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  The Enforcers - Inside Cape...

  Caryn Dolley

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  CAPE TOWN’S POPULAR high-end night spots attract an array of clientele, from young partygoers to politicians, models to moguls. In parallel with this is a sleazy underworld where control of the lucrative nightclub-security scene is the ultimate prize, for which some are prepared to pay using extortion and murder as the main currencies. 
    
  South Africa’s private-security sector is massive, an informal police force increasingly relied on as confidence in traditional policing wanes. But it’s an industry tainted by ties to underworld figures and events. 
    
  The Mother City’s security turf wars have their roots in pre-democratic South Africa, and branch into Cape Flats gang battles raging since the 1990s. Dotting this landscape are colourful and contentious figures – Yuri ‘The Russian’ Ulianitski, nightclub-security kingpin and rumoured apartheid-state operative Cyril Beeka, convicted drug dealer Radovan Krejčíř, controversial businessman Nafiz Modack and Mark Lifman. Making surprise appearances are high-ranking police officers as well as prominent members of the ANC and government. 
    
  Journalist Caryn Dolley has interviewed numerous criminal and suspects, often putting herself in danger in pursuit of the truth. Here she weaves her research into a story that lays bare the reality of Cape Town’s nightclub-security wars: a vast network of information and misinformation in which innocent members of the public enjoying a night out inadvertently rub shoulders with some of the city’s most infamous criminals.

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  Runaway Groom - Cold Feet―or...

  Jr. Ron Peterson

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  Petie Miller vanishes without a trace two days before his wedding in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley in 1983. Some speculate it's a case of cold feet, but investigators suspect cold-blooded murder. The bride's stepfather, a violent career criminal named Charlie Almond, is the prime suspect. Circumstantial evidence suggests that Almond killed Miller and successfully disposed of the body. But with no witnesses, no forensic evidence, and no body, Almond is allowed to walk free. Meanwhile, Miller's father never stops seeking answers about what happened to his son. For three decades, he tirelessly pushes the investigation forward, imploring the authorities to keep his son's case file open. Finally, thirty-two years later in 2015, new witnesses emerge and Almond, now an octogenarian, is charged with first-degree murder. Chances of a guilty verdict seem slim, but special prosecutor Phil Figura, known in courtrooms as the "Dragonslayer," is determined to bring justice. Can Figura win a conviction in the oldest, coldest "no body" murder trial in United States history?Bestselling true crime author Ron Peterson, Jr. was provided exclusive access to the police case file to research this compelling story. He interviewed over fifty sources and worked closely with prosecutor Phil Figura and lead investigator Aaron LeVeck to chronicle the incredible true events in this book.

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  Mysteries of the missing - A...

  Edward Richardson

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  From the fog-shrouded streets of 1870s Philadelphia to the stormy depths of the Magellan Straits, history is littered with ghosts—people who simply stepped off the face of the earth. 
  In Mysteries of the Missing, author and narrator Edward Richardson painstakingly exhumes the most baffling vanishings of the 19th century. Through meticulously researched historical records, heart-wrenching ransom notes, and the wild public frenzy that followed, Richardson rebuilds the agonizing uncertainty that surrounded these legendary cases. 
  Discover the tragic truth behind the iconic abduction of little Charlie Ross, the very case that birthed the phrase "don't take candy from strangers." Trace the final, doomed sea voyage of Theodosia Burr, the brilliant and devoted daughter of Aaron Burr, whose tragic disappearance spawned decades of pirate legends and deathbed confessions. Unravel the political intrigue that led Archduke Johann Salvator of Austria to renounce his royal titles, take the name John Orth, and vanish forever into the tempests of Cape Horn. 
  Mysteries of the Missing is more than a historical recount—it is an exploration of the agonizing human curiosity that cannot let the lost remain lost. Perfect for true crime enthusiasts, history buffs, and anyone mesmerized by unsolved enigmas, this book proves that no mystery is sweeter, or more agonizing, than a person who leaves no trace behind.

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  Asylum Confessions The: Serial...

  Jack Steen

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  They arrive alive. They always leave dead.But first, they give me their confessions.
   
  My name is Jack Steen, and for those who arrive on my 'death' ward at the Asylum, I'm the last face many will see before they die. I am the night nurse at an Asylum for the Criminally Insane, and most of my patients know me as their Angel of Death. I know them as mass murderers, rapists, and serial killers - among other things.
   
  Here's what happens: they come on my floor, they give me their deathbed confession, and I help to make their death less painful. There's a catch, though: I want the real story, the one they haven't told anyone else.
   
  The majority of these killers are expert manipulators. They could be playing their final game with me by messing with my head.Now, maybe they're messing with yours too.Inside this book are 4 DeathBed Confessions focused on serial killers:
   
  Patient Karen – she’s not quite the church-going woman you’d want baking cupcakesPatient Clinton – is officially color-blind except, in rare cases, he sees one bloody colorPatient Cori – he’s a psychotic carny and proud of itPatient Sister Rose - she’s the ultimate killer Sister
   
  WARNING: There is swearing in this book. And some stories might be a trigger for something you have a hard time handling. But, these are the confessions of serial killers, mass murderers, and such, so what do you expect?
   
  Are you a fan of Stephen King and Joe Hill? Do you like to read books like The Bird Box, The Haunting? Maybe you’re the type who binge-watch series on serial killers?If that’s you – then you are going to enjoy these deathbed confessions from The Asylum.

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  Hunting the Seven - How the...

  Beverley Roos-Muller

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  In 1986, seven young men were shot and killed by police in Gugulethu in Cape Town. The nation was told they were part of a 'terrorist' MK cell plotting an attack on a police unit. An inquest followed, then a dramatic trial in 1987 and a second inquest in 1989 that again exonerated the police. Finally, ten years later, Eugene de Kock's Vlakplaas unit was exposed at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for having planned and executed the cold-blooded killings. Yet their real agenda remained a mystery.
  In Hunting the Seven, Beverley Roos-Muller reveals her own decades-long connection to the case and her search for the truth of their deaths that has been shrouded in lies and mystery. Sifting through the evidence, and interviewing many of those involved, Roos-Muller reveals that it was Vlakplaas's only operation in the Western Cape and behind it lay a shocking secret.

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  Love Sex and Murder? - The...

  Jens Söring

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  The Netflix series "Till murder do us part: Soering vs. Haysom" deals with the Haysom murders in detail, but the love affair between Elizabeth Haysom and Jens Soering comes up a little short. What was their relationship really like back then? How could Jens have fallen  so deeply in love with Elizabeth that he was willing to get involved in a double-murder?Jens wrote about this years ago in A far, far better thing (Lantern Books 2017). While the focus of that book is on the murders, seven chapters have almost nothing to do with the crime. Instead, they describe the passionate early months of Elizabeth's and Jens's affair, as well as the five months they spent together on the run in south-eastern Europe, Asia and Great Britain.In this audiobook, Jens reads these seven chapters from A far, far better thing himself. This material is  perfectly capable of standing on its own; listeners don't need to know anything about the murder case in order to be drawn into the romantic spell of the story.Was Elizabeth's and Jens's affair really just a nightmare of manipulation and deception? Or was it  perhaps also, at least for a time, something beautiful?

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