True Crime January 2021

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Highlights this issue include:

CASES FROM BRITAIN…
MAJOR BRITISH MURDER CASES: CHARLOTTE’S KILLER DENIED GUILT UNTIL THE END
Nicholas Rose died, aged 37, in 2019, having spent the last 14 years of his life behind bars. He claimed that he had been wrongfully convicted – on the basis of circumstantial evidence – of the murder of Devon teenager Charlotte Pinkney. But if Rose didn’t kill her, who did?

NEW SERIES: THE DEFENCE RESTS, PART ONE – “WE SAVED YOUR CLIENT FROM THE GALLOWS”
The life and times of Sir Edward Marshall Hall, perhaps Britain’s greatest-ever defence counsel

MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE?: THE “MARRIED” WITNESS AND A GAME OF MURDER
Young soldier John Bainbridge was dealt the Ace of Spades, which identified him as the murderer, in a New Year’s Eve party game. But had he actually killed neighbour and family friend Edward Herdman earlier that evening?

FROM THE USA…
AMANDA’S BOYFRIEND HAD TO SUFFER AND DIE – SO SHE COULD HAVE SEX WITH HER DAD
Three weeks after Amanda McClure and her father Larry murdered her boyfriend John McGuire, they crossed the state line to Virginia to get married…

ASK TC: SEX AFTER MURDER – DAUGHTER AND BOYFRIEND PLOTTED MONSTROUS MOM’S DEATH
For years Dee Dee Blanchard abused and tortured her daughter Gypsy Rose by claiming that she suffered from cancer, muscular dystrophy and other ailments when she did not. But the twisted single mother would pay a terrible price for her cruelty…

GANGLAND CONFIDENTIAL:
BEFORE TORRIO, BEFORE CAPONE, THERE WAS… COLOSIMO
The rise and reign of Chicago crime boss Giacomo Vincenzo Colosimo, the first major crime boss of the modern era

AND FROM THE REST OF THE WORLD…
MURDER THE FRENCH WAY: DERISORY SENTENCE FOR WELSH SCHOOL-TEACHER’S SAVAGE KILLER
School-teacher Fiona Jones was in France on holiday to celebrate her first wedding anniversary. Tragically, she became the random victim of a sexual inadequate armed with a butcher’s knife

NEWS & VIEWS
Comment, Chronicles Of Crime and Movie Quiz

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