True Crime October 2014

True Crime October 2014

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Couple buried wife’s parents in the garden and for 15 years they got away with it…

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FROM BRITAIN…

COUPLE BURIED WIFE’S PARENTS IN THE GARDEN
Susan and Christopher Edwards acted together in their joint plan. And for 15 years they got away with it through lies and deception. But then they ran out of money…

MAJOR BRITISH MURDER CASES: THE LAST MAN HANGED IN LONDON
It’s 53 years since a man plunged through the trap-doors of Wandsworth’s gallows for the final time. Read about the double-murder that put Hendryk Niemasz there…

ASK TRUE CRIME: BIRMINGHAM’S MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF AMELIA PEPLOW
It was a day George Marshall would never forget. First, his wife gave birth to a daughter. Then a few hours later, he discovered a dead woman’s body. So begins this remarkable tale from 1960s Birmingham, requested by a TC reader…

TOO YOUNG TO VOTE, OLD ENOUGH TO HANG: NO VISITORS FOR THE YOUNGSTER WAITING TO DIE
Yorkshire provided the setting for the first killing of England’s “Bloodstained September” of 1903 in which 10 murders were committed in eight days. The jury recommended mercy on account of the perpetrator’s youth but the judge said it was a very bad murder…

FROM AMERICA…

TOYBOY MURDERED HIS ELDERLY WIFE – OR DID HE?
For two decades jobless fantasist Albrecht Muth and journalist and socialite Viola Drath were the most bizarre couple on the Washington DC social scene, after marrying when she was 71 and he was just 26. But their marriage had a dark side, and when she was found dead on her bathroom floor suspicion gathered around her Iraqi-general-posing husband…

53 WOMEN EXECUTED: PART TWO OF A NEW SERIES
Anna Antonio became the 12th woman to die from a total of 53 executed in America between 1903 and 2013. Her story and those of seven other female killers are recounted this month as we explore the crimes that put them in the death chamber…

TRUE CRIMES OF DAYS GONE BY: WILLIE SUTTON – KING OF THE BANK ROBBERS
Known as “The Actor,” Sutton became infamous in and out of the underworld. His crimes and prison escapes turned him into the most notorious bank robber in American history…

…AND FROM FRANCE

GUILLOTINE FOR FAMILY KILLER
Jean-Baptiste Troppmann was a young engineer prepared to do anything to make his fortune – even if it meant murdering an entire family…

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