This week’s crime story...

For 24 years, a monstrous killer evaded justice

It was every parent’s worst nightmare and families across America waited anxiously for updates. A 15-month-old toddler had vanished in Tennessee, and the authorities had issued an Amber Alert – a publ

‘Is this your random fact of the day?’ I laughed, his excitement making me smile. ‘I’ve been reading about the hottest chilli pepper in the world,’ he grinned, then proceeded to tell me all about it.

After what he did to our precious baby, she’ll never be the same

You may have already read what happened to my 13-year-old son Olly Stephens. On 3 January 2021, he left our family home in Reading, Berkshire, and wandered to a nearby field, just three minutes’ walk