In 1955, at the age of 28, Ruth Ellis became the last woman to be hanged for murder in the UK. Her death, coming after she shot her lover outside a Hampstead pub two months before, sparked a wave ...

Former Taiwanese actor Lee Wei, 44, has been named one of the suspects in an ongoing murder investigation. In July 2024, the police received a tip-off concerning a woman who was seen lying motionless ...

A version of this story was originally published in January 2021. Sixteen years after being sold to the Yankees because the Red Sox owner was hurting financially, Babe Ruth returned to Boston on this ...

Taiwanese actor Lee Wei has been named a suspect in the group murder of a woman at a Bhuddist group's meeting place in Taipei's Da'an District. The 44-year-old had been summoned by authorities ...

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Based on Carol Ann Lee's book A Fine Day for Hanging: The Real Ruth Ellis Story, the heartbreaking true crime drama set in the 1950s shows the complicated case resulting in the real-life hanging of ...

Ruth Sherlock is an International Correspondent with National Public Radio. She's based in Beirut and reports on Syria and other countries around the Middle East. She was previously the United ...

It’s based on Carol Ann Lee’s true-crime book, "A Fine Day for a Hanging: The Real Ruth Ellis Story." "The biggest misconception, by far, is that Ruth has been depicted as a hysterical woman ...

Since 1997 author Lee Child has been overseeing the world of Jack Reacher. There are the novels, of course (one released almost every year, now mostly written by Child’s younger brother Andrew ...

Created by Kelly Jones and based on Ellis’ true story as told in the book A Fine Day For Hanging: The Real Ruth Ellis Story by Carol Ann Lee, A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story has a similar ...

also has the authority to review the Goon Squad cases. But MaryAsa Lee, its communications director, said the office wasn’t examining any cases. Peter Neufeld, co-founder of the nonprofit Innocence ...