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Alex Murdaugh's housekeeper reveals explosive theory about what REALLY happened on night

Bryan Kohberger victim's family will sue Idaho murderer's college after classmates raised

Private investigator challenges Celeste Rivas autopsy bombshell… and reveals what he found

He was 20, madly in love and 48 hours from getting married... then he vanished. Some

Autopsy reveals the truth about newlywed couple found dead in their car after wife's

Dramatic twist in mystery of boys who vanished 15 years ago as father is charged

I lived with a murderer. This is what he taught me about the minds of monsters... and what

Mysterious death of teen baseball star takes a shocking twist as his sister launches

Martha Moxley's friend breaks their silence 50 years after she was murdered to slam RFK Jr

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Martha Moxley left her family's stately home on October 30, 1975, to indulge in mischief with friends the night before Halloween. The next day, she was found bludgeoned to death in her backyard.

A Wisconsin man accused of killing a couple in cold blood to avenge his father's freak snowmobile death is now walking free, and the victim's families are furious.

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It is the first time the word has been used in the case of the school cheerleader who was found under a bed, wrapped in a blanket and covered with life vests in her cabin.

A woman known as the 'baby whisper' among elite families in a Texas town could be a free woman soon, as her conviction for poisoning a baby girl who died comes under review.

Chilling photos reveal the piece of evidence that brought down Bryan Kohberger over Idaho

Christopher Revak, who took his own life in a jail cell while awaiting trial for murder in 2009, was named as the killer of Deidre Harm by investigators in Wisconsin on Monday.

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Two years ago, Dana Burton was standing under a tree, shielding from the rain, when her life changed forever...

Before their brother's arrest, Melissa and Amanda Kohberger's lives were normal. Now, they will be forever entangled in his shocking crimes.

Lisa Ann French was out trick-or-treating by herself in Fond du Lac on Halloween night in 1973 when she rang the doorbell of her neighbor, Gerald Turner.
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Morgan Geyser, 23, was arrested on Monday with Chad Mecca, 43, over 170 miles from her group home.

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When a man identifying himself as Dan Cooper hijacked a Northwest Airlines flight on the eve of Thanksgiving 1971, he told a stewardess: 'I have a grudge.'

Cheerleader Anna Kepner's mysterious cause of death onboard a Carnival cruise ship has been revealed.

Newly-released images show alleged assassin Luigi Mangione 's final moments of freedom before he was taken into custody for the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

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Get the full interview with legal expert and former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani - and more - by signing up to The Crime Desk, the new free newsletter from the Daily Mail.

Barbara Kepner, the grandmother of Anna Kepner, 18, who was found dead on a Carnival cruise ship, offered new details into the ongoing investigation into her murder.

Wanda Barzee, 80, who kidnapped and held Elizabeth Smart hostage for months was seen grinning ear to ear in a new mugshot.

The 56-year-old man, an unemployed nurse, reportedly managed to claim thousands of euros before his act was exposed. He had also allegedly hidden the dead body of his mother.

Morgan Geyser, 23, sparked a multi-state manhunt on Saturday when she escaped her group home in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, with a 42-year-old man she is 'in a relationship with.'

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The informant was willing to testify that a man linked to a criminal network in Blackpool had killed Charlene after sexually abusing her.

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Indiana State Police Lieutenant Jerry Holeman and Carroll County Prosecutor Nicholas McLeland speak to Daily Mail about the mysterious missing evidence in the Delphi murders case.

INSIDE STORY

When SA Police confirmed on Monday they were returning this week to the scene of Gus Lamont's disappearance for a fifth time, I had a sinking feeling, reports Karleigh Smith.

The recent alert from MI5 to MPs and staff working at Westminster has raised awareness of the threat from Chinese espionage. There's nothing new about it - I should know as I was targeted in 2017.

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At 15, Sandy Shaw became the youngest female inmate in Nevada when she was convicted of the so-called 'Show and Tell murder'. Now finally free from prison, she reveals how the story actually began one dark night two years earlier.

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Kylie Toberman, 14, was found dead in an RV behind her home in Vandalia, Illinois , on November 14, strangled with jumper cables and stuffed in a tote bag.

A second suspect has been identified in the death of Celeste Rivas, who was found dead in the back of singer D4vd's Tesla , according to a podcast on the TMZ network.

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CCTV footage captured doomed Anna Kepner's final steps as she headed back to her room aboard the Carnival Horizon on the evening of November 6 after complaining during dinner that she felt unwell.

Brian Walshe, the Massachusetts man accused of killing and dismembering his wife's body in 2023, changed his plea on two counts related to the case on Tuesday.

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It's been 35 years since the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum fell victim to the largest art theft in history. Now new claims could shed intriguing light on what became of the haul.

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The mother given life without parole after damning court testimony from seven-year-old son AJ Hutto has sensationally had her case reopened.

