Crime Stories:
Charles Manson

On August 10, 1969, officers from the Los Angeles Police Department were summoned to the home of famous film director Roman Polanski and his actress wife, Sharon Tate. They found the bloodied bodies of three men and two women, one of them Tate......     
                                                                                                                              
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O.J. Simpson

On June 12, 1994, officers from the Los Angeles Police Department were called to the home of Nicole Brown Simpson, former wife of renowned American football player O.J. Simpson. They found the bodies of Mrs. Simpson and her friend, Ron Goldman, both stabbed to death.....
                                                                                                                             
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Frederick and Rosemary West

In the summer of 1991 Frederick West from Gloucester, England, was facing charge of sexual assault against several of his children. The case was dropped, however, when his daughter refused to give evidence against him. Later she told a police officer that she was frightened of ending up in the backyard like her sister......                                    
                                                                                                                              
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Malcolm Fairley

In 1984, a series of violent burglaries took place in southern England. The offender would threaten his victims with a sawed-off shotgun, rape the women, and beat the men. He always wore a hood that covered his face, and the only clues detectives had were that he had northen accent and was left-handed......                                                               

                                                                                                                              
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Robert Hansen

On June 13, 1982, a police officer at Anchorage Airport, in Alaska, encountered a distraught young prostitute. She claimed to have been kidnapped at gunpoint, taken to her attacker's home, and raped violently. Then he told her that he intended on flying her to a backwoods cabin for more sex......                                                                                          

                                                                                                                              
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Tracie Andrews

One evening in December 1996, police officers were called to a quiet country lane near the English town of Alvechurch, Worcheshire. They found a blood-spattered Tracie Andrews cradling her dead boyfriend, Lee Harvey. He had suffered almost 40 stab wounds. Andrews claimed that he had been the victim of road-rage attack......                               

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Richard Ramirez

In Los Angeles between mid-1984 and mid-1985, a series of violent attacks were carried out on people in their own homes in the middle of the night. Men were shot dead and women raped. Satanic pentagrams were left at the crime scenes, and in one case on a victim's thigh......                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                              
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Wayne Willams

During the two years between mid-1979 and mid-1981, Atlanta was plagued by a brutal seriel killer who was strangling young black men and boys. In their search for the murderer, police had little to go on apart from some forensic evidence in the form of a particular type of carpet fiber found on the bodies.........                                                                             
                                                                                                                              
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Stephen Bradley

In June 1960, Bazil and Frieda Thorne, who lived in Sydney, Australia, won a large sum of money in the state lottery. Five weeks later, their eight-year-old son, Graema, was kidnapped while on his way home from school. Shortly after, a man with heavy foreign accent phoned them to demand a $52,500 ransom. After a second call, nothing more was heard......
                                                                                                                              
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Dr. Harold Shipman

The body of Kathleen Grundy, an 81-year-old ex-mayor from Hyde, England, was found on a sofa in her home, on June 24, 1998. Her friends immediately called Dr. Harold Shipman, who had visited the house a few hours earlier and was the last person to see her alive (he said that he had been collecting samples for a survey on aging).....                          
 
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James S. Vlassakis et al.

On May 20, 1999, police officers from a missing persons task force operating out of Adelaide, South Australia, entered a disused former bank in the farming community of Snowtown, north of the city. For a year, they had been investigating a number of disappearences going back to 1993. When they opend the vault......                 

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Ted Bundy

In a killing career that lasted almost a decade, Ted Bundy is thought to have murdered between 40 and 50 young women. His crimes began in 1969 in California, then he headed to Oregon, Washington, and Utah. He would carry out a number of murders in each area, dump the bodies often hundreds of miles away, and move on before he was detected.....
                                                                                                                              
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Joann Curley

In August 1991, Pennsylvania electrician Robert Curley was admitted to the hospital with a mysterious illness. He had leg pains, numbness, nausea, and burning in his hands and feet. His condition improved, however, and he was later discharged on August 29. Nine days later, he was back and getting worse......                                                                        
                                                                                                                              
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