Serial Killers

escargot said:
The mishandling of Stephen Port's murders was so bad it was made into a TV drama series.
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maximus otter
 
I am closely connected with someone who both had a partner in the London police force and worked themselves in the London police force.
The inclination was - at the time - for anything related to an 'alternative' sexuality to be 'copped' but, unofficially, didn't exist.
In effect, if it was "gay", then unless it was a quick collar caught the perp then ... hey ho.
The idea of this awful person was targeting homosexuals just didn't occur to them. They didn't look for the connection! They didn't consider it.
 
This looks like a serial killer case, the likely killer is also dead.

The search for two missing teenagers came to an end Monday after law enforcement found seven bodies on a rural Oklahoma property, including the remains of the teenage girls, police said.

Search teams in Okmulgee County discovered the bodies on a property in Henryetta, a town of roughly 6,000 people. An endangered missing advisory was issued Monday morning for 14-year-old Ivy Webster and 16-year-old Brittany Brewer after the two failed to return home Sunday evening.

The alert said authorities suspected that the teens were with 39-year-old Jesse McFadden. Webster, Brewer and McFadden were believed to be among the seven discovered, police said. The other four bodies have not been identified, Okmulgee County Sheriff Eddy Rice said during a news conference at 4:30 p.m. local time.

Rice would not provide details on the deaths or formally confirm the identities of the deceased during the press briefing, saying authorities are waiting for results from the medical examiner. Rice, who has been sheriff for decades, said his county hasn't seen a crime of this magnitude during his tenure.

"We've had our share or troubles and woes but this one is pretty bad," Rice said.

Newsweek has reached out to the Okmulgee County Sheriff's Office for comment via email.

McFadden, a registered sex offender who served prison time after being convicted of rape in 2003, was supposed to stand trial Monday in Muskogee County, records show. He was charged in 2017 with using a contraband cell phone in prison to send sexual messages to a teenage girl, according to News On 6. ...

https://www.newsweek.com/police-discover-7-bodies-amid-search-missing-oklahoma-teens-1797707
 
ramonmercado said:
Update.

Lucy Letby had to be told more than once not to go into a room where the parents of a baby she is accused of murdering were grieving, her trial has heard.

The nurse is accused of killing seven babies and attempting to murder 10 others at the Countess of Chester Hospital. Ms Letby, 32, denies 22 charges.

Manchester Crown Court heard from a senior nurse who worked at the hospital's neonatal unit at the time. She was a shift leader on the night a baby, referred to in court as Child C, collapsed and later died. Ms Letby was not Child C's designated nurse that night. That was another nurse called Melanie Taylor.

The senior nurse told the jury that after resuscitation efforts for Child C were stopped, Ms Taylor approached his parents about creating a "memory box" about him. The senior nurse, whose identity has been protected, asked Ms Letby to turn her attention to another poorly baby on the unit, the court heard.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-63433599
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Lucy Letby begins to give evidence in the trial which is now in it's seventh month.

A nurse accused of murdering seven babies and attempting to kill 10 others at a hospital's neonatal unit said she "always wanted to work with children".

Lucy Letby is standing trial at Manchester Crown Court, facing 22 charges relating to fatal and near-fatal incidents at the Countess of Chester Hospital in 2015 and 2016. She broke down in tears when recalling being arrested for the first time. The 33-year-old, originally from Hereford, denies all of the charges.

The prosecution allege Ms Letby used various means to target the infants, including injecting them with air and poisoning them with insulin.
Flanked by two dock officers in the witness box, Ms Letby responded to initial questions from her defence barrister, Ben Myers KC.

Family members of the alleged victims were sitting in the public gallery.

The prosecution has spent six months outlining its case. Now the jury of four men and eight women are hearing the defence. ...

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-65454700
 
ramonmercado said:
This looks like a serial killer case, the likely killer is also dead.

The search for two missing teenagers came to an end Monday after law enforcement found seven bodies on a rural Oklahoma property, including the remains of the teenage girls, police said.

Search teams in Okmulgee County discovered the bodies on a property in Henryetta, a town of roughly 6,000 people. An endangered missing advisory was issued Monday morning for 14-year-old Ivy Webster and 16-year-old Brittany Brewer after the two failed to return home Sunday evening.

The alert said authorities suspected that the teens were with 39-year-old Jesse McFadden. Webster, Brewer and McFadden were believed to be among the seven discovered, police said. The other four bodies have not been identified, Okmulgee County Sheriff Eddy Rice said during a news conference at 4:30 p.m. local time.

Rice would not provide details on the deaths or formally confirm the identities of the deceased during the press briefing, saying authorities are waiting for results from the medical examiner. Rice, who has been sheriff for decades, said his county hasn't seen a crime of this magnitude during his tenure.

