24 h. ago Brutal murder of schoolgirl solved 26 years later with evidence from pub lunch

It was in October 1983 that the former electrician snatched the 16-year-old off the street as she walked the short distance to her boyfriend’s home.

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26 h. ago Schoolgirl's sick murder solved 26 years later with evidence from pub lunch

The National DNA Database, which was launched 30 years ago this week, has helped solve hundreds of crimes, including a schoolgirl murder which shocked the nation and became Crimewatch's first case

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51 h. ago ITV Emmerdale fans 'solve' Mack running flashforward after Nate murder twist

Fans of Emmerdale are yet to see a flashforward scene of Mackenzie Boyd running through a woods in full, with there still being speculation over what could have happened

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55 h. ago Emmerdale fans 'solve' flashforward of Mack running in Nate murder twist

Mackenzie Boyd - played by Lawrence Robb - was seen running through a woodland in a flashforward on Emmerdale and there's been speculation over it in recent months

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8 d. ago How an iPad under the Thames solved museum thieves' murder plot

How an iPad under the Thames solved museum thieves' murder plot  BBC.com

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2 w. ago ‘The odd drunken detective has been sighted at gigs’: how Sea Power won legions of gamer fans

As they get ready to tour its mournful music, the band reflect on Disco Elysium, the video game whose soundtrack won them a Bafta – and plenty of new followersWhen Jan Scott Wilkinson, frontman of the band formerly known as British Sea Power, was first asked to work on a video game soundtrack, he was sceptical. “We didn’t know much about the game, but our manager Dave seemed to think there was something interesting about this Robert guy who had been pleasantly hounding him,” he says. That was Estonian novelist Robert Kurvitz, part of a team who had just started work on an esoteric video game about an alcoholic cop trying to solve a murder in an impoverished region of a war-torn country. The game was Disco Elysium, now regarded as one of the all-time great cerebral role-playing games: released in 2019, it sat atop PC Gamer’s top 100 list for four years in a row.Kurvitz is a Sea Power superfan. Pick a random scene from the game and there’ll be something – a bit of dialogue, a location...

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