All news by author: Gail Shortland

Letecia Stauch seemed like the perfect parent, but the jealous murderer fooled everyone

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Megan Hargan wanted money to buy a house and was willing to murder her family for it

Amie Harwick wanted to protect women, but in the end she was the one in danger

Attempting to escape justice, Kaitlin Armstrong, the murderer of pro-rider Moriah Wilson, spent $6,000 on plastic surgery

Shanti Cooper had no idea that her spouse would resort to murder because she had doubts about appearing on a home rescue reality programme

Sydney Powell would stop at nothing, including murder, to stop her mum discovering that she had been suspended from university

Mason Sisk brutally shot his dad, stepmum and three siblings in the head in a case described as being “draped in unmitigated evil”

Becky Bliefnick had warned family members that if anything happened to her, her estranged husband Tim would probably be responsible for it

Gypsy Rose Blanchard is set to be released three years earlier than expected in December after officials granted her parole following the brutal murder of her mother

As a new television series revisits Peter Sutcliffe’s heinous crimes, we remember his victims and the impact he had on the nation

It may have taken 30 years, but Florida mother Jan Cornell has finally got justice for the brutal slaying of her daughter and her little girl’s babysitter

The four friends had met at school and only became closer as they grew up, becoming two couples, but when tragedy happened not everything was at it seemed

Jennifer Faith cried crocodile tears when her husband was assassinated in broad daylight as they took their dog on a morning walk together

Following a peaceful family dinner, Dale Vella focused a loaded gun on her sleeping partner’s eye – and pulled the trigger

For nearly three decades, a brutal murderer walked free until advances in DNA technology finally caught up with him

WARNING - GRAPHIC CONTENT: Police called to minor accident overpowered by the stench of death coming from killer’s van

Over 30 million people watched the discovery of two dead bodies on a Seattle beach as police launched a hunt to track down the killer

Belinda Temple’s husband stood trial twice over her death and was found guilty of murder both times

Michelle Darragh was murdered for making the brave decision to walk away from her toxic relationship

Juliana Bonilla-Herrera fled the worrying crime levels in her native Colombia and built a safe and happy life for herself in New Zealand – but then a sinister stranger moved in next door

Megan Hess and her mother, Shirley Koch, dissected more than 500 corpses - selling body parts to research firms as far away as Saudi Arabia

Victim’s hysterical husband finally revealed as 1982’s Brighton Axe Murderer - almost 40 years after the killing

Brittanee Drexel, 17, went missing on the famous Myrtle Beach in South Carolina in 2009 and it took 13 years for police to discover what happened to the teenager

Kelsey Turner will serve at least 10 years in jail after being found guilty of the second degree murder of 71-year-old Thomas Burchard, whose decomposing body was found in the boot of a car