Master Detective – April 2020
English | 54 pages | pdf | 25.88 MBInside Master Detective magazine April 2020 Issueany people would happily see convicted killers locked up for life, while others would prefer to see a return to the days of capital punishment.
Most killers today, however, serve a minimum sentence and, with the green light of the parole board, are slowly released back into the community. Most of them, it seems, have learned their lesson and do not commit the ultimate crime again. However, some do and it is these men we focus on in a new series, Killers Released – To Kill Again. See page 14 for part one.
Draconian laws in Alabama, US, consigned smalltime crook Alvin Kennard to a life sentence – until a judge helped to turn round his fortunes. See page 17 and Life Without Parole – For Stealing $50. Finally, how would it feel to execute a friend? Hangman Albert Pierrepoint had to do just that. See page 46 and When Pierrepoint Hanged His Pal.
2 MURDER BY PITCHFORK ON THE PIG FARM
Farmer Todd Mullis couldn’t forgive his wife Amy for having an affair…
4 PAUL DONNELLEY’S MURDER MONTH
More Murder Months on pages 9, 29, 41 and 49
7 VIEWPOINT plus COMPETITION
More of your letters and a chance to win a book
8 EUROPEAN CRIME REPORT
“How ‘Napoleon’ Chopped Up His ‘Josephine,’” “The Tall Tales of Billy Liar”
12 MD’S CRIME QUIZ
Test your knowledge of crime in our fun quiz
14 NEW SERIES: KILLERS RELEASED – TO KILL
AGAIN, PART ONE:m When killers are let out of jail the authorities believe it’s safe to release them. But that isn’t always the case…
17 LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE – FOR STEALING $50
Alvin Kennard paid the heaviest price for raiding a bakery
19 THIRTY YEARS AGO IN CRIME
More headline-making material from MD’s crime archives
20 MD FORUM: SYDNEY’S CURIOUS
SHARK ARM CASE How a tiger shark launched a murder investigation
26 DUBLIN COUPLE’S HAPPY MARRIAGE ENDED
IN MURDER David Bourke was devastated by his wife’s infidelity – and took the most brutal revenge
30 IRENE AND THE SEX LETTERS
Irene had moved out of the family home to escape her violent husband’s sexual requests
36 MARY POISONED HER SISTER – BY POST
London maid Mary Ansell’s deadly get-rich-quick plan
42 WIFE-KILLER TOOK DAUGHTERS TO CHURCH
BEFORE CHOKING THEM TO DEATH Domestic horror story from Canada
46 THE HANGINGS OF ALBERT PIERREPOINT –
PART 11: WHEN PIERREPOINT HANGED HIS PAL
James Corbitt had been a regular at publican Pierrepoint’s
watering hole near Oldham
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