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This type of offender shouldn't get air-time.
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SANTA ANA, Calif. — Jurors took just an hour Thursday to convict a California sex offender of killing four women — crimes that were mostly committed while he was being tracked by GPS and that now make him eligible for a death sentence.
Victims' relatives clutched hands in the Orange County courtroom and closed their eyes while the guilty verdicts against Steven Dean Gordon were read. Some trembled and some cried.
"I can't say it's justice but it's peace. It's a little bit of peace," Jodi Estepp, the mother of victim Jarrae Nykkole Estepp, told The Associated Press outside the courtroom.
Gordon himself showed no emotion in court.
Jurors also found true special circumstances of murder during a kidnapping and multiple murders, which will make Gordon eligible for a death sentence.
A penalty phase will begin Monday where jurors will decide whether to recommend a death sentence or life in prison without parole.
Authorities said the 47-year-old Gordon and 30-year-old sex offender Franc Cano, who is being tried separately, abducted and killed four women. Prosecutors charged both men with rape but later dropped the rape charges against Gordon without explanation.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime...-found-guilty-of-murdering-4-women/ar-AAlCs9m
Victims' relatives clutched hands in the Orange County courtroom and closed their eyes while the guilty verdicts against Steven Dean Gordon were read. Some trembled and some cried.
"I can't say it's justice but it's peace. It's a little bit of peace," Jodi Estepp, the mother of victim Jarrae Nykkole Estepp, told The Associated Press outside the courtroom.
Gordon himself showed no emotion in court.
Jurors also found true special circumstances of murder during a kidnapping and multiple murders, which will make Gordon eligible for a death sentence.
A penalty phase will begin Monday where jurors will decide whether to recommend a death sentence or life in prison without parole.
Authorities said the 47-year-old Gordon and 30-year-old sex offender Franc Cano, who is being tried separately, abducted and killed four women. Prosecutors charged both men with rape but later dropped the rape charges against Gordon without explanation.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime...-found-guilty-of-murdering-4-women/ar-AAlCs9m
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I've only just noticed something about the famous black and white photograph of the young child serial killer, Mary Bell .. the pupil in her left eye is a different size to the pupil in her right eye, often indicative of someone with brain damage .. or the effect in the photo was caused by different intensities of light from different directions causing that effect in the photograph ..
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Perhaps the one that's a paedo?
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Maybe. Maybe not.
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Agreed
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He was always a wrong 'un as England manager.
Mythopoeika
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AFAIK, I don't think he ever killed anyone.
Attempted murder, yes.
Attempted murder, yes.
Swifty
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Fair point, he doesn't belong in this thread .. we should have one for obstinate prisoners.
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‘Werewolf’ of Siberia ranked among worst serial killers ever after confessing to 81 victims, says Russian media
By Fred Barbash January 12 at 4:06 AM
Former Siberian policeman Mikhail Popkov, who is already serving a life sentence for the murders of 22 women, has confessed to killing 59 more, police told the Siberian Times.
Nicknamed the “werewolf” of Siberia for the brutality of his methods — he raped women and then killed them with axes, knives or screwdrivers — Mikhail Popkov carried out his bloody rampage between 1992 and 2010 in the Angarsk and Irkutsk regions of Siberia, the paper reported. According to the state news agency Tass, he resigned as a police officer in 1998.
When he was first detained in 2012, the Siberian Times said, he told police his goal was to “cleanse” the streets of prostitutes.
According to Tass, the investigation began when women kept disappearing from public places in Angarsk in the mid-1990s, at the time Popkov was a police officer. Later, authorities started finding mutilated bodies of the women around Irkutsk.
They also found tire tracks from a Niva cross-country vehicle at some of the crime scenes, which ultimately led them to Popkov.
At first he confessed to three murders.
But as police investigated, and as he began talking, the number rose to the 22 for which he was convicted and sentenced in January 2015.
Irkutsk police spokeswoman Karina Golovacheva has told the Siberian Times that Popkov has now confessed to 59 new slayings. “That means, if we add them to the earlier 22, it will be 81 murders in total.” Of the 59 cases, 47 have produced charges. “We are quite sure about the 12 other cases,” Golovacheva told the paper, and “in the nearest future we can bring charges” in the twelve others.
