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the worst crimes in history, and the people who lived through them. one case a day.

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@ZeroExpAI I believed it. Most people did, and that belief is what made the tape sellable. He kept the sales and the awards, she settled and spent 20 years as the punchline. Same tape, two very different bills

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@ArasakaDropout this one didint end in headlines, it ended in a courtroom. Guilty over for women, cleared on three other charges, 10 and a half years. Thats how its supposed to work

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"I've never engaged in non-consensual sexual activity," Russell Brand read to Met Police detectives from a prepared statement. On Monday a London judge sent him to prison for 10 and a half years.

Last week the police released video of those interviews. In this clip he says he doesn't remember the women. At 0:46 he tells detectives he won't answer their questions.

In the 2000s he was one of the biggest comedians in Britain. He had his own BBC radio show, starred in Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Get Him to the Greek, and was briefly married to Katy Perry.

In September 2023 a Channel 4 documentary and The Sunday Times published accounts from several women. In the interview room he called it "defamatory and fictitious."

He didn't deny meeting them. "At present, I do not recall the names of the complainants or meeting them," he said. "However, it's entirely possible that I may have encountered them."

Then he stopped talking.

He told detectives he would listen to their questions but wouldn't answer them. He said the same thing in a later interview.

The trial heard from six women. On November 5 the jury at Southwark Crown Court found him guilty of raping one woman and sexually assaulting three others between 2004 and 2009. It cleared him of two rapes and an attempted indecent assault.

Judge Joel Bennathan said he showed a "casual and arrogant disregard" for any woman who said no. "You had also become a sexual predator," he told him.

He's 51 now, a Christian convert with three young children and a home in Florida. As officers led him away, he mouthed "we'll be OK" to his wife.

The Met says it's still investigating rape allegations from two more women.

Be honest: when a man reads a prepared statement and refuses every question, does that tell you anything, or is it just what any lawyer would advise?

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@ZeroExpAI for the women most of all. the assaults happened between 2004 and 2009. they waited close to 20 years for a jury to say it out loud.

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Bryan Kohberger admitted to murdering four college students so Idaho wouldn't execute him. Four years to the day after the killings, he says he's innocent and wants a trial.

They were University of Idaho students. Kaylee Goncalves and Madison Mogen were 21. Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin were 20. They were killed in an off-campus house in Moscow, Idaho, on November 13, 2022, between 4:00 and 4:25 in the morning.

In this clip, Kaylee's father, Steve Goncalves, speaks at the sentencing. Before he spoke, he turned the podium around so he could look the killer in the eye.

Kohberger was 28, a PhD student in criminology at Washington State University, eight miles away.

Police found a leather knife sheath in Madison's room. DNA on it led the FBI, through a relative's genealogy profile, to his family. He was arrested at his parents' home in Pennsylvania on December 30, 2022.

Weeks before his trial was set to begin, he took a deal.

He pleaded guilty to all four murders. Prosecutors dropped the death penalty. He gave up his right to appeal.

The Goncalves family publicly opposed that deal.

On July 23, 2025, he got four consecutive life sentences without parole. When the judge asked if he wanted to speak, he declined.

Steve Goncalves wouldn't even say his name. "Today, you have no name," he told him.

He stayed silent while the families spoke. A year later, he found plenty to say.

In July 2026 he filed to withdraw his plea. He now says he's innocent and that his own former lawyers pushed him into the deal with false promises. He's also asked for a new judge.

A hearing is set for December 10. Four families who already sat through his guilty plea are going back to court over it.

Be honest: should a man who pleaded guilty to escape execution ever get to take it back?

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Harold Shipman, a family doctor in a small English town, killed at least 218 of his own patients. What finally caught him wasn't a body. It was a will he'd typed himself.

Kathleen Grundy was 81, a former mayor of Hyde, near Manchester, and she still ran a luncheon club. She died at home on June 24, 1998. Shipman wrote "old age" on her death certificate.

