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,"
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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.