Harold Shipman and the 215 Patients
A Childhood in Nottingham Harold Frederick Shipman was born on January 14, 1946, in Nottingham, into a working-class family his father a lorry driver, his mother a woman of fierce social ambition who communicated clearly to her son that he was better than his circumstances and destined for something greater. He was the second of…
Timothy Evans, John Christie, and the House on Rillington Place
A Street in Notting Hill Rillington Place was a short, narrow cul-de-sac in Notting Hill, west London a working-class pocket of the city in the years just after the Second World War, crowded and slightly shabby, the kind of street where people knew their neighbours by sight and sound through walls that didn’t muffle very…
Mary Ann Cotton and the Twenty Years Nobody Noticed
A Village Girl from Low Moorsley She was born Mary Ann Robson on the last day of October, 1832, in the village of Low Moorsley in County Durham a place of coal dust and Methodist chapels and men who went underground every morning and came back up every evening smelling of the earth. Her father,…
- Harold Shipman and the 215 Patients
- Timothy Evans, John Christie, and the House on Rillington Place
- Mary Ann Cotton and the Twenty Years Nobody Noticed
- Graham Young and the Making of the Teacup Poisoner
- The Guildford Four: How Britain Jailed Four Innocent People and Spent Fifteen Years Pretending It Hadn’t
