Murder

08:00, 7 NOV 2025

Daughter killed parents and lived with corpses in home-made mausoleum for four years

Virginia McCullough, 36, was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 36 years after admitting to the murders of her parents, John and Lois McCullough

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Harrowing last words of murderer executed by firing squad before gruesome death

Brad Keith Sigmon was executed by firing squad after he brutally murdered his ex-girlfriend's parents in 2001. He issued a haunting plea just moments before his death

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Trial of man accused of murdering pregnant partner delayed as 'new evidence' presented

At Belfast Crown Court, a barrister representing Stephen McCullagh said new evidence had been presented to the defence last week

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Teen girls tortured and raped by 'Toolbox Killers' before brutal murders

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT. The duo targeted teen girls and abducted, raped, and tortured them using tools like screwdrivers, icepicks, and pliers before brutally murdering them.

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Man continues to be quizzed in connection to fatal stabbing of young man in Dublin

Several locals observed a commotion on Curragh Hall Drive, near the apartment where the altercation had occurred outside

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Irish woman stabbed 19 times in New York pub as killer pleads guilty

Marcin Pieciak tried to take his own life after stabbing Ms McNally 19 times in front of horrified pub customers, one of whom then bravely tackled him.

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Gardai now treating the death of Kildare man Ryan Gibbons as murder

Mr Gibbons, 29, lost his fight for life on Thursday morning and gardai are now closing in on the suspects in his murder.

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Fresh appeal for information 24 years after 'savage' murder of Arthur Berryman

The attacker was described as wearing a dark coloured jacket with the hood up and had his face covered with a light coloured mask

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Pair found guilty of murder of Croatian national Josip Strok on Dublin street

At the Central Criminal Court yesterday, Mark Lee, 44, and 19-year-old Anthony Delappe were found guilty by a majority verdict of 11–1

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Dad used poisoned Halloween sweet to kill own son with chilling explanation

Ronald Clark O'Bryan, also known as The Man Who Killed Halloween, was an optician and deacon from Texas who murdered his own son with a potassium cyanide-laced Pixy Stix candy

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Parents of man whose skeletal remains were found in jute bag in Cork will never forgive 'monsters'

A jury of 10 men and two woman at a sitting of the Central Criminal Court in Cork found Luke Taylor, 28, and Niall Long, 33, guilty of the murder of Kieran Quilligan last week following a three-week trial

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Monster serial killer who murdered 110 women now free and no one knows where he is

Pedro Alonso López, known as the "Monster of the Andes", is one of the most prolific serial killers in history - but he was released from prison in 1998 and has since vanished

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'People Eater' serial killer who served victims' body parts to prison inmates

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT José Dorángel Vargas Gomez, known as Dorangel Vargas or the People Eater, was a cannibalistic serial killer in Venezuela who murdered and ate at least 10 men in the late 1990s

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Three-year-old girl's devastating question after living through nursery massacre

Paweenuch Supholwong, known as Ammy, was the only child found alive and well after a gunman stormed her nursery in the quiet Thai township of Uthai Sawan, killing 36 people

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Monster raped his own children, taught them oral sex from age 8 and then killed them in cold blood

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Marcus Wesson was a twisted monster who raped his own children and taught them oral sex from the age of eight - before killing them all in cold blood

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Key witness tells jury he is 'terrified' of double murder accused Ruth Lawrence

Jason Symes today said murder accused Ruth Lawrence carried around "a little black gun" and would put it down the back of her trousers.

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Murder victim Ashling Murphy's boyfriend Ryan Casey 'utterly disgusted' at Puska family's sentence

Yesterday murderer Jozef Puska’s wife Lucia Istokova was jailed for 20 months, while his brothers were jailed for two and a half years each. Their wives, Viera Gaziova was jailed for two years, and Jozefina Grundzova for 21 months, - all for their roles in covering up the crime

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Ruth Lawrence 'not a murderer' because it was her boyfriend who 'murdered' drug dealer and his friend, court told

Ms Lawrence (45), who is originally from Clontarf in Dublin but with an address at Patricks Cottage, Ross, Mountnugent in Co Meath has pleaded not guilty to murdering Anthony Keegan (33) and Eoin O'Connor (32)

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Four-year-old boy's incredible action caught killer who murdered whole family

Dameon Huffman was living with his great-grandparents, Jack, 51, and Linda Myers, 55, when Jack's son from his first marriage, went on a rampage

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Murder accused texted girlfriend 'they’re trying to put me in the mix' after skeletal remains discovery

The remains of Kieran Quilligan were discovered in a gravel bag in a ravine last year

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'Worst case of child abuse' as 'monster' mum kills own two-year-old son

WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT: Rebecca Shuttleworth was found guilty of the murder of her two-year-old son Keanu Williams, who was found to have 37 injuries in a post-mortem examination

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Teenager arrested on suspicion of murder of Ukrainian boy in Dublin

Vadym Davdenko, 17, who was fleeing war-torn Ukraine for a better life, was fatally injured in the incident on Wednesday

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Homeless man charged after pensioner's body found in her own Tipperary home

A homeless man has been charged with the murder of an 89-year-old Tipperary pensioner who was found dead in her own home.

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Two men charged with the murder of paedophile rock star Ian Watkins in prison

Former Lostprophets frontman Ian Watkins was serving a 29-year sentence for child sex offences

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