Many women killers have been dubbed ‘The Black Widow’ but few are as deserving of the title as Dena Thompson, who mercilessly conned a series of boyfriends, lovers and husbands with her bizarre stories until she was driven to kill.
Murder is easy – it’s disposing of the body that is difficult. The Old Bailey’s courts have been told of bodies in boxes, bodies in binbags and even bodies in barrels. But no-one other than Roger Frisby has literally cooked his wife. Was roasting her just the first stage of the most macabre body disposal ever?
Ken Regan was a career criminal whose plot to make millions from drug smuggling would leave five members of the Chohan family dead. Regan tried to mock the police as they hunted him down but it was his first victim who would have the last laugh from beyond the grave.
Adams was a king of organised crime dethroned by a financial investigation similar to the operation which brought down Al Capone more than 70 years ago.
Daniel Brougham based his career, his tangled love life and even his identity on lies. One man brave enough to expose him paid with his life.
Sexual deviant Garath Davies murdered jogger Egeli Rasta and stripped her naked in his den before using her phone to download violent hip hop tracks and porn pictures.
Peter Wallner is not the first man to kill his wife and put her body in a freezer. He is the first to leave it there for three years.
Rakesh Bhayani and Nicholas Kutner were addicted gamblers who killed and defrauded a wealthy woman for stake money
Martin Baker succeeded where many wife killers fail – he disposed of Tina Baker’s body so perfectly that no trace of her has ever been found.
Andrew Morris had everything – money, women, a brilliant career ahead of him. He was so successful, he could not see why anyone should deprive him of what he wanted…and would punish those who did.
