Early this week, a British criminology professor wrote a slightly plaintive essayabout the 19th century serial poisoner, Mary Ann Cotton. Why, he wondered, did no one remember the evil Mary Ann and ...
Lydia Sherman’s propensity for tiring of her husbands and their children and her skill at concocting poisonous beverages sent 11 souls to early graves by the time she died at Wethersfield State Prison ...
WHEN a mystery illness swept through a small Hertfordshire firm causing violent vomiting, diarrhoea, partial paralysis and, in one case, death, it was put down to a “bug” in the water supply. But the ...
Police are on the hunt for a cat poisoner who may have killed up to 18 cats in a tiny Cornish village. Pet owners have been warned to be alert after a number of felines mysteriously died in the last ...
A pregnant Thai woman arrested on suspicion of murdering her friend with cyanide has now been charged with at least 13 counts of premeditated murder, police have confirmed. Sararat Rangsiwuthaporn was ...
n spite of the fact that, for hundreds of years, poison has been a convenient way to speed along an inheritance or dispatch an unwanted spouse, little has been written about the personality of the ...
Monster Graham Young became Broadmoor's youngest ever inmate since 1885 WHEN a mystery illness swept through a small Hertfordshire firm causing violent vomiting, diarrhoea, partial paralysis and, in ...
n spite of the fact that, for hundreds of years, poison has been a convenient way to speed along an inheritance or dispatch an unwanted spouse, little has been written about the personality of the ...