Welcome to our first episode, the story of Charmaine Maré. I chose Charmaine’s story to cover first because I hadn’t heard about the case before I saw it on a short documentary on television. I was surprised as I tend to follow cases like these quite voraciously but then I realised that Charmaine’s murder took Read more
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Fascination with true crime is nothing new. In 1924, the first true crime magazine, True Detective hit the racks, remaining a firm favourite among the darkly curious until its final issue in 1995. In its first few decades of publication its readers hid it under mattresses, only daring to sneak a peek when their husbands
I guess I’ve always had some odd interests. I was a serious child with serious views about the world. The writing bug first bit when I was about 8 years old. I remember reading a children’s book – some inane story where there’s always a happy ending (yes, I realise, most children’s books are like
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When Solly Deyzel and his girlfriend, Neeltjie Reece, were killed in a house fire, it seemed to be a horrible accident – the unfortunate result of too much alcohol and a cigarette left to burn. In the moments before her death, though, Neeltjie would whisper the name of her murderer to a priest and the
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