"We've had our share or troubles and woes but this one is pretty bad," Rice said.

Newsweek has reached out to the Okmulgee County Sheriff's Office for comment via email.

McFadden, a registered sex offender who served prison time after being convicted of rape in 2003, was supposed to stand trial Monday in Muskogee County, records show. He was charged in 2017 with using a contraband cell phone in prison to send sexual messages to a teenage girl, according to News On 6. ...

https://www.newsweek.com/police-discover-7-bodies-amid-search-missing-oklahoma-teens-1797707
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It now appears that it was a mass killing.

An Oklahoma sex offender who was released from prison early shot his wife, her three children and their two friends in the head and then killed himself, authorities confirmed Wednesday as concerns grew about why he was free as his trial on new sex charges loomed.

Okmulgee Police Chief Joe Prentice said that the victims had each been shot in the head one to three times with a 9 mm pistol when they were found Monday near a creek and in a heavily wooded area in rural Oklahoma.

The bodies apparently had been moved there from where they were originally killed, the scene “staged” before Jesse McFadden, a 39-year-old convicted sex offender, killed himself, Prentice said in the first major update on the case.

The discovery of the bodies near McFadden’s home in Henryetta, a town of about 6,000 about 90 miles (145 kilometers) east of Oklahoma City, came on the very day that he was to stand trial on charges that he solicited nude images from another teen while he was imprisoned for rape.

Authorities have declined to release a motive for the shootings, but McFadden had vowed not to return to prison in a series of ominous messages with his young victim.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/oklahoma-shooting-jesse-mcfadden_n_6452efb9e4b007e3d7d68a0c
 
ramonmercado said:
And she wonders why she has no friends ...

Thai police say they have arrested a woman suspected of killing 12 of her friends and acquaintances by poisoning them with cyanide.

Sararat Rangsiwuthaporn was arrested in Bangkok on Tuesday following recent inquiries into a friend's death. The victim's family had raised suspicions after she died on a trip with Sararat earlier this month. Following inquiries, police this week said they believed Sararat had killed 11 others, including an ex-boyfriend. Police allege she killed for financial reasons. Sararat has denied all the charges. Thai authorities have denied her bail.

Two weeks ago, she had travelled with her friend to Ratchaburi province, west of Bangkok, where they had taken part in a Buddhist protection ritual at a river, police said. Shortly after, her friend Siriporn Khanwong collapsed and died on the riverbank. Traces of cyanide were found in her body during the autopsy, police said. Her phone, money and bags were also missing when she was found.

Authorities said the other alleged victims had died in a similar way, but did not disclose further information. The murders began in 2020, they said. They also didn't identify all of the victims, but named Sararat's former partner, as well as two female police officers, among the dead.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-65395398
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Her ex-husband was allegedly involved in her crimes.

The ex-husband of a Thai woman charged with murdering 14 people with cyanide has surrendered after police issued an arrest warrant.

Vitoon Rangsiwuthaporn was a senior policeman in Ratchaburi province, where one of the alleged killings took place. His ex-wife, Sararat Rangsiwuthaporn, was arrested in Bangkok last week in a suspected serial killer case that has gripped the country. Police have charged her with 14 counts of murder- which she denies.

The first suspected murders began in 2020, but police believe there are more victims and have urged people to come forward. Thai authorities said Ms Sararat was motivated by money. She secured loans worth thousands of dollars, and also stole her victims' jewellery and other belongings, police said.

On Wednesday, Ms Sararat's former husband Mr Rangsiwuthaporn was charged with fraud and embezzlement related to the killings.
Police said he turned himself into a police station after authorities issued an arrest warrant. The couple, while divorced, had still been living together.

Police say Mr Rangsiwuthaporn was most likely involved in Ms Sararat's alleged murder of an ex-boyfriend, Suthisak Poonkwan. Police said that after she killed him, Mr Rangsiwuthaporn picked her up in her car and drove her around the local Udon Thani province, where she extorted money from Suthisak's friends.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-65478494
 
maximus otter said:

The confessions of a prolific serial killer have left L.A. detectives chasing ghosts​


As Sam Little spilled details of the 93 murders he claimed to have committed across the U.S., the toll in Los Angeles mounted.

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Convicted serial killer Samuel Little, right, speaks out in court as he listens to victim statements on Sept. 25, 2015. Little died in 2020. (Al Seib)

In hundreds of hours of interviews with investigators, the former boxer admitted to killing dozens of women, almost all by strangulation, from 1970 to 2005 as he moved around the U.S. The scraps of detail he offered — a year, an intersection, a landmark — left the FBI and local police scrambling to fill in the blanks and corroborate his chilling confessions. Twenty of his victims had been in the city of Los Angeles or elsewhere in L.A. County, Little claimed.

