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'My dad was known as Lobster Boy and had claws for hands he used for horror killing'
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Grady Stiles was born with a condition called ectrodactyly, which turned him into a popular carnival star, but his family suffered for years as he viciously abused them
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Ruthless Dublin killer applies for parole after 27 years as health declines
Irish Prison Service
Sources say Gerald Dunne (49), who brutally murdered Liam Thompson in Dublin’s Dolphin’s Barn in January 1999, now uses a vocal aid to help him speak after he became critically ill over a year ago.
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‘I live in house where man slaughtered his family of 11 on Easter Sunday massacre’
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WARNING DISTRESSING CONTENT: In 1975 James Ruppert slaughtered 11 of his family in a horrific act of violence that has tainted one Ohio house for decades.
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Nun killer who strangled victim with scarf set to walk free after 24 years
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Evil Kealen Herron has spent the last 24 years locked up after sexually assaulting and murdering Sr Philomena Lyons, 68, in the grounds of the Sacred Heart Convent, Ballybay, Co Monaghan, on December 15, 2001.
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Evil dad raped and murdered 12-year-old niece before making truly terrifying call to 999
World News
Evil John Maden called the police 45 minutes after brutally murdering his 12-year-old niece, Tia Rigg, at his home 16 years ago today on April 3, 2010, before making a chilling confession
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DNA confirms Ted Bundy murdered Utah teen 51 years ago
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Laura Ann Aime, 17, disappeared on Halloween night 1974 after leaving a party alone to walk to a nearby shop
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Student executed after sick April Fools' Day prank kills roommate
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A disgruntled student was put to death after he flooded his dorm room water supply with poison that crippled his victim's major organs in a matter of days
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Wife killer Brian Kearney dealt blow as family pulls out of planned visit outside prison walls
Irish Prison Service
The visit, which would’ve seen Kearney meeting relatives at a property in West Dublin, was suddenly cancelled by those relatives, just days before it was supposed to go ahead.
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Fresh appeal over murder of teenage woman decades ago in Co Tyrone
Tyrone
Marian Beattie, 18, was last seen alive at a charity dance
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Pictured: Antoin Duffy charged with Denis Donaldson murder after extradition from Scotland
Donegal
Antoin Duffy, of Braade, Kincasslagh, Co Donegal appeared before the three-judge, non-jury Special Criminal Court
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Denis Donaldson shooting: Man charged with murder after being flown in from Scotland by Irish Air Corps
PSNI
Antoin Duffy from Co Donegal appeared before the three-judge, non-jury court having been extradited from Scotland
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Lithuanian man accused of Portadown murder insists he was acting in self-defence
Courts
Rolandas Kvederis, 49, died after sustaining seven stab wounds to his neck and lower back inside the property in Ranfurley Road last Thursday night
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Three arrested in connection with murder of William Delaney, as gardaí believe community has undisclosed information
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William Delaney, 56, vanished in Portlaoise in January 2019, and his case has been treated as murder since mid-2019
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Haunting final days of nanny tortured and starved to death in living nightmare
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Sophie Lionnet thought she had found the perfect family to work for, but things quickly unravelled as her cruel and brutal bosses subjected her to a campaign of terrible abuse
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Thousands gather for vigil in memory of mother-of-two Amy Doherty
Derry
Police launched a murder investigation after officers were called to a property in the Summer Meadows Mews area of Derry on Saturday and found 28-year-old Ms Doherty badly injured
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Man who bludgeoned his grandad to death with block gets insanity verdict
Donegal
Derek Mulligan was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia when he killed his grandfather
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Murder investigation launched after death of man in Portadown
Armagh
Two men aged in their 50s have been arrested on suspicion of murder
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Mourners at Amy Doherty’s funeral hear of her 'magnetic personality'
Funerals
The 28-year-old mother was found badly injured by police on Saturday and died later in hospital
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Satanist cannibal killer dismembered woman before eating her and then made fatal mistake
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WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Satanist Gregory Scott Hale became one of Illinois' most notorious killers after he lured a woman to his home before killing, dismembering an eating her in scenes that shocked detectives at the time
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Psychiatrist assessing Somali man accused of Mary Ward murder could pull out over 'rude' prison staff
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A judicial review may be needed if the prison fails to allow the psychiatrist access to Ahmed Abdirahman
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Twisted cannibal killer murdered and ate children - and his mum helped
Serial killers
WARNING - GRAPHIC CONTENT: Alexander Spesivtsev and his mum Lyudmila lured children and runaways into their flat during the 1990s and killed them in unimaginable ways
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Young dad killed in Cork attack remembered as family's 'whole world' at funeral
Funerals
A young father killed in a random attack in Cork was remembered at his funeral as a devoted husband and loving dad whose family was his 'whole world'.
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Saturday Night Live star shot dead by wife in horrifying murder-suicide
Saturday Night Live
The Saturday Night Live star was shot dead in his sleep by his wife in their LA home in 1998, before she took her own life
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Man arrested on suspicion of murder after woman dies in Derry incident
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Anyone with information is urged to make contact with investigators
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