Murder

Prosecutors claim they have caught the killer in 34-year-old cold case

One of Norway’s richest men arrested over mystery disappearance of his wife

Thomas Thabane is seeking immunity over killing of estranged wife

The 42-year-old suspect claims she fell asleep after zipping boyfriend inside case

Victim’s mother tells murderer she ‘died terrified and alone’ in New Zealand hotel room

African leader Thomas Thabane remarried weeks after his former partner was shot dead

Nearly 35,000 people were killed in 2019 despite government pledge to curb cartel violence

Murder rate for 2020 climbs as three men stabbed to death

A total of 650 people were killed last year - down from the 774 in 2018

Jens Soering served 33 years in prison over deaths of his girlfriend’s parents

Two students killed and three injured in attack by fellow student

Samuel Little is latest addition to the list

Man charged after body of a woman was discovered in Tamworth on Thursday

Social scientists investigate the peak times for unnatural deaths

A 13-year-old boy is among those held on suspicion of murder

The man’s brutal death sheds light on early modern human behaviour

Moors murderer had access to vulnerable teenagers in Wormwood Scrubs

Teenagers found guilty of murdering 14-year-old girl in Dublin

Nikos Metaxas confesses to murder spree after telling police he is ‘bored’ and ‘wants to go to prison’

North American nation’s murder rate has hit all-time high in 2019

Murdered toddler’s father and uncle challenging order protecting freed murderer’s anonymity

Mother-of-two was jailed for life in 2010 but could see conviction overturned under new domestic abuse law

The three-year-old vanished from Australian beach in 1970 but case was reopened based on teenager’s confession

The 16-year-old suspect blames schoolgirl’s death on her father’s girlfriend

McArthur sexually assaulted and killed eight men and buried them in planters

Company that employed her murdered parents had offered $25,000 for information following disappearance

Gary Oliva confessed to 1996 murder of child beauty pageant queen in prison letters to former schoolmate

New evidence suggests dead Southeast Asian woman had been living in north England after marrying English man

Jim Donegan was shot dead on Tuesday while waiting to pick his son up from school

Police compare killer Michael Stirling to Soham murderer Ian Huntley

Tensions grow as Italian prosecutor identifies members of Egyptian security forces linked to killing of Cambridge student

Court order sets up potential privacy fight, although it is not the first time smart speakers have been used in criminal cases

Research by BBC links spread of misinformation to nationalism

Fatal stabbing of boy in Bellingham takes 2018 total to 116 - the same as for the whole of last year