Margaret Barnes had gone to Barmouth for a short seaside break. One evening, after drinking with friends, she became disoriented on her way back to her accommodation and mistakenly entered a stranger’s home. Believing she was in the right place, she went upstairs and climbed into the bed.
What happened when the homeowner discovered her there would end with Margaret dead and a man convicted of her murder.
The murder of Jimmy Prout, a vulnerable 45-year-old man with mental health challenges, took place in North Shields in 2016. Jimmy fell victim to a cult-like group led by the manipulative Zahid Zaman, whom he considered his friend. Under Zahid's control, Jimmy endured severe psychological abuse and horrific violence, which ultimately led to his death.
During Christmas 1987, Ronald Gene Simmons murdered fourteen members of his family in Arkansas before turning his attention to people he believed had wronged him. His subsequent shooting spree in Russellville claimed two more lives, bringing the death toll to sixteen in one of the deadliest family massacres in American history.
Adam Britton was an internationally recognised crocodile researcher and conservationist. But behind his respected public image, he was hiding a disturbing secret. For years, he tortured and killed dogs, recording and sharing his crimes online. When investigators uncovered his activities, the revelations exposed a shocking double life and brought his career crashing down.
Katherine Knight became the first woman in Australia to receive a life sentence without parole. Her crime was so horrific that some officers attending the scene reportedly stopped eating meat. But it wasn't simply the murder itself that made this case so disturbing. It was what Knight did to her victim afterwards.
In 1987, two young women were murdered in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, in crimes that became known as the Bedsit Murders. For more than three decades, their cases remained unsolved until a DNA breakthrough led police to David Fuller. But the Bedsit Killer was hiding a far darker secret, one that would earn him another name: the Morgue Monster.
On 11th September 2001, physician Sneha Anne Philip was among those reported missing following the attacks on New York's Twin Towers. She would eventually be recognised as a victim, but there was one troubling detail: Sneha had disappeared the previous evening. Did she die in the attacks, or was her disappearance an entirely separate mystery?
In the summer of 1984, Alton Coleman and Debra Brown travelled across six Midwestern states, leaving a trail of murders, abductions, and violent attacks. For fifty-four days, police struggled to track the pair as the number of victims continued to grow. What unfolded became one of the most notorious crime sprees in American history.