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Harold Shipman and the 215 Patients
A Childhood in Nottingham Harold Frederick Shipman was born on January 14, 1946, in Nottingham, into a working-class family his father a lorry driver, his mother a woman of fierce… Read more.
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Timothy Evans, John Christie, and the House on Rillington Place
A Street in Notting Hill Rillington Place was a short, narrow cul-de-sac in Notting Hill, west London a working-class pocket of the city in the years just after the Second… Read more.
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Mary Ann Cotton and the Twenty Years Nobody Noticed
A Village Girl from Low Moorsley She was born Mary Ann Robson on the last day of October, 1832, in the village of Low Moorsley in County Durham a place… Read more.
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The Guildford Four: How Britain Jailed Four Innocent People and Spent Fifteen Years Pretending It Hadn’t
The Horse & Groom pub on North Street, Guildford, was busy on the evening of Saturday, October 5, 1974. It was a regular haunt for soldiers stationed at Pirbright Barracks… Read more.
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The Murder of Teresita Basa – The Voice from the Grave
By any measure, Teresita Basa was not the kind of person murder happened to. Born in 1929 in the Philippines to an aristocratic family, she was educated, refined, and deeply… Read more.
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The Disappearance of Lisa Irwin: The Baby Who Vanished in the Night
In the early hours of October 4, 2011, 10-month-old Lisa Irwin disappeared from her crib in Kansas City, Missouri. Her parents were home. The door was unlocked. And by morning,… Read more.
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The Disappearance of Branson Perry: A Vanishing in Broad Daylight
On April 11, 2001, 20-year-old Branson Perry stepped outside his home in Skidmore, Missouri and was never seen again. No struggle. No witnesses. No confirmed sightings. Just… gone. In a… Read more.
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The Disappearance of Sage Smith -More Questions Than Answers
A Vanishing That Left More Questions Than Answers Sage Smith was a 19-year-old from Charlottesville, Virginia. Assigned male at birth, Sage identified as a transgender woman and was in the… Read more.
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The Murder of Megan Kanka – The Crime That Changed Laws Across America
The Crime That Changed Laws Across America The summer of 1994 in Hamilton Township, New Jersey, was like any other. Children played outside. Families gathered in their neighborhoods. It was… Read more.
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The Ritual Killing of Mark Kilroy – A Spring Break Disappearance That Exposed a Cult of Horror
A Spring Break Disappearance That Exposed a Cult of Horror In March 1989, Mark Kilroy, a University of Texas student, traveled with friends to South Padre Island for spring break.… Read more.
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