John Vickers was among the many people in Britain who were convinced he wouldn’t hang. Many Tory MPs – the Conservatives were in office – had voted to retain hanging in the belief that it would be imposed only in exceptional circumstances and that it would fall into abeyance. To the astonishment of many people
A number of local women who had been raped and assaulted unhesitatingly identified Thomas Ross Young as their assailant. One of them said that on May 22nd, 1977, she had gone with Young to a secluded spot in Glenboig, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, where he raped her, beat her, and left her for dead. She took
Riddled with bullets, two teenage sisters were found sprawled across blood-soaked seats in a taxi parked at a luxury hotel in Texas on New Year’s Day 2008. Seconds before she died, 17-year-old Sarah managed to ring 911, screaming in agony from the nine gunshot wounds to her abdomen. “Help me! Help me! I’m dying. Oh
Armenian-born Aramazd Andressian was lying semi-conscious 30ft from his petrol-soaked BMW when LAPD officers found him in South Pasadena... After the trip to Disneyland on April 15th, 2017, Andressian said, he drove to the lake and smothered his five-year-old son Piqui on the back seat of the BMW with a sweatshirt he’d left in the
When a man walked into a police station in North Carolina and said there was a body in his home, the truth was more horrifying and shocking than anyone could have imagined... According to the autopsy report from the medical examiner, 15-year-old Zaria Burgess died as the result of a sharp force injury to her
The brutal rise and even more brutal fall of Tony “the Ant” Spilotro, who crawled his way from the Italian ghetto of Chicago and arrived in Las Vegas at the beginning of May, 1971. He immediately hooked up with his lifelong pal Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal who helped him and his family to get settled. Rosenthal
Sergeant Mike Severance was outside parking their pick-up when his wife of five months Dr. Wendi Mae Davidson went in and poured him a beer. He was still outside when she dropped five veterinary Phenobarbital pills into the drink. This is a highly soluble drug and would not spoil the taste of the beer. Nor
“I somehow sensed that they were about to attack us. Then as Mademoiselle Lancelin flung herself at me I jumped first and literally scratched her eyes out. Then Léa jumped on Madame Lancelin and scratched at her eyes in the same way. They crouched, begging for mercy, but I rushed down to the kitchen to
In boyhood Graham Young developed an unhealthy interest in toxicology and Nazism – and friends and family paid the price. Broadmoor failed to rehabilitate him and the workplace provided the opportunity for further poisonings... By the age of 14, Young was also making explosives in his garden shed, and still doodling the swastika and skull
Fifty-year-old Bart and 53-year-old Krista Halderson had been missing for a week. On July 8th, officials in Cottage Grove, a rural area near the Haldersons’ home, found Bart’s dismembered remains. The Dane County medical examiner listed the cause of death as “homicidal violence including firearm injury.” There was no sign of Krista. Their son Chandler