True Crime April 2012

True Crime April 2012

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John Taylor was attractive to women but the attraction was deadly. Sadly,

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CASES FROM BRITAIN AND IRELAND…

RIDDLE OF THE THREE GRAVES
A brutal axe and knife murder in a Havant, Hampshire, wood in the days of Mods and Rockers

BRITAIN’S MAJOR MURDER CASES: A CATALOGUE OF RAPE AND MURDER
John Taylor was attractive to women but the attraction was deadly. Sadly it took our courts three goes to recognise him as the callous killer he really was…

SHE LOCKED HER LOVER IN A BURNING CUPBOARD
“I am sure this was not an assisted suicide. I am sure it was a premeditated killing. David Twigg did not want to die”

HARRY ALLEN’S CENTENARY CASEBOOK: FIVE ARE HANGED AT PENTONVILLE
It was supposed to be the “Nazi invasion from within.” But failure started bitter in-fighting among the defeated Germans and bloody recriminations soon followed…

LONDON’S GANGLAND PART 2: “I AM THE KING OF THE UNDERWORLD”
The life and crimes of Billy Hill – who, when he was asked to name his occupation, uttered those immortal words

“I CAN’T REMEMBER KILLING HER” plus “I HAD NO INTENTION OF USING THE KNIFE”
A fascinating study of similar murders in the early 1950s where two women were stabbed to death. So why did one man serve just six years and the other go to the gallows?

…FROM THE USA…

“WOULD SOMEONE KILL MY DAD, PLEASE?”
“Will you take care of my dad?” Danielle asked. “You know, rough him up real bad so he’s out of my life…”

AN EYE ON THE GAS CHAMBER
He had murdered once and been released when the police questioned him regarding the murder of a three-year-old girl

…AND THE REST OF THE WORLD

ASK TRUE CRIME: SHOCKING CRIMES OF THE BEAST OF THE BASTILLE
For five years he prowled the streets of Paris, his killing method following a predictable pattern

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