36 h. ago Indian state considers new ‘honour killing’ law after brazen murder of young pregnant woman

Six months pregnant, the student had returned home briefly after marrying a Dalit man despite facing threats from her family

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3 d. ago Woman appears in court charged with murder of her daughter in Rusholme blaze

Four-year-old Lesma-Rose Wibier tragically died of her injuries in hospital

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4 d. ago Woman charged with murder after girl, 4, dies in Manchester house fire

Carrin Wibier, 45, has been charged with murder following the death of four-year-old Lesma-Rose Wibier in a house fire in Rusholme, Manchester, on March 2

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4 d. ago Man appears in court charged with murder after death of woman at Aberdeen flat

The woman, aged 54, died at the scene and a man, 39, appeared in court today charged with her murder.

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5 d. ago ‘I find it all a bit comforting’: why Zodiac is my feelgood movie

The first 2026 entry in our ongoing series of writers calling attention to their comfort films is David Fincher’s thrillerIt begins with a murder, and then another. A woman is killed, a man grievously injured, and a letter is sent to the news media. The killer gives himself a name – this is the Zodiac speaking – and provides a message written in code. So we start with three mysteries: the man, his motives and his message. The third is quickly cracked; the first hypothesized, but never definitively proven. But it’s the why of it all – why a man would kill at least five seemingly random people, and why we as a culture still care – that will require more significant investigation.When it was first released more than 18 years ago, David Fincher’s Zodiac was considered a bit of an also-ran. Over two and a half hours long, it depicts the search for the Zodiac killer, who spent the late 60s terrorizing California’s Bay Area, as a series of bad leads and dead-ends, and concludes without def...

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5 d. ago Necrophiliac raped and murdered woman then sewed her eyes open for £22k ransom picture

WARNING: DISTRESSING DETAILS. The decade-long murder spree of sick serial killer Israel Keyes was driven by a twisted fascination with true crime books

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8 d. ago Man charged with murder of woman found dead in home on New Year’s Eve

Michael Bowen, 34, appeared in court today charged with the murder of 65-year-old Janet Bowen on New Year’s Eve in Yateley, Hampshire

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8 d. ago New Year's Eve murder probe as man, 34 appears in court over death of woman, 65

Michael Bowen, 34, of Maple Gardens, Yateley, has been charged with murder after the death of Janet Bowen, 65 at the same address on New Year's Eve

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9 d. ago New Year's Eve murder probe after man 'stabbed to death' moments before midnight

A man and a woman, both in their 20s, have been arrested on suspicion of murder

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9 d. ago New Year's Eve 'murder' probe as man 'stabbed to death' moments before midnight

Two people - a man and a woman - have been arrested on suspicion of murder following the death of a man in his 20s whose injuries were 'consistent with a stabbing', police said

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9 d. ago Man and woman arrested on suspicion of murder after man stabbed to death minutes before the New Year

Emergency services were called to an address in Bury, Greater Manchester, at 11.55pm last night.

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1 week ago Woman charged with murder after Christmas Day death of pensioner

Police were called to reports of an assault on Christmas morning at a flat in Devizes, Wiltshire

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1 week ago Woman told family she was going to NYE party before being raped, stabbed and burned alive

Two men received life sentences after pleading guilty to the brutal murder of Ashley Kline, a vulnerable 23-year-old woman with learning disabilities

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1 week ago Girl, 12, 'raped and murdered' by woman before being taken to bar in suitcase

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: Lola Daviet was sexually assaulted and attacked with scissors before Dahbia Benkired placed her body in a suitcase – but now the killer is spending the rest of her life in prison

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1 week ago Woman, 63, appears in court charged with murdering pensioner, in her 80s, on Christmas Day

Stefania Glowka, 63, appeared at Swindon Magistrates' Court today accused of killing Tamara Glowka, who was in her 80s.

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2 w. ago Murder investigation after pensioner found dead on Christmas Day

A woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman in her 80s was pronounced dead at a flat on Christmas Day

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2 w. ago Woman, 63, is arrested on suspicion of murder after pensioner is found dead on Christmas Day

The retired lady, who was in her eighties, was assaulted at a flat (pictured) in the town of Devizes, Wiltshire, this morning.

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2 w. ago Woman in her 80s dead after ‘serious assault’ on Christmas morning as another woman, 63, arrested in murder probe

AN ELDERLY woman has died after a reported serious assault on Christmas Day. The woman, in her 80s, died in a flat in Wiltshire and a 63-year-old woman, known to the victim has been arrested on suspicion of murder. Paramedics and police officers raced to the flat but tragically they couldn't save the victim and...

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2 w. ago Dordogne murder mystery: British woman’s death confounds detectives

Brutal stabbing of Karen Carter, 65, in France has been followed by talk of affairs and speculation over the culpritThe quiet village of Trémolat nestled in the Dordogne valley is best known for its “cingle”, where the sinuous river forms an Instagrammable loop.Home to about 700 people, along with restaurants, a cafe, boulangerie and wine bar, it is a picture-perfect French idyll and a popular place for a getaway or even retirement. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Woman extradited from UK to US to face charges of murdering her two children

Kimberlee Singler is accused of killng her 9-year-old daughter and 7-year-old son

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