All That Is Wicked
The 'Victorian Hannibal Lecter' and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind
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The thrilling story of Edward Rulloff—a serial murderer who was called 'too intelligent to be killed'—and the array of 19th-century investigators who were convinced his brain held the key to finally understanding the criminal mind.
Rulloff was a brilliant yet utterly amoral murderer—some have called him a 'Victorian-era Hannibal Lecter'—whose crimes spanned decades, but by 1871 he was captured, chained in a cell—a psychopath holding court while curious 19th-century 'mindhunters' got to work.
From alienists (early psychiatrists who tried to analyse the source of his madness) to neurologists (who wanted to dissect his brain) to phrenologists (who analysed the bumps on his head to determine his character), each one thought he held the key to understanding the essential question: is evil born or made?
Expanding on her hit podcast, Tenfold More Wicked, acclaimed crime historian Kate Winkler Dawson draws on hundreds of source materials and never-before-shared historical documents to present one of the first glimpses into the mind of a serial killer—a century before the term was coined—through the scientists whose work would come to influence criminal justice for decades to come.
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Chicago, 1924. There was nothing surprising about men turning up dead in the Second City. Life was cheaper than a quart of illicit gin in the gangland capital of the world. But two murders that spring were special - worthy of celebration. So believed Maurine Watkins, a wanna-be playwright and a "girl reporter" for the Chicago Tribune, the city's "hanging paper".
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3 out of 5 stars
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Some books should be read
- De zoomcity en 07-31-11
De: Douglas Perry
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Fiend
- The Shocking True Story of America's Youngest Serial Killer
- De: Harold Schechter
- Narrado por: Kyle Tait
- Duración: 11 h y 21 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 250
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When 14-year-old Jesse Pomeroy was arrested in 1874, a nightmarish reign of terror over an unsuspecting city came to an end. "The Boston Boy Fiend" was imprisoned at last. But the complex questions sparked by his ghastly crime spree - the hows and whys of vicious juvenile crime - were as relevant in the so-called Age of Innocence as they are today.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Graphic descriptions of child torture
- De mobius_spider en 11-13-20
De: Harold Schechter
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Butcher's Work
- True Crime Tales of American Murder and Madness
- De: Harold Schechter
- Narrado por: Christopher Lane
- Duración: 8 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 137
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A Civil War veteran who perpetrated one of the most ghastly mass slaughters in the annals of U.S. crime. A nineteenth-century female serial killer whose victims included three husbands and six of her own children. A Gilded Age “Bluebeard” who did away with as many as fifty wives throughout the country. A decorated World War I hero who orchestrated a murder that stunned Jazz Age America.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another necessary work by Schector
- De Brandon en 12-27-22
De: Harold Schechter
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Lady Killers
- Deadly Women Throughout History
- De: Tori Telfer
- Narrado por: Jaime Lamchick
- Duración: 8 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 90
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 90
When you think of serial killers throughout history, the names that come to mind are ones like Jack the Ripper, John Wayne Gacy, and Ted Bundy. But what about Tillie Klimek, Moulay Hassan, Kate Bender? The narrative we’re comfortable with is the one where women are the victims of violent crime, not the perpetrators. In fact, serial killers are thought to be so universally, overwhelmingly male that in 1998, FBI profiler Roy Hazelwood infamously declared in a homicide conference, “There are no female serial killers.”
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2 out of 5 stars
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An ode to arsenic
- De 🔥 Phx17 🔥 en 03-04-24
De: Tori Telfer
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The Real Lolita
- The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World
- De: Sarah Weinman
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 7 h y 26 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 243
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 219
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 220
Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita is one of the most beloved novels ever. And yet, very few of its readers know that the subject of the novel was inspired by a real-life case: the 1948 abduction of 11-year-old Sally Horner. Weaving together suspenseful crime narrative, cultural and social history, and literary investigation, The Real Lolita tells Sally Horner’s full story for the first time. Sarah Weinman uncovers how much Nabokov knew of the Sally Horner case and the efforts he took to disguise that knowledge during the process of writing and publishing Lolita.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Meandering and tedious while never delivering the promised story.
