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They Let the Wrong One In

It isn’t always easy to do the right thing. It isn’t always required to do the right thing. When we see a homeless person on the street, no one blames you for looking the other way. No one judges you...

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Vampire Murder of 90-Year-Old Mabel Leyshon

On 25 November 2001, with crime tape surrounding a modest bungalow in the Welsh village of Llanfairpwll in North Wales, police told the curious media, “The Devil has been to Anglesey.” The home that...

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A False Confession to Double Murder

The case of Marty Tankleff is one now used around the world to highlight the dangers of false confessions, both to the innocent lives they can destroy and to law enforcement whose interview methods...

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The Washington Ouija Board Murders

Popularized after the first World War, Ouija Boards have been a common tool used for divination by spiritualists. While those who believe in the power of these spirit boards advise discretion to those...

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Anne Marie’s Diary

When Anne Marie Fahey was reported missing on June 30, 1996, it was a big deal. People go missing all the time, but Anne Marie wasn’t your average missing person, she was the scheduling secretary for...

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UK Woman Sentenced for Concealing Baby’s Body in Drainage Pit

They came to fix the plumbing, instead, they came across a shocking discovery. Plumbers were called to a property in Grimsby, Lincolnshire after homeowners ran into some problems with their toilet....

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When Is Self-Defense Justifiable for Murder?

A man who stabbed his ex-boyfriend six times killing him during an argument has been found not guilty of both murder and manslaughter by an Australian jury at Brisbane Supreme Court after they...

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The Predatory Murder of 7-Year-Old Mark Tildesley

On 1 June 1984, 7-year-old Mark Tildesley went missing. A happy little boy who lived with his parents and older brother in the centre of Wokingham in Berkshire, South East England. He had ridden off...

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A Family’s Pact to Murder One of Their Own

When one person plans and carries out a murder, their motives are personal to them, rarely discussed with others. When people band together, they push each other forward, feed off each other’s anger,...

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Murder Victim Undiscovered For Two Years

One of our greatest fears when we die is that no one will care. It’s why many of us try our damndest to leave our mark on the world in one way or another, be it as simple as tagging street art or as...

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Woman Claims ‘American Horror Story’ Made Her Do It

It was August of 2016, when Brittney Jade Dwyer and her accomplice, Bernadette Burns, traveled to Adelaide, Austrailia from Queensland with the intention of stealing her 81-year-old grandfather’s life...

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Toddlers Baked Alive By Mother

Too often we read and hear about the horrors of parents abusing and harming their own children. They’re so shocking, so sickening, that after every case we even begin to imagine that it couldn’t get...

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The Perky Black Widow

If you thought Joan Cusack was charming as the black widow Debbie Jellinsky in The Addams Family Values, you clearly haven’t experienced the oddly alluring personality of Jill Coit. At first meeting,...

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Halloween Murder of Taylor Van Diest

On 31 October 2011, 18-year-old Taylor Van Diest left her home in Armstrong, British Columbia dressed as a zombie for Halloween. With plans to meet friends and enjoy a fun night of trick-or-treating,...

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Decapitation Within the Act of Murder

To decapitate a person — entirely sever their head from their body — is a savage and gruesome act and one which shows the ultimate disrespect for a victim. Most known within the stream of beheading...

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The Creepy Downfall of Colonel Williams

Colonel David Russell Williams was regarded, throughout his 23-year military career, as a model officer and a “shining bright star” of the Canadian military. A year after graduating university in...

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Jealous Rage to Double Murder in Napa Valley

When a vicious double murder was carried out in the early hours of 1 November 2004, the last thing anyone expected was the perpetrator to be revealed as a friend of one of the victims. Eric Copple was...

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101 Stab Wounds

We’ve seen and read many stories about multiple stab wounds and how many there can be inflicted upon a victim. When we read about 20, 30, even 40 stab wounds, we realize how many that is, but when...

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The Soham Child Murders and the Lies of a Killer

On 4 August 2002, two 10-year-old girls went missing around 6 pm in the evening in the village of Soham, Cambridgeshire. Their story and that of the man who took their lives has left a dark cloud over...

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From Royal Assistant to Cold-Blooded Murderess

Jane Andrews was an average girl from a working-class family, a girl who dreamed of more than her hometown of Grimsby in Lincolnshire could offer. She worked hard to achieve qualifications in fashion...

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