27 h. ago DNA evidence links Colorado woman’s murder to one of state’s most ‘prolific serial killers’ 40 years later

Rhonda Marie Fisher’s murder in April 1987 in Denver, Colorado, went unsolved for nearly 40 years

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40 h. ago Cold case of woman’s murder in seaside town solved after 20 years due to DNA found on cigarette butt

An investigation into the brutal murder of a woman two decades ago has concluded following a DNA breakthrough

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53 h. ago Prosecutors drop effort to retry man whose conviction was overturned in 1993 New York killing

Prosecutors in western New York have dropped their efforts to retry a man whose murder conviction was overturned in the 1993 killing of a woman near Buffalo

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61 h. ago Death row's youngest woman 'had threesomes with her victim' before brutal murder

Emilia Carr became notorious for being the youngest woman on death row at the age of 26, after killing a woman who she was sleeping with along with her partner, according to her lawyer

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3 d. ago Serial killer so dangerous he had to be tried in iron cage was 'modern day Jack the Ripper'

Andrei Chikatilo is remembered as one of the most prolific serial killers in history

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3 d. ago Soviet serial killer 'Butcher of Rostov' was wheeled into trial in steel cage

Andrei Chikatilo is one of the most prolific serial killers in history, but was also one of the most difficult to catch

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7 d. ago Mystery of Brit expat Karen Carter's brutal murder in Dordogne deepens as DNA evidence 'rules out neighbours' and points to 'outsider'

Forensic evidence found at the scene of the murder of a British woman in the Dordogne does not match any of her neighbours - pointing to 'an outsider' being responsible

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8 d. ago Louisiana death row inmate released on bail after decades behind bars

A Louisiana man who spent nearly three decades on death row is out on bail

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9 d. ago New Zealand woman gets life sentence for killing her children in ‘suitcase murder’ case

Hakyung Lee was convicted of murdering her two children and leaving their bodies in suitcases for five years

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9 d. ago ‘Killer’ asylum seeker ‘Chris Jude’ beat & raped another woman, 30, days before murdering teen cyclist Lisa, court hears

THE accused killer of a Dutch teen cyclist raped another woman just days before the shocking murder of Lisa, a court has heard. Prosecutors gave a painstaking minute-by-minute account of Chris Jude's alleged actions across two nights in August, leaving one woman traumatised and a teen girl dead. The accused has reportedly been calling himself...

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1 week ago Suspected killer faces second murder charge over woman's death in south London

Simon Levy has been charged with a second count of murdering a woman

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1 week ago Alleged 'serial sex offender' charged with second murder of woman while on bail

An alleged serial sex offender has been charged with murdering a second woman while out on police bail.

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1 week ago Muriel McKay murder twist: Remains of woman kidnapped in 1969 are buried in east London garden, family believe

Muriel McKay's family now believe that her remains are in the shared back garden of two neighbouring properties on Bethnal Green Road, the High Court hears

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1 week ago Trump calls for disgraced election official linked to his ‘Big Lie’ to be freed – as Colorado officials dig their heels in

President says Tina Peters, 70, is ‘dying & old’ – but he currently lacks the authority to free her from prison

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1 week ago Woman in her 60s is fighting for her life after being 'attacked at home': Police arrest eight

Police have launched an attempted murder investigation after a man and a woman were seriously injured at a property in Newcastle on Friday evening.

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1 week ago Eight people arrested as woman fights for life after suffering serious head injury

Northumbria Police have released a major update in the attempted murder investigation in Newcastle after a woman has been left in a critical condition in hospital

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1 week ago Eight arrested over 'murder bid' as woman fights for life with serious head injury

A woman in her 60s sustained a serious head injury and remains in a critical condition in hospital

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1 week ago Man 'videoed terrified Brit woman, 32, who flew to US to be tortured' before murder

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT. Criminologist and psychologist Alex Iszatt says people seeking such violent deaths often want to "seize control"

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1 week ago Police issue update on girl, 13, arrested on suspicion of woman's murder

A woman in her 50s was found dead at the scene

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1 week ago Girl, 13, arrested on suspicion of woman’s murder released on bail

She was detained following the death at an address in Moredon, Swindon, on Friday evening.

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