- De Timothy McCarthy en 09-15-18
De: Sarah Weinman
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The Girl on the Velvet Swing
- Sex, Murder, and Madness at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
- De: Simon Baatz
- Narrado por: Christine Lakin
- Duración: 10 h y 24 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 182
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 167
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 166
In 1901 Evelyn Nesbit, a chorus girl, dined alone with the architect Stanford White in his townhouse on 24th Street in New York. Nesbit, just 16 years old, had recently moved to the city. White was 47. As the foremost architect of his day, he was a celebrity. She told no one that White raped her that night until, several years later, she confided in Harry Thaw, the millionaire playboy who would later become her husband. Thaw, thirsting for revenge, shot and killed White in 1906 before hundreds of theatergoers during a performance in Madison Square Garden.
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1 out of 5 stars
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"The Girl" is barely in this book
- De Polly L. Mccall en 07-12-18
De: Simon Baatz
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The Girls of Murder City
- Fame, Lust, and the Beautiful Killers Who Inspired Chicago
- De: Douglas Perry
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
- Duración: 10 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 100
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 71
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 71
Chicago, 1924. There was nothing surprising about men turning up dead in the Second City. Life was cheaper than a quart of illicit gin in the gangland capital of the world. But two murders that spring were special - worthy of celebration. So believed Maurine Watkins, a wanna-be playwright and a "girl reporter" for the Chicago Tribune, the city's "hanging paper".
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3 out of 5 stars
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Some books should be read
- De zoomcity en 07-31-11
De: Douglas Perry
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Killers of the Flower Moon
- The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
- De: David Grann
- Narrado por: Will Patton, Ann Marie Lee, Danny Campbell
- Duración: 9 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 22,825
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 19,982
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 19,938
In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An outstanding story, highly recommended
- De S. Blakely en 06-22-17
De: David Grann
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The Sewing Girl's Tale
- A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America
- De: John Wood Sweet
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 137
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 109
On a moonless night in the summer of 1793 a crime was committed in the back room of a New York brothel—the kind of crime that even victims usually kept secret. Instead, seventeen-year-old seamstress Lanah Sawyer did what virtually no one in US history had done before: she charged a gentleman with rape. Her accusation sparked a raw courtroom drama and a relentless struggle for vindication that threatened both Lanah’s and her assailant’s lives.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great for history buffs!
- De LibertyHillbilly en 02-09-23
De: John Wood Sweet
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The Battered Body Beneath the Flagstones, and Other Victorian Scandals
- De: Michelle Morgan
- Narrado por: Anne Dover
- Duración: 10 h y 31 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 227
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 204
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 205
A grisly book dedicated to the crimes, perversions and outrages of Victorian England, covering high-profile offences - such as the murder of actor William Terriss, whose stabbing at the stage door of the Adelphi Theatre in 1897 filled the front pages for many weeks - as well as lesser-known transgressions that scandalised the Victorian era. The tales include murders and violent crimes but also feature scandals that merely amused the Victorians.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Doesn’t question it’s sources enough
- De Emily Stoneking en 11-27-18
De: Michelle Morgan
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My Life Among the Serial Killers
- Inside the Minds of the World's Most Notorious Murderers
- De: Helen Morrison M.D., Harold Goldberg
- Narrado por: Helen Morrison
- Duración: 5 h y 54 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 448
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 186
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 184
Dr. Helen Morrison has profiled more than 80 serial killers around the world. What she has learned about them will shatter every assumption you've ever had about the most notorious killers known to man.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Boring reader,boring writing
- De P. Minor en 02-03-08
De: Helen Morrison M.D., y otros
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Satan's Circus
- Murder, Vice, Police Corruption, and New York's Trial of the Century
- De: Mike Dash
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 12 h y 50 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 133
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 61
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 64
They called it Satan's Circus, a square mile of Midtown Manhattan where vice ruled, sin flourished, and depravity danced in every doorway. At the turn of the 20th century, murder was so common in the vice district that few people were surprised when the loudmouthed owner of a shabby casino was gunned down on the steps of its best hotel.
