“When I read about the murders in the paper it was as if it was all a dream. Then I would resume my life as normal until the urge to kill the soldier came over me again and I’d go on the hunt again.
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In 1922 William and Helen Harkness were accused of the murder of a teenage girl. What came out at their trial above all else was the story of a desperate
FROM NEWCASTLE: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION “I have murdered my entire family,” the caller said. Five minutes later police were confronted with a horrific sight
RELEASED TO KILL AGAIN: “I HOPE HE HAS NIGHTMARES FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE” Within two months of his release from a murder sentence the violent giant killed again
Perfect husband used poisoned condoms. Cheri’s husband was so desperate to continue his affairs – he resorted to the most twisted way to get rid of her.
Tragedy Ended Their Flight Of Fancy Horror In Accrington: Evil Stepfather’s Vicious Revenge Gail’s Deadly Secret The World’s Worst Killers Part 6 * From Wales: Unique Evidence Of The Signed Stamp * Licked! – By A Postage Stamp * Murder In Th
Why Moors murdered Ian Brady is unhappy… Gerald and Charlene Gallego – the couple who slay together… Devon’s murderous kidnapper Keith Rose pumped six bullets into tycoon’s wife Juliet Rowe
FROM IRELAND: THE BITTER LIFE OF A DISGRACED PREDATOR The list of possible killers would no doubt have been a long one. But who did cut the octogenarian’s throat?
DUBLIN CHILD-KILLER WAS POLICE INFORMER There are some deviant types who linger on the edge of the law, filled with a mix of fascination and twisted egotism. Such a person was John Delahunt…
Just over seven years ago, in the September 2001 issue, Master Detective described Barry George’s conviction for the murder of Jill Dando as “The Verdict That Shocked The Nation.” From the very beginning there were doubts about the safety of George’s conv
Everything in the case was bizarre. There was a wedding reception for a marriage that never took place, a “hit-man for hire” website, a woman calling herself Lyingeyes and a deadly poison concealed in a contact lens
15 Classic Murder Cases Britain’s village of death Bloodbath at the nook What Nellie gave her landlord Whitchapel’s Tom Thumb killer The Ruth Ellis tragedy
Feature on the lonely hearts killers like Brian Vale, Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez, Harry Powers, Vienna’s Elfriede Blauensteiner. The young music student who was killed by a young man from a poor Indian village. Plus lots of more….
Truth is stranger than fiction, they say, and this issue of True Detective certainly confirms that. Nick Yarris’s story could not have been made up. After spending 23 years on Death Row for a crime he did not commit, Nick became the first man in…
Do you believe in miracles? Ashley Smith did and persuaded the man who was holding her hostage in her apartment to believe in them too. Not only did Ashley persuade him to give himself up, she also converted him to Christianity. Now he wants to spread the
Her relationship was a sham masquerading as "the best marriage in the universe," Nancy Kissel confided to a friend in an email from Hong Kong, where she and her husband were living. Nancy’s way of dealing with this was somewhat unconventional – she spiked
This issue is full of fascinating crime stories both past and present from around the globe which gives you an opportunity to compare and contrast cases.
The vanishing. A mystery from Colorado. At first it seemed that Paul Skiba had abducted his daughter Sarah after his ex-wife talked of moving to Oregon. But police soon realised that not only was Sarah missing but so was her father and one of his employe
Was Jack The Ripper an American? A retired British cop says he was, and has produced startling evidence to back his theory – including a letter from Scotland Yard named Francis J. Tumblety as the most likely suspect.
