A local baker harboured a dark secret: he trawled the streets for young women, took them into the wilderness and hunted them like prey.

When a fellow student was arrested for Beatriz Lebre’s brutal murder, everyone was shocked. How did their friendship end in gruesome murder?

A young mother was found beaten to death in her bedroom in broad daylight. Investigators discovered her well-liked husband had a dark side.

A serial rapist terrorised the women of Amager for decades. Once unmasked, police linked him to various other crimes, including murder.

A trip to Spain of a Dutch couple took a chilling turn when they were lured to their deaths by a business associate.

When Bernice and her son Ben Novack Jr died within months of each other, police uncovered a sordid tale of unimaginable greed and cruelty.

A family of five vanished from their luxurious alpine chalet. A forensic examination of the house proved that a brutal massacre had taken place.

The body of a Chicago socialite was found in a suitcase at a luxury resort in Bali. Her daughter and the boyfriend had a lot to answer for.

A train passenger witnessed the brutal murder of a young woman. 40 years later the case was finally solved.

A hitman known as Mr Rent-a-Kill left his apartment building in Sydney one morning in 1985 and was never seen or heard from again.

Melissa Ann Shepard found partners online and fooled them with her charm. But greed got the better of her…

Falling in line with the age-old tradition of narrating a holiday ghost story, we bring you the wonderfully dark short story by Algernon Blackwood, The Kit-bag.

After being stalked over the phone for months, Dorothy strangely disappeared never to be seen again. Who was her stalker and did he kill her?

In the 1960s three Glasgow women met a bible quoting man called John at local dance halls. In all three cases the night out ended in murder.

In 1980, an 11-year-old boy didn’t show up for school and was never seen or heard from again. His parents believe they know who took him.

Lisa Montgomery visited the 8-month-pregnant Bobbie Jo Stinnett and left the new mother dead after cutting her baby from her womb.

After being subjected to an all-night exorcism, a mild-mannered man went home and brutally killed his beloved wife with his bare hands. 

A North Korean state-sponsored hacking organisation was believed to be behind cyber-attacks on Sony Pictures & The Bangladesh central bank. 

In 1990 Helsinki police re-opened a ten-year-old murder investigation and eventually unmasked a serial killer and arsonist, Ismo Junni.

A poison pen campaign targeted prominent civil servants. Because of it careers ended, marriages took strain and two people lost their lives.

13-year-old Aarushi Talwar and servant Hemraj Banjade were both brutally murdered. What occurred in the family apartment remains a mystery.

18-year-old Nick Howard took out a life insurance policy shortly before dying under mysterious circumstances. Who was to benefit?

He cut locks of hair from unsuspecting women on public transport. Then he incorporated his fetish in two salacious murders.

The women of Nagyrév banded together to get rid of their abusive husbands by poisoning them. Then, everything spiralled out of control.

Sharon Kinne was an unscrupulous woman who deceived, cheated and killed. But even a prison sentence was not enough to contain La Pistolera.