Forty years ago this month double-murderer Gary Gilmore was executed by firing squad
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It was 1980 when the prison door slammed shut, and Californian Michael Hanline was beginning a life sentence for murder he didn't commit... -
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How on earth did it happen? The Jonestown, Guyana murder-suicide of 918 members of the People’s Temple cult in 1978 -
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In The Footsteps Of Jack The Ripper, in which we’ll be looking at the other murders to have taken place in “Blood Alley" -
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Two Burmese men face execution following the murders of British pair Hannah Witheridge and David Miller on Koh Tao... -
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J. Edgar Hoover was still in his twenties when the call came to head up America’s Federal Bureau of Investigation -
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In Britain, August 1987 is remembered for the events at Hungerford, Berkshire, when 27-year-old Michael Ryan went on a horrific killing spree -
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When a sword-wielding young man, dressed up like the Star Wars character Darth Vader, visited the Kronan School in Sweden -
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Twisted Amanda Taylor wanted revenge – and she was determined that her father-in-law was going to pay the price.. -
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Breaking Bad was a hugely successful TV show and Jason Hart copied the practical advice featured in the show... -
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“I wasn’t worried about losing my property or never seeing my girlfriend again. It was just in my mind to go down to Port Arthur and kill a lot of people.” -
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"A lot of people are encumbered with a mechanism called guilt. I don’t feel guilty for anything. I feel sorry for people who feel guilt.” -
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Escaping from the Mecklenburg Correctional Center in Richmond, Virginia, was meant to be impossible -
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Sharon Marshall was a girl without any past or future thanks to the horrific and heartbreaking life she’d to endure with her “daddy.” -
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Freda Rumbold might not be the most famous British husband-killer but she is, nevertheless, -
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It’s 50 years since the great soul singer Sam Cooke met his sudden end in a motel in LA -
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Should there be a limit on the number of years a case can lie cold before a prosecution is brought? -
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Edith Thompson’s execution in 1923 for the murder of her husband may have been one of the greatest miscarriages in the history of British justice -
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A crime of passion in Essex, mind-boggling savagery in Yorkshire, one of London’s most enduring prostitute murder mysteries, an extraordinary abduction-jailbreak... -
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Some of our most knowledgeable crime buffs may be surprised to learn that the last execution for rape... -
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Born in Italy and brought up in Boston, Massachusetts, trusting Roberto Troyan was a wealthy artistic socialite who, -
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Marvin Gaye, the golden boy of soul music, the debonair Prince of Motown lay dead in his parents house... -
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Lynda Lyon Block harboured a massive grudge against society. Anyone in uniform, any official, any edict or law -
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“I must have lifted the axe and hit her,” another killer admitted. “I don’t know how many times -
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July 8th, 1965, saw one of the most audacious and meticulously-planned prison breaks in British criminal history -
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Few people can be unaware that November 2013 marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy -
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February 12th, 1934, was a special day for two decidedly different reasons. Firstly, it was the birthday of former US president Abraham Lincoln -
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William Murfitt was a man to be envied. He was a wealthy, enterprising farmer with 1,000 acres near Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk... -
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As their trial at Norwich Crown Court drew to a close in January 2013, the two accused began blaming each other for the murder -
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Samuel Little was proud of his position as cashier at the Dublin terminus of Ireland’s Midland Great Western Railway -
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The witnesses reeled in disbelief as the victim foamed at the mouth, writhed and sweated, and the death-room -
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When teenager Kyle Smith set fire to the men’s toilets at an air force base in Oklahoma in 2010 -
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When wannabe Wiltshire serial killer Christopher Halliwell was arrested in 2011 for killing a woman he actually admitted two murders, but he was only prosecuted for one because of a police error over the second. Intrigued? -
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Yorkshire lass Linda Cook’s strangled body was found in a local lovers’ lane in September 1963. The case baffled the police and is still unsolved today. So someone out there knows more about the murder than they are saying. -
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Journalist Junita Nielsen bristled with anger when she heard that the authorities planned to pull down a street of Victorian houses in the middle of Sydney, Australia -
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Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed have been jailed for a very long time in a trial that pitted daughter against daughter and husband against wife. -
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“I have no conscience, I don’t believe in man, God, nor Devil...I hate the whole damn human race -
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As 2,300 volts shot through Allen “Tiny” Davis’s vast frame his whole body arched upwards like a rocket about to take off -
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The handyman at the Woodbine Inn had gone missing and when Harry’s crushed body was found the questions began – where did he die, why had the date of his birth been altered and who stood to benefit from his demise? -
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At the time the scene at Durham Assizes early in 1948 seemed like the end of a story, not the beginning -
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He is a man who may well carry his secrets to the grave, even though he was caught by DNA 33 years -
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Jack Abbott – Norman Mailer’s lethal pupil An award-winning author’s protégé was released from prison but killed again -
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Over the last two months Master Detective has focused on the crimes and execution of Barbara Graham -
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In 1940 as in 1952, the law in the UK was unequivocal. If two people engaged in a crime shared a resolution to resist a police officer by violence -
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Despite the best efforts of the Metropolitan Police, assisted by American military police, Charles Connelly was allowed to slip through the proverbial net -
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Two family killings, separated by four decades and thousands of miles, punctuate this month’s issue. In each case, a mother and her young children seem to have died at the hands of a previously loving husband and father -
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Jennifer knew the best way to avoid trouble, or so she thought. Panic-stricken by the maniac who began to shout abuse at her -
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No one can say with any certainty if Richard Brinkley killed more than two people. But one thing is sure – as soon as he got to know a woman she did not have long to live, read this great story from Croydon, Surrey. -
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This is a very good sentence. "I saved him from the gallows," said Iraqi lawyer Tariq Harb after his British client Danny Fitzsimons, -
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In marrying Cecil Cornock for better or for worse Ann hadn’t bargained for anything like coming home and finding him sitting in front -
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Accidentally falling pregnant once may be a mistake, but falling pregnant five times must be a pathological condition... -
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With its racecourse gangs and its dirty weekend proximity to London, the Sussex seaside resort of Brighton enjoyed a raffish reputation -
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Betty Smith was no prude. But even the broadminded have their limits and her RAF boyfriend David Williams overstepped hers -
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Sir David Attenborough, Britain’s foremost naturalist, has spent much of his life investigating and explaining the origins and idiosyncrasies of life -
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Did Susan kill to defend her honour? The trial judge left the jury in little doubt of the verdict he expected -
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The relatives of Scots Guardsman Paul McGee were mightily relieved when he left Basra and returned to Scotland to do recruiting work -
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In August 1994 the then Home Secretary announced that a computerised national register of DNA profiles for everybody arrested for criminal offences -
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An incredulous wife couldn’t believe what she was hearing. She said her husband Andrei couldn’t even kill a chicken -
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If ever a cafe had seen better days it was the Boiling Kettle on the corner of Folkestone’s High Street and Tontine Street. -
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For many who knew her, Jane Nagi was nothing but trouble. She was also an unlikely heroine -
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The magazine opens with a tragic case from the Isle of Wight where the prosecutor commented, -
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We have a pretty impressive archive of back issues, which we use all the time for research. But somewhere along the line we lost our only copy of our very first issue. -
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Serial killers are often depicted as cold, calculating fiends who carry on their gruesome pursuit with a terrifying and chilling intelligence. -
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The fate of a British father of five was sealed from the moment he put his suitcase down in front of the Chinese customs officers. -
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On May 29th, 1868, over a thousand years of tradition in Britain and Ireland ended when capital punishment in public was ended. -
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The so-called Washington Sniper, John Allen Muhammad, was put to death by lethal injection in Virginia in November 2009. -
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This issue sees the start of two new series. The feature 30 Years Ago In Crime which takes a look at some of the headlines from years gone by. -
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He is considered to be a legend, a genius who transformed pop music in the 1960s. But of late Phil Spector -
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A sensational claim that 60s rock idol Jimi Hendrix was murdered has emerged in a new book by his road manager. The author alleges that Hendrix was murdered -
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Rumour, hearsay, gossip and conjecture have swirled like a London fog around the infamous Whitechapel murders since the night they began long ago... -
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This month we continue the drama surrounding fervent Irish patriot Dr. Patrick Cronin who was last seen climbing into a horse-drawn rig in Chicago. -
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They were called the dynamiters and their mission was to begin a wave of terrorist attacks on England. They were ruled from America by the Triangle... -
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“When I read about the murders in the paper it was as if it was all a dream. Then I would resume my life as normal until the urge to kill the soldier came over me again and I’d go on the hunt again. -
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The Harvey Nichols Murders Part 1 Death behind the perfume counter Part 2 Mistress murdered after shopping spree -
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In 1922 William and Helen Harkness were accused of the murder of a teenage girl. What came out at their trial above all else was the story of a desperate -
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The 999 caller had a 25-year history of personality problems relating to irritablity, anger control... -
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Back in the 1880s – then as now – Kingston Hill, bordering Richmond Park, was one of London’s most desirable residential districts... -
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After strangling his girlfriend in a school cycle shed, James Rivett went home and read a book. He then visited a friend before giving himself up -
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We have good reason to believe the killer or killers are local and we feel the crime will be solved with the help of townspeople -
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Just over seven years ago, in the September 2001 issue, Master Detective described Barry George’s conviction for the murder of Jill Dando as “The Verdict That Shocked The Nation.” From the very beginning there were doubts about the safety of George’s conv -
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Child-killer Thomas Nicholson regarded his trial and sentence of death as something of a joke and his manner only changed when his execution was imminent and he realised at last that there was to be no reprieve. There had been no petition for mercy – the -
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Capital punishment in the shape of double executions plays a big part in this month’s issue – to be more precise, double hangings in the UK -
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Elegant, studious, quietly spoken Jean-Claude Romand was a brilliant doctor, medical researcher and pillar of the local community. He worked on secret projects at the World Health Organisation in Geneva, Switzerland, and was on the verge of a breakthrough -
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Quite by chance, religion seems to hold sway over this month’s issue. Psychopath Earle Nelson didn’t bother to cover his tracks, but for over a year this feral killer used his inhuman strength to rape and murder at will right across America -
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One of Master Detective’s key strengths is the willingness of our readers to get involved in shaping the content of the magazine -
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•34 years for Sally Anne Bowman's killer. •The rise and fall of Ronnie & Reggie Kray. •Tape of death. Kathleen recorded her own murder. -
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Scotsman Kenny Richey had just one hour to go before they strapped him in the electric chair and pulled the lever -
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Who killed Freddie Mills? Was the ex-champion boxer victim of a gangland hit, or a suicidal serial killer, -
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For the criminologist, there are few cases as compelling as “the one that got away” – that is, the unsolved murder. For ... -
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Who murdered Brian Jones? It’s a bold question, and one which assumes more than the law is prepared to admit. As you’ll ... -
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The crime passionel – “that most Gallic of get-out-of-jail cards” – is under fire as never before. It’s a defence agains...
