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#serial-killer

Danielle DowlingReporting on the arts With Asteroid City, Wes Anderson serves up a Technicolor turducken, wrapping a TV special around a play and stuffing them into his film.Here's more on that movie and other entertainment highlights this weekend Pop.87 Productions/Focus Features Anderson's Asteroid City is comic and often wry, but like some of his other films, it has the soul of a tragedy, Manohla Dargis writes, adding that the palette is an astonishment, a dusty rainbow of hues.

Atlanta, the surrealist comedy-drama whose fourth and final season just reached its end, specialized in leaving indelible, discordant images in the minds of its audience, like a television stuck between channels.Its finale was no different: Following shows like St. Elsewhere, Seinfeld, The Sopranos and Twin Peaks: The Return, classics whose endings sparked critical pandemonium, it concludes with an episode that has the potential to change the way viewers consider everything that came before.

The Metropolitan police could be failing to spot serial killers and identify murders because they are not properly investigating unexpected deaths, the inspector of constabulary has warned.Matt Parr's comments came after a damning report concluded Britain's largest force had still not learned from its calamitous litany of failures in the case of the serial killer Stephen Port and warned history could repeat itself.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails A serial killer-obsessed woman who stabbed her kind and beautiful boyfriend to death has been jailed.Shaye Groves slit Frankie Fitzgerald's throat before stabbing him 17 times in the chest in July last year after trying to portray herself as his victim.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails A serial killer-obsessed woman who stabbed her on-off boyfriend to death has been jailed for life and will serve at least 23 years in prison.Shaye Groves, 27, was sentenced at Winchester Crown Court on Wednesday for slitting the throat of Frankie Fitzgerald, 25, before stabbing him 17 times in the chest in July last year.

Peter Tobin was one of Britain's most hated serial killers  and the full extent of his violence may never be known.Miss McNicol was the second young woman Tobin murdered in 1991.Tobin was ordered to spend the rest of his life behind bars after a three-day trial at Chelmsford Crown Court.Mr Swindle said: Peter Tobin is totally evil.

The same day, See-Saw Films, the production company behind The Power of the Dog, The King's Speech, and Slow Horses optioned the book.Now, out in paperback, it is a Richard and Judy Book Club pick with foreign rights deals signed around the globe.Yet there was a time Selman feared she might never see her name in print.

The horror film M3gan and its namesake demon doll has charmed critics and packed movie theaters, earning $30.4mon its opening weekend.The film's trailer, which went viral last fall for a scene which shows the robot pausing, mid-kill, to try out a TikTok dance, proved that M3gan is a villain made for memes.

The digital age is changing us in ways we would never expect.If you had told me 20 years ago that I would one day stop reading books, I would have said you were crazy.I've always been a reader; from the time I was little, I would hide away somewhere with a book and devour it, often in one sitting.Cut to 2021, when I realized I had only read five books that year, and the previous year, only eight.

All night long, in increasingly imaginative ways, a chef tells diners that they've chosen the wrong guy  the wrong world!  to worship.Here's the problem: No one believes him.These diners are used to theatrical dining rooms and V.I.P. culture.They're used to long, $1,000 fine-dining dinners, and being waited on by a staff that has researched them ahead of time, and kept detailed notes on their personal and professional lives, preferences and behavior.

To kick off this summer reading season, I'm recommending two suspense novels that gleefully overturn the age-old "woman-in-trouble" plot.Megan Abbott is a superstar of the suspense genre who's generated a host of bestsellers like The Turnout and Dare Me, which was made into a series for Netflix.

Josh Groban and the combined casts of Hamilton and Sweeney Todd.Jennifer Vanasco/NPR Some fans had been waiting for four hours.But by a few minutes to showtime, hundreds pressed against metal barriers as the casts of Sweeney Todd - which opened in late March - and the Broadway hit Hamilton flooded out onto a narrow stretch of sidewalk in front of the Richard Rodgers Theatre.

It's only Wednesday, but for my money, the most important international article The New York Times will publish this week is this one about women in South Korea forced or tricked into violent sexual servitude as comfort women for foreign soldiers.The story of Korean women enslaved by the Japanese during World War II is now well known.

