VALLEYS OF DEATH: THE HENGOED CARAVAN MURDER In a small area of South Wales four murders happened in 18 months. The first was a brutal stabbing of a young mother…
Elegant, studious, quietly spoken Jean-Claude Romand was a brilliant doctor, medical researcher and pillar of the local community. He worked on secret projects at the World Health Organisation in Geneva, Switzerland, and was on the verge of a breakthrough
Quite by chance, religion seems to hold sway over this month’s issue. Psychopath Earle Nelson didn’t bother to cover his tracks, but for over a year this feral killer used his inhuman strength to rape and murder at will right across America
CRIMES OF PREJUDICE Mississippi Burning was the film and offical codename for the disappearance and murders of three civil rights workers in Neshoba by the Ku Klux Klan. Klaus Barbie became known as the ‘Butcher of Lyon’ during World War II
POLITICAL KILLINGS Sacco and Vanzetti were two poor Italian immigrants. On April 15th, 1920 a paymaster and his guard were shot dead. The description of the suspects as ‘looking like Italians’ was enough for detectives to arrest the two anarchists
MURDER FOR PROFIT Grandmotherly Dorothea Puente ran a boarding house in California. She also became known as the Black Widow of Sacramento because her tenants usually ended up resting beneath her lawn. Michael X modelled himself on his hero Malcolm X
FROM COAST TO COAST Ted Bundy was a charmer but beneath this veneer was a brutal serial killer who murdered at least thirty six girls and young women between 1974 and 1978. Despite his capture, he escaped twice to kill again before he was electrocuted
SOMBODY KILLED THE PRESIDENT! James Garfield was known as the last of the ‘log cabin’ presidents of the United States. Restoring prestige to the Presidency after the Reconstruction period he was assassinated in his prime by an embittered attorney.
GANGLAND MURDERS Al Capone was the most powerful gangster in history, personally killing his enemies and ordering the St. Valentine’s Day massacre. Lucky Luciano established Murder Inc., the assassination arm of the Mafia until his ‘luck’ ran out
This casebook gives a fascinating insight into how evidence, gleaned by some of Britain’s most famous forensic scientists, solved many of the classic murder cases in the twentieth century. By John Sanders
It seemed incredible. A family doctor respected and trusted by his patients for more than a generation was accused of callously murdering them, disposing of one simply because she was "a nuisance"
Between November 1993 and February 1994 three youths were found dead in districts around Sunderland. All had been set on fire and by that time police were sure the victims had been murdered.
In the summer of 1995 John Doran, 76, a retired coal miner who had spent nearly 50 years down the mines, entered Vermillion County Hospital in Clinton, Indiana,
"My man’s not for sharing" Right from when her husband had taken her in his arms on her wedding night, Liz Parker had given her heart, her thoughts and her body entirely to him. For Liz it was as simple as that. Once you gave something, you never took i