Crime Magazine is about true crime: organized crime, celebrity crime, serial killers, corruption, sex crimes, capital punishment, prisons, assassinations, justice issues, crime books, crime films and crime studies.
Freelance journalist Anthony Davis is a British citizen living in central France and has a degree in History and European Studies from the University of East Anglia.
Before turning to writing, he has been a policeman, motorcycle-racer, law-drafter, motor-mechanic, apple-picker and teacher.
His particular interests are miscarriages of justice and murders with a twist.
Email: anthony.davis@ wanadoo.fr
Anthony Davis
The Cons-Boutboul Case
February 9, 2009
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| Courtroom sketch of Elisabeth Cons-Boutboul |
As the murder trial of 70-year-old Elisabeth Cons-Boutboul opened in Paris on March 2, 1994, the question on everyone's lips was not, "Is she guilty?" but, "Which role is she going to play?"
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The Murder of Céline Jourdan
January 25, 2009
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| Céline Jourdan, age 6, went missing from her home in the tiny village of La-Motte-du-Caire. | |
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Written in Blood
March 29, 2009
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| Wrongly accused? Omar Raddad stands outside the courthouse. |
Wealthy widow Ghislaine Marchal, 65, lived alone in a luxury villa in the affluent village of Mougins, near Cannes on the French Riviera. On the morning of Sunday, June 23, 1991, she was relaxing beside her pool doing a crossword puzzle, her favourite pastime, when her friends and neighbors Mr. and Mrs. Koster called over the fence to invite her to lunch. She readily accepted.
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From Poisoning to Poison Pen: The Josacine Affair
by Anthony Davis (June 1, 2009)
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Saturday, June 11, 1994 was to have been a foretaste of the summer vacation for the children of Gruchet-le-Valasse, a small town (pop. 2,700) in Normandy. Their school was organizing its traditional end-of-term fete and 9-year-old Emilie Tanay was spending the weekend at the house of one of her classmates, Jérome Tocqueville.
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GRÈGORY
March 8, 2009
Grègory Villemin, age 4
Grègory Villemin would have been 29 years old this year and probably – like his parents before him – happily married, with a good job and a nice house. Instead, an infinitely more cruel fate was reserved for him: On Tuesday, October 16, 1984 his body, tied hand and foot, was found floating in the River Vologne. He was only 4 years old.
As if this wasn't shock enough for the 1,000 inhabitants of the village of Lèpanges-sur-Vologne (Vosges, north-eastern France), a second murder was to follow a mere five months later.
So many rumors, contradictions distortions of the truth have beset the case that it is difficult picking one's way through the files, news reports and books written on the subject to determine what was fact and what supposition, malicious gossip or plain lies.
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