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The mystery of Jack the Ripper and the murders he committed in London’s East End in the late 19th century has horrified and fascinated spectators for over a century. In one of the first recognized mass murderers, he terrorized some of London’s poorest and most vulnerable residents and brutally killed a series of women before seeming to disappear. Police investigative practices were in their infancy at the time, and without sophisticated tools, London’s forces of order were unable to catch the criminal. More than 100 years later, his true identity is still unknown, and the hunt for Jack the Ripper has consumed many an armchair sleuth.
By listening to this audiobook, you, too, will be able to take part in a now-historic search for a murderer who has never been brought to justice. Step back in time to 1888 and try to discover, if you can, the man who was Jack the Ripper.
Listen to hear more about this extraordinary chapter of history.
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Dozens of theories have attempted to resolve the mystery of the identity of Jack the Ripper, the world's most famous serial killer. Ripperologist Robert House contends that we may have known the answer all along. The head of Scotland Yard's Criminal Investigation Department at the time of the murders thought Aaron Kozminski was guilty, but he lacked the legal proof to convict him. By exploring Kozminski's life, Robert House here builds a strong circumstantial case against him.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A restrained and humane account
- De Tad Davis en 01-08-13
De: Robert House, y otros
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Ripper
- The Secret Life of Walter Sickert
- De: Patricia Cornwell
- Narrado por: Mary Stuart Masterson
- Duración: 14 h y 42 m
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Vain and charismatic Walter Sickert made a name for himself as a painter in Victorian London. But the ghoulish nature of his art - as well as extensive evidence - points to another name, one that's left its bloody mark on the pages of history: Jack the Ripper. Cornwell has collected never-before-seen archival material - including a rare mortuary photo, personal correspondence and a will with a mysterious autopsy clause - and applied cutting-edge forensic science to open an old crime to new scrutiny.
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1 out of 5 stars
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I thought this was a new book.
- De Stephanie en 03-01-17
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Murder, Misadventure and Miserable Ends
- Tales from a Colonial Coroner's Court
- De: Dr. Catie Gilchrist
- Narrado por: Emma Grant Williams
- Duración: 12 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Most of us today rarely see a dead body. In 19th-century Sydney, when health was precarious and workplaces and the busy city streets were often dangerous, witnessing a death was rather common. And any death that was sudden or suspicious would be investigated by the coroner. Henry Shiell was the Sydney city coroner from 1866 to 1889. In the course of his unusually long career, he delved into the lives, loves, crimes, homes, and workplaces of colonial Sydneysiders.
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5 out of 5 stars
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very interesting and enlightening
- De Barbara J Allison en 08-29-19
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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 111
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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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Most Evil
- Avenger, Zodiac, and the Further Serial Murders of Dr. George Hill Hodel
- De: Steve Hodel, Ralph Pezullo
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 7 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 155
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 124
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 125
When veteran LAPD homicide detective Steve Hodel discovered that his own late father, Dr. George Hill Hodel, was the killer in the infamous Black Dahlia murder case, he wrote the best seller Black Dahlia Avenger, a book that convinced even the L.A. County Deputy District Attorney that George Hodel was responsible for Elizabeth Short's gruesome death.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Pretty Good.
- De Lee Kirkland en 09-06-16
De: Steve Hodel, y otros
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Forensics
- What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA, and More Tell Us About Crime
- De: Val McDermid
- Narrado por: Sarah Barron
- Duración: 11 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,803
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,527
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,509
The dead talk - to the right listener. They can tell us all about themselves: where they came from, how they lived, how they died, and, of course, who killed them. Forensic scientists can unlock the mysteries of the past and help serve justice using the messages left by a corpse, a crime scene, or the faintest of human traces.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Crime Seen
- De Mark en 09-02-16
De: Val McDermid
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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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Psycho USA
- Famous American Killers You Never Heard Of
- De: Harold Schechter
- Narrado por: Danny Campbell
- Duración: 14 h y 54 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 222
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 205
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 203
In the horrifying annals of American crime, the infamous names of brutal killers such as Bundy, Dahmer, Gacy, and Berkowitz are writ large in the imaginations of a public both horrified and hypnotized by their monstrous, murderous acts. But for every celebrity psychopath who's gotten ink for spilling blood, there's a bevy of all-but-forgotten homicidal fiends studding the bloody margins of US history.
