The recent conviction of Lucy Letby in the longest and one of the most horrific murder trials in British criminal history has led to comparisons with other so-called angels of death, in particular Beverley Allitt, Harold Shipman, and Colin Norris. Shipman was found guilty of fifteen murders. Exactly how many people he killed is uncertain, […]
Two dead serial killers are in the news this week: one because of his recent death; the other because of a new dramatisation. Wisconsin abolished the death penalty way back in 1852 after a man who was publicly hanged for the murder of his wife took nearly twenty minutes to die. That being said, they […]
Clyde Gibson is an extremely talented man. How many people do you know who could make a violin out of paper mache? Gibson did. He made another one out of popsicle sticks. And to top it all, he created these impressive works of art with no meaningful tools. Sadly, Gibson isn’t only an extremely talented […]
Two American serial killers were in the news this month: one for a good reason. Anthony Sowell (pictured), the monster who murdered eleven women in Cleveland, Ohio between 2007 and 2009, died on February 8. Aged 61, he was being treated at a medical center for prison inmates. The mother of his first victim spoke […]
There is a consensus that however chequered his past, George Floyd did not deserve to die the way he did. The same cannot be said however for every black man who falls foul of the law. When Granville Ritchie appeared in a Florida courtroom for his sentencing hearing, the family of his victim were unanimously in favour of him dying, and the sooner the better. It was left to his white attorneys to argue that he was not to be numbered among “the worst of the worst”.