Authorities say they've confirmed that Little committed about two-thirds of the murders, but they remain flummoxed by 31 of them. Of those, 16 allegedly occurred in L.A. County, where he was ultimately brought to justice.

With Little's death last year in a California prison and the lead investigator's retirement next month, detectives are launching a public push for answers. Investigators with the Texas Rangers and FBI released details Tuesday of Little's confessions to the outstanding murders. Beyond the people he claims to have killed in L.A. County, Miami is the only metropolitan area with multiple open cases linked to Little. Investigators are also seeking to close cases in Atlanta, New Orleans, Las Vegas and Cincinnati, among other places.

"We are hoping to get the public's help, jog loose a detail, something that helps us link up these cases," said James Holland, the Texas Ranger whose interrogations of Little ultimately led to his confessions in 2018.

https://news.yahoo.com/confessions-...duk9QNoRazKBRXqd_yIX43aQzwSgexz-XCtwrYFUQNOxc

maximus otter
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Remains of woman murdered nearly 50 years ago belong to victim of America's most prolific serial killer​

Yvonne Pless, whose body was found in the city of Macon in Georgia, was around 20 years old when Samuel Little killed her in 1977, according to a news release from the Bibb County Sheriff's Office.

By the time of his death in December 2020, Little had confessed to killing 93 people between 1970 and 2005.

In 2018 he confessed to killing two women from Macon, prompting Georgia investigators to travel to Texas in 2019 to interview him.

They were able to confirm that his confessions matched the unsolved cases.

Ms Pless's remains had not been identified until last year when investigators used forensic genetic genealogy to determine who they belonged to.

The other woman, Fredonia Smith, who was killed in Macon in 1982, had previously been identified and a family member was notified that she had been murdered by Little.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/worl...ica-s-most-prolific-serial-killer/ar-AA1bn0Ie

maximus otter
 
Ronnie Jersey said:
I read the book by Ludovic Kennedy, and the film with Richard Attenborough and John Hurt -
Really strange, but fascinating case.
Love this vintage photo!
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It's surprised me that people were taking this type of picture back then. I thought this sort of thing started around the 70's. Posing for a picture in front of notorious houses of death I mean.
 
Swifty said:
It's surprised me that people were taking this type of picture back then. I thought this sort of thing started around the 70's. Posing for a picture in front of notorious houses of death I mean.
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But apparently they demolished Rillington Place back in 1970?
It is kind of odd - but the man and woman are dressed beautifully, and are so lovely and slim!
 
Fears of possible Oregon serial killer rise after 6 women found dead in Portland area

Police have recovered the remains of six women in and around Portland since February, prompting fears that a serial killer may be prowling the region.

Police found the remains of Kristin Smith on Feb. 19, Joanna Speaks on April 8, Bridget Webster on April 30, Charity Perry on April 24, Ashley Real on May 7, and a sixth, unidentified woman on April 24.

All were discovered within 75 miles of the Pacific Northwest city.

https://apple.news/A3m-1p4BwS9m4R9dcmVuPIQ

maximus otter
 
The police have caught up with the Long Island Killer
Suspect charged in Long Island serial killer case
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By Madeline Halpert in New York & Bernd Debusmann Jr
BBC News
A suspect has been charged in connection with the long-unsolved murders of at least 10 women in Long Island, New York.

Long Island resident Rex Heuermann was charged with six murder counts in the deaths of three of four women whose remains were found in 2010.

He has pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Police said that Mr Heuermann was taken into custody at his home on Thursday night.

Local authorities said the arrest was a major step towards justice for victims and families.

Court documents show that Mr Heuermann is facing three counts of first degree murder and three counts of second degree murder in the deaths of Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Amber Costello.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66190844
 
ramonmercado said:
A possible Canadian serial Killer this time, victims were all indigenous women.

A Canadian man already accused of murdering one woman has been charged by police in the city of Winnipeg in connection with three more deaths.

In May, police charged the 35-year-old man with killing one victim, 24-year-old Rebecca Contois. On Thursday, they charged him with three more counts of first-degree murder. All of the victims are believed to be indigenous women, Winnipeg police said.

Police identified the suspect as Jeremy Skibicki of Winnipeg, who was first arrested on 18 May in connection to the murder of Ms Contois, a member of O-Chi-Chak-Ko-Sipi First Nation in the province of Manitoba. In a Thursday press conference, investigators said they believe Mr Skibicki is responsible for three other deaths.

Police Chief Danny Smyth said "it's always unsettling when there's any kind of a serial killing", adding these homicides are particularly disturbing as "they involve indigenous women".

