True Crime February 2022

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Highlights this issue include:

CASES FROM BRITAIN AND IRELAND…
MAJOR BRITISH MURDER CASES: THE SMILING KILLER ON THE HOSPITAL WARD
Working as a hospital nurse had given Kevin Cobb access to date-rape drugs. He had already killed one colleague by spiking her drink – but that didn’t stop him attacking others for sex

MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE?: TERROR ON TOTTENHAM MARSHES
Boys discovered the body of murdered Charlotte Cheeseman – and her boyfriend George Woolfe quickly became the prime suspect. Was he really guilty?

ASK TC: WILL WE EVER KNOW WHO KILLED KATRINA?
As a child Katrina Taylor had played the part of a murdered girl in a TV recreation of the Babes in the Woods case. Her tragic fate was to be murdered herself a decade later.

MURDER UNDER COVER OF WAR: WALSALL KILLING SPREE OF “THE CAPLESS SOLDIER”
Pals Violet Richards and Kitty Lyon had gone to pick blackberries. Little did they know that one of them would never make it home alive…

FROM THE USA…
CARLA’S KILLER WAS HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT
When teenager Carla Walker was raped and murdered in 1974, her home town of Benbrook, Texas, was horrified. Decades would pass before her killer was identified

THE HOUSE OF HORROR
The head of Bernie Connally had been found hidden in a sack. When investigators went in search of his killer they discovered that the young cotton-picker was not the only victim

GANGLAND CONFIDENTIAL: THE MOB THAT TERRORISED A CITY
How the Big Apple’s Harlem Mob were finally brought to justice

AND FROM THE REST OF THE WORLD…
SUE DID KILL BOB – BUT WHAT HAPPENED TO HIS BODY?
Because Bob Chappell had no enemies, police were baffled as to why anyone would want to kill him. But as they questioned his girlfriend their suspicions grew…

WITHIN INCHES OF MURDER
John Duncan was a regular on the Melbourne social scene. When he didn’t turn up for a dinner date two women went to his home. They discovered he was dead – and it nearly cost them their lives too

MURDER THE FRENCH WAY: HORRIFIC CASE OF THE EXPLODING CORPSE
Petrol had been poured down victim Thierry Lang’s throat before he was torched