When she thought her family would interfere with her choice of new boyfriend, Cheyanne Jessie moved quickly – with a knife and a revolver
Master Detective December 2019
£3.50
Description
Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood is widely acknowledged as a masterpiece of true crime writing. Eloquent and pioneering, its subject is the heinous slaughter of Kansas farmer Herbert Clutter, his wife Bonnie and their teenage children Kenyon and Nancy. The killers struck on November 15th, 1959 – 60 years ago as this issue goes on sale – and Capote’s book was published in 1966. To mark the anniversary of the crime that inspired a classic, we present a fascinating contemporary account. Turn to page 30 and “In Cold Blood” – The Truth About The Clutter Massacre.
The Hangings Of Albert Pierrepoint, on page 12, continues with a fascinating – and brilliantly researched – account by expert Traugott Vitz of the “secret,” post-war executions of war criminals carried out by Pierrepoint in Germany and Austria. Don’t miss it.
FROM “HOT MOM” TO COLD-BLOODED KILLER…TO DEATH ROW
Why Florida mother Cheyanne Jessie turned killer
PAUL DONNELLEY’S MURDER MONTH
More Murder Months
VIEWPOINT plus COMPETITION
More of your letters and a chance to win a book
EUROPEAN CRIME REPORT
“‘21 Dead’ At The Hands Of Germany’s Lunchtime Poisoner,” “He Remembered The Killer – Four Years Later,” “Pizza Supper That Never Was,” “Sister ‘Gouged Out Model Girl’s Eyes’”
THE HANGINGS OF ALBERT PIERREPOINT – PART SEVEN: HANGINGS BY THE HUNDRED
The Second World War had ended and Britain’s top executioner found himself on numerous secret visits to Germany. His task? To dispatch dozens of war criminals
SOHO KILLING OF THE “LION TAMER”
Who shot White Horse Tavern barman Patrick O’Keefe?
SCOTLAND’S CLASSIC CASES: GREENOCK MURDER THAT ENDED A HANGMAN’S CAREER
How circus manager Frederick Storey killed the woman he loved
THIRTY YEARS AGO IN CRIME
More headline-making material from MD’s crime archives
IN COLD BLOOD
Sixty years on: the despicable murder of the Clutter family of Kansas, the crime that inspired Truman Capote’s classic book
UNSOLVED MURDERS OF THE 1950s: MIDDLESBROUGH’S TATTOOED TAXI DRIVER MYSTERY
Nobody witnessed Ted Youll’s killing – and when his body was found his cab was missing
PEGGY’S STORY OF MURDER
Horrific mass slaughter in Washington State
MD FORUM: DEATH OF A NAZI DAD
Headline-making killing from France, requested by a reader
