Every November and December, thousands of letters addressed to Santa are sent to North Pole, Alaska. Boxes full of letters are then sent to North Pole Middle School, where it is included in the 6th Grade curriculum: North Pole’s 11 and 12-year-olds are nominated as Santa’s little helpers and reply to all the letters on Santa’s behalf. But in April 2006, the peace in this snow globe of a town was shattered when six 7th Graders hatched a plan to kill their classmates. The would-be attackers had drawn up a “naughty list” of kids at school that they wanted to murder in one violent, coordinated attack. Just the previous year they were acting as elves, writing letters to other children all over the country. A couple of months later, they were gearing up to be monsters.

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John Martin Scripps was a petty thief, turned drug smuggler, turned cold-blooded murder. He would befriend fellow passengers on long-haul flights, share a taxi and check into the same hotel at the destination. He then bludgeoned his travel acquaintances to death before expertly dismembering their bodies and disposing of the body parts.

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For 18 years, Jean-Claude Romand pretended to be something he was not: a well-qualified doctor, a loving husband, a doting father. As things started to unravel, he could not bear the thought that everyone in his life would find out that he was a fraud. He took extreme measures in an attempt to keep his secret safe.

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Armin Meiwes posted on an online forum called Cannibal Café to find someone to devour. And someone responded. After castrating his willing participant and eating his genitalia together, he killed him. But was it murder if the victim consented to the whole thing?

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After a day’s work, Rodney Marks was an Australian astrophysicist, Rodney Marks, became violently ill. 24 hours later he was dead. But due to the harsh weather conditions, it would be six months before his body could be transported to New Zealand for a post-mortem examination. Results showed that Rodney had died from methanol poisoning. On the base were 49 other people, trapped in the winter cold. Was Rodney killed by one of his co-workers, or was his death a tragic accident?

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Church-going family man, Colin Howell, started an illicit affair with Hazel Buchanan, a married woman who attended the same church. In order to be together, they did the unthinkable. The secret of their crime remained between them for 17 years. If Colin Howell did not come forward, would they have gotten away with it?

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Three women vanished from the Northern Italian town of Correggio within the space of a year. Locals looked at a local shopkeeper and fortune teller Leonarda Cianciulli for answers. When they uncovered the truth behind the disappearances, the story caused a ripple throughout the world. Not only did this mother of four murder her friends, but she also used their remains and made them into soap and cakes.

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