Issue 1

By the time he was caught, seven women had been savagely attacked, thirteen more brutally murdered and a whole community was virtually under siege.  in a reign of terror spanning nearly six years, Peter Sutcliffe managed to elude capture by the biggest police squad ever assembled to catch one man. 
 

 Issue 2

Britains most infamous mass murderer was a shy, retiring civil servant who lived a quiet life in a north London suburb.  What made this one desperately lonely man commit crimes so appalling that it is unlikely he will ever be set free? 
 

Issue 3

On an August night, Sharon Tate and four others were murdered in Los Angeles.  Twenty four hours later two more died, only a few miles away.  The deaths were as bizarre as anything to have come out of Hollywood.  The killers were even stranger - The commune disciples of Charles Manson 
 

Issue 4

In 1949 a mother and child were viciously strangled at number 10 Rillington Place.  For this crime Timothy Evans was hanged.  But when three years later another six bodies were carried from the house it became shockingly clear that British justice had miscarried. 
 

Issue 5

For three years the strangler stalked the streets of Boston, leaving a macabre trail of terror in his wake. As conventional methods failed them, the police resorted to desperate measures to ensnare him - Psychic detection, hypnosis, even a truth serum. 
 

Issue 6

He was convinced he could commit the perfect murder, and he wanted to prove it.  with his charming and courteous 
manner he was able to entice his victims to their deaths and then destroy their bodies in acid.  But the smiling well dressed man made one fatal error. 
 

Issue 7

He drove fast cars and enjoyed wine, women and drugs. But, filled with rage that he had to wait for a huge inheritance from the couple who had adopted him, he planned what were to be the perfect murders, complete with silent scapegoat 
 

Issue 8

He had an unlimited supply of young college girls who were easily charmed by his wit and good looks. He crossed America to escape the police, but he could never escape his urge to kill.  Nobody knows the true death toll - Bundy took that secret with him to the electric chair. 
 

Issue 9

The unassuming Dr Crippen fell in love with his secretary, but was tied to a wife whom he hated. The solution he chose was murder.  In an escape bid that involved a catalogue of unbelievable mistakes, and a sea-chase spanning two continents, he came to within a hairs breadth of success 
 

Issue 10

Christopher Craig and Derek Bentley were a couple of wayward youths who went out one evening looking for excitement.  Yet their escapade caused the death of a policeman who had to be avenged.  Bentley became the tragic scapegoat 
 

 Issue 11

Ruth Ellis, Jean Harris, Frederick Bywaters and Edith Thompson came from different countries, different levels of society, different times.  One thing unites them; they all committed the ultimate crime and they all did it  in the name of love 
 

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Neville Heath, suave and sinister - Peter Kurten, dapper and deadly - The crazed Black Dahlia avenger, who may still be at large: all found pleasure in the frenzied infliction of pain, to the point of death 
 

Issue 16

In 1975, 17 year old Lesley Whittle was abducted by a callous killer whose sinister appearance earned him the nickname of the Black Panther.  For Lesley, the kidnap ended in unimaginable horror.  Eleven months were to pass before the Panther was finally cornered 
 

Issue 17

As the 1960s ended, Mrs Muriel Mckay became the victim of mistaken identity in a sinister and callous kidnap. After abortive efforts to catch her abductors, police were led to a lonely farmhouse - And two brothers with a grisly secret. 
 

Issue 18

In the winter of 1977, a series of young women were found murdered on the hills above Los Angeles.  Then the killings stopped. Suddenly, in 1979, police picked up the scent again. It led them to two cousins, one of whom claimed to be not one person but many. 
 

Issue 19

In January 1977 Gary Gilmore got his wish when he died in front of a firing squad in Utah.  After receiving the death sentence for two casual and pointless murders Gilmore had waged a unique campaign from his death row cell - He had fought for the right to die. 
 

Issue 20

In 1962 protesting his innocence to the very end, small time thief James Hanratty was hanged for murdering a man on the a6.  Few cases in British legal history have inspired as much controversy.  Since then not only have numerous witnesses come forward to support his alibi, but a former suspect has confessed to the killing. 
 

Issue 21

The mysterious death of Roberto Calvi - Found hanging beneath Londons Blackfriars Bridge - Would have graced the pages of an ingenious crime thriller.  The background to the case of god's banker involving double dealing in the highest corridors of power - Proved that truth can be stranger than fiction 
 

Issue 22

The Mafia existed in new york for many years before the police recognised its existence.  The law knew there were many gangs but were unaware how well they were organised. Lucky Luciano knew the real power of the Mafia - He joined the mob in 1919 and by the end of the 1930s was ready to take it into a new dimension, always one step ahead of the law. 
 

Issue 23

In 1979, four men were convicted for the murder of Carl Bridgewater. but doubts about the strength of the evidence, and a bizarre second murder, combined to raise the possibility of a serious miscarriage of justice. 
 

