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A suspected serial killer allegedly led his victims into the woods after asking them for help digging up buried treasure, then slaughtered and buried them in a park near Seattle

WARNING: UPSETTING CONTENT. A woman from Ohio was charged with a felony for 'abuse of a corpse' after she flushed her miscarried foetus down the toilet after fighting to get an abortion following a life-threatening diagnosis

The Home Office announced pub and club staff will be trained to spot signs of spiking as they weigh up ways to strengthen the law, with nearly 5,000 cases a year in England and Wales

Steven Yinger has been convicted of murdering his roommate Jorge Diaz-Johnston after strangling him and then stuffing his body into a rubbish bin in Florida

Baby Gabriel would be 14 years old now and his heartbroken family still has no idea if he was tragically murdered before his first birthday, or if he is alive and well

Armed police raced to Cheadle town centre, North Staffordshire, this afternoon, as witnesses claimed a man with a handgun was seen 'knocking on windows and doors'

A couple fought off a trio of home invaders after the armed robbers pushed their way into the property and demanded to know the whereabouts of a safe, with two of the three attackers now jailed

Lloyd Neels, 36, punched Sean Sadler in the head before he kicked the baby killer at least twice inside HMP Birmingham before he was dragged away by prison officers

Kieron Jordan was removed from a late flight bound for Turkey after storming down the plane demanding a refund over its delay - he has now been jailed for 27 months

Rachel Gee was on her way to the post office and was walking through an alleyway in Offerton, Manchester when she was violently attacked by two hooded teenagers on bikes

Valerie Zavala Wilson, 19, went to a New Year's Eve party in Fillmore, California but never returned home, with her naked body found in a concrete drainage pipe on New Year's Day

Cyber intelligence agency GCHQ have warned that scammers are using new artificial intelligence (AI) programs to make their scams harder to spot than ever

Merseyside Police launched a massive crackdown this weekend on dangerous criminals, seizing drugs, guns, huge quantities of cash as they made 33 arrests and over 150 stops

A banking group has warned that up to a hundred million pounds could be lost to fraudsters this Christmas as shoppers fall for deals that really are too good to be true

Prosecutors played a recording of Floridan Derek Rosa, 13, confessing to the murder of his mother Irina Garcia, 39, saying he grabbed a knife and killed her

Police are still yet to recover the so-called 'Skorpion' machine-pistol used to murder three people last year as nine other gun crimes have been linked to the same type of weapon

Arthur Collins is in HMP The Mount in Hertfordshire – which prepares inmates for release by teaching them how to be baristas. A source said he was moved there as a reward for good behaviour

The ex-detective who helped bring to justice the men responsible for Stephen Lawrence's murder is now helping vulnerable kids stay away from knife crime with football kickabouts

Sophia Smith was a deputy manager at Lifeways as she cruelly took advantage of the 70-year-old woman, who had learning difficulties and was disabled

Police arrived at the Chicago home for a welfare check only to find the grim note left for Jason Karels estranged wife and the three children dead from drowning

Police have been left baffled after theives stole an Egyptian-style mummy figurine from a pub in Whitby - and the landlady has pleaded for its return, saying she's had it for five years

An 11-year-old schoolgirl was 'freaked out' after being arrested by cops over a 911 call made on her phone, with her mom and dad angered about how officers handled the situation in Crosby, Texas

A teenager managed to drive her car to safety off a busy highway and save her friends despite having been mortally wounded by a gun-wielding fellow motorist

With a rising tide of shoplifting costing British shop owners almost £1billion a year, business leaders are warning that thieves are growing more confident than ever. The Mirror investigates.

Killer Steve Wright, 65, who is serving a whole life sentence for the murder of five prostitutes, was originally arrested on suspicion of killing Victoria in July 2021