David Fuller spent more than three decades as a free man after murdering two young women in Tunbridge Wells in 1987. By the time police finally caught up with him in 2020, he'd used his job as a hospital maintenance electrician to gain repeated, unsupervised access to two mortuaries in Kent, where he sexually abused the bodies of more than 100 women and girls over a twelve year stretch. It's one of the most disturbing cases British policing has dealt with in decades, not just

In July 1925, a small courthouse in Dayton, Tennessee, became the unlikely stage for one of the strangest legal spectacles in American history. A 24 year old football coach was put on trial for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution to his students, and within days the case had ballooned into a full blown circus, complete with chimpanzees in fedoras, hot dog stands, and a national radio audience hanging on every word. The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, bette

In Withnail and I, one of the most quoted scenes in British cinema has Withnail drink lighter fluid, straight from the can, out of sheer desperation for a drink. It plays as pitch-black comedy. It also really happened. The man who actually drank the lighter fluid was Vivian MacKerrell, a jobbing actor who shared a squalid flat in Camden with the young Bruce Robinson in the late 1960s, and who inadvertently became the basis for one of the most beloved characters in British fil