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The Mogano Case

20th Century / Mogano / true crime / Warwickshire / Warwickshire murders
If you're not familiar with it this is one of Coventry's most baffling unsolved murder cases. Penelope Mogano married in 1938, her husband, Carlo, worked for Daimler and by 1954 they had two sons and were living in a nice house on Holland Road. As far as we know the...

Jack the Ripper re-set

Alice McKenzie / Jack the Ripper / Martha Tabram / Whitechapel
I've just been looking over my research for the last book - Return of the Ripper? The Murder of Frances Coles - and it got me thinking, not about who the Ripper was but about how he managed to escape being caught. Out of all the murders, and for the...

Who killed John Gill?

Jack the Ripper / John Gill / unsolved
The real Question is did Jack the Ripper travel north? By the winter of 1888 Jack the Ripper had murdered Martha Tabram, Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly, or so the story goes. Question then is did he suddenly die, emigrate, go to...

Who murdered Amy?

Amy Collinson / Kimberworth murders / Rotherham
For more than thirty years I have been fascinated by one of South Yorkshire's most horrific murders. A killing that drew UK wide headlines, pulled in Scotland Yard's supposed best and had a less than satisfactory outcome. Leastways one that most people back then, and maybe a few today, thought...

The Freezer murder

Anne Noblett / The Freezer Murder / Unsolved murder / Wheathampstead
I like a mystery, as do most people, and the unsolved murder of 17 year-old Anne Noblett is exactly that. It's a little while back, 1957, but there's every chance her killer is still around. If he's not there's always the chance someone, all these years later, can point a...

Frances Coles and The Ripper

Frances Coles / Jack the Ripper / unsolved murders / Whitechapel
In February 1891 Jack the Ripper returned, or did he? That is the basis of my book. Did Jack the Ripper return to Whitechapel and murder Frances Coles? I wanted to write her story because I believe no-one had ever done justice to the narrative around her death. For over...