Handmade soaps or homemade cookies are often welcomed gifts, whether from friends, neighbours or family members, but in this case from 1930s Italy shows that sometimes these can have some disturbing things inside them, more disturbing than questionable chemicals or ocean polluting micro-beads, this is the case of “La saponificatrice di Correggio” or “The soap [...]
Some of the most common motives for murder are the urge to protect, revenge, jealousy, money, hate, sex, to keep a secret, personal vendettas, drugs and substance abuse, political reasons, and even property disputes. In the case of Herbert William Mullin, a serial killer that murdered 13 people in California in the early 1970s, the [...]
This is the fourth child killer that I have written about, the first three being Mary Bell, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, although Venables and Thompson were partners in their crime. The idea of a child killing is always horrifying, whether it is school shootings, gang murders involving young members or a sinister murder just like [...]
Hungerford is a small town in Berkshire, England. The population sits at 5,767 according to the 2011 census, it’s a world away from image of busy London that springs to mind when people think about England, this is a small town with community where everyone knows everyone else, but the small town would be remembered [...]
The subject of this case has gained some infamy from his crimes due to the similarities between his crimes and the crimes of fictional serial killer Dexter Morgan from the TV series Dexter (2006), the series tells the story of a killer controlling his urges to kill by killing people who “deserve” it like other [...]
This case is a violent and tragic one, a murder and vicious attack that shouldn’t have taken place, it was one that remains fresh even now, 12 years later. Sophie Lancaster’s murder is one that still evokes sadness, fear and anger to everyone just like Sophie and her boyfriend Robert Maltby, who was also subjected [...]
The subject of this case, Joanna Dennehy is quite special, she has been described in the media as the most dangerous woman currently in the British prison system and she is one of only three women in the UK to be given a full life sentence alongside Myra Hindley and Rose West. Dennehy as a [...]
You can’t really put into words how much of a phenomena this case really is, you look at how horrible stories of extreme Munchausen’s by proxy can be and how horrible a case of a young woman killing her mother is and what’s even more shocking to see one lead into the other, here is [...]
I decided to look into this case because I spoke to man while on a cigarette break in work and mentioned the numerous trips to London I took in the summer and he mentioned how he had lived in London in the 1980s and met our subject Dennis Nilsen, I don’t know how much of [...]
