Murder Most Foul – Issue 111 – January 2019

police thought Iris had rung a wrong number. Two teenage sisters, Florence and Ethel Crowley who lived in a nearby building, tho ...

staying alone at the same time fitted the description of the man seen running away. There was no suggestion they knew her and in ...

The Mad Axe-Man’s Correspondence Frank “Mad Axe-Man” Mitchell wrote his confession (below, left to right) to the murder of Daisy ...

turned out to have been in Aberdeen. Then came a confession. In September 1957 the hulking “Mad Axe-Man” Frank Mitchell, who nin ...

If you’re interested in true crime, you’ll be fascinated to learn about crimes that have taken place “down your way” – and that’ ...

LYDA TRUEBLOOD’S UNIQUE METHOD OF MURDER... ...There Were So Many Fatal Affairs N OTHING, IT seemed, could stop the little blond ...

Lyda ripped a scarf from her dress, wrapped it around Ed’s throat, and snuffed-out the burning celluloid before it could set the ...

contribute a footnote to criminal history... A lthough Lyda, with that face and body, made the boys think of only one thing, she ...

of the idea; he was just standing there, looking at his bride, with other thoughts in his mind. The happy couple had no sooner s ...

The policy on McHaffie had lapsed for non- payment of premiums Lyda had been outwitted at her own game. But not all was lost. H ...

“Did she!’’ snapped Alonzo, steamed up now after all those years. “She sure did!’’ Hours later, Ormsby went back to the hotel an ...

When the police took her away, Southard asked, “What’ll I do about that insurance, Lyda?’’ He had just taken out $10,000 on hims ...

F OR NEARLY a week, the New Zealand press had been reporting on the police investigation into the death of Natacha Hogan, 21, wh ...

Road, not stopping until he hit the volcanic Piha Black Sand Beach on the western foreshore. On the way, Poulter discarded Natac ...

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56 Murder Most Foul How Passion Inspired Pauline To Murder She was a “wild, creature...” A Love and Death Classic of the 1950s i ...

“wild, perverse ...” A French e and Death Classic of the 1950s is recalled by Y JORDAN Right, Pauline on the cover of a French d ...

poured from the stove, sprawled the form of a beautiful girl. In the living- room, doubled up between an armchair and a table, s ...

Above: Pauline’s sister and mother look sadly on at her trial remembered a remark Pauline had made. “I don’t want Felix to be ha ...

In September 1949, things came to a head. For the 100th time Felix asked her to marry him. But she laughed in his face. “Do you ...