Myra Hindley was a notorious British serial killer who — along with her partner Ian Brady — was responsible for the Moors murders of five children in the 1960s.She was known as “the most evil woman in Britain.” But Myra Hindley, who in the 1960s helped sexually assault and murder five children in what would come to be known as the Moors murders, maintained that her abusive lover made her do it. Read More...
NASA's Kepler space telescope captured the wild explosion of a unique kind of dying star, gaining insight into this mysterious sort of supernova. The death of an enormous star in the form of a supernova is one thing. It’s already the largest kind of explosion that takes place in all the cosmos. But sometimes, these interstellar explosions occur with so much power and pent-up kinetic energy that the whole process takes place in just a tenth of the normal time. Read More...
Peter Sutcliffe claimed to be on a mission from God as he killed 13 women and evaded hapless police on nine separate occasions while committing the Yorkshire Ripper murders.Express Newspapers/Getty ImagesPeter Sutcliffe, a.k.a. the Yorkshire Ripper, on his wedding day on August 10, 1974.
For five harrowing years between 1975 and 1980, Peter Sutcliffe terrorized Britain as the bloodthirsty Yorkshire Ripper.
Claiming to be on a divine mission to kill prostitutes, Peter Sutcliffe viciously murdered at least 13 women, and he attempted to kill no less than seven others — all while narrowly evading capture again and again. Read More...
