Bang to Rights

Benjamin Day was a 19-year-old forensic science student with a disturbing obsession with the TV serial killer Dexter. But what began as a fascination with fiction was about to become terrifyingly real.

After renting a room, covering it in plastic and creating his own makeshift “kill room”, Day lured a woman inside. What followed was a brutal murder — and a bizarre series of mistakes that would quickly expose exactly what he had done.
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Five-year-old Phoenix Sinclair should have been safe in the care of her own mother. Instead, she was subjected to unimaginable cruelty at the hands of the very people who were supposed to protect her.
But what makes this case even more disturbing is what happened after Phoenix was murdered. Her mother continued pretending she was alive, even attempting to pass another little girl off as her daughter. How could a child disappear without anyone realising the truth for so long?
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His mother was raped at 11. She had him at 12. By 2, he was found wandering the streets naked. By 8, the school was already raising alarms. By 12, a baby was dead — and his mother could have saved him. This is the case of Cristian Fernandez.
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On 12 January 2024, Christopher Stockton called for an ambulance to a home in Darlington, County Durham. Charlie, who was not yet two years old, had been left in his care. Stockton told paramedics that the little boy had choked on a biscuit. But they found no obstruction in his airway, and the medical evidence did not support Stockton’s explanation. Charlie died in hospital the following day.
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In 2021, a 15-year-old Ivan "Nick" Vetecnik went to his friend's house in Taylorsville, Utah. He never came home. CCTV captured his friend walking out of the house covered in blood, carrying garbage bags. When asked what happened, he said he was cutting up ribs for a BBQ...
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