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Prison officials said convicted killer Joshua Wade was "found unresponsive in his cell at the Indiana State Prison" on Thursday

Worker found remains of unknown woman buried in rubble at site

Freed French serial killer Charles Sobhraj, 79, allegedly slaughtered at least 20 Western backpackers who were travelling through Asia's "hippie trail" during the 1970s and 1980s

François Vérove, who was connected to 31 murders and rapes, brazenly appeared on TV game show without a disguise and still remained undetected by police in France

Just weeks after coming face to face with her daughter Brianna's teenage killers, Esther Ghey has stepped back into the classroom in a quest to make children kinder

Keane Mulready-Woods, 17, was killed and dismembered over the course of two days at a property in Drogheda, County Louth, which is near the Irish capital of Dublin

Police believe the deaths and subsequent butchery of the bodies may have been connected to a love triangle. Bits of bodies were found of the space of a week in two different parks in Long Island

Mae West grew up in Fred and Rose West's infamous 'House of Horrors' in Cromwell Street, Gloucester, and has gone on to tell her story of abuse and visiting her evil mother behind bars

One strangled 37 women, another stabbed young boys. One even stabbed his victims long after they were dead. But serial killer profiler Micki Pistorius caught them all....by thinking like a murderer

73-year-old killer Thomas Creech spent nearly an hour strapped on a table in an Idaho execution chamber as medical members poked and probbed his body trying to find a vein to end his life

The execution of convicted serial killer Thomas Eugene Creech was halted in Idaho after the medical team couldn't locate a vein for an IV to administer the lethal drugs

The serial killer Fred West was known to carry out works across Gloucester and it is claimed that he may have had access to a network of tunnels in order to aid his crimes

Robert Maudsley, known as Hannibal the Cannibal, 70, has been kept in solitary confinement for 45 years after killing three other inmates while behind bars for murder

Rose West was first arrested 30 years ago today, on February 25, 1994. The twisted serial killer was jailed for life in 1995, and is now reportedly living a 'middle class' life behind bars

Fred and Rose West had 11 children between them, and it was the murder of one of them which ultimately led to them being captured and sent to prison for their heinous crimes

Fred West was arrested at his 'House of Horrors' in Cromwell Street, Gloucester, in 1994, triggering one of the biggest police investigations in British criminal history

Serial killer Aileen Wuornos was executed on October 9, 2002, and just hours before being put to death she was seen chatting and laughing during an interview for a documentary

Lucy Letby is facing a last ditch effort against the convictions for murdering seven babies and attempts on six others at the Countess of Chester Hospital as it goes to the Court of Appeal

Lawyers for Letby will ask senior judges for permission to bring an appeal against all her convictions at the hearing in London provisionally listed for April 25, a judiciary spokeswoman confirmed on Friday

A Pennsylvania woman described the red flags she noticed while dating Anthony Robinson, the man who would later be accused of being the notorious Shopping Cart Killer

Academic Richard Gill, who claims prosecution evidence against baby killer Lucy Letby was bogus, was allowed to give a talk to maths students at Liverpool University

The family of Simon Parkes, who was 18 when he vanished without trace from HMS Illustrious in 1986 in Gibraltar, have spent four decades looking for closure - and are a step closer

Scarlett Jenkinson, 16, was sentenced to life for the murder of Brianna Ghey and is currently locked up at a secure children's home for young offenders in Leeds

Police confirmed that a 10th body has been pulled from Lady Bird lake in Austin, Texas - but as authorities say investigations are pending, residents live in fear of a 'Rainey Street Ripper'

The sick Rose and Fred West are supposed to appeal to people with 'a sense of humour', but are offensive to anyone who lost a loved one because of the serial killers' horrific actions