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A ‘psychopath with a conscience’: Mark Brown and the Little Bridge Farm murders
Alexandra Morgan's body was burned in an oil drum but Leah Ware's body has never been found
Charles Cullen: The killer nurse with an estimated 400 victims
Charles Cullen worked at numerous hospitals in the New Jersey area while his killing spree went largely unnoticed.
Why did Chris Watts murder his entire family?
Shanann Watts and her two daughters were reported missing by a friend, and it wasn't long until suspicion started to fall on her husband.
50 top British true crime podcasts
Many of the finest crime writers and stories come from the UK, and here are some of our favourite true crime podcasts
Everything you need to know about 'Women on Death Row'
Today, approximately 2,500 inmates are living on death row in the United States and only about 50 of them are women
Which country has the most serial killers?
These are the top ten countries from around the world that have the most recorded serial killers
The curse of Brink's-Mat: What happened to the Brink's-Mat robbers?
The 1983 Brink’s-Mat Robbery left in its wake a long trail of reprisal killings that spanned decades. Anyone who was connected to the £26 million heist met a violent end.
7 scary facts about Jimmy Savile
Jimmy Savile's crimes were only made public after his death, but a lot of people knew what was happening at the time
Execution by time: Whole life orders in the UK
The death penalty was abolished in the UK in 1994. Now the country's worst offenders are given whole life sentences instead.
The UK's scariest killer children
Cases of children and teenagers who murder are shocking and terrible, but unfortunately they do happen.
What drove James Bulger's young killers?
Was their upbringing responsible? Or were other factors at play…?
The execution of Ted Bundy: ‘His body stiffened and his hands clenched'
As Bundy was led to the death chamber to be strapped to ‘Old Sparky’ on the 24th of January, 1989, he appeared to be afraid
Vanished on a lads' holiday: The disappearance of Lars Mittank
How one German holiday-maker vanished under extremely peculiar and bizarre circumstances.
What really happened to Timmothy Pitzen?
A decade has passed since that fateful road trip and Timmothy still remains missing | Image: Shutterstock
The Soham Murderer: Ian Huntley
In the early evening of 4 August 2002, two 10-year-old girls, Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, were on their way to buy sweets whe
Who are the 10 most prolific serial killers ?
Many of the world’s most prolific serial killers are relative unknowns, despite racking up some truly horrifying kill counts | Image: Shutterstock
Vanished: Britain's five most famous missing persons cases
Five of the UK’s most infamous unsolved missing person cases
How UK crime rates compare to other countries?
You'll be surprised how Britain compares...
Serial killers' IQs ranked
Ted Kaczynski, 'The Una Bomber's' IQ was higher than Albert Einstein's
Angels of death: The nurses who kill
We don’t like to think that the people that are put in place to care for us at our most vulnerable—the doctors, nurses and other medical professionals—are also the ones that could willingly commit murder
Mentally tortured and murdered in a gaslighting plot
Ben Field plied his lover with drugs to make him think he was going mad in a campaign of mental torture
The boy who incited his own murder
The story of a depressed Manchester teen who used several fake online personas to convince his best friend to murder him
Going home: The story of Steven Stayner
When Stephen naively climbed into a man’s car he never could have imagined he wouldn't return home for 7 years