Barbara Hutton

January 15th 1947, on a brisk, cold and crispy early morning, a young mother strolled down the pathway running alongside a vacant lot next to Leimert Park, Los Angeles. Her baby contentedly stirred in the pram as she pushed the buggy over the uneven gravel. The young woman's eyes caught sight of a mannequin that lay in pieces on the grass ahead of her, but it was not until she had drawn the buggy closer, that her face drained of life and she let out a ghastly scream. It was not a mannequin at all, but the dismembered body of a young woman, cut in half and nakedly splayed on the grass for all the world to see. She hurried across the road to a nearby house and frantically called the police.Within several minutes, local police had arrived to the nightmarish scene, hardly believing it was possible as they stared down at the porcelain lifeless body of Elizabeth Short. Her limp arms raised above her head; her torso precisely sliced through and her lower half of her body and legs erotically laid out some 30 cm away. This young woman had suffered at the hands of some evil that police and investigators had never come across; some deranged individual or group who had savoured every last minute of this young woman's deadly humiliation. It was not only her mutilated naked body that disturbed officers so, but the savagely cut 'Glasgow Kiss' smile that had been carved from ear to ear and across her beautiful face. Her right breast cut from her body; police were disturbingly baffled that not one drop of blood evidenced the scene. This was not the place she died; her blood had been carefully and meticulously drained and her remains vigorously cleaned and scrubbed before she was discarded without emotion. Elizabeth was meant to be found and above all, the evil perpetrator meant her to be posed in those total and utter humiliating circumstances. Her handbag and one red shoe were found in a dustbin nearby. Elizabeth Short was a 23-year-old stunning beauty who had dreams of becoming the next major Hollywood star. She was famous now; but not the way she had ever intended...And the question has remained for decades now...Who killed the Black Dahlia?

A Collection of True Crime

The Black Dahlia

Heroes of the Crusades

"Why can't I have a budgie instead of the spiders and cockroaches I already have in here? I promise to look after it and not eat it...."The coldly uttered words rang out from the haunting shape of a scraggily middle-aged man, who sat behind the steel doors of a solitary confinement unit in the maximum-security wing of Wakefield Prison in the United Kingdom. This was no ordinary man who had made an error turn in his life. This was not some usual prisoner who had become unruly during a canteen break and had received some sort of citing offence.No. This was not that man. This was someone who had the ability to evoke the deepest dread in every living person outside of that steel door. He was there because even the prison guards feared him; even the boogey man would hide from such an evil.Robert John Maudsley had been in there for years with no proper human contact of any kind. And why should he have? After all, if he ever managed to physically get hold of you, he would probably be eating out your brains from your lifeless body right now.Let me introduce you to the many sinister and depraved layers of Robert John Maudsley, one of modern society's most notorious and sadistic serial killers to date.

Robert Maudsley, Serial Killer

This text tells the story of Robben Island. For more than four centuries it has been a place of banishment, exile and imprisonment but, since the 1960s, it has become an international symbol of the brutality of apartheid on one hand and of human dignity on the other.

Symbol of Resistance

Robben Island

Excerpt from The Fiery Cross, or the Vow of Montrose The time that the young Earl served with the Scotch gens d'armes is not known, neither is it certain that he saw service in France; but while on his travels, he carefully cultivated all the arts that could advance him in a military career. Till rebuffed by the King, he had longed with all the enthusiasm of his age to support Charles's cause; but the King's reception of him damped his ardour. Montrose retired to his native land. His return caused much excitement, because it was at first not known which faction he would favour; and his ability and talent would be valuable to either. The Earl sided with the Covenanters, against the King. The title of Covenanter was the badge of a party. Charles the First, with indiscreet zeal, had tried to force the English form of liturgy and Episcopacy on the Scottish Presbyterians. Enraged at this attempt, those who belonged to that party drew up a protest, which they named 'the Covenant.' The document bound all who signed it to resist any religious changes and innovations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Fiery Cross, Or the Vow of Montrose (Classic Reprint)

Or, The Vow of Montrose

The Fiery Cross

The Fiery Cross, Or, The Vow of Montrose

The Wayfarer

John Lawson

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