Apr 22, 2013
Hans van Meegeren
Hans van Meegeren duped a string of wealthy collectors into paying vast sums for fake artwork of the Old Masters. One victim was Reichsmarschall Herman Goering.
by Robert Walsh
When many people are asked to name a selection of truly master criminals...
Apr 18, 2013
How bite marks can lead to convictions.
by Liz Porter
Criminals are regularly nabbed because they make stupid and careless mistakes. The burglar who robbed a safe at the up-market Haigh’s chocolate factory in the South Australian capital city of Adelaide is a perfect...
Apr 14, 2013
Winton Cooper
Popular BBC reporter Winton Cooper was brutally murdered by his own son.
by Ben Johnson
Staff at the BBC, one of the most high-profile broadcasting companies in the world, was left in shock after the January 2013 trial of a violent murderer who bludgeoned a...
Apr 10, 2013
Yaseen Ege
The murder of 7-year-old Muslim child in Cardiff, Wales in 2010 brought his mother and father to trial. Did the jury convict the wrong parent?
by Marie Kusters-...
Mar 18, 2013
"I am the bullet in the chamber. Just do it".-- Nike sports advertisement featuring Oscar Pistorius
Oscar Pistorius’s rise to world fame was as unlikely as his arrest for the shooting death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
By Binoy Kampmark
It remains to be seen...
Feb 27, 2013
Updated May 8, 2013
Helvetic Airways aircraft at the Brussels international airport (Photo: Associated Press)
In a daring, commado-style operation, eight masked, heavily armed gunmen pulled off a lightening quick heist of more than $50 million worth of diamonds. ...
Feb 20, 2013
Lyndsay van Blanken
Eighteen-year-old Lyndsay van Blanken, a promising cartoonist for Walt Disney Animation in Sydney, Australia, was strangled to death by her former boyfriend.
by Marie Kusters-McCarthy
It was the second marriage for Lyndsay van Blanken’s mother,...
Feb 18, 2013
To avoid race riots and the resulting negative impact on tourism, a succession of Bermudian government administrations has whitewashed the assassinations of Bermuda’s governor and police chief in the early 1970s by a radical black-power group known as the Black Beret Cadre....
Feb 7, 2013
Over a 10-year-year period, from 1972 to 1982, the Shankill Butchers gang, led by psychopath Lenny Murphy, terrorized Northern Ireland Catholics, becoming the most prolific group of serial killers in British history.
by Robert Walsh
“A lasting monument to blind sectarian...
Dec 3, 2012
Rachel Nickell, Andre Hanscombe and their son Alex in the park
Not even Scotland Yard’s famed Murder Squad is immune from locking in on one suspect to the exclusion of all others and allowing its conceit to permit a serial rapist and murderer to stay at large for years after...
