Bedtime Thrillers

This is the story of how those confessions were made, what the police's own records show about the hours before them, why a court believed them, and what Germany's courts said when the man they had confessed to killing turned up.

A gang robbed and killed across northern and central Italy, from highway toll booths to a gun shop in the center of Bologna, while innocent men went to prison for its crimes.

Jan Philipp Reemtsma was kidnapped outside his Hamburg home and held for 33 days while repeated attempts to pay his ransom went wrong.

In 1975, Samuel Bronfman II was kidnapped and his family paid $2.3 million for his release. Then the case went to trial, and the story became much stranger.

In May 1966, a hermit known around Shade Gap, Pennsylvania, as Bicycle Pete took seventeen-year-old Peggy Ann Bradnick at gunpoint near her home.

The true story of Annette Herfkens, the sole survivor of Vietnam Airlines Flight 474, who spent eight days seriously injured in the Vietnamese jungle waiting for rescuers to find the wreckage.

The true story of Sybil Kathigasu, a Malayan nurse who secretly aided anti-Japanese resistance fighters during World War II and endured imprisonment and torture without betraying them.

The true story of Isabel Godin des Odonais and her extraordinary journey through the Amazon to reunite with her husband.

The true story of Nell Donnelly’s kidnapping