True Crime May 2012

True Crime May 2012

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An armed raid on a jeweller’s shop left a brave police chief dead and led to a nationwide hunt for his callous killer

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CASES FROM BRITAIN AND IRELAND…

HARRY ALLEN’S CENTENARY CASEBOOK: LANDLADY GAVE HIM THE KISS OF DEATH
There was often a sense of unease and fear at the large number of strangers that had to be absorbed into rural communities following the last war. In one Gloucestershire village those fears were justified…

BRITAIN’S MAJOR MURDER CASES: MURDER BEHIND BLACKPOOL’S GOLDEN MILE
An armed raid on a jeweller’s shop left a brave police chief dead and led to a nationwide hunt for his callous killer

LONDON’S GANGLAND PART 3: DARBY SABINI
“Compared to Darby Sabini all the other British gang leaders down the years have been merely messenger boys. But Darby had it all. He ended up creating a criminal empire the likes of which Britain had never seen before”

ASK TRUE CRIME: WRITTEN IN BLOOD, AN EDWARDIAN MURDER FROM GATESHEAD
The murder in September 1905 of Gateshead teenager Harriet Walls by her fiancé Robert Cummings, a “man who deserved to be hanged”

OLD TIME MOVIE QUIZ
Win a pair of cinema tickets – plus £25 – by answering a crime-related movie question

RESEARCH & WRITE FOR TRUE CRIME: “THE EVIL WAS IN HER EYES”
“We sat down and talked. Then I saw it! The evil. It was in her eyes, but I wasn’t going to let it get her. I plucked it out of her head and we screamed with happiness!”…a murder case and pictures from Somerset submitted by reader Deborah O’Connell

…AND FROM THE USA

“MOM’S DEAD. HER BODY’S IN THE TRUNK”
The witness was confused and had little idea what was really happening. “You say Maureen’s in the truck. So why don’t you come in? I’ll make some coffee”

DID CAREY REHEARSE HER HUSBAND’S MURDER?
The woman’s story changed each time she told it – and the laundry scenario was becoming more and more important to her each time she did…

THE KILLER WHO HUNTED HUNTERS IS DEAD
The life – and recent death in prison – of a cold-blooded killer who ambushed five men from a distance

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