True Crime Files

A distressed call from a kidnap victim uncovers the actions of a serial killer whose despicable acts had gone undetected for a decade.

One of the UK’s most infamous serial killers, Joanne Dennehy stabbed three men to death over ten days and attempted. When securely locked behind bars the public are safe.

While on trial for rape, Brian Nichols went on a violent rampage, shooting dead a judge, a court reporter and a sheriff’s deputy. Nichols was armed and dangerous and suddenly claimed the top spot in America’s Most Wanted list.

In 1973, Dawn Magyar's body was found two months after she had vanished. Twenty-eight years on, advances in forensics helped solve the case.

Mother Paige Birgfeld went missing in 2007 and her remains were found five years later. A decade on, police closed the net on a local mechanic.

From 1989 to 1991, Suff, "The Lake Elsinore Killer", raped, beat, strangled, and stabbed at least 12 – and is suspected of killing more than 20 - women in California.

Described by a British Detective Inspector as ‘the most dangerous sexual offender he had come across’ Andrezej Kunowski was a predator who first committed rape at the age of 17.

In July 2000, Philip Austin hit his wife around the head with a mallet and stabbed her with such ferocity that the knife snapped in two.