4 d. ago Clifton suitcase murder from bloody trail, frantic chase and sick video footage

When two suitcases containing human remains and dripping with blood were found abandoned in a UK city, it shocked the nation. Yostin Mosquera, 35, was locked up for the horrific crime - but what exactly happened that day?

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8 d. ago Strange Harvest review – lurid horror expertly disguised as true crime

Stuart Ortiz’s convincingly faked crime documentary details the hunt for a Los Angeles serial killer dubbed Mr ShinyFor its first few minutes, this comes on like a standard true crime documentary: establishing shots of the Greater Los Angeles area, talking heads introduce themselves as police officers and friends of the victims, and we zoom in on a handwritten list of names until one particular name fills the screen. All the tricks of the trade are here, and director Stuart Ortiz plays things more or less straight. In fact it’s a mockumentary: not a parody but instead a horror movie that happens to be told using the format of a true crime documentary.The story, about a masked killer called Mr Shiny (if you think this name strains credibility, don’t forget there are real serial killers nicknamed the Happy Face Killer, the Dating Game Killer and the Doodler), is functional enough. There are lurid details of the killings, and police officers talking about how the crimes were beyond bel...

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2 w. ago Netflix fans share 'unpopular opinion' over Ed Gein Story and its real meaning

Netflix's latest season of Monster has been slammed for its inaccuracies

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2 w. ago ‘These men think they’ve done nothing wrong’: the philosopher who tried to understand Gisèle Pelicot’s rapists

When 50 men went on trial in France, accused of raping a woman who had been drugged by her husband, Manon Garcia was in the courtroom – and in the prosecutors’ closing arguments. How does she make sense of what happened?‘It is so rare, in fact it never happens, that crimes are so well documented.” Manon Garcia is the French feminist philosopher whose thinking featured so prominently in the final stages of the Dominique Pelicot trial. There are, she points out, 20,000 videos and photos of Gisèle Pelicot “being raped, unconscious, by complete strangers”. One might struggle to understand why, in the face of such compelling factual evidence against her husband Dominique and a further 50 men, prosecutors would need to bring in a philosophical argument to explain why this was wrong. But since they did, they couldn’t have found a clearer or more persuasive voice than Garcia’s, the author of We Are Not Born Submissive and The Joy of Consent.Last November, six weeks into the trial, Garcia ar...

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2 w. ago Killer Fred Singleton who raped and murdered pensioner dies in prison

Fred Singleton has spent 42 years on death row since his conviction of the rape and murder of vulnerable widow Elizabeth Lominick, crimes which happened in her own home

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2 w. ago Who is the Birdman in Netflix Ed Gein series as viewers left puzzled

Netflix's Monster: The Ed Gein Story has introduced viewers to a number of real-life figures, including the Birdman - but who is he and what is his real-life story?

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3 w. ago Inside Ed Gein's real home where he carried out evil crimes and what really happened to the farm

Netflix's Monster: The Ed Gein Story dropped on Netflix last week - here is the late killer's real home where he carried out his heinous crimes.

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3 w. ago Inside story of the real Birdman in Ed Gein series from brutal crimes to bizarre hobby

Here's a look at the elusive Birdman mentioned in Monster: The Ed Gein Story

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3 w. ago Netflix Ed Gein finale leads to mass outcry for return of 'one of the best shows of all time'

Monster: The Ed Gein Story is the third season in director Ryan Murphy’s real-life horror anthology following the lives of some of the world’s most infamous killers.

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3 w. ago The real Ed Gein voice captured in chilling recordings inspired Netflix Monster star

Known as the Butcher of Plainfield or the Plainfield Ghoul due to his heinous acts, Gein was confirmed to have murdered two people, but confessed to exhuming other bodies

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3 w. ago Netflix fans just realising Big Bang Theory icon stars in Monster The Ed Gein Story

Monster: The Ed Gein Story is the third season in Ryan Murphy’s real-life Netflix horror series.

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3 w. ago Inside real history of Ilse Koch as Netflix Ed Gein series features Nazi

Netflix's Monster: The Ed Gein Story features a comic book about Nazi war criminal Ilse Koch

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