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Daily True-Crime News Update: 6 Dead in Michigan, UK Teen Murder Inquiry, France Body Discovery

A true-crime news update covering the Missaukee County multi-scene shootings in Michigan, a teenage murder inquiry in Bedfordshire, the discovery of a woman’s burned remains in France, Luigi Mangione’s federal plea, and violent-crime updates from…

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The Ted Bundy Victims: A Chronology of Loss and Evidence

This chronological history traces Ted Bundy’s crimes from 1974 through his 1989 execution, covering cases in Washington, Utah, Colorado, and Florida. It emphasizes the experiences of victims and survivors while distinguishing between proven convictions and…

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What Necrophilia Means in Forensic Psychology

What is necrophilia? In forensic psychology it differs from necrosadism, and what post-mortem evidence can and cannot prove in a criminal case.…

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Sexual Sadism Disorder: What Crime Scenes Cannot Diagnose

What sexual sadism disorder means, how it differs from consensual BDSM and violent crime, and what forensic evidence can establish in a case.…

Elizabeth Short Murder: The Black Dahlia Case, Evidence, and Unanswered Questions

Elizabeth Short’s 1947 Black Dahlia murder remains one of America’s most infamous unsolved cases. This dossier examines the crime scene, autopsy findings, suspect theories, media distortion, forensic limits, and the unanswered questions that still surround…

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Kharkiv Cannibalism Case 2018: Father & Son Kill Cop

In October 2018, Maksym and Yaroslav Kostyukov murdered Yevhen Petrov in Kharkiv, Ukraine, following a dispute while drinking. The father and son dismembered the victim and consumed parts of his remains. Authorities discovered the torso…

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Who Put Bella In The Wych Elm? Unsolved Case

Bella in the Wych Elm. On 18 April 1943, teenage boys found an unidentified woman’s skull inside a hollow wych elm in Hagley Wood, Worcestershire. Police recovered a near-complete skeleton, clothing, shoes and a cheap…

East St. Louis Family Homicides: Five Killed, Two Teens Charged

Five relatives dead, two survivors wounded, a severed thumb used to unlock a phone. Ja'ymier Davis, 16, and his 15-year-old girlfriend face murder charges in a targeted family attack across three East St. Louis locations.…

Ambrose Small Disappearance

What happened to Ambrose Small? Follow the missing Toronto millionaire's final day, theatre sale, Grand Opera House, suspects, evidence and unresolved theories.…

Kharkiv Cannibalism Case: Kostikov Murder, Mutilation & Cannibalism Claims

A father and son were convicted of murdering Yevhen Petrov in Kharkiv. Explore the Kostiukov case, mutilation evidence, disputed cannibalism claims and trial.…

Edmund Kemper: The Murders, Victims, Evidence & Conviction

At 15, he shot his grandmother to 'see what it felt like.' By his mid-twenties, Edmund Kemper had murdered his own mother and six college students around Santa Cruz, decapitating most of them and keeping…

Leonarda Cianciulli: The Correggio Murders, Victims & Soap-Maker Myth

Leonarda Cianciulli was an Italian serial killer convicted in 1946 for the murders of three women in Correggio between 1939 and 1940. She targeted victims with promises of marriage or employment, coerced them into transferring…