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4 out of 5 stars
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New York, N.Y
- De Robert en 07-11-07
De: Mike Dash
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Duel with the Devil
- The True Story of How Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Teamed Up to Take on America's First Sensational Murder Mystery
- De: Paul Collins
- Narrado por: Mark Peckham
- Duración: 7 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 190
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 168
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 169
In the closing days of 1799, the United States was still a young republic, its uncertain future contested by the two major political parties of the day: the well-moneyed Federalists, led by Alexander Hamilton, and the populist Republicans, led by Aaron Burr. The two finest lawyers in New York, Burr and Hamilton were bitter rivals both in and out of the courtroom, and as the next election approached - with Manhattan likely to be the swing district on which the presidency would hinge - their animosity reached a fever pitch.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Trial of the Century
- De Jean en 09-06-15
De: Paul Collins
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The Invention of Murder
- How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
- De: Judith Flanders
- Narrado por: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Duración: 19 h y 57 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 110
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 93
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 94
Murder in the 19th century was rare. But murder as sensation and entertainment became ubiquitous, with cold-blooded killings transformed into novels, broadsides, ballads, opera, and melodrama - even into puppet shows and performing-dog acts. Detective fiction and the new police force developed in parallel, each imitating the other - the founders of Scotland Yard gave rise to Dickens's Inspector Bucket, the first fictional police detective, who in turn influenced Sherlock Holmes and, ultimately, even P. D. James and Patricia Cornwell.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent, awesome and educational!
- De Janalyn en 03-14-20
De: Judith Flanders
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The Resurrection of the Romanovs
- Anastasia, Anna Anderson, and the World's Greatest Royal Mystery
- De: Greg King, Penny Wilson
- Narrado por: Peter Kenny
- Duración: 13 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 22
The Resurrection of the Romanovs draws on a wealth of new information from previously unpublished materials and unexplored sources to probe the most enduring Romanov mystery of all: the fate of the Tsar's youngest daughter, Anastasia, whose remains were not buried with those of her family, and her identification with Anna Anderson, the woman who claimed to be the missing Grand Duchess.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Soap opera on caffeine!
- De B Hart en 05-03-18
De: Greg King, y otros
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The Assassin's Accomplice
- Mary Surratt and the Plot to Kill Abraham Lincoln
- De: Kate Clifford Larson
- Narrado por: Laural Merlington
- Duración: 8 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 51
In The Assassin’s Accomplice, historian Kate Clifford Larson tells the gripping story of Mary Surratt, a little-known conspirator in the plot to kill Abraham Lincoln, and the first woman ever to be executed by the federal government. A Confederate sympathizer, Surratt ran the boarding house where the conspirators met to plan Lincoln’s assassination. Set against the backdrop of the Civil War, The Assassin’s Accomplice tells the intricate story of the Lincoln conspiracy through the eyes of its only female participant, offering a fresh perspective on America’s most famous murder.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Did She or Didn't She
- De c a cornelius en 06-04-21
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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
- The Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
- De: Kate Summerscale
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 9 h y 47 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 970
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 829
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 826
In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to a national obsession with detection. At the time, the detective was a relatively new invention; there were only eight detectives in all of England and rarely were they called out of London, but this crime was so shocking that Scotland Yard sent its best man to investigate, Inspector Jonathan Whicher.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Tragic Murder at dawn of detective bureau
- De Kindle Customer en 08-20-14
De: Kate Summerscale
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Death in the City of Light
- The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris
- De: David King
- Narrado por: Paul Michael
- Duración: 13 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 427
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 372
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 367
Death in the City of Light is the gripping, true story of a brutal serial killer who unleashed his own reign of terror in Nazi-Occupied Paris. As decapitated heads and dismembered body parts surfaced in the Seine, Commissaire Georges-Victor Massu, head of the Brigade Criminelle, was tasked with tracking down the elusive murderer in a twilight world of Gestapo, gangsters, resistance fighters, pimps, prostitutes, spies, and other shadowy figures of the Parisian underworld. The main suspect was Dr. Marcel Petiot, a handsome, charming physician with remarkable charisma.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Too many facts too little story
- De Caitanya en 09-27-11
De: David King
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Little Shoes
- The Sensational Depression-Era Murders That Became My Family's Secret
- De: Pamela Everett
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
- Duración: 7 h y 2 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 105
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 92
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 92
In the summer of 1937, a California crime stunned an already grim nation. Three little girls were lured away from a neighborhood park to unthinkable deaths. After a frantic week-long manhunt for the killer, a suspect emerged. Justice was swift, and the condemned man was buried away with the horrifying story. But decades later, Pamela Everett, a lawyer and former journalist, starts digging, following up a cryptic comment her father once made about losing two of his sisters. Everett unearths a truly historic legal case that included the genesis of modern sex offender laws and the last man sentenced to hang in California.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Masterful presentation of secrets and crime case!
- De deb en 05-31-18
De: Pamela Everett