The Train Killer
THE soft shoogle of the train was comforting. Janet Maddocks had always thought that, but some journeys can be bad. Journeys to hell.
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THE THUMP, thump, thump of the music, chatter and laughter and the clinking of glasses full of booze. It was a party among pals. A good time. That's how it started out.
View ArticleThe Sister Killer..
THE bang on the door was unmistakably the cops. They knocked that way on serious business and this time it was deadly serious - even if they didn't know it yet.
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GOOD at his work, well liked by colleagues, the council worker seemed like any other. Then he let his guard slip.
View ArticleThe Mad Gunman..
THE young couple were in love, planning to get married and had nothing but happy thoughts on their minds. Then a gunman appeared.
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"IT WISNAE me." If the cops had a pound for every time they had heard that statement they would all be retired.
View ArticleThe Good Samaritan Killer..
THE young man was having trouble with his car and was signalling for help. Other drivers were ignoring him. Of course, she'd stop.
View ArticleHe Sawed Through His Victim
IT was a well-to-do area of Edinburgh where the houses cost a fortune and every neighbour was more respectable than the next. That's where they found the dismembered corpse.
View ArticleWorse Than The Devil
BLOOD, entrails and dead bodies hanging from pulleys - a chicken processing plant is not a pretty place. And one was about to get worse.
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OPENING the door wide with a smile, he let in his two pals. He expected them to have popped in with some booze. They had other ideas.
View ArticleTerror Reign Of The Cobra
THE man in the dock protested his innocence loudly and strongly. It was going to be a difficult decision for the jury to make.
View ArticleMarriage Made In Hell...
IN THE grounds of every psychiatric hospital there are places you can go to be in private.
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IT WAS only a short walk home from the bus stop but she was still scared. She and her friends had been scared for years - and with good reason.
View ArticleFreed To Kill
THE pals were in festive mood. They were happy-go-lucky teenagers with not a care in the world.
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THE shriek of the smoke alarm through the house wakened the young mother. Panic and terror thumped in her chest.
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RETIREMENT years are meant to be happy and peaceful. That's the life pensioners James and Anne Mitchell were looking forward to.
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MARITAL breakdown is hard for most folk to take. In one man's case, it turned to multiple murder.
View ArticleShot, Burned And Buried
CHRISTMAS lights twinkled, carol singers sang and happy shoppers milled in the street. It was the time of good will to all people but for two it would end in hell.
View ArticleThe Monster Butler
CONMAN Archibald Hall had swindled people since he was a nipper on the streets of Whiteinch, Glasgow.
View ArticleLife Is Cheap
THE night was dark and he was carrying a lot of cash. But he was in his hometown, a small place where everyone knew everyone.
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