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
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
“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
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
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
TELL US WHERE YOU BURIED TULAY How a distraught mother broke a traditional code of silence to denounce her husband as a murderer in an “honour killing” trial
WHY I BELIEVE THE LADY IN THE LAKE KILLER WAS INNOCENT The suicide of the man jailed for murdering his wife seemed to end one of Britain’s most chilling mysteries…
VICTORIAN MURDER MYSTERIES PART 13: BRIXTON’S WATER LANE MYSTERY The boy was shocked to see his mum lying on the floor in her nightdress, a pillow over her face
Monster In Our Family: There was always a pattern. For a while life would run smoothly and Elizabeth would start to believe that she and Robert could really be happy. But the calm always shattered, and in 2007 it finally exploded…
MISTRESS BURIED IN LONELY GRAVE How North Wales Police reeled-in a woman’s brutal killer – using the media as bait – after 14 months’ diligent detective work
A KILLER RISES FROM THE GRAVE – 30 YEARS AFTER THE CRIME He pounced in a dark pub car park but many years would pass before his body finally gave up his terrible secret
•A TRAIL OF RAPE AND MURDER •VICTORIAN MURDER MYSTERIES: A PRIVATE WEDDING, A WATERY GRAVE •THE KILLER WHO CAME BACK •DID THE MAD AXE-MAN KILL THE SECRETARY?
WHY WAS THIS THUG LET INTO BRITAIN TO RAPE AND MURDER? A man with a history of violence was allowed into the country to commit “vile and barbaric crimes”
FROM NEWCASTLE: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION “I have murdered my entire family,” the caller said. Five minutes later police were confronted with a horrific sight
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
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?
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
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
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…
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
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
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
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.
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…
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?
PEEPING STEPFATHER GETS LIFE FOR DOUBLE MURDER David Carter, the stepfather who peeped through a hole in the ceiling at Joanne Lojko while she took a bath
30 years on…The boy who fought back! Wife was an "alien" they had to murder. The twilight world of William Vincent Pregnant niece’s deal with the devil.