When police raided William Bradford’s Los Angeles apartment in 1984, they weren’t just looking for evidence of two murders. What they found instead was a window into something far more unsettling, a collection of 54 photographs, each one a portrait of a different woman, many never seen or heard from again. Bradford, a self-proclaimed photographer with a taste for deception, would go on to be convicted of two brutal ... View more
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When Innocence Ends: The Case of Mary Bell and the Scotswood Murders
In the summer of 1968, as children ran barefoot through the derelict streets of Scotswood, a working-class neighbourhood in Newcastle upon Tyne, two boys would never return home. Their deaths would not only shock a community but also shake a nation’s belief in childhood innocence. At the centre of this disturbing case stood Mary Bell – just 11 years old when she was convicted of manslaughter – a child herself, yet capable of ... View more
Leonard Lake: The Bunker, the Murders, and the Mind of a Sadistic Survivalist
“What I want is an off-the-shelf sex partner. Slave. There’s no way around it.” — Leonard Lake It started, as so many grim tales do, with something as mundane as shoplifting. On 2 June 1985, a man named Charles Ng tried to steal a $75 metal vise from a hardware store in South San Francisco. His friend, a quiet and seemingly unremarkable man named Leonard Lake, stepped in to pay. But when police arrived, they noticed that ... View more
The 2002 Moscow Theatre Siege: A Tragedy in Three Acts
The Dubrovka Theatre, located in a working-class district of southeast Moscow, was hosting its 129th performance of Nord-Ost, a musical adaptation of Veniamin Kaverin’s Soviet-era adventure novel The Two Captains. The production was a deliberate cultural choice—a modern celebration of patriotism and Russian resilience, supported by government funding and championed by state media. The performance had become a popular draw for ... View more
Where Is Selena’s Killer Now? Inside Yolanda Saldívar’s Life Behind Bars Nearly 30 Years After Killing the Singer
Yolanda Saldívar, who was found guilty of murdering Selena Quintanilla in October 1995, was denied parole on March 27, 2025 Yolanda Saldívar killed Selena Quintanilla on March 31, 1995, fatally shooting the singer in Corpus Christi, Texas In October 1995, Saldívar was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole in 30 years, eventually set for March 30, 2025 She was denied parole on March 27 and will ... View more
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