The facts of the case were simple: Olive Martin had pleaded guilty to killing and dismembering her sister and mother, earning herself the chilling nickname 'The Sculptress'. This much journalist...

Twelve hours after a woman’s broken body is washed up on a deserted shore on the south coast of England, her traumatised three-year-old daughter is discovered twenty miles away walking the...

The newspapers reported the case with relish. Jane (Jinx) Kingsley, fashion and heiress, tried to kill herself after being jilted by her fiancé, who has since disappeared - together with Jinx's...

When elderly Ailsa Lockyer-Fox is found dead in her garden, suspicion rests on her wealthy husband, James. An inquest gives a verdict of natural causes but local gossip persists. Why have James...

November 1978. The winter of discontent. Britain is on strike. The dead lie unburied, rubbish piles in the streets—and somewhere in West London a black woman dies in a rain-soaked gutter. She...

Mathilda Gillespie's body was found nearly two days after she had taken an overdose and slashed her wrists. But what shocked Dr Sarah Blakeney the most was the scold's bridle obscuring the dead...