Murder Casebook was a weekly publication by Marshall Cavendish, delved into the intricate details of crimes committed by notorious killers worldwide. Consisting of 150 regular issues along with four special editions, it provided in-depth coverage of chilling criminal cases.
The series was published from 1990 to 1993
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000 to 52
053 to 104
105 to 150 and Specials
0: Introduction to Murder Casebook
1: The Yorkshire Ripper – Peter Sutcliffe
2: Muswell Hill Murders -Dennis Nilson
3: Sharon Tate Killings -Charles Manson
4: Rillington Place Murders – John Christie
5: Boston Strangler – Albert de Salvo
6: Acid Bath Murders – John George Haigh
7: White House Farm Murders – Jeremy Bamber
8: College Girl Killings – Ted Bundy
9: Mild Mannered Murderer – Dr Crippen
10: Too Young to be Hanged Craig and Bentley
11: Crimes of Passion Ruth Ellis, Scarsdale Diet Case, Bywaters and Thompson
12: Son of Sam Killings – David Berkowitz
13: Lord Lucan Mystery – Richard Bingham
14: London’s Godfathers of Crime – The Kray Twins
15: Three Crimes of Sadism – Neville Heath, Peter Kurten, ‘Black Dahlia’
16: Black Panther – Donald Neilson
17: The McKay Kidnap – Hosein Brothers
18: Hillside Stranglers – Bianchi and Buono
19: Death Wish in Utah – Gary Gilmore
20: Mystery of Deadman’s Hill – James Hanratty
21: God’s Banker – The Calvi Affair
22: America’s King of Crime – Lucky Luciano
23: Paperboy Killing – The Bridgewater Four
24: Plainfield Butcher – Edward Gein
25: The Perfect Murder – The Wallace Case
26: Glasgow’s Multiple Killer – Peter Manuel
27: Chicago’s Rich Kid Killers – Leopold and Loeb
28: The Lady Killers – Lizzie Borden, Styllou Christofi, Parker & Hulme
29: The Lindbergh Kidnap – Bruno Richard Hauptman
30: Deadly Fantasist – Donald Hume
31: The Evil Butler – Roy Fontaine
32: All American Tragedy – Dr Samuel Sheppard
33: Jack the Stripper – The Hammersmith Nudes Case
34: Murder in Paradise – Sir Harry Oakes
35: Green Eyed Monsters – The Happy Valley Murder, The Rattenbury Case, Elvira Barney
36: Killer Couples – Fernandez and Beck, Gallego & Smith, The Birnies
37: Ordeal of Innocence – George Ince
38: The Rebel Killer – Charlie Starkweather
39: France’s Public Enemy – Jacques Mesrine
40: Eastbourne’s Dr Death – Dr Bodkin Adams
41: The Poisoners – Maybrick & Seddon
42: Killers Unknown – Ann Chapman, Harvey and Jeanette Crewe, Henry Morshead
43: Janie Shepherd Killing – David Lashley
44: Fatal Triangle – Harry Thaw
45: Luton Post Office Murder – Cooper, McMahon & Murphy
46: Wanted Dead or Alive – John Dillinger
47: Death for Sale – Judge Peel, Mother Duncan, Childs & MacKenny
48: The Savage Surgeon – Buck Ruxton
49: Martyrs of Anarchy – The Sacco-Vanzetti Case
50: France’s Angel of Death – Dr Marcel Petiot
51: Scarface – Al Capone
52: Suicide by Proxy – Rouse, Healey and Tetzner
53: The Croydon Poisonings
54: Orgy of Killings – John Wayne Gacy
55: Written in Blood – Colin Pitchfork, Ian Simms and Timothy Spencer
56: Bonnie & Clyde
57: Modern Bluebeard – Henri Desire Landru
58: Murder in Hollywood – William Desmond Taylor, Thelma Todd
59: Passion for Poison – Graham Young
60: Mother Killers – Steven Benson, Sidney Fox, Sean Sellers
61: Body in the Trunk – John Robinson, Tony Mancini, Winnie Judd
62: The Deadly Couple – Snyder & Gray
63: Mad Bad Bill – William Heirens
64: Atlanta Lynching – Leo Frank
65: Adultery and Arsenic – Armstrong, Greenwood, Waite
66: Brides in the Bath
67: Who Killed Miss Gilchrist
68 Blood on the Streets
69: Donald Merrett
70: Bad men of the West – Jesse James and Billy the Kid
71: Ritual Killings – Lower Quinton, Hagley Wood, The Labbe case
72: Blackout Killers – Gordon Cummins, August Sangret, Karl Hulten
73: The Baby Farmer – Gary Heidnik
74: Sex Fiends – Harvey Glatman and Jerry Brudos
75: The Railway Killers – Duffy, Muller, Matuschka
76: Grim Reaper of Paris – Thierry Paulin
77: Canadian Killers – Peter Demeter and Evelyn Dick
