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Andrei Chikatilo
A note before this article: the Chikatilo case involves the murder of children, sustained physical mutilation of victims, and the wrongful execution of an innocent man for crimes he did not commit. The physical details of the murders are described…
Jeffrey Dahmer
The Dahmer case involves murder, necrophilia, cannibalism, and the sexual abuse and killing of a fourteen-year-old child. It also involves documented and sustained failures by Milwaukee law enforcement that allowed killings to continue, rooted in the marginalisation of the victims.…
The Hinterkaifeck Murders
A warning before this article. The Hinterkaifeck murders involved the killing of two children, including a seven-year-old girl whose injuries indicate she remained alive for some hours after the initial attack. The case also involves documented incest within the victim…
The Yorkshire Ripper
A warning before this article. The Yorkshire Ripper case involves sustained physical violence against women, including women who survived attacks that left them with lifelong injuries. The investigation itself was, by the eventual official assessment, profoundly compromised by attitudes that…
The Manson Family
A warning before this article. The Manson Family murders involved sustained physical violence and the killing of a pregnant woman near term. This piece does not dwell on graphic detail beyond what the historical record requires, but the case is…
The Moors Murders
A serious warning before this article. The Moors Murders involved the abduction, sexual abuse, and killing of children. The youngest victim was ten years old. The trial included the playing in open court of an audio tape recording of one…
Jack The Ripper
A warning before this article. The Whitechapel murders involved sustained physical mutilation of the dead, and any honest account of them must say so. This piece does not dwell on graphic detail beyond what the case requires, but the killings…
Lizzie Borden
Lizzie Borden took an axe / And gave her mother forty whacks. / When she saw what she had done / She gave her father forty-one. The schoolyard rhyme is wrong on almost every count. Abby Borden was not Lizzie’s…
The Son Of Sam
For thirteen months between July 1976 and August 1977, a man with a .44 calibre revolver shot couples in parked cars across the outer boroughs of New York City. He killed six people and wounded seven. He wrote letters to…
Patrick Mackay
He has been called Britain’s forgotten serial killer. He was diagnosed as a psychopath at fifteen, was convicted of three killings at twenty-three, confessed at the time to eight more, and has been imprisoned continuously since 1975 — making him,…