Notorious Figures

Dale Cregan murders two police officers in cold blood

Dale Cregan lured two female police officers to his house with a hoax phone call and shot them both multiple times

Angus Sinclair

Angus Sinclair has been appropriately referred to as ‘Scotland’s worst serial killer’.

The Moors Murders

The Moors Murders are one of the most well-known cases in the UK and indeed across the world. 

Famous Undercover Infiltrations

A pioneer of long-term undercover work, FBI agent Joseph Pistone spent six years with two American Mafia crime families...

Was Hindley Worse Than Brady?

While the killings were undeniably the product of Brady's twisted philosophy, could it be argued that Myra Hindley was somehow morally worse?

Pablo Escobar - Evil Kingpin or Robin Hood?

Opinion is still bitterly divided about Escobar - was he a cruel, ruthless thug and terrorist, or a kind of drug-propelled Robin Hood.

Say it like Kenda

You’re watching Homicide Hunter on Thursdays 10pm.

Who is Marcia Clark?

Find out more about the world famous prosecutor and star of Marcia Clark Investigates the First 48.

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?