Murder Most Foul – Issue 111 – January 2019

T he following day, Bradley was put in a police line-up with 13 other men of similar age and appearance. Freda Thorne picked him ...

A NGELO DI Lucia flirted with all his women customers while he sold them cones and penny licks at his Sligo ice-cream parlour in ...

certainly not now with another baby due at any moment. As his passion for Jane grew more urgent, 30-year-old Angelo considered w ...

blows that fractured her skull. When Angelo climbed off his dying wife, the babies were screaming and he saw Jane vomiting in a ...

At 6 o’clock she was awakened, she said, by the baby crying, and it was then that she saw, to her horror, that Rosa had been sev ...

The jury promptly returned a verdict of murder, and immediately after the inquest Angelo was arrested. The following morning Jan ...

LONG ISLAND’S STRANGE RED CIRCLE SLAYINGS Case report by Michael Stern Long Island's Strange Red Circle Slayings Murder Most Fou ...

in diameter, on the foreheads of both victims. The watch on the dead man’s wrist was shattered, showing the time it had stopped ...

Ryan. “Neither victim had a cent on them, but no robber waits around long enough to draw red circles on his victims’ foreheads.” ...

the couple had left the Hajek home at 8.30 on the night of the murder and arrived at Mineola at 9.45. The trip should have taken ...

Gedeon murders.” Creighton admitted the whole thing was a hoax on his part to sell his story to the press, and Ryan arrested him ...

Hollis Woods?” Ryan wasted no time. Over the next seven nights, one of his burliest six-foot-two detectives dressed in drag and ...

O MADNESS AND MURDER Ryan also suggested that someone besides the killer knew who committed the crime, and that it could have be ...

F ORTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD Mrs. Susanna van der Linde had just settled down for morning coffee with her teenage daughter Zelde in the l ...

Marlene picked up the story: “I drove out to Bellville and arrived at her home in Gladstone Street at about 1.15 p.m. I rang the ...

ever involved in a court case?’ I said I had been. I was charged with carrying a dangerous weapon. She said, ‘That’s the sort of ...

23rd. You don’t have to ring me before you go. You must be there at about 8 p.m. so that you can see that her young boy goes to ...

respected a lady.” He didn’t exert a lot of influence over her, he said. “She had confidence in me. If I saw that she sat, or wa ...

tempted. Her words were: ‘What are you waiting for?’ This so inflamed me that I committed myself completely to the deed. Half-wa ...

T HOSE WERE the easy answers to the murder mystery. The motive and the name of the killer were more difficult. The body of attra ...