Murder by Numbers
Fascinating Figures Behind the World's Worst Crimes
2nd Edition
Published on 31. January 2018
224 pages
978-0-7509-8707-3 (ISBN)
Description
What's the connection between the number 13 and Jack the Ripper? Why is the number 23 of note in the assassination of Julius Caesar? And what is so puzzling about the number 340 in the chilling case of the Zodiac Killer? The answers to all these questions and many more are revealed in this unique, number crunching history of the ultimate crime.
Packed with 100 entries ranging from 1 to 1 billion, Murder by Numbers tells the story of murder in an entirely new way - through the key digits involved. Discover why the length of a bath was critical to convicting a killer, how the weight of a trunk helped police crack a case and why a fake house number was central to a seemingly unfathomable murder mystery. Full of astonishing figures, from fatal doses of poison to grizzly death tolls, this gripping armchair guide also covers scores of famous cases such as the Black Dahlia, Acid Bath Murderer and Yorkshire Ripper. Featuring murders involving Al Capone, Bonnie and Clyde, Neville Heath, Lord Lucan, Ted Bundy, Harold Shipman and even Adolf Hitler, this is a must for true crime addicts, history buffs or anyone who has ever longed to solve a classic 'whodunit'.
Packed with 100 entries ranging from 1 to 1 billion, Murder by Numbers tells the story of murder in an entirely new way - through the key digits involved. Discover why the length of a bath was critical to convicting a killer, how the weight of a trunk helped police crack a case and why a fake house number was central to a seemingly unfathomable murder mystery. Full of astonishing figures, from fatal doses of poison to grizzly death tolls, this gripping armchair guide also covers scores of famous cases such as the Black Dahlia, Acid Bath Murderer and Yorkshire Ripper. Featuring murders involving Al Capone, Bonnie and Clyde, Neville Heath, Lord Lucan, Ted Bundy, Harold Shipman and even Adolf Hitler, this is a must for true crime addicts, history buffs or anyone who has ever longed to solve a classic 'whodunit'.
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2nd Digital original
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English
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Stroud
United Kingdom
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30 Illustrations, black and white
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9,68 MB
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978-0-7509-8707-3 (9780750987073)
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JAMES MOORE is a journalist with twenty years of experience writing features for national newspapers and magazines. His work has appeared in The Sunday Telegraph, Daily Express, Daily Mirror and The Sun to name just a few. As a true crime historian, he has written The Tudor Murder Files (Pen & Sword, 2016) and Murder at the Inn (The History Press, 2015).
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Murder by Numbers
- 1 . the world's first murder
- 2 . missing bodies, in the case of the 'Princes in the Tower'
- 3 . times that murderer John Lee was unsuccessfully hanged
- 4 . assassins who murdered Thomas Becket
- 5 . feet long - the bath that convicted serial killer George Smith
- 6 . crucial letters in the telegraph that caught a killer
- 7 . pounds - how much serial killers Burke and Hare were paid for their first body
- 8 . steps at the heart of a Tudor murder mystery
- 9 . inches of pipe in the case of Lord Lucan
- 10 . age of James Bulger's killers
- 11 . cast number of a set of teeth that would convict a strangler
- 12 . O.J. Simpson's shoe size
- 13 . in the murders of Jack the Ripper
- 14 . percentage of homicides perpetrated by women
- 15 . men, the baffling weight used in the murder of Edward II
- 16 . traits of a psychopath
- 17 . lash marks that led police to the notorious Neville Heath
- 18 . pieces of bones in the case of the 'Acid Bath Murderer'
- 19 . months before Rasputin's murderous prediction came true
- 20 . days before the Mignonette's survivors resorted to cannibalism
- 23 . the number of times Julius Caesar was stabbed
- 25 . Menlove Gardens East - the address that never was
- 27 . May - date of two murders with amazing coincidences
- 28 . types of fibre that snared Atlanta serial killer Wayne Williams
- 29 . blows with a hatchet in the case of Lizzie Borden
- 30 . milligrams of diamorphine - the fatal doses administered by Dr Harold Shipman
