In a case police described as the worst example of abuse they had ever seen, April 1996 saw the horrific torture and murder of 17-year-old Kelly Anne Bates at the hand of her boyfriend of three years, 49-year-old James Patterson Smith.
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Michelle Boat believed that one person stood in the way of a reconciliation with her husband, and that person was Tracy Mondabough. So she took a knife and stabbed her to death.
A tragic mass shooting occurred at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park, on the eve of Lunar New Year celebrations. Huu Can Tran, who was a regular patron at the studio, opened fire on the crowd, resulting in the deaths of 11 individuals.
July, 2013. Chuck Reeves rings his fiancé, Shirley Pierce, but gets no answer. Growing worried, he decides to drive to her house, where a heartbreaking scene awaits him– Shirley is dead in her bathtub.
Hollie Gazzard's life was tragically cut short by her former jealous boyfriend, Asher Maslin, who inflicted 14 stab wounds upon her with a knife he had purchased earlier.
Police receive a phone call from a local farmer a young woman has shown up on his doorstep, distressed and physically battered and bruised. The woman is Ezra McCandless, and she claims that she's been brutally attacked by her boyfriend at the time.
The body of Joette Smith was discovered floating in the San Lorenzo River near Ben Lomond. The case remained unsolved for nearly four decades until authorities revisited the evidence and utilized advancements in forensic technology.
A young mother Yessenia Suarez, and her two children are reported as missing from their home. Yessenia had stayed at her mother's house the day before her disappearance, after a public and physical fight with her husband, Luis Toledo.
When an internet surfer became obsessed with website owner Joanna, she never imagined he would jealously murder her husband. How did police track the online killer?
Pat Regan was viciously stabbed by her grandson, Rakeim Regan. Pat, whose son had been killed in a gang shooting years earlier, was attacked by the perpetrator who she was caring for after he had been admitted to hospital.
Dubbed as ‘Britain's most sadistic mother', Eunice Spry physically and mentally tortured her three adoptive children, Victoria, Alloma and Christopher, across a period of almost 20 years.
In February 2012, 19-year-old Elisa Frank was forced to watch helplessly as her former lover, Ahmad Otak, ferociously stabbed both her sister Kim and best friend Samantha, before bundling Elisa into a car and driving to Dover.
In 1998, a Sikh woman, Sarbjit Kaur Athwal, played witness to the arranged murder of her sister-in-law, Surjit Kaur Athwal, who was ordered to be killed by their mother-in-law, Bachan Kaur.
In a case police described as the worst example of abuse they had ever seen, April 1996 saw the horrific torture and murder of 17-year-old Kelly Anne Bates at the hand of her boyfriend of three years, 49-year-old James Patterson Smith.
With first-hand testimony from family members, police officers, witnesses and reporters, we shine a light on some of Britain's darkest murder locations, examining the crimes that rocked these communities.
With first-hand testimony from family members, police officers, witnesses and reporters, we shine a light on some of Britain's darkest murder locations, examining the crimes that rocked these communities.
With first-hand testimony from family members, police officers, witnesses and reporters, we shine a light on some of Britain's darkest murder locations, examining the crimes that rocked these communities.
With first-hand testimony from family members, police officers, witnesses and reporters, we shine a light on some of Britain's darkest murder locations, examining the crimes that rocked these communities.
The quiet seaside town of Mablethorpe was an unlikely location for what appeared to be an organised hit on a couple in their 50s. Emilia travels to the Lincolnshire coast to learn about the violent murders of Joan and John Stirland in 2004.
In 2015 a man visits a tarot card reader. Within an hour she's dealt out the death card and he's confessed to a murder. When cops arrive they discover he's been living at home with his victim's body for days.
Emilia visits Peterborough, where a young woman, Sally Ann McGrath, went missing in 1979, having last been seen in the city centre. It took nearly eight months for her body to be found, after police assumed she had simply run away.
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