This weekÕs crime story...

Was a widow looking for love killed for ‘sleeping around’?

Makayla Meave couldn’t have children of her own, but that wasn’t going to stop the teaching assistant from being a mother. Growing up, her mum had run a daycare centre and Makayla had loved spending t

This week’s crime story...

Victorian crimes against women have unsettling parallels with the present, says Lucy Worsley

In this extract from Peter Wise’s new book, an angler is fishing an ice-age lake where the coffin containing an evil monk who was reputed to have come back from the dead was once dumped. But the past is coming back to haunt him…