True Crime February 2014

True Crime February 2014

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Twenty years have passed since the police began their search of 25 Cromwell Street. Yet down those years the horrific catalogue of crimes committed by Fred and Rose

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CASES FROM BRITAIN AND IRELAND…

SECRET DIARY OF A MURDERED WIFE
As a former mayor of Cromer, Keith Johnson was a well-known and well-respected figure. But when he was alone with his wife he would “change like the devil…”

MAJOR BRITISH MURDER CASES: THE TERRIBLE CRIMES OF FRED AND ROSE PART 1
Twenty years have passed since the police began their search of 25 Cromwell Street. Yet down those years the horrific catalogue of crimes committed by Fred and Rose have not lost any of their power to shock and appall

FROM IRELAND: THE WIDOW WHO WITNESSED A GHASTLY MURDER
We turn the clock back to April 1926 when a census form collection in the newly-established Irish Free State uncovered a murder in County Wexford

COUNTRY HOUSE KILLINGS PART NINE: MINNIE’S LETHAL LOVE AFFAIR
Scholey was happy enough until the day he saw Minnie again. Then he became determined to make her his own, regardless of her marriage and family

ASK TRUE CRIME: CLUE OF THE BLOODIED TRUNCHEON
A request from a reader in Havant regarding the murder of Miss Susannah Emberton in Croydon in 1932

…FROM THE USA

HORROR KILLING THAT PUT EMILIA ON DEATH ROW
Emilia Carr has become one of only five women on Florida’s Death Row following a murder that was described as like something from “a horror movie”

LOTTERY MILLIONAIRE COMMITS MURDER
Winning nearly $2 million on the lottery should have made Freddie a happy man. Yet three months later a moment of madness left him with nothing but sadness and regret

GRANDMA IN MURDER-FOR-HIRE PLOT
The case had more than a touch of The Sopranos about it: a disturbed Italian-American boy and his cranky 77-year-old mother out shopping for a hit-man

TRUE CRIMES OF DAYS GONE BY: DUEL TO THE DEATH WITH A KILLER
He was known as “Machine-Gun Kos” by his friends. And Francis Kolakowski tried to live up to his nickname with a one-man crime wave…

…AND THE REST OF THE WORLD

ANATOMY OF A SERIAL KILLER – THE RHINE-RUHR RIPPER
“There is something inadequate in me,” Frank admitted. “I would see a pretty woman and I would visualise ways in which I would torture her, hurt her, slaughter her and dismember her…”

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