Real Crime - Couples Who Kill - 3rd Edition 2022

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WELCOME TO
COUPLES WHO KILL
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s the saying goes, ‘love conquers all’ – including, in these cases,
complete human depravity. For these couples, there is no limit to
their love. Over the following pages, find out about some of the
world’s sickest partners in crime, including the Moors Murderers,
whose reign of sadistic terror sent five children to an early grave. The
very faces of evil, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley were locked up and left
to rot for the rest of their lives. While Hindley willingly took part in
their sick murder sick games, others – like Debra Brown, whose lover
Alton Coleman raped and slaughtered his way through six US states –
found themselves groomed for grimness. Turn the page to find out the
appalling stories of lovers who’ve corrupted, ruined and devastated the
lives of those around them.

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Contents
08 THE LONELY 80 D ISCIPLES OF THE
HEARTS KILLERS TOY BOX KILLER
For a couple who professed to Although never convicted of a single
love one another unconditionally, murder, David Parker Ray will go
Raymond Fernandez and Martha down as one of the most prolific,
Beck’s behaviour was decidedly twisted killers of all time
heartless and callous
88 O GRE OF THE ARDENNES
16 NATURAL BORN KILLERS
Michel Fourniret confessed to nine
For two months in the 1950s, Charles murders, but were there more?
Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate
94 S HE COVERED FOR
terrorised the American Midwest
A KILLER
24 THE MOORS MURDERERS
Maxine Carr’s involvement in the
There’s Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. murder of two little girls led the
Then there’s the bleakness of British press to dub her the ‘new
Saddleworth Moor. But where is Myra Hindley’. But was she just
their last victim? another victim of Ian Huntley?
34 THE LAST WORD ON 104 K EEPING KILLING
IAN BRADY IN THE FAMILY
Dr Alan Keightley, the killer’s only Mum and dad had respectable
confidant, reveals the secret details jobs, but their family business was barbie’s dream murder
of the pair’s many interviews murder and their killing spree
terrified middle-class Moscow
48 “I ESCAPED THE
112 T AKEN TOO YOUNG
MOORS MURDERERS”
Nathan Matthews claimed the
As their mugshots burned themselves
death of his step-sister was a
into the public’s minds, one boy
tragic accident. In reality both he
realised he had met the murderous
and his accomplice, Shauna Hoare,
duo and, unlike their victims, lived to
were driven by far darker motives
tell the tale
120 T HE SADIE HARTLEY
56 A DEATH IN THE FAMILY
MURDER DIARIES
Inside the charnel house of violence
and incestuous rape, a teenaged girl The door opened, bathing Sadie
disappeared. Why did Fred and Rose in welcoming light. Checking the
stun gun and knife were in place,
West’s daughter have to die?
Sarah stepped forward to snuff out
66 P SYCHOPATHS IN kindness itself
PLAIN SIGHT 128 C ANNIBAL COUPLE
To passers-by, Alton Coleman and
The steamed meat was in the
Debra Brown were a normal, loving
couple. But they were violent, hunted fbreifdogree nheex ht atdo tmheet d Domg. iAtr yd ay folie à mur-deux
fugitives wanted for rape and murder
and Natalia, it had been Elena
Vashrusheva
74 B ARBIE’S DREAM
MURDER 136 F OLIE À MUR-DEUX
The controversial conviction of Karla A rare case of shared psychosis
Homolka pulled down the façade of a led to the sensational murder
seemingly perfect marriage to reveal of an innocent au pair, but why
a stomach-churning pattern of sexual didn’t Sophie Lionnet escape the
abuse and murder clutches of her crazed employers?
66
the moors murderers
she covered for a killer
lonely hearts killers
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RAYMOND FERNANDEZ AND MARTHA BECK

WHEN RAYMOND TOLD MARTHA
OF HIS SCAM, HE FOUND HER
NOT ONLY ACCEPTING OF THE

SITUATION, BUT EAGER TO HELP
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THE LONELY HEARTS KILLERS
LONELY
THE
HEARTS
KILLERS
FOR A COUPLE WHO PROFESSED TO LOVE ONE
ANOTHER UNCONDITIONALLY, THEIR BEHAVIOUR
WAS DECIDEDLY HEARTLESS
WORDS JOANNA ELPHICK
I
t was a sensational tale of perverted sex, deceit and murder,
LEFT Martha Beck in
produced by the media in lurid detail and gobbled up by
a Michigan courthouse
a fascinated public. The story was shocking, and the trial
in 1949, following her
a spectacle, but the beginning was unquestionably pathetic. arraignment for the
murder of Janet Fay
Insatiable for Food and Sex
RIGHT Raymond
Fernandez after
Martha Jule Seabrook was a pitiful creature. Born in Milton, admitting to the
Florida in 1919, she developed a glandular condition at an early slaying of Delphine
age, which caused her to mature much faster than her peers Downing and her
daughter, Rainelle
and also gain weight. By the age of 10, she had developed
a grown woman’s body and a voracious sex drive to match
that unnerved other children. The more they shunned her,
the more she cultivated her love affair with food, and soon the
little girl with sex on the brain became lonely and obese.
Stories of her brother sexually assaulting little Martha
would eventually come out at the trial but nothing was ever
substantiated. When she’d told her mother of the attacks, the
woman had beaten Martha for causing the incidents and, from
then on, the girl was not allowed to associate with boys. Not
that many were interested in her anyway, as she’d become
grotesquely overweight and was bullied by other children.
However, Martha was no fool and in 1942 she graduated
first in her class at a nursing school in Pensacola. This should
have been a positive turning point for her, but the local hospital
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RAYMOND FERNANDEZ AND MARTHA BECK

RAYMOND BELIEVED HE COULD CONTROL ANY WOMAN HE

WISHED USING HIS MAGICAL VOODOO SEXUAL POWERS
was loathe to employ someone who looked so unhealthy post, Martha was deeply lonely and fell into a depressed life of
and she ended up working at a funeral parlour, preparing pulp romance novels and food. Eventually, she placed an ad in
the female corpses. It was a grim occupation for the lonely Mother Dinene’s Family Club for Lonely Hearts and waited for
woman who found herself sharing her life with the dead. the results. Surely someone out there would want her?
Martha decided to escape her domineering mother and Born five years before Martha, in Hawaii, Raymond
moved to California, where she secured a job at an Army Fernandez was always a disappointment to his family, so it was
Hospital. Here, the men were happy to have sex where they no surprise when he left home as quickly as possible and moved
could get it and Martha found herself in demand at the bars to Spain to work on his uncle’s farm. Once a sickly child, he’d
and drinking clubs. She soon became pregnant, but when grown into a strong, handsome man and, at the age of 20, he
the soldier found out about her condition, he threw himself married a local girl and started a family. When World War II
into the bay, attempting suicide rather than marry her. broke out, he joined the Merchant Marines, then, in 1945, he
Humiliated, Martha returned to mother. In order to explain boarded a ship bound for the US to find work. On board, he
her pregnancy, she told everyone that she’d married a Navy suffered a serious head injury when a steel hatch cover fell on
officer in California and he would be home soon. Of course, his skull, damaging his brain and altering his personality forever.
the mysterious man never appeared and Martha had to go
into mourning, claiming that he’d died in action. For the No More Mr Nice Guy
first time, people were kind to her, offering support to the
new widow and helping care for her baby, Willa Dean. Raymond changed from a charming, kind individual, to a foul-
Not long after, Martha met a bus driver, Alfred Beck, and tempered, self-serving monster. He abandoned his family in
fell pregnant again. They wed but the union was a disaster. Spain and was arrested for stealing clothes. Incarcerated in the
He left six months later, leaving Martha with a new surname Federal Penitentiary in Tallahassee for a year, he shared his cell
and another baby. Although she had acquired a new nursing with a Haitian Voodoo worshipper. It was here that Raymond
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