Scenes Of Murder Then And Now

In this book After the Battle" have explored entirely new ground to investigate 150 years of murder and present it through our then and now theme of comparison photographs. It includes scene of crime plans photographs from police files as well as from the Press focus on a wide variety of murders committed between 1812 when a Prime Minister was shot in the House of Commons to killings on the streets of London in the 1960s. Included are many of the headline murderers like Jack the Ripper Dr Crippen Kennedy and Browne the Black-out Ripper John Haigh John Christie Donald Hume Ruth Ellis Ronald Marwood Guenther Podola and the Roberts Gang along with other less notorious - but equally important - murders. Extracts from eyewitnesses and investigating officers original statements taken by
police including from the murderers newspaper articles published at the time pathologist accounts and even descriptions given by executioners are all blended with photographs of the murder scenes as they appear today. Homicide is not a subject for the faint-hearted and many of the photographs are distressing which is why the book is made available with that warning. Far too often it is the perpetrator who is remembered while their victims many lying in unmarked graves remain lost to history. So this book sets out to redress the balance by tracking down the last resting places even going as far as to mark two wartime graves of taxi drivers killed by American servicemen. Research also resulted in achieving formal recognition by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission for one of the victims of
Neville Heath murdered while she was serving her country yet omitted from the commemorative records until now. Controversially comes the revelation that 17 murderers who served in the Army during the war and who were executed for their crimes now have their names commemorated on the Brookwood Memorial to the Missing in Surrey. Murders covered...May 11 1812 - The Death Of A Prime Minister December 13 1867 - The Last Public Execution December 1887-September 1889 - Jack The Ripper February 1 1910 - Dr Hawley Crippen December 16 1910 - The Houndsditch Murders January 1 1911 - The Murder Of Leon Beron June 17 1919 - Riot By Canadian Troops At Epsom June 22 1922 - The Assassination Of Sir Henry Wilson October 4 1922 - The Bywaters/Thompson Affair September 27 1927 - Police Constable George
Gutteridge November 6 1930 - The Strange Case Of Alfred Rouse August 7 1934 - Death At The Palace Cinema July 14 1938 - The Lovers Lane Murder March 13 1940 - The Shooting Of Sir Michael Odwyer February 1942 - The Black-Out Ripper April 30 1942 - Double Execution For Murder October 7 1942 - The Wigwam Murder December 27 1942 - The First American Execution In Britain September 28 1943 - Rape And Murder At Marlborough and December 8 1943 - The Birch Taxi-Cab Murder. It also includes: March 5 1944 - Execution By Firing Squad February 14 1944 - The Cabbage Patch Murder August 22 1944 - The Killing Of Betty Green October 7 1944 - Us Deserter Tried In A British Court December 3 1944 - The Murder Of Sir Eric Teichman December 8 1944 - Captain Ralph Binney R.N. June 21 1946 - Wanted For Murder:
Neville Heath April 29 1947 - The Killing Of Alec De Antiquis February 18 1949 - John Haigh And The Acid-Bath Murders October 4 1949 - Donald Hume: I Got Away With Murder! June 4 1951 - Gun-Battle At Chatham 1943-1953 - 10 Rillington Place London W11 November 2 1952 - Christopher Craig And Derek Bentley July 2 1953 - The Teddy Boy Murder April 8 1955 - Ruth Ellis: The Last Woman To Be Hanged May 24 1957 - The Slaying Of Countess Teresa Lubienska December 14 1958 - The Murder Of Police Constable Ray Summers July 13 1959 - The Death Of Detective Sergeant Raymond Purdy and June 3 1961 - Police Murders In West Ham. It also features: August 23 1961 - Rape And Murder On The A6 Aug"