Master Detective May 2012

Master Detective May 2012

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When she went to prison Debra Brown’s three children were young

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When she went to prison Debra Brown’s three children were young. Now they have children of their own, and she has to get to know her family all over again – and learn to accept the time she lost. See the story and discover how an innocent woman finally escaped a living hell…

As reported in March and April, high-profile, controversial murder cases in the early 1950s led to the Homicide Act (1957). But anomalies and inconsistencies – as in two cases – highlighted its shortcomings, and in the end the Act, designed to prop up capital punishment by making it more acceptable, served only to hasten its abolition.
Nobody who knew Martin Doyle would ever have thought that he would make history. Yet he did, although not in a way he would have chosen.

GRANDMA INNOCENT OF BOSS’S MURDER
Debra was a walking miracle, a woman transformed by the nightmare, rather than destroyed by it…

THIRTY YEARS AGO IN CRIME
More fascinating material from MD’s crime archives

WOULD THEY HANG THE LEPTON KILLER?
When capital punishment became a lottery – and had to stop

THE MITCHAM DAIRY MURDER
How would the Homicide Act affect George Thatcher’s future?

VIEWPOINT
More of your views

EUROPEAN CRIME REPORT
More cases from the near Continent, including “I’ve Got A Body For You To Burn”

PART 1 OF A NEW SERIES: DRAMA IN THE DEATH HOUSE – ELECTROCUTED TWICE!
Horrific case of the convicted killer who would not die

DRAMA IN THE DEATH HOUSE 2 – “I SAW RUTH SNYDER AND JUDD GRAY DIE IN THE CHAIR”

ERNEST JONES’S DEATH BOOK
A rare chance to see the notes kept by prison officers in the days before a British execution

MD FORUM: THE PUZZLING CASE OF THE LAST MAN IN ENGLAND HANGED FOR ATTEMPTED MURDER
A request from a Cheshire reader regarding a 19th- century murder

ONE LIFE OF CRIME: DAISY WAS ON A PATH TO THE GALLOWS
A cold-hearted poisoner from South Africa

WHO MURDERED THE MISSING MP?
The latest in the series Curious Stories Of Murder

NOT READY TO BE A FATHER
The horror murders of a heavily pregnant teenager and her unborn son

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