During the seven years between 2010 and 2017, McArthur preyed on men from Toronto's gay community and managed to avoid any detection.
Stephen Port, a serial murderer in London, U.K., was convicted of drugging, raping, and murdering four young men. He was also convicted of drugging and raping several other men.
The primary suspects listed by the FBI, media, or public opinion, supported by the show’s best interviews with authors and researchers who have covered these suspects
The sixteen short stories in Crime Wave 2: Women of a Certain Age range from light-hearted to heart-breaking, and from romantic to treacherous.
In Crime Wave 2, "The Air Affair," a short story of sleuths of a certain age, set in the Mysterious Devices steampunk world.
In a formerly-grand haunted hotel a woman must rely on her infamous hitman father’s lessons in survival after a body is found.
It focuses on the serial killer of at least 27 young men and boys in Germany in the post-World War 1 era. At the center of this murder case were Fritz Haarmann and Hans Grans,
"The Crime of the Century" in 1920s United States. At the center of this murder case were Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb
Undercover at a Carnevale costume shop in Venice, Maddie tackles eccentric inventors, industrial spies, & ill-starred lovers.
Foiling a kidnap plot leads Maddie to an undercover gig in a Gilded Age NYC mansion, up against her most ruthless enemy yet.
🏆 Winner – BEST CRIME NOVELLA – Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence 2022
A charming coming of age story wrapped around a murder, a betrayal and a national crisis.
Eleven-year-old Johnny tries to make sense of a murder, an absent father, and the FLQ Crisis through heart and humour-filled letters to hockey legend Dave Keon.
England, 1873. Clara Blackstone has just been released after one year in a private asylum for the insane. Clara has two goals: to reunite with her husband, Henry, and to never—ever—return to the asylum. As she enters Durham, Clara finds her carriage surrounded by a mob gathered to witness the imprisonment of Mary Ann Cotton—England’s first female serial killer—accused of poisoning nearly twenty people, including her husbands and children.
Conspiracy theories represent secret knowledge: real or not, and there is something very pleasing about having supposed insider knowledge. Because of their entertainment value, you can find conspiracy theories everywhere. Implausibility doesn’t make conspiracy theories less entertaining
Kurt Cobain, the 1960s mega-icon Marilyn Monroe, TV’s Hogan's Heroes lead actor Bob Crane, the talented and multi-award-winning actress Natalie Wood, and the people's princess, Princess Diana.
A box goes missing in the state archives, and no one is entirely sure of its contents. The police aren’t interested in investigating the case. A young journalist looking into its disappearance is struggling to recover from his last article, which caused a scandal at his newspaper. He is paired up with a senior journalist who is not well-liked in the organization. As they start investigating the disappearance of the box, they quickly realize that it is connected to other incidents—one with deadly consequences. As they start getting closer to the truth, they find that no one wants the contents to be made public. They are unsure of whom to trust, and the story has the makings of a deep-rooted conspiracy. Help and resistance both come from unlikely sources. Any action they take will have profound personal consequences for the people involved and create a nationwide uproar. In the midst of an election, there are too many powerful forces working against them. They must decide how far they want to go and whether solving the mystery of the missing papers is worth the price and the risks.
The diverse mix of authors interviewed includes cryptologist and cipher expert David Oranchak, authors who propose their suspects are already convicted serial killers, authors who claim the Zodiac was their father, authors who offer new or already considered suspects, and an author who argues the Zodiac killer didn't exist at all and that Zodiac was a hoax.
The official story was that JFK was killed by a lone assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. However, many conspiracy theorists believe in an assassination plot involving the FBI, CIA, U.S. military, VP LBJ, Cuba's Fidel Castro, Russia's KGB, the Mafia, or some combination of those entities
Discussion about the essential question concerning the actual number of victims is also included. Were there only five? We also include a researcher who examined the crime scenes and recounted their opinion of the murders.
This was not just your average mass murder. It was much worse. Over time, some brutal details were revealed.
Beginning in 1968 and continuing into the 1970s, a predator stalked California and New York, torturing, raping, and murdering young girls and women. But who was the monster behind these tragedies?
Tweed, Ontario, was in a panic. What's even more shocking is when an upstanding resident stood accused of the assaults. This was not just any man, but a pillar of the community
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