“You Light Up My Life” spent ten weeks at number one in 1977, one of the longest runs any song had at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 that decade. It's been sung at weddings, played at funerals, and covered by everyone from LeAnn Rimes to Whitney Houston. Almost nobody who loves the song knows that its writer spent his final years awaiting trial for raping 11 women, that he killed himself rather than face a jury, or that his own son is currently serving 25 years to life for

Robert Maudsley has spent more than four decades locked in a purpose-built glass cell, fed through a hatch and watched around the clock by prison officers who rotate in pairs so no one is ever alone with him. The tabloids call him Britain's real Hannibal the Cannibal, a nickname built on a rumour that he cracked open a fellow inmate's skull and ate part of his brain. That part isn't true. What actually happened to Maudsley, and what he actually did, is a much stranger and gri

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