True Crime March 2018

True Crime March 2018

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In 2008, Mark Dixie was imprisoned for life for the rape and murder of teenager Sally Anne Bowman…

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FROM BRITAIN AND IRELAND…

MAJOR BRITISH MURDER CASES: SALLY ANNE’S BRUTAL KILLER WAS MULTIPLE RAPIST TOO
In 2008, Mark Dixie was imprisoned for life for the rape and murder of teenager Sally Anne Bowman. Now he has finally admitted killing the aspiring model and been given two further life sentences for two previous rapes.

NEW SERIES – THEY MET ON THE GALLOWS: “I JUST DONE THAT WOMAN IN”
John Wilson and Benjamin Roberts were both County Durham coal miners – and in August 1949 they both became killers, too. Although the pair lived only a few miles apart they were unacquainted but a date at the gallows of Durham Prison would bring them together…

DEATH ON THE RAILWAY: WARTIME HEROINE MURDERED ON THE LONDON UNDERGROUND
She spent terrifying war years in Auschwitz and had made a new life for herself in London as a social activist. Was the death of Polish resistance fighter Countess Teresa Lubienska a political assassination or a robbery gone wrong?

ASK TRUE CRIME: BRIGHTON’S BLUE GARDENIA MURDER
Larger-than-life club owner Harvey Holford and his wife Christine seemed happy enough when they first got married. But a sensational tragedy was just round the corner.

FROM THE USA…

BUNGLE THAT PAVED THE WAY FOR A GIRL’S FRENZIED DEATH
In the summer of 2013, 24-year-old former cheerleader Amy Lord was stabbed to death by psychotic sex-crazed Edwin Alemany. Tragically lapse police work had allowed the killer to remain at large…

GANGLAND CONFIDENTIAL: “THE DUTCH SCHULTZ I KNEW”
Frances Flegenheimer’s account of her astonishing gangster’s wife life with New York’s most notorious Prohibition-era racketeer.

…AND FROM THE REST OF THE WORLD

MURDER THE FRENCH WAY: FRENCH MAID WAS A MASS KILLER
When servant Hélène Jégado didn’t like someone, she served them soup laced with arsenic…

SOUTH AFRICA’S SUPERCOP: 38 VICTIMS FOR THE ABC KILLER
Posing as a charity boss, smiling Moses Sithole began a horrific campaign of revenge killings against women.

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