Prathamesh Kabra

397 Articles

Fred and Rose West: The Crimes Behind Cromwell Street

For years, 25 Cromwell Street looked like another narrow, lived in terrace in Gloucester. Then a missing daughter inquiry in…

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Louise Kerton Walked Into Aachen Station in 2001, Then Vanished

On the morning of July 30, 2001, Louise Kerton was meant to do one simple thing: get on a train…

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Seven Concrete Blocks and a Wedding Dress

Content warning: This article covers sexual violence, coercive captivity, and murder involving teenage victims. On June 29, 1991, police pulled…

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David Parker Ray: Case File

WARNING: Transcripts attached at the end of the article. Reader discretion advised. David Parker Ray was arrested on March 22,…

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How Harold Shipman Killed Dozens of Patients Without Being Stopped

Harold Frederick Shipman was an English general practitioner who worked mainly in and around Hyde, Greater Manchester. He was arrested…

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Shanda Sharer: A Detail First Timeline of the 1992 Kidnapping and Murder Case

Shanda Renée Sharer was 12 years old when she was kidnapped and killed in southern Indiana in the early hours…

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The CCTV Walk: The Murder of James Bulger and What Became of His Killers

Even after all these years, the CCTV still that captured James Bulger’s last walk stays fixed in public memory. For…

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The Breakfast Bet Murder: How Joshua Davies Killed Rebecca Aylward

Rebecca Aylward was 15 and lived in Maesteg, near Bridgend in south Wales. In October 2010 she was killed after…

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Nicholas “Nick” Kunselman and Stephanie Hart Grizzell

Nicholas “Nick” Kunselman and Stephanie Hart Grizzell were teenagers in Jefferson County, Colorado, and students at Columbine High School in…

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Samantha Koenig: The 2012 Anchorage Abduction, Ransom Trail, Arrest, and Indictment

Samantha Tessla Koenig was 18 years old and lived in Anchorage, Alaska. In early 2012, she worked as a barista…

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Emma Fillipoff: The 2012 Victoria Disappearance, the Police Contact, and the Leads That Followed

Emma Alexandra Fillipoff, born in 1986 in Perth, Ontario, has been missing since November 28, 2012, after she was last…

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Armin Meiwes: The Rotenburg Case, the 2001 Killing, and the German Court Rulings

Armin Meiwes was born on December 1, 1961, in Essen, Germany. He later lived in Wüstefeld, a tiny hamlet near…

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Nicole van den Hurk: The 1995 Disappearance, the Cold Case Breakthrough, and the Final Conviction

Nicole van den Hurk was 15 when she disappeared in Eindhoven, Netherlands, in October 1995. Her body was found weeks…

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Miriam Rodríguez Martínez: The Mother Who Built Her Own Case File in San Fernando

San Fernando, Tamaulipas sits in Mexico’s northeast corridor, a place long tied to cartel violence and mass-grave discoveries, and that…

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Gareth Williams “Spy in a Bag” Case File

Gareth Williams was a 31-year-old GCHQ codebreaker on secondment to MI6 when he was found dead on 23 August 2010,…

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