GoodReads, Jennifer SahmounĪs featured on Crime Traveller. I found this account to be well researched and a very thorough presentation of the facts concerning this man’s heinous crimes. He details for readers Kelly’s methods and his motives. Geoff Platt has carefully recounted the life of Kieran Kelly, from his boyhood in Dublin to his final arrest in London, and the intensive police investigation into his murders. In the end, he was sentenced to life in prison and that is where he died. Geoff Platt spent months with Kelly, starting in 1983, investigating his claims. Kelly was more than willing to tell the police about his murders, after all they were a source of pride for him and he liked to brag. His career as a murderer began in 1953, with the murder of his best friend, and continued until 1983 when he was charged with the murder of a cell-mate. He was a vagrant and often in prison on charges of drunkenness or theft. Kieran Kelly was a prolific serial killer who murdered at least 31 people in London over a 30-year period. It’s useful for anyone looking to branch out after finishing Platt’s book. Platt offers a small summary of the crimes of 62 infamous British serial killers from relatively unknown names such as Trevor Hardy (the Beast of Manchester) to front-page killers such as Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. Very interesting addition to the book – as well as being something I’ve never seen in any similar true crime book before – is the inclusion of an ‘appendix’ of all related serial killers towards the end. These intricate strands of a murky underworld weave together to make a fascinating, if gruesome, story. Their story is equally compelling, involved as they were in extreme, unusual and certainly unorthodox tactics. The officers involved in the case were a small, select cadre of elite Flying Squad and Serious Crime Squad Officers from South London, the same ones who had also been dealing with the Krays and the Richardsons. The implications of Kelly's actions spread wide, leaving families unable to claim life insurance once the death was ruled as suicide. The killer took delight in his apparent cunning – he often passed himself off as a star witness, who had been talking to the 'poor, depressed man about his unfaithful wife, when the train arrived at the station and he jumped underneath it'. However when Kelly realised his crime had gone undetected he felt a rush of power which he sought to recreate again and again. Kelly's first victim was his best friend and could have been called a crime passionnel, as it was committed in the heat of an argument after an evening of heavy drinking. In a time of greater governmental control of the media, the case was hushed up, lest the residents of London be gripped by mass hysteria at the thought of a faceless killer lurking on the platforms of the Central line. Editions for Faceless Killers: 1400031575 (Paperback published in 2003), (Kindle Edition published in 2011), 8483101599 (Paperback published in 2001), (K. Geoff Platt has painstakingly researched the 'career' of Kelly, whose name may be unfamiliar even to those who study the minds and misdeeds of the criminal underworld. Operating without motive or rationale he pushed sixteen souls to their deaths on the tracks of the London Underground, before vanishing back into the crowd. These names haunt the national consciousness and yet none was as prolific as the little-known 'Underground Killer', Kieran Kelly. Winner of the Sweden's Best Mystery Award and the first installment in the series that inspired the PBS program Wallander starring Kenneth Branagh, Faceless Killers is a razor-sharp, stylishly dark police procedural with searing social commentary that reaches beyond its genre to produce "a superior novel-and a harbinger of great things to come" ( Booklist).Fred West. Tenacious and levelheaded in his sleuthing, he and his colleagues must contend with a wave of violent xenophobia as they search for the killers. His family is falling apart, he's gaining weight, and he drinks too much and sleeps too little. In charge of the investigation is Inspector Kurt Wallander, a local detective whose personal life is in a shambles. The only clue is the single word she utters before she dies: "foreign." A #1 international bestseller: This "exquisite novel of mesmerizing depth" launched the acclaimed Wallander Mysteries and BBC series starring Kenneth Branagh ( Los Angeles Times).Įarly one morning, a small-town farmer discovers that his neighbors have been victims of a brutal attack during the night: An old man has been bludgeoned to death, and his tortured wife lies dying before the farmer's eyes.
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