Roger Zygmunt de la Burde felt himself ageing, bad news for a serial philanderer. His hair transplant hadn’t really worked, the skin under his chin sagged, he suffered from insomnia, heart pains, high blood pressure and impotence. And recently he had disc
CASES FROM BRITAIN AND EUROPE… THEY GOT AWAY WITH MURDER By day he was put to work, by night he was locked in a freezing makeshift garden shed and tortured. Eventually he died…but what was to happen to his three tormentors?
These women were deadly – the story of Addie Mae Lemoine. From New York, the madman’s laughing message ‘Tristian’s on the floor in…five, six, seven pieces". He has caught and arrested in Central Park, New York, reading a newspaper report about the hu
Perfect husband used poisoned condoms. Cheri’s husband was so desperate to continue his affairs – he resorted to the most twisted way to get rid of her.
From Germany the couple who became Vampire Killers. Part 1 in the series ‘These Women Were Deadly’. The story of Evelyn Dick. In this astonishing case Evelyn kept human bones in her attic next to her baby’s corpse that was encased in cement. She was s
Lynda Block from Alabama – was she the last to die in the electric chair? Lynda was not usual inhabitant of Death Row. She’d had a privileged upbringing with well-heeled parents, and was respected member of her comunity. So how did she end up in the elec
The Salcombe murders are solved at last. On May Day, 1975, John Allen disposed of his wife without too many questions being asked, but his children presented a further problem. He had to murder them and concoct a foolproof alibi, one that would stand the
Was Jack The Ripper an American? A retired British cop says he was, and has produced startling evidence to back his theory – including a letter from Scotland Yard named Francis J. Tumblety as the most likely suspect.
KATHERINE SKINNED AND COOKED HER LOVER As she prepared for a last hour of passion with her partner John Charles Price, Katherine Knight put on her sexy nightie
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,"
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
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 fraudster, the Playboy model and two corpses… My son the mass murderer. A mother’s heartbreaking story. From South Ruislip: Who killed Jean Townsend?
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.