Crimeland

Between the summers of 1976 and 1977, David Berkowitz, a.k.a. “Son of Sam,” terrorised New York as he gunned down innocent young people in their cars. He claimed that Satan had possessed his neighbour Sam’s dog which then sent him messages…

The morning of January 7th, 1946, the city of Chicago Illinois is stunned when Jack Degnan wakes to find his 6 year old daughter Suzanne missing, her bedroom window ajar. A city-wide search begins but nobody is prepared for the horrors…

The Burger Chef murders occurred on the night of Friday November 17th, 1978. Four teenage employees went missing in what was initially thought to be a petty theft of cash. By Sunday their bodies had been discovered and police launched…

On Mary 24th 2005, 18 year old Natalee Holloway was in the prime of her life as she and her high-school class embarked upon a graduation trip to the island of Aruba to mark the end of the school-year. The Alabama teen was scheduled to…

Judith Barsi was a rising Hollywood child star whose career was going from strength to strength, but nobody fully understood the terrible home life she was forced to endure, one which would end in catastrophic violence and a community…

New York City, December 22nd 1984. A 45-year-old white male, shoots four young black men on a downtown subway train after they surround him and ask for $5. A two week manhunt ensues, with many citizens championing this ‘Subway Vigilante’…

On Tuesday 16 October 1984, four-year-old Grégory Villemin was reported missing, then found dead in the Vologne river in the Vosges region of France with ropes tied around his hand and feet. What followed is a three-decade judicial saga…

Sophie Toscan du Plantier was a French television producer who was tragically beaten to death outside her holiday home near Schull, County Cork, Ireland, on the night of 23 December 1996. The brutal death of Sophie Toscan du Plantier…

In the summer of 1968 the economically deprived area of Scotswood, a suburb of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, was horrified when the body of three year old Brian Howe was found dead on some local wasteland. Little did the community know the horrific…

In May 1999 Hannah Hill was an 18 year old High School graduate in Akron, Ohio looking forward to starting her college life in the autumn. Tragically her life was cut short by a heinous killer, and as if that wasn't enough for her family to…