True Detective Magazine True Detective July 2018 Edición anterior

“I put the head in a pot, popped the lid on and lit the stove. When the head was coming to the boil I turned the pot down to simmer, then I took the dog out for a walk...Later I watched TV as the head was simmering.”

So said the remorseless Dennis Nilsen, Britain’s second-worst-ever serial killer, after being captured by police in 1983, and confessing to a spree of “15 or 16” killings over five years. Scottish-born Nilsen, who died behind bars in May 2018, aged 72, was a compulsive killer and our series “Crimes That Made The Headlines” brings you his full horrific story in this issue.

Salesman-turned-serial killer Salvatore Perrone had once dreamed of making it big in the world of wholesale clothing but financial problems had blunted his ambitions. In 2012, he sought a deadly, warped revenge. New Yorker Perrone, dubbed “Son of Sal” by those with memories of 70s serial killer Son of Sam, is the subject of this issue’s “America’s Most Evil” report.

Arkansas, of course, still executes its worst killers – as it did in the 40s after Eldon Chitwood shot dead Raymond Morris at a Mena drugstore. Chitwood went on to plead to Morris’s widow Clara for clemency, but she insisted that the sentence be carried out. Would you? See “I Saw My Husband’s Killer Die In The Electric Chair,” in this issue, for Clara’s fascinating first-hand account.


Highlights of this issue include:

* Slaughter In A Chatham Car Park
* Crimes That Made The Headlines: Nilsen – The Full Horrific Story
* Hanged In Australia: Axe Horror In Sleepy Hollow
* America’s Most Evil: Son Of Sal – No Shopkeeper Was Safe...
* River Of Death: Who Killed The Captain On The Thames Barge?
* “I Saw My Husband’s Killer Die In The Electric Chair”
* Questions & Answers: Would They Hang Young James?
* 120 Were Hanged At Pentonville – Part Eight