True Detective Magazine True Detective August 2023 Zurück Ausgabe

Heather Stephenson-Snell’s cut-glass name and job as a psychotherapist certainly gave her a veneer of respectability. But her mind was full of grim fantasies. Obsessed with guns, she’d built up a veritable arsenal of weapons at her home in York, which also served as her clinic. And, in an equally unsettling development, she’d even started up an all-female chapter of the Hells Angels. She was not a person, then, it would seem a good idea to get on the wrong side of. When her tempestuous relationship with a boyfriend from Manchester ended abruptly, Heather sought deadly revenge. But, like so much in her life beforehand, things didn’t go quite to plan... Read this issue’s “Crimes That Made The Headlines – Halloween Horror In Manchester” for the full story.

“America’s Most Evil – ‘Bondage Master’ And The Victims Who Died” takes us into the dark world of a dangerous sadomasochist. Acquaintances considered Steven Lorenzo to be an easy-going fellow, unaware of his devotion to extreme bondage sex and the dark fantasies he harboured. When Florida-based Lorenzo teamed up with an equally depraved fellow-devotee, the victims mounted up.

Reclusive bachelor Richard Roadley lived alone in the village of Titson near Bude, Cornwall. But his time was coming to a sudden and brutal end... see “Bude’s ‘Lord Of The Manor’ Murder” for a fascinating case that’s unusually well illustrated with contemporary news photographs.


Highlights this issue include:

* The Rapist From Across The Street
* Crimes That Made The Headlines: Halloween Horror In Manchester
* America’s Most Evil: “Bondage Master” And The Victims Who Died
* Hanged In Australia: Double Death On The Bridge
* Questions & Answers: Marriage Ends In Tragedy On Yarmouth Beach
* Death In The Line Of Duty: Part 8
* How The Death Of An English King Saved An Irishman From The Gallows
* Bude’s “Lord of The Manor” Murder
* King Of The Bank Robbers
* Execution USA