The horrific murder of Emmett Till in Mississippi – and the travesty of a trial that followed it – helped spark the civil rights movement in the US. Now a major new film is bringing the true story of the tragic teenager and his activist mother to cinema audiences It seems incredible that it was
She was the blonde-haired American sex symbol whose fame eclipsed her film-star status and whose life came to a sudden, tragic end at the age of just 36. Marilyn Monroe’s death at her Los Angeles home in August 1962 shocked the world. Today, the iconic actor's life and mysterious death, supposedly of a drug overdose,
A number of local women who had been raped and assaulted unhesitatingly identified Thomas Ross Young as their assailant. One of them said that on May 22nd, 1977, she had gone with Young to a secluded spot in Glenboig, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, where he raped her, beat her, and left her for dead. She took
When Milwaukee Police Officer Rolf Mueller went into the kitchen, 31-year-old Jeffrey L. Dahmer jumped up from the settee and began shrieking. When Mueller opened the refrigerator door he knew the reason for Dahmer’s reaction. There, on the bottom shelf next to a box of baking soda, was a severed human head. Officer Mueller didn’t
Early in the morning of December 7th, 1927, a call from one of Eddie’s relatives brought Sheriff Edward Rasmussen speeding to the home of Eddie and Velma West. Eddie’s battered, blood-spattered corpse had been found in the newly-weds’ bedroom. The relative told the sheriff that he had gone to the house to find out why
Derek Bentley was a 19-year-old man with the mental age of an 11-year-old boy – but that didn’t stop the British justice system from exacting its full retribution upon him for the November 1952 murder in Croydon of PC Sidney Miles. It’s 70 years since Bentley went to the gallows for a murder he did
Riddled with bullets, two teenage sisters were found sprawled across blood-soaked seats in a taxi parked at a luxury hotel in Texas on New Year’s Day 2008. Seconds before she died, 17-year-old Sarah managed to ring 911, screaming in agony from the nine gunshot wounds to her abdomen. “Help me! Help me! I’m dying. Oh
Eddie Redmayne has entertained film-goers in many guises over the course of his stellar acting career. He won an Oscar for his portrayal of physicist Professor Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything and delighted millions with his charming performances as Newt Scamander in the Fantastic Beasts series. He’s been transgender pioneer Lili Elbe in
Mother-of-two Renee MacRae thought she was about to begin a new life with her secret married lover in 1976. At around 10 p.m. on November 12th, Renee’s blue BMW was found ablaze but she and her three-year-old son Andrew had vanished. Bloodstains on a rug in the boot were said to be a match for
Armenian-born Aramazd Andressian was lying semi-conscious 30ft from his petrol-soaked BMW when LAPD officers found him in South Pasadena... After the trip to Disneyland on April 15th, 2017, Andressian said, he drove to the lake and smothered his five-year-old son Piqui on the back seat of the BMW with a sweatshirt he’d left in the