True Crime – January 2019

Highlights this issue include:

* WHY THEY DUG UP KANDY’S KILLER: The 1981 murder of Virginia Freeman had gone unsolved for 37 years. Could the remains of convicted child-killer James Earhart yield a DNA match and finally solve the mystery?

* GANGLAND CONFIDENTIAL – THE EVIL LIFE AND SHOCKING DEATH OF WHITEY BULGER: Racketeer, gang leader and serial killer James “Whitey” Bulger had only just been transferred to a new prison facility in October 2018 when he was surrounded by other inmates…

* MAJOR BRITISH MURDER CASES – THE BODY IN THE SUITCASES: One suitcase contained the severed head of the male teenage victim, the other his dismembered body parts…

* NEW SERIES– HANGED A HUNDRED YEARS AGO: Thirteen men went to the gallows in 1919. In this series, marking the centenary, we’ll recount the stories of the crimes that took them there

* DEATH ON THE RAILWAY – HORROR OF THE HEADLESS WOMAN ON THE RAILWAY TRACKS: When Winifred East decided to meet up with an old pal, little did she realise the nightmare that awaited her on the journey home…

* MURDER THE FRENCH WAY – KILLING OF MONACO BILLIONAIRESS WAS ALL IN THE FAMILY: Monaco was stunned when Hélène Pastor, the richest woman in the principality, was assassinated. Whoever wanted her dead was prepared to go to any lengths to make it happen…

* THEY MET ON THE GALLOWS – MOTHER, BABY AND GRANDMOTHER SHOT DEAD IN DURHAM TRAGEDY: What drove Samuel Walton to wipe out his family? And why did Thomas Nicholson kill a seven-year-old girl? These were the crimes that brought the pair together for the first and only time

* ASK TC – EVEN THE POPE COULDN’T SAVE “KILLER” KELLY: Sentenced to death for orchestrating the murder of her husband Doug, Kelly Gissendaner became a reformed character during her years on Georgia’s Death Row. She found God – and the support of Pope Francis – as her controversial execution date approached