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1. Mark Chapman and The Killing of John Lennon
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January 1, 1996 |
One man's obsessive adoration of the world's greatest rock star led to a transposition of personality and the death of John Lennon.
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2. Gaston Dominici and the Drummond Murders
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January 1, 1996 |
The brutal murder of Sir Jack Drummond and his family in the lonely Provencal countryside led to a sensational trial and the eventual sentencing of a peasant farmer to the guillotine.
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3. Henry Lee Lucas - The Highway Stalker
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January 1, 1996 |
The biggest mass-murderer in American history. He admitted over 120 killings but the true figure was probably double this.
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4. Donald Hume - The Setty Case
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January 1, 1996 |
The spectacular case of the Setty murder, following the discovery of a headless torso in the lonely Essex marshes is one of Scotland Yard's greatest forensic stories.
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5. John Duffy - The Railway Killer
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January 1, 1996 |
A rapist turned murderer who started the biggest manhunt since the Yorkshire Ripper. Fascinating forensic science clinched the case.
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6. Graham Young - The Compulsive Poisoner
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January 1, 1996 |
The convicted poisoner who was 'reformed' in Broadmoor only to strike again.
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7. Sir Harry Oakes - The Bahamas Murder Mystery
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January 1, 1996 |
The British financier and socialite mysteriously murdered in the Bahamas.
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8. Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce)
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January 1, 1996 |
A prominent member of Oswald Moseley's Blackshirts before the Second World War, Joyce was the infamous traitor whose voice chilled London during the Blitz with the words "Germany Calling"?
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9. Defeo and Benson - Inheritance Killers
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January 1, 1996 |
The true story of the crime which sparked off the original 'Amityville Horror'.
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10. Donald Merrett - The Murderous Buccaneer
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January 1, 1996 |
A unique case, where a modern day gun-runner and drug-smuggler carried out a twenty-year crime spree murdering his wife, his mother-in-law and even his own mother.
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11. Roy Fontaine - The Deadly Butler
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January 1, 1996 |
The story of the murdering butler of Kensington.
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12. Buck Ruxton - The Ravine Bodies Mystery
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January 1, 1996 |
The discovery of body parts in a lonely Scottish river began a fascinating trail of detection. This led to a doctor who dismembered his wife and his children's nursemaid.
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13. Leonard Lake and Charles NG - The Calaveras County Serial Killings
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January 1, 1996 |
The deadly serial-killing partnership which collected 'sex slaves'. The true number of their victims has never been revealed.
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14. John Bodkin Adams and Other Infamous Doctors
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January 1, 1996 |
A kindly Eastbourne doctor was arrested for poisoning wealthy old women for money. Although acquitted after an amazing trial was he a mass murderer?
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15. Heidnick and Dahmer - Killers for Company
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January 1, 1996 |
The Philadelphia murderer who ensnared his female victims one by one. He locked them into a dark cellar where there was no escape from his manic desires or his brutality.
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16. Judge Joe Peel and the Chillingworth Murders
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January 1, 1996 |
Footprints in the sand, blood on some steps and an empty Florida beach house after the disappearance of a local Judge were the only clues the police had to go on in this celebrated case.
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17. Sacco and Vanzetti - Anarchy and Murder
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January 1, 1996 |
They avoided conscription in the First World War by fleeing to Mexico and their political stance was that of anarchy. But did their politics make them into murderers?
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18. The Trunk Murders
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January 1, 1996 |
Trunks left in railway left baggage departments eventually revealed their grisly secrets. Only when the police re-examined vital evidence did the murderers get caught. A breakthrough for early forensic science.
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19. Browne and Kennedy and Other Police Killings
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January 1, 1996 |
Two criminals were trapped by a village 'bobby' and decided to shoot him dead. The detection of the pair led to both going to the gallows.
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20. The Siege of Sidney Street
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January 1, 1996 |
A robbery and the killing of three policemen by anti-Russian anarchists brought Home Secretary Winston Churchill and the Scots Guards onto the streets of London in the search for 'Peter the Painter'.
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21. Leopold and Loeb
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January 1, 1996 |
Two Chicago rich kids who killed for kicks.
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22. The Zodiac Killer and Other Unsolved Serial Murders
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January 1, 1996 |
The San Francisco and New York Zodiac killers ended their reigns of terror without being caught as did the man who became probably America's worst uncaught serial murderer - Seattle's 'Green River Killer'.
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23. The Assassination of Robert Kennedy
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January 1, 1996 |
By the time he ran for President in 1968, JFK's brother had made many powerful enemies. When he was gunned down, apparently by a lone killer, many questions remained unanswered.
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24. Pol Pot and the Killing Fields of Cambodia
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January 1, 1996 |
Following the Khmer Rouge take over of Phnom Penh, a nightmare experiment to create a workers' utopia led to the brutal death of millions herded into forced labour.
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25. The Massacre at Malmedy
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January 1, 1996 |
The cold-blooded massacre during the Battle of the Bulge of 124 US troops by Germany's elite 1st SS Panzer Division was the worst atrocity suffered by American forces during the Second World War.
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26. Ma Barker and Other Public Enemies
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January 1, 1996 |
For more than twenty years Ma Barker and her 'boys' terrorised the mid-west of the US, robbing scores of banks and killing dozens of people.
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