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Cold Blooded Evil
On December 2nd, 2006, the naked body of a woman was discovered in woodland just south of the Suffolk satellite town of Ipswich. Over the next ten days, four further bodies were found. All were naked - prostitutes who worked in Ipswich's red light district - and all five had been strangled. This work presents the story of the Ipswich Killer.
Crossing the Line of Duty
The Metropolitan Police of the mid-twentieth century, in particular The Flying Squad and Obscene Publications Squad, has been described as 'the most routinely corrupt organisation in London'. Larger-than-life characters such as Ken Drury and Alfred 'Wicked Bill' Moody routinely fraternised with underworld figures, paid off witnesses and struck dodgy deals to get their man – regardless of whether he was innocent or guilty. And the problem went far beyond a couple of 'bent' coppers: in the end, fifty officers were prosecuted, while 478 took early retirement. Using Metropolitan Police files obtained under Freedom of Information, which have not been accessed since the 1970s, author Neil Root can finally tell the real story of how the Met became systemically corrupt, and how Sir Robert Mark, who became commissioner of the Metropolitan Police in 1972, finally cleaned it up.
The Murder Gang
They were an elite group of renegade Fleet Street crime reporters covering the most notorious British crime between the mid-1930s and the mid-1960s. It was an era in which murder dominated the front and inside pages of the newspapers – the 'golden age' of tabloid crime. Members of the Murder Gang knew one another well. They drank together in the same Fleet Street pubs, but they were also ruthlessly competitive in pursuit of the latest scoop. It was said that when the Daily Express covered a big murder story they would send four cars: one containing their reporters, the other three to block the road at crime scenes to stop other rivals getting through. As a matter of course, Murder Gang mem...
Gone
The last time that anyone heard from 35-year-old Claudia Lawrence, a chef at the University of York, was when she sent a text message to a friend on 18 March 2009 at 8.23 p.m. She has never been heard from or seen again, and her disappearance is a mystery that endures to this day. What happened to Claudia that early spring evening – or was it early the following morning on her way to work? There had been nothing abnormal about her behaviour before she vanished, and there were no signs of a struggle at her home. A Crimewatch reconstruction has been broadcast, and the police investigation into the case has cost more than £750,000. Dozens of interviews have thrown up numerous leads, but there are no concrete clues. With extensive access to her family and friends, in Gone, Neil Root assesses the facts and theories and asks: where is Claudia?
Gone
The last time that anyone heard from 35-year-old Claudia Lawrence, a chef at the University of York, was when she sent a text message to a friend on 18 March 2009 at 8.23 p.m. She has never been heard from or seen again, and her disappearance is a mystery that endures to this day. What happened to Claudia that early spring evening âe" or was it early the following morning on her way to work? There had been nothing abnormal about her behaviour before she vanished, and there were no signs of a struggle at her home. A Crimewatch reconstruction has been broadcast, and the police investigation into the case has cost more than £750,000. Dozens of interviews have thrown up numerous leads, but there are no concrete clues. With extensive access to her family and friends, in Gone, Neil Root assesses the facts and theories and asks: where is Claudia?
Frenzy!
Murder has transfixed the popular press for centuries. But it was only in the second half of the twentieth century that murder began saturating front pages and making these monsters what we today recognise as modern celebrities. It was three serial killers, caught and executed in the few years after the end of the Second World War, who precipitated a level of public furore never seen before. Neville Heath, a 'charming' sadist who killed two women; John George Haigh, the Acid Bath Killer who killed between six and nine men and women; and John Christie, the ineffectual necrophile, who killed between six and eight women. The modern news coverage finds its roots with these three men whom the cri...
Frenzy!
"We live in a twenty-four hour television news and internet culture. Events are on air and online within hours, sometimes minutes or seconds. This is especially true when it comes to cases of murder, the dark fascination and sensational details of these extraordinary actions and sad misfortunes keep viewers and surfers gripped. This appetite has in turn encouraged the tabloid press. Pages and pages are devoted to gruesome stories, sometimes with a level of detail that is truly chilling. Murder has transfixed the popular press for centuries. But it was only in the second half of the twentieth century that murder began saturating front pages and making these monsters what we today recognise as modern celebrities. It was three serial killers, caught and executed in the few years after the end of the Second World War, who precipitated a level of furore never seen before. Neville Heath, a charming sadist who killed two women; John George Haigh, the Acid Bath Killer who killed between six and nine men and women; and John Christie, the ineffectual necrophile, who killed between six and eight women. The modern news coverage finds its roots with these three men whom the crime historia
The Sweeney
In 1972, Sir Robert Mark was appointed Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police by Home Secretary James Callaghan with the orders to clean up the force. Mark famously said when appointed that a good police force catches more criminals than it employs. After a fraught internal investigation, three separate trials in 1977 would lead to the imprisonment of Commander Kenneth Drury, the Head of the Flying Squad, for eight years on five counts of corruption in public office; Commander Wally Virgo, who was later cleared on appeal; and Chief Superintendent Wicked Bill Moody, Head of the Obscene Publications Squad, for twelve years, along with another Chief Inspector and five Inspectors. They are stil...
Covering Darkness
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Twentieth-Century Spies
What drives a person to enter the deadly world of high-level espionage? In this investigation of the most important cases of the twentieth century, Neil Root focuses on the personalities of these enigmatic figures, discusses their motivations and influences, and asks whether they were heroes, traitors or just scapegoats.