The victims have ranged in age from 17 to 38. ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...rid_collaborative_2_na&utm_term=.d7c8f85ceb16
By Fred Barbash January 12 at 4:06 AM
Former Siberian policeman Mikhail Popkov, who is already serving a life sentence for the murders of 22 women, has confessed to killing 59 more, police told the Siberian Times.
Nicknamed the “werewolf” of Siberia for the brutality of his methods — he raped women and then killed them with axes, knives or screwdrivers — Mikhail Popkov carried out his bloody rampage between 1992 and 2010 in the Angarsk and Irkutsk regions of Siberia, the paper reported. According to the state news agency Tass, he resigned as a police officer in 1998.
When he was first detained in 2012, the Siberian Times said, he told police his goal was to “cleanse” the streets of prostitutes.
According to Tass, the investigation began when women kept disappearing from public places in Angarsk in the mid-1990s, at the time Popkov was a police officer. Later, authorities started finding mutilated bodies of the women around Irkutsk.
They also found tire tracks from a Niva cross-country vehicle at some of the crime scenes, which ultimately led them to Popkov.
At first he confessed to three murders.
But as police investigated, and as he began talking, the number rose to the 22 for which he was convicted and sentenced in January 2015.
Irkutsk police spokeswoman Karina Golovacheva has told the Siberian Times that Popkov has now confessed to 59 new slayings. “That means, if we add them to the earlier 22, it will be 81 murders in total.” Of the 59 cases, 47 have produced charges. “We are quite sure about the 12 other cases,” Golovacheva told the paper, and “in the nearest future we can bring charges” in the twelve others.
The victims have ranged in age from 17 to 38. ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...rid_collaborative_2_na&utm_term=.d7c8f85ceb16
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The Story of the Female Serial Killer Who Found Murder 'Moreish'
ADAM FORREST
Jan 12 2017, 2:14pm
Joanna Dennehy embarked on a spree of murders in 2013 in the British city of Peterborough.
A house should not be a frightening thing. Houses do not get haunted. Houses, unless they are on fire, are incapable of harming you. Yet, standing in front of a small, drab maisonette on the edge of Peterborough – the house in which serial killer Joanna Dennehy committed her first and third murders – I can't help but get the creeps.
People on the Welland estate have no great wish to talk about Joanna Dennehy and the terrible things she did here. Two teenagers on a dirt-bike, tearing up and down on a patch of grass beside the house, wonder why I would care about the woman or her murders.
"She was a psycho, mate," says one.
"A fucking psycho killer, wasn't she?" says his friend. "End of story, mate."
Joanna Dennehy and the Peterborough murders of 2013 still evoke a grim fascination: how did this woman wander through life, doing all the normal things normal people do, and then at the age of 31 stab three men to death for no discernible reason? People cannot, surely, be born this way. So is there anything in Joanna Dennehy's story – or in her strange actions since entering prison – that could help us understand how a human being can go from seemingly calm to so thoroughly cruel?
Dennehy hasn't really gone away, even after being sentenced to life imprisonment in 2014 and locked up in HMP Bronzefield, the category A prison in rural Surrey. The photo of her mime-licking what looks like a Final Fantasy replica knife is lodged in the national psyche, and she's done a remarkable job of keeping herself in the headlines from beyond bars. ...
https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/...-who-found-murder-moreish?utm_source=vicefbuk
ADAM FORREST
Jan 12 2017, 2:14pm
Joanna Dennehy embarked on a spree of murders in 2013 in the British city of Peterborough.
A house should not be a frightening thing. Houses do not get haunted. Houses, unless they are on fire, are incapable of harming you. Yet, standing in front of a small, drab maisonette on the edge of Peterborough – the house in which serial killer Joanna Dennehy committed her first and third murders – I can't help but get the creeps.
People on the Welland estate have no great wish to talk about Joanna Dennehy and the terrible things she did here. Two teenagers on a dirt-bike, tearing up and down on a patch of grass beside the house, wonder why I would care about the woman or her murders.
"She was a psycho, mate," says one.
