I’ve been reading, listening, watching, and researching true crime for a long time. But nothing quite prepared me for the horrors inflicted by Javed Iqbal.
Ticket to Ride
Murder is always a senseless, horrific act. And there was nothing more senseless than the murder of Gerry Tobin.
It’s Magnetic
I’ve posted before about what happens when we put our trust in a less-than-honourable health care professional. But there is very little that is more tragic than when that trust puts a child at risk.
The Seznec Affair
Joseph Marie Guillaume Seznec was born in 1878, in Plomodiem in Finistère, France. He was the head of a sawmill at Morlaix. He was also at the centre of one of France’s greatest controversies and most mysterious cases.
Clothesline
The saying goes that if it sounds too good to be true, it very likely is. This refers to good things, bad things, and absurd things. The following case falls definitively under the too absurd to be true category.
“We Had To Do It.”
There are some cases that gain international attention for various reasons. Little did firefighters know that they’d stumbled onto just such a sensation as they doused a fire on an otherwise pleasant Sunday morning in 1975. The incident would gain notoriety as The Barbecue Murders.
Ins and Outs
I’ve often heard the term “fell through the cracks” in reference to children who get into trouble, and never quite manage to get out of trouble. But then I come across some individuals who didn’t simply fall through the cracks. The cracks embraced them, and made them one of their own. Steven Timothy Judy was one such individual.
Take Two – Don’t Call Me In The Morning
Health care practitioners are given a very specific kind of trust by their patients. It’s inevitable. But what happens when someone takes advantage of that trust?
Bowler Hat Blues
Ernest Percival Key was a Yorkshireman from Hull. He led a happy, quiet life as a jeweller. No one was prepared for what was to come on a dreary Christmas Eve night in 1938.
Barrels and Barrels
Neighbours knew him as a churchgoing family man. But law enforcement knew him as a convicted con artist. Which begs the question - who, exactly, is John “JR” Edward Robinson?