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 [...]
We love our reality TV in the UK, though the summer wehave Britain's got Talent and Love Island, and now in the winter nights we have I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here!, The X factor and strictly come dancing, currently the one that’s creating the most buzz is I'm a Celeb, basically minor [...]
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 [...]
Over the years stories of vampires have been told to generations, from the original vampire story of Dracula from the 1897 gothic novel by Bram Stoker to the more modern and tongue in cheek stories like the twilight saga or the vampire diaries. In the latter stories the vampires are told as sexy and romantic [...]
This is a face that needs no introduction, we all recognise the mugshot of a woman almost smirking at the camera with little remorse for the seven murders that she'd committed to get there. Wuornos was born Aileen Carol Pittman on 29th February 1956 in Troy, Michigan. Her mother Diane Wuornos was 14-years-old when she [...]
I've been thinking of the appropriate way to give this piece the introduction I believe it deserves, but this case is such a big one. John Wayne Gacy is up there with some of the worst of all time and this has been gruelling to write and research, the only thing I can really say [...]