- 35 . road number in the case of serial killer Henry Lee Lucas
- 37 . British soldiers executed for murder in the First World War
- 40 . minutes for a jury to wrongfully convict Timothy Evans
- 44 . Calibre Killer
- 48 . hours in the case of the 'Corpse in the Creek'
- 50 . micrograms of radioactive polonium-210 in a murder by teapot
- 54 . real age of the victim in the 'Tabernacle Street Horror'
- 56 . pounds of weight in the 'Tombstone Murder'
- 60 . second time-frame in the murder of Laetitia Toureaux
- 62 . love letters that sent Edith Thompson to the gallows
- 64 . squares on Alexander Pichushkin's chessboard
- 70 . sickles in a thirteenth-century murder, solved by flies
- 75 . number of the grenade mine used in the Rayleigh Bath Chair Murder
- 84 . units of insulin found in murdered Elizabeth Barlow
- 92 . business cards in the strange case of the Tokyo Bank Poisoner
- 94.7 . average IQ of a serial killer
- 99 . explosive devices in the Columbine School massacre
- 100 . miles in a Hitler murder mystery
- 101 . room number in the murder of John Welch
- 105 . kilos in the Gouffé affair
- 126 . cabin number in the 'Porthole Murder'
- 131 . years to find Julia Martha Thomas' skull
- 150 . rounds used to kill the outlaws Bonnie and Clyde
- 158 . microscopic specks of blood in the Billie-Jo Jenkins murder
- 200 . assassins aiming to murder Queen Elizabeth I
- 237 . cases that prove arsenic was the Victorians' favourite poison
- 250 . calls to a TV show that led to the capture of John List
- 313 . crucial frame in a film of JFK's assassination
- 340 . characters in the Zodiac killer's unsolved cipher
- 400 . infants murdered by Amelia Dyer - Britain's worst ever killer?
- 414 . bricks recovered from the wall of the St Valentine's Day Massacre
- 421 . soil samples that led to the brewery heir killer
- 477 . milligrams of antimony found in the body of Maud Marsh
- 500 . circulars written by poisoner Dr Thomas Neill Cream
- 568 . components in an Identi-Kit system used to catch the Antique Shop Killer
- 629 . flight number of the plane Jack Gilbert Graham blew up for cash
- 666 . times Satanic killers stabbed their victims
- 700 . cases of missing women examined in the Brighton Trunk Murders
- 800 . dollar insurance payout in the case of 'The Man Who Wouldn't Die'
- 931 . number of victims of the world's worst serial killer?
- 936 . picograms of lead in the rib of Pope Clement II
- 999 . the mystery emergency call in a country murder
- 1,000 . cuts in a Chinese execution used for killers
- 1,300 . guns tested in the 'Jockey Cap Murder'
- 1,505 . suspect number of John Duffy
- 2,000 . volts used to kill the first man to die in the electric chair
- 2,247 . the laundry mark that solved the Luton Sack Murder
- 2,300 . South African rand - the fee in a 'murder by request'
- 2,800 . pounds of fertiliser and fuel oil in the Oklahoma City Bombing
- 5,500 . samples taken in the first murder solved with DNA fingerprinting
- 7,000 . quizzed in the search for 'Jack the Stripper'
- 9,656 . prisoner number of the last woman to be hanged in Britain
- 10,000 . hours of CCTV footage in the case of the Suffolk Strangler
- 11,419 . number on a mugshot in the case of the Black Dahlia
- 25,000 . francs charged by the 'Butcher of Paris'
- 35,000 . word document that led to the Unabomber's capture
- 46,253 . police record number of the first murderer caught by mass fingerprinting
- 50,000 . people who watched the execution of the Mannings
- 74,843 . number of the luggage ticket in the Moors Murders
- 103,648 . number on the frame in the 'Green Bicycle' case
- 188,274 . serial number of the gun in the case of Dr Branion
- 383,000 . cubic yards of mud in the 'Piggy's Palace' horror
- 437,000 . homicides each year globally
- 525,987 . number on a gas mask in the case of the 'Blackout Ripper'
- 700,000 . pounds paid in compensation to the family of Mahmood Mattan
- 740,000 . capsules tested for cyanide in a fiendish poison plot
- 1 million . pounds demanded as ransom for kidnapped Muriel McKay
- 2.2 million . 'wanted' posters that caught the Oregon railway killers
- 5.2 million . car number plates checked in the hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
- 20 million . years old - the pollen used to catch a killer
- 26 million . pounds in a heist that led to a murderous curse
- 73 million . to 1 - the flawed statistic that convicted Sally Clark of double murder
- 262 million . murdered by their own governments
- 1 billion . to 1 chance in the Stephen Lawrence murder
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