Master Detective Magazine Master Detective August 2022 Vorige editie

In her younger days the charismatic Mona Fandey had been a pop singer and dancer. But it’s as a headline-making witch doctor and killer that she is most widely remembered. Today, more than 20 years after her execution for the murder in Malaysia of politician client Datuk Mazlan Idris, black magic practitioners pay homage to her at her graveside. Read this issue’s International Casebook Of Women Executed For Their Crimes – “Mona Hanged For Witchcraft Murder” for the full, shocking story.

How do you turn a lengthy prison sentence into a death sentence? Answer: Escape on a murderous rampage... See US Executions – The Rock ’n’ Roll Years – “Escape To The Death House”.

Finally to Scotland and the 1970s case of young mum Helen Wilkie. Don’t miss “Dundee’s Mystery Of The Grinning Skull”.


Highlights this issue include:

* High Noon At Walmart
* European Crime Report: “Why Did Dino Die On His Doorstep?”, “Student Killed Five Relatives Over ‘A Domestic Matter,’” “Migrant Husband Said, ‘I Want To Go Home’”
* Scotland’s Classic Cases: Dundee’s Mystery Of The Grinning Skull
* Joyce Exonerated
* US Executions – The “Rock ’N’ Roll Years”: Escape To The Death House
* MD Forum: Pitchfork Or Shotgun? How Was The Old Man Murdered?
* Hanged At Strangeways: Part Nine
* International Casebook Of Women Executed For Their Crimes: Mona Hanged For Witchcraft Murder
* Monster In Our Family