Murder Tales: My Bloody Valentine

De: H. N. Lloyd

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Love, one of the most powerful emotions we're capable of feeling, an emotion that is meant to be positive and life-affirming, yet one which frequently ends in some of the bloodiest events the world has seen. In Murder Tales: The Valentine Companion, H. N. Lloyd examines twelve blood-chilling real-life murders which would not have occurred if it hadn't have been for the emotion of love. The cases examined in this volume include: Timothy and Hanna Simm: In this travesty of British justice a peculiar judge took it upon himself to reduce a murder charge to manslaughter, and sought to ruin the prosecution against the accused man, despite the overwhelming evidence that pointed to the defendant's guilt, including the death bed testimony of his victim. Frederick Bywaters and Edith Thompson: A classic murder case which, at the time the terrible events unfolded, sent the Great British public through a roller-coaster of conflicting emotions. Where did the truth lie? Was Edith Thompson innocent of conspiring to murder her husband, or was she truly the queen of sexual manipulation? Clifford and Irene Holmes: When a damaged war hero returned from the horrors of the Dunkirk evacuations, he found himself unable to trust his wife, soon his mistrust led to a tragic murder. Michael and Susan Barber: When a suburban housewife became bored with her love life, she took on her husbands best friend as a lover, this in turn set off a chain of events which led to a most unusual poisoning, and the exposure of the kinky secrets that can go on behind the curtains of even the most ordinary of suburban homes. Rachel McLean and John Tanner: When love turns to obsession it can lead to some very dark and disturbing places. In this unsettling case discover how an emotionally immature boyfriend created an elaborate fantasy world to hide the truth of his girlfriend's fate. Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo: It was a case that shocked Canada and scandalized America, a beautiful young couple who seemingly had the world at their feet, in actual fact had a relationship based on lies, sexual abuse, rape and murder. The 'Ken and Barbie Murders' went down in criminal infamy when one of the murderous couple wriggled out of three murder charges in what has become known as 'the deal with the devil'. Completely revised, re-edited, updated and containing brand new material, this new edition of this classic Murder Tales volume is guaranteed to be one of the most murderously good read, you'll love it.