There are some ridiculous things that are said in this case … There is no forensic evidence that connects Jeremy Bamber to this crime. The Bambers: Murder at the Farm II, case critic
Later she [Julie] said he’d told her that he’d been out on the farm and killed several rats with his bare hands just to see if he’d be able to kill his family. ibid. television report of court proceedings
Why had Nevill not rung 999? Why did Jeremy as I found out later ring his girlfriend before he rang the police? ibid. dude
The trial has begun in Chelmsford of Jeremy Bamber, who is accused of murdering five members of his family in August last year. The Bambers: Murder at the Farm III, BBC news
The jury took just nine hours and twenty-four minutes to reach their verdict. Jeremy Bamber stood motionless, his arms clasped behind his back; by a majority of ten to two the jury found him guilty … ibid.
No-one wins. We all lose. Can’t bring them back. ibid. cousin post-trial
There are anomalies in the evidence. Jeremy Bamber believes that the police conspired to fit him up. The Bambers: Murder at the Farm IV, Sunday Time journalist
Would you take the silencer off the gun and place it and leave it in the house? ibid. investigator
Today his barrister, Michael Turner QC, said there were so many police errors in the investigation, his convictions must be overturned. The hearing continues. ibid. television reporter outside Court of Appeal
It was inconceivable that she [Sheila] was in a violent struggle with her father. ibid. Appeal court judge
Nevill Bamber phoned the police at 3.26 a.m. to report that his daughter Sheila had gone berserk with his guns. And we have police logbooks that prove that. ibid. defence supporter
They’d sent a car to the house before I’d phoned the police. ibid. Bamber
Nowhere on there does it say Nevill Bamber … nothing of the sort. There was an error over time. ibid. rozzer examining police log
BANISZEWSKI, GERTRUDE: True Crime Recaps 2023 -
Hobbs: All I did was write that thing on her stomach and then I hit her about 10 or 15 times … Well mostly because Gerty told me to. True Crime Recaps: The Sinister Secrets of a Quiet Street in Indiapolis, Youtube 15.00, 2023
Behind the scenes on this seemingly quiet street in Indianapolis a dark tale is unfolding. A normal-looking family, a mom and her seven kids, have a teenager named Sylvia Likens locked in their basement. They are meant to be taking care of her; instead, they are slowly torturing her to death with the help of the neighbourhood kids. ibid.
On October 26 1965 the Indianapolis Police Department get a strange phone call: there’s a teenage boy on the other end; his nervous cracking voice tells them about a dead girl on East New York Street. Police arrive at the rundown home of Gertrude Baniszewski. ibid.
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In 1982 George Emil Banks embarked on a ruthless rampage that would shock America to the core. As the clock ticked, the body count rose. And with it the question, Why had the ex-prison guard from Pennsylvania brutally murdered his own flesh and blood? Killing Spree s1e12: Family Slayer, CI 2017
A killing spree that had left thirteen people dead, seven of the victims were children. ibid.
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Death on the beach. A young wife killed, her husband wounded but is he faking it? … August 2002 a young married couple went on a late-night walk … April and Justin Barber … Faking It: Tears of a Crime s3e9: Justin Barber, DiscoveryPlus 2021
‘A two-million-dollar insurance policy might be the solution to all his problems.’ ibid. Kerry Daynes, psychology
Justin Barber claimed he’d tried and failed to stop the mystery gunman from shooting April. In the struggle he said he’d only just escaped with his life. ibid.
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Bellevue, Washington 1997: Two young friends are riding their bikes into the park when they spot something strange in the woods … The body is a young woman in her twenties … Kimberley Wilson. Killer Kids s3e11: No Apparent Motive, FYI 2014
And inside the house her parents, Rose and Bill Wilson, and her younger sister Julia Wilson, all dead, two beaten with a baseball bat, one stabbed with a knife. ibid.
David Anderson often used Kimberley Wilson for money … Detectives start to look into David Anderson … He had collected knives, weapons, baseball bats … When the case goes to trial the district attorney charges both Anderson and Baranyi, but Alex’s lawyer decides to put on an insanity defence. ibid.
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November 12th 2013, Pennsylvania: ‘The body of a man in his forties was found …’ Miranda Barbour: Serial Killer or Liar? news report, BBC 2018
Two hours later Miranda’s husband Elytte was brought in for questioning. Miranda and Elytte had married in North Carolina 19 days before the murder. They then moved to Pennsylvania to live with Elytte’s best friend Shae. ibid. captions
‘Phone records led investigators to zero in on Barbour and eventually she admitted meeting the victim through the website Craigslist.’ ibid. news report
December 6th 2013 three days after Miranda’s confession: ‘Yes I knew she was going to meet him. Yes I was with her. Yes I did take part.’ ibid. Elytte to rozzers
‘Elytte Barbour told police they killed LaFerrara because they just wanted to murder someone together.’ ibid. news
‘If I had to take a guess I know that when I hit 22 I stopped counting.’ ibid. Miranda to reporter
‘She is possessed.’ ibid. Elytte to rozzers
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In February 1978 56-year-old Stuart Taylor suffered a slow and painful death. With the consent of his family and partner doctors performed an autopsy to find out what had led to the sudden downturn in his health. Stuart had been targeted by his partner, 45-year-old grandmother Velma Barfield. The kindly looking church-goer had been leading a secret double life funding a drug addiction by stealing from others before killing them. The murder of Stuart Taylor would expose Barfield’s life of crime. She had poisoned and killed five people including her own mother. World’s Most Evil Killers s6e8: Velma Barfield, Sky Crime 2021
November 1984: 52-year-old Velma Barfield was executed by lethal injection. ibid.
BARKER, MA et gang: Natural Born Outlaws TV -Great Crimes & Trials TV - Daily Mail online -
‘Why take banks when you can take the bankers.’ Natural Born Outlaws: Barker-Karpis Gang, Karpis, Discovery 2016
West Plains, Missouri, December 1931: ‘Robbing banks, burglary, whatever would make money.’ ibid. commentator
January 17th 1934 Just hours after the abduction of Edward Bremer junior, St Paul police find his abandoned car. ibid.
He [Karpis] was ultimately paroled in 1968. ibid.
On 16th January 1935 FBI agents surrounded a house in a remote rural area of Florida. A gun battle broke out after warnings had been shouted. Tear-gas shells were fired. And after forty-five minutes agents broke in to find the inhabitants dead. They had killed two of America’s most wanted criminals: Kate Ma Barker, and Fred, one of her four sons. Great Crimes & Trials: Ma Barker and other Public Enemies, BBC 1996
‘It’s like walking into a time capsule in 1935. The fact that it has this extra history is a really interesting cachet,’ said Mark Arnold, an agent with Stirling Sotheby’s International Realty, who are handling the sale.
He was referring to how Kate ‘Ma’ Barker, who was branded Public Enemy No. 1 by the federal government for a rash of murders, kidnappings and robberies committed in the early 1930s, was killed in the house along with one of her sons in a barrage of bullets from federal agents.
Photos released at the time, believed by some to have been staged, show Barker lying dead in a second-floor bedroom clutching a machine gun.
But the Barker story is the stuff of gangster legend and crime buffs may put a premium on a prime piece of criminal memorabilia.
The house is 2,016 square feet (187 sq meters) with four bedrooms and 1 1/2 bathrooms. The sale includes 9.5 acres shaded by stands of old oak trees and 1.5 acres of sandy beach on Lake Weir.