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Disgraced South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh, who was addicted to painkillers, wanted to die so his son Richard could cash in his £8million life insurance policy

Madeleine McCann prime suspect Christian Brueckner won't be charged this year, according to German prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters who admits "it’s going to take a lot longer"

Pietro Addis knifed grandmother Sue Addis 17 times at her home in Brighton after it was heard she had expressed fears the cannabis-addicted teen was becoming 'paranoid'

Alex Murdaugh has been found guilty of killing his wife and son at their sprawling countryside estate. But this story stretches back even further and includes even more bodies in South Carolina's Lowcountry, in the US

The 12-person jury took just 45 minutes to find Alex Murdaugh guilty of killing his wife Maggie and son Paul at their sprawling country estate of Moselle in South Carolina, US

Government statistics show that between April 2020 and March 2021 that 223 children died in instances where abuse or neglect is known or suspected

A three-week trial at Liverpool Crown Court heard how Kevin Mannion murdered his girlfriend Elinor O'Brien after violently assaulting her several times throughout their eight-month relationship

Maurice Hastings was released from prison after DNA was proven not to be his last year in Los Angeles, US. His request for a DNA test back in 2000 had been rejected

Prosecutors say that they think a sweet potato was used as a silencer in the Cape Cod murder of Todd Lampley, in a plot used in hit show The Wire

The footage shows the moment the man, who has been named as Josip Mihajlovic, 27, by Croatian media, is arrested. He can be seen on his phone in the hotel lobby waiting for a lift when three plainclothes police officers suddenly enter and detain him

The 33-year-old nurse is alleged to have deliberately dislodged the youngster’s breathing tube just moments before a consultant walked into the nursery room

The dismembered legs of socialite and model Abby Choi, 28, were found stuffed inside a fridge in a rural beachside home in Hong Kong, but police said her hands, torso and head couldn't be found at the murder scene

Kelsey Turner will serve at least 10 years in jail after being found guilty of the second degree murder of 71-year-old Thomas Burchard, whose decomposing body was found in the boot of a car

Mary Ann Cotton had just given birth to her 13th child when she was accused of killing her young stepson - she had killed 20 other people too

Harry Jarvis murdered his wife Carol in 2009 and hid her body just metres away from where his pastry heiress mistress slept in the garden shed

In a victim impact statement Liverpool Crown Court heard how Michael Toohey’s mum begged for paramedics to save her son as he lay lifeless on the floor

Body parts belonging to Abby Choi, 28, a rising star in Hong Kong's fashion scene, were found stuffed in a fridge in the beachside village of Lung Mei - but cops couldn't find her head, torso, or hands at the scene

Alex Murdaugh's roots run deep in Lowcountry, South Carolina, in the US. So deep he is standing trial in a courtroom where a painting of his grandad was hung until the presiding judge had it removed

In a case that has gripped a nation, Alex Murdaugh stood up in court in Walterboro, South Carolina, US to speak in his own defence, admitting that he did lie to police

Jamie Dempsey is standing trial at Liverpool Crown Court accused of murdering his mother Karen, having knifed her in the chest while fighting with another man over a £2,000 drug debt

Natalia Harrell shot Gladys Borcela in the back of an Uber taxi last summer, in Florida, USA, but as the mum-to-be awaits trial for murder she has claimed her unborn child should be released from jail

Former Matalan store assistant Colleen Campbell, 38, was branded a "f..king witch" by relatives of the victim after her meeting with a psychic inadvertntly implicated her in the murder of her former spouse Thomas

Donald David Dillbeck, 59, is scheduled to die tomorrow, February 23, for the 1990 murder of Faye Vann in Tallahassee, and advocates are preparing to protest the capital punishment in Florida, US

Pierto Addis attacked his elderly grandmother when she was naked in the bathtub and stabbed her 17 times but the teen claims he was suffering from 'transient psychosis' during the incident

Buster Murdaugh, the surviving son of Alex Murdaugh, was the most anticipated witness in the double murder trial in Colleton County, South Carolina, US