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From 1977 to 1981, Ruth Finley, an ordinary wife and mother from Kansas, was tormented by an elusive maniac known as The Poet. The police, already on edge from BTK’s reign of terror, spent years searching for the stalker. Meanwhile, his cryptic letters in rhymed verse grew more disturbing and violent, spilling into deeds like stabbing and kidnapping.

In 1978, Greta Rideout was the first woman in United States history to accuse her husband of rape, at a time when the idea of “marital rape” seemed ludicrous to many Americans and was a crime in only four states. After a quick and conservative trial acquitted John Rideout and a defense lawyer lambasted that “maybe rape is the risk of being married,” Greta was ridiculed and scorned from public life, while John went on to be a repeat offender.

It is difficult to imagine a more heinous crime than the sexual abuse of children. Yet, terrifyingly, a new case of child sexual abuse is reported every seven minutes. In response to this crisis, self-appointed groups of citizens are fashioning themselves as pedophile hunters." Operating outside the law, these groups use social media to bait and expose those seeking to engage children sexually, both on- and offline. Their work has been remarkably effective, but at what cost?

Through the eyes of one of convicted paedophile Bill Kenneally’s many victims, Ireland’s Protected Predator takes listeners on a harrowing journey through his brutal reign of terror. This shocking story explores the former basketball coach and Fianna Fáil activist’s warped obsession with handcuffs and how he blackmailed powerless children into silence by threatening to circulate Polaroid images taken during these depraved attacks.

Working under California's Sexually Violent Predator Law, Samantha Stein, PsyD, faces such offenders alone, one by one, in a prison interview room. As a forensic psychologist, her high-stakes decisions can determine the difference between a life lived back in society or one condemned to indefinite incarceration.

In May 2005, authorities discovered the Groene family murdered in their Idaho home. The family’s youngest members—eight-year-old Shasta and her brother, nine-year-old Dylan—were nowhere to be found. As a community prayed for their return, Shasta and Dylan were already miles away in the woods of Montana at the hands of serial killer Joseph Edward Duncan. After a harrowing forty-eight day ordeal, Shasta was rescued. In many ways, her survival story was only beginning.

Thirty years since the death of Fred West and the conviction of his wife Rose, in 1995, the West murder case exerts a magnetic fascination for true crime listeners. The Wests claimed twelve victims, young women and girls including members of their own family. Nine mutilated bodies were found buried under their home at 25 Cromwell St, Gloucester, the so-called House of Horrors. The Fred West Tapes incorporates remarkable new evidence and primary source testimony, including the experiences of the West children and victim families.

In 1891, a suffragist and social reformer named Alzire Chevaillier launched a moral crusade to destroy Fountaingrove, a utopian spiritualist community in northern California. Chevaillier accused the colony's leader, the poet and prophet Thomas Lake Harris, of perverting the teachings of the Bible to promote a “new sexology” that was “worse than Mormonism.” She insisted that Harris used magical powers of hypnosis to take sexual and financial advantage of his followers, turning them into a “spiritual harem” that practiced “free love” and other gross immoralities.

For over four decades the story of the extraordinary evil that occurred at the Kincora Boys’ Home in East Belfast in the 1970s and the shocking attempts by MI5 to cover it up have haunted our political and social terrain for decades.

This explosive exposé reveals the shocking truth about Mohamed Al-Fayed's controversial 25-year reign at Harrods. To the public, he was the jovial, eccentric owner of one of the world's most iconic department stores—handing out lollipops and gifts to customers. But behind the scenes, Fayed wielded his power with cruelty, humiliation, and abuse that went unchecked for decades. Drawing on extensive firsthand interviews with former employees, executives, police officers, and erstwhile friends, The Monster of Harrods exposes chilling accounts of misconduct, many detailed here for the first time.

