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Stockwell tube shooting returns to haunt Met
A new Disney+ drama is set to reopen the controversy over the killing by police of Jean Charles de Menezes in 2005
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Sixty years on – will the identity of London's Hammersmith serial killer remain a secret forever?
The body of Bridie O'Hara was found in 1965, but Scotland Yard's investigation never got close to trapping the man who killed her and five other women
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Sambre – a shocking case
This French TV drama shows how police apathy allowed a serial predator to terrorise women living along the Sambre river for decades
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Sixty years on – will the identity of London's Hammersmith serial killer remain a secret forever?
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Three books – two I admired, one I couldn't finish
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Hammersmith Nudes Killer – did detectives eventually unmask his identity but cover it up?
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Sgt Goddard and corruption in 1920s' London
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The strange case of Louisa Merrifield: 2
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The Pembrokeshire murders part 2
Years of John Cooper terrorising the Pembrokeshire coastal community with murder, rape and burglary was ended when police finally got the forensic…
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The Pembrokeshire murders part 1
The beautiful South Wales coast was the scene of a chilling campaign of murder, rape and terror for more than two decades
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Thieving was better than sex
New series Joan dramatises the life of a woman with more balls – and nous – than the male blaggers, geezers and wideboys we often see glamourised on TV
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Is true crime bad for us?
The genre is often condemned for being salacious and degrading. But last weekend's CrimeCon in London revealed the positive value of non-fiction crime
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What I read in Summer 2024
The best true-crime doc now on TV is…
… The Body Next Door on Sky Documentaries (in the UK) is a well-made three-parter that tells an extraordinary, engrossing story
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55 years later, will Muriel McKay be found?
A shocking, callous kidnapping in 1969 left a legacy of pain and grief
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Three books – two I admired, one I couldn't finish
Two non-fiction crime books I read recently were fascinating and written with skill – while a third dismayed me
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After 49 years, the murderer of Eileen Cotter was caught
Two shocking deaths occurred during my schooldays in Highbury, London – one was recently solved, the other never has been…
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