The Salcombe murders are solved at last. On May Day, 1975, John Allen disposed of his wife without too many questions being asked, but his children presented a further problem. He had to murder them and concoct a foolproof alibi, one that would stand the
Lynda Block from Alabama – was she the last to die in the electric chair? Lynda was not usual inhabitant of Death Row. She’d had a privileged upbringing with well-heeled parents, and was respected member of her comunity. So how did she end up in the elec
From Germany the couple who became Vampire Killers. Part 1 in the series ‘These Women Were Deadly’. The story of Evelyn Dick. In this astonishing case Evelyn kept human bones in her attic next to her baby’s corpse that was encased in cement. She was s
These women were deadly – the story of Addie Mae Lemoine. From New York, the madman’s laughing message ‘Tristian’s on the floor in…five, six, seven pieces". He has caught and arrested in Central Park, New York, reading a newspaper report about the hu
Deadly women can be found on any continent but Australian Katherine Knight must be one of the most vicious. She cold-bloodedly made love to her partner of seven years then stabbed him repeatedly as he desperately tried to escape from her. What happened ne
This issue tackles the thorny subject of capital punishment in Australia and the United States. We have compiled a definitive list of the men and women hanged in Australia between 1900 and 1967 and relate the controversial case of Ronald Ryan, the last ma
How did a slightly built woman, weighing only 112lbs, have the strength to kill her husband, chop him up with a power saw, stuff his body into three suitcases, and throw them over Chesapeake Bay Bridge? The jury didn’t know but decided it was possible, an
This brand-new sequel to True Crime Library¹s riveting bestseller Women on Death Row tells the astonishing stories of the women executed in America since our first volume was published plus a great deal more
As recently as the 1960s, convicted murderers in Britain were hanged by the neck until dead. Now, for the first time, you can read the full story of Britain¹s last hangman Harry Allen…
An item of news that you will not have seen reported in the press here at home or in Europe concerns 10 lifers currently in prison in Clairvaux, France, who, a couple of years ago, petitioned the French Government to act on their behalf. So? you might ask
•"I often dream I’m on the scaffold about to be hanged,” Nottingham mill worker and consummate liar William Saville told his girl friend Ann Ward. •On one hot summer night in July 2005 this mother of five just snapped.
Child-killer Thomas Nicholson regarded his trial and sentence of death as something of a joke and his manner only changed when his execution was imminent and he realised at last that there was to be no reprieve. There had been no petition for mercy – the
WHY JOANNE MURDERED HER GRAN Greed. She feared all her granny’s money would be spent on care. In other words, she was not prepared to lose her inheritance
Charlize Theron and the terrible tragedy of her mother killing her father. There are three Australian cases in this issue – one of which, is a classic whodunit. Did mild-mannered Andrew Fitzherbert really unleash his uncharacteristic fury on Kathleen Mar
No single law ever spawned greater violence than the law enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1920 banning the sale and manufacture of alcohol. By Kenneth Allsop.
Agatha Christie: Agony of a domestic tiff Rasputin: Strange Demise of the sinning saint Captain Bligh: Just a bit of a bad temper? Sweeney Todd: Fact or fiction? But very nice pies! By Andrew Moss.
How I became the worlds’ biggest fraudster If you think City fraud is something new, by warned! It all began with Austin Bidwell. Bidwell’s ambition was to pull off a £1million sting at the expense of none other than the Bank of England.
For nearly one hundred years the tolling of the Strangeways Prison bell told the citizens of Manchester that another murderer had been hanged. By Sara Lee.
Detailed and factual accounts of women executed for their crimes, plus full-length stories of those on Death Row today – waiting to die! By Mike James.
A compelling study of poisons and poisoners. Sixteen celebrated murder cases each coupled with a study of the poison used. A modern classic of criminology. By Brian Marriner.
30 years on…The boy who fought back! Wife was an "alien" they had to murder. The twilight world of William Vincent Pregnant niece’s deal with the devil.
The governor of the prison and two officials can testify to it, and if it was not for the detective sergeant who has had it in for me since I left the police force, I should have been found not guilty.”
CASES FROM BRITAIN AND EUROPE… THEY GOT AWAY WITH MURDER By day he was put to work, by night he was locked in a freezing makeshift garden shed and tortured. Eventually he died…but what was to happen to his three tormentors?
Roger Zygmunt de la Burde felt himself ageing, bad news for a serial philanderer. His hair transplant hadn’t really worked, the skin under his chin sagged, he suffered from insomnia, heart pains, high blood pressure and impotence. And recently he had disc
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