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russia’s MOM from hell
He nearly got away with it “no one would have believed speck did it”
The murderer they forgot
‘the beast of manchester’ barely made the news
estate agent’s killer client
what happened to suzy when she met ‘mr kipper’?
time bomb bank robber He had to get them $250,000 before his collar blew up
Deadly Cruise 35-year stint Trapped on a ship with a vicious sexual predator
PLUS: • escape from max security gov’nor bird recalls rats, • they drove her to suicide riots and russian prisons • “I have HIV, oops!” – and more
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INSIDE THE MINDS OF HISTORY’S DEADLIEST AND MOST DEPRAVED KILLERS As depraved as it is fascinating, the murky world of the serial killer has captivated us for centuries. Packed with interviews, crime scene photos and case histories, the world’s most notorious murderers are featured within.
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or many of us, our first real introduction to mass murderer Richard Speck was in the recent Netflix show Mindhunters. In one memorable scene, the jailed ‘Birdman’ threw a sparrow into a spinning fan, apparently a tantrum he threw during an interview. Some of you will be aware of the breadth of his later controversies, having seen the leaked prison video of a middle-aged, semi-naked Speck sporting female breasts (grown using female hormones smuggled into the prison) and snorting cocaine off a fellow inmate’s thigh. He claimed to be having “fun”, and as
he chats and cracks jokes, you can believe he’s enjoying himself. Few will know how close he came to getting away with killing and torturing a house full of student nurses one July evening in 1966. Just as chaos handed Speck the opportunity to escape justice altogether in the hours immediately following the murders, it condemned him to capture and a life of imprisonment. Jump to page 14 to find out how close a call this was. Enjoy the issue!
Ben biggs Editor
Speck, on trial in 1967, casually lights up in front of the camera. “If you’re asking me if I felt sorry – no,” he would later be recorded saying. He was just as cold and unrepentant about his crimes right up until his death in 1991
Contributors paul french
Paul is author of New York Times bestseller Midnight in Peking. His latest book, City of Devils, is another true crime tale that takes the reader into wartime Shanghai and is available in June. Paul has trained his focus on a Russian case this issue, and a middle-class family of serial killers who murdered 30, on page 24.
dr abby bentham Abby turned her back on marketing and copywriting to pursue a career in academia. Today, she teaches Salford University undergraduates literature (among other modules) and is widely published in subjects that range from Dickens to TV’s Dexter. She’s written about ‘forgotten’ serial killer Trevor Hardy, on page 40.
dr charlie oughton Charlie is a broadcaster, author, lecturer and journalist specialising in taboo (particularly serial killers), horror and gender studies. Charlie has written a feature on a particularly vindictive character, who deliberately infected partners with HIV and sent them taunting messages. Read it on page 86.
seth ferranti Seth began his career in journalism having served a 21-year stretch of a 25-year sentence for an LSD kingpin conviction. He is now free and writes regularly for Real Crime. A case that sounds like it came from crime fiction, Seth has given a blow-by-blow account of the last day of ‘pizza bomber’ Brian Wells, on page 34.
maria dilorenzo New Yorker Maria is a teacher and a writer whose work has appeared in magazines, journals and newspapers all over the US. She’s working on a true crime novel about mass-murderer Maksim Gelman, which is due to be finished this year. She’s written about a famous prison escape in her home state, on page 66.
dr nell darby
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Nell is a criminal historian and freelance writer who has written extensively for newspaper, magazine and website outlets. She also has four books to her name, and the latest, on crime and the Victorian theatre, is available now. Nell’s written a tragic story of a woman accused of murder and then driven to suicide, on page 78.
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06 d eadly doorway, held captive for 18 years, daylight robbery, and more Stunning crime photos, present and past, from around the world
14 nurse killer
On 13 July 1966, Richard Speck raped and murdered eight women. But few realise how close he came to getting away with it altogether
24 k eeping killing in the family
A dentist, a teacher and their two children appeared the model middle-class Russian family. What made them murder 30?
‘deliver $250,000 or die’
minute by minute
34 f inal day of the pizza bomber
Forced to wear a collar armed with explosives, delivering the stolen cash on time was more than Brian Wells’s life was worth
40 m anchester’s forgotten monster
Serial killer Trevor Hardy murdered girls and took souvenirs of his crimes, but today few remember the reviled ‘Beast of Manchester’
48 deadly quarters
Stuffed through the porthole of a ship at sea, was actress Gay Gibson the victim of a heart condition or a deadly sexual predator?
breakthrough
56 a fatal insult
Over 40 years later and with nothing to lose, a dying woman reveals two skeletons in her closet
unsolved case 58 deadly meeting with ‘mr kipper’
Estate agent Suzy Lamplugh went to visit a client in south London over 30 years ago – then simply vanished. We retrace her last footsteps
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contents 66 escape from clinton correctional
When two dangerous inmates hatched a plan and busted out of a maximum security New York prison, they left their jailers a little note...
