True Detective Magazine True Detective October 2023 Back Issue

Jason and Tiffiney Crawford seemed to have achieved marital bliss, raising children together in Cullman, Alabama. But when detectives started to look a little deeper into their relationship, there had been very obvious cracks. By then, Tiffiney was dead, the victim of two seemingly self-inflicted bullet wounds. Investigators initially thought it was suicide, a troubled mom taking her own life. But then the doubts began to creep in. For a start, two shots? Read “How Do You Shoot Yourself In The Head – Twice?” for the full story.

“Crimes That Made The Headlines – 999 Calls Didn’t Save Julie” in this issue takes us back to 2004 and a shocking case from Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Divorcees Andrew Millard and Julie Harris made a rather odd couple, she elegant and well-spoken, he a stocky hard man from the West Midlands. For a while the unlikely relationship worked well – until he became possessive and controlling and she finished with him...

Few, if any of us, today believe in fairies but in late-19th-century rural Ireland belief in the little folk was not uncommon. Michael Cleary was a believer, and when his wife Bridget was struck down with tuberculosis, and her appearance changed, he believed she had been spirited away and replaced with a changeling. What followed remains every bit as shocking today as it was back then – don’t miss “Bridget Had To Burn”.


Highlights this issue include:

* How Do You Shoot Yourself In The Head – Twice?
* Crimes That Made The Headlines: 999 Calls Didn’t Save Julie
* America’s Most Evil: A Lifetime Of Vicious Murder – Or A String Of Lies?
* Hanged In Australia: Little Dorry And The Gallipoli Veteran
* Death In The Line Of Duty: Part 10
* Execution USA
* Questions & Answers: The Gorse Hall Murder Mystery
* A Question Of Hanging
* Bridget Had To Burn
* Leicester’s “White Beam” Murder
* The Evil Pied Piper Of Murder