True Detective Winter Special 2015

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A collection of stories from True Detective, True Crime, Master Detective & Murder Most Foul.

 

VICTIMS FOR THE “ANGEL OF DEATH?”
After unexplained deaths in a Californian hospital, police found that one nurse had been on duty in intensive care at the times all the deaths occurred

KILLER HID INSIDE BED FOR TWO DAYS
A Heathrow airport hotel receptionist killed two of his colleagues and then evaded police, investigators and a pathologist by hiding at the crime scene

DID SOAP STAR KILL ACTRESS BECAUSE HIS LINES WERE CUT?
When a scriptwriter decided to “kill off” one of the stars in a Brazilian soap opera she could never have predicted that life would imitate art

YOUR LETTERS

HORROR AT THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
Two people were killed when the celebrations finished

ASTON VILLA FOOTBALLER GUNNED DOWN
Why was the club’s pin-up star murdered in his garden?

“I SAW DADDY KILL MOMMY”
She was just three and she witnessed what is arguably the most shocking sight imaginable…

LACK OF OXYGEN FOILED THE PERFECT MURDER
Con-man David Ryan cheated his way through the money of family and friends to fund a lifestyle he could never afford

THE MURDER OF BEATLE JOHN LENNON
The cold-blooded killing of one of the world’s most celebrated entertainers

PRISONERS’ BID TO EAT VICTIM’S LIVER
Two inmates who disembowelled a child rapist

SIXTEEN DIE IN CHRISTMAS MASSACRE
During the Christmas holidays in 1987, a retired United States Air Force sergeant decided to kill all the members of his family

FROM TIPPERARY: BURNING OF A “FAIRY WITCH”
The charred body of a woman was discovered in a shallow grave

TRAP TO CATCH A SEX KILLER
The police pulled out all the stops in a bid to catch the murderer

MURDER DOWN THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD
After an extensive search the body of a petite business analyst was discovered deep in the woods

HOLLYWOOD’S EVIL BONDAGE KILLER
The lethal career of a phony photographer-rapist

LAST MAN HANGED ON THE ISLE OF MAN
Pitchfork or shotgun – how was old John Kewish murdered?

DNA SOLVED 10-YEAR HUNT FOR GERALDINE’S SAVAGE KILLER
Nine years after raping and killing a young woman Mark Hampson’s temper erupted again, just as a psychological profiler had predicted…

VOICES TOLD DESTINY, “SHOOT TO KILL!”
A teenager shot her boyfriend in the face

WAS GLASGOW MAN MURDERED BY THE STATE?
After a night out, a young weaver was charged with assault and highway robbery – a capital offence at the time

SHOCKING CRIMES OF THE CANDY MAN
An American serial killer who, with two young accomplices, abducted, tortured and murdered at least 27 young men

LONDON MURDER: FROM BLITZ BABY TO BORSTAL TO THE CONDEMNED CELL
The night-watchman at a printing firm was attacked by burglars