True Crime July 2008

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CASES FROM BRITAIN AND IRELAND…

VALLEYS OF DEATH: THE HENGOED CARAVAN MURDER
In a small area of South Wales four murders happened in 18 months. The first was a brutal stabbing of a young mother…

WHO STOLE THE IRISH CROWN JEWELS?
A sensational robbery in Dublin drew King Edward VII, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and explorer Ernest Shackleton’s wayward brother into the intrigue…

QUESTIONABLE EVIDENCE: “THEY GAVE ME THE THIRD DEGREE”
He claimed he had been beaten to make him confess – but they still hanged him

RELEASED TO KILL AGAIN: THE FLASHBACK MURDERS
In the army James Johnson had been a hero – but at what cost to those he killed back in the civilian world?

MYSTERIES OF POISON PART 9: TRIPLE-KILLING AT LANCASTER CASTLE
There had been many deaths inside the walls of the old castle, but none so strange as those of the Bingham family

CASES FROM EUROPE…

HOW MANY VICTIMS FOR ANDERS EKLUND?
The killer of a young girl confessed to her murder – and police noticed that a number of unsolved cases had the same modus operandi

SHE KILLED TO WATCH HER VICTIMS DIE
A spate of unexplained deaths amongst the elderly and ill in Saint-Gilles seemed unrelated – until police looked at the medical staff…

TRAGIC END TO A RURAL IDYLL
The Werner family took years to create a country paradise, but it all came to an end in one fateful afternoon

…AND FROM THE USA

ASK TRUE CRIME: THE ACTRESS AND THE SERIAL KILLER
He was a self-confessed serial killer and she a beautiful blonde but was her fascination for him based on his personality – or publicity?

CRIMES OF PASSION: PATRICIA’S DEADLY GAME OF REVENGE
As they removed the four scorched bodies from the house the authorities had no idea that the dead were murder victims

MARRY ‘EM AND MILK ‘EM
Seven brides for one lover

THE MYSTERIOUS CASE OF THE BLACK SOCK
The old man had finally succeeded in committing suicide – but a sock next to his bodychanged the coroner’s verdict