Despite the best efforts of the Metropolitan Police, assisted by American military police, Charles Connelly was allowed to slip through the proverbial net
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Despite the best efforts of the Metropolitan Police, assisted by American military police, Charles Connelly was allowed to slip through the proverbial net. It is believed by many crime buffs that the case in which he was involved is the only one in British criminal history in which an accomplice went to the gallows while the man identified by police as the killer remained at large. Read Murder In Soho – Five Words That Led To The Gallows
In a similar vein, Victor Betts and Herbert Ridley were mates who killed a man in Aston, Birmingham, during a robbery. So why was one hanged and the other sent to prison?
The crime and trial of Alice Crimmins had everything Casey Anthony had – only more. Was Alice guilty or a victim?
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