She was physically and psychologically terrified of him. He was a body-builder, a policeman and a bully – and she was sure that he had killed his first wife.
It seemed a routine case back in 1973 when red-headed Michael O’Shea reported a buglary at his home in a fishing village just south of Dublin. But the inquiry took a surprise twist after the police lifted fingerprints from the furniture…
WHO MURDERED MAVIS HUDSON? To this day the case could – should – be solved with information bottled up for nearly 40 years. Somebody somewhere must know something…
COUPLE KILLED FLATMATE AND FED HIM THROUGH THE MINCER It started as an argument with their housemate, but what followed could have come straight out of a horror movie.
This month’s issue contains stories about three murder machines – deadly devices rigged up by men intent on killing. Strangley, two of their victims survived.
We lead off this quarter with an incredibly sad case from Manchester. "I want you to arrest me and I do not wish to escape under any plea of irresponsibility,"
It’s not just the stories in True Detective that make it a great read but the different way they are told. No other magazine gets close’" a reader recently wrote, putting simles on the face of our brilliant editorial team.
The chilling cost of celebrity. Catherine and Elizabeth’s terror revealed inside… No way to murder your husband – lover used wrong type of hand granade… Horror of the hanging model…
A woman witchcraft expert told Detective Inspector Fabian in 1945, "Remember, February was always the sacrificial month. Charles Walton’s murder was just a Druidical sacrifice."
This month sees the start of a new series of murder cases from Ireland, and in part 1 we take you back to August 1976 when two Englishmen arrived in Dublin with their tents and sleeping-bags just like thousands of back-packers every year.
This month it is 40 years since Gwynne Owen Evans and Peter Anthony Allen were hanged for the murder of bachelor Alan West in his King’s Avenue, Workington, home.
OLDEST WOMAN IN BRITAIN TO BE CHARGED WITH MURDER Eric Hingston was one of Winston Churchill’s Special Operations Executives who was cruelly murdered by Audrey
"I’M A PSYCHOPATH, GET ME OUT OF HERE" Report from Dr. Robert Hare, a Canadian psychologist who has been studying psychopaths like Anthony Hardy and Roy Whiting for 35yrs
The fraudster, the Playboy model and two corpses… My son the mass murderer. A mother’s heartbreaking story. From South Ruislip: Who killed Jean Townsend?
Sex on tap for Pam the husband-killer. Wicked Theresa burned her daughter alive. "Catch me before I kill more." Jersey horror of the body in the fridge.
The obsessions of a perverted ghoul. He had a lifelong yearning to strangle, rape and kill women, culminating in his ultimate fantasy – the murder of teacher Jane Longhurst.