12 h. ago California State students protest aid blockade in Gaza with hunger strike

Two dozen fasting students also press university system to divest from weapon manufacturers in list of demandsAround two dozen California State University students began a hunger strike last week to protest starvation in Gaza due to Israel’s aid blockade, marking the latest act of political protest on college campuses.The strikers – students from San Jose State, Sacramento State, San Francisco State and CSU Long Beach – began their fast on 5 May Continue reading...

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46 h. ago The body of a veteran found by a highway in Oregon nearly 45 years ago has been identified. Police have linked his death to a serial killer

"We are very confident that we have the correct person of interest,” cops have said

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53 h. ago ‘My brave mum helped catch serial killer clown John Wayne Gacy

When a loved one is cruelly taken away by a sadistic killer, the pain never really goes away. Rob Piest, 15, was John Wayne Gacy’s 33rd - and final victim - but if it wasn’t for his friend Kim more innocent victims would have lost their lives

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6 d. ago Elderly patients 'murdered by serial killer nurse' who was dubbed the 'Angel of Death' may have died of natural causes, Court of Appeal told

Colin Campbell was jailed for 30 years in 2008 for the murder of four pensioners and the attempted murder of another at hospitals in Leeds, Yorkshire, by injecting them with insulin.

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6 d. ago Disgraced former MP Mike Amesbury says fallout from punchgate felt like 'being buried alive' amid disappointing Labour local election results

Amesbury stepped down as MP for Runcorn and Helsby on March 17, weeks after being convicted for drunkenly punching a constituent in the street.

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7 d. ago 'Most dangerous prisoner' Robert Maudsley raises fears with ominous letter to girlfriend

The girlfriend of Robert Maudsley, aka Hannibal the Cannibal, has said she is 'really worried' for her murderous beau following a hunger strike over revoked privileges

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7 d. ago Fears for 'UK's most dangerous prisoner' after girlfriend receives ominous letter

Robert Maudsley, 71, was removed from his famous 'glass cage' in Wakefield and is now being held in Whitemoor jail in Cambridgeshire, where his family struggle to see him

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8 d. ago Netflix viewers warn 'Americans aren't ready' for 'terrifying' new UK serial killer series

The Netflix series focuses on Britain's worst murder case

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1 week ago ‘Penn Badgley didn’t know who I was!’ Charlotte Ritchie on Ghosts, You and conquering global telly

She was in a girl group and starred in a Harry Potter film, but it was her genius turn as Oregon in Fresh Meat that made Ritchie a TV favourite. Now, she’s wrapping up her hit Netflix serial killer series and entering her detective era In the beginning, Penn Badgley assumed his new co-star in the smash-hit Netflix thriller You was a lot like her character. This, jokes said co-star Charlotte Ritchie, was “somewhat rude. Because it shows he did no research about me.” If he had, Badgley would quickly have deduced that the Londoner was nothing like Kate Galvin, a ruthless British heiress, who – for some godforsaken reason – decides to marry his serial killer protagonist Joe Goldberg. Instead, the 35-year-old has cemented her place in the British comedy firmament with her perky, subtly goofy screen presence and impeccable comic timing, as showcased in beloved comedies from university life opus Fresh Meat to the BBC’s ingeniously silly supernatural sitcom Ghosts.At first, Ritchie was nerv...

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1 week ago After 29 years, another victim of suspected serial killer Herb Baumeister identified after burned remains found at farm

Ten victims have been named, but at least three others remain a mystery

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1 week ago Dexter viewers unimpressed as 'weird' teaser for upcoming sequel Resurrection drops

Crime drama Dexter is set to return for another sequel series later this year, but some fans of the serial killer hit don't think it should be spun out any longer

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1 week ago Angry mob surrounds home of alleged serial cat killer. Then they realize they got the wrong house

Alejandro Oliveros Acosta is accused of killing ‘a lot’ of cats in Santa Ana, California

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1 week ago Wild mob surround serial cat killer's home, breaking windows and pepper

A violent group of angry California residents decided to take it upon themselves to track down an alleged serial cat killer and attack his home Sunday night.

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2 w. ago UK's most dangerous prisoner's love letters to new girlfriend

Robert Maudsley, who has been dubbed Hannibal the Cannibal, has never met his new girlfriend Loveinia MacKenney, but the pair say they have a 'special bond'

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2 w. ago 'People see him as a monster but I love him': New girlfriend of evil serial killer 'Hannibal the Cannibal' reveals how she fell for Britain's most dangerous inmate who's been caged for 51 years

Mother-of-one, Loveinia MacKenney, has been in correspondence with Maudsley, 71,  for the last five years, as the inmate sate behind a glass cage for several decades.

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2 w. ago UK's most dangerous prisoner's disturbing love letters to new girlfriend

Robert Maudsley, once the UK's most dangerous prisoner, has found love according to a series of cards penned behind bars and seen for the first time by the Mirror

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2 w. ago ‘Zizian’ follower named ‘person of interest’ in her parents’ killing denies all allegations: ‘We aren’t a murder cult’

In a 20-page letter from jail shared with The Independent, the 32-year-old defended her group’s motives and said their namesake Ziz LaSota is on ‘hunger strike’

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2 w. ago 'Bone collector' caterpillar wears the bodies of its prey like a serial killer

The newly-discovered species has yet to be given a scientific name but, due to its trophy gathering behaviour, has been given the chilling 'bone collector' moniker

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2 w. ago Evil 'serial cat killer' who 'tied up felines and injected them with substance' is arrested

Alejandro Acosta Oliveros, 45, was arrested after a clip of a man snatching a cat from between two cars before tying up its legs and fleeing in a pickup truck was shared by police

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2 w. ago Eight people have been killed in New England in two months. Internet sleuths fear a serial killer is loose

Latest deaths involved a woman’s body being found on a bike path, and two dead men in wooded area

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