"I would have given him a much bigger life had I known this franchise was going to live and live," franchise creator Kevin Williamson said.Miramax/courtesy Everett / Everett Collection The Scream cinematic universe could have looked very different had one of its original stars not been killed off.

Dominic Raab said he plans to move quickly to stop Levi Bellfield challenging a decision that blocked the serial killer from marrying in prison.The Justice Secretary said Bellfield's bid for a legal challenge is not appropriate, and vowed: I'm going to change the law.Bellfield, 54, is currently serving two whole life sentences for the murder of three women, including 13-year-old Milly Dowler.

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Prisoners serving life sentences are to be banned from getting married, under new legislation.Under Justice Secretary Dominic Raab's Victims' Bill due to be unveiled in the next fortnight rapists and muderers serving whole life terms could be banned from ever getting married.

Liz Garbus, the Oscar-nominated director behind the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's Netflix docuseries, is known for her critically acclaimed exposes and documenting the stories of survivors.Raised in New York by a civil rights lawyer father, her career has spanned almost 25 years, covering documentaries, true crime and high-end drama.

Every winter, scores upon scores of schmaltzy seasonal movies get spewed upon the public in an opportunistic deluge that rarely results in anything memorable.This year, there were at least 170 (!) and all of them - every single one - were aimed at the broadest (blandest?)possible audience.Meaning: They were boring.

Dominique Fishback stars in the Beyonce-inspired thriller series Swarm.Warrick Page/Prime Video Many spoilers for Season 1 of Swarm lie ahead.Once upon a time, not so long ago, an internet personality dared to publicly criticize a very famous musician with an overly zealous fanbase.Those stans descended upon the critic swiftly, hopping into their mentions and DMs to talk trash and even go so far as to post death and rape threats.

Keira Knightley and Carrie Coon do their professional best with this stolid and inhibited TV-movie-style trudge through a gruesome true-crime story: the Boston Strangler, the US serial killer to whom police and press attributed 13 murders of women in Boston during the early 1960s.A confession for all 13 was secured from one Albert DeSalvo, but with forensic evidence linking him to only the last victim.

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The dashing-but-deadly Joe Goldberg has pitched up in London for a freshly launched fourth season of Netflix's pitch-black comedy 'You' - 'A city of art, theatre, books... and the occasional douchebag,' is how he puts it.And, frankly, guilty as charged.

Notorious serial killer Charles Sobhraj, known as south Asia's Bikini Killer, will soon be freed from jail after nearly two decades, as per the orders of the Supreme Court of Nepal.The 78-year-old serial killer has been in prison in Nepal since 2003 for murdering two North American tourists in the 1970s.

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As Alice de Sturler leafed through her used copy of Agatha Christie's The ABC Murders last month, she was shocked to discover a compelling mystery not on the pages, but between them.Tucked halfway through the novel was a piece of paper folded in two.In red marker, someone had sketched a well surrounded by flowers.

DC is among the country's most well-read cities, so it's no surprise that local authors delivered an abundance of new books to crack open-and gift-this past year.With Christmas around the corner, here are new, local books to give to the special bookworm in your life.For the bookstore regular:
If you've ever wondered what goes on in the lives and minds of your favorite local booksellers, a former Politics and Prose employee takes you inside that world.

The identity of the man in the taxi in the infamous Bible John case was covered up by top police officers, it has been claimed.The murder of Helen Puttock in 1969 came after a man shared a cab home with her and quoted a verse from the Bible.Her brutal killing was linked to the murder of two other women in Glasgow - Patricia Docker, 25 and Jemima MacDonald over a period of 18 months between 1968 and 1969 in Glasgow.

A federal jury on Tuesday found the reputed leader of the Wicked Town gang faction and one of his top lieutenants guilty of racketeering conspiracy involving a string of murders, shootings robberies, and narcotics trafficking stretching back two decades.After a seven-week trial, the jury of six men and six women deliberated for about 18 hours over three days before finding Donald Lee, 41, and Torance Benson, 31, guilty on the most serious charge against them, which carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison.

The ashes of serial killer Peter Tobin have been scattered at sea after his body went unclaimed.Police say they have no doubts the serial killer murdered more people A council spokeswoman said: The remains of Peter Tobin were cremated in accordance with the requirements of Section 87 of the Burials and Cremation (Scotland) Act 2016.