Thursday, 1st July, 2010. The blue doors of His Majesty’s prison Durham open widely to reveal the outline of a large imposing figure. At six feet, three inches tall, and weighing about 240 lbs, thirty-seven-years-old Raoul Moat was an intimidating figure who was prone to random aggressive outbursts.

24th May 2010. Bradford, England. A building caretaker sits reviewing CCTV footage as part of his regular duties. But this would not be any ordinary shift. A shadow appears just meters from the camera lens on what would normally be a deserted corridor.

Approaching the camera with ill-deserved confidence and a sick grin, was a man of medium build with dark hair. He walks brazenly up to the camera, stares down the lens, raises his left hand's middle finger, and tightly grips a crossbow in his right. 

But this wasn’t the man’s first encounter with serious crime. In fact, his reign of terror had begun almost twelve months earlier. This is the chilling story of the man who dubbed himself; The Crossbow Cannibal, who would leave an unknown number of bodies in his wake.

Soham, Cambridgeshire, England. A sleepy little town in the country with a tight-knit community. But those community bonds would be stretched to the limit when in August 2002, two ten-year-old girls would go missing somewhere in the area. 

The two girls were at a barbecue hosted by the parents of Holly Wells but left the home without telling any of the other guests. At 18:10, the girls went inside the house to play in Holly’s bedroom, this was to be the last time any of their friends or family would see them alive.

November 28th, 2020. The sun is gradually rising over the large city of Houston, in Texas, USA. But this was no ordinary day. At eight in the morning down Red Haw Lane, situated next to the Houston energy corridor, the naked body of a young woman was discovered. 

This is the face of Karen Matthews. Her little girl; Shannon, just nine-years-old, has been missing for over a week at this point. She was last seen at 15:10 on the 19th February, 2008, leaving Westmoor junior school in the small town of Dewsbury, in Yorkshire, England. This case will take you, as it took the police, on many twists and turns that would be unbelievable if the story was fiction. 

How does a little girl disappear from her junior school without anybody noticing? You are about to find out.   

This case we are about to bring you, is not for the faint-hearted. It is like nothing else you will have heard before. The 24th July 1967, would, in hindsight, turn out to be a bad day for many people, when a wicked woman was brought into the world. This is a case murder of cold, calculated murder by a person who would stop at nothing to get what they wanted.

September 27th, 2007. In Sydney Australia, the night air is filled with the usual sights and sounds. Stars light up the sky and crickets fill the air with their endless chirps. On a quiet rural road in Waratah nature reserve, a green Toyota Corolla is parked with nobody inside and signs of life. The car belonged to 20-year-old Matthew John Leveson who had last been seen four days earlier leaving a popular Sydney night club, but nobody had seen or heard from him since. Where was Matthew? What had happened to this bright, confident young man? The police had been alerted, but their task would not be an easy one. It would take a significant period of time to get to the bottom of Matthew’s disappearance.

August 18th, 2000. New South Wales, Australia. A forty-eight-year-old man sleeps peacefully in his bed as if it was any other night. But this would not be an ordinary night, it would soon become extraordinary as a man slowly slipped through his bedroom window with one objective. Murder. 

In the following case, we investigate the chain of events that not only led to this killing, but the events the preceded and followed it. The murder of Jack Van Krevel would turn out to be just one act of extreme violence in a long list of evil deeds.