Morgan Beatrice Harris, 39, was killed on or around 1 May, while Marcedes Myran, 26, was killed on or around 4 May. Both women are members of the Long Plain First Nation but lived in Winnipeg. Police have yet to identify the fourth victim. They have appealed to the public for information and released photos of a reversible winter jacket that belonged to her. Investigators, however, said they believe the unidentified victim is also an indigenous woman in her mid-20s.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-63829124
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More about this suspected serial killer.

Police believe the remains of four indigenous women murdered by a serial killer were dumped in a landfill. But officials have yet to recover their bodies, leaving it up to the victims' family members to keep the search alive, reports Brandi Morin.

A makeshift barricade of tyres and scraps of white-painted fence lays across a paved road leading to the Brady Landfill on the outskirts of the Canadian city of Winnipeg.

Mohawk warrior flags, which feature the face of an indigenous man superimposed on a yellow sunburst on a red background, wave in the wind. Indigenous blockaders dressed in camouflage gear stand guard nearby, keeping people from entering.

They have been standing sentry for weeks, in protest, after police announced they believe the bodies of indigenous women murdered by a serial killer may be buried there. Behind their barrier is 22-year-old Cambria Harris. And she will stop at nothing to find her mother's body. Last December, Winnipeg police told Cambria and other family members that her mother Morgan Harris, 39, of Long Plain First Nation had allegedly been murdered by a man they accuse of being a serial killer.

Police claim Jeremy Skibicki killed four women, including Harris, and dumped their bodies in two different landfills over a three-month span in the spring of 2022. All the women were indigenous. None of their bodies have been recovered. He is charged with first degree murder in the deaths of Harris; Marcedes Myran, 26, also of Long Plain First Nation; Rebecca Contois, 24, of O-Chi-Chak-Ko-Sipi First Nation; and an unknown woman who was given the ceremonial name of Buffalo Woman by indigenous elders.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66317924
 
ramonmercado said:
More about this suspected serial killer.

Police believe the remains of four indigenous women murdered by a serial killer were dumped in a landfill. But officials have yet to recover their bodies, leaving it up to the victims' family members to keep the search alive, reports Brandi Morin.

A makeshift barricade of tyres and scraps of white-painted fence lays across a paved road leading to the Brady Landfill on the outskirts of the Canadian city of Winnipeg.

Mohawk warrior flags, which feature the face of an indigenous man superimposed on a yellow sunburst on a red background, wave in the wind. Indigenous blockaders dressed in camouflage gear stand guard nearby, keeping people from entering.

They have been standing sentry for weeks, in protest, after police announced they believe the bodies of indigenous women murdered by a serial killer may be buried there. Behind their barrier is 22-year-old Cambria Harris. And she will stop at nothing to find her mother's body. Last December, Winnipeg police told Cambria and other family members that her mother Morgan Harris, 39, of Long Plain First Nation had allegedly been murdered by a man they accuse of being a serial killer.

Police claim Jeremy Skibicki killed four women, including Harris, and dumped their bodies in two different landfills over a three-month span in the spring of 2022. All the women were indigenous. None of their bodies have been recovered. He is charged with first degree murder in the deaths of Harris; Marcedes Myran, 26, also of Long Plain First Nation; Rebecca Contois, 24, of O-Chi-Chak-Ko-Sipi First Nation; and an unknown woman who was given the ceremonial name of Buffalo Woman by indigenous elders.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66317924
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A bit more info on the growing nationwide support to have the landfill searched:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/landfill-search-calls-movement-momentum-1.6919046
 
victim finally identified.

Authorities investigating a suspected serial killer have identified remains found on a New York beach as belonging to a woman who vanished in 1996.

Police named the missing person once dubbed Jane Doe Seven as Karen Vergata. She was 34 when she disappeared.

Investigators have not yet linked her to the prime suspect in the deaths of four other women whose bodies were discovered in the area. Eleven sets of human remains were found on Gilgo Beach between 2010-11. There were nine women, a man and a toddler.

At a news conference on Friday, Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney said the Gilgo Beach investigators were able to positively identify Ms Vergata with the help of the FBI in October 2022.

Authorities did not publicly disclose Ms Vergata's identification at the time as the confidential investigation into the murders was ongoing.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66409054
 
Lord Lucan said:
Scott on Tape does some exception videos on the topic of true crime (as well as pop culture). Along with The Grimm Life Collective & Scott Michaels (Dearly Departed) he's one of my favourites.
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You're not wrong, I'm subscribed to all those channels. I can also recommend Adam the Woo, The Carpet Bagger and Malfuncsean's channels for similar content. All six of these guys will sometimes do guest appearances on each other's location videos.
 
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