True Crime August 2012

True Crime August 2012

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Legal history was made when TV cameras recorded the sentencing of a killer in a British court for the first time

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CASES FROM BRITAIN AND IRELAND…

HARRY ALLEN’S CENTENARY CASEBOOK: HOW AN ESCAPE FROM DARTMOOR CAUGHT DOREEN’S KILLER
Doreen Messenger was only 15 when her body was found on Haldon Moor in 1949

MURDER MONSTER’S SENTENCE TELEVISED
Legal history was made when TV cameras recorded the sentencing of a killer in a British court for the first time

“I FLOGGED MEN TO WITHIN AN INCH OF THEIR LIVES”
An article first published in 1956, after corporal punishment administered with the cat o’ nine tails had been abolished

THE NEED FOR THE CAT
An ex-convict puts his case for corporal punishment in convict prisons

BRITAIN’S MAJOR MURDER CASES: MYSTERY OF THE LADY IN THE LAKE
Shani Warren’s body was found in Buckinghamshire’s Taplow Lake in 1987. But was her death a suicide or has someone got away with murder?

RESEARCH & WRITE FOR TRUE CRIME: WHO KILLED GI BRIDE JOAN?
A murder case and photographs from reader
Carol Lovejoy from Nottingham

…FROM THE USA…

WAS GRANNY ILL OR EVIL?
To the untrained observer Carmela appears to be an evil woman who murdered her granddaughter as vengeance on the son-in-law she hated…

ASK TRUE CRIME: THE “STRICTLY COME DANCING” MURDER VICTIM
Joan Turner remembers the story of a ballroom dancing star who performed before the royal family before being murdered and dismembered

TWO VICTIMS FOR THE IMPECCABLE KILLER
Mild-mannered Elbert seemed to be a normal family man. Surely he would not be capable of committing any type of crime

LONELY HEARTS AD LED TO MURDER
Instead of meeting the man of her dreams Daniella found herself in a nightmare and on the ultimate date from hell

…AND THE REST OF THE WORLD

“WHEN I’M DEAD WILL YOU EAT ME?”
“I’ll help you die then I’ll eat you,” Matej told his internet clients. And when two young women vanished he seemed as good as his word…

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