Lolly's True Crime World

 Merry Christmas to All My Readers Many Thanks For Your Support What's coming up I have absolutely loads of really interesting cases and research to share with you in the coming year. I will be undertaking a couple of really interesting case reviews which I will be covering here on the blog site as well as working on two podcast documentaries with my buddy  Kevin at Jury Room Podcast. I am also working to bring another update on the dark side of religious cults, particularly the Exclusive Brethren. Cases coming soon I am looking forward to bringing you the unsolved gruesome murder of Alan Wood .  This man had many friends and no motive for his murder has ever been established. The family are desperate for answers as to exactly what happened and who was responsible for the gruesome act in a Lincolnshire village, just sixteen miles outside the city of Peterborough.  I will be taking an in-depth look at this unsolved killing and asking why such a dreadfully violent case has been allow

1979 Murder Investigation Revisited Cardiff Taxi Driver John "Jack" Jackson Murdered   South Wales police have decided to re-open a 1979 murder investigation into the killing of taxi-driver John "Jack" Jackson. Fifty-eight-year-old Mr Jackson's body was found some three days after his taxi was found abandoned in Treoses lane, Treoes, close to Waterton Industrial Estate, Bridgend, Cardiff on 5th October 1979. The inside of the cab was badly bloodstained, making it apparent to police that something untoward had happened to Jack. The cabbie's body was discovered three days later, some eleven miles away from where the taxi was abandoned. The area of Cowbridge Common was immediately sealed off and a thorough search made. Jack had suffered horrific head injuries which had ultimately led to his death. It seems that he was most likely killed for just a few pounds from his takings as a cab driver. The last customer that "Jack" picked up had called for a tax

  A Serial Killer or Coincidental Murder-Suicides? Seems likely that several elderly couples may have fallen victim to a serial killer There are at least three different police forces in The UK that believe they may be seeking a serial killer in connection with the violent deaths of five elderly couples in Northern England. A special investigation team has been set up by police to re-investigate a series of deaths that were originally believed to have been murder-suicides in Manchester, Cheshire and Cumbria. Stephanie Davies, a senior member of the coroner’s office in Cheshire has compiled a one-hundred-and-seventy-nine page secret report looking at the five murder-suicides in which she suggests that actually the killings were murder, plain and simple and in fact were most likely the work of a serial killer. The senior coroner says that there are “striking similarities” between the deaths of five couples between 1996 and 2011. In all five of the cases, it was originally said that the h

Roberto Calvi - Unsolved Murder with Mafia Links A complex web of international fraud & intrigue This murder remains one of the most high-profile unsolved cases in the UK Roberto Calvi was found hanged underneath Blackfriars Bridge in London, England some 38 years ago on June 18th 1982. He had travelled by private jet plane to the UK and stayed very quietly in a flat in Chelsea.  Calvi was the chairman of The Banco Ambrosiano in Milan, which collapsed with debts of one billion pounds in 1981. At the time of the collapse, which caused a massive political scandal it was revealed that the bank's biggest shareholder was The Vatican. As a result of the collapse and the ensuing scandal, many people believed in the first instance that Roberto Calvi's death was suicide but it appears not. His son Carlo has spent millions of pounds over the years trying to find out exactly what happened to his father.  A team of private investigators led by Jeffrey Katz, now say that they believe th

  The Story of John George Haigh The man who almost committed the perfect murders Well quite unusually for me this is a solved crime case but nevertheless has some great history and bearing in mind my investigations into religious cults, this one is very relevant. John George Haigh was born in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England in 1909 and was brought up in West Riding, Yorkshire. Now interestingly his parents and family were dedicated, fervent members of The Plymouth Brethren church but more of that later. In 1945 Haigh began a killing spree that ended in him being famously known as "The Acid Bath Murderer", although he did not actually kill using the acid baths. Although Haigh was convicted of killing six victims, it is widely believed that actually, he was more likely to have been responsible for a total of nine murders over a span of four years. John George Haigh was not only a killer but also a fraudster on quite a large scale, he would either shot or battered his victims t