Serial Killer

Yunnan ‘Cannibal Monster’ killer executed

10 Jan 2013

A Chinese serial killer said to have chopped up his victims and sold the flesh at a market was executed on Thursday, state media reported, after a court found him guilty of murdering 11 people.

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FBI plea for information over suspected serial killer Israel Keyes

7 Dec 2012

The FBI is appealing for information about the travels of a suspected serial killer believed to have murdered up to 15 people over more than a decade before he committed suicide in jail.

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Briefs, November 24, 2012

24 Nov 2012

Aide of sacked Russian defence minister held

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New York City man arrested for murder of three shopkeepers

23 Nov 2012

The search for a suspect in the recent deaths of three Brooklyn shopkeepers ended with the arrest of a 64-year-old clothing dealer whom New York City police commissioner Raymond Kelly described as...

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Serial killers thrive where the law fails

26 May 2012

Serial killers both fascinate and repel. They are a subject of study for law enforcement, forensic science, criminal psychology, and, of course, a lucrative field for filmmakers and crime writers...

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Police turn to technology in sex-worker murders

4 Feb 2009

Police will use computer analysis on all their leads in the hunt for the killer or killers of three prostitutes last month, a senior police said.

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Opinion

Attempts to diversify China's reserves have been a disaster

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Howard Winn

China is like the EU; provinces are its member states

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Prepare to be scared

Have you yelled 'Boo!' at someone and then felt foolish when they weren't frightened? Scaring people is a complicated business.

Rico Patel became a scare master when he started...

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Murders spark fears of a serial killer at work

Police are investigating fears that a serial killer may be linked to a series of attacks and murders on prostitutes in Shamshuipo.

Two sex workers have been killed and another...

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Women go in fear of the night stalker

A teenager known as the 'invisible killer' - believed to be Vietnam's first serial murderer - is terrorising young women in the Mekong Delta town of Thu Thua.

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Terror tactics

These days, the sins of the present are often linked with childhood. Crime thriller writers have not ignored the trend.

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The dark side of the mind

Mindhunter by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker, Scribner $240 THIS is a compulsive and appalling book whose authors should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves.

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