"A fucking psycho killer, wasn't she?" says his friend. "End of story, mate."
Joanna Dennehy and the Peterborough murders of 2013 still evoke a grim fascination: how did this woman wander through life, doing all the normal things normal people do, and then at the age of 31 stab three men to death for no discernible reason? People cannot, surely, be born this way. So is there anything in Joanna Dennehy's story – or in her strange actions since entering prison – that could help us understand how a human being can go from seemingly calm to so thoroughly cruel?
Dennehy hasn't really gone away, even after being sentenced to life imprisonment in 2014 and locked up in HMP Bronzefield, the category A prison in rural Surrey. The photo of her mime-licking what looks like a Final Fantasy replica knife is lodged in the national psyche, and she's done a remarkable job of keeping herself in the headlines from beyond bars. ...
https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/...-who-found-murder-moreish?utm_source=vicefbuk
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I remember reading about her .. she was nucking futs !The Story of the Female Serial Killer Who Found Murder 'Moreish'
ADAM FORREST
Jan 12 2017, 2:14pm
Joanna Dennehy embarked on a spree of murders in 2013 in the British city of Peterborough.
A house should not be a frightening thing. Houses do not get haunted. Houses, unless they are on fire, are incapable of harming you. Yet, standing in front of a small, drab maisonette on the edge of Peterborough – the house in which serial killer Joanna Dennehy committed her first and third murders – I can't help but get the creeps.
People on the Welland estate have no great wish to talk about Joanna Dennehy and the terrible things she did here. Two teenagers on a dirt-bike, tearing up and down on a patch of grass beside the house, wonder why I would care about the woman or her murders.
"She was a psycho, mate," says one.
"A fucking psycho killer, wasn't she?" says his friend. "End of story, mate."
Joanna Dennehy and the Peterborough murders of 2013 still evoke a grim fascination: how did this woman wander through life, doing all the normal things normal people do, and then at the age of 31 stab three men to death for no discernible reason? People cannot, surely, be born this way. So is there anything in Joanna Dennehy's story – or in her strange actions since entering prison – that could help us understand how a human being can go from seemingly calm to so thoroughly cruel?
Dennehy hasn't really gone away, even after being sentenced to life imprisonment in 2014 and locked up in HMP Bronzefield, the category A prison in rural Surrey. The photo of her mime-licking what looks like a Final Fantasy replica knife is lodged in the national psyche, and she's done a remarkable job of keeping herself in the headlines from beyond bars. ...
https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/...-who-found-murder-moreish?utm_source=vicefbuk
JamesWhitehead
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As more women feel empowered to commit atrocities, we are likely to see ever more far-fetched excuses for their crimes. There must have been an abusive male in their backgrounds, even if we can't see any. It's doctrinal.
The two-legs, four-legs thing is becoming blurred and female virtue is among the certainties being undermined, along with the rest.
The two-legs, four-legs thing is becoming blurred and female virtue is among the certainties being undermined, along with the rest.
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As more women feel empowered to commit atrocities, we are likely to see ever more far-fetched excuses for their crimes. There must have been an abusive male in their backgrounds, even if we can't see any. It's doctrinal.
The two-legs, four-legs thing is becoming blurred and female virtue is among the certainties being undermined, along with the rest.
I'm getting the impression this must be a British thing. In the US generally the perception seems to be that both men and women can be murderous psychopaths, without too much questioning as to why they turned out that way. Sure, there is usually a back story of misfortune, etc. but it doesn't usually engender much sympathy, as the choices they made were their own.
One reason for this, IMO, is acceptance here of the idea that some people are simply "evil", and that's that. Also, the US is more punitive than the UK.
This shows up noticably in British crime dramas, too. The writers always take pains to show why the villain is the way he or she is, whereas American crime dramas don't bother with it to a great extent.
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The belief that 'evil' is a thing or force is linked (research has shown it to be) to the desire for 'redemptive violence'. The US penal system could be considered 'redemptive violence'.
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THE I-5 KILLER
With the 428th pick in the 1974 NFL draft, the Green Bay Packers selected. . . one of the most violent killers in U.S. history. No one is saying football led Randall Woodfield down his dark path—but did it perhaps deter him from it, at least for a while?
