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
FROM NEWCASTLE: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION “I have murdered my entire family,” the caller said. Five minutes later police were confronted with a horrific sight
Charlize Theron and the terrible tragedy of her mother killing her father. There are three Australian cases in this issue – one of which, is a classic whodunit. Did mild-mannered Andrew Fitzherbert really unleash his uncharacteristic fury on Kathleen Mar
RELEASED TO KILL AGAIN: “I HOPE HE HAS NIGHTMARES FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE” Within two months of his release from a murder sentence the violent giant killed again
How did a slightly built woman, weighing only 112lbs, have the strength to kill her husband, chop him up with a power saw, stuff his body into three suitcases, and throw them over Chesapeake Bay Bridge? The jury didn’t know but decided it was possible, an
Tragedy Ended Their Flight Of Fancy Horror In Accrington: Evil Stepfather’s Vicious Revenge Gail’s Deadly Secret The World’s Worst Killers Part 6 * From Wales: Unique Evidence Of The Signed Stamp * Licked! – By A Postage Stamp * Murder In Th
FROM IRELAND: THE BITTER LIFE OF A DISGRACED PREDATOR The list of possible killers would no doubt have been a long one. But who did cut the octogenarian’s throat?
Everything in the case was bizarre. There was a wedding reception for a marriage that never took place, a “hit-man for hire” website, a woman calling herself Lyingeyes and a deadly poison concealed in a contact lens
DUBLIN CHILD-KILLER WAS POLICE INFORMER There are some deviant types who linger on the edge of the law, filled with a mix of fascination and twisted egotism. Such a person was John Delahunt…
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
This issue tackles the thorny subject of capital punishment in Australia and the United States. We have compiled a definitive list of the men and women hanged in Australia between 1900 and 1967 and relate the controversial case of Ronald Ryan, the last ma
•"I often dream I’m on the scaffold about to be hanged,” Nottingham mill worker and consummate liar William Saville told his girl friend Ann Ward. •On one hot summer night in July 2005 this mother of five just snapped.
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
Deadly women can be found on any continent but Australian Katherine Knight must be one of the most vicious. She cold-bloodedly made love to her partner of seven years then stabbed him repeatedly as he desperately tried to escape from her. What happened ne
An item of news that you will not have seen reported in the press here at home or in Europe concerns 10 lifers currently in prison in Clairvaux, France, who, a couple of years ago, petitioned the French Government to act on their behalf. So? you might ask
WHY JOANNE MURDERED HER GRAN Greed. She feared all her granny’s money would be spent on care. In other words, she was not prepared to lose her inheritance
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
Truth is stranger than fiction, they say, and this issue of True Detective certainly confirms that. Nick Yarris’s story could not have been made up. After spending 23 years on Death Row for a crime he did not commit, Nick became the first man in…
VALLEYS OF DEATH: THE HENGOED CARAVAN MURDER In a small area of South Wales four murders happened in 18 months. The first was a brutal stabbing of a young mother…
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
Do you believe in miracles? Ashley Smith did and persuaded the man who was holding her hostage in her apartment to believe in them too. Not only did Ashley persuade him to give himself up, she also converted him to Christianity. Now he wants to spread the
Her relationship was a sham masquerading as "the best marriage in the universe," Nancy Kissel confided to a friend in an email from Hong Kong, where she and her husband were living. Nancy’s way of dealing with this was somewhat unconventional – she spiked
AT HOME WITH ROSE WEST She’s perhaps Britain’s most notorious female killer. And while the authorities treat her with kid gloves, she remains her old manipulative self
This issue is full of fascinating crime stories both past and present from around the globe which gives you an opportunity to compare and contrast cases.
The vanishing. A mystery from Colorado. At first it seemed that Paul Skiba had abducted his daughter Sarah after his ex-wife talked of moving to Oregon. But police soon realised that not only was Sarah missing but so was her father and one of his employe
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
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
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.
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