A gruesome new gallery of murders- ingenius, tragic, sadistic and downright horrifying- which will send a shiver down the spine of the most hardened of true crime addicts.
1 Feb. 1935: the body of Gertrina Opperman was found by a railway line near Pretoria. Her muderer was one the detectives investigating the crime.
8 Feb. 1983: the celebrated Nilsen case opened with the discovery of human flesh in north London manhole.
26 July 1984: death of Ed Gein, murderer, body-snatcher and necrophile. His ghoulish activities provided the inspiration for Hitchcock's Psycho.
2 Nov. 1979: Jacques Mesrine, infamous murderer and robber, waskilled in a police ambush in Paris, Overjoyed at his death, the police danced in the street.
30 Dec. 1916: Grigori Rasputin was murdered by conspirators in Russia. He survived poison, shooting and battering, only to drown in the icy River Neva.
1 Feb. 1935: the body of Gertrina Opperman was found by a railway line near Pretoria. Her muderer was one the detectives investigating the crime.
8 Feb. 1983: the celebrated Nilsen case opened with the discovery of human flesh in north London manhole.
26 July 1984: death of Ed Gein, murderer, body-snatcher and necrophile. His ghoulish activities provided the inspiration for Hitchcock's Psycho.
2 Nov. 1979: Jacques Mesrine, infamous murderer and robber, waskilled in a police ambush in Paris, Overjoyed at his death, the police danced in the street.
30 Dec. 1916: Grigori Rasputin was murdered by conspirators in Russia. He survived poison, shooting and battering, only to drown in the icy River Neva.
