by admin | Feb 7, 2025 | Shootings
THE LACHEMENT ASSASSINE On 14 October 2019, exactly 4 years after my first visit to the Le Martinet murder site I was accompanied by a longstanding friend and professional photographer Chris Powell. The weather was glorious, the sun spreading a comfortable autumn...
by admin | Feb 7, 2025 | Shootings
The Annecy Murders took place during the afternoon of Wednesday 05 September 2012 in the Haute-Savoie region of South East France. Four people were shot dead and a child was seriously wounded in an accessible wooded location near the village of Chevaline. The...
by admin | Feb 7, 2025 | Shootings
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...
by admin | Dec 15, 2024 | Shootings
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...
by admin | Dec 15, 2024 | Shootings
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...
by admin | Dec 12, 2024 | Shootings
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...
by admin | Oct 31, 2024 | Person Profiles
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...
by admin | Aug 13, 2024 | Shootings
In the early hours of the 05 August 1952 three members of a British family on a visit and camping holiday in the now Alpes-de-Haute-Provence region of south east France were brutally murdered on the side of a rural road. The location was on the north/south N96, (now...
by admin | Aug 13, 2024 | Shootings
Jeremy Bamber and his supporters never give up, they remain confident that he may one day be released if they continue submitting legal challenges against his 1986 conviction for the shooting murders of five members of his family in August 1985. The last was a...
by admin | Aug 13, 2024 | Shootings
In the early hours of 02 June 2010, taxi driver Derrick Bird, 52, left his home in the West Cumbria village of Rowrah armed with a licenced George Fisher 12 bore shotgun and a CZ 452 bolt-action .22 rifle and a supply of ammunition for both weapons. The rifle was...
