True Crime April 2023

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Highlights this issue include:

CASES FROM BRITAIN AND IRELAND…
MAJOR BRITISH MURDER CASES: CRUEL WIFE MURDERED DISABLED HUSBAND FOR CASH
As a young man, Dominic McCarthy had been left paralysed after a motorbike accident. But cruel luck was not the worst thing life had in store for him

LAST MEN ON THE GALLOWS: CORNISH KILLERS COULDN’T BREAK THE £3,000 CODE
When farmer William Rowe was found beaten and stabbed to death, a murder inquiry began. The killers had been after his fortune but escaped with only £4

KILLERS RELEASED TO KILL AGAIN: “MY WIFE’S BURIED UNDER THE KITCHEN”
Scotsman Peter Robertson had killed his first wife, Sandra. And on his release from prison he started a relationship with her friend Margaret – with equally tragic consequences

ASK TC: BRADFORD’S MURDER ON THE DOORSTEP
Sam Gray had spent the Second World War serving in the Far East – and survived. Going home to be reunited with his wife proved a fatal mistake

FROM THE USA…
“MY HUSBAND JUST DIED – WHERE’S MY INSURANCE MONEY?”
At first it looked like Chad Entzel’s death was a terrible tragedy – after a raging inferno somehow broke out at his home in North Dakota. But the autopsy on his remains told a different story. Could his widow Nikki Entzel come up with an explanation?

GANGLAND CONFIDENTIAL: THE CRIMES THAT PUT FATS AND TWO-GUN IN THE ELECTRIC CHAIR
New Yorker Francis “Two-Gun” Crowley and his partner in crime Rudolph “Fats” Durringer were destined not to make old bones. Their robbery and murder spree ended with a shoot-out with police

DRAG QUEEN DORIAN HAD A SKELETON (LITERALLY) IN HER CUPBOARD
When she died, the Ballroom world mourned the passing of Dorian Corey. Then a body was discovered in the closet at her apartment and suspicion grew that she’d been a killer

AND FROM THE REST OF THE WORLD…
MURDER THE FRENCH WAY: KILLER HAD HIS OWN “BERMUDA TRIANGLE”
Romance had twice driven Jean-Claude Douliéry to kill. And he believed he’d found the perfect place to dispose of his victims’ bodies

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