True Crime July 2023

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Highlights this issue include:

CASES FROM BRITAIN AND IRELAND…
MAJOR BRITISH MURDER CASES: THE BEAST OF CANNOCK CHASE
In the 1960s, Britain was horrified by the abduction, rape and murder of three little girls in the Midlands. Hard-working and intelligent, Raymond Morris was the last person you’d have expected to have commit such appalling crimes. Yet he did…

ASK TC: DUBLIN’S “HOUSE OF HORRORS” MURDER
Grandmother Patricia O’Connor, 61, had been missing for nearly two weeks from her home in Churchtown, Dublin, when a human torso was discovered by a couple out picnicking in the Wicklow Mountains. It signalled the beginning of a murder investigation like no other

LAST MEN ON THE GALLOWS: TOO YOUNG TO HANG?
In the twilight years of capital punishment in Great Britain, the case of the Worthing Bank Robbery murderer Victor Terry proved controversial

TAMWORTH’S SHOTGUN TERROR
She was the love of his life, but Lily Spencer had left Frederick Williams and gone off and married another man. Now he was after revenge…

KILLERS RELEASED TO KILL AGAIN: HORRIFIC CRIMES OF MIDDLESBROUGH’S OUT-OF-CONTROL KILLER
Mark Nigel Robinson was still a teenager when he committed his first murder, taking the life of a mother in her early 30s. But a decade behind bars failed to reform him. Weeks after he’d regained his freedom, another life was taken

FROM THE USA…
HALLOWEEN HORROR AS ANDREA SLAYS PARENTS
The shocking killings of devoted Maine parents Antonio and Alice Balcer at the hands of their transgender daughter

GANGLAND CONFIDENTIAL: WHO STRANGLED THE QUEEN OF BLACKMAILERS?
The story of Vivian Gordon, the flame-haired racketeer and blackmailer of New York

KILLING HIS WIFE WASN’T ROCKET SCIENCE
Renowned rocket scientist Dr. Andrew Pakhomov advised the US government, but science and not murder was definitely his speciality

AND FROM THE REST OF THE WORLD…
MURDER THE FRENCH WAY: HE SLAUGHTERED OLD LADIES
Yvan Keller confessed to eight murders but police suspected him of many more

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