True Crime Spring Special 2009

True Crime Spring Special 2009

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EALING’S EVIL MR. RIPLEY Fabio Pereira not only took John Goodman’s life…

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A bumper collection of stories from the pages of True Crime, Master Detective, True Detective and Murder Most Foul:

EALING’S EVIL MR. RIPLEY
Fabio Pereira not only took John Goodman’s life, he also stole his identity and lived as his victim for months before the net closed in on him.

“MOMMY, WHEN I DIE I DON’T WANT TO BE BURIED…”
A 16-year-old schoolgirl was viciously attacked by a long-time family acquaintance

THE HOLY MAN WHO LOVED TO STRANGLE WOMEN
He was devoted to his church but he had a secret, deadly obsession

RIDDLE OF THE FROZEN BODY
From Hertfordshire, the Anne Noblett case has remained a puzzle for 50 years. Who undressed and then dressed her frozen body? And where had it been kept for a month?

JOHN LEE AND THE MAKING OF A “STAR”
A look at the life of John Lee, the Devon killer they could not hang.

THE HUSBAND WHO COULDN’T KEEP A GOOD WIFE DOWN
She was “buried” at sea off Florida’s Gulf Coast, with a bedsheet over her head and weighted with three cinder blocks… yet these desperate measures failed to keep the unwanted wife down

WOULD THEY STILL HANG “QUEER” GEORGE?
A fascinating case from Belfast that saw the hangman brought out of retirement

BRADFORD’S “SAFE HOUSE” MURDER
The tragic case of a victim of domestic violence who thought she was safe from danger

DEADLY GAME OF HIDE & SEEK
A jilted lover turned into a violent killer

THE TATTOOED TORSO
The would-be killer concealed himself in a cupboard armed with a revolver and a dagger…

NEWCASTLE’S "GET CARTER" MURDER
The Newcastle clubland killing that inspired the film "Get Carter"

ST. VALENTINE’S DAY MURDER
Behind the sad pleas for help to find his missing fiancée lay the story of a man who knew much more than he was telling

BIRMINGHAM KILLER SAVED FROM THE GALLOWS
In 1957, a barman was shot three times at point-blank range…

PREACHER MAN SLAIN IN SEX SESSION
The case of the Arizona millionaire and the Oriental stripper

ECHOES OF COLUMBINE: “GREETINGS FROM THE DEAD”
From America, two chilling cases of campus killers

NO WAY TO MURDER YOUR HUSBAND
A wife masterminded an attack on her husband, a US Marine

THE RIVERSIDE KILLER
Did he put his victims’ breasts into his
prize-winning chilli?

FULLY EQUIPPED FOR MURDER
Despite several complaints about her former lover’s behaviour, the police took no action

THE JUSTICE MINISTER THEY SHOULD HAVE HANGED
How a former Minister of Justice ended up on trial for his life

“SHE FELL ON A TIN-OPENER,” HUSBAND TOLD POLICE
From Brighton, the case of a wife who was killed for spilling cooking oil

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