THE ANNECY MURDERS – the wider view 2022

THE ANNECY MURDERS – the wider view 2022

THE ANNECY MURDERS – 10 years The still unsolved Annecy Murders were prosecuted on 05 September 2012. These brutal killings took place in the alpine Haute-Savoie region of south eastern France. This feature is a result of my third visit to the location in July 2022...
THE WOODMANCOTE & WINSFORD DOMESTIC SHOOTING MURDERS 2020

THE WOODMANCOTE & WINSFORD DOMESTIC SHOOTING MURDERS 2020

  On the 24th February 2020, a month before the first Coronavirus lock down, John Zurick, 67, shot to death his estranged wife Debbie at their property near the village of Winsford on Exmoor. He then took his own life. A respected and well connected couple, they...
KILLING BONNIE & CLYDE – 23 MAY 1934

KILLING BONNIE & CLYDE – 23 MAY 1934

On the 23 May 1934 the notorious outlaws, Bonnie Parker & Clyde Barrow were killed in a police ambush alongside what is now Highway 154, eight miles south of the small town of Gibsland in Bienville Parish, Louisiana, USA. In September 2022, eighty eight years...
THE MURDER OF JULIE & MAISIE – DECEMBER 2009

THE MURDER OF JULIE & MAISIE – DECEMBER 2009

  On the 29 December 2009 Andrew Copland, a 56-year-old painter shot to death his estranged partner Julie Harrison and their 4-year-old daughter Maisie Copland. He then took his own life with the same gun. Copland had lured them to his property in Aldershot, Hampshire...
MY RESEARCH, BLOGS & BOOKS

MY RESEARCH, BLOGS & BOOKS

I have been fortunate enough to have books and articles published about the use of firearms in crime and conflict. My latest project, running for some years now is a book called ‘Bullet Path’. This is a close study of over 25 shootings and assassinations...