The dark secret of Charlie Brandt
In short Carl “Charlie” Brandt seemed a model husband. In September 2004, staying with his niece Michelle Jones in Maitland,
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Category: homicides
The murder of Julia Martha Thomas
In short On March 2, 1879 in Richmond, London, Irish maid Kate Webster killed her employer, the widow Julia Martha
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Alyssa Bustamante, the 15-year-old who killed just to know what it feels like
In short On October 21, 2009 in St. Martins, Missouri, 15-year-old Alyssa Bustamante lured her 9-year-old neighbor Elizabeth Olten into
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Gordon Stewart Northcott, the murderer who inspired “Changeling”
In short Between 1926 and 1928 Canadian Gordon Stewart Northcott abducted, abused and murdered at least three boys at his
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Alexander Pichushkin, the chessboard killer
In short Alexander Pichushkin, the “chessboard killer”, killed at least 49 people between 1992 and 2006 in Moscow’s Bittsa Park,
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Nikolai Dzhumagaliev, metal fang
In short Nikolai Dzhumagaliev, born in 1952 in Kazakhstan and nicknamed “Metal Fang” because of his dental crowns, killed and
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Sergei Ryakhovsky, the hippopotamus
In short Sergei Ryakhovsky (1962-2007), known as the Balashikha Ripper or “the Hippopotamus” because of his size, killed at least
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Anatoly Slivko, the killer who filmed his murders
In short Anatoly Slivko (1938-1989) ran a youth club for boys in Nevinnomyssk, in southern Russia. For over twenty years,
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Carl Newton Mahan, the six-year-old tried for murder
In 1929, in Kentucky, six-year-old Carl Newton Mahan killed an eight-year-old friend with his father’s shotgun. He was tried by a jury and convicted: the full story of the case that divided America.
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The Richardson family murders and the guilty 12-year-old daughter
In short On April 23, 2006 in Medicine Hat, Canada, Marc and Debra Richardson and their 8-year-old son Jacob were
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Earle Nelson
In short Earle Nelson (1897-1928), known as “the Gorilla Man” or “the Dark Strangler”, killed at least 22 people between
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Dennis Rader, the BTK killer
In short Dennis Rader, born in 1945, killed at least ten people between 1974 and 1991 in Wichita and Park
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