Since 2001, the Gacaca community courts have been the centrepiece of Rwanda's justice and reconciliation programme. Nearly every adult Rwandan has participated in the trials, principally by providing eyewitness testimony concerning genocide crimes. Lawyers are banned from any official involvement, an issue that has generated sustained criticism from human rights organisations and international scepticism regarding Gacaca's efficacy. Drawing on more than six years of fieldwork in Rwanda and...

His bullet-ridden, half-naked body was in the back-seat of the car while her naked body lay spread-eagled and slashed, her private parts and left breast missing. The District Attorney discovered what had happened to the breast when a piece was sent to her in a plastic bag. The Monster of Florence just couldn’t stop killing ...Read about the shocking double murders of the Monster of Florence, along with the horrific crimes of the Monster of the Andes and the Monster of Montmartre in...

Lured away from prying eyes, she had been raped and stabbed to death with a screwdriver. The attack was so frenzied, police knew the murderer must be covered in blood. The killer’s chilling communiqué to the police declared his evil intentions – “Beware! I shall make you weep.” The Red Spider’s urge to kill was out of control...Read about the shocking crimes of Lucian Staniak, the Red Spider, along with the horrific stories of the Green River Killer and the BTK Killer (`Bind them; ...

A decapitated, disembowelled human carcass was strung up like a dead animal, and nine severed vulvae were found in a box with a belt made from female nipples. He admitted that not all fifteen bodies were his own kills; some were corpses that he had dug up from the local graveyard. Ed Gein just liked being with dead people...Read about the depraved necrophiliac Ed Gein, along with the horrific killings of fellow cannibals Albert Fish and Jeffrey Dahmer in this 3 in 1 True Crime Comp...

Her throat had been slashed twice from left to right, while a deep vertical wound had ripped her abdomen open from the breastbone, exposing her entrails to the heavens. Soon Scotland Yard received a letter from the killer, written in red ink, ending with words that would become forever feared – ‘Yours truly, Jack the Ripper.’Read about the notorious Whitechapel murders of Jack the Ripper, along with the horrific stories of the Yorkshire Ripper and the Rostov R...

Imagine coming face to face with the kind of extreme crime that can only be conceived by a truly evil mind. Acts so powerful that they can scar a whole nation for generations. The perpetrators manage to achieve a level of notoriety only usually afforded to Hollywood icons. In their own twisted imaginations they sit in an Evil Hall of Fame among others of their kind: Ted Bundy, Charles Manson, Andrei Chikatilo all jostling for the top spot. Extreme Evil throws light on the most vicious crim...

On 1 September 2004, a group of terrorists disguised as repairmen infiltrated a school in Beslan, Russia. Using concealed weapons they took 1100 children and adults hostage. The world looked on aghast as the siege played out on live TV. Hostages tells the incredible and often harrowing stories surrounding real-life events such as the Munich massacre of 1972, the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979 and the bloody siege of the Davidian Ranch, Waco, Texas in 1993. Packed full of drama, action and ...

When the zombies start stumbling over the hill ? and we all know they're on their way ?what's the first weapon you should grab? A garden fork. Preferably forged from a single piece of steel. Not because, given a good enough shove, its tines would pierce a zombie's skull as easily as an overripe melon, but because come the end of the world, gardening will be what saves your skin. This book, which is aimed at beginners and more seasoned gardeners alike, will tell you what you need; the basic...

The night after the double murder, his thirst for blood became unquenchable and when she said she'd rather die than have sex his chilling reply was instant: "Die then!" Soon rumours arose that the killer was drinking the blood of his victims; newspapers were quick to brand him the Vampire of Dusseldorf.Read about the horrific crimes of Peter Kurten, the `Vampire of Dusseldorf`, along with the chilling stories of the Vampire Rapist and the Vampire of Sacramento in ...

“Falling Night is startlingly real as it recalls the dangerously shifting sands of tribal alliances, western political agendas, and brutality that have characterised Africa’s recent wars. Yet Clarke dares to suggest that inside the worst that the world has to offer, love wins.”Dr. Nik Ripken, author of The Insanity of GodAlan Swales is no hero and no saint. Bored by a successful, yet dull life in Britain with his girlfriend, Mandy, he decides to become an a...

Luke Conway is a schoolboy who struggles academically, but has a close affinity with nature and the outdoor life. This leads him to trespass on the Cordenwood estate, where Thornton is the feared and respected head gamekeeper. He is also a veteran of the Falklands War, whose psychological scars he is struggling to overcome. With the help of Angie Neale, the beautiful but lonely Careers Co-ordinator at Luke's school, Thornton and Luke are thrown together in work on a student placement schem...

For over four decades the story of the extraordinary evil that occurred at the Kincora Boys’ Home in East Belfast in the 1970s and the shocking attempts by MI5 to cover it up have haunted our political and social terrain for decades. Award-winning former BBC journalist Chris Moore has been working on the story since it first emerged in 1980, and has uncovered a horrific catalogue of failed opportunities to put an end to the sadistic activities of the men who were running the home, in parti...