This week marks 15 years since a serial killer who dubbed himself the "Crossbow Cannibal" received a life sentence for murdering, dismembering and eating three women. Stephen Griffiths, from Bradford, ...

A murderer who has killed three other inmates since being locked up is spending his 52nd Christmas behind bars. Robert Maudsley, more famously known as Hannibal the Cannibal, is the longest-serving ...

A serial paedophile who filmed himself raping young girls to add to his "library" of sick images has been sentenced for more offences. Melvin Miller, from St Helens but most recently living in ...

Eerie CCTV footage shows serial killer Joanna Dennehy 'flirting' with male police officers following her arrest for murder. Labelled as 'Britain's most dangerous woman', Dennehy was previously ...

A notorious serial rapist lured women into his home, trapping them in a torture chamber where he killed some and forced the survivors to consume the remains. Gary Michael Heidnik, who styled himself ...

A serial rapist enticed women to his property and held them captive in his torture chamber - murdering some whilst forcing survivors to consume human remains. Gary Michael Heidnik presented himself as ...

Joanne Dennehy became notorious as one of Britain's most deadly women when she stabbed three men to death in Cambridgeshire. The murders took place across 10 days in March 2013 - making Dennehy a ...

While the majority of US States currently utilise lethal injection as their method of execution, there was a period when the gas chamber was the preferred means of executing the nation's most heinous ...

In the '90s, a mystery emerged in Lisbon after 22-year-old Maria Valentina was found lying in a pool of her own blood behind a shed. She had been strangled, disembowelled and was missing her heart, ...

A shoplifter has received a two-year ban on entering three shops in Hull after being convicted for seven counts of shop theft. Andrew Holt, 48, must also leave any other shop if he is asked to by an ...

A Chinese national believed to be "one of the most prolific sex offenders of all time" has been jailed for a string of offences including rape and upskirting. Chao Xu of Greenwich, south-east London, ...

A serial killer who was never detected by police may have been pinpointed by a new ‘murder map’ of 1,000 unsolved cases in the UK. The map shows that two women were strangled in Cardiff in strikingly ...