"When he left his home to look at the Sky dish, there was someone waiting outside, in the dark, armed with a high-powered crossbow. A crossbow, members of the jury, is a silent, quick and deadly weapon” — Prosecutor Peter Rouch QC, Mold Crown Court, January 2020 (Part 1 of 2).
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Michael Telling had killed his wife, Monika. He hid her body in a summer house for five months, before cutting off her head and disposing of the remains. He never disputed those facts. But after his arrest Telling argued that he was not responsible for...
There are two sides to every coin like there are two sides to every story. A headless body is found in the undergrowth of a natural beauty spot in Devon. Police soon find the culprit who openly admits that he carried out the killing. However, not everything is, as it seems… or perhaps it is? (Part 1 of 2).
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If you robbed a bank, how much do you think you would get? What would you spend the money on? How much money is a life worth?
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“There may have been some sort of consensual behaviour at the start of this night’s activity. But we say that you can be sure that, whatever may have started willingly, there is no way that Natalie either consented to or was able to consent to what John Broadhurst did to her after that, leading to her untimely, unseemly and tragic...
Jack and Charlotte were on a date. The evening was going well. So well, in fact, that Jack invited Charlotte back to his houseboat on the most famous river in London. Little did they know, that following the events of that night, one of them would end up dead and the other chased by police, halfway around the world.
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Simon Hall was convicted of the murder of 79-year-old Joan Albert in February 2003. Although neither his DNA or fingerprints were found at the scene, the prosecution linked Hall to the crime through the transfer of clothing fibres. Along with his legal...
Simon Hall had just been convicted of murder. His parents looked on from the gallery of Norwich Crown Court unable to believe their son killed a defenceless woman in her late seventies. Appeal after appeal would follow, and it was not until a decade later that the cold hard facts of the case would see the light of day (Part 1 of 2).
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Sometimes a killer can just blend in. Be one of many faces in a crowd, unnoticed by everyone, including the officers desperately searching for them. The person known to many as an unassuming "softly spoken gentleman", carries on with his life. Will he ever have to pay the price for what he has done?
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“Psychological reports say they are absolutely sane individuals. It’s frighting that they are such ordinary people. There is nothing special about them.”
— Detective Inspector Peter Wall, outside Manchester Crown Court, 1993.
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Sally Challen was found guilty of murdering her husband, Richard in 2010, but over the intervening years much was changing in the outside world (Part 2 of 2).
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On Sunday, August 15, 2010, police were alerted to a situation on the cliffs of Beachy Head (Part 1 of 2).
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