Serial Killers

Druk said:
I have hitched lifts in countries as far as Pakistan and the Philippines and met some real characters,one place I would have second thoughts is the states,you just never know who may stop to pick you up.View attachment 83635
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Ted Bundy's car?.

My Mum told me they picked up a hitch hiking Rasta when they went to Grenada on holiday one year and "He was lovely". I've never hitched or picked up hitchers other than people I know.
 
Swifty said:
Ted Bundy's car?.
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Yes.
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I worked for years with a guy , still in contact occasionally, who told me that his dad's best mate in the navy turned out to be a serial killer years later , and his dad had to testify something or other in court. Obviously he had no idea !! But there were a few victims and apparently the murderer ended up revealing locations of one or two buried victims not found yet. And my friend was not one for bullshit or hyperbole. Bizarre
 
gojiramonkey said:
I worked for years with a guy , still in contact occasionally, who told me that his dad's best mate in the navy turned out to be a serial killer years later , and his dad had to testify something or other in court. Obviously he had no idea !! But there were a few victims and apparently the murderer ended up revealing locations of one or two buried victims not found yet.
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As soon as I read Navy and serial killer I knew who it was,I have worked on Gibraltar a few times and heard the story.
 

'I didn't get everything right,' Lucy Letby's former manager tells inquiry​

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ckgde7d1xj5t

Kelly seems to have a talent for understatement.

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'I didn't get everything right,' Lucy Letby's former manager tells inquiry​

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ckgde7d1xj5t

Kelly seems to have a talent for understatement…

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It was Kelly passing the buck because she was fearful of losing her own job. Some things have happened with a member of staff at the hospital I'm currently working in and I've now got it in my contract as well as on a recorded interview that I'm refusing to work with that staff member. A senior ward Sister has also denied access to that staff member. Nothing as serious as direct harm coming to patients but HR have also decided not to sack this person but 'retrain' them instead. Large organisations are scared of unions.
 
From today's Guardian: while some believe Lucy Letby is innocent of harming and murdering babies, the police are looking into her every interaction with babies in her previous placements.

Lucy Letby questioned in jail over more baby deaths at two hospitals

Police began a review of the 4,000 babies she nursed during her career, which dates back to January 2012 and includes two training placements she carried out at the Liverpool Women’s hospital as a student nurse.

It is understood she was questioned for the first time about cases at the latter hospital, as well as baby deaths and collapses at the Countess of Chester hospital.

Cheshire police said on Tuesday: “We can confirm that, following agreement, Lucy Letby has recently been interviewed in prison under caution in relation to the ongoing investigation into baby deaths and non-fatal collapses at the Countess of Chester hospital and the Liverpool Women’s Hospital. Further updates will follow.”
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The Thirlwall public inquiry is looking into the events surrounding Letby’s crimes. It is expected to sit at Liverpool town hall until early 2025, with findings due to be published by late autumn next year.

Last month, Dr Stephen Brearey, a consultant paediatrician who raised concerns about the nurse told the Thirlwall inquiry he believed Letby “didn’t start becoming a killer” in June 2015 and that she may have had earlier victims.
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Heuermann Faces another murder charge

Rex Heuermann, the New York architect already facing murder charges in the infamous Gilgo Beach killings, was charged on Tuesday in the death of a seventh woman.

Heuermann is accused of killing Valerie Mack, a 24-year-old escort whose remains were discovered on Long Island in 2000. Mack, who had been working in Philadelphia, was last seen by her family that same year in New Jersey.

Valerie Mack's partial skeletal remains were first discovered in Manorville, New York, in 2000, roughly 50 miles east of Gilgo Beach, where additional remains were found more than a decade later. Her identity remained unknown until genetic testing confirmed it in 2020.

Earlier this year, human hair recovered with Mack's remains was tested and found to be a likely match to the genetic profile of Rex Heuermann's daughter, prosecutors revealed in court documents. His daughter, who was only three or four years old at the time of Mack's death, is not accused of any wrongdoing.

https://www.newsweek.com/gilgo-beach-suspect-charged-killing-seventh-woman-valerie-mack-2002145
 
ramonmercado said:
More on Kohlhepp. It looks as if he had help to amass his armoury. Wonder if he had help with the killings. I'll keep an eye out for more developments.

SPARTANBURG, S.C. — Federal agents want to know how a convicted felon who became a serial killer in South Carolina managed to collect an arsenal of weapons.

Todd Kohlhepp was arrested last fall after deputies rescued a missing woman chained up inside a shipping container on his rural property. In exchange for a life sentence, he ultimately pleaded guilty to killing seven people as well as kidnapping and raping the woman.

Agents with the FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms are investigating a trove of weapons on his properties, including dozens of guns and pallets full of ammunition, The Herald-Journal of Spartanburg has reported, based on documents and video released by prosecutors after Kohlhepp's sentencing last month.

It's a "staggering" amount of weaponry, and investigators think he illegally acquired most of it through straw purchases, Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright said.

Investigators have met with a person suspected of buying the guns for Kohlhepp, according to the documents released through public records requests. Wright told the newspaper he expects federal authorities to arrest someone, but no one's been charged so far. ...

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/feds-investigate-how-serial-killer-amassed-weapons/ar-BBDmaxF
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The Amazon Review Killer: Documentary about serial killer Todd Kohlhepp, he's convicted of seven murders but may have killed many more. He posted online reviews of the tools he used to carry out his crimes which in many cases alluded to how the killings and tortute were carried out. Aged just 15, he kidnapped at gunpoinr and raped his 14-year-old neighbour,threatening to kill her family if she told anyone. He got a 15-year sentence, was released, seemingly he got no proper therapy. He was diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. He committed a mass killing at a store, slaying four people. This was because the store owner laughed at him. Hiding his conviction he bacamr a realtor, was successful and well liked. But he always held grudges. He kidnapped a couple working on his farm, killed one, the other was freed by police who finally raided the ranch. Rwo other bodies were fiund on the farm. Police incompetence figured in his getting away with crimes. He was finally tracked down due to the joint work of a prosecutor, an investigative journalist and a determined detective. Mobile phone records proving crucial. The documentary is certainly worth watching, as the events outlined above unfold but is nothing spectacular. Two 47 minute episodes was a tad overlong. A 75 minute programme night have sufficed. 7/10.

Streaming: https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-amazon-review-killer/on-demand/77207-001
 
Why are people so interested in serial killers?

Consumers of content about serial killers watch and read it to experience intense emotions that are often lacking in everyday life and to understand the reasons that drive people to commit crimes.

However, such content does not contribute to increased aggression. These conclusions were drawn by sociologists from HSE University. The results of their study have been published in Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal.

Research on the modern media market shows that content about serial killers is popular worldwide, spanning films, true crime series, short videos, and written materials detailing crimes, investigations, and the biographies of those involved.

English sociologist Abby Bentham and Canadian sociologist Kevin Haggerty note that people perceive stories about serial killers as a form of entertainment that allows them to experience intense emotions. Canadian sociologist and philosopher Ryan Broll suggests that this is also a way for individuals to escape their own real-life problems.

However, some have expressed concerns that an obsession with stories about serial killers could lead to increased violence. To explore this question, researchers from HSE—Oksana Mikhailova, Darya Osokina, Lev Lyubich, and Ekaterina Gulina—conducted a series of in-depth interviews to study the motives driving Russian youth to consume crime content. A total of 26 young men and women aged 18 to 36 from 14 Russian cities were interviewed.

https://phys.org/news/2025-01-crime-content-popular-exploring-cognitive.html
 
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