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Disgraced lawyer Alex Murdaugh shot dead his wife and their son in June 2021 on the family's hunting estate in South Carolina, US, in a case highlighted in the Netflix documentary Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal

From the mysterious death of a housekeeper to being owned by a suspected drug smuggler, the murders of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh are just the latest grim details in the history of Moselle estate in Islandton, South Carolina, US

The cat was one of nine other pets recovered from a state prison in Juarez, where the infamous Mexicles gang had packed their cells with plasma TV sets, drugs, liquor, cash, and even a mechanical bull

Government statistics show that between April 2020 and March 2021 that 223 children died in instances where abuse or neglect is known or suspected

The victim, 34, a Swedish-born man with a British passport who lived and worked in Kent, was on an extended holiday when he was hit over the head with the butt of a gun by a gang of muggers while he was on a hike in Medellin, Colombia

T’yonna Major, aged nine, and journalist Dylan Lyons, 24, were both shot and killed in an Orlando neighbourhood, with a 19-year-old man Keith Melvin Moses, held under suspicion of murder

A convicted murderer who savagely killed her five children by slitting their throats with a kitchen knife 16 years ago has been euthanised at her own request

Alex Murdaugh, whose case inspired Netflix show Murdaugh Murders: A Southern Scandal, has been found guilty of shooting dead his wife and son following a six-week trial

A three-week trial at Liverpool Crown Court heard how Kevin Mannion murdered his girlfriend Elinor O'Brien after violently assaulting her several times throughout their eight-month relationship

Maegan Hall has filed a lawsuit against other officers involved in the sex scandal that rocked La Vergne Police Department in February and claims she was seen as a 'piece of meat'

The baby's remains were found last night, close to where Marten and her partner Mark Gordon were earlier arrested on suspicion of child neglect

Melanie Meigh, 20, from from Middlewich in Cheshire, also scrawled the words 't*at' and 'c**t' on ex-Tinder lover Jack McMahon's garden gate and vandalised his vehicle with spray paint after he ended their on-off fling

Maurice Hastings was released from prison after DNA was proven not to be his last year in Los Angeles, US. His request for a DNA test back in 2000 had been rejected

Tobias, 33, from Dortmund, Germany, has been modifying his body for sixteen years and spent over £10,000 on over 100 tattoos including his eyeball, a split tongue and sub-dermal implants

Mason Greenwood remains suspended by the club while they conduct an internal investigation after prosecutors confirmed last month that criminial charges against the 21-year-old had been dropped

Taha Sabbagh sat in the driver's seat of his black Mercedes when he was hit by around 10 bullets outside the martial arts gym Elite Fight Force, 13 miles west of central Sydney, Australia

Prosecutors said the 16-year-old lad died in a hospital in the northern German town of Bramsche late last night after sustaining gunshot wounds to the head - which were allegedly inflicted by an 81-year-old "firearm enthusiast"

The abandoned Islas Marias prison, once dubbed Mexico's answer to Alcatraz, was almost impossible to escape thanks to its remote island location surrounded by shark-infested waters

Begoleã Mendes Fernandes, 26, was arrested at Lisbon Airport and Portuguese media alleges that the meat could be the human remains of 21-year-old Alan Lopes

Rolf Harris - who is said to be in a state of ill-health - is reportedly being sued by an Australian woman who claims the children's presenter molested her when she was 10-years-old

A 21-year-old woman fled to Shropshire Domestic Violence, away from an abusive partner, but was met handyman Stephen Russell there who went on to blackmail her

Australian presenter Rolf Harris is being sued by a woman in Melbourne, Australia over allegations the children's presenter molested her when she was 10-years-old

A former glamour model is alleged to have smuggled up to £5million in cash from Heathrow airport to Dubai. Jo-Emma Larvin, 44, is accused of smuggling with her husband and three others

Gang accused of exploiting company stock market launches to target investors

Prosecutors say that they think a sweet potato was used as a silencer in the Cape Cod murder of Todd Lampley, in a plot used in hit show The Wire