In this book, true crime expert Danny Collins examines 22 crimes from the last 40 years that have been so shocking their impact is still felt today.

From fallen porn star John Holmes to jailed pop star Rick James, to the assassination of Irish reporter Veronica Guerin, this collection by the award-winning "Esquire" and "Rolling Stone" journalist brings pop culture's underbelly into dark focus.

"[Makes] history, with all its messiness, ugliness, and even humanity, come vividly alive."-Chicago Tribune

Despite often being unassuming and quiet professionals, men like Albert Pierrepoint, William Billington and many other executioners made a name for themselves in a world hungry for salacious and gruesome news. This book tells the story of these working-class men who carried out this gruesome profession until its abolition in the late 1960's.

Rene Enriquez, aka 'Boxer', was a mob enforcer among the upper echelons of the Mafia. He worked for the La Familia Mexicana, also knowns as La Eme, a powerful mob organization that used a base army of approximately 60,000 armed, loyal Latino gang members - the Surenos - to control California's crime world. This book tells the story of La Eme.

Charles Bronson - mad man. He's eaten more porridge than Goldilocks and the three bears. He's been on more roofs than Santa Claus. He's taken more hostages than Saddam Hussein did. This is the story of a life living with a crazy thing called ...insanity!

This gripping investigation tells the tale of a small-town community shattered by a brutal and savage crime. It is an emotive story which concludes with the execution of McGladdery, the last man to be hanged in Northern Ireland. It's a must-read for any true crime fan.

From sex-crazed fiends to cold-eyed professional assassins, only those convicted of the most terrible murders are told they will die behind bars.

The truth behind the most shocking unsolved murders.

Thrilling and sometimes terrifying in its conclusions, The Rise of the Mafia will rock you to the core.

For twenty-five years, a series of rapes and murders by a faceless man dubbed. The Bike Path Rapist terrorized the quiet suburbs of Buffalo, New York. This title examines the story inside the decades-long investigation - including the startling revelation that an innocent man had spent more than twenty years in jail for two of the rapes.

In the quiet Austrian town of Amstetten in the balmy spring of April 2008, a truly horrifying vision of hell was discovered by police in the cellar of a normal suburban home. On 28 August 1984, seemingly respectable family man Josef Fritzl had lured Elisabeth, the youngest of his seven children, into the cellar of their family home, where he then d

Takes a look at the life and experiences of James Kenneth Stephen, examining the relevant evidence and attempting to determine whether or not Stephen could actually have been involved in the Ripper murders. This work also discusses his relationship with his mother and his father's struggle with a hereditary mental illness.

On the evening of May 3, 2007, Gerry and Kate McCann returned to their resort apartment in Portugal's Algarve to every parents' worst nightmare--their daughter, three-year-old Madeleine Beth McCann had vanished from her room. Her disappearance sparked a worldwide manhunt. Poster campaigns, distraught pleas from the parents, and frenzied media cover

The greatest archaeological find of the 20th century, and perhaps of all time, was the discovery in 1922 of the tomb of the Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamen. Disputing the conclusions reached by the Egyptian team, this book presents a case that the cause of King Tut's death was most likely murder.

I grew up in the Old Colony housing project in South Boston and became partners with James "Whitey" Bulger, who I always called Jimmy. Jimmy and I, we were unstoppable. I went away for five and a half years. I was brutally honest on the witness stand, and this book is brutally honest, too; the brutal truth that was never before told.