Crime Monthly

ONLINE RISKS

Welcome to the January issue. This month, two teens lured a classmate into the woods as an act of revenge, and a shocking death on a cruise ship. We also look at the people who faked crimes and confessions, ask how safe our children are while online...

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TWIN FINDS SISTER’S BODY IN A BOX

The Pulitzerwinning author exposing wrongful convictions

Leo Schofield’s life changed forever on 24 February 1987, when Michelle, his wife of just six months, didn’t pick him up after work. Three days later, her body was found in a water-filled drainage ditch in Bone Valley, Florida. The 18 year old had been...

MURDER-SUICIDE TRAGEDIES

Welcome to the October issue. This month, a man is arrested over a horror kidnap, while a rash of murder-suicides rock the US. We also investigate the trafficking campaigner who betrayed victims, the crimes of serial killer Paul Denyer, and the history...

An innocent young girl was let down time and again by the system

On 2 October 2023 in Topeka, Kansas, police were called to a petrol station outside a local grocery shop. There, they found paramedics desperately treating an unresponsive child. Her name was Zoey Felix, and she was just five years old. Zoey – a little...

Serial Killer Secrets: Killing duo Alton Coleman and Debra Brown

Nine-year-old Annie Hilliard and her niece Tamika Turks, aged just seven, were on their way to buy sweets when they were abducted in the summer of 1984. As the two girls made their way to the shops in the town of Gary, Indiana, they met Alton Coleman...

A young girl went missing – and was found dead in the Outback

On 17 June 2025, human remains found 11 days earlier in Australian bushland were confirmed to be those of missing 17-year-old Pheobe Bishop. The case of the teenager’s sudden vanishing had captured the attention of the country, flooding the news cycle...

DRUNK JUDGE SHOOTS WIFE OF 27 YEARS

Gianna Toboni has worked in war zones – now she’s taking on capital punishment

As a journalist and documentary maker, Gianna Toboni has spent her career ‘going where the questions won’t leave me alone’ – and it has led to some terrifying places. The former VICE News senior correspondent has faced down ISIS fighters, cartel...

Indeterminate prison sentences are causing despair and suicide

Thomas White was 29 in 2012, when he was first sentenced to two years behind bars for stealing a mobile phone in Manchester. However, because the Bury dad of two had previous convictions for theft, he was given an Imprisonment for Public Protection...

CELEBRITY SEX LAWSUITS

This is not about sex – this is about power,’ former US President Joe Biden said in 2018, as he paid tribute to college students’ efforts to tackle assaults on campus. ‘Usually fat, ugly men using their power, as you saw with that creep.’ Biden didn’t...

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CRIMINAL POLITICIANS

Welcome to the Winter issue – our 13th of the year! This time, a terrible crime is caught on CCTV, while a new documentary is setting out to solve the Jonbenét Ramsey case once and for all. We also look into a disturbing family cult, the crimes of...

A jealous fiancée convinced her partner to kill his lover and her whole family

When the shocking police bodycam footage of Nathaniel Huey Jr’s car engulfed in flames was broadcast across all the US news channels on 20 September 2023, it marked the end of a nationwide manhunt for the prime suspect in a quadruple murder. The...

KAITLYN POISONED BOYFRIEND’S MOTHER AS ‘REVENGE’

The former fiancée of surgeon Paolo Macchiarini says he’s the ‘biggest fraudster in medical history’

Cup of coffee in hand, I sat at my desk and logged into my emails to see my boss was asking me to do a story on regenerative medicine. Going about my job as a journalist, I did some research and one name kept popping up – Paolo Macchiarini. He was a...

INFLUENCERS’ WEB OF LIES AND ABUSE REVEALED

HOW FAME & GREED CAUGHT KAT TORRES

Crime Screen: this month’s must-see crime entertainment

In an unusual move, the BBC is making this six-part TV adaptation of the bestselling YA novel of the same name by Holly Jackson available on iplayer first, before it arrives on an old-fashioned linear channel at a later date. Maybe they want to give...