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Husband sets wife on fire in Pakistan 'honour killing'
A Pakistani man and his father have been arrested in the country's latest so-called "honour killing" after they set the son's wife alight for leaving the house without asking his permission, police said Sunday. Muhammad Siddique became enraged on learning that his wife, Shabana Bibi, 25, had visited her sister without first asking him if she could go out, her brother Muhammad Azam said.
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The Acid Bath Murderer of England
John George Haigh took the plunge into murder when he knocked out his old boss and dumped the body into acid – then set out to kill again.
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Ore. farmer convicted of killing handymen, feeding to pigs
Jurors spent only about an hour deliberating Tuesday before convicting an Oregon woman of killing two handymen and feeding their corpses to her pigs.
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Firefighter Arrested for 3 Slayings in 15-Year-Old Cold Case
While David Watson was rising through the ranks at the Tucson Fire Department, authorities working to solve three cold-case murders had him in mind as their main suspect. Watson, 46, was finally arrested on Saturday, nearly 15 years after the first of the killings. The fire department captain is accused of killing his ex-wife, her mother and a third woman, and he now faces three counts of first-degree murder.
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Anders Breivik’s Inexplicable Crime
Norway is a small country. It is also relatively homogeneous and egalitarian. This means that the distance from top to bottom is short, and that great disasters affect the entire populace. For example, every Norwegian knows someone who knows someone who died when the Alexander Kielland drilling rig capsized, in 1980—I recall that my brother had a schoolmate whose father died in the disaster—or when, a decade later, a ferry, the Scandinavian Star, burned and a hundred and fifty-eight of the...
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Remains of son not seen in 11 years found in trunk of mother's car
Virginia State Police held a press conference to share more details in the case of Quincy Jamar Davis. A body found in a Richmond woman's car earlier this month has been identified as the driver's son, who hadn't been seen since 2004. Tonya Slaton, 44, was pulled over in the Hampton while driving on I-64 on June 6 for expired tags. Police discovered the remains during the traffic stop and charged her with concealment of a dead body.
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New Jersey man accused of killing 7 people
By the time police caught up with Todd West this week, the 22-year-old New Jersey man had allegedly gunned down seven people and wounded another in a rampage that stretched across two states, according to prosecutors. "It is horrific and unprecedented," acting Union County Prosecutor Grace Park told reporters, CNN affiliate WCBS reported. "I don't know how you would define a mass killer.
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The Matterhorn Murder Mystery Lives On After 150 Years
The mystery dates back a century and a half. To be precise, on Tuesday 150 years will have passed since the first triumphant ascent to the summit of the Matterhorn, that legendary bent megalith that towers above the border of Italy and Switzerland. And it was just one hour after that history-making achievement in 1865 that four of the seven climbers fell to their deaths.
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SL-1: Murder by Nuclear Reactor
There have been three nuclear power plant meltdowns that have captured worldwide attention and left the general public with the opinion that nuclear power is too dangerous to rely upon...
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Damning report on missing Mexican students says 'justice neglected'
An independent Mexican commission said on Thursday it found serious flaws in an investigation into the apparent massacre of 43 students last year, dealing a fresh blow to President Enrique Pena Nieto over a scandal that has battered his administration. The case became a symbol of impunity over disappearances and plunged Pena Nieto into his deepest crisis after the 43 trainee teachers were abducted and very likely murdered by a drug gang working with corrupt police...
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The Body Behind the Little White Church
A 25-year-old Ohio woman goes missing for eight days. When her body is finally found, a tiny Appalachian town is rocked by shocking secrets of infidelity, polygamy and cold-blooded murder. By Alison Stine.
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By Reason of Insanity (Infographic)
An investigative look into murder defense by reason of insanity.
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Boy, 15, charged with kidnap, rape and murder of eight-year-girl in California
A 15-year-old boy has been charged with kidnapping, raping and murdering an eight-year-old girl whose body was found in a bin in California. Adrian Jerry Gonzalez is accused of luring Madyson Middleton into his family’s apartment from a courtyard where she had been riding her scooter at the weekend.
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Man freed after being wrongly imprisoned for 17 years is fatally shot in Chicago
On the day he was finally released from prison after murder charges were dropped, Alprentiss Nash vowed he would use his freedom studying to become a chef, learning about antique cars and traveling. And in the nearly three years since, he kept true to his word, visiting New Orleans, Miami and Atlanta and learning to ski at a resort in Wisconsin. He also bought a Harley-Davidson motorcycle and a 1960 Buick Electra 225 and completed a culinary program.
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Watch an Entire Hour of Jessica Fletcher Eureka-Face On "Murder, She Wrote"
This supercut captures the constant state of epiphany Jessica Fletcher maintained throughout the course of Murder, She Wrote. Finally!
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The Man Who Shot Michael Brown
Darren Wilson says he wants to stop thinking about what happened in Ferguson. But the town isn’t done.
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Grannyball Lecter: Woman ripper, 68, murdered, chopped up and ate 14 victims
Tamara Samsonova, 68, is suspected of sawing off their heads and limbs and gouging out their lungs. The pensioner – likened to the fictional cannibal Hannibal Lecter – was arrested this week over the murder of her friend Valentina Ulanova, 79. She was spotted on CCTV footage carrying Ulanova’s body parts in a black plastic bag.
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Oscar Pistorius is about to be released from prison 10 months into his five-year sentence
Next week, Oscar Pistorius will be released from jail after serving 10 months of his five year sentence for killing his girlfriend, the model Reeva Steenkamp. While the former athlete did not apply for early release himself, the parole board at Kgosi Mampuru II prison in Pretoria where he is being held has recommended he be released into the community at the first opportunity.
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The mystery of the Somerton man-new information revealed.
THE mysterious Somerton Man may have been killed by his nurse lover - an Adelaide woman and suspected Soviet spy with whom he fathered a child, it has been claimed.
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Prominent attorney is accused of killing scavenger, with the help of highway patrol officers
Three California Highway Patrol officers, a Modesto criminal defense attorney and five others have been arrested in connection with the 2012 killing of Korey Kauffman, a 26-year-old Turlock resident whose body was found more than a year later by hunters in a remote Mariposa County forest. By Lee Romney.
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