True Crime Magazine True Crime May 2019 Vorige editie

Highlights this issue include:

* THE CRIME THAT PUT ANGELINA ON DEATH ROW: “That woman is evil personified,” her ex-husband Tom Fuller said of heartless poisoner Angelina Rodriguez – with every good reason

* MAJOR BRITISH MURDER CASES - CAMDEN TOWN’S PAINTED BODY RIDDLE: Hidden away in the heart of the north London suburb of Camden was a builder’s shed which became the scene of one of Scotland Yard’s strangest mysteries...

* THEY MET ON THE GALLOWS - NOTTINGHAM’S ELECTION NIGHT MURDER: Crafty burglar Samuel Wilkinson spoke to the local council candidate in the pub – and then casually set off to burgle his home. But his plan would have disastrous consequences...

* ASK TC - DEATH ON THE PROMENADE: The North-east town of Newbiggin is usually associated with sandcastles and pleasure boats. But in wartime a domestic tragedy brought horror to the seaside

* GANGLAND CONFIDENTIAL - HOW IRISH RACKETEER’S MURDER BROUGHT DOWN THE MAFIA: When Cleveland’s Mafia bosses embarked on an elaborate plot to kill courageous Danny Greene, their most dangerous enemy, they unwittingly sowed the seeds of their own destruction

* HANGED A HUNDRED YEARS AGO - BLACKBURN SOLDIER COULDN’T BELIEVE HIS WIFE WAS FAITHFUL: John Crossland was a rotten husband and a hopeless father. And when his wife fell pregnant, he suspected infidelity

* MURDER THE FRENCH WAY - VILLAGE MONSTER KILLED THREE, FOR JUST £200: He had ambitions to be the richest man in the world, but there was little chance of that ever happening to Gustave Maillot. Instead he turned to burglary, thieving and murder –and was dubbed the Monster of Brittany

* BRITISH SERIAL KILLER HANGED IN SINGAPORE: Armed with a murder kit that included a hammer, butcher’s knives and a stun-gun, on-the-run John Scripps dispatched his unsuspecting tourist victims with cold-blooded brutality. Little wonder he was dubbed the Tourist From Hell