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La nueva guerra: Del Chapo al Fentanilo: Cómo cambió todo lo que creíamos saber sobre el crimen orga
El crimen organizado transformó al país, y el país transformó al crimen organizado. La guerra contra el narco, la alternancia en los gobiernos de México y Estados Unidos, la captura y extradición de capos, la atomización de cárteles, el surgimiento de nuevos líderes, las fluctuaciones del mercado nacional e internacional y la evolución en el tráfico y consumo de estupefacientes han creado un nuevo México, que atraviesa la mayor crisis de violencia en 80 años. Y las estrategias gubernamentales la empeoran: los abrazos en lugar de balazos no tienen sentido cuando existen grupos criminales que imperan en zonas enteras del país. De hecho, ya han reaparecido bandas que prácticamente estaban disueltas, estados enteros volvieron al control del narco y varios cárteles han recibido espaldarazos y mensajes que los han empoderado. Esta nueva obra de Jorge Fernández Menéndez evidencia cuáles estrategias no han funcionado, qué resultados han tenido y cómo deberían cambiarse... a riesgo de que nuestro futuro sea aun más sangriento e ingobernable. Ésta es la historia que contaremos en este libro: la del paso a una nueva época en la violencia, la inseguridad y el tráfico de drogas; una época en la que aún no muere lo viejo y no ha terminado de nacer lo nuevo. El camino que va del Chapo al fentanilo. -De la Introducción
Jorge Fernández Menéndez (Author), Sergio Mejía (Narrator)
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Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a Universit
In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford cofounded a university to honor their recently deceased young son. After her husband's death in 1893, Jane Stanford, a devoted spiritualist who expected the university to inculcate her values, steered Stanford into eccentricity and public controversy for more than a decade. In 1905 she was murdered in Hawaii, a victim, according to the Honolulu coroner's jury, of strychnine poisoning. With her vast fortune the university's lifeline, the Stanford president and his allies quickly sought to foreclose challenges to her bequests by constructing a story of death by natural causes. The cover-up gained traction in the murky labyrinths of power, wealth, and corruption of Gilded Age San Francisco. The murderer walked. Deftly sifting the scattered evidence and conflicting stories of suspects and witnesses, Richard White gives us the first full account of Jane Stanford's murder and its cover-up. Against a backdrop of the city's machine politics, rogue policing, tong wars, and heated newspaper rivalries, White's search for the murderer draws us into Jane Stanford's imperious household and the academic enmities of the university. Although Stanford officials claimed that no one could have wanted to murder Jane, we meet several people who had the motives and the opportunity to do so. One of these, we discover, also had the means.
Richard White (Author), Christopher P. Brown (Narrator)
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Hitmen: The Mafia, Drugs, and the East Harlem Purple Gang
Scott M. Deitche presents an in-depth expose on East Harlem's notorious Purple Gang whose murderous exploits became a media obsession and Mafia lynchpin. In the late 1970s, a string of seemingly unconnected murders had Harlem police and federal authorities at their wits' end until they realized several commonalities. The victims were all either Mafia members or potential witnesses of Mafia activity and they'd all been shot from .22 pistols traced back to a single private sale in Florida. From these details, the FBI and police were able to build a profile of a rogue sect of Mafia hitmen known as the East Harlem Purple Gang. Starting on the fringes of Mafia families, the Purple Gang members became indispensable and installed members in the highest ranks of the Genovese, Bonanno, and Lucchese families. Often serving as freelance hitmen, kidnappers, and drug traffickers, the Purple Gang's exploits quickly crossed into mythology as media outlets scrambled to keep up with new murders and the law's crusade to bring the gang members to justice. Sifting through the mystery and mythos, author Scott M. Deitche brings readers into Harlem's gritty streets to experience the Purple Gang's reign of terror, the investigators who tried to bring them down, and the gang members who either suffered violent ends or are still at large today.
