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City of light, city of poison : murder, magic, and the first police chief of Paris
by Holly Tucker
Draws on transcripts, letters and diaries to chronicle how an epidemic of murder in the late 1600s led to Nicolas de La Reynie's appointment as Paris's first police chief, the installation of lanterns that turned Paris into the City of Light and the investigations in the criminal underground that implicated Louis XIV's mistress.
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The fact of a body : a murder and a memoir
by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
The author documents the story of how a summer job at a Louisiana law firm and the case of a convicted murderer and child molester changed her views about the death penalty and forced her to confront traumatic secrets in her own family.
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The grim sleeper : the lost women of South Central
by Christine Pelisek
In her own words the award-winning investigative reporter describes how she uncovered the alleged identity of a long-time serial killer. A killer who has been murdering women in South Central Los Angeles since the 1980s.
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Killers of the Flower Moon : the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI
by David Grann
The best-selling author of The Lost City of Z presents a true account of the early 20th-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.
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Mindhunter : inside the FBI's elite serial crime unit
by John E Douglas
FBI Special Agent John Douglas became a legendary figure in law enforcement, pursuing some of the most notorious and sadistic serial killers of our time: the man who hunted prostitutes for sport in the woods of Alaska, the Atlanta child murderer, and Seattle's Green River killer, the case that nearly cost Douglas his life.
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The stranger beside me
by Ann Rule
The haunting true story of Ted Bundy who lived a double life as a serial killer and may have been responsible for more than thirty murders. It is told from the perspective of the former cop, crime writer, and unwitting personal friend.
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The Feather Thief : Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
by Kirk Wallace Johnson
Documents the astonishing 2009 theft of an invaluable collection of ornithological displays from the British Museum of Natural History by a talented American musician, tracing the author's years-long investigation to track down the culprit and understand his motives, which were possibly linked to an obsession with the Victorian art of salmon fly-tying.
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Playing dead : a journey through the world of death fraud
by Elizabeth Greenwood
Explores whether it is still possible to fake one's own death in the twenty-first century. The author probes of the world of death fraud, visiting message boards for people plotting pseudocide and buying her own death certificate in the Philippines.
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Crimetown
A serial documentary podcast hosted by Marc Smerling and Zac Stuart-Pontier which looks at how organized crime has shaped particular American cities.
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Criminal
Stories of people who've done wrong, been wronged, or gotten caught somewhere in the middle, understanding that crime is a function of people, time, and place.
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In the Dark
This Peabody Award winning podcast hosted by Madeleine Baran features incisive investigative journalism and in-depth reportage, delving deeply into wrongful imprisonment and cold cases.
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My Favorite Murder
Lifelong fans of true crime stories, Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark, tell each other their favorite tales of murder and hear hometown crime stories from friends and fans in this true crime comedy podcast.
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Red Handed
Jumps head first into all manner of macabre madness, covering everything from big time serial killers (and those you may never have heard of), to hauntings, possessions, disturbing mysteries, bizarre whodunits.
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Serial
A documentary style podcast narrating a nonfiction story about love, death, justice, and truth. Each season of the podcast focuses on a specific case.
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Someone Knows Something
Hard-hitting, character-driven stories hosted by David Ridgen, an award-winning documentarian with a passion for investigative work and narrative experimentation.
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Sword and Scale
A bi-weekly podcast featuring a variety of narrated true crime stories intertwined with interviews with criminals, witnesses, victims, authors, 911 call audio, witness testimony, trial audio, interrogation tapes, music, and sound effects.
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Today in True Crime
Each daily episode presents a short true crime story, then analyzes the impact of that historic day's events.
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The Trail Went Cold
Explores baffling unsolved mysteries and cold cases. On each weekly episode, host Robin Warder examines a new murder or missing persons case, tackling a wide variety of mysteries from different countries and time periods.
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Uncover
A Canadian investigative series with season-long explorations of topics like one woman's escape from NXIVM or the unsolved bombing of a commercial passenger plane.
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