political crime

Alt om Killer Clown-sagen: dokumentarer, bøger og podcasts

John Wayne Gacy myrdede mindst 33 unge mænd og drenge mellem 1972 og 1978 i Norwood Park Township uden for Chicago. Den amerikanske seriemorder blev kendt som 'Killer Clown', fordi han arbejdede som frivillig klovn til velgørende arrangementer, mens han førte et dobbeltliv fyldt med mord, voldtægt o

Alt om Suzy Lamplugh-sagen: dokumentarer, bøger og podcasts

Den britiske ejendomsmægler Susannah Jane Lamplugh forsvandt den 28. juli 1986 fra Fulham i London, efter hun skulle møde en klient kaldet 'Mr. Kipper'. 25-årige Suzy blev erklæret juridisk død i 1993, og politiet har siden da peget på den dømte voldtægtsmand og morder John Cannan som hovedmistænkt.

The Romanovs: The Final Chapter

Massie's sequel to Nicholas and Alexandra investigates the 1918 execution of Russia's imperial family and the seventy-year mystery of their remains. He traces the forensic and DNA detective work that finally identified the Romanov bones after the Soviet collapse, alongside the impostors and disputes surrounding the last tsar's fate.

American Heiress

Jeffrey Toobin recounts the February 1974 kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst by the Symbionese Liberation Army and her apparent transformation within months into a willing, gun-carrying participant in the group's armed bank robberies. The book examines political radicalism, celebrity, trauma bonding and the fiercely contested line between victimhood and criminal agency.

A Spy Among Friends

Ben Macintyre recounts how senior British intelligence officer Kim Philby, a founding member of MI6, spent decades secretly passing classified information to the Soviet Union while maintaining the complete trust of his colleagues and closest friends. The book illuminates the Cambridge spy ring, Cold War intelligence betrayal and the devastating personal consequences of the ultimate, sustained treachery.

Destiny of the Republic

Candice Millard recounts the July 1881 assassination of President James Garfield and the months of medical incompetence that transformed a non-fatal bullet wound into a fatal infection, killing him in September. The book weaves together political ambition, the deranged office-seeker Charles Guiteau, the pioneering antiseptic science of Joseph Lister and the era's primitive American medicine.

Stolen Angels

Kathy Cook documents the mass abduction of girls and young women by Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army under Joseph Kony, forced into domestic servitude, sexual slavery and combat. Through survivor testimony, the book exposes a brutal insurgency's systematic use of children as instruments of war and the difficult struggle to bring captives home.

One of Us

Asne Seierstad reconstructs Anders Breivik's meticulous preparation for the July 2011 Oslo bombing and the massacre of sixty-nine people, mostly young political activists, at Utoya island camp. Tracing his years of radicalisation and the survivors' traumatic ordeal with equal care, the book confronts far-right terrorism and examines how a peaceful, open society responds to ideological atrocity.

When Broken Glass Floats

Chanrithy Him's memoir recounts the destruction of her middle-class Cambodian family under the Khmer Rouge regime, enduring forced labour, famine and successive devastating losses throughout the late 1970s. Told through the eyes of a child who survived, the book offers an intimate, quietly devastating testament to genocide, resilience and the enduring search for meaning after catastrophic loss.

First They Killed My Father

Loung Ung's harrowing memoir recounts her survival of the Khmer Rouge genocide in 1970s Cambodia as a young child, separated from her family, starved, brutally disciplined and eventually pressed into a children's work brigade. Written with searing immediacy, the book bears essential witness to mass atrocity and the fragile resilience that carried her through Cambodia's killing fields.

Black Hearts

Jim Frederick reconstructs the 2006 rape and murder of an Iraqi girl and her family by US soldiers in the 'Triangle of Death.' The book examines the breakdown of an overstretched platoon and the war crimes born of combat, neglect and rage.

The Lost Executioner

Photojournalist Nic Dunlop recounts how he tracked down Comrade Duch, the Khmer Rouge commandant who ran Cambodia's Tuol Sleng extermination prison, living under a false identity as a Christian aid worker. The book interweaves the author's personal search with the history of the Cambodian genocide, confronting an architect of mass murder who expressed only selective remorse.