The brutal murder of Sir Jack Drummond and his family in the lonely Provencal countryside led to a sensational trial and the eventual sentencing of a peasant farmer to the guillotine.
Henry Lee Lucas was an American convicted serial killer whose crimes spanned from 1960 to 1983. He was convicted of murdering eleven people and condemned to death although his sentence was commuted to life in prison in 1998.
A prominent member of Oswald Moseley's Blackshirts before the Second World War, Joyce was the infamous traitor whose voice chilled London during the Blitz with the words "Germany Calling"?
A unique case, where a modern day gun-runner and drug-smuggler carried out a twenty-year crime spree murdering his wife, his mother-in-law and even his own mother.
The discovery of body parts in a lonely Scottish river began a fascinating trail of detection. This led to a doctor who dismembered his wife and his children's nursemaid.
A Philadelphia murderer who ensnared his female victims one by one and locked them into a dark cellar. Also, the Milwaukee Monster who brutally killed young mans for his manic desires.
Footprints in the sand, blood on some steps and an empty Florida beach house after the disappearance of a local Judge were the only clues the police had to go on in this celebrated case.
They avoided conscription in the First World War by fleeing to Mexico and their political stance was that of anarchy. But did their politics make them into murderers?
Trunks left in railway left baggage departments eventually revealed their grisly secrets. Only when the police re-examined vital evidence did the murderers get caught. A breakthrough for early forensic science.
A robbery and the killing of three policemen by anti-Russian anarchists brought Home Secretary Winston Churchill and the Scots Guards onto the streets of London in the search for 'Peter the Painter'.
The San Francisco and New York Zodiac killers ended their reigns of terror without being caught as did the man who became probably America's worst uncaught serial murderer - Seattle's 'Green River Killer'.
By the time he ran for President in 1968, JFK's brother had made many powerful enemies. When he was gunned down, apparently by a lone killer, many questions remained unanswered.
Pol Pot, born Saloth Sâr, was a Cambodian revolutionary and politician who governed Cambodia as the Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea between 1975 and 1979.
