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"Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summers crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins. A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix's children's school. Josie has been listening to Alix's podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her...
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2023.
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English
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"For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the world, but no one has been quite as successful at it as the master thief Stéphane Breitwieser. Carrying out more than two hundred heists over nearly ten years-in museums and cathedrals all over Europe-Breitwieser, along with his girlfriend who worked as his lookout, stole more than three hundred objects, until it all fell apart in spectacular fashion. In The Art Thief,...
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Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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In July 2012 three intruders broke into the Y-12 National Nuclear Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, known as America’s “Fort Knox of Uranium”. Y-12 stores enough highly enriched uranium to make some 10,000 nuclear bombs. The break-in, described by The New York Times, as the most serious security breach in the history of the U.S. atomic complex, sent shock waves throughout the federal government and the world, when it turned out the intruders...
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Espresso Media International
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Brittney left her house unexpectedly in May 2012 in rural Alabama. She was never seen or heard from again. Her mother has campaigned for years to continue the search after the police gave up. Told emotionally by the family and captivating plot twists at the end of each episode, we discover the horrific truth Brittney’s entire family was hiding. Almost all her relatives were implicated in Alabama’s largest child sex ring, and in May 2012, young...
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IFC Films
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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A truly pioneering film, Morris’s breakthrough changed the world of documentary forever. Through expressionistic reenactments, provocative interviews and a memorable score by Philip Glass, it tells the fascinating, controversial true story of the arrest and trial of Randall Adams for the murder of a Dallas policeman in 1976—and the film itself proved instrumental in overturning Adams’s death-row conviction. Endlessly influential, “the first...
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"Reflecting on twenty years of investigating more than 5,500 death scenes, an NYC death investigator, the second woman ever hired for this role, shares how, in dealing with death every day, she learned surprising lessons about life--and how some of those lessons saved her from becoming a statistic herself"--
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Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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The idea is powerfully simple: engage the services of two actual legal teams to create a rigorous, legally based fictional—yet unscripted—trial that never happened for one of the nation’s most disturbing recent tragedies. The accused is Officer Daniel Pantaleo (only recently fired by New York City Police Commissioner James P. O’Neill), charged in the July 17, 2014 death of Eric Garner with reckless manslaughter and strangulation in the first...
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Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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I AM EVIDENCE exposes the shocking number of untested rape kits in the United States today. Despite the power of DNA to solve and prevent crimes, hundreds of thousands of kits containing potentially crucial DNA evidence languish untested in police evidence storage rooms across the country. Behind each of these kits lies an individual’s unresolved sexual assault case. Produced by Mariska Hargitay, I AM EVIDENCE follows stories of survivors who have...
10) The Syndrome
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Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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The explosive documentary THE SYNDROME follows the crusade of a group of doctors, scientists, and legal scholars who have uncovered that “Shaken Baby Syndrome,” a child abuse theory used in hundreds of U.S. prosecutions each year, is not scientifically valid. In fact, they say it doesn’t exist. Filmmaker Meryl Goldsmith and national award-winning investigative reporter Susan Goldsmith document the unimaginable nightmare for those accused and...
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Questar Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Crimes and bloody tales that made the headlines usually reveal a lot about the hidden fantasies of their time. From Jack the Ripper to the Andes crash, the ten episodes of this collection shed a black light on a page of history that left a mark on their time.
12) The Ambassador
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Drafthouse Films
Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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This darkly comic, genre-bending piece of gonzo journalism from rips the lid off the scheme of political corruption. Armed with a phalanx of hidden cameras Brügger transforms himself into an outlandish caricature of a European consul.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Australian Story and the ABC’s Unravel podcast series present a major breakthrough in the mysterious case of teenager Mark Haines. When Mark's body was found on train tracks near Tamworth 30 years ago police put it down to misadventure, a theory his family never accepted. Now, after a five-year investigation, journalist Allan Clarke has unearthed explosive new evidence and a key suspect.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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January 16, 1988 was just like any other day in Tamworth, New South Wales. But after a teenage boy was found dead on the train racks, it triggered a string of unanswered questions, cover-ups and mistakes that have haunted the community for 30 years. So can Mark Haines’ death be put down to misadventure or something more sinister?
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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It’s 1988. Just outside of Tamworth in country New South Wales, a freight train hits someone lying on the tracks. The tracks divide Tamworth in two. An Aboriginal community (nicknamed "Vegemite Village") on one side, a largely white population on the other. The boy on the tracks is Mark Haines, a 17 year-old Gomeroi teenager. Despite the strange evidence found at the scene of his death, the family feel like they're being ignored by police. An inquiry...
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Sterling
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[2020]
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English
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"No two stories about the capture of a serial killer are the same. Sometimes, the killers make crucial mistakes; other times, investigators get lucky. And the process of profiling, hunting, and apprehending these predators has changed radically over time, particularly in the field of criminal forensics, which has exploded in the last ten to 15 years. Laser ablation, video spectral analysis, cyber-sleuthing, and even DNA-based genetic genealogy are...
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Boogeyman novels volume 2
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English
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After making a successful true crime writing and filmmaking career revolving around the murders that shook his hometown decades earlier, Rich Chizmar is terrified when the killings begin again, in the sequel to Chasing the Boogeyman.
Back in the summer of 1988, serial killer Joshua Gallagher-- dubbed "The Boogeyman" by the media-- stalked a tranquil Maryland town. A young Richard Chizmar was catapulted into the center of the nightmare, being the...
19) Hearts of darkness: serial killers, the behavioral science unit, and my life as a women in the FBI
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Abrams Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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An agent in the world-renowned FBI Behavioral Sciences Unit who consulted on more than 850 homicide cases, crossing paths with some of the world's most infamous serial killers, and the real-life model for The Silence of the Lambs's Clarice Starling, shares her incredible story for the first time.
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[2024]
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English
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"In 1977, in an Ohio Amish community, pregnant wife and mother Ida Stutzman perished during a barn fire. The coroner's report: natural causes. Ida's husband, Eli, was never considered a suspect. But when he eventually rejected the faith and took his son, Danny, with him, murder followed. What really happened to Ida? The dubious circumstances of the tragic blaze were willfully ignored and Eli's shifting narratives disregarded. Could Eli's subsequent...
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