Life is very frail, death very final and murder often a simple crime to commit. Which is perhaps why such fearful crime fascinates us all. The foulest of murders are the premeditated ones, inspired by greed, envy or hatred and those which are the sadistic product of a twisted mind. No one can hope to explain the savage slaughters of Jack the Ripper or the callous cold-blooded murders committed by George Smith, the lethal romeo no one will forget these most evil of murders.