Oct 31, 2011
Special to Crime Magazine: An excerpt from David A. Gibb’s book, Camouflaged Killer: The Shocking Double Life of Canadian Air Force Colonel Russell Williams. By day Williams commanded the largest military base in Canada; by night he stalked single women in their...
Sep 27, 2011
Ian Brady and Myra Hindley
Myra Hindley was, for the British public, evil personified, and was the most hated woman in Britain from the time of her arrest in 1965 until the day she died in 2002 for murdering children with her boyfriend and burying them on the Moors.
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Aug 1, 2011
Albert Fish was the real life “boogeyman” of every parent’s worst nightmare. He kidnapped young children, viciously murdered them, and ate their flesh.
by Mark Pulham
There was a knock on the door. Delia Budd opened it and found a stranger standing before her.
He was an...
Jun 14, 2011
June 14, 2011Dr. Thomas Neill CreamThe United Kingdom has a long history of doctors who foreswore the Hippocratic Oath and opted instead to commit at least one murder. During the time of Jack the Ripper, Dr. Thomas Neill Cream was both a serial killer and a blackmailer. ...
May 23, 2011
Dorothea Puente (Photo LA Times)
Serial killer Dorothea Puente was charming and incorrigible.
by Mark Pulham
Charles Willgues, a retired carpenter, had been out that Wednesday afternoon to a hardware store to buy a glass cutter. Now, he sat at the bar of the Monte...
Apr 27, 2011
An excerpt from Mel Ayton recently published book Dark Soul of the South – The Life and Crimes of Racist Killer Joseph Paul Franklin
by Mel Ayton
In 2010 the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for executions to start again in Missouri when it refused to hear the...
Nov 22, 2010
Robert Diaz (photo from San Quentin warden's office)
Robert Diaz, the nurse who killed by injecting elderly patients with Lidocaine, evades the lethal injection execution awaiting him by dying at age 72.
by Ronnie D. Smith
Over the years I had thought how ironic it would...
Nov 22, 2010
Updated Jan 8, 2013
Rodney Alcala
A registered sex-offender, Rodney Alcala got his 15-minutes of fame as a successful contestant on "The Dating Game" in 1978. Before that appearance, he had already been convicted of raping an 8-year-old girl and had murdered four women...
Nov 1, 2010
Johann "Jack" Unterweger
With the help of future Nobel Laureate Elfriede Jelinek and other prominent Austrian literati, Jack Unterweger wrote his way out of a lifetime sentence for murder. Paroled in 1990, and now a famous crime writer himself, he embarked on a wide-ranging...
Sep 23, 2010
William Hare and William Burke
William Burke and William Hare are the most famous grave robbers of 19th century Scotland, but none of the 16 fresh corpses they turned over for dissection in the anatomy classroom of Dr. Robert Knox at 10 Surgeon Square in Edinburg, came from...