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Everything seemed routine. The nurse spoke with a slight Asian accent, checked O'Hara's blood pressure, and asked standard health questions. But this wasn't a legitimate medical visit. It was the beginning of a calculated murder plot.

Holly Newton's murder at age 15 by her ex-boyfriend in Hexham sparked her mother's campaign to change UK laws that don't recognize domestic abuse victims under 16.

San Francisco's William Sanford was Rodion Raskolnikov’s 20th-century embodiment, a man whose murderous path in 1948 paralleled that of Crime and Punishment's most famous character.

Research from the University of Missouri suggests that genetic explanations for criminal behavior have no mitigating effect on a jury. Environmental explanations they say, show an offender as a victim who has suffered harm which results in society assigning less blame for their criminal actions.