The murders most foul: Did the Beast of Belgravia actually butcher ELEVEN people?

Our gripping series began in Saturday’s Weekend magazine with a countdown of the 80 best True Crime TV shows and podcasts, and continues all this week with fascinating four-page specials. We’ve already looked at Britain’s Super Sleuths and Crimes of Passion, and in the coming days Harry Wallop and Christopher Stevens will tackle Rough Justice … Read more

Murders most foul: The dapper knight who sunk the ‘brides in the bath’ killer 

Our brilliant new series began in Saturday’s Weekend magazine with a countdown of the 80 most compelling True Crime TV shows and podcasts available.  It continues all this week in the Mail with four-page specials featuring stories from our archives — with Crimes of Passion, Rough Justice, Serial Killers and Unsolved Crimes to come.  But … Read more

New York suffers five murders in the space of 24 hours despite social distancing

A Brooklyn man allegedly killed his father before dismembering and eating pieces of his body in a shocking murder that was just one of five killings that took place in New York City in 24 hours.  The suspect, 26-year-old Khaled Ahmad, allegedly went into a bagel shop in Dyker Heights at around 4.20am on April … Read more

Lockdown domestic abuse murders ‘more than double in three weeks leaving 16 women and children dead’

Soaring levels of domestic abuse during coronavirus lockdown has led to 16 killings, according to campaigners. The horrific statistic is far higher for the national average this time of year, it has been revealed. Karen Ingala Smith, the founder of Counting Dead Women, which records the number of women killed by men in Britain, has … Read more

Final heartstopping extract of The Pottery Cottage Murders

In January 1977, Billy Hughes, a vicious, escaped convict, held a family of five at knifepoint at Pottery Cottage in the remote Derbyshire countryside, terrorising and torturing them.  Yesterday, in the second extract from a blood-chilling new book on a horrendous crime that shocked the nation, we recounted how Gill Moran tried desperately to appease … Read more