28 h. ago ‘Their voices had been overlooked for so long’: the shocking hunt for the Gilgo Beach killer

The long and often shocking journey to finding the alleged killer of young women in Long Island is brought to a wider audience in a damning new Netflix seriesThe film-maker Liz Garbus was on vacation in July 2023 when she got the call that an arrest had finally been made in the case of the Long Island serial killer. Since 2010, when the bodies of four women were found along an isolated stretch of highway near Gilgo Beach, authorities had looked for a presumed serial killer with little progress and plenty of consternation. Garbus was one of the most prominent chroniclers of the grassroots effort to force authorities into action; her 2020 feature film Lost Girls, an adaptation of Robert Kolker’s book of the same name, depicted the fight by a group of working-class women to figure out what happened to their loved ones – all women who participated in sex work on Craigslist – with or largely without police help.It was the star of that film, Amy Ryan, who alerted Garbus to the arrest of R...

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60 h. ago Gilgo Beach serial killer suspect's wife makes shock appearance at DNA hearing hours after finalizing divorce

Despite their marriage now being over, Rex Heuermann's wife Asa Ellerup and daughter Victoria appeared in court in Riverhead, Long Island, Friday for a hearing about key DNA evidence.

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62 h. ago Suspected Gilgo Beach serial killer and wife reach divorce settlement amid court hearing on DNA evidence

Rex Heuermann, 61, is charged with the murders of seven women on Long Island

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64 h. ago Should DNA evidence be admissible in the trial of the Gilgo Beach serial killings suspect?

The question of whether DNA evidence can be used in the upcoming trial of a Manhattan architect charged in a string of deaths known as the Gilgo Beach killings is the focus of a court hearing

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67 h. ago Mum accused of shaking to death daughter, 2, 'lied repeatedly' to police before making admission to hospital consultant, murder trial told

Morsal Mohammed Naim, 31, is alleged to have lost her temper after her daughter 'preferred' her grandparents In Afghanistan

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3 d. ago Serial thug Liam Matthews killed victim on day he was released from prison

The 26-year-old was let out as part of a drive to reduce overcrowding in prisons.

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3 d. ago Netflix adds 'fantastically disturbing' drama about two notorious serial killers

Netflix has just added two-part drama See No Evil: The Moors Murders, which tells the story of two of Britain's most prolific serial killers

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3 d. ago Cult music vid saved 21 children from streets – but there was a dark side with serial killers

Soul Asylum's power ballad Runaway Train and the accompanying video was a runaway success, bringing dozens of missing and runaway children home, but some kids had tragic endings

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4 d. ago Man identified after human remains found at Festival Park as family open up on 'tragic loss'

A family has revealed their 'tragic loss' after human remains were found close to Stoke-on-Trent - DNA evidence has now linked the remains to missing Darren Green

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5 d. ago Chilling 999 call of killer police let go before he poisoned another three men

Serial killer Stephen Port made a chilling 999 call after murdering his first victim. Over the course of 16 months, Port went on to murder three other men and was dubbed the 'Grindr killer'

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5 d. ago Stephen Port: Disturbing clue serial killer left on laptop that police completely missed

Stephen Port is one of the country's most notorious serial killers, with his spree of murders calling the competency of the police's investigation into question

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5 d. ago Serial killer's disgusting final act to vulnerable man he dumped near graveyard

Serial killer Stephen Port managed to stay several steps ahead of the police for months when embarking on his terrifying spree of rapes and murders of young men in East London

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8 d. ago Families of babies murdered by Lucy Letby rally to debunk claims serial child killer is innocent

The families of babies murdered by Lucy Letby have rallied to debunk claims that the child killer is innocent and accused her of trying to 'defect attention' from the heinous crimes.

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1 week ago Happy Face review – Dennis Quaid is a grinning caricature in this shoddy, half

This (sort of) true-crime series about a real-life serial killer’s daughter is deeply disappointing TV – even before you factor in the terrible script and flat actingPerhaps, like politicians’ careers, all intellectual property must eventually end in failure. You begin in one medium – a viral video on social media, perhaps, which brings your story to the attention of the masses and the makers of a podcast; then on to a streamed drama or documentary, maybe knocking out a book on the subject as you go. But eventually it hits a wall. The new translation doesn’t work, it’s running on empty, it doesn’t capture interest, the moment has passed. People get bored, they move on, and that’s the end of your IP’s journey.The new true-crime drama Happy Face, created by Jennifer Cacicio and executive-produced by the mighty Robert and Michelle King (The Good Wife, The Good Fight, Evil, Elsbeth), began life as a book – Shattered Silence, the 2009 autobiography of Melissa Moore, in which sh...

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1 week ago Emmerdale fans rumble 'secret serial killer' set to 'plant' blame on innocent villager amid Chas Dingle horror

Viewers are worried that one villager will be forced to take the hit

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1 week ago Dennis Quaid is brilliantly creepy in true crime serial killer thriller Happy Face

This gripping Paramount+ series avoids most of the pitfalls surrounding true crime and podcast adaptations

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1 week ago Prosecutors say University of Idaho suspect bought a knife on Amazon months before stabbings

Prosecutors say they have evidence that the man charged in the 2022 stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students bought a knife and knife sheath online in the months before the killings

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1 week ago Six chilling words young girl text serial killer before being strangled with clothing and buried under leaves

Khalil Wheeler-Weaver targeted vulnerable women, with his 'killing kit' and internet search history leading police to him, but not before he had gone on a terrifying, premeditated killing spree

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1 week ago Judge overseeing Lucy Letby inquiry REFUSES to pause it after claims the baby serial killer's convictions could be unsafe

Lady Justice Thirlwall had been asked to temporarily halt her inquiry by lawyers for Letby and the senior managers at the Countess of Chester Hospital, where she murdered her victims.

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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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