3 d. ago The Five author Hallie Rubenhold: ‘I really hate true crime’

The award-winning writer turned the Jack the Ripper case on its head. Now she is giving Dr Crippen the same treatment – and questioning how we tell stories about murderous menIt was called “the crime of the century” and “the north London cellar murder”, and more than 100 years after it happened, the name of the murderer is still widely known. Dr Crippen has been the subject of multiple books, movies and TV shows and had a waxwork made of him at Madame Tussauds. But the story of his crimes, writes Hallie Rubenhold in Story of a Murder, remains one “predominantly about women but told almost exclusively by men”. As such, Crippen’s victim is long forgotten. Her name was Belle Elmore, and in Rubenhold’s book she is brought back to life.Rubenhold and I are in a cafe in Muswell Hill, north London, a 10 minute walk from where Elmore is buried, and where the 53-year-old author lives with her barrister husband, Frank. Writing Story of a Murder was nerve-racking, says Rubenhold, partly because...

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1 week ago 'How many murders does it take?' Sister of triple shooting victim calls for tougher gun laws after Nicholas Prosper easily obtained gun to kill family and plot Sandy Hook

Emma Ambler has dedicated her life to gun reform after her twin sister Kelly Fitzgibbons, 40, and two nieces were gunned while in bed together by her partner Rob Needham.

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1 week ago The sickening views of wannabe school shooter Nicholas Prosper that were so twisted he was banned from website where people watch others die

Nicholas Prosper trawled the internet for sickening images of mass murder, asked if gunshot wounds to the neck were 'lethal' and if 'sex with a corpse feels good' hours before he slaughtered his family.

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1 week ago Nicholas Prosper gives emotionless police interview after murdering family

Nicholas Prosper gave an emotionless “no comment” interview to police after he was arrested for the murders of his mother, Juliana Falcon, 48, and his younger siblings, Giselle, 13, and Kyle, 16, in Luton in September 2024.

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1 week ago The twisted internet history of triple killer Nicholas Prosper who murdered his family and planned 'massacre of the century'

Nicholas Prosper trawled the internet for sickening images of mass murder, asked if gunshot wounds to the neck were 'lethal' and if 'sex with a corpse feels good' hours before he slaughtered his family.

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1 week ago Yvette Cooper faces pressure to close loophole that let murderer buy gun with a fake licence

The Home Secretary was under pressure last night to close a gun law loophole after Nicholas Prosper was able to buy a shotgun with a fake certificate.

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1 week ago 'Sliding door moment' saw murderer ditch plan to kill students at his old school

Twisted Nicholas Prosper was handed a life sentence for the murder of his family, but courts heard about one significant moment which stopped further blood shed

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1 week ago 'I still love you son, it's not your fault okay?': How Nicholas Prosper's father stood by son after lad murdered his family

Raymond Prosper uncontrollably sobbed as he heard the horrific details of how his son shot his sister, brother, and mother in the head.

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1 week ago Primary school ‘devastated’ by Nicholas Prosper shooting plan

Prosper, 19, was jailed for life with a minimum term of 49 years after killing three members of his family at their flat on September 13 last year.

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1 week ago Nicholas Prosper's dad weeps as court told his family's deaths prevented school massacre

Nicholas Prosper's father Ray struggled to contain his emotions as the court heard how the deaths of his other family members prevented the twisted murderer from carrying out a school shooting

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1 week ago We had no knowledge of killer Nicholas Prosper’s plans, say ‘devastated’ surviving family members

The family of triple killer Nicholas Prosper have revealed they had “no knowledge” of his plans to carry out a mass school shooting.

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1 week ago Man who murdered mother, brother and sister in Luton jailed for at least 49 years

Nicholas Prosper, 19, shot his family as part of failed plot to kill 30 children at his former primary schoolA “truly evil” 19-year-old who murdered his mother and two younger siblings as part of a failed plot to kill 30 children and become the worst mass murderer in British history has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 49 years.Nicholas Prosper admitted murdering Juliana Falcon, 48, Kyle Falcon, 16, and Giselle Falcon, 13, last month. Their murders were part of a wider plot to storm a morning assembly at his former primary school with a shotgun and “cause the biggest massacre of the 21st century”. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Urgent review of gun laws urged after triple killer who plotted mass school shooting exposed ‘major failure’

The government is ‘urgently looking’ to tighten controls around private gun sales after Nicholas Prosper murdered his family and plotted to kill 30 children with a weapon he bought for £650

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1 week ago Grim details of Nicholas Prosper's family murders – from 'how to kill' book to 'massacre plot'

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: Nicholas Prosper, who plotted to carry out the biggest massacre of the century, was jailed today for murdering his family as further details emerge of his twisted fantasies

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1 week ago The moment teen gunman Nicholas Prosper is caught covered in blood on way to carry out Britain's Sandy Hook after murdering his family

Serial killer Nicholas Prosper, 19, was on a bloodthirsty mission to commit the 'biggest massacre in the 21st century' after exploiting a terrifying loophole in gun laws to buy a shotgun.

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1 week ago Teen who murdered own family and plotted school massacre jailed for life

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: Nicholas Prosper killed his mother, sister and brother using an illegally-owned shotgun, before plotting what he called "the biggest massacre of the 21st century".

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1 week ago Man who killed his mum and siblings and plotted primary school massacre jailed for life

Nicholas Prosper had planned to carry out a mass shooting at his old primary school

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1 week ago Triple killer who wanted to 'unleash disaster' with mass school shooting is jailed for life

Nicholas Prosper, 19, from Luton, murdered his mother and two siblings and was plotting a school shooting because he wanted to be famous

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1 week ago Teen gunman Nicholas Prosper, 19, is jailed for 49 years for murdering his family and failed plot to kill 30 young children in Britain's deadliest school shooting

Prosper had been on a bloodthirsty mission to commit the 'biggest massacre in the 21st century' after exploiting a terrifying loophole in gun laws to buy a shotgun and 100 cartridges

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1 week ago Nicholas Prosper: Urgent calls to change law that allowed school shooting planner to get shotgun

Police and crime commissioner for Bedfordshire John Tizard has written to the Home Secretary Yvette Cooper

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