Tag: true crime

‘Blood spattered the walls, a woman’s body was in a mail sack’: Read the bombshell Lord Lucan dossier that gruesomely describes how Britain’s most notorious fugitive killed his nanny and tried to murder his wife – and listen to the groundbreaking podcast

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This is the sensational, never-before-seen Scotland Yard report from almost 50 years ago that finally reveals the definitive account of the Lord Lucan mystery.

The newly discovered, previously confidential 60-page document chronicles in astonishing detail the Crown’s case against the missing peer, suspected of bludgeoning his children’s nanny Sandra Rivett to death with a lead pipe and then trying to kill his estranged wife in one of Britain’s most notorious crime cases. It also lays bare how his powerful friends

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What happened to Fawziyah Javed? Tragic true story of the pregnant lawyer who helped jail her abusive husband from beyond the grave is explored in Channel 4 documentary The Push

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A pregnant lawyer who plunged to her death after being thrown of a cliff at a picturesque tourist site by her abusive husband will be the subject of a chilling new documentary. 

Fawziyah Javed, from Leeds, was thrown 50ft off Arthur’s Seat in September 2021, following a horrific campaign of abuse by her partner, Kashif Anwar.

The 31-year-old employment lawyer was 17-weeks pregnant with her first child when she fell to her death at the hands of ‘jealous, evil and

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The True-Crime Frenzy Surrounding the Idaho Murders

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The reporters arrived in news vans and satellite trucks that trundled down King Road and colonized parking spots outside the crime scene. TV producers crowded into the Corner Club, chatting up students for tips and gossip, mispronouncing the town’s name—Mos-cow, they kept calling it, not Moss-coe. Nancy Grace, the cable-news host famously obsessed with morbid crimes, set up a table right outside the victims’ house so she could gesture at the building on air while speculating

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When Truman Capote Went to Jail

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On October 21, 1970, Truman Capote went to jail. Considering he’d spent much of his life fascinated by crime, it nevertheless came as a shock, to him and others, when he was sentenced to three days on a contempt-of-court charge. “I’ve been in thirty or forty jails and prisons, but this is the first time I’ll ever be in one as a prisoner,” Capote told reporters at the time, his bravado a substitute, according to his biographer Gerald Clarke,

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