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True Detective April 2019

It was 20 years ago this month that two disaffected schoolboys, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold went on a horrific shooting rampage at Columbine High School, Colorado.

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True Detective March 2019

It’s now 30 years since US serial killer Theodore “Ted” Bundy’s story ended in the electric chair in Florida…

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True Detective Spring Special 2019

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True Detective February 2019

Businesswoman Debbie Buxton was just 35 years old when she was bludgeoned and stabbed to death…

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True Detective January 2019

Handsome, long-haired and well-spoken, Kiwi national John Tanner…

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True Detective December 2018

Welcome to this special December issue of True Detective in which the distinctive vintage cover

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True Detective November 2018

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True Detective October 2018

Who could possibly have guessed then, though, the horror of the offences Duffy and Mulcahy would go on to commit and the dark secrets they shared?

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True Detective September 2018

In Child’s Hands Cut Off, a troubled marriage leads to horrific events in Accrington…

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True Detective August 2018

“When I was with him, it was as though I was under some sort of spell,”

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True Detective Summer Special 2018

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True Detective July 2018

“I put the head in a pot, popped the lid on and lit the stove…

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True Detective June 2018

Freddie Mills was a sporting hero, TV star and nightclub owner known to millions in 60s Britain…

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True Detective May 2018

When teenager Conrad Roy was found dead in his pick-up truck as a result of carbon monoxide poisoning…

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True Detective April 2018

Incredibly, in the case of Texan teacher Irene Garza, more than five decades would pass by before her suspected killer found himself before a jury…

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True Detective Spring Special 2018

Collection of stories from your favourite crime magazines…OUT NOW!!!

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True Detective March 2018

Obsessive killer Tracy Kauffman poses with a gun in a remarkable image accompanying Trip To Vegas…

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True Detective February 2018

For nearly two years the death of vulnerable 58-year-old Londoner Peter Fasoli was recorded as an accident…

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True Detective January 2018

The death of brave former Birmingham estate agent and one-time Michael Sams…

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True Detective December 2017

To many people Steve Wright was just a quiet, unassuming chap who only became animated…

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True Detective Winter Special 2017

We bring you a concentrated dose of the best stories from across the world, reporting many aspects of murder…

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True Detective November 2017

Lifelong criminal and fantasist Sidney Noble was a psychopathic con-man who preyed on the elderly, drugging them to steal their cash…

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True Detective October 2017

As war raged in Europe a British subject broadcast Nazi propaganda over the airwaves…

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True Detective September 2017

How the Moors Murderers Enjoyed Killing, was prompted by a recent event

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True Detective August 2017

The Cambridge Rapist – How He Terrified The City,

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True Detective July 2017

In 2008, news reports about Austrian father from hell Josef Fritzl stunned all those who read them…

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True Detective Summer Special 2017

Smiling Karla Faye Tucker – The Pickaxe Killer…

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True Detective June 2017

When her husband drowned while on a luxury holiday in Barbados six years ago, the life of best-selling children’s author Helen Bailey was changed forever.

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True Detective May 2017

For the past 15 years condemned British passport holder Linda Carty has been incarcerated on Death Row in Texas

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True Detective April 2017

For many teenagers growing up in the 1970s, a paper round was considered a safe, quick and easy way to earn some cash…

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True Detective Spring Special 2017

A concentration dose of the best stories from across the world…

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True Detective March 2017

We venture back to the 80s for Cardiff’s Case Of The Skeleton In The Carpet

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True Detective February 2017

When Gloucestershire woman Caroline Roberts died aged 61 last year…

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True Detective January 2017

We’ve published lists of hangings before, but never on this scale…

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True Detective December 2016

Barbara Graham, dubbed “Bloody Babs” by the press, was just 31 when she was executed in the gas chamber

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True Detective Winter Special 2016

DNA evidence finally nailed the real killer of a 19-year-old whose body was found in undergrowth at Woburn Golf Club

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True Detective November 2016

Continuing our series on The Memorable Trials of Norman Birkett…

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True Detective October 2016

James Hanratty, the subject of this month’s Crimes That Made The Headlines

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True Detective September 2016

When 15-year-old day-school pupil Amelia “Millie” Jeffs vanished after leaving her West Ham home on a Friday night

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True Detective August 2016

Norman Birkett’s place in legal history seems assured – and in his long and distinguished career…

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True Detective July 2016

The haunting and enduring Green Bicycle Mystery comes into focus…

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True Detective June 2016

Faced with the problem that many killers had faced before him, the plumber panicked – then he remembered…

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True Detective May 2016

It’s nearly 22 years since Nicole Brown, the ex-wife of O.J. Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman were horrifically slain

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True Detective April 2016

Serial child-killer Robert Black’s unexpected death in January this year

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True Detective March 2016

Nathan Matthews and Shauna Hoare the new Fred and Rose

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True Detective Spring Special 2016

When porn parties led to murder!!!

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True Detective February 2016

Sixty years ago this month, Britain’s top executioner Albert Pierrepoint suddenly resigned…

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True Detective January 2016

Does a mass murderer deserve to be executed for his crimes, or is life imprisonment the greater?

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