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Hannah Clarke inquest: coroner says unlikely anyone could have stopped murders
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A coroner investigating the deaths of Hannah Clarke and her children recognised the mother’s “astounding” bravery, saying it was unlikely anyone could have stopped Rowan Baxter’s murderous plans. Coroner Jane Bentley’...
Only Murders in the Building season two review – a brilliant layer cake of meta-murder fun
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It makes sense that Only Murders in the Building (Disney+) would have had the decency to end its first season with a good old-fashioned cliffhanger. The meta murder mystery was an elegant charmer that combined a meaty...
NSW to give prisoners cold-case playing cards in hope of solving murders
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Packs of playing cards featuring cold-case murder victims and missing people will be distributed to New South Wales inmates in the hope of solving serious crimes. The cards, which were produced by prisoners working in...
NSW to give prisoners cold-case playing cards in hope of solving murders
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Packs of playing cards featuring cold-case murder victims and missing people will be distributed to New South Wales inmates in the hope of solving serious crimes. The cards, which were produced by prisoners working in...
Senior SAS officer tells defamation trial he ‘couldn’t speculate’ if Ben Roberts-Smith complicit in alleged Afghan murders
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A senior SAS officer – Ben Roberts-Smith’s troop commander during a critical SAS mission in 2009 – has failed to back his version of events of how two men came to die at an Afghan compound codenamed Whiskey 108, telli...
Bowraville murders: reward for information on three Aboriginal children triples to $3m
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The reward for information about the murders of three Aboriginal children in Bowraville more than 30 years ago has been tripled to $3m. “The reward for information into the murder of Evelyn Greenup, Clinton Speedy Dur...
Oklahoma executes man for 2001 murders of two hotel workers
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Oklahoma executed a man on Thursday for the murders of two hotel workers during a robbery in 2001. Donald Grant, 46, received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma state penitentiary in McAlester and was declared dead at...
Review of mother and daughter’s murders could save lives, family hopes
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Ella Dalby would have been 16 this summer. She loved Latin American and ballroom dancing. Her parents were separated, but she saw her father, Tom, every weekend, as part of a close extended family. In the early hours ...
Killing Field review – Bruce Willis murders his own reputation once again
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Bruce Willis continues his campaign of reputation self-ruin – not that he has that far to fall – with this cruddy, derivative action thriller that pits two cops – one being Willis, the other Swen Temmel – and a bereav...
Only Murders in the Building to Cooking With Paris: the unsung TV heroes of 2021
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“The sci-fi murder mystery doctor dramedy Earth needs now!” That was the US marketing blurb for Resident Alien, a plucky attempt to turn the show’s audacious genre-mashing into a marketing angle. While it certainly ha...
Diaries and Notebooks by Patricia Highsmith review – sex, booze and cold-blooded murders
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When Patricia Highsmith looked in the mirror, she saw both a lover and a killer. Early on, the reflected face had a fetching feline allure, but out of sight another facet of Highsmith seemed to belong, she said in 194...
Clydach murders: police review claims sock links Dai Morris to scene
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Forensic evidence has been discovered that supports the conviction of a man found guilty of murdering three generations of the same family in south Wales more than 20 years ago, police have claimed. A review of the ca...
Dmitry Muratov: the Nobel winner shining light on Russia journalist murders
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When Dmitry Muratov saw a Norwegian number flash up on his phone, he assumed it was a nuisance call. Finding out he was joint laureate of this year’s Nobel peace prize was a complete shock. “I am laughing. I didn’t ex...
Getting Away With Murder(s) review – powerful call for Holocaust justice
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Here is an epic documentary investigation from director David Nicholas Wilkinson into something that could be called the great unpunishment: after the second world war, though many chief perpetrators of the Nazi Holoc...
Witch-hunt murders surge in Democratic Republic of Congo
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Murders of women accused of witchcraft have surged in a troubled eastern province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to officials and rights campaigners. Eight women have reportedly been burned to deat...
Marseille murders spark political row over drug gang turf wars
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A series of murders in Marseille has sparked a political row over the growing turf wars between drug gangs who are terrorising poor housing estates, where one recent shooting victim was only 14 years old. Dominique La...