TRUE TALES OF MURDER & MAYHEM

Chilling Stories of Crimes and Investigations - Volume #1

De: GUY HADLEIGH

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

TRUE TALES OF MURDER & MAYHEM - VOLUME #1

(Edition #2. Updated and corrected 28th Feb 2024)

*MURDEROUS FAMILIES
The process of growing up as part of a small family group prepares a child to take a constructive part in the world. But when a family turns to crime together, there seems to be no limit to their ambition. This is clearly seen in the case of the Bender family. Kate Bender would charm the travellers who stopped at their house for a meal cooked by her mother. The men of the family then killed, robbed and buried them, sharing out the proceeds. The trial is of the Manson "family" for the brutal murders of Sharon Tate and her friends. It was the longest and most expensive in American legal history up till that time.

*PARENT KILLERS
It is the one thing that parents believe could never happen - that their son or daughter, on whom they have lavished such love and attention - could one day turn against them, and even plan their murder. But, parent killing, or parricide, is one of the oldest crimes, and one which has concerned psychiatrists and psychoanalysts for many years. Possibly the most notorious instance of parent killing is the crime allegedly committed with an axe by Lizzie Borden, who "gave her mother forty whacks... and gave her father forty one". Sidney Fox goes on trial for deciding to dispose of his mother by burning her to death once she had outlived her usefulness as a partner in crime.

*VITAL CLUES
There is little more fascinating to criminologists and lawmen than the discovery and interpretation of clues - especially the 'Vital Clues' which can lead to the arrest, trial and conviction of the wrongdoer. In Vital Clues we examine such phenomena in fact and fiction. In the intriguing case - The House of the Rising Sun - a postcard was the only tangible clue in the murder of a young North London Prostitute. The trial - Death Wore a Gold Chain - follows the killing of a young mother on the beach at an English seaside resort. Her gold chain, a beach-photographer's picture and a laundry mark were the vital clues which led to the conviction and hanging - of her own husband.

*FIRERAISERS
For decades psychiatrists and criminologists have tried to understand the twisted workings of the mind of the fireraiser, or the arsonist - the person who sets fire to a building deliberately, and then gets a sexual and sometimes an aesthetic thrill from the conflagration. The sexual element is thoroughly explored, in which the history of fire and arson from the ancient Greeks to the pyromaniacs of today is traced. Fire has been raised for more than just physical "kicks". It has been used by murderers in the hope of destroying the remains of their victims, as in the case of A. A. Rouse, a bigamist, whose plans misfired. The trial puts the owners of a Manhattan garment factory in the dock. Their negligent fire precautions resulted in the agonising deaths of 146 workers in a factory fire.

*KILLED ON DUTY
No criminal in his right mind would want to kill a policeman. He knows that, if he does, the dead man's colleagues will work night and day, month in month out, to bring him to trial. The public feels an almost equal horror at the murder of a policeman, as can be seen from the support given to appeals for a victim's widow and family. In this issue we trace the history of the men in blue who have been killed on duty. The case is that of PC Gutteridge, who, in 1927, was gunned down at close range by two men whose car he stopped in a quiet country lane. Both attackers hanged. Nationwide controversy attended the trial of Derek Bentley and Christopher Craig, after PC Miles had been shot in a warehouse robbery; and although Bentley hanged, the death penalty was abolished soon after in the UK.

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