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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.

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Jimmy Savile's crimes were only made public after his death, but a lot of people knew what was happening at the time

The death penalty was abolished in the UK in 1994. Now the country's worst offenders are given whole life sentences instead.

Cases of children and teenagers who murder are shocking and terrible, but unfortunately they do happen.

Was their upbringing responsible? Or were other factors at play…?

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

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A decade has passed since that fateful road trip and Timmothy still remains missing | Image: Shutterstock

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

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Ted Kaczynski, 'The Una Bomber's' IQ was higher than Albert Einstein's

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

Ben Field plied his lover with drugs to make him think he was going mad in a campaign of mental torture

The story of a depressed Manchester teen who used several fake online personas to convince his best friend to murder him

When Stephen naively climbed into a man’s car he never could have imagined he wouldn't return home for 7 years