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True Crime

True crime from Britain and Ireland, including historic murders, notorious cases, unsolved mysteries and the stories behind them.

John Christie: The 10 Rillington Place Murders

London · Murder

John Christie: The 10 Rillington Place Murders

Psychic Stain Plagues 16 Wardle Brook Avenue Murder Site

Ghosts and Hauntings · True Crime

Greater Manchester · Murder · Tameside

Psychic Stain Plagues 16 Wardle Brook Avenue Murder Site

7 Victorian Poisoners And Their Shocking Crimes

England · Murder

7 Victorian Poisoners And Their Shocking Crimes

The Tyburn Tree: London’s Most Infamous Gallows

Dark History · True Crime

Executions · London

The Tyburn Tree: London’s Most Infamous Gallows

The Manchester Pusher: Urban Legend or Serial Killer?

Greater Manchester · Murder · North-West England

The Manchester Pusher: Urban Legend or Serial Killer?

Pype Hayes Park Murder Coincidences Mystify Experts

Mysterious Phenomena · True Crime

Birmingham · Murder · West Midlands

Pype Hayes Park Murder Coincidences Mystify Experts

The Mysterious Locked Room Death of Thomas Farrant

Mysterious Phenomena · True Crime

Bristol · Murder · South-West England

The Mysterious Locked Room Death of Thomas Farrant

10 Things You Didn’t Know About Burke and Hare ‘The Bodysnatchers’

Dark History · True Crime

Bodysnatching · Burke and Hare · Edinburgh · Murder · Scotland

10 Things You Didn’t Know About Burke and Hare ‘The Bodysnatchers’

Psychic Uncovers Horror At The Wheatsheaf Pub

Dark History · Ghosts and Hauntings · Paranormal Research · True Crime

Murder · North-East England · Tyne and Wear

Psychic Uncovers Horror At The Wheatsheaf Pub

Blackpool’s Horrible Flaherty Sisters and Their Trail of Blood!

Folklore · True Crime

Blackpool · Lancashire · North-West England

Blackpool’s Horrible Flaherty Sisters and Their Trail of Blood!

Britain’s 6 Most Disgusting Killer Cannibals

Cannibalism · Sawney Bean

Britain’s 6 Most Disgusting Killer Cannibals

Charlotte Dymond’s Ghost, A Body on Bodmin Moor

Ghosts and Hauntings · True Crime

Cornwall · South-West England

Charlotte Dymond’s Ghost, A Body on Bodmin Moor

England’s 5 Most Lethal Hangmen

England’s 5 Most Lethal Hangmen

Henry Bertram Starr, The Case Of The Blackpool Ripper

Blackpool · Lancashire · North-West England

Henry Bertram Starr, The Case Of The Blackpool Ripper

Was Jack the Ripper a Cannibal?

Jack the Ripper

Was Jack the Ripper a Cannibal?

Mary Ann Cotton and The Haunted Bench

Ghosts and Hauntings · True Crime

County Durham · North-East England

Mary Ann Cotton and The Haunted Bench

Lumphanan: Murder and Ghosts in Aberdeenshire

Ghosts and Hauntings · True Crime

Aberdeenshire · Scotland

Lumphanan: Murder and Ghosts in Aberdeenshire

Thames Torso Murders, The Unsolved Victorian Crimes VIDEO

Central London · London

Thames Torso Murders, The Unsolved Victorian Crimes VIDEO

Confessions of a Jack the Ripper Tour Guide

East London · Jack the Ripper · London

Confessions of a Jack the Ripper Tour Guide

How Half Hangit’ Margaret Dickson Survived The Hangman’s Noose!

Dark History · True Crime

Edinburgh · Executions · Midlothian · Scotland

How Half Hangit’ Margaret Dickson Survived The Hangman’s Noose!

Whatever happened to Lord Lucan? The strangest theories revealed!

Whatever happened to Lord Lucan? The strangest theories revealed!

Shocking Dark History of 19th Century Cardiff Prostitution

Cardiff · Wales

Shocking Dark History of 19th Century Cardiff Prostitution

John Haigh: Walk In The Acid Bath Murderer’s Bloody Footsteps

South-East England · West Sussex

John Haigh: Walk In The Acid Bath Murderer’s Bloody Footsteps

Ratcliff Highway Murders: London’s Brutal Killings Revealed

East London · London

Ratcliff Highway Murders: London’s Brutal Killings Revealed

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