An extraordinary analysis into the mind of a notorious killer which set the standard in true crime writing
Now the TV true crime drama DES, starring David Tennant and airing at 9pm on ITV this week***WINNER OF THE GOLD DAGGER AWARD FOR CRIME NON-FICTION***__________________Dennis Nilsen, who died in May 2018, murdered at least 15 people before his arrest in 1983.
The origins of the non-royal dukes in the British peerage divide nicely into Tudor looters, Royal bastards, opportunist generals, territorial, metropolitan or Scottish magnates.
But it was the trial of his wife, Rosemary West, that became Britain's serial-killer trial of the century... Detained for the murder of the twelve women found at 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester, Frederick West hung himself on New Year's Day 1995.
Do we really have a choice?Using a diverse multitude of examples, from St. Francis of Assisi, Audrey Hepburn, Bruce Chatwin and Bob Geldof to the Marquis de Sade, Adolf Hitler and... Læs mere