MAURY TRAVIS CONFESSED TO SLAYING 17 WOMEN AND WAS ONLY STOPPED THANKS TO A LETTER SENT TO THE PRESS

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JUDY BUENOANO’S WEB OF DEATH UNRAVELLED AFTER SHE WAS CONVICTED OF MURDERING HER HUSBAND AND SON

One morning, after 65-year-old Chonthirat Sakulku had been bedridden for two years with deteriorating health, her brother found that she had stopped breathing and assumed she was dead. He alerted the

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