78: High Priests of Death – Rev Jim Jones and Adolfo Constanzo
79: Victims of Desire – Vicki Morgan, Dorothy Stratten and Robin Benedict
80: Killing Machines – Paul John Knowles and Harvey Carigan
81: Summer of Slaughter – Richard Speck and Charles Whitman
82: Monster of the Rivers – Arthur Shawcross
83: The’Vampire’ Killers – Tracey Wiggington and Lisa Ptaschinski
84: Trial by Coroner – Philp Yale Drew and Evelyn Foster
85: She Devil – Simone Weber
86: Shots in the Dark – Marguerite Fahmy and Lock Ah Tam
87: Above Suspicion – Dr Jeffrey MacDonald
88: The Body Snatchers – Burke, Hare and H H Holmes
89: The Lonely Head Hunter – Ed Kemper
90: Australian Nightmare – Eric Edgar Cooke
91: The Drowned Girl – Starr Faithful
92: The Avengers – Henriette Caillaux and Yvonne Chevallier
93: Outback Outlaw – Ned Kelly
94: The Whisperings – Marie Besnard and Louisa Merrifield
95: Mysteries of Motive – Thomas Ley and Ronald Light
96: Starbabies- Cheryl Crane and Christian Brando
97: Police Killers – Guenther Podola, Browne and Kennedy
98: Deadly Delusions – Ronald True and Reginald Buckfield
99: Family Bloodbath – Ronald ‘Butch’ Defeo, James Ruppert and Harry de la Roche
100: Tourist Trap – Gaston Dominic
101: Night Stalker – Richard Ramirez
102: Candy Man – Dean Corll
103: Death on Duty – Harry Roberts and Howard Wilson
104: Mothers on Trial – Alice Crimmins and Christine Villemin
105: Woman’s Weapon – Charlotte Bryant, Ethel Major and Violette Nozieres
106: Handsome Devil – Eugen Weidmann
107: Traces of Poison – Florence Bravo and Adelaide Bartlett
108: Unfinished Business – Cleveland’s Mad Butcher and The Green River Killer
109: Left luggage Killers – Devereux, Singh and Goold
110: Alcatraz Breakout – Bernie Coy
111: Deadly Duo – John Norman Collins and Leonard Lake
112: Murder for Money – De Stempel and Von Bulow
113: Killers on the Shore – Patrick Mahon and Herbert Bennett
114: Inner City Sadists – The Stockwell Strangler and Bible John
115: Anarchist Gangsters – The Bonnot Gang
116: Visions of Murder – Henry LeeLucas and The Zodiac Killer
117: Deadly Partners – Sheila Garvie and Ronald Chen
118: Imperfect Parents – Dale Cavaness and Marie Hilley
119: Bodyless Murders – Edward Ball, Michael Onufrejczyk, James Camb
120: Murder and Mutilation – Jeffrey Dahmer
121: Killer in the Shadows – Marcel Barbeault
122: Deadly Doctors – Carl Coppolino and Geza de Kaplany
123: Campaigning Fathers – Helen Smith and Julie Ward
124: Children Who Killed – Mary Bell and Steven Truscott
125: Robbery with Murder – Devlish Trio and the De Antiquis Murder
126: Massacre – William Calley, Michael Ryan
127: Crooks turned Killers – Charlie Peace, The Stratton Brothers, Steinie Morrison
128: Travellers in Death – Earle Nelson, Heinrich Pommerencke
129: Unsolved Murders – George Storrs, Caroline Luard
130: Freeway Killers – Randy Kraft
131: Explosive Murders
132: The Teflon Don – John Gotti
133: Spanish Desperados – The Garcia-Romero Brothers, Fernando Olmos
134: Parent Killers – Elizabeth Haysom, Jens Soering, Wyley Gates
135: Billionaire Boys Club – Joe Hunt
136: Dealt the Death Card – Joseph Bowne Elwell
137: Insane Murderers – Herbert Mullin, Patrick Mackay
138: Scissors Murder – Lehnberg and Choegoe
139: Moat house Farm Murders – Samuel Dougal
140: Sense of Injustice – The Foster Gang, Gordon Kahl
141: Body in the Sack – Donald & Manton
142: Resentment Killers – Carl Panzram, Werner Boost
143 Crazy Gunmen – Robert Poulin, Julian Kinght, Marc Lepine
144: A Disciplined Death – Peter Plumley-Walker
145: Deadly Deal in Hollywood – Paul Bern
146: Texas Teenage Murders – David Spence, Greg Knighten
147: The Odd Couple – Kenneth Halliwell, Joe Orton
148: Dangerous Liaisons – Joe Pikul and Lee Orsini
149: Assassination, Price of Politics – James Earl Ray, Carl Weiss
150: INDEX
Special 1: Jack The Ripper
Special 2: The Kennedy Assassination
Special 3: The Killing of John Lennon
Special 4: Black Museum
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