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It was just after 6am on March 24, 1998, when Ron Bradley realised his daughter had gone. Minutes earlier he had glimpsed her through the open balcony door - asleep, alone.

Hours before a heinous crime which instilled fear into the small college town of Moscow, Idaho, six friends stood smiling on the porch of their off-campus student accommodation.

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Susan Smith drowned her two young sons in a South Carolina lake in 1994. The Daily Mail has now obtained transcripts of hundreds of voice and text messages that Smith has traded with men.

The ruling came on what marks the third anniversary of the November 13, 2022, murders that rocked the college town of Moscow and tore four families apart.

The Murdaugh's housekeeper, who served as a key witness at Alex's double homicide trial, has shared how she knew her boss killed his wife and son.

Close friends of Martha Nolan-O'Slatarra, 33, sent her some chilling text messages in the hours before she was mysteriously found dead on a yacht in the Hamptons.

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Raymond Munro was a 'drinking associate' of Charlene's father Robert Downes and was living with the family at the time of the schoolgirl's disappearance.

Investigators on Long Island have finally determined who killed a grandmother and raped another elderly woman at a hospital in the mid-1990s.

The body of a Colorado woman who had been missing for seven years was found feet from her house. Her name was Terri Ann Ackerman and she was 56 when she disappeared.

Theirs is a heartbreaking story the world knows only too well - but two decades after Kate and Gerry McCann lost their daughter Madeleine, the pain continues.

I've been covering the case of Madeleine McCann for almost twenty years - but this is the question I find myself asking over and over.

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Myles Connor was in a jam. It was 1975, and the one-time aspiring rock-and-roll frontman turned prolific art thief had finally pushed his luck too far.

In a remote court hearing on November 5, Ada County Judge Steven Hippler revealed that the 30-year-old criminology PhD student has received 'five figures' in donations while behind bars.

The 56-year-old is serving two life sentences for murdering his wife Maggie and son Paul, the deaths of which make up the new 'Murdaugh: Death in the Family' show on Hulu.

The seven reasons that could see Erin Patterson walk free on appeal have been revealed.

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Not much was known about how the 37-year-old and her aspiring filmmaker husband made their living to afford their posh home where they also lived with their three young sons.

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As the investigation into Celeste Rivas' mysterious death continues, the Crime Desk has taken a forensic look at the evidence in the case so far, exploring the girl's potential ties to singer D4vd.

They had a charmed life and one of the most spectacular waterfront mansions on Florida 's Gulf Coast.

On November 1, 2003, Charlene, 14, spent the day wandering around town with her sister, Becky.

On Wednesday, a team from Palm Mortuaries and Cemeteries arrived at the scene to remove the piles, recovering about 315 sets of ashes and placing them each in individual urns.

The show, Unspeakable: The Murder of JonBenét Ramsey, would see Melissa McCarthy and Clive Owen star as the murdered six-year-old pageant queen's parents Patsy and John.

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The severely decomposed remains of Celeste Rivas Hernandez were discovered on September 8 inside the impounded car registered to D4vd - real name David Anthony Burke.

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Almost 20 years after Jennifer Kesse disappeared, her father Drew Kesse reveals his fresh hopes now that DNA evidence is being tested for the very first time.

Aileen pleaded guilty to the murders of seven men who she shot dead, claiming self defense in a case that has intrigued true crime fans for more than two decades.

Prosecutors claim Bryan Kohberger is receiving 'financial compensation' in prison despite him claiming he can't afford to pay his victims' families.

Stretching for 900km across Queensland's outback, Australia's 'Highway of Death' has earned its chilling nickname due to its history of brutal crimes and unsolved disappearances.

The daughter of the notorious BTK serial killer couldn't control her rage after confronting him 20 years after he was caught for his murder spree.

The rumors around America's fourth-largest city started in late September after officials announced that five dead bodies had been found over five days.

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In an exclusive video, Kerri Rawson reveals the chilling clues in her childhood that she was living with one of America's most infamous serial killers.

Tupac described feeling uncertain about the atmosphere in the studios, and surprised by the presence of the camo-clad guards.

Inmate number 52503-511 at Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center is no ordinary prisoner.

The couple's experience will feel all too familiar to the parents of the 14 children the former neo-natal nurse was convicted of murdering or attempting to kill.

'I hope they like them', the chilling letter left outside the Sydney property reads.

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Sammy The Bull breaks down what the federal indictment means for the four families in La Cosa Nostra.

Annoyed viewers have blasted Murphy for embellishing the facts of the case.

'Bully Hunter' Dr James, a cyber security expert, has helped hundreds of victims of cybercrime and has made it his mission to help bring online perpetrators to justice.

Four-year-old Jack and six-year-old Lilly Sullivan are believed to have wandered out of the family home in a remote area of Nova Scotia.
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