BY L. JON WERTHEIM
EVEN AS CRIME SCENES GO, this one was sensationally gruesome. Shari Hull, age 20, lay splayed naked on the floor, blood pooling near her matted hair, brain matter seeping from her skull and spackling the carpet. She was surrounded by her discarded clothes. Gradually her moans and her deep, labored breathing diminished until her body was drained of life.
Some time around nine o’clock on the evening of Jan. 18, 1981, Hull had been nearing the end of her Sunday-night shift, cleaning the TransAmerica office building in the central Oregon town of Keizer. She was preparing to leave when she was grabbed by a man who’d somehow managed to enter the building. He was strikingly handsome, maybe six feet tall, blessed with a torrent of thick, curly brown hair and eyes to match. He was wearing jeans and a leather jacket. Corralling Hull with one hand and holding a gun in the other, he walked her down a hall. Soon he saw another cleaner, 20-year-old Lisa Garcia.
The assailant took both women into a back room and ordered them to the floor. After sexually assaulting them, he shot them each in the back of the head. This, it would later be revealed, was generally in keeping with his M.O.: some sexual act followed by a .32 bullet to the rear of the skull. But while Hull died of her gunshot wounds, Garcia survived by feigning her death, lying motionless on the floor with slugs lodged in the back of her skull. As soon as her attacker left, she called the police. En route, one officer noticed a thickly built man fitting the assailant’s description standing at an intersection—but this was more than a mile from the attack; it would have taken a hell of an athlete to make it that far so quickly on foot. So the policeman drove on.
Continued at gruesome length:
http://www.si.com/longform/true-crime/i-5-killer-green-bay-packers-randall-woodfield/index.html
With the 428th pick in the 1974 NFL draft, the Green Bay Packers selected. . . one of the most violent killers in U.S. history. No one is saying football led Randall Woodfield down his dark path—but did it perhaps deter him from it, at least for a while?
BY L. JON WERTHEIM
EVEN AS CRIME SCENES GO, this one was sensationally gruesome. Shari Hull, age 20, lay splayed naked on the floor, blood pooling near her matted hair, brain matter seeping from her skull and spackling the carpet. She was surrounded by her discarded clothes. Gradually her moans and her deep, labored breathing diminished until her body was drained of life.
Some time around nine o’clock on the evening of Jan. 18, 1981, Hull had been nearing the end of her Sunday-night shift, cleaning the TransAmerica office building in the central Oregon town of Keizer. She was preparing to leave when she was grabbed by a man who’d somehow managed to enter the building. He was strikingly handsome, maybe six feet tall, blessed with a torrent of thick, curly brown hair and eyes to match. He was wearing jeans and a leather jacket. Corralling Hull with one hand and holding a gun in the other, he walked her down a hall. Soon he saw another cleaner, 20-year-old Lisa Garcia.
The assailant took both women into a back room and ordered them to the floor. After sexually assaulting them, he shot them each in the back of the head. This, it would later be revealed, was generally in keeping with his M.O.: some sexual act followed by a .32 bullet to the rear of the skull. But while Hull died of her gunshot wounds, Garcia survived by feigning her death, lying motionless on the floor with slugs lodged in the back of her skull. As soon as her attacker left, she called the police. En route, one officer noticed a thickly built man fitting the assailant’s description standing at an intersection—but this was more than a mile from the attack; it would have taken a hell of an athlete to make it that far so quickly on foot. So the policeman drove on.
Continued at gruesome length:
http://www.si.com/longform/true-crime/i-5-killer-green-bay-packers-randall-woodfield/index.html
Cochise
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There's an Ann Rule book - or part of a book - on that one. It's far from being the most senseless and gruesome murder she has covered. Not to say it's not very bad - just pointing out that there is no limit to the depths of human depravity.
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A gruesome murder conviction leads to the possibility the murderer had previously killed his wife:
Helen Bailey murder: Fiance Ian Stewart found guilty
The fiance of a children's author who drugged and suffocated her before throwing her body in a hidden cesspit has been found guilty of murder.
Ian Stewart, 56, had denied murdering Helen Bailey at their home in Royston, Hertfordshire, in order to get his hands on her near-£4m fortune.
