In 2008, news reports about Austrian father from hell Josef Fritzl stunned all those who read them…
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Eight victims for the happy face killer…
In 1969 the Rolling Stones’ guitarist was found dead in his own swimming pool
Smiling Karla Faye Tucker – The Pickaxe Killer…
Many killers, of course, get away with murder – but those who do, few later then turn confessor and admit the crime to the authorities…
15-year-old girl murdered on a crowded train…
Public executions were major crowd-pulling events in 19th-century Britain and Ireland,
When her husband drowned while on a luxury holiday in Barbados six years ago, the life of best-selling children’s author Helen Bailey was changed forever.
12 Die in Cumbria Massacre… 2 Irish Sisters Were Hanged In Public…
Teacher Stephanie Scott was about to get married when she fell into the clutches…
For the past 15 years condemned British passport holder Linda Carty has been incarcerated on Death Row in Texas
The recent BBC dramatisation Rillington Place brought the ghastly events that went on at No. 10,
Scotland’s Classic Cases takes us to Dundee this month as we focus on the still unsolved Templeton Woods murders of 1979 and 1980…
For many teenagers growing up in the 1970s, a paper round was considered a safe, quick and easy way to earn some cash…
the American author of The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet had an enviable lifestyle…
She grew up to become one of Britain’s best-loved writers having created the Adrian Mole diaries…
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From Northumbria, the story of Raoul Moat, a violent nightclub bouncer with a grudge against the police
A concentration dose of the best stories from across the world…
We venture back to the 80s for Cardiff’s Case Of The Skeleton In The Carpet
As “cold and calculating” Swindon cabbie Christopher Halliwell’s whole-life sentence gets under way…
How a lucky break helped police finally solve the horrific murder in her own home of schoolgirl Yiannoulla “Lucy” Yianni
When Gloucestershire woman Caroline Roberts died aged 61 last year…
Forty years ago this month double-murderer Gary Gilmore was executed by firing squad
Teenager William Sleath and his older work colleague James Ward were pals…
We’ve published lists of hangings before, but never on this scale…
Who killed Olive Wilkinson? Nearly three-and-a-half decades after the 37-year-old Lincolnshire woman’s untimely demise in June 1983…
What really happened to Claudia Lawrence? Why did Christy gun down her daughters?
For the city of Glasgow, Tuesday, July 15th, 1969, was a day like no other.
Barbara Graham, dubbed “Bloody Babs” by the press, was just 31 when she was executed in the gas chamber
Major British murder cases with Bristol’s ‘Mad Impulse’ killer
It was 1980 when the prison door slammed shut, and Californian Michael Hanline was beginning a life sentence for murder he didn’t commit…
Why did the South African “Blade Runner” shoot his girlfriend on Valentine’s Day??
DNA evidence finally nailed the real killer of a 19-year-old whose body was found in undergrowth at Woburn Golf Club
Continuing our series on The Memorable Trials of Norman Birkett…
How dedicated police work and a scientific breakthrough solved the 30-year-old murders of two 16-year-old South Wales girls
How on earth did it happen? The Jonestown, Guyana murder-suicide of 918 members of the People’s Temple cult in 1978
James Hanratty, the subject of this month’s Crimes That Made The Headlines
Classic murders cases from around the world…
For more than 20 years Harry Crawford lived a lie,
Irishman John Lynch was affectionately known as “Uncle Paddy” by the children in the Edinburgh tenement.
In The Footsteps Of Jack The Ripper, in which we’ll be looking at the other murders to have taken place in “Blood Alley”
When 15-year-old day-school pupil Amelia “Millie” Jeffs vanished after leaving her West Ham home on a Friday night
“I can’t live with you, I can’t live without you,” warned John Martin, the musician husband of Natalia Strelchenko, in a text message
Two Burmese men face execution following the murders of British pair Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on Koh Tao…
Norman Birkett’s place in legal history seems assured – and in his long and distinguished career…
J. Edgar Hoover was still in his twenties when the call came to head up America’s Federal Bureau of Investigation
