True Crime

Margaret Barnes was 71, visiting Barmouth for a quiet getaway. She mistook a private home for her B&B, settled into a bedroom, and fell asleep. What followed was a brutal assault by the homeowner, David Redfern. Margaret died from injuries likened to a high-speed car crash. Her only mistake was walking through the wrong door.

For 153 days, Jimmy Prout was tortured in plain sight — abused by a cult-like group who claimed to be his friends. Authorities missed seventeen chances to intervene. By the time his body was found, dumped on wasteland near the Tyne Tunnel, it was too late. This is not just a story of cruelty — it’s a story of silence, failure, and the systems that let it happen.

The Christmas holidays are a time of happiness for most families, but that was not the case in 1987 when Ronald Gene Simmons committed one of the most horrific mass murders in American history by murdering fourteen members of his immediate family, including his wife, children, and grandchildren. But he wasn’t done there. Four days […]

Adam Britton was a once celebrated as a leading expert on crocodiles and a committed conservationist. However, beneath his meticulously cultivated public persona, a sinister truth emerged. Far from being the protector of animals he portrayed himself as, Britton engaged in some of the most appalling acts of animal cruelty ever documented. His heinous actions, […]

Katherine Knight was the first woman in Australian history to receive a life sentence without the possibility of parole. Her crime was so horrific that some media outlets refused to cover it. In fact, some of the officers attending the scene were so traumatised by what they saw, they had to take leave. They had PTSD. Some of the officers even stopped […]

In 2021, the British police went to arrest an unassuming 65-year-old man who they suspected of being the Bedsit Killer. However, the police were in for a shock because Fuller’s ordinary appearance was concealing the sinister reality of the terrifying monster he really was. Not only was David Fuller a murderer, but he was a […]