72 being the governor
Former UK prison governor Veronica Bird tells us about riots, drugs and appalling conditions in Russian prisons after 35 years of service
78 murder by misogyny
When Alma Rattenbury was cleared of murdering her husband, the press ignored the real killer and put her lifestyle on trial, with tragic results
86 poison daryll’s deadly shaft
When Daryll Rowe was diagnosed as HIV positive, he went on a mission to infect as many men as possible: his text taunts to his victims were disgusting
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92 beast, the trouble boys, babylon berlin, endeavour s5 and more The latest crime film, mystery fiction and true tales reviewed
strange case
98 knicker-nicking buddhist monk
This Buddhist holy man’s perverted pilfering of a woman’s underwear in Thailand has to be seen to be believed
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Manila,Philippines,12June2007
Gunned down on their getaway Desperately attempting to flee the scene following their raid on the Metropolitan Bank in Manila, four bank robbers are killed in a hail of bullets
When the guns finally fell silent four suspects lay dead, while the two surviving criminals were hauled into custody at the scene. With this suspect still half slumped out of the getaway car, police officers photograph the scene of the second robbery attempt in two weeks to end in carnage. However, there is some cause for optimism, with robberies falling by just over 23 per cent from 2016 to 2017, equating to 50 fewer incidents a month. Even so, this does need to be balanced against a national rise of 14 per cent in homicides in 2017. With nearly ten murders per 100,000 inhabitants, the murder rate in the Philippines is more than ten times that of the UK.
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adly for the citizens of Manila, the capital of the Philippines, the sight of a blood-spattered crime scene is an all too familiar one in a city plagued by violent crime. While he probably didn’t envisage meeting such a gruesome end, this would-be fugitive found out in the hardest way possible just how far the authorities are willing to go in order to fight back. Having fled the Metropolitan Bank in the city’s financial hub of Makati (a suburb of Manila), six armed bank robbers soon found themselves embroiled in a ferocious gunfight with local police officers, who were working in tandem with the bank’s security to foil the robbery.
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Chicago,USA,26September1929
Death behind this door Officer Howard Anderson indicates a pool of blood in the lobby of an apartment block, the scene of the brutal murder of Patrolman William Gallagher
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hile Chicago has always been a tough town to survive in, in the 1920s it was near-lawless. Witness to the rise of prominent gangsters such as the notorious Al Capone, Chicago’s police force faced the almost impossible job of maintaining public order in the face of heavily armed and organised gangs. William Gallagher was one such officer trying to keep the peace. Called to investigate the kidnapping of Charles Kirkman – an official belonging to what would become the Nation of Islam – by a faction led by Ira Johnson, Gallagher and his partner, Patrolman Jesse Hults, found themselves confronted
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with an apartment full of armed men ready and willing to fight to the death. As Hults and other officers attempted to access the apartment via a back door they met with a shower of bullets, seven of which hit Hults, killing him. In the ensuing panic, Johnson and a fellow gunman by the name of John Stephenson burst out of the front door, gunning Gallagher down in the process. In reply, Johnson was himself shot dead and five other gunman were arrested at the scene, all of which will have offered little comfort to Gallagher’s bereaved wife and children.
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Johannesburg, South Africa, 27 March 2002
Brazen broad daylight bank robbery
A robber makes no effort to hide his identity as he points his machine gun at the cashier and attempts to part the establishment of a few thousand Rand
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n most cases of armed robbery the one wielding the weapon usually makes an attempt to disguise their identity: a prudent step if one is hoping to not only flee with a large amount of cash but keep hold of it, not to mention their liberty. However, in a nation as rife with crime as South Africa it’s perhaps not surprising to see this guntoting criminal holding up a bank without much consideration for the memory of the witnesses. While the wildlife of South Africa is arguably some of the most stunning in the world, its crime statistics are also a thing of awe. A nation of just under 56 million people, South Africa witnessed 386 aggravated robberies a day between 2016 and 2017, and Johannesburg alone reported 13,044 crimes in 2017. Yet all is not lost: surveillance has made a tangible difference to crime levels in inner-city ‘Joburg’ and further afield. This particular incident was recorded by the surveillance company Cueincident on one of its 176 cameras in the centre of the city. Born in the late 90s as result of the efforts of Business Against Crime, a body of companies seeking to tackle the crime ruining so many lives, Cueincident enjoyed stunning success in Cape Town before moving to Johannesburg in 1999. Controlled by a team of operators and able to track and trace suspects, Cueincident’s clever positioning and interactive nature has resulted in a dramatic reduction in crime rates in urban areas.
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Sacramento, California, USA, 13 February 2011
He held her captive for 18 years Kidnapper and rapist Phillip Garrido hangs his head as his last hope of avoiding trial is extinguished in the El Dorado Superior Court
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ew images could better illustrate the power of the law to bring even the most depraved offenders to their knees. Alone, with his head bowed, the weight of his offences and the realisation that he will almost certainly die in prison hang heavy on the shoulders of Phillip Garrido, 58, the perpetrator of a range of sickening crimes. On 10 June 1991, 11-year-old Jaycee Dugard was walking from her home towards a school bus stop when she was snatched by Garrido and his wife Nancy. Incredibly, the abduction unfolded before Jaycee’s horrified stepfather, who immediately gave chase on his mountain bike. He didn’t have a chance against Garrido’s car though, and despite his best efforts Jaycee was gone.
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The Garridos would keep Jaycee confined to a property in Antioch, California, for the next 18 years, during which time she would give birth to two daughters. Several chances to rescue her were missed by the police. It wasn’t until 2009 that Phillip Garrido’s bizarre visit to the University of California’s Berkley Campus with two young girls prompted an investigation that eventually led to the release of 29-year-old Jaycee and the arrest of her captors. In recognition of police failures, the authorities awarded the Dugard family $20 million in 2010. They handed Phillip Garrido a 431-year sentence in 2011, while Nancy received 36 years to life. While Jaycee can never regain those lost years, she can at least live the rest of her life as a free woman.
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