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Did They Execute A Saint? He was well aware that his trial would be merely a ritual; that the vengeance-seekers would have their day in court. When that day arrived in April 1957 it was obvious that Jacques Fesch was a vastly different man from the one who had gunned down Officer Vergne. It was also blatantly obvious that few people in France cared about this metamorphosis even though Fesch could be on the verge of sainthood. Just before his execution in the yard of the Santé Prison in the early morning of October 1st, 1957, Fesch wrote: “I am not alone. God is with me. Less than five hours to live. In five hours I will see Jesus.” As Fesch was prepared for the guillotine he refused a cigarette and glass of rum. The assistants to executioner André Obrecht cut the hair on his neck and bound him up like a parcel, so much so that he could hardly walk and had to be dragged to his death. They threw him on to the bascule and seconds later the deadly blade fell. His severed head was propelled outwards by the pressure of his blood, and rolled downwards into the basket. His body twitched and then became still....Read the full story in True Detective March  more »	Robert Black Guilty Of Irish Child Murder What is the toxic engine that drives the repellent Robert Black? The truth is that now, serving 11 life sentences, with no hope of ever being freed, he will continue to keep detectives in the dark about the true extent of his vile crimes. A sex crime expert summed it up: “He’s the sort of person for whom it’s all about power and control. Having information about what he’s done gives him power. He has no desire to ease his conscience and he’s not going to give up the one thing he has that gives him power over the pain that his victims’ families are suffering.” Read how Black was brought to justice for the murder of Jennifer Cardy in Ireland, and we ask will authorities continue to pursue him for any of the numerous child-murders he remains linked to? Full details in True Crime February more »
The Lady Vanishes The weekend of Anne Chapman’s disappearance, friends and acquaintances were slow to wake up to the fact that something was seriously amiss. It wasn’t until the Monday morning, October 18th, 1971, that her body was found in a field next to the Saint Nikolaos bus stop, 20 metres from the road, by an elderly Greek couple. Ann's ankles and wrists were bound with wire, her face was bruised and battered and she was lying on her stomach. The fact that the body was in full view of nearby houses seems to suggest that it couldn’t have lain there for three days – that Ann was taken away, murdered, her body kept in hiding for a day or two, and then transported to the place where it was found. What was Ann, a BBC journalist, supposed to be doing in Greece with a bunch of travel agents going about their ordinary, slightly boring business? Was this a big story everyone else had missed? The official view has always been that she was recording interviews for publicity material. But of course that doesn’t begin to answer the questions...Read a 40-year-old mystery in Master Detective February more »	How Many Victims For The Butcher Of Hanover? The city of Hanover's police chief Commissioner Von Manteuffel had long suspected the quality of the steaks sold at Pop Lorenz’s restaurant. So many customers regularly crowded into this establishment, and they were always so hungry that not surprisingly they didn’t notice the sometimes sharp, sometimes sweet, taste of the meat... But the city police chief, already bedevilled by the problem of 22 young men who were known to have gone missing from the city, did notice it – and some instinct directed the next step in his investigation. “Go down to Pop Lorenz’s restaurant, get a sample of the meat he’s serving today, and get it analysed at the lab,” he instructed Detective Hans Müller. Müller followed orders. Next day his hands shook as he handed the laboratory report to Von Manteuffel. “It’s human flesh!” he gasped. Human flesh was exactly what the commissioner had guessed it might be. Now he felt he knew the fate of the 22 missing young men...Read the full story in Murder Most Foul 83 more »
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