56 h. ago Volunteers uncover ‘hugely exciting’ burial site underneath Welsh park

Human remains were found in three pits during a dig at Cardiff’s Trelai Park

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6 d. ago Disturbing text sent by former Olympic athlete before he strangled wife and hid body underwater

Kathleen McLean was keen to give her marriage another try, but there was a final argument with Ingolf Tuerk that would seal her fate underwater, weighed down with rocks in her pocket

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7 d. ago The Minnesota shootings illuminate the character of the Trump era | Sidney Blumenthal

The attacks on lawmakers and a US senator’s callous reaction tell a dark tale of modern AmericaIn the early morning of 14 June, according to authorities, Vance Luther Boelter, disguised as a police officer and wearing body armor and a face mask, drove his black Ford Explorer SUV, equipped with flashing lights, to the home of the Minnesota state senator John Hoffman. There, he shot Hoffman nine times, critically wounding him, and shot his wife eight times as, relatives say, she threw her body over her daughter to shield her. He next drove to the home of the former house speaker Melissa Hortman, forced his way in, and killed her and her husband, officials say.The police arrived and Boelter fled, abandoning his car. In it they allegedly discovered a “kill list” of dozens of federal and state Democratic officials, mostly from Minnesota but also prominent Democrats in other midwestern states, and the sites of women’s healthcare centers and Planned Parenthood donors. He left behind notebo...

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9 d. ago Market town jeweller, 66, was found hanged next to his wife's dead body after 'rapid deterioration' of his mental health during Covid, inquest hearing is told

A jeweller was found hanged near to his wife's dead body at their home after his mental health declined following the 'anxieties and challenges' of the covid pandemic, a coroner was told today.

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1 week ago Wife 'fed husband's body parts to family dog in agonising slow death'

Svetlana Batukova was sentenced to 14 years in prison for the murder of her husband, Horst Hans Henkels, in 2018, but has had her appeal rejected by the Spanish courts

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1 week ago Dig begins for the remains of 800 children believed to have been buried at Irish 'mother and baby home' where bodies 'were dumped into sewage tank called The Pit'

Pre-excavation work began on Monday ahead of a full-scale dig to try to identify hundreds of children who died at the home in Tuam, Co Galway between 1925 and 1961

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1 week ago Preparatory work to identify remains of 800 infants at Irish mother and baby home begins

Excavation crews begin sealing off site in Tuam, Co Galway, before full-scale dig starts on 14 JulyPreliminary work aimed at identifying the remains of nearly 800 infants is starting on the site in Tuam, Co Galway, as Ireland continues to wrestle with the traumatic legacy of its mother and baby homes scandal.Catherine Corless, a local historian who first sounded the alarm about the dark past of the institution run by nuns from the Bon Secours order, uncovered the names of 796 infants who are believed to have been buried there between 1925 and 1961, some in a disused subterranean septic tank. There were no burial records. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Billionaire who was convicted of hiding his wife's body in a barricaded room for two months becomes a Sir

Hans Kristian Rausing was so distraught by the passing of his first wife in 2012 that he could not 'confront the reality' of her death and 'could not cope' without her.

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2 w. ago Mel Gibson movie Ransom inspires family to put up £1million reward for information which helps them find murdered mum's remains

Muriel McKay, 55, was abducted in 1969 after she was mistaken for media tycoon Rupert Murdoch's wife. Two men were jailed but her body have never been found.

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2 w. ago Husband's decomposed body found in gorge after lavish wedding as wife arrested

A woman has been arrested after her husband's body was found brutally murdered with his throat cut - Sonam Raghuvanshi went missing with her husband, but has been arrested

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3 w. ago Shocking new Madeleine McCann claim that 'drunk' German wife of British man ran the child over before couple dumped the body at sea emerges in Portuguese media report

German prosecutors refused to probe a couple suspected of running over Madeleine McCann in a drink-drive accident, it was sensationally claimed today.

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3 w. ago Killer dad ordered son to dig up pregnant mum's rotting body to get a lock of her hair

Killer Andrew Griggs crafted a grim makeshift tomb for his wife Debbie Griggs, so that he could always 'keep an eye on her', before making a despicable request of their son

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3 w. ago Shocking new Madeleine McCann claim that British man and his 'drunk' German wife ran the child over then dumped the body at sea emerges in Portuguese media report

German prosecutors refused to probe a couple suspected of running over Madeleine McCann in a drink-drive accident, it was sensationally claimed today.

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3 w. ago Soldier killed pregnant wife with a machete before dumping her body in the trash

After the killing, Dewayne Johnson II reported his wife missing, then joined search parties looking for her

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3 w. ago Husband is jailed for life for murdering wife and hiding her body under the stairs

A husband has been jailed for life for murdering his wife and hiding her body under the stairs.

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3 w. ago Father who killed pregnant wife and hid body for over 20 years tried to 'literally get away with murder' by telling his son to dig her up

A father who killed his pregnant wife and hid her body for over 20 years tried to 'literally get away with murder' by telling his son to dig up her body, a judge said today.

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3 w. ago Killer who hid pregnant wife’s body under patio for 23 years asked son to dig up her remains

Killer Andrew Griggs tried to manipulate his son into digging up his mother’s remains in a chilling plot to clear his own name

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4 w. ago Husband utters horrifying sentence after shooting and dismembering wife

Joseph Parker shot his wife Samantha in the head while she slept, then dismembered her body and stuffed her remains into a freezer - when police asked why he saw her face was still moving

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