True Crime Spring Special 2017

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MILTON JOHNSON: THE WEEKEND MURDERER
A killing spree in the summer of 1983 after the assailant was released early from a prison sentence for rape and torture

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“I’LL KILL COPS TILL I DIE”
From Northumbria, the story of Raoul Moat, a violent nightclub bouncer with a grudge against the police

“THEY SHOULD HAVE HANGED HIM OUTSIDE CITY HALL…”
Two teenage girls disappeared after taking a shortcut home

THE SHOCKING CRIMES OF ARTHUR ALBERT JONES
In the 1960s, two Girl Guides were attacked in separate incidents in Middlesex. Only one of them made it home

THE BUTCHER WHO BOILED HIS WIFE IN A VAT OF ACID
Chicago’s sausage vat murder

MURDER IN SLOUGH…BUT WOULD THEY HANG AUDREE’S LOVER?
A pretty filing clerk tried to end her romance with a young soldier – with dire consequences

THE LAST POLICE OFFICER MURDERERED ON DUTY IN WALES
Mystery in an air-raid shelter

THE GESTAPO’S DEADLY AGENT 73
During the Second World War a French woman was responsible for the torture and deportation of more than 100 French patriots

BOILING POINT: A WOMAN SCORNED
A woman poured a saucepan of scalding water over her ex-husband and then clubbed him around the head with a baseball bat

BECK LAUGHED AT HER HUSBAND’S MURDER
A highly decorated and respected fire chief was shot in the head as he lay on the sofa. His wife claimed it was the work of an intruder she had seen enter the house

MURDER OF A RUSSIAN SUPERMODEL
A former Miss Russia was in the wrong place at the wrong time

TEENAGE DIRTBAGS
A ten-year-old girl met a violent and terrifying end – the people who killed her were people she knew, and trusted…

NORWICH KILLER EXECTED AFTER 18 YEARS
In June 1851 a grisly murder in East Anglia captured the public imagination and ultimately ended in retribution

THE BLOODY GRISSOMS
Perverted grief and a sense of persecution led a farmer to murder three lawmen

HARD MAN OF ALCATRAZ
One of the greatest prison stories ever told

DEATH ROW FOR SEX BEAST
In December 2006, six months after his release, having served 23 years for attempted kidnapping and aggravated assault, police arrested Alfonso Rodriguez again

MIRROR OF DEATH
The body of a woman was found in a Chicago hotel room. The words scrawled on the mirror led to the confession by the killer

FAMILY MURDERED FOR THEIR FARM
Four female members of the same family died at their farmhouse in County Cavan

THE MAD SURGEON OF CROWTHORNE
A former American army surgeon became one of the largest contributors of quotations to the Oxford English Dictionary whilst being held in a lunatic asylum for murder