“It was horrific,” the man said. “My worst ever. I’d never seen it before. The poor woman lost it completely. The guards had to drag her across the floor to the podium…
Twenty years have passed since the police began their search of 25 Cromwell Street. Yet down those years the horrific catalogue of crimes committed by Fred and Rose
True Detective February: A hangman with three assistants and one of the condemned men smoking a cigarette en route to the gallows were all part of an unusual double-execution in London in the summer of 1927…
In July 1906 farmer James Morris was found lying in a roadside ditch. This was near the entrance to a wood about a mile from the town of Keady, County Armagh, Ireland
When the hire car Stephen Seddon was driving veered off the road into the Bridgewater Canal in Timperley, Manchester, he was hailed a hero after helping to
Her ice cream parlour was the chic place to be, but she had no time for disappointing lovers. So she shot them, cut them up, put the parts into ice cream tubs
Nicola Edgington was different from the rest of us. She was both dangerous and desperate and she was crying out for help in a bid to combat the internal horror
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?
This collection of cases from the pages of True Detective, Master Detective, True Crime and Murder Most Foul brings you a concentrated dose of the best stories from across the world, reporting many aspects of murder.
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.
Before her death in August 2012 Winnie Johnson was one of those silent, suffering victims whose life had been dashed to fragments. Who was Winnie Johnson, you may ask? She was yet another victim of Myra Hindley and Ian Brady, two of Britain’s cruellest ki
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
“A perfect holiday, then i killed my children” “Do not disturb. My children are ill,” said the note on the door of room 101 at a hotel on Spain’s Costa Brava only four days after Lianne Smith had checked in with daughter Rebecca, five, and 11-month-old D
Fruit and vegetable wholesaler Nat Fraser found himself in an extraordinary situation. Back in 2003 he had become only the third person in Scotland to be convicted of murder
Their eyes met. First a glance, then a smile. The stage was set for romance. Soon Cem and Muneyver were holding hands, next he was presenting her to his family
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?
Radiating boyish charm and a wholesome image, 25-year-old Lonnie Barron didn’t drink, didn’t smoke and didn’t swear. He kissed babies, complimented old ladies and praised fellow-performers
Christmas Eve 2008 was the first 81-year-old grandmother Maire Rankin from the Irish border town of Newry had ever spent alone. Sadly, it would also be her last
Despite the best efforts of the Metropolitan Police, assisted by American military police, Charles Connelly was allowed to slip through the proverbial net
The Yorkshire town of Holmfirth became famous for the hit TV comedy series Last Of The Summer Wine, but the laughter gave way to tragedy and revulsion in February 2011
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
A savage crime in Dorset and another in Italy are linked by a pervert¹s obsession for hair. When he killed and mutilated a victim in Bournemouth he left a lock of another woman¹s hair in her hand