4 h. ago Serial killer fears rise after teenager becomes 19th body pulled from 'cursed' reservoir

Irewamiri Shote, 17, was the 19th body to be pulled from the murky waters of Lady Bird Lake in Austin, Texas, in three years - and now locals are fearing a serial killer

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9 h. ago Lady Bird Lake: Huge calls for probe into serial killer as 19th body pulled from same reservoir

Reegan Aparicio, whose partner Christopher Hays-Clark was hauled from Lady Bird Lake in Austin, Texas, said his family and that of the 18 other people "deserve answers"

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15 h. ago Serial killer who murdered '49' women met excruciating and gory end at hands of fellow inmate

Notorious Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton, who once bragged about murdering nearly 50 women, has met an excruciating and gory end at the hands of a fellow inmate while behind bars.

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16 h. ago 'Most gruesome case in British history' dissected in true crime documentary hitting screens this week

A serial killer who murdered three women will have his twisted case dissected in a new true crime documentary on a streaming platform this week.

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20 h. ago EastEnders' Samantha Womack says she's 'warned' about Emmerdale star boyfriend

EastEnders icon Samantha Womack, who played Ronnie Mitchell, has opened up about her relationship with Emmerdale star boyfriend Oliver Farnworth, known for his role as a serial killer

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25 h. ago Body pulled from water after search teams descend on Manchester canal

A cordon was in place on Sunday night

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26 h. ago NHS bosses fear fresh strikes in England as resident doctors seek 29% pay rise

Hundreds of thousands of hospital appointments could be cancelled if BMA members vote for series of stoppagesHospitals are bracing for a fresh round of strikes by resident doctors seeking a 29% pay rise, amid warnings that stoppages could lead to hundreds of thousands of appointments and operations being cancelled.NHS leaders fear that a ballot of resident doctors, formerly junior doctors in England, which closes on Monday will produce a majority backing renewed industrial action. Continue reading...

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38 h. ago EastEnders' Samantha Womack stopped by fans with warning about Emmerdale star boyfriend

EastEnders star Samantha Womack has been 'warned' by fans in the street about her boyfriend Oliver Farnworth, due to his role as serial killer John Sugden in Emmerdale

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43 h. ago Inside my strange friendship with a notorious serial killer... and how our daily calls led me to victims of decades

He was a married father of three from New Jersey who led a sadistic double life -  family man by day, serial killer by night.

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48 h. ago I lived with a serial killer for 6 months before I learned what he'd done

A man has spoken of how he lived with a serial killer as a roommate before he found out what he had done.

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62 h. ago WW3 fears rise as warning issued over emergency stockpiles of food, medicine and fuel

The European Union is urging its member states to build up emergency stockpiles of critical resources, including food, medicine and nuclear fuel, as it prepares for potential conflict

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4 d. ago Labour peer Lord David Lipsey found dead after police discover body in river

Officers confirmed the body of Lord Lipsey was pulled from the river on July 1 following a huge multi-agency rescue mission.

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4 d. ago Leading Labour politician found dead after 'going swimming' as body is pulled from river

Police have confirmed Lord David Lipsey, 77, has been found dead after going swimming in the River Wye, a place he had lived for '30 years' alongside his wife

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5 d. ago Tragedy as body of teenage boy is pulled from river after 'entering with pals' as heatwave continues

Police rushed to Beccles Quay, off Fenn Lann in Suffolk, after the teenager failed to resurface from the River Waveney just before 7.30pm last night.

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5 d. ago Body of teenage boy pulled from Suffolk river after he entered water with friends

A massive multi-agency search was launched yesterday to try and locate the boy who had entered the River Waveney with friends but had not resurfaced, police said

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6 d. ago Prosecutors are looking at charging serial killer nurse Lucy Letby with MORE baby murders

Detectives investigating Lucy Letby have passed a file of new evidence to prosecutors for advice on whether she should be charged with more crimes.

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6 d. ago Beloved star's drastically different role in 'jarring and upsetting' revenge film

Kiefer Sutherland stars as a psychopathic serial rapist and killer in the 1996 movie Eye for an Eye, which also stars Oscar-winner Sally Field-and fans are not happy

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7 d. ago Parents accidentally picking serial killer names for their babies

Baby naming experts say dark popular culture is quietly influencing the top baby names of 2025

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7 d. ago Murderland by Caroline Fraser review – what was behind the 1970s serial killer epidemic?

A compulsive new history suggests the crimes of Ted Bundy et al were – at least partly – down to the air they breathedIn 1974, the year Caroline Fraser turned 13, Ted Bundy committed his first confirmed murders. Bundy was handsome, charming, extremely intelligent and sociopathic – “a sexual virus masquerading as a person”. There is persuasive evidence that he began killing much earlier but never this gluttonously. Almost all of his victims had long brown hair, parted in the middle. Sometimes he broke into the women’s houses while they slept, or snatched them off the street. Sometimes he would put on a sling or plaster cast and lure them into his car to help with some fabricated task. If one refused, he tried another, convinced that he would never be caught because they would never be missed. “I mean, there are so many people,” he reasoned. “It shouldn’t be a problem.” Fraser lived on Mercer Island, Washington, near Bundy’s first hunting grounds. Recalling the moment he was first cha...

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8 d. ago Inside Japan's secretive execution jails where death row inmates are given minutes notice before facing the noose

There is a chillingly theatrical element to how the condemned are executed in Japan - the only member of the G7 besides the US that still metes out capital punishment

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