Issue 24

In 1958, the murderer of two women and mutilator of 15 corpses, a harmless looking odd job man, was committed to 
Wisconsin state insane asylum.  His horrifying deeds had shocked America and provided the factual basis for Hitchcocks classic spine chiller, Psycho. 
 

Issue 25

In 1931, Julia Wallace lay dead in a pool of blood - Her head battered.  Her husband William - A mild mannered, 
strait laced insurance agent - Was sentenced to hang for her murder.  Could he have murdered her or had someone 
else constructed a devillishly intricate plan. 
 

Issue 26

His youth was spent mainly in approved schools and  borstals.  He was a compulsive thief, burglar and attacker of women.  yet after a series of murders broke out on the outskirts of Glasgow in the mid 1950s, Manuel cunningly eluded his persuers to terrorize his neighbourhood. 
 

Issue 27

They were the teenage sons of Chicago millionaires. Leopold was a brooding genius who believed in supermen. Loeb was a fast talker who believed in the perfect crime. The chemistry was lethal.  together, they killed a harmless child for the thrill of it 
 

Issue 28

Issue 29

In 1932, the baby son of the great transatlantic aviator Charles Lindbergh was kidnapped from the family mansion in New Jersey.  A ransom was paid but the child was found murdered.  Suspicion finally focused on a German born carpenter whose trial became a stain on american justice. 
 

Issue 30

A resourceful liar, he got away with murder after killing his first victim in a fit of rage.  Ten years later, he shot dead a taxi driver in Switzerland during the last of his daring bank robberies.  He was charming, clever and adventurous, but money seemed to slip through his fingers. 
 

Issue 31

The Evil Butler - Roy Fontaine - The gentleman's gentleman who dished out death 

He was a connoisseur of fine wines, an expert in antiques and a consummate actor.  After spending most of his life in prison for jewellery thefts, he planned one final haul that would set him up in comfort for his old age. But his willingness to kill destroyed him. 
 

Issue 32

Dr Sam Sheppard was young, handsome and successful, the apparent ideal of American manhood.  But when his wife 
was found battered to death on independence day 1954 the American dream turned to nightmare for Dr Sam.  Convicted 
of murder, he took 12 years to establish his innocence. 
 

Issue 33

Jack the Stripper - The Hammersmith Nudes Case - The nknown sex fiend who preyed on prostitutes 

Early in 1964 a prostitute was found murdered by the River Thames in London.  Over the next 12 months, another 
five streetwalkers were murdered.  A maniac was at large. After a massive police operation he was finally trapped 
by bluff, but to this day his name has never been revealed. 
 

Issue 34

In 1943, millionaire Baronet Sir Harry Oakes was found bludgeoned to death in his Bahamas mansion.  His son-in-law was accused of the murder but later acquitted, and there were signs of police malpractice and a cover up involving the Duke of Windsor.  Since then, blame for the killing has been laid on the Mafia, but the case - officially at least remains unsolved. 
 

Issue 35

Henry Boughton, George Stoner and Elvira Barney were each devoured by passion.  But when their love was rivalled by 
another's it turned into a destructive, inescapable force which moved them to commit the ultimate crime. 
 

Issue 36

Martha Beck, David Birnie and Gerald Gallego were domineering, Ruthless people with abnormal sexual appetites.  But only in strange combination with a weaker partner could each of them turn into brutal murderers who killed for the sake of perverted lust. 
 

Issue 37

In November 1972 a woman was shot fatally in the head during a bungled robbery at The Barn, an Essex night-spot. Her husband and daughter positively identified George Ince as the killer.  Only after two trials was Ince's innocence proved, and in 1974 the real murderers were finally brought to justice. 
 

Issue 38

Self styled rebel and dissolute teenager Charlie Starkweather dreamt of being a cowboy - A storybook villain.  In 1958, he realized his fantasy and rode along the outlaw trail with his schoolgirl lover like a latter day Bonnie and Clyde.  In his wake he left 11 motiveless murders. 
 

Issue 39

The French dubbed him 'pulic enemy no 1' but many people secretly admired his daring escapes from prison and cheeky mockery of the police.  The legend was hollow. Jacques Mesrine was a vindictive brutal murderer who felt no remorse for the victims of his private war against civilized society. 
 

Issue 40

In 1956, a portly, pious Eastbourne doctor was arrested for poisoning wealthy old women for their money.  All the 
elements necessary for classic courtroom drama combined at his trial - Malicious witnesses, arguing experts, a 
blundering prosecution and a dazzling defence.  Though the doctor was acquitted, many still believe him guilty of mass murder. 
 

