3 h. ago How much do you know about history's most infamous serial killer? Take our Jack the Ripper quiz in this week's The Crime Desk newsletter

He was the terrifying murderer who operated in east London alleyways more than two centuries ago, but how well do you know the story of Jack the Ripper?

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7 h. ago Horror serial killer butchered victims, left only a torso and was never caught

More than 12 people were brutally beheaded and dismembered in Cleveland, Ohio, in the 1930s, with police suspecting a surgeon who was interrogated but never charged

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7 h. ago Serial killer who beheaded and dismembered victims was never found

The Cleveland Torso Murderer, also known as the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run, is considered one of the most gruesome serial killers in history with more than 12 victims found dismembered

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44 h. ago Serial killer elephant on rampage as animal 'killed 17 people across 12 attacks'

A male elephant has embarked on a deadly killing spree in the West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand, India, where in one attack the animal decapitated a villager

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60 h. ago Welshman wrongly hanged for murders committed by necrophile serial killer

Timothy Evans was hanged in 1950 for the murder of his wife and young daughter at 10 Rillington Place but was declared innocent in 2004 after serial killer John Christie was unmasked

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3 d. ago Child serial killer Lucy Letby lands 'top job' in prison leaving other inmates 'jealous'

Letby has been in custody since 2020 after being found guilty of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill seven moreat the Countess of Chester Hospital.

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4 d. ago The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – review roundup

Godfall by Van Jensen; The Salt Bind by Rebecca Ferrier; The Poet Empress by Shen Tao; A Hole in the Sky by Peter F Hamilton; Hello Earth, Are You There? by Brian AldissGodfall by Van Jensen (Bantam, £20)The debut novel by a popular comic-book writer is set in a small town in Nebraska, after the landing of a three-mile-long alien figure dubbed “the Giant”. Local sheriff David Blunt is struggling to do his job following the sudden boom in population: in addition to scientists, government agents and soldiers at the highly classified research area established around the mystery from outer space, many more enthusiasts flood to the town, possibly including a serial killer. Two people have been killed in a horrifically brutal way when the FBI takes over and tries to shut him out. But when the next victim is a man he’s known all his life, Blunt is more determined than ever to catch the killer. His investigation draws him to infiltrate a doomsday cult and to discover more about the tangled ...

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5 d. ago Quaint UK village with secluded beach and lighthouse linked to alleged serial killer who 'poisoned family'

The village in Norfolk is known for its natural beauty, archaeological sites, coastal erosion and beautiful beach walks, but in the 19th century, it was also the home of alleged serial killer Jonathan Balls

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5 d. ago First body of the year pulled out of Houston river that internet sleuths keep linking to a serial killer

More than 30 bodies were recovered from bayous in the Houston area last year, officials say

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5 d. ago Lucy Worsley ‘confident’ her true crime documentary solves Thames Torso murders

Historian Lucy Worsley’s new documentary series takes on the case of a forgotten Victorian serial killer who was never caught.

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6 d. ago 'I was raped and stabbed by serial killer who left me for dead by my boyfriend's body'

WARNING DISTRESSING CONTENT: Holly Dunn was just 21 years old when she was raped and left for dead by serial killer Angel Maturino Resendiz next to her boyfriend's body - she bravely survived to tell the tale.

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6 d. ago Serial killer, 79, admits to murder of New Jersey teen over 60 years ago

Richard Cottingham, also known as the ’Torso Killer,’ has confessed to multiple murders since his arrest

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7 d. ago New DNA breakthrough unmasks Jack the Ripper and identifies killer

A new DNA breakthrough could have finally unravelled the identity of Jack the Ripper, the notorious serial killer who terrorised the streets of Victorian London

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7 d. ago Emmerdale serial killer shot dead ‘by his own sister’ in explosive Corriedale

Emmerdale serial killer John Sugden was shot dead as the ITV soap joined forces with Coronation Street in the explosive first-ever Corriedale episode.

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7 d. ago Identity of Thames torso murderer may finally have been uncovered

New BBC series helmed by Lucy Worsley re-examines Victorian records to follow the trail of a forgotten Jack the Ripper-era serial killer

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8 d. ago Mystery identity of Victorian serial killer 'darker than Jack The Ripper' is 'solved' by TV historian Lucy Worsley

Nearly 140 years after dismembered female bodies were pulled from the Thames compelling new evidence points to a violent bargeman as the Thames Torso Murderer.

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8 d. ago Twisted serial killer stitched his victim's eyes open for sick £22,000 ransom photo

Israel Keyes was a serial killer unlike any other, who claimed as many as 11 lives in the United States and an unknown number of victims around the world

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8 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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1 week ago 'I was being groomed by Fred and Rose West to take place of girl they'd abused and killed'

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT One of Fred and Rose West's victims escaped to tell her sickening tale of the horrifying time she spent under the UK's most notorious serial killer's roof

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1 week ago Sick serial killer Joanne Dennehy horrifying act of celebration after killing third victim

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT One of the UK's most notorious serial killers has left her mark on the Britney Spear's hit after brutally murdering three men and dumping their bodies in ditches.

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