Colombia’s human rights watchdog is reporting that 215 human rights advocates were killed last year, the highest death toll since a peace accord was signed with leftist rebels in 2016. José Ricaurte Quintero, who founded the Maná Survivors Association, was one of
Former police officer Mikhail Popkov was jailed in 2015 after carrying out a string of gruesome murders in the Russian far-east. The brutality of the crimes in Angarsk and Irkutsk between 1992 and 2010 earned him the nickname “the Werewolf.” During an
A horrifying killer who torched two mothers’ bodies in an oil drum after murdering them has been put behind bars for at least 49 years. Former builder Mark Brown, 41, was sentenced at Hove Crown Court today for killing sex workers Leah Ware,
Canadian police on Tuesday named the 59-year-old homeless man killed in what authorities deemed a “swarming” attack allegedly carried out by eight teenage girls on a Toronto street last month. Toronto Police Service identified the victim as Ken Lee, 59, of Toronto.
Protests outside a Russian military base in the town of Gyumri have led to scores of arrests amid calls for Armenia to leave the Collective Security Treaty Organization, a Moscow-led defense bloc made of former Soviet states. Authorities reportedly detained dozens of
The father of a girl killed in Idaho said he thought the suspect would be “more of a monster”. Kaylee Goncalves’s father Steve commented on Bryan Kohberger, the 28-year-old criminology student and the lone suspect in the murder of four University of
The father of a British woman who was strangled by her Greek pilot husband has claimed his daughter’s killer was involved in drug trafficking. Haralambos Anagnostopoulos was jailed for life for the murder of the 20-year-old British-Filipino after confessing to the crime
Charles Sobhraj, 78, suspected of murdering at least 20 young men and women, is also suffering from poor health after nearly two decades in prison. The charming killer and his associates preyed on mostly Western backpackers on the hippie trail in India
A man in the United Kingdom sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for the murders of three children and his pregnant partner was seen on video calmly admitting, “I’ve murdered four people.” Damien Bendall pleaded guilty to rape and four counts of
The grandmother of two murdered children is haunted by the memory of telling the youngsters there’s no such thing as monsters. John-Paul Bennett, 13, and sister Lacey Bennett, 11 would tell their grandma they were “scared of monsters” when they were younger.