In the summer of 1968, the city of Newcastle is tormented by a terrible event: two little boys, Martin Brown and Brian Howe, are found strangled to death in a vacant lot a few weeks apart. When the identity of the murderer, or rather the murderess, is finally revealed, a wave of shock sweeps through the nation. The killer's name is Mary Bell, she is just eleven years old and has the face of an angel.

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The Puccio family is a seemingly normal family that is completely outside the norm...This is the story of the Puccio clan, whose members kidnapped wealthy Argentines for ransom and hid them in their home before killing them...This was in 1985 when Argentina was beginning to master its newly restored democracy.

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Masumi Hayashi is an ordinary Japanese mother who killed four people and poisoned 63 with arsenic curry served at a local festival in 1998 in Wakayama, Japan. Yet, as they follow her story, the investigators will be neither surprised nor frightened.Masumi Hayashi is an ordinary Japanese mother who killed four people and poisoned 63 with arsenic curry served at a local festival in 1998 in Wakayama, Japan. Yet, as they follow her story, the investigators will be neither surprised nor frightened.

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The Chundawat family is a multi-generational Indian family of eleven who live together in a two-storey house in Delhi. But on July 1, 2018, the family was killed when they were all found dead, hanging next to each other from the ceiling of their living room. When the police discover strange notes in a drawer, it marks the beginning of one of the most complex, strange and frightening investigations India has ever seen.

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In 1971, Maria Cámara Gómez saw a black spot on her kitchen floor. It looked like a face. Despite all her efforts, not only does the stain not go away, but shadows suddenly appear on the floor and others on the walls. From that day on, there is no respite for the Pereira family. This is the beginning of the disturbing case of "La Casa de las caras", the house of faces, which will upset the peace of this simple village in deepest Spain.

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Between 1976 and 1977, terror grips New York City when a series of unexplained murders takes place in Queens and the Bronx. Their target: couples and isolated young women. The murderer who takes pleasure in sending anonymous letters to claim responsibility for his crimes. A single signature, as ambiguous as it is meaningless, marks this bloody epic, that of the Son of Sam, alias David Berkowitz.

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On 25 January 1959, a group of ten students from the Ural Polytechnic Institute set off on an expedition to northern Siberia. On the night of 1 February, while the group was camping on a mountainside, things suddenly went wrong. The bodies were found a month later in a disastrous state. What really happened on that fateful night? This is the most enigmatic Russian crime case of the last sixty years.

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Drawn unwillingly into an unhealthy lesbian love triangle, the young Shanda Sharer is unaware of the sordid, Machiavellian plan that is being hatched behind her back, a plan that will be carried out with rare cruelty. In a climate of murderous jealousy and rivalry between teenage girls, the outcome will be fatal.

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Shasta Groene McClain was kidnapped by paedophile serial killer Joseph Duncan III who murdered mother, stepfather and brother and abducted Shasta at the age of 8, and her brother Dylan, 9 in 2005...Shasta has become a famous victim, defined by tragedy and riddled with guilt.

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Dennis Nilsen is a Scottish serial killer who encouraged his victims to follow him willingly. He murdered at least twelve young men and boys between...At home, he would get them drunk until they passed out and then strangle them, usually with a necktie. Once the victim was killed, he would bathe their body, shave off all the chest hair and usually dress them in socks and underwear.

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