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Delroy Grant was one of Britain’s most wanted men – a shocking sex predator known as the Night Stalker.

He had been at large for a seventeen-year reign of terror, visiting his victims after dark before committing despicable sexual assaults in their homes.

In Manhunt: The Night Stalker, detective Colin Sutton reveals how the Metropolitan Police brought one one of London’s most feared monsters to justice.

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In April 1975, a young Irish-American from Long Island headed on a mission to enlist in an elite unit of the US Marine Corps. His goal: to receive the most intensive and rigorous military training possible, and then move to Ireland to join the IRA and fight to end British occupation of the north.

John Crawley has lived an extraordinary life – working with notorious American mobster James ‘Whitey’ Bulger before working with the IRA i...

The Troubles’ most notorious and sinister figure Freddie Scappaticci was the ‘jewel in the crown’ of a British infiltration system designed to cause mayhem and chaos in the IRA’s military operations from the late 1970s through to his eventual exposure in 2003.

Codenamed Stakeknife, he headed the IRA’s secretive Internal Security Unit – also known as the ‘Nutting Squad’.

His former comrades reveal extraordinary details about Scappatic...

Journalist Chris Moore spent his career digging into the details of a story he first came across as a young BBC journalist in the 1980s.

This is an extract from his new book Kincora: Britain’s Shame – a culmination of a decades-long investigation which weaves a tangled web of sexual abuse in a boys' home in Belfast with the murky workings of MI5 and the secret activities of Lord Henry Mountbatten.

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Austin Stack was just 14 when his dad was shot and left with horrific life altering injuries at the hands of an IRA assassin. He survived for 18 months before dying from complications.

Now 42 years on, Austin says he would like to look his father’s killers in the eye and tell them how his death has affected him.

Here is an extract from his book Justice for My Father, which is published by Bonnier and available bookshops and audio str...

When Robbie Lawlor was murdered outside a house in the Ardoyne area of Belfast in April 2020, reporters were left with more questions than answers.

What was one of Ireland's most feared criminals doing in the north? Why had he crossed the border? Who had the audacity to arrange for him to be shot while up there?

Double Cross: The Murder of Robbie Lawlor was originally broadcast by Crime World Presents in November 2024.

The murder of a young mum during a bloody stabbing at her home in Co Louth. A mystery deepens as the months become years and nobody is caught for Irene White’s murder.

Finally, two confessions lead gardaí to the door of another person of interest, but still her husband Alan denies anything to do with the death of his former wife.

This is an extract from The Ice House Murder: The Killing of Irene White by Mediahuis journalist ...

A forensic scientist and an investigative journalist today call for a search of an underground cave near suspected serial killer Larry Murphy’s old hunting ground in rural Wicklow.

David Kenny and Geraldine Niland have spent years seeking answers to Murphy's secret life and to where Ireland’s missing women may be.

They tell Nicola about a discovery of an ancient storage souterrain which has raised the heckles of cadaver dogs, scienti...

Former soldier Keith Byrne has been jailed in Spain for 15 years for the murder of his girlfriend Kirsty Ward at a resort in Salou two years ago.

Byrne tried to claim Kirsty had taken her own life and even accused her of irrational behaviour, but a court ruled that he was the violent bully who had strangled her in a fit of jealousy after she tried to split from him.

Nicola speaks to Niall Donald about the case.