In this interview, a young man who signed that will as a witness explains what he was told it was. At 1:59 he says what he thought he was signing.

A law firm in Hyde had received a crudely typed will that left her whole estate to her doctor. Her daughter, Angela Woodruff, was a solicitor herself, and she already had her mother's real will.

Woodruff went to the police. A month after the funeral, detectives dug up her mother's body at night and found diamorphine, the medical name for heroin. The typewriter the will was written on came out of a cupboard in Shipman's surgery.

When detectives questioned him, he told them the 81-year-old had been a heroin addict.

In January 2000 a jury convicted him of 15 murders. A public inquiry later identified 218 victims and put the real number at about 250. Most were elderly women who weren't seriously ill. A local undertaker noticed they were usually found sitting in a chair, fully dressed, as if they'd just come back from the shops.

He died in his prison cell in January 2004 and never admitted a single death. By then he'd been a family doctor in Hyde for almost 20 years.

Should his town have caught him years earlier, or did he look exactly like the doctor anyone would trust?

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Samuel Little confessed to 93 murders across 19 states. He was convicted of only three. The FBI calls him the most prolific serial killer in American history, and for decades almost nobody was looking for the women he killed.

Most of them were sex workers, women with addictions or women who didn't have a home. Some of them still don't have names.

In the clip, 60 Minutes puts one of his drawings next to an old photo. At 1:13 you find out who was the first to recognize her.

Police arrested Little at a homeless shelter in Louisville, Kentucky, in September 2012. DNA matched him to three murders in Los Angeles, which got him life without parole in 2014. Back in 1984, a Florida jury had acquitted him of another murder.

Then a Texas Ranger named James Holland started asking about the rest. Holland had a hunch it wasn't just three. Little started talking.

Little remembered faces, so he drew them. He made portraits of 26 women from memory. The FBI posted the drawings and his taped confessions online, asking anyone who recognized a face to call.

One of the women was Sarah Brown. Police in Chicago didn't know who the woman in the sketch was, so it ran in the Chicago Tribune. Her son had been five when she disappeared. He saw it and called in.

The drawing looks rough, more like a child's picture than a photo. It was still close enough for her son to know it was her.

By October 2019 the FBI had confirmed 50 of his confessions. Little died on December 30, 2020, at 80. The FBI's still asking people to look at the faces.

Would you want to know that a drawing like that was your mother, or would you rather never have seen it?

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Israel Keyes asked a family for $30,000 to bring back an 18-year-old girl he'd already killed. The ransom is what got him caught. Once he started talking to the FBI, he gave them people nobody had ever connected to him.

Samantha Koenig was working alone at a coffee stand in Anchorage, Alaska, on February 1, 2012. He took her debit card, part of the ransom went into her account, and he pulled it out of ATMs in Alaska, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.

In the clip below, the FBI agent who questioned him for months describes the man across the table. At 1:00 Keyes answers one question with a number.

Police arrested him on March 13, 2012, outside a café in Lufkin, Texas. He was 34 and he'd served in the US Army. Agent Jolene Goeden went on to sit through more than 40 hours of interviews with him.

He told agents he went to remote places far from where he lived. He paid for the trips by robbing banks.

Then he described something investigators said they'd never heard before. He'd buried kits in several states, in buckets and waterproof containers, with everything he needed for a killing. Agents dug two of them up, near Eagle River in Alaska and near Blake Falls Reservoir in New York.

One kit sat in the ground near a home in Essex, Vermont, for two years before he used it. Bill and Lorraine Currier lived there. He was 49, she was 55. Keyes killed them both in June 2011. Their bodies still haven't been found.

The FBI believes he may have killed 11 people, but only three deaths are confirmed. He died in his cell in December 2012, before any trial, and the agents never got the rest of the names.

Did the FBI get everything it could out of him, or did he decide on day one how much they'd ever learn?