MACABRE TRUE CRIMES & MYSTERIES

20 SOLVED AND UNSOLVED TALES FROM AROUND THE WORLD - Volume #3

By: Guy Hadleigh

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Real fear wears many faces: a smiling cabbie, a singing witch, a teenage hammer-killer..!

20 Twisted Tales from 20 Countries

Travel through Venezuela’s shadowy underpasses, cross the windswept plains of Kazakhstan, and follow clues into Norway’s frozen wilderness — perfect for fans of true crime, historical murders, and criminal history.

• The Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs – Hammer-wielding Ukrainian teens left a trail of 21 victims and filmed their twisted killing rampage, giving the world the infamous '3 Guys 1 Hammer' video
• The Reykjavík Confessions – Six Icelanders admit to two murders they can’t remember, sparking a decades-long battle over police tactics, false memories, and one of Europe’s strangest miscarriages of justice.
• The People Eater of San Cristóbal – Beneath a Venezuelan bridge, police find human stew simmering on a fire. The man they arrest cheerfully explains: “It’s just like eating pears.”
• The Vampire of Czinkota – Béla Kiss – Hungarian police open a garage of metal barrels, finding preserved corpses in pickling fluid. Their charming owner has vanished — and may still be at large.
• The Infamous Murder of Bridget Cleary – In rural Ireland, a woman is beaten and burned by her husband, convinced she’s a fairy impostor. “Are you my wife, Bridget?” he demands — before killing her.
• The Isdal Woman – Norway’s Most Haunting Cold Case – A burned corpse in a remote valley. Multiple wigs, fake passports, and coded notes. Fifty years later, no one knows her name — or mission.
• Thomas Baker – The Missionary Who Was Killed and Devoured – A British preacher walks into Fiji’s cannibal heartland, unaware one small cultural misstep will seal his fate — and put him on the menu.
• The Unsolved Murders of Almaty’s Red Light District – In Kazakhstan’s shadowy after-hours world, sex workers are found butchered in alleyways. Despite crackdowns and curfews, the killer melts back into the city’s neon-lit night.
• The Confessions of Collins Jumaisi Khalusha – A Kenyan drifter spins wild tales of his own murders, leaving police unsure if they’ve caught a serial killer — or a man who loves the spotlight.
• Mona Fandey – The Pop Star Witch and the Murder That Shocked Malaysia – Once a glittering singer, Mona trades the stage for occult rituals, luring a politician to a fatal ceremony promising power — for a price.
• South Korea's First Serial Killer – The Case of Kim Dae-Doo – In just 35 days, he slaughters families across the country. His execution ends the spree, but not the questions over how he slipped past police.

Also included:
The Bentalha Massacre
Burned for Speaking Truth
The Communist Killer
The Martyr of the Congo
The Parsley Massacre
The Ethiopian Red Terror
The Accra Strangler
The Murderous Greek Taxi Driver
The Ninja Scare of East Java

With added features like Did You Know? and Where Are They Now?, each story comes with numerous eerie facts and informative aftermaths.

Features a curated selection of photographs, a timescale of events for most of the stories, and a detailed bibliography and image credits section.

If you’re drawn to unsolved crimes, captivated by international mysteries, or compelled to explore the twisted minds of killers and master manipulators, this volume will grip you from the first page to the last.

Add MACABRE: True Crimes & Mysteries Volume 3 to your library today — and uncover the real cases headlines forgot but history refuses to let die.

(Available in digital and audio formats)

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