The Crime Book
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200 H omicide is the killing of one person by another. Although not all homicides are murder, every murder is a homicide. Yet wh ...
201 murder in early 20th-century France but acquitted because it was assumed that women could not control their emotions. Simila ...
202 S ome 430,000 years ago, high in the Atapuerca Mountains of northern Spain, a lethal assault was committed. The victim, a yo ...
203 See also: Sadamichi Hirasawa 224–25 ■ Elizabeth Báthory 264–65 ■ The Dreyfus Affair 310–11 O ne October night in 1761, Marc- ...
204 NOT GUILTY BY REASON OF INSANITY DANIEL M’NAGHTEN, 1843 I n 19th-century England, it had for centuries been accepted in law ...
205 See also: Jeffrey Dahmer 293 ■ The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln 306–09 ■ The Assassination of John F. Kennedy 316–21 MUR ...
206 GAVE KATHERINE WARNING TO LEAVE THE DRIPPING KILLER, 1879 T he last time Henry Porter had seen his Irish friend Kate Webster ...
207 Hangman William Marwood used his newly perfected “long drop” technique, in which the neck was broken instantly at the end of ...
208 O n a hot August day in 1892, an assailant rained 19 blows on the back of Abby Borden’s head with a hatchet before deliverin ...
209 See also: O.J. Simpson 246–51 ■ Jack the Ripper 266–73 daughter, Lizzie, arrived, wearing a blue dress. Abby asked Bridget t ...
210 walls, there was none anywhere else. Bridget let an officer into the cellar where he came across a box containing two axes, ...
211 The Bordens’ side door, marked V, was unhooked from 9:30–10:30am. Could an outsider have crept in, axed Abby, hidden for mor ...
FINGERPRINTING ALONE HAS PROVED TO BE BOTH INFALLIBLE AND FEASIBLE THE STRATTON BROTHERS, 1905 212-215_Alfred_and_Albert_Stratto ...
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214 W hen brothers Alfred and Albert Stratton robbed and murdered the husband and wife who managed a paint shop in south London ...
215 See also: John Leonard Orr 48–53 ■ The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping 178–85 ■ Colin Pitchfork 294–97 MURDER CASES The Henry syst ...
216 See also: Lizzie Borden 208–11 ■ O.J. Simpson 246–51 I n February 1910, music hall singer Cora Crippen vanished. The wife of ...
217 See also: Phoolan Devi 46–47 ■ O.J. Simpson 246–51 G aston Calmette’s Le Figaro was not the only Paris newspaper with doubts ...
SHE WAS VERY GOOD LOOKING WITH BEAUTIFUL DARK HAIR THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER, 15 JANUARY 1947 218-223_Black_Dahlia.indd 218 02/12/ ...
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