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One minute Glen Edward Chapman was sitting in his cell on death-row, fully expecting to be executed, eventually, for murdering two women sixteen years before. Ten minutes later he was a free man.

Charges against Chapman were dismissed after he was granted a new trial in November last year when the courts in Catawba County, North Carolina learned police had concealed evidence pointing to his innocence and even perjured themselves during Chapman’s original trial in 1994.

The investigation into the 1992 murders of Betty Jean Ramseur and Tenene Yvette Conley have been reopened. Meanwhile, Chapman, happy to finally be able to get to know his two sons, fears some of his fellow prisoners on death-row may also be innocent.

Kevin Ray Underwood, who says he has sexual fantasies of torturing, raping, and eating his victims, has been sentenced to death by lethal injection for the rape and murder of 10 year-old Jamie Rose Bolin. Underwood, who lived in the same apartment building as Jamie and her father in Purcell, Oklahoma, confessed to police that he lured the girl into his apartment, beat her over the head with a cutting board, suffocated her, sexually assaulted her, and then tried to cut off her head with a dagger.

Jamie’s family welcome the small sense of closure the verdict and sentence give them, but say they’re prepared for a long appeals process.

Three days ago, two little girls playing on a beach at Carnoustie, Scotland found a plastic bag containing a woman’s head. The next day, after conducting an extensive search of the area, police found two severed hands. Yesterday they identified the woman as 36 year-old Jolanta Bledaite, a migrant worker from Lithuania reported missing by her employer in nearby Brechin, Angus. Today police arrested two men, also from Lithuania, but have not yet laid charges.

Monique Olivier says her husband, Michel Fourniret, is the “Ogre of the Ardennes,” a French serial killer responsible for the murders of at least ten young women.

She should know; she’s confessed to luring many of the victims into her husband’s hands.

Fourniret has likewise confessed to several murders, nine to be exact, although he denies any involvement with the 1990 rape and murder of Joanne Parrish, a British student who taught English in France. Parrish is one of the women Olivier says she helped her husband kill.

French authorities believe 65 year-old Fourniret may have murdered as many as thirty people since 1987, at least some of those with the help of his 59 year-old wife. Both husband and wife will stand trial in Charleville-Mezieres.

Erin Walsh served 10 years in prison for murdering Melvin (Chi Chi) Peters in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada in 1975. In 2005 he discovered documents — including police records that showed authorities were aware of a conspiracy to frame him for the crime — that have now led to his acquittal. Walsh expressed heartfelt gratitude for the judgement and said it was a tremendous relief. The terminal cancer patient can now die in peace.