True Detective Magazine True Detective December 2019 Back Issue

Wearing a trilby hat, patterned bow-tie and carrying a knife, the handsome Maltese-born George Semini looked every bit the screen gangster he aspired to be. But did that make him a likely real-life killer, or was it just for show? Semini’s remarkable story leads off the final part of TD’s Hanged At Liverpool series

From Britain to Belgium, and the extraordinary case of Jean-Claude Lajot, the white ex-mercenary from Africa and double-killer, who now had his evil sights set on killing his father’s black family. His first victims had been his own mother and aunt whom he beat to death with a hammer in 1990. Lajot had been sentenced to 20 years behind bars but was released on parole after only eight. In the summer of 2005, his killing career continued. Read “Jungle Warrior’s Mission Ended In Bloodbath” in this issue for the full story.

Karen Buckley was enjoying life as a student in Glasgow until a fateful night in April 2015 when her path crossed that of Scot Alexander Pacteau in a city nightclub. Turn to “Questions & Answers - Acid Bath Psycho Tried To Dissolve Irish Nurse’s Body” for this modern-day horror story.


Highlights this issue include:

* No Parole For Parent-Killer Nikki
* Crimes That Made The Headlines: A Body In Concrete - In The Back Garden
* Hanged At Liverpool Part 12
* Poker Face! How Wife-Killer Tried To Bluff His Way Out Of Trouble
* Execution USA
* America’s Most Evil: Mass Murder In The Name Of Ecology
* Jungle Warrior’s Mission Ended In Bloodbath
* First Date With The Needle
* Hanged In Australia: Curse Of The Queensland Demon
* Questions & Answers: Acid Bath Psycho Tried To Dissolve Irish Nurse’s Body