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True Detective Magazine True Detective Winter Special 2018 Special Issue

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Don’t miss this hand-picked collection of cases from earlier issues of True Detective and its sister magazines Master Detective, True Crime and Murder Most Foul – a concentrated dose of the best non-fiction murder stories from across the world. Highlights include:

* SHARON’S DEADLY MARRIAGES: A story of greed, lust and a murderous wife

* MARVIN GAYE: WHY MOTOWN STAR WAS GUNNED DOWN: Thirty-four years on, the full bizarre story

* MOTHER KILLS HER SON ON CHRISTMAS DAY: An eight-year-old awoke early on Christmas morning to find his mother hovering over him, holding a pillow in her right hand

* KILLER’S LAST WORDS ON DEATH ROW: “I REGRET NOTHING”: Arizona executed killer who showed no remorse

* A SHOCKING CASE FROM GLASGOW: WHY THEY HANGED SUSAN NEWELL: A woman’s plea of insanity was rejected and she was sentenced to death for the murder of a 13-year-old boy

* CHRISTMAS TRAGEDY: An off-duty sheriff’s deputy shot a fellow-drinker four times in a bar

* HOW BITE-MARKS TRAPPED A GRAVEYARD KILLER: A girl went missing after going to a travelling fair in Lanarkshire

* “ODD COUPLE” STARVED THEIR VICTIM TO DEATH: A charitable gesture proved to be a fatal mistake

* FOUR MURDERS...BUT WAS HE THE ALPHABET KILLER? Across half a century Joseph Naso recorded his crimes in notebooks, photographing thousands of naked or half-dressed women to accompany his sexually explicit “rape diary”

* EX-WIFE’S MURDERER TRAPPED BY SATNAV: “You thought you had committed the perfect murder and got away with it”

* THE SEDUCTRESS, THE SPORTS STAR AND THE MURDERED MILLIONAIRE: A love triangle ended with the fatal shooting of an entrepreneur in his own house

* “A TRAMP LIKE THAT IS CAPABLE OF ANYTHING”: Did Alice Crimmins murder her two children?

* VICTIMS OF THE SUBURBAN SERIAL KILLER: When Paul Runge discovered that answering the small ads gave him free access to the homes and women of Chicago, he soon became a serial killer...
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True Detective Winter Special 2018 Don’t miss this hand-picked collection of cases from earlier issues of True Detective and its sister magazines Master Detective, True Crime and Murder Most Foul – a concentrated dose of the best non-fiction murder stories from across the world. Highlights include: * SHARON’S DEADLY MARRIAGES: A story of greed, lust and a murderous wife * MARVIN GAYE: WHY MOTOWN STAR WAS GUNNED DOWN: Thirty-four years on, the full bizarre story * MOTHER KILLS HER SON ON CHRISTMAS DAY: An eight-year-old awoke early on Christmas morning to find his mother hovering over him, holding a pillow in her right hand * KILLER’S LAST WORDS ON DEATH ROW: “I REGRET NOTHING”: Arizona executed killer who showed no remorse * A SHOCKING CASE FROM GLASGOW: WHY THEY HANGED SUSAN NEWELL: A woman’s plea of insanity was rejected and she was sentenced to death for the murder of a 13-year-old boy * CHRISTMAS TRAGEDY: An off-duty sheriff’s deputy shot a fellow-drinker four times in a bar * HOW BITE-MARKS TRAPPED A GRAVEYARD KILLER: A girl went missing after going to a travelling fair in Lanarkshire * “ODD COUPLE” STARVED THEIR VICTIM TO DEATH: A charitable gesture proved to be a fatal mistake * FOUR MURDERS...BUT WAS HE THE ALPHABET KILLER? Across half a century Joseph Naso recorded his crimes in notebooks, photographing thousands of naked or half-dressed women to accompany his sexually explicit “rape diary” * EX-WIFE’S MURDERER TRAPPED BY SATNAV: “You thought you had committed the perfect murder and got away with it” * THE SEDUCTRESS, THE SPORTS STAR AND THE MURDERED MILLIONAIRE: A love triangle ended with the fatal shooting of an entrepreneur in his own house * “A TRAMP LIKE THAT IS CAPABLE OF ANYTHING”: Did Alice Crimmins murder her two children? * VICTIMS OF THE SUBURBAN SERIAL KILLER: When Paul Runge discovered that answering the small ads gave him free access to the homes and women of Chicago, he soon became a serial killer...


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Don’t miss this hand-picked collection of cases from earlier issues of True Detective and its sister magazines Master Detective, True Crime and Murder Most Foul – a concentrated dose of the best non-fiction murder stories from across the world. Highlights include:

* SHARON’S DEADLY MARRIAGES: A story of greed, lust and a murderous wife

* MARVIN GAYE: WHY MOTOWN STAR WAS GUNNED DOWN: Thirty-four years on, the full bizarre story

* MOTHER KILLS HER SON ON CHRISTMAS DAY: An eight-year-old awoke early on Christmas morning to find his mother hovering over him, holding a pillow in her right hand

* KILLER’S LAST WORDS ON DEATH ROW: “I REGRET NOTHING”: Arizona executed killer who showed no remorse

* A SHOCKING CASE FROM GLASGOW: WHY THEY HANGED SUSAN NEWELL: A woman’s plea of insanity was rejected and she was sentenced to death for the murder of a 13-year-old boy

* CHRISTMAS TRAGEDY: An off-duty sheriff’s deputy shot a fellow-drinker four times in a bar

* HOW BITE-MARKS TRAPPED A GRAVEYARD KILLER: A girl went missing after going to a travelling fair in Lanarkshire

* “ODD COUPLE” STARVED THEIR VICTIM TO DEATH: A charitable gesture proved to be a fatal mistake

* FOUR MURDERS...BUT WAS HE THE ALPHABET KILLER? Across half a century Joseph Naso recorded his crimes in notebooks, photographing thousands of naked or half-dressed women to accompany his sexually explicit “rape diary”

* EX-WIFE’S MURDERER TRAPPED BY SATNAV: “You thought you had committed the perfect murder and got away with it”

* THE SEDUCTRESS, THE SPORTS STAR AND THE MURDERED MILLIONAIRE: A love triangle ended with the fatal shooting of an entrepreneur in his own house

* “A TRAMP LIKE THAT IS CAPABLE OF ANYTHING”: Did Alice Crimmins murder her two children?

* VICTIMS OF THE SUBURBAN SERIAL KILLER: When Paul Runge discovered that answering the small ads gave him free access to the homes and women of Chicago, he soon became a serial killer...
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Below is a selection of articles in True Detective True Detective Winter Special 2018.