Elizabeth Roxanne Haysom (*1964) is the protagonist of one of the most spectacular crimes of the last decades. In March 1985, she had her parents murdered by her lover Jens Soering, the then 18-year-old son of a German diplomat. To this day, there is speculation as to whether Haysom herself was at the crime scene. – The gruesome massacre was preceded by a fierce love affair between the highly gifted students. Letters that Haysom and Soering sent to each other before the crime, as well as a ...

Understand more about present wars in the Middle East and attacks on the West. The struggle for energy, played a central role in world politics before!

Reading like a thriller, this biographical adventure shows how oil played a decisive role in the 2nd World War and how the struggle for energy led to personal tragedy. Was Henry van der Waerdens’ death in 1937 murder, or did he commit suicide?

The events bring us to the year 1937 in Europe, when two prominent Shell-oil-men were swept off th...

The unique life story of one of the last true Amsterdam penoze ******

Hugo Broers is one of the last faces of the old Amsterdam penoze. Growing up in the Warmoesstraat, in the middle of the Red Light District (de Wallen), and abused by his father on a daily basis, he picked up on the unwritten underworld codes like no other. He befriended famous Dutch criminals, and ‘cleaned up’ the Wallen neighbourhood with his own team. He spent his life fighting, stabbing, and dealing drugs, subsequent...