Harold Shipman: ‘Dr. Death’, 218 Fatal Diamorphine Overdoses, Forged Computer Records & The Shipman Inquiry
For more than two decades, Dr. Harold Frederick Shipman was revered as a devoted, compassionate family doctor in the market town of...
CRIME ARCHIVES
Month: September 2026
Fred & Rosemary West: 25 Cromwell Street ‘House of Horrors’, Cellar Excavations & The 12-Victim Gloucester Trial
In February 1994, Gloucestershire Constabulary detectives executing a search warrant for missing 16-year-old Heather West entered a terraced Victorian house at 25...
Ian Brady & Myra Hindley: The Moors Murders, Saddleworth Moor Forensic Excavations & Audio Tape Evidence
Between July 1963 and October 1965, five children and adolescents between the ages of 10 and 17 disappeared from the streets of...
Peter Sutcliffe: The Yorkshire Ripper 13-Victim Manhunt, Ball-Peen Hammer Forensics & The Sheffield Traffic Arrest
Between October 1975 and November 1980, the industrial cities of West Yorkshire and Greater Manchester were paralyzed by an unrelenting reign of...
Dennis Nilsen: The Muswell Hill Cranley Gardens Drain Blockage, Dissection Forensics & The Old Bailey Trial
On February 8, 1983, a drainage clearing specialist named Michael Cattran responded to tenant complaints of blocked plumbing at a converted Victorian...
Mary Bell: The 1968 Newcastle Nursery Murders, Razor Blade Inscriptions & Forensic Child Psychiatry
In the summer of 1968, the impoverished working-class industrial district of Scotswood in Newcastle upon Tyne was terrorized by the mysterious deaths...
Dr. Sam Sheppard: The 1954 Bay Village Ohio Lakefront Murder, Dr. Paul Kirk Blood Spatter & The Fugitive Exoneration
In the early dawn hours of July 4, 1954, Marilyn Reese Sheppard, the pregnant wife of prominent neurosurgeon Dr. Sam Sheppard, was...
George Stinney Jr.: The 1944 Alcolu South Carolina Railroad Track Murders & The 70-Year Forensic Exoneration
On the morning of March 24, 1944, the bodies of two young white girls, eleven-year-old Betty June Binnicker and seven-year-old Mary Emma...
H.H. Holmes: The Chicago ‘Murder Castle’, 1893 World’s Fair Killings & Detective Geyer’s Forensic Manhunt
During the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, millions of visitors flocked to the White City to celebrate technological progress. Blocks away...
Albert Fish: The Brooklyn ‘Gray Man’, Grace Budd Cannibalism Letter & Pelvic X-Ray Needles Forensics
In June 1928, an elderly, mild-mannered man calling himself ‘Frank Howard’ visited a tenement flat in Manhattan, offering employment to 18-year-old Edward...