Scott M. Deitche (Author), Perry Daniels (Narrator)
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Die Krankenschwester - der spektakuläre Kriminalfall aus Dänemark
Das Krankenhaus als vermeintlich perfekter Tatort...Krankenhaus Nykøbing Falster: Ein Patient stirbt. Da die Todesursache ungeklärt ist, wird die Polizei hinzugerufen. Ein Routineeinsatz - bis eine Krankenschwester den Verdacht äußert, ihre Kollegin aus der Nachtschicht habe den Patienten vorsätzlich getötet. Schnell stellt sich heraus, dass es weitere verdächtige Todesfälle in den letzten Jahren gab - und Christina Aistrup Hansen gerät mehr und mehr in den Fokus der Ermittlungen. Doch wo sind die Beweise für ihre Taten? Und wieso wird die Polizei erst jetzt eingeschaltet? Kristian Corfixen beschreibt die Ereignisse, die zu einer zwölfjährigen Haftstrafe für Christina Aistrup Hansen führten. Es ist die Dokumentation einer außergewöhnlichen Ermittlung, die Parallelen zum Fall Niels Högel aufweist. Alle Beteiligten kommen zu Wort - die Ermittler ebenso wie Christina Aistrup Hansen selbst.-
Kristian Corfixen (Author), Matthias Hinz (Narrator)
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Snake Eyes: Murder in A Southern Town
By 1966, Hot Springs, Arkansas wasn’t your typical sleepy little Southern town. Once a favorite destination for mobsters like Al Capone and Lucky Luciano, illegal activities continued to lure out-of-state gamblers, flim-flam men, and high rollers to its racetracks, clubs, and bordellos. Still, the town was shaken to its core after a girl was found dead on a nearby ranch. The ranch owner claimed it was an accident. Then the rancher was found to be the killer of another woman – his fourth wife. The story begins when 13-year-old Cathie Ward was found dead after horseback riding at Blacksnake Ranch on the outskirts of Hot Springs, Arkansas. Frank Davis, the owner of the ranch, tells authorities Cathie’s death is an accident. He claims her foot caught in a stirrup and she was dragged to her death despite his pursuit of the runaway horse. People who know the 42-year-old skilled horseman don’t believe his story, and soon rumors of her rape and murder begin swirling around town. The rumors reach a crescendo after Davis viciously guns down his fourth wife and mother-in-law in broad daylight outside of a laundromat. Davis is arrested and charged with first-degree murder. Soon after, Hot Springs authorities re-open the investigation into Cathie Ward’s death. Snake Eyes is the first book to examine this decades-old murder and cover-up, and the only in-depth account of the man who would become the town’s most notorious villain. Featuring personal interviews, crime scene records, court documents, and Davis’ own prison files, author and lifelong Hot Springs resident Bitty Martin reveals the true story for the first time.
Bitty Martin (Author), Karen Commins (Narrator)
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You Can't Win: The Classic American Underworld Memoir
You Can't Win is the pioneering American criminal underworld memoir written by Jack Black, a burglar, drifter and criminal active in early 1900's America. Black's astonishing accounts of hopping trains, cracking safes, escaping prison cells, and drug addiction offers an unusually vivid portrait of American underworld life over a century ago. Beat legend William S. Burroughs ('Junkie') cited the book as influential in his life and writing. In his striking, deadpan and humorous memoir, the author recaptures the transient underworld of the early twentieth century. In You Can't Win, the reader will meet unforgettable underworld characters as diverse and fascinating as: 'Foot and a Half George'; 'Salt Chunk Mary'; 'The Sanctimonious Kid'; 'Soldier Johnnie'; and others. With an accompanying bonus Glossary of Hobo, Tramp, and Transient Terminology, You Can't Win tells of Black's experiences in the hobo and criminal underworld, freight-hopping around North America in the early 1900's. The book is among the first to introduce the fascinating 'yegg' subculture, a prototypical form of criminal Hobo or bum prevalent in the USA around the turn of the century. You Can't Win is a must-listen for fans of true crime, American history, Beat writers, and hobo-yegg culture. The main criminal activity of Black's life and of the book is thievery, which leads to discussions of various technical aspects of the thief's trade, including: the casing of prospects (surveillance of targets), safe-cracking, fencing of stolen goods, the disposal of evidence, maintaining aliases and avoiding attention or traceability, the social networks of criminals, and doing time in jails and prisons. The vices and addictions Black reveals include alcoholism, abuse of opium ('hop'), gambling, prostitution, and stealing. *NOTE: Potentially offensive ethnic slang appearing in the original text has been modified
