True Crime Spring Special 2008

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This collection of cases from the pages of True Crime, Master Detective, True Detective and Murder Most Foul brings you a concentrated dose of the best stories from across the world, reporting many aspects of crime. It all adds up to a fascinating cocktail of true crime. Read, enjoy…and let us know what you think.

THE SHOCKING CRIMES OF DUFFY AND MULCAHY

The deadly partnership of the "Railway Rapists" began when they were 11-year-olds

THE DRUNKEN DEMON OF FOREST GLADE

A 15-year-old schoolgirl was viciously attacked in east London on her way home

BEST FRIEND HAMMERS "BRUV" TO DEATH

A Cardiff man was brutally killed by a life-long friend and then put in his car that was set on fire

THE WIFE WITH A SMOKING GUN

The jury had to decide whether to send a young wife to the electric chair or set her free after she shot her husband three times in the back

DEATH FOR KILLING COUPLE

Iowa’s first death penalty case in over 40yrs

THE ST. VALENTINE’S DAY MASSACRE

One of the most notorious gangland slayings in history. Seven men shot dead by Al Capone’s gunmen

FIVE-YEAR HUNT FOR NEW YORK’S MAD AXEMAN

It looked as though the case to the find the murderer of a retired New York businessman would remain unsolved until the arrest of a drunk in California five years later

A LIFE OF FEAR FOR THE REAL WISEGUYS

Henry Hill’s life featured in the move ‘Goodfellas’. Since becoming a police informant his life has never been the same, living in constant fear of Mafia revenge

BOY MURDERER TO MONSTER…

A homicidal maniac with a history of extreme violence buries one of his victims alive

OLDEST WOMAN IN BRITAIN TO BE CHARGED WITH MURDER

After stabbing her ill husband as he lay in the bed, the 81-year-old granny staged a burglary and made a TV appeal to catch his killers

THE HUNGERFORD MASSACRE

How Michael Ryan went on a killing spree in a small Berkshire town in 1987

HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN

Was the victim killed as an offering in a ritual sacrifice?

TO KILL AND KILL AGAIN

The Dracula killer who believed his heart would shrink if he did not drink human blood

THE TROUBLE IS I CAN’T STOP POISONING PEOPLE

Rhonda Belle Martin poisoned several members of her own family

MURDERED ON HER WEDDING DAY

The dramatic shooting of a bride-to-be was captured on video

BURNING OF A FAIRY WITCH

The charred body of a woman was discovered in a shallow grave in Tipperary

THE TERRIBLE CRIMES OF "UNCLE PADDY"

Two missing children were found murdered in the communal toilet of an Edinburgh tenement

26 LIFE SENTENCES FOR THE WEST MIDLANDS SPREE-KILLER

The killer who preyed on the elderly and frail

BTK KILLER CAUGHT

Dennis Rader eluded the police for 30 years before his was finally arrested

SEX ON TAP FOR PAM THE HUSBAND KILLER

The notorious murderess Pamela Smart persuaded her 15-year-old lover and his friends to kill her husband