The towpath murders: death on the river bank

The axe murderers of two teenage girls on the banks of the Thames by idyllic Teddington in 1953

Drugged, robbed and left for dead

Gerald Matovu would drug and rob men he met on gay dating apps. Then one of his victims died...

The sad truth about domestic violence

Domestic abuse is at a five-year-high: what should be done?

Facing the music: when child stars go bad

It’s been a troubling time for 90s kids of late, who have been forced to watch former 90s stars suffer public falls from grace

The true crime podcast plagarism scandal

The true crime podcasting community was hit by a scandal after one of its most popular offerings, Crime Junkie, was accused of plagiarism

What's trending in True Crime in December?

From Henry Lee Lucas, to a notorious French cold case, here’s what the true crime community are talking about in December

Domestic homicide: Eight warning signs

80% of victims who have been murdered by their partners are women and most of those perpetrators are male

Murder and scandal in Victorian London - book competition

Enter our book competition to win two hardback copies by acclaimed true crime writer Sinclair Mckay

The real-life 'Orphan'

Interview with Refuge's CEO, Sandra Horley

Running Refuge is a 24/7 operation which provides emergency services to 6,500 women and children on any given day'

The 12 murders of Christmas

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

Domestic abuse safeguarding scheme wins global policing award

Operation Encompass, a scheme that helps support children exposed to domestic abuse scooped 'Overall Winner' at this year's World Class Policing Awards.

True crimes inspired by the Joker

The Joker is one super villain who isn’t just a threat onscreen

Why rapists are getting away with it

98% of rape cases reported to the police go free

Luka Magnotta: From cat-killer to snuff film maker

Cat killer, murderer, necrophile and a cannibal - the gruesome life and crimes of Luca Magnotta

Surviving R. Kelly: The Reckoning: episodes

Surviving R. Kelly: The Reckoning, episode summary

The UK cat killer: fact or fiction, felon or fox

In the last five years, over five hundred domestic cats have gone missing only to be later found dead and dismembered

The boy who incited his own murder

The story of a depressed Manchester teen who used several fake online personas to convince his best friend to murder him

Jeremy Bamber : the White House Farm murders

The psychiatrist believed that Jeremy did kill his family but had suppressed the memory until it was no longer real

The biggest crime gangs in Europe

Organised crime in Europe - noteworthy players, their Rackets and their stories

The link between serial killers and head trauma

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

The man who inspired Joker

'I wanted to kill those guys. I wanted to maim those guys. I wanted to make those them suffer in every way I could'

Boston Strangler: the first mass-media killer

'A mad strangler is loose in Boston’

What's trending in true crime in January

From Luka Magnotta to Jeremy Bamber, Dennis Nilsen to the Torso Killer... here’s what the true crime community are talking about in January

Aaron Hernandez: the fall of an NFL Icon

Just five days after Hernandez was acquitted of the Boston murders, he was found hanging from his bedsheets in his prison cell. The verdict was suicide.

Stephen Griffiths: the Crossbow Cannibal, 'hatred bound tightly in flesh'

The true-crime obsessive whose desire for fame led him to emulate his heroes and become a killer

Making A Monster Episodes

The world's most notorious serial killers of all-time.

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.’

The impact of a documentary phenomenon

Since Surviving R. Kelly first aired, the R&B star's reputation is in tatters, his career is over and he is in jail awaiting trial on charges on multiple charges of sexual abuse.

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.’

Robert Black: a prolific and dedicated predatory paedophile

The meticulous pedophile who sexually assaulted and killed young girls across the country

Why male rape victims suffer in silence

One in six men have been sexually assaulted in their lifetimes but there is still a stigma about male rape

The senseless misogynistic violence of Levi Bellfield

He was lovely at first, charming, then completely controlling and evil.'

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

Bad Romance: Love behind bars

Rose West and Myra Hindley had a prison fling in the 90s when they were both banged up in HMP Durham

Making A Monster: Michael Ross

Destined for greatness, yet consumed by endless fantasies of violence, sex and murder