True Crime January 2023

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Highlights this issue include:

CASES FROM BRITAIN AND IRELAND…
MAJOR BRITISH MURDER CASES: MURDERER “NAMED BY VICTIM’S GHOST”
When Jacqueline Poole was found strangled to death in February 1983, a murder investigation got under way. It would take 18 years to bring the killer to justice. If only the word of a clairvoyant had been enough to convince a jury…

NEW SERIES – KILLERS RELEASED TO KILL AGAIN: “A DEEPLY DISTURBED PSYCHOPATH”
In the first part of a new series TC reports on the case of brutal double-killer Donald Forbes. He was destined for the gallows, following the brutal murder of a nightwatchman, but the justice system relented – with tragic consequences…

A COP-KILLER WITH NO HOPE
Constable Nathaniel Edgar was on a routine patrol in north London during a crime wave when he was shot by a burglar. Before he died, he noted down the killer’s name

FROM THE USA…
SISTERS SLAUGHTERED FOR THE SAKE OF “HONOUR”
Amina and Sarah Said were two teenage girls eager to embrace all that American life had to offer them. Trouble was, their father had a different idea about the way they should be living their lives and his controlling behaviour would have fatal consequences

GANGLAND CONFIDENTIAL: THE RISE AND TERRIBLE FALL OF GANGSTER GUS GREENBAUM
After the brutal murder of Bugsy Siegel, gangster Gus Greenbaum took over the management of casino operations at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas. A grisly fate awaited him too…

AND FROM THE REST OF THE WORLD…
WHEN SANTA ROBBED THE BANK
When an elegant Santa brought terror to a bank in Montreal

MURDER THE FRENCH WAY: SAINT-NAZAIRE HORROR IN THE PREDATOR’S CELLAR
Mystery surrounded the sudden disappearances, one year apart in Saint-Nazaire, of Nicole Grellier and Laetitia Molier. When their corpses were discovered on the same day, a prime suspect emerged

HOW SERIAL KILLER SISTERS WERE BROUGHT TO JUSTICE
Seema Gavit and Renuka Shinde were deadly sisters. The pair snatched children for their criminal ends – and then dispatched them mercilessly

ASK TC: THE LAST MEN HANGED
How a double-murder in Toronto and the shooting of a cop brought Arthur Lucas and Ronald Turpin to the gallows