Another Cold One

Philip Onyancha, 32, was arrested on kidnapping charges, and then proceeded to confess to killing 17 people, mainly women. He said he was recruited into a cult while at school by a teacher, who told him to kill 100 people and drink their blood for good fortune. Having a troubled and tramatic past as well as a major medical condition it is tough to pinpoint whether this is simply a deranged man, or the work of the occult.

Over a week-long period almost 62 years, the peaceful existence of the little Provençal town of Pont-Saint-Esprit in the Gard department was shattered by a catastrophic series of events where the entire settlement seemed to be overcome by insanity. The final tally was a grim: 5 people dead and more than 30 hospitalised, with over 300 sick people. What started as a seemingly normal but severe series of cases of mass food poisoning ended a few days later with a night of pure madness and scenes of hallucination.

Kirsty Marianne Bentley was a teenager living in Ashburton, New Zealand, who went missing while walking her family dog on the afternoon of 31 December 1998. After an extensive search lasting several weeks, her body was found in dense scrub approximately 40 km away placed in a fetal position and clothed. Special care was taken to preserve the body, and the father never had an alibi. Yet this remains one of New Zealand's most high profile unsolved cases.

The deaths of these five boys is shrouded in mystery and intrigue ranging from the actual search for these bodies, to their final moments, and the actual cause of death. The area where their bodies were found was searched over 500 times, and was a mountain well known to the boys. This case is not for the faint of heart, and neither is searching for frog eggs on Mount Waryong.

On June 3, 1995, a young woman was found dead at the Plaza Hotel in Oslo, Norway. She had been shot once through the head, the pistol in her hand indicating a clear case of suicide. Indeed, that’s exactly what the death was ruled. However, in a case that has eerie echoes of the Isdal Woman and Somerton Man affair, all the labels had been removed from her clothing and there were whispers of organised crime and international espionage at every turn. 25 years later, investigators may be about to find out the truth behind the woman in Room 2805, putting an end to one of the biggest mysteries in the history of Norwegian crime.