True Crime Conversations

It’s 1888, and a man who will become perhaps the most infamous serial killer in history is terrorising the streets of London.

Fog rises from the damp streets of the Whitechapel district, a largely impoverished area, which has earned itself a reputation for being a cauldron of immorality. Poverty, racism, hundreds of lodging houses which function as brothels, and social unrest mean that the slums in the East End of London have already earned themselves a reputation...

It’s a bleak, cold morning, on July 4, 1975. 

A 34-year-old man named Eddie Trigg waits inside the Carousel Cabaret nightclub, known to most as a seedy bar located in the heart of Sydney’s Kings Cross. 

But that’s not why Eddie, with a beard and sharp hazel eyes, is there. After all, it’s just past 10:30am. He is there to meet someone...

In 1983, in Manhattan Beach, California, one woman named Judy Johnson put forward an allegation. 

Her two-and-a-half-year-old son was, at the time, attending McMartin preschool. Johnson claimed that her son had been sexually abused by a teacher at the school named Ray Buckley. Her claims were unlike anything police had heard before. Although there was no evidence of abuse taking place, police decided to send a form letter to about 200 parents of students at the pre-school...

It’s October 24, 1997, and 25-year-old Anu Singh, a promising young law student, invites friends over for a dinner party. 

She lives in a Canberra townhouse with her 26-year-old boyfriend Joe Cinque. 

The pair met two years prior at a night out in Newcastle. He was said to be immediately taken by Singh, and they quickly became inseparable. 

But something wasn’t right about this dinner party...

It’s Boxing Day, 1964, when a 26-year-old man named Ian Brady, and a 22-year-old woman named Myra Hindley, attend a fair in Ancoats, an area in Manchester, North West England. 

The pair had met three years prior when Myra had developed an infatuation with Ian. Finally, Ian showed interest and asked her to the movies. They have been inseparable ever since, although their relationship is anything but conventional...

It was 6am on March 1, 2000, when John Price’s neighbour noticed his car was still in the driveway. It struck him as unusual. 

John’s supervisor noticed his absence at work too. An off-handed comment he’d made the day before made his co-workers feel uneasy.

At 8:10am, Officer Matthews and Officer Furlonger arrived at John’s home. 

His front door was locked...

Aileen Wuornos stares down the barrel of the camera, her eyes looking almost black.

Her mousy brown hair is pushed back off her face, revealing a pink face. But the most notable thing about the mug shot, taken in front of a bright blue backdrop, is the expression on her face. A snarl. Like she is a moment from breaking out into laughter.  

She would go on to say, “I’m one who seriously hates human life and would kill again…...

It’s a warm morning in August, 2009, when 26-year-old Dalia Dippolito decides to go to the gym.

Dalia has long brown hair, tanned skin, and has only recently started working out. She leaves her house just before 6am, and drives the two kilometres from her house in Palm Beach, Florida, to the local gym.

In the months prior, she’d started exercising with her husband, 38 year old Michael Dippolito...

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