Brian Steven Smith was convicted of brutally murdering two Alaska Native women and recording the killings, saying “What are my followers going to think of me? People need to know when they are being serial killed”.
A total of seven murders and 12 attempted murders were recorded by police this past Saturday.
A search for two missing teens ended up in the discovery of seven bodies strewn across the grounds of a registered sex offender’s rural property in Oklahoma.
Over the past week, there has been a spate of deaths linked to “gang violence, syndicates and organised crime”.
The University of Limpopo is mourning the loss of Professor Mohamed Saber Tayob, murdered while out jogging yesterday morning.
What most likely began as a ploy to rob unsuspecting residents of retirement villages soon spiralled into something far more sinister.
When police arrested two men last month, they thought the murders would end. Now another body has been found, and one of the suspects has committed suicide.
In the past two days, the bodies of two women have been found in Mtwalume, on KwaZulu-Natal’s south coast. Since April, that makes five bodies in total.
South Africans have seen our fair share of murder cases unfolding so far this year, and a few of those have been followed in great detail.
If you happen to live in a big enough city, Tinder is packed to the rafters with options. Not all of those options result in a happy ending, though.
When Barry and Honey Sherman were found dead in the basement of their Toronto home, police put it down to a murder-suicide. Private investigators beg to differ.
During the 1980s a gang dubbed the “Crazy Brabant Killers” pulled off more than a dozen attacks, murdering 28 people in the process. Then they vanished into thin air.
Some areas of the Cape have seen a spike in violent crimes, with more and more residents calling for police to stand up and do their job. Philippi is one such area.
We don’t often find ourselves writing about what happens in Krugersdorp, but this trail of murders is too outrageous to overlook.
A Norwegian man is in hospital with serious injuries after setting himself on fire yesterday. The incident took place outside the Oslo courthouse where Anders Behring Breivik is standing trial for mass murder and terrorism. N5FW video of the incident inside.