True Crime March 2022

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Highlights this issue include:

CASES FROM BRITAIN AND IRELAND…
MAJOR BRITISH MURDER CASES: YOUNG MEN WHO MURDER THEIR PARENTS FOR MONEY
When jobless Thomas Schreiber launched a deadly knife attack on wealthy father figure Sir Richard Sutton and his mother he became the latest in a long line of killers who target parents for financial gain…

ASK TC: TWO WOMEN KILLED IN MOTORWAY MURDERS
The 1970 motorway rape and murders of Barbara Mayo and Jaccie Ansell-Lamb were linked by DNA matches. But, more than half a century later, the identity of their killer remains a mystery

MURDER UNDER COVER OF WAR: WHICH SOLDIER MURDERED MARGUERITE?
There were two suspects in the murder of Marguerite Burge, a member of the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force, and four different accounts of what had happened…

MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE?: STRANGE CASE OF THE TWO FREDS
Frederick Field and Frederick Murphy had a great deal in common. Both confessed to a murder and then changed their story and were acquitted. And both were convicted of a second murder. But did they both actually deserve to go to the gallows?

FROM THE USA…
$21 MILLION: THE PRICE OF ONE MAN’S FREEDOM
When Rhonda Wicht and her four-year-old son Donnie were found slain in their California home in November 1978, her boyfriend Craig Coley’s life changed forever. Cops identified him as their prime suspect – and set in motion a terrible miscarriage of justice that would take decades to reverse

GANGLAND CONFIDENTIAL: ONE-WAY TICKET TO THE DEATH HOUSE
December 1941 in New York City and the five mobsters playing cards decided to end the game and go out on a robbery. They were armed and very dangerous, and when brave patrolman Thomas Casey challenged them, he paid with his life

AND FROM THE REST OF THE WORLD…
MURDER THE FRENCH WAY: SHOCKING CRIMES OF THE BEAST OF THE BASTILLE
For five years Guy Georges prowled the streets of Paris looking for attractive women to rape and kill. Tragically, a muddled investigation enabled the monster’s reign of terror to continue far longer than it should have done

NEWS & VIEWS
Comment, Chronicles Of Crime,, Movie Quiz

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