Books and movies including the 1970 film Bloody Mama starring Shelly Winters focus on what some see as the mythical Ma Barker. But the real Barker may have had little to do with Hollywood images and the criminal exploits of her four sons.
The four men were members of the ruthless Barker-Karpis gang that rampaged across the South and Midwest in the 1920s and early 1930s. But there has been little evidence to support claims that Barker herself was some sort of stone-cold criminal mastermind. Daily Mail online article 22nd August 2012
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Florida currently has 400 inmates on death row … James Barnes is one of them. In 1998 James Barnes was given a life sentence for the murder for his wife. However, seven years into this sentence he confessed to a previous murder which landed him on death row. Werner Herzog on Death Row s1e1: James Barnes, Channel 4 2012
‘The murder became known as the Burning Bed … He picked up a hammer, beat her with the hammer actually killing her and then in an attempt to destroy as much evidence as he could he set the bed that she was on on fire.’ ibid. rozzer
‘It was very ugly, it was very brutal, it was very messy.’ ibid. Barnes
He hinted at the possibility of telling us about two more unsolved cases. ibid.
BARNETT, HEATHER murder: viz Miscarriages of Justice: Benguit, Oman
BARONE, CESAR: World’s Most Evil Killers TV -
In February 1993 detectives in Hillsboro, Oregon, were unaware that a serial killer had been active across the city. The murders of four women were being treated as separate cases until a prison in a local jailhouse began bragging to his fellow inmates. The loose-lipped convict was 32-year-old Cesar Barone who had been sexually assaulting and murdering women across Hillsboro for the previous two years. World’s Most Evil Killers s5e17: Cesar Barone, Sky Crime 2021
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January 25th 2019: Someone shot her execution style in her front yard. Now who did it and why? True Crime Recaps: Elizabeth Barraza Theories: Who Did It and Why? Youtube 6.37, 2021
BARROW, CLYDE: see PARKER, BONNIE
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A horrifying case is carried out by a 14-year-old child … What led Daniel Bartlam to murder a member of his own family? The level of planning and ferocity of the attack makes this one of the most shocking juvenile crimes in the UK. Jo Frost on Britain’s Killer Kids, CI 2017
In April 2011 here in Nottingham, Jacqui Bartlam was brutally attacked and murdered by his own son Daniel in their family home. He was just 14 years old. After bludgeoning Jacqui to death with a hammer, Daniel set her body alight. He had fantasised about killing her for months. ibid.
‘He looked eleven or twelve.’ ibid. reporter
In 2012 Daniel Bartlam was sentenced to 16 years in prison. ibid.
‘The only thing that seemed to have traumatised him is the divorce of his parents.’ ibid. Professor Kevin Browne
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The murder of 18-year-old Mandy Stavik … left for dead … 27th November 1989: A volunteer firefighter came across her naked body floating gently in the Nooksack river. True Crime Recaps: Two Cold Cases Solved by DNA, Youtube 33.40, 2021
For 24 years there was no answer … The police started looking at him [Timothy Bass] as a possible suspect. ibid.
BATTEN, IVY murder: viz Miscarriages of Justice: Parsons, Brian
BAUMEISTER, HERB: Crime Stories TV - Crime Library online -
Young men are vanishing. And it seems there’s nothing investigators can do to stop it. Indianapolis, Indiana, July 1993: 32-year-old Roger Goodlet left his mother’s house for a gay bar and never came home. Crime Stories: Family Secrets
That brings the total number of missing men to eight in the last two years. ibid.
The cases in Indiana may only be the tip of the iceberg. ibid.
Baumeister had shot himself in the head. ibid.
But, as the number of disappearances tolled up, a few members of the community began to realize that there might be something wrong in the Bible Belt. The first to suspect foul play was a private detective named Virgil Vandagriff I, in fact, to start putting two and two together to actually add up to four. However, even he and the believers he eventually recruited from among the law enforcement agencies in the two surrounding counties who took up the search for a killer were not prepared to find a monster.
Their trail ended in the wooded back yard of a huge private estate where the skeletons of the reported missing persons and others were uncovered. Then the media took notice, then the camera trucks rolled in, then the killings took headline. Crime Library online article
BAXENDALE, DAVID: Evil Up Close TV - BBC online -
David Baxendale killed for neither love nor money – he did it for pleasure. Evil Up Close: The Costa Killer, Crime Channel 2013
Baxendale’s downfall was his addiction to drink and drugs which would make the likeable person change utterly. ibid.
Unpredictable and very violent. ibid.
One of the few men in Britain to be given a whole-life sentence. ibid.
A convicted killer who stabbed to death a mother-of-three before fleeing to Spain has been jailed for life.
David Baxendale, 40, carried out a ‘ferocious attack’ on Sarah Thomas, 38, at her home in High Street, Nutfield, on 10 May last year.
Surrey Police said he fled the country on a ferry and travelled to southern Spain where he had been jailed for a previous murder in 2001.
He was extradited and given a whole-life term at Guildford Crown Court. BBC online article 17th March 2011, ‘Man convicted of second murder over Surrey woman's death’
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September 2012 in Melbourne: a 29-year