Die Lebensgeschichte einer Frau, die als kleines Kind missbraucht wurde. Sie war noch zu klein, um zu verstehen, was mit ihr geschah. Das Geschehen wurde in ihrem Unterbewusstsein verankert. Es holte sie einige Jahre später auf bittere Art und Weise ein. Nach dem Erkennen verschloss sie ihr Herz. Es begegnete ihr die große Liebe mit einem noch größeren Geheimnis. Ihr war nicht bewusst, was es bedeutet, wenn ein Mann sagt "ich bin ein Fetischist", welche Bedeutung dieses Wort im Leben von Liebenden hat. Sie sollte es aber erfahren ...

As an 18-year-old on a gap year in Canberra, Liz Cameron was approached at a shopping centre by a woman who, unbeknownst to her, was a recruiting agent for Providence, a Christian cult that originated in South Korea and currently operates in 72 countries. As a new adult, Cameron was struggling to navigate the world and her identity, and as cults do so skilfully, they took advantage of her vulnerability.

Op 2 november 2020 krijgt Caroline Darian een telefoontje van haar moeder met de mededeling dat haar vader Dominique Pelicot is opgepakt. De inbeslagname van zijn computer onthult het ondenkbare: sinds 2013 heeft hij zijn vrouw gedrogeerd voordat hij haar liet misbruiken door meer dan tachtig verschillende mannen. Met uitzonderlijke moed vertelt Darian over de schokkende ontdekking dat een dierbare, haar eigen vader, tot het ergste in staat is.

La plus grande affaire de pédophilie jamais révélée en France. Pendant près de cinquante ans, sous l'apparence d'un établissement d'excellence, l'institution catholique Notre-Dame de Bétharram a fait vivre un enfer aux enfants qui y étaient élèves, dès leur plus jeune âge. Brimades, humiliations, violences physiques et sexuelles ont libre cours dans la plus totale impunité, avec la complicité de tous ceux qui n'ont pas voulu voir ni parler. Les victimes, Pascal, Alexandre, Hélène, et des centaines d'autres, se sont tues à défaut de pouvoir être crues, entendues, sauvées.

Na cama com um hacker revela os bastidores de uma das violações de dados mais chocantes da era da internet: o hack do Ashley Madison. Da noite para o dia, milhões de cônjuges infiéis tiveram seus nomes reais, endereços e preferências sexuais expostos em um banco de dados acessível a qualquer pessoa com acesso à internet.

THE CRACK CITY STRANGLER: The Homicides of Serial Killer Benjamin Atkins offers a chilling, in-depth account of the horrifying crimes committed by one of America’s most notorious serial killers. In this gripping narrative, award-winning journalist B.R. Bates delves into the twisted life of Benjamin “Tony” Atkins, whose reign of terror in Detroit spanned less than a year in the early 1990s.

De heftige, veelgelezen roman uit Frankrijk, winnaar van de Prix Femina en de Prix Goncourt des lycéens.Tussen haar zevende en haar veertiende werd Neige...

In 1989, the Little Rascals Day Care in Edenton, North Carolina, was suddenly thrust into the national spotlight. One day, the owner's husband disciplined a boy at naptime, and soon an angry mother suggested that it was more than just a slap. Rumors quickly morphed into charges of unimaginable crimes against dozens of little children. Panic consumed the town, as the police, therapists, and parents relentlessly pressured the children who attended the day care to name their teachers responsible for multiple allegations of abuse.

Unravel the chilling true story of Jeffrey Epstein—a financier turned predator whose life of wealth, power, and perversion shocked the world. Dive into the definitive biography of Jeffrey Epstein, tracing his meteoric rise from a Brooklyn dropout to a Wall Street prodigy, and his descent into one of history’s most notorious sex trafficking scandals. The Enigma of Jeffrey Epstein: A Life of Power, Perversion, and Mystery exposes the untold secrets behind his empire—private islands, elite connections, and a black book brimming with names like Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, and Prince Andrew.

Valarie Clark Miller seemed to have it all. Smart and beautiful with a wealthy, successful husband and growing family, Valarie appeared to be the picture-perfect Mormon wife. But it was all a façade. Inside, she was crumbling from the pressures of long-repressed memories of a childhood filled with sexual and physical abuse.