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...
by admin | Aug 9, 2024 | Shootings
“Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened”. Thomas Hardy – Poet and Novelist 1840 -1928 On the 13th December 2005 Bradley John Murdoch, 46 was found guilty by jury in the Supreme Court of the Northern...
by admin | Aug 9, 2024 | Shootings
A brutal gun murder took place alongside the Australian Stuart Highway on the 5th December 1957, forty four years before the circumstances that befell the UK travellers, Peter Falconio and Joanne Lees in 2001. This event draws a close comparison, but time has expired...
by admin | Jul 26, 2024 | Shootings
We have reached the 12th anniversary of the Annecy shootings, (or the Chevaline killings), in France. These brutal murders occurred on the 5th September 2012. Three members of a British/Iraqi family who were on a caravan holiday and a local French citizen were shot to...
by admin | Jul 26, 2024 | 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 | Jul 26, 2024 | 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 | Jul 26, 2024 | 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 | Jun 30, 2024 | Shootings
Much has been written and debated about the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir apparent to the Austro-Hungarian Empire and his wife Sophie on June 28th 1914 in Sarajevo, Bosnia. The event has been considered to be the “Spark that ignited the...