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4 out of 5 stars
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True crime enthusiast's dream
- De Athelsten en 08-24-17
De: Harold Schechter
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Panic
- Bloodlands collection
- De: Harold Schechter
- Narrado por: Steven Weber
- Duración: 1 h y 36 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 989
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 861
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 860
During the Depression, economic anxieties found an outlet in a series of child murders that triggered an irrational nationwide hysteria: pedophiliac psychopaths were overrunning the country. As America was brought to rage and fury by the press and the FBI, lynch mobs took to the streets, reason gave way to doomsday scenarios, and one father was even driven to murder his three daughters to “save them” from a degenerate crime wave. A terrifying cautionary essay, Panic explores the combustible mix of unfounded fears, moral crusades, and the dangers of collective thinking.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Too sensational
- De Texaspaz en 10-14-20
De: Harold Schechter
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Midnight in Peking
- How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China
- De: Paul French
- Narrado por: Erik Singer
- Duración: 8 h y 14 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 438
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 386
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Peking in 1937 is a heady mix of privilege and scandal, opulence and opium dens, rumors and superstition. The Japanese are encircling the city, and the discovery of Pamela Werner's body sends a shiver through already nervous Peking. Is it the work of a madman? One of the ruthless Japanese soldiers now surrounding the city? With the suspect list growing and clues sparse, two detectives - one British and one Chinese - race against the clock to solve the crime before the Japanese invade and Peking as they know it is gone forever.
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5 out of 5 stars
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When history can be stranger than fiction
- De Jeremy en 01-04-13
De: Paul French
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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
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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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Manhunters
- Criminal Profilers and Their Search for the World’s Most Wanted Serial Killers
- De: Colin Wilson
- Narrado por: Brandon Massey
- Duración: 14 h y 20 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 156
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 144
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 142
In this fascinating, in-depth account of the hunt for serial killers, Colin Wilson, one of the world's leading authorities on the subject, examines the ways they can be tracked down and caught, from the tried-and-true methods of the early 20th century to the high-tech processes in use today. Wilson examines such areas as psychological profiling, genetic fingerprinting, and the launch of the Behavioral Science Unit. He delves into the importance of fantasy to serial killers, the urge to keep on killing, the desire to become notorious, and murder as an addictive drug.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Reprinted Material, Questionable Commentary
- De B en 10-18-15
De: Colin Wilson
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The Art of the English Murder
- From Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes to Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock
- De: Lucy Worsley
- Narrado por: Anne Flosnik
- Duración: 7 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 218
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 194
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 193
In The Art of the English Murder, Lucy Worsley explores this phenomenon in forensic detail, revisiting notorious crimes like the Ratcliff Highway Murders, which caused a nationwide panic in the early 19th century, and the case of Frederick and Maria Manning, the suburban couple who were hanged after killing Maria's lover and burying him under their kitchen floor. Our fascination with crimes like these became a form of national entertainment, inspiring novels and plays, prose and paintings, poetry and true-crime journalism.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Should Come With a Spoiler Alert
- De Jessica en 04-15-16
De: Lucy Worsley
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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 228
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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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The First Family
- Terror, Extortion, Revenge, Murder, and the Birth of the American Mafia
- De: Mike Dash
- Narrado por: Lloyd James
- Duración: 13 h y 53 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 144
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 96
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 99
Before the Five Families who so notoriously dominated U.S. organized crime for a bloody half-century, there was the one-fingered, surpassingly cunning Giuseppe Morello and his murderous coterie of brothers. Born into a life of poverty in rural Sicily, Morello became an American nightmare, pioneering the bizarre initiation rituals, imaginative protection rackets, influential underworld reigns, and Mafia wars later popularized by countless books, television shows, and movies.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The truth about the origins of the American mafia
- De J. Sovar en 01-09-13
De: Mike Dash
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The Big Book of Serial Killers
- An Encyclopedia of Serial Killers - 150 Serial Killer Files of the World's Worst Murderers
- De: Jack Rosewood, Rebecca Lo
- Narrado por: Kevin Kollins
- Duración: 17 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 548
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 477
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 474
There is little more terrifying than those who hunt, stalk, and snatch their prey under the cloak of darkness. These hunters search not for animals, but for the touch, taste, and empowerment of human flesh. They are cannibals, vampires, and monsters, and they walk among us. These serial killers are not mythical beasts with horns and shaggy hair. They are people living among society, going about their day-to-day activities until nightfall. They are the Dennis Rader's, the fathers, husbands, church-going members of the community.
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2 out of 5 stars
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GREAT FOR TRUE CRIME DEVOTÉES, BUT....
- De The Louligan en 10-31-17
De: Jack Rosewood, y otros
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The World's 20 Worst Crimes
- True Stories of 20 Killers and Their 1000 Victims
- De: Kate Kray
- Narrado por: Geoff Barham
- Duración: 9 h y 18 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 47
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
In this, the first book of its kind, Kate Kray, who married gangster Ronnie Kray, peers into the minds of the top 20 worst killers in criminal history and, sparing no detail, reveals the awful truth of their abominable acts. The extreme nature of their violence and their shocking lack of remorse makes for uncomfortable yet fascinating listening.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Ugh!
- De Tim en 03-09-16
De: Kate Kray