True Crime  |  True Crime November 2018
Highlights of this issue include:
* MAJOR BRITISH MURDER CASES - COUPLE’S KILLING “WAS REVENGE FOR BETTING SCAM”: Why had the Chinese couple been murdered? Police had an idea that the crime was linked to the shady business dealings of “Kevin.” He ran a football betting scam, forged passports, visas and academic qualifications...
* TRANSGENDER SEX WORKER CHOKED TO DEATH BY “HUMILIATED” MARINE: US Marine Joseph Pemberton thought he was in for a good time – until he saw that his “girl” had male genitals
* GANGLAND CONFIDENTIAL - FROM YORKSHIRE TO CHICAGO...THE RISE OF JAKE THE BARBER: His elder half-brother Max was a founder of the modern cosmetics industry, but Jake “The Barber” Factor was “the greatest con artist of all time”
* SHOULD HUSBAND-KILLER CARA SERVE 18 YEARS? Cara Lee Hall did stab her husband to death in Perth, Australia. But was she acting in self-defence after suffering years of physical and mental abuse?
* THE WIFE IN THE WHEELIE-BIN: When his wife Edwina vanished from their Melbourne home in 1983, Frederick Boyle said she had left him. More than 20 years would pass by before the grisly truth emerged
* DEATH ON THE RAILWAY - MANCHESTER BUTCHER’S KISS MEANT MURDER: Fred Ballington only wanted a bit of cash to buy a train ticket to Blackpool. But his wife held the purse strings – and she wasn’t giving him another penny...
* THEY MET ON THE GALLOWS - DEATH SENTENCE FOR COP-KILLING BROTHERS: PC John Kew had befriended the wild Backhouse brothers in their South Yorkshire village but paid the ultimate price for doing so
* MANCHESTER’S DEJA-VU MURDERS: Albert Flint had a history of alcohol addiction and petty crime. Jailed for manslaughter, when he got out he fell back into a familiar life, with an eerily similar outcome...
* MURDER THE FRENCH WAY - FOUR FOR THE GUILLOTINE AFTER MURDER RAMPAGE: The Pollet gang didn’t just break in and steal, they killed for fun – until the guillotine caught up with them
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in True Crime True Crime November 2018.