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George Appel who was sent to the electric chair for killing a police officer would have been forgotten if it wasn’t for his notorious and chilling "dad joke"

An Indiana State Trooper was patrolling an area of Vincennes when he spotted the 51-year-old identified as John McKee operating a Power Wheels Jeep on the city's roads

Alleged Gilgo Beach killer Rex Heuermann is in a special unit at the Suffolk County Jail in Riverhead, Long Island, under careful watch where has not shown "any emotion" according to the sheriff

The leader of the notorious Wagner Company military group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, 62, was killed alongside other senior mercenary warlords when his private jet tumbled out of the sky around 500km from Moscow

The BBC has slammed claims that its Thought for the Day radio show suggested that convicted killer and ex-nurse Lucy Letby should be forgiven for murdering seven babies

The story of Lucy Letby depriving tiny, helpless babies of their lives in a hospital just 12 miles from me sent my blood pressure soaring and hot tears running, writes Val Savage

The woman is said to have been snatched at a Phoenix car dealership on Monday, before allegedly being zip-tied and driven by suspect Jacob Wilhoit, aged 41, 150 miles overnight

When called out for allegedly having a cup that reeked of wine in her possession on school campus, the Oklahoma teacher claimed it was for her 'juice.' Police say her blood alochol levels were three times the legal driving limit

Police were stumped when large rocks and boulders kept sporadically appearing on a road in the quiet coastal town of Kingston, Massachusetts, but six months later they have made an arrest

The trio were held as they tried to board a flight to Manchester, police in Majorca confirmed today as they investigate the rape of a woman who claims she was also drugged

Karen Rees is the former head of nursing for urgent care at the Countess of Chester Hospital, and was one of Lucy Letby's direct line managers during her killing spree

Donald Patience, 45, was found dead at his home after officers were called to an address in response to reports of a burglary, in which a labradoodle dog was reportedly stolen

A Detroit woman and two teenagers were arrested for allegedly befriending a new mother and kidnapping her 14-day-old twins, who were later safely returned

A nurse who was kidnapped for two weeks with her daughter has been released, and has now told her captors she would willingly treat them if they needed - and even that she wants to hug them in heaven

The eight-year-old girl was pronounced dead at the scene in Portsmouth, Hampshire, on Thursday evening. Police have arrested a 43-year-old woman on suspicion of child neglect

Five family members were found dead in their Uniontown, Ohio, home on Thursday evening in what police believe was a murder-suicide stemming from a domestic dispute

Lucy Letby was plain and ordinary on the surface but her evil, twisted side was shrouded from her closest family and friends. Now, her loved ones will have to come to terms with her title of Britain's most prolific child killer

For the first time ever, Defra has drawn up a league table ranking councils on how ‘muscular’ their approach is to littering - use our interactive tool to see how yours stacks up

Donald Trump’s former national security advisor John Bolton claims the former President deliberately looked like a “thug” in his mugshot

The loser ex-president is monetising his mugshot to energise his run at the White House, says Fleet Street Fox. But it might energise his opponents more

Olivia Samantha Fowler was reported missing by her family in August 2021, and two years later she has been found dead - but police are yet to confirm whether the death is being treated as suspicious

Analysis of Lucy Letby's handwritten notes shows that she was in the midst of a downwards spiral, felt guilty and immensely dissatisfied, according to an expert graphologist

In the past, Notting Hill Carnival, the west London event that attracts around two million people over the Bank Holiday weekend, has been tarnished as crime ridden, but facts around crime rates push back on these claims

Tony Parsons, 63, had been on a 100-mile charity bike ride from his home in Tillicoultry, Clackmannanshire, to Fort William when twin brothers Alexander and Robert McKellar were out driving and struck and killed him

The former NHS nurse bought the ordinary three-bedroom property in Chester for £179,000 in April 2016 and lived there whilst carrying out her cold-blooded, evil crimes