Issue 41

In 1889, James Maybrick, and unfaithful husband who swallowed doses of poison for pleasure, died at his home 
in Liverpool.  His young American wife was charged with his murder.  In 1911, Eliza Barrow, an eccentric woman who kept a box of gold by her bed, died in lodgings in London. Her landlord was charged with murdering her.  In each case, the police found common household arsenic. 
 

Issue 42

Three murder cases in three continents all have one thing in common - The killers identity remains unknown. Whoever murdered Ann Chapman, Henry and Jeannette Crewe and Henry Morshead were clever enough to cover their tracks, bequeathing three murders mysteries to the annals of crime. 
 

Issue 43

In April 1977, some 10 weeks after her disappearance, the body of a young australian woman wa found on a common 
near St Albans.  She had been savagely raped and murdered. police became convinced that her killer was a known criminal but it was to take 13 years to bring him to justice. 
 

Issue 44

In 1906, a rich New York playboy shot dead the most fashionable Architect in the United States. He claimed that his wife had been violated by the famous man.  The pitiful story of her innocence lost to an elderly seducer shocked the country.  But was the playboy a noble husband, maddened by rage, or a cold blooded killer. 
 

Issue 45

In September 1969, a sub postmaster in Luton was shot dead during an attempted robbery.  One of the gang was tracked down and turned police informant in return for his freedom.  He named three men as his accomplices. It was his word against theirs. 
 

Issue 46

At the age of 19, Dillinger was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for assault. He emerged from jail an embittered man, determined to put all he had learnt inside to ruthless use.  And from then on a gun was rarely out of his hand, as he and his mob sped across the States raiding bank after bank, evading and escaping capture by the police - And killing anyone who stood in their way. 
 

Issue 47

Judge Peel and Ma Duncan preferred their murders to be committed by a hired hand. The paid assassins, like Childs and Mackenny, were more concerned with their fees than with the fate of their victims. 
 

Issue 48

In 1935 Buck Ruxton, an Indian Doctor living in England, murdered his wife and his children's nursemaid. The police knew he was guilty, their problem was to prove that the skilfully dismembered remains they found were those of the two women.  the result was one of the most sensational murder trials of the century. 
 

Issue 49

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italians who emigrated to the United States.  They avoided conscription during the first world war by fleeing to Mexico and their political stance was that of anarchy. But did their politics make them murderers? 
 

Issue 50

After his arrest in Paris in 1944, Dr Marcel Petiot freely admitted he had killed over and over again. To the police he was a callous and clever mass murderer who slaughtered purely for gain. But Petiot claimed he was a wartime patriot who executed only traitors and Germans. 
 

Issue 51

The son of Italian immigrants, Al Capone grew up in a Brooklyn slum.  He combined the street values of the neighbourhood gangs with the American principle of free enterprise, to become the big man of prohibition Chicago. 
 

Issue 52

Rouse, Healey and Tetzner: Missing or mutilated bodies were wrongly identified, so the presumed dead walked while an unknown corpse played the role of the victim. 
 

Issue 53

In 1928-29 three members of a suburban London family died in agony from arsenic poisoning.  Police found no real         motive for the crime and no solid evidence to bring the killer to justice.  It was only after the death of the chief suspect - More than 40 years later - That the full story started to unravel. 
 

Issue 54

Known for his good works and political campaigning, Gacy was a respected member of his community.  But for seven         years he had concealed a terrifying secret life of  homosexual sadism and murder beneath a smiling public exterior. 
 

Issue 55

Colin Pitchfork, Ian Simms and Timothy Spencer - Three vicious murderers who might never have been brought to            justice were it not for a scientific breakthrough.  The discovery of genetic fingerprinting meant that rapists and killers could be identified beyond a shadow of doubt from invisible evidence left at the scene of the crime. 
 

Issue 56

They found each other in the slums of Dallas.  She was a waitress and he was a convict.  The story of their love  turned their brutal murders into a romantic legend. 
 

Issue 57

France's most famous mass murderer used his charm to win the hearts of dozens of lonely women. they wanted marriage; he wanted their money, and then - To keep their silence - Their lives. 
 

Issue 58

Hollywood provided fame and fortune for the stars and directors who worked there, but demanded their all in return.  Few could live up to their glamorous screen images, and for William Desmond Taylor and comedienne Thelma Todd the price of fame was life itself. 
 

Issue 59

If any murderer can be said to have been born evil, it was cold calculating Graham Young.  From the age of 11, this withdrawn young man was consumed by a single passion: poisons and their effects.  Anyone he came into contact with - His family, friends or workmates - Risked agonising illness and even death from his deadly experiments. 
 

Issue 60

Steven Benson, Sidney Fox and Sean Sellers all committed the unspeakable crime - They all murdered the women who 
gave them life.  Trapped by the inviolate bonds of blood, they saw death as the only escape from their mothers, the 
women they could never leave.