Jack Black (Author), Jason Rosette (Narrator)
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How to Solve a Cold Case: And Everything Else You Wanted To Know About Catching Killers
Get inside the mind of an elite cold case detective and learn how to solve a murder. Despite advances in DNA evidence and forensic analysis, almost half of murder cases in Canada and the US remain unsolved. By 2016, the solved rate had dropped so significantly in the United States that it was the lowest in recorded history, with one in two killers never even identified, much less arrested and successfully prosecuted. And the statistics are just as bad in Canada. As a sought-after global expert and former detective, Arntfield has devoted his career to helping solve cold cases and serial murders, including the creation of the Western University Cold Case Society, which pairs students with police detectives to help solve crimes. In How to Solve a Cold Case, Arntfield outlines the history of cold case squads in Canada and the US, and lays out the steps to understanding and solving crime. Arntfield shows you what to look for, how to avoid common mistakes, recognize patterns and discover what others have missed. Weaving in case studies of cold crimes from across Canada and the US, as well as a chapter on how armchair detectives can get involved, How to Solve a Cold Case is a must-read for mystery fans and true crime buffs everywhere. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
Michael Arntfield (Author), James Conlan (Narrator)
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México a cielo abierto: De cómo el boom minero resquebrajó al país
Entre 2001 y 2017 las mineras extrajeron de México una cantidad equivalente al doble del oro y la mitad de la plata que los españoles se llevaron en los 300 años que duró la Colonia. La minería es uno de los negocios más jugosos del país... pero no para los trabajadores o las comunidades donde se desarrolla. Deja una utilidad anual de $200,000 millones de dólares, de los cuales muy pocos se ven reflejados en la calidad de vida de la sociedad mexicana, que en cambio sí sufre los estragos de la explotación desmesurada. Solapadas por el gobierno desde hace al menos veinticinco años, cuando se firmó el Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte, cerca de 267 compañías -principalmente canadienses y estadounidenses- operan en México sin escrúpulos ni restricciones. Lo peor de todo es que a su alrededor convergen los peores males que aquejan a nuestro país: corrupción, desgobierno, narcotráfico, violencia, pobreza y desplazamiento. Esta investigación, que el reportero J. Jesús Lemus realizó por los cuatro rincones del país, revela por primera vez las operaciones ilegales de la industria minera que, por increíble que parezca, opacan la brutalidad del narcotráfico, y lanza una alerta urgente sobre los peligros que representan para la soberanía y la supervivencia de nuestro país. Parte del acervo real y existente, que por límite de espacio y secrecía profesional no se agregó al mismo: https://randomhouse.box.com/s/h0f9nbst7vejrwrekkcm0rp43wrwj9g4 https://randomhouse.box.com/s/2kmkguft16z75z6hq35nkxdfrvt51vsg
J. Jesús Lemus (Author), Rafa Serrano (Narrator)
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Deadly Associates: A True Story of Murder, Survival, and Bringing Down the Chicago Mob
Step into Chicago during the 1960s and ’70s, when mobsters influence everyone from strip-club owners to Teamsters, aldermen, judges, and local police. It is a world where good men are corrupted by the irresistible lure of money and power and families are shattered by lies, violence, and tragedy. Danny Seifert, a street-smart and ambitious young man, follows his father’s example in his efforts to provide a good, comfortable life for his wife and children. Soon, however, his path leads him toward the dark heart of the Mob. His career choices eventually bring him to a point where he must choose between loyalty to the Mob and probable prison time, or coming clean to the FBI, testifying against Mob leaders, and risking retaliation to himself and his family. He chooses the latter, which ultimately leads to his murder and decades of living in fear for his widow, Emma, and their children. As they grow into men, Danny’s sons, Joe and Nick, take it upon themselves to find the man responsible for their father’s death and make him pay. In seeking retribution for Danny, will they also succumb to lives of crime, or will they follow the high road of law and justice all the way to the Family Secrets trial in 2007, one of the largest Mob trials in history? Find out in Deadly Associates, a meticulously researched and poignantly personal story of one family’s life inside and outside the Chicago Mob. The book behind the Deadly Associates docuseries on REELZChannel™!
Emma Seifert, Joe Seifert, Matthias Mccarn, Nick Seifert (Author), Zac Aleman (Narrator)
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Met Her on the Mountain: The Murder of Nancy Morgan
In June of 1970, the body of twenty-four-year-old Nancy Morgan was found inside a government-owned car in Madison County, North Carolina. It had been four days since anyone had heard from the bubbly, hard-working brunette who had moved to the Appalachian community less than a year prior as an organizer for Volunteers in Service to America. At the time of her death, her tenure in the Tar Heel State was just weeks from ending, her intentions set on New York and nursing school and a new life that she would never see. The initial investigation was thwarted by inept police work, jurisdictional confusion, and the influence of local corruption. Fourteen years would pass before an arrest in the case would be made, but even then, a pall would be cast over the veracity of the evidence. Met Her on the Mountain is the culmination of former Los Angeles Times staff writer Mark Pinsky's efforts to solve the forty-year-old mystery once and for all. An exhaustive piece of investigative journalism, Pinsky's work, now with a new postscript, dissects this modern Southern Gothic tale and takes listeners on a journey to convince them that the truth of Morgan's murder is within reach.
Mark I. Pinsky (Author), Stephen Bowlby (Narrator)
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A Jazz Age Murder in Northwest Indiana: The Tragic Betrayal of Nettie Diamond
Gold digging, adultery, and a slaying on Valentine's Day, 1923, in this 'juicy . . . page-turner' of a true crime story (Chicago Tribune). It was a Roaring Twenties fatal attraction. Nettie Herskovitz was wealthy and widowed when she met Harry Diamond. The attentive, irresistibly sexy twenty-three-year-old suitor would become Nettie's fifth husband. He was also a bootlegger, pimp, and first-class hustler who thought he'd wed a goldmine. What Harry found instead was a fiercely independent older woman who was nobody's fool for long. Then, on February 14, 1923, Harry tried to secure his inheritance by shooting Nettie four times, once at point blank range to the head. He blamed the crime on their teenage African American chauffeur. Harry might have gotten away with it, if not for one little oversight. Nettie wasn't dead. With its combination of sin, sex, high-society scandal, and even the interference of the Ku Klux Klan, the case against the movie-star handsome Harry Diamond moved beyond tabloid fodder to become the most sensational trial of the era.
Jane Simon Ammeson (Author), Alexa Elmy (Narrator)
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Hasta hoy, lo peor de la 'guerra antinarco' ha permanecido casi en el silencio o en el terreno del rumor: el grado real de brutalidad, la lógica de los pactos, la crónica de las masacres, la explicación de los ataques... Mediante una investigación documental profundísima y un reporteo riguroso, Juan Alberto Cedillo ofrece una investigación inaudita que trae luz sobre estos fenómenos y aclara preguntas fundamentales de la lucha que desgarra, con saña particular, el norte de México. La base de estas historias son los propios testimonios de los capos, ofrecidos en México y Estados Unidos. Sus relatos explican una de las mayores heridas del país, al tiempo que desmontan algunos de los mitos más arraigados en torno al narcotráfico y los cárteles. 'Gracias a que no serían juzgados por los asesinatos que cometieron en México, cuando los capos tuvieron la oportunidad de narrar sus andanzas, se explayaron al grado que los fiscales los tenían que callar...'
Juan Alberto Cedillo (Author), Victor Manuel Espinoza (Narrator)
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