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Sawney Bean, the Scottish cannibal

In short According to legend, in the 16th century Alexander “Sawney” Bean and his 48-strong clan, born of incest, lived

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In short On the night of 28-29 June 2008, in Yaroslavl, Russia, a group of 17- to 19-year-olds who called

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In short Tamara Samsonova, born in 1947, was arrested in St Petersburg in July 2015 for the murder of her

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Crime news, especially the most macabre and prurient one, has in the abundance of details an essential and carrying element.

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In short In 1888, during Stanley’s expedition in the Congo, James Sligo Jameson, heir to the Jameson whiskey family, allegedly

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In short Who: Issei Sagawa (Kobe, 26 April 1949 – Tokyo, 24 November 2022). Victim: Renée Hartevelt, a 25-year-old Dutch

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In short Nikolai Dzhumagaliev, born in 1952 in Kazakhstan and nicknamed “Metal Fang” because of his dental crowns, killed and

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In short Nathaniel Bar-Jonah (1957-2008), born David Paul Brown in Worcester, Massachusetts, attacked and abducted children from his teens and

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In short In May 1933 about 6,000 deportees, mostly city dwellers from Moscow and Leningrad arrested for lacking internal passports,

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In short Who: Tsutomu Miyazaki (Itsukaichi, 21 August 1962 – Tokyo, 17 June 2008). Nickname: “the Otaku Murderer”. Victims: four

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In short The ship: the Mignonette, a 16-metre yacht built in 1867 and suited only to coastal sailing. The crew:

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In short Who: Joachim Georg Kroll (Hindenburg, 17 April 1933 – Rheinbach, 1 July 1991). Nickname: “the Ruhr Cannibal”. Crimes:

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