It is estimated that around 100 British women are emotionally involved with men on death row. Many of these relationships began after sentencing. According to the author of Women Who Love Men Who Kill, these relationships share some common traits:
Joran Van der Sloot has told Peruvian police that he wants to reveal the location of Natalee Holloway's remains. Not because he cares about the case, but because he thinks it might save his life.
Police in the UK have arrested a 40-year-old PhD student named Stephen Griffiths in connection with the murder of three prostitutes. Tragically, Griffiths is part of a long line of killers who target sex workers.
Cleveland women are investing in weapons disguised as lipstick and combs after a local man "was indicted for luring 14 homeless, drug-addled women into his house of horrors and then allegedly sexually attacking them and strangling 11 of them." [ABC]
• Antwan Maurice Pittman, 31, has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of Taraha Shenice Nicholson, one of the five women police suspect were murdered by a serial killer in Rocky Mount, North Carolina.
DNA evidence has led police to arrest a man - suspected of raping and killing at least 30 women in L.A. since the 1950s - who may be one of the nation's worst serial killers.
A woman is claiming that her late father was the Zodiac Killer, and that she accompanied him on two of the murders and wrote one of his letters. Not surprisingly, many Zodiac buffs are skeptical.
• The Guardian asks: is the wearing of fur starting to become more socially acceptable? •
