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OUR SUNDAY TIMES ARTICLES

We have written for the Sunday Times Magazine for more than 50 years - Peter's first article for the magazine appeared in 1965.  Here are eight of our more recent pieces, on subjects from  a Death Row injustice in Mississippi to cruelty in Irish children's homes

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HOAX: Secrets that Truman Capote took to the grave

Sunday Times Magazine 21  June 1992
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Our article about Truman Capote questioned his methods and his integrity – sparking a reassessment of a literary giant which has continued to this day
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The Execution Exam

Sunday Times Magazine 6 March 2005
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Our story of a prisoner on Death Row, Mississippi who was at the centre of a row over whether he was intelligent enough to be executed. 

We conducted an undercover interview with him at Parchman Jail.

Harry Horse: the man who loved his wife to death

Sunday Times Magazine July 13 2008
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A horror story about love and death in Shetland. 

The writer Neil Root, in his book Covering Darkness – Writing True Crime, judged it “a perfectly formed masterpiece, the best true crime feature article ever written”.

No stone unturned

Sunday Times Magazine 21 August 2005
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This is our enquiry into the controversial death of Brian Jones, co-founder of the Rolling Stones. 

Our interviews with key witnesses revealed the truth at last.

Twisted Sisters: brutality and abuse in Irish children’s homes.

Sunday Times Magazine 2 May 1999
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A profoundly disturbing story about the horrors inflicted on children placed in Catholic children’s homes in Ireland.  We spoke to eight survivors 

LARRY HILLBLOM:
the dark side of DHL’s founder revealed

Sunday Times Magazine 11 September 1998
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When DHL’s founder died in a plane crash in the South Pacific, his unsavoury secrets emerged. Our investigation took us to California, Manila and Saipan

The mystery of the ‘shaken’ babies

Sunday Times Magazine 29 May 2011
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Cases of ‘shaken babies’ can be enormously controversial. 

Our article for the Sunday Times Magazine contained a lengthy interview with Keran Henderson, who was unjustly jailed for manslaughter in 2007.

Left to die at the top of the world

Sunday Times Magazine 24 September 2006
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The death of David Sharp following a solo ascent of Everest in May 2006 raised disturbing questions about the nature of modern mountaineering. 

We examined his life and motivations, and interviewed some of the climbers who passed him by as he lay dying in a cave on the mountain’s treacherous north-east ridge.
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