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Ten Who Escaped the Hangman in Ireland
Before the Republic of Ireland abandoned the death penalty in 1990, it had a curious relationship to it, meting out the penalty but more often than not commuting or reprieving the condemned.by Colm...
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The Train Wrecker
Serbian-born Szilveszter Matuska pulled off four train wrecks in Hungary and Austria in the 1930s that killed 22 people and injured hundreds of people. He said God made him do it. Was he a...
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The Wimbledon Tennis Killer
Happier days - the ghost of tennis past: Fitzwilliam Lawn Tennis Club, Dublin, Ireland in 1883. Seated (with racket) HF Lawford and EH Browne. Standing (from left) E Renshaw (with racket), E...
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The case of the electrician and the stolen 271 Picasso artworks
How did a retired electrician become the owner of 271 Picasso artworks worth millions of dollars, and how could he have forgotten for almost 40 years that he had them? By Marilyn Z. TomlinsThursday,...
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The Hammersmith Ghost and the Strange Death of Thomas Millwood
Hundreds of murder trials have been heard at London’s famous Old Bailey and probably the most unusual of them all was that of Francis Smith in the case of the Hammersmith Ghost. by Martin Baggoley...
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INCEST, MURDER AND FLIGHT: THE EASTMILN TRAGEDY
Four months after his marriage to a beautiful 19-year-old, middle-aged Thomas Ogilvie was dead. His younger brother and the young widow were suspected of conspiring to poison him with arsenic.by Martin...
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Searching For A Link To A Broken Lifeline
Fifteen years after the rape and murder of high school senior Noa Eyal, a man was arrested on a charge of domestic violence and was forced to provide a DNA sample. A year later, in 2014, that sample...
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Terrorism in Paris
(Photo AP) While protests in Muslim countries against France are increasing rapidly, the French president, government and people continue to support the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo whose editor...
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Jack The Ripper -- We Still Do Not Know Who He Was
In early September world media splashed the headline that Jack the Ripper had finally been identified by amateur sleuth, Englishman Russell Edwards. The latter, in his book, Naming Jack the Ripper,...
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The Dripping Killer
Kate Webster at the Old Bailey before she was sentenced to be hanged for murder - July 1879 Victorian Britain was horrified by a 30-year-old Irish woman who murdered her employer, dismembered the body,...
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The Murder of Porn Star Red-Hot Carla
Her face – and body – were known to millions of men who crawled the Internet for web-sex. Her stage name was Red-Hot Carla and her fans agreed that the name was well chosen. However, the way she looked...
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Pistorius: A South African Legacy
(Photo CBC.ca) The Oscar Pistorius trial has everything: a narrative about a system, a psychology, an issue spanning something far beyond the act of killing Reeva Steenkamp. By Binoy KampmarkThe Oscar...
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Murder in Monaco
The Principality of Monaco leapt onto front pages across the world on May 6, 2014 when an assassin fired a volley of gunshots at billionaire Hélène Pastor and her chauffer. Both would die later from...
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Italian Vendetta: The Amanda Knox Case
Updated Jan. 30, 2014The murder of British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy on November 1, 2007 caused a global controversy. Not so much for the crime itself, although it was certainly a...
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The Real Lady Macbeth: Countess Erzsébet Báthory
Jan. 13, 2014Countess Erzsébet Báthoryby David RobbLady Macbeth is perhaps the most famous fictional female villainess in all of literature, but in 1606, while William Shakespeare was creating her...
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Stealing the Crown Jewels
Jan. 6, 2014“Colonel” Thomas Blood, who stole the Crown Jewels of England in May, 1671.The theft of the Crown Jewels in 1671 was the crime of its age, but King Charles II inexplicably pardoned the...
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Life Imitates Art: How the Pink Panthers Purloin and Plunder
Nov. 25, 2013Smash and grab job by the Pink Panthers (Photo The Guardian)In the annals of international diamond heists there has never been a group like the Pink Panthers. Of the estimated 200 members...
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Count Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley: The Assassin who Sparked the Rise of...
Oct. 24, 2013 Count Anton Graff von Arco auf Valley by David Robb “Wach auf!” the prison guard shouted in German – the language best for shouting orders. “Wake up!”It was November 11, 1923, and Count...
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The Silent Witness: DNA from a Leech
Sept. 30, 2013A forensics first occurred in 2008 in Tasmania when DNA harvested from a leech led police to a robber. by Liz PorterOn a late spring afternoon in 2001, two intruders broke into a house in...
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History of Crime in Greece
Sept. 23, 2013Greece’s criminal profile is one fitting to its Mediterranean temperament of boiling blood, twisted romance and redeemed honor.by Faye KaravasiliAs expected, Greece’s criminal profile is...
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