The governor of the prison and two officials can testify to it, and if it was not for the detective sergeant who has had it in for me since I left the police force, I should have been found not guilty.”
This month in True Detective, how court procedures have changed over the years, but some people still mistakenly believe they can influence the outcome of a trial simply by writing to the judge.
CHILD BURIED IN A CHURCH CRYPT Little Mary was only six years old when she went out to play minutes away from her home in Halifax. She was never seen alive again
"I knew I’d catch my daughter’s killer. Two mothers’ brave fight for justice. The Thames towpath murders. Did Joann plan murder before the wedding? Dovie’s date with the electric chair.
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,"