Notorious Figures

Celebrities who Kill

Dying for fame - Five celebrities accused of murder

I am a Killer: Episode Guide

Here's a taster of each of the episodes including information on each of the featured inmates.

Can Ancestry Catch a Killer?

How a genealogy site helped to catch the Golden State Killer

Spousal murder: Till Death Us Do Part

Statistically, female victims are more likely to have been killed by those current or former intimate partners than anyone else.

Why were so many serial killers active in 1978?

Looking back at 1978, the year serial killer murders went off the charts

Rampage killers : shooters without remorse

Looking back at the two most shocking gun massacres in British history

What the Killer did Next: Episodes

What the Killer Did Next episode guide

Surviving R. Kelly: Kitti Jones - Interview with R. Kelly's ex-girlfriend

Interview with Kitti Jones who appears in Surviving R. Kelly in which she alleges her ex-boyfriend abused her

Does Zac Efron's film, glamorise Ted Bundy?

Does Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and VileExtremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile cross a moral line?

Surviving R. Kelly: episodes

Surviving R. Kelly episode guide

Serial killers' IQs ranked

Ted Kaczynski, 'The Una Bomber's' IQ was higher than Albert Einstein's

Coaches that abuse: Winning by any cost

Winning should not come at the cost of safeguarding an athlete's well-being.

Money, fame, power: how celebrities get away with sex abuse

When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.'

The 12 murders of Christmas

JonBenét Ramsey's Christmas murder caused an enormous storm across America

The link between serial killers and head trauma

Head trauma, autism and childhood abuse more common in killers, study finds

John Wayne Gacy and his unquenchable lust for death

Gacy is a ‘classic example of compartmentalisation… cultivating a respectable public persona while totally relegating his deviant behaviour.’

Aileen Wuornos: Victim or cold-blooded killer?

‘She had an abandonment complex. And this desperation was one of the factors that drove her to go from a petty criminal to a cold-blooded serial killer.’

Abused as a child, Robert Maudsley killed abusers as an adult

Robert Maudlsey, the real-life Hannibal Lecter and the UK's most dangerous prisoner

When serial killers write tell-all books

A surprising amount of serial killers have written books from Ian Brady to Dennis Nilsen

The final days of Jeffrey Epstein

The trial of billionaire sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein, promised to shed a startling light into a hidden world of corruption and perversity among the wealthiest and most powerful people on Earth.

The downfall of Ghislaine Maxwell

Ghislaine controlled the girls. She was like the madam. She was like the nuts and bolts of the sex trafficking operation.'

Shamima Begum: Victim or terrorist?

I’m not the same silly little 15-year-old schoolgirl who ran away from Bethnal Green four years ago'

The Liverpool gang murder of Rhys Jones

11-year-old children shouldn’t be killed in gun violence.

Surviving Jeffrey Epstein: Episodes

Surviving Jeffrey Epstein provides a platform for the courageous survivors of Epstein’s systematic abuse

Where can I watch Surviving Jeffrey Epstein?

Three incredible serial killer survival stories

Three women who survived the clutches of a violent killer and helped bring them to justice

We spoke to the host of a new Ghislaine Maxwell podcast

Hunting Ghislaine is the new podcast series by veteran investigative journalist John Sweeney.

Mark WIlliams-Thomas: The man who exposed Jimmy Savile

What's it like to interview a killer?

Peter Sutcliffe: The human cost, the stolen lives

Peter Sutcliffe was found guilty of all thirteen murders and attempted murders and was given 20 life sentences.

4 manhunts that gripped the media

Some killers are remembered not just for the savagery of their crimes, but for the immense, desperate effort to hunt them down…

4 Shocking Female Serial Killers

Female serial killers may be relatively rare, but they do exist

10 most prolific medical serial killers of all time

The doctors, nurses and carers who exploit their positions of trust for their own nefarious and murderous ends

Terrifying criminal clowns

There’s good reason that a lot of people find clowns frightening.

Viral crimes investigated by web sleuths

Here are some of the most fascinating inquiries carried out by web sleuths and how they may or may not have changed the very nature of the case itself...   

Stars targeted by the FBI

Struggling with addiction whilst singing politically-charged songs with civil rights messaging, it was little wonder that Holiday was unfairly targeted by the Bureau

Making A Monster: Aileen Wuornos

She gunned down numerous men out of a desperation to survive