Real Crime Annual 2019 Inside the minds of history's sickest criminals There are few tales of crime quite as harrowing as the Utøya massacre in Norway, or the secret torture dungeon of Josef Fritzl. In the Real Crime Annual, uncover the most disgusting crimes, appalling heists and fearsome gangs that captured the world’s attention.
REAL CRIME ANNUAL
100 MOST INFAMOUS • CRIMES AND CRIMINALS OF THE LAST 100 YEARS
SERIAL BABY KILLER • SHE WAS ENTRUSTED WITH THE PROTECTION OF THE VULNERABLE BABIES IN HER CARE, BUT LUCY LETBY REPEATEDLY BETRAYED THAT TRUST. WHAT DROVE HER TO MURDER SEVEN HELPLESS INFANTS?
“I AM EVIL” • MASSES OF POST-IT NOTES AND CODED DIARY ENTRIES HELPED POLICE IN THEIR INVESTIGATION
INSIDE LUCY LETBY’S MIND • HE’S KNOWN FOR HIS INSIGHTS INTO HIGH-PROFILE CRIMINALS. SO WHAT DOES PSYCHIATRIST DR SOHOM DAS THINK OF LUCY LETBY?
INTERVIEW BEING THE GOVERNOR • VERONICA BIRD SPENT 35 YEARS AS A FEMALE PRISON OFFICER, MANAGING SOME OF BRITAIN’S TOUGHEST LOCK-UPS. SHE’S DEALT WITH AWFUL PRISON CONDITIONS, RIOTS AND SOME OF THE UK’S MOST NOTORIOUS INMATES
FIXING RUSSIA’S WORST PRISON • VERONICA WAS SENT TO PRISONS IN IVANOVO, RUSSIA, FOR A STAFF EXCHANGE – CONDITIONS THERE WERE FAR WORSE THAN ANY UK PRISON SHE’D EVER BEEN TO
JAIL BIRDS • VERONICA GOT TO KNOW SOME INFAMOUS - AND INTERESTING - WOMEN PRISONERS IN HER TIME
PSYCHO ESTATE AGENT • TODD KOHLHEPP’S MANY CRIMES REMAINED UNKNOWN UNTIL A KNOCK ON THE DOOR STARTED A PROCESS OF UNRAVELLING THAT BROUGHT THEM ALL TO LIGHT. BECAUSE THE TRUTH CAN’T STAY LOCKED AWAY FOREVER…
“BEYOND REHABILITATION” • PSYCHOLOGICAL REPORTS DESCRIBED KOHLHEPP AS “EXPLOSIVE” AND “PREOCCUPIED WITH SEXUAL CONTENT” AS A CHILD
INSIDE KALA’S CAGE OF CRUELTY • CELLPHONE SIGNALS LED LAW ENFORCEMENT TO KOHLHEPP’S SECLUDED ESTATE, WHERE THEY DISCOVERED MISSING WOMAN KALA BROWN. HERE’S A GLIMPSE INTO THE HELLSCAPE IN WHICH SHE’D BEEN IMPRISONED
SILVER FOX SERIAL KILLER • AGED 58, BRUCE McARTHUR BEGAN TARGETING VULNERABLE MEN FROM TORONTO’S GAY VILLAGE, LURING THEM INTO DEADLY SITUATIONS USING THE SAME AFFABLE FACADE THAT HE MANIPULATED THE POLICE WITH
THE DATING APPS • McARTHUR USED SOCIAL MEDIA DATING APPS TO HOOK UP AND INDULGE HIS SEXUAL DOMINATION FANTASIES
QUOTES FROM THE CASE • THE McCARTHUR CASE SHOCKED A NATION, SHATTERED A COMMUNITY AND LED TO CALLS FOR POLICE REFORM
EVIDENCE AGAINST McARTHUR • ONCE TORONTO POLICE FINALLY NAILED THEIR SUSPECT, A WEALTH OF FORENSIC AND ONLINE EVIDENCE EMERGED AND A MACABRE NARRATIVE WAS REVEALED
INTERVIEW FACE TO FACE WITH THE GRIM SLEEPER • THIS WASN’T THE FIRST SERIAL KILLER VICTORIA HAD MET, BUT THE MAN SUSPECTED OF KILLING DOZENS OF WOMEN OVER 30 YEARS TOOK HER COMPLETELY BY SURPRISE
NO REST FOR THE WICKED • FOR A TIME, THE GRIM SLEEPER GOT AWAY WITH SERIAL MURDER IN THE HOTBED OF VICE SOUTH OF THE CITY CENTRE
DEATH ROW INMATES • LONNIE FRANKLIN JR. IS JUST ONE NAME IN A SADLY LONG LIST OF DEATH PENALTY CASES IN THE US
UNHAPPILY EVER AFTER • HELEN BAILEY VIEWED HER NEW BOYFRIEND AS HER ‘HAPPY ENDING’, WHILE HE SAW HER AS HIS NEXT VICTIM. SADLY, HER FINAL STORY WAS DESTINED TO END IN TRAGEDY
THE HIDDEN EVIDENCE • THE EVIDENCE OF FOUL PLAY WAS THERE TO SEE, SO WHY WAS IT OVERLOOKED?
LASER SCANNING THE CRIME SCENE • FORENSIC INVESTIGATORS RECREATED THE SCENE USING HIGH-TECH LASER SCANNERS, ALLOWING THE JURY TO SEE EVERY DETAIL FROM THE COMFORT OF THE COURTROOM
A FINAL INJUSTICE • THE FAMILY WERE HAPPY WITH THE WHOLE-LIFE TARIFF GIVEN TO STEWART, SO WHY WAS IT CHANGED?
MINUTE BY MINUTE AURORA CINEMA SHOOTING BATMAN MULTIPLEX MASSACRE • A MIDNIGHT PREMIERE OF THE LATEST BATMAN FILM WAS AN EXTRAORDINARY MOVIE NIGHT FOR...