True Detective Winter Special 2012

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

* TD’S CRIME PHOTOS

* MICHELLE’S MISSED CONNECTIONS
A 21-year-old student borrowed a stranger’s mobile phone to call her friends but they would never see her alive again

* CANNIBAL CHEF COOKED HIS BOYFRIEND
A former Mr. Gay UK walked into a Chinese takeaway and said “I have killed someone who tried to rape me. Call the police”

* BOURNEMOUTH’S FIRST MURDER
A stable hand made history after shooting his foreman in the head

* THE TRUTH BEHIND THE MURDER OF RACHEL NICKELL
The definitive account of one of Britain’s most infamous cases

* YOUR LETTERS

* THE MYSTERIOUS MURDER IN CELL NO. 5
In a Philippines prison a convict was inexplicably strangled in his cell

* “I’M GOING TO BE FAMOUS”
Boasted killer who wanted to be a second Jack the Ripper

* MISTRESS WITH A DEADLY OBSESSION
A case likened to the film Fatal Attraction, where an heiress was charged with the murder of her lover’s wife

* WHEN HANNAH GOT PREGNANT SHE HAD TO DIE
Death in Donegal

* 199-YEAR SENTENCE FOR MARBLE MILDRED
A Chicago housewife claimed her husband had shot himself in the back

* WHY OLDHAM’S TEENAGE KILLER “RAN” TO THE GALLOWS
A crime of passion from Lancashire

* THE ZODIAC KILLINGS
It is the great American serial-killer mystery – 44 years on and still unsolved

* DARK DEEDS ON THE RIVIERA
The murder of Lord Shaftesbury

* TRAVELLER LEFT CORPSES AS HIS VISITING CARD
Serial killer Francis Heaulme’s travels left grieving relatives all over France

* INCREDIBLE CASE OF THE MURDEROUS BUTLER
Roy Archibald Hall killed his gay lover, his mistress, a half-brother and a former Labour minister and his wife – all in just six weeks

* WIFE BURIED IN SOUTH AMERICAN FOREST
Police dug up a garden in Willesden, north London, but what they were searching for was 4,000 miles away

* HOLYHEAD’S MURDER ON CHRISTMAS DAY
Gwen had been strangled, had her throat cut, and for good measure was drowned in a rain-filled ditch

* THE SERIAL KILLER WHO COULDN’T KEEP A SECRET
It took nearly 30 years to bring Adolph Laudenberg to justice after he had raped and murdered four women

* LUCK RUNS OUT FOR “LUCKIEST MAN ALIVE”
His whole family benefited from this lottery-winner’s generosity. But his reward for helping one of them was to be shot in
cold blood by her and her boyfriend

* NINETY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD IN LOVE TRIANGLE MURDER
Norma’s skull was smashed with an aluminium crutch

* PETER MANUEL – SCOTLAND’S WORST EVER SERIAL KILLER
Did he kill eight, nine…or more?