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2 days ago

Terror stalked the streets of London's poverty-stricken East End in autumn 1888. Five women - and potentially even more - were butchered to death by a madman who was never caught.

44 days ago

He was the terrifying murderer who operated in east London alleyways more than two centuries ago, but how well do you know the story of Jack the Ripper?

45 days ago

Jack the Ripper's gory murders in late Victorian London are not only the most famous unsolved crimes in history.

53 days ago

Nearly 140 years after dismembered female bodies were pulled from the Thames compelling new evidence points to a violent bargeman as the Thames Torso Murderer.

4 months ago

When their killer, Derek Brown, died in prison last week, his victims' friends and family celebrated the closure - but also revealed how their loved ones were lured to their deaths.
Jackie Summerford has faced 18 years of agony after Derek Brown slaughtered her girl, Bonnie Barrett, in 2007. Her daughter's killer died suddenly last month while behind bars.
From ancient Celtic beliefs in the spirit world to the legend of Jack the Ripper, the UK has a fascinatingly dark history.
Derek Brown was jailed for a minimum term of 30 years on October 6 2008 after he was found guilty of murdering DVD seller Xiao Mei Guo, 29, and prostitute Bonnie Barrett, 24.

7 months ago

There’s an astonishing cast of stars in this complicated, grownup love story about a New Yorker moving to London after a breakup. Richard E Grant! Andrew Scott! Rhea Perlman! And they’re the tip of t…

10 months ago

The author of The Five, about the Ripper murders, turns her attention to another tragically misunderstood victim

In the canon of British true crime, the case of Dr Crippen routinely gets billed as the…

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