He was convicted at St Albans Crown Court following a seven-week trial.
Police say they will look again at the death of Stewart's wife Diane in 2010 following the verdict.
Mrs Stewart died after having an epileptic seizure in the garden of the family home in Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire. An inquest was held but police will now re-examine the case.
Video:
Described by police as "a narcissist" who was "cold" and "calculating", Stewart had "grossly deceived" 51-year-old Ms Bailey when they met online following the death of her husband in 2011.
Prosecutors said he had played "the long game" in order to inherit Ms Bailey's fortune.
He had been secretly giving her a sleeping drug zopiclone for weeks before he eventually smothered her with a pillow, a pathologist told the jury.
On the day of the murder, 11 April last year, Stewart tried to change a standing order from Ms Bailey's account to the couple's joint account from £600 to £4,000 a month.
He later tried to use power of attorney in order to sell a flat she had in Gateshead.
He had reported Ms Bailey missing on 15 April and made a heartfelt appeal for his wife-to-be to make contact.
"Whatever has happened, wherever you are I will come and get you," he said.
He told police Ms Bailey had left a note saying she needed "space" and had gone to her holiday home in Broadstairs, Kent.
Her body was found three months later, having been pulled out of a "hard crust" of excrement inside the cesspit underneath the garage of the couple's £1.2m home.
Her pet Dachshund Boris was found alongside her.
etc...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-39053015
Helen Bailey murder: Fiance Ian Stewart found guilty
The fiance of a children's author who drugged and suffocated her before throwing her body in a hidden cesspit has been found guilty of murder.
Ian Stewart, 56, had denied murdering Helen Bailey at their home in Royston, Hertfordshire, in order to get his hands on her near-£4m fortune.
He was convicted at St Albans Crown Court following a seven-week trial.
Police say they will look again at the death of Stewart's wife Diane in 2010 following the verdict.
Mrs Stewart died after having an epileptic seizure in the garden of the family home in Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire. An inquest was held but police will now re-examine the case.
Video:
Described by police as "a narcissist" who was "cold" and "calculating", Stewart had "grossly deceived" 51-year-old Ms Bailey when they met online following the death of her husband in 2011.
Prosecutors said he had played "the long game" in order to inherit Ms Bailey's fortune.
He had been secretly giving her a sleeping drug zopiclone for weeks before he eventually smothered her with a pillow, a pathologist told the jury.
On the day of the murder, 11 April last year, Stewart tried to change a standing order from Ms Bailey's account to the couple's joint account from £600 to £4,000 a month.
He later tried to use power of attorney in order to sell a flat she had in Gateshead.
He had reported Ms Bailey missing on 15 April and made a heartfelt appeal for his wife-to-be to make contact.
"Whatever has happened, wherever you are I will come and get you," he said.
He told police Ms Bailey had left a note saying she needed "space" and had gone to her holiday home in Broadstairs, Kent.
Her body was found three months later, having been pulled out of a "hard crust" of excrement inside the cesspit underneath the garage of the couple's £1.2m home.
Her pet Dachshund Boris was found alongside her.
etc...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-39053015
Mythopoeika
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Hope they never release him.
Worth investigating his previous wife's death too.
Worth investigating his previous wife's death too.
Coal
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Quite. He was so greedy to cash in he pretty much gave the game away. It would be smart of the authorities to keep his first wife's case on file, then prosecute him when he's nearing parole. We really should have consecutive sentencing in the UK.
Strange alien kind of mind.
Thinking back on past girlfriends, mates, work colleagues etc, I realised I never knew anything about how much they earned or their financial situation.
It's instructive to consider this in light of other potential crimes which are considered 'unimaginable'.
What depravity of the spirit motivates someone to kill another human being for the sake of STUFF? Or considers personal worth to be based on consumption?
Thinking back on past girlfriends, mates, work colleagues etc, I realised I never knew anything about how much they earned or their financial situation.
It's instructive to consider this in light of other potential crimes which are considered 'unimaginable'.
What depravity of the spirit motivates someone to kill another human being for the sake of STUFF? Or considers personal worth to be based on consumption?