He was the domestic US terrorist with a manifesto who eluded justice for years. Unabomber Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski justified his deadly campaign in the name of preserving humanity and nature from the onslaught of technology and exploitation. The FBI spent years trying and failing to capture him. And when they did so, it was only
By most standards Stephen Seddon was a pretty fortunate only son. When he was jobless and short of cash, his elderly parents took equity release from their home and used the money to buy him his house. On top of that they lent him another £40,000. That wasn’t enough for the greedy Seddon. He wanted
It was at 12.40 in the morning, October 31st, Halloween, when Heather Stephenson-Snell arrived in Radcliffe. She parked her G-registered Ford Escort around the corner from Holland Street, covered her face with the mask and strode up to June Day’s front door and started hammering on it. June was alarmed by the commotion but wisely
The case began on September 8th, 1965, when six-year-old Margaret Reynolds disappeared from near her home in Aston, Birmingham. Then on December 30th, five-year-old Diane Tift vanished from a street in Bloxwich on the outskirts of Walsall. Two weeks later their bodies were found on Cannock Chase. More than 20 months went by and no
Jade Janks had a good relationship with her frail stepdad Thomas Merriman – or so it seemed. But a shocking discovery she made on his home computer made her think again and question the time they had spent together over the years... Jade texted friend Mike Liebhand: “I still struggle with moral issues. Yet I
God began speaking through Michael Ryan at some time in the early 1980s. Note that God did not speak to Michael Ryan, but through him. That, according to Ryan, meant that he was God himself. Ryan got together some 20 or so followers who seemed prepared to believe that he must be God, and bought
Marc Dutroux. For Belgians his name remains toxic; a reminder of a criminal horror story that unfolded in the 1990s and left the nation collectively traumatised, outraged and deeply troubled. A rapist and killer, Dutroux was dubbed “The Beast of Belgium” by the press as the world looked on, appalled by his depraved, psychopathic actions.
Officers shifted the search to a building site near Sevenoaks where Mark Brown was working, and discovered he’d asked permission to dump a burned-out oil drum on a skip there. In the bottom of it, they found fragments of incinerated bone, teeth, hair straighteners, jewellery and a handbag. Forensic odontologists used dental records to confirm
Shaye Groves was obsessed with serial killers, and her boyfriend, 25-year-old Frankie Fitzgerald, loved it – right up until the moment she decided to try it for herself... According to Shaye, in the heat of the moment, in fear for her life she tried to grab something to hit Frankie with, to stop him attacking
When we hear that someone died in their sleep at home, we usually expect to see the word “peacefully” somewhere. But there was nothing peaceful about the way Dr. Christopher Osborn died – he was shot three times in the face... Holli Osborn’s elderly father rubbed his eyes as he struggled to wake up. Why