Letter received claiming two shootings. Includes one third of a cipher. Writer demands front-page publication.
The Halcroft Files, by Edward Halcroft
True crime, told from the record.
One real case every week: what happened, how it was solved or why it never was, and the sources to check it yourself. Start with two free case files.
British backpacker states driver on Hume Hwy produced a gun and rope. Escaped on foot. Description of man and vehicle taken.
Suspect identified through relatives' DNA on a genealogy site. Case open since 1976. Arrest made.
CLOSEDYour two free case files
Two cases you will not find in the books. Each file sets out the case record, the key dates, the turning points of the investigation, and the myths set against the evidence.
Robert Black
Scotland and England, 1981 to 1990
A van driver with a teenage conviction for assaulting a young girl crossed the country for years while police forces failed to connect a series of child abductions. He was caught because a neighbour in a Scottish village wrote down what he saw.
Israel Keyes
United States, around 2001 to 2012
A carpenter who buried kill kits across the country and chose victims at random, hundreds of miles from home. Investigators only learned what he was after he was caught using a dead woman's bank card in 2012.
Books by Edward Halcroft
They Could Have Been Stopped
They Could Have Been Stopped
15 Serial Killers, the Warnings Police Ignored and the Mistakes That Cost Lives
Missed Signals, Book 1
From Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy to the Yorkshire Ripper, Harold Shipman and the Golden State Killer: fifteen cases across four countries and more than a century, each asking why it took so long to stop them.
Paperback, ISBN 978-1-80922-000-4.
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One case. Unsolved, solved or still argued over, told in under ten minutes.
The detail most accounts miss. The tip, the test or the mistake that changed the outcome.
The record. Sources you can check yourself: court records, inquiries and reporting.