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Gisele Pelicot, Triumphant in the Landmark Rape Case of Ex-Husband Dominique

Jan 10

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Gisele Pelicot, Triumphant in the Landmark Rape Case of Ex-Husband Dominique

“I wanted to open the doors of this trial last September so that society can see what was happening. I have confidence in our capacity, collectively, to find a better future, in which men and women alike can live harmlessly together with mutual respect.” This statement of 72-year-old Madame Gisèle Pelicot, delivered at the end […]

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Dec 24

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Quaint Knysna tainted by Killers

Before man invaded, a vast stretch of land along the southern coast of Africa, was once a lush green forest, now called the Knysna Forest. This mystical, magical forest was once home to great herds of Knysna elephants, who existed peacefully in this green sanctuary for hundreds of years. Everything changed by 1763, when the […]

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The Slums of Spitalfields – ‘A human sewer clearing itself’ at the time of Jack the Ripper

Dec 12

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The Slums of Spitalfields – ‘A human sewer clearing itself’ at the time of Jack the Ripper

During the late 1800’s Whitechapel and neighbouring Spitalfields in East-End London was a terrible place to live. It seems as if all of society’s outcasts; the beggars, thieves, unemployed immigrants, prostitutes, orphans, mentally ill and crippled washed out into this gigantic slum, where crime, vice, violence and drunkenness were almost Endemic. A French visitor described […]

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Was James Maybrick Jack the Ripper – Ha-Ha Who has the Last Laugh?

Dec 5

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Was James Maybrick Jack the Ripper – Ha-Ha Who has the Last Laugh?

In 1998 at a serial killer conference hosted by Liverpool University, I met author Shirley Harrison, author of The Jack the Ripper Diary, Chilling Confessions of James Maybrick, and not only did she sign my copy, she also allowed me to hold the original Diary in my hands. What better way to kick off December […]

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Killer-cops: The Pangaman and the Human Hunter – Double-faced Janus

Nov 21

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Killer-cops: The Pangaman and the Human Hunter – Double-faced Janus

Divided by 30 years, two brutal men held a city and a town ransom during a reign of terror. One went undetected by the police for two years yet hid in plain sight, whilst the other committed murder for three years in full sight of the police. One was a low-life White man, whilst the […]

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Killer-Cops, When Heroes Become Villains: Uyselen Nel killed his family in cold-blood

Nov 7

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Killer-Cops, When Heroes Become Villains: Uyselen Nel killed his family in cold-blood

In 1996 South African police sergeant Uyselen Nel killed his wife and two toddler sons in cold-blood, much like the Greek hero committed familicide when in a fit of rage and madness he killed his wife and sons with arrows. Apollo demanded Hercules to master several tribulations before his spirit could be cleansed of the […]

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Serial Killer Brydone Brandt, is he Hercules or Cerberus?

Oct 16

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Serial Killer Brydone Brandt, is he Hercules or Cerberus?

Some time after Stewart Wilken, the cannibal serial killer of South Africa was imprisoned, I received a call from St Albans Correctional Facility summoning me since Stewart was out of control in his cell and he called for me. While I was at St Albans, my colleague, detective Derick Norsworthy, who had secured the confession […]

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The Science of Decay at Body Farms – Forensic Taphonomy in the Flesh

Oct 9

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The Science of Decay at Body Farms – Forensic Taphonomy in the Flesh

In the early 19th century, two serial killers, William Burke and William Hare, set up an illustrious business by killing 16 people in Edinburgh, selling the bodies to anatomists since there was a shortage of cadavers. With Edinburgh being a leading European centre of anatomical study, Scottish law prescribed that corpses used for medical research […]

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Quaint Knysna tainted by Killers

The Slums of Spitalfields – ‘A human sewer clearing itself’ at the time of Jack the Ripper

Was James Maybrick Jack the Ripper – Ha-Ha Who has the Last Laugh?

Killer-cops: The Pangaman and the Human Hunter – Double-faced Janus

Killer-Cops, When Heroes Become Villains: Uyselen Nel killed his family in cold-blood

Serial Killer Brydone Brandt, is he Hercules or Cerberus?

The Science of Decay at Body Farms – Forensic Taphonomy in the Flesh

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