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The secret serial killer : the true story of Kieran Kelly

Mulhern, Robert2019
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Journalist Robert Mulhern has spent three years investigating claims Kieran Kelly, a two-time convicted killer, has in fact murdered many more people - 31 to be exact. Kelly's claims first emerged in 1983 after he killed his cellmate in London's Clapham Police Station, having been arrested for being drunk and disorderly. Under questioning, the labourer from Ireland candidly confessed to strangling the prisoner - and then stunned officers by confessing to dozens of unreported and unsolved murders over the previous 30 years. Kelly's victims died from stabbing, strangulation and blunt force trauma. Others survived being thrown in the path of trains on the London Underground. Detectives believed they were in the presence of Britain's most prolific serial killer, yet Kelly's claims escaped public scrutiny for three decades.
Author:
Imprint:
Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Pen & Sword True Crime, 2019.
Collation:
196 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 25 cm
ISBN:
9781526722768 (hbk)
Dewey class:
364.1'5232'092364.1523364.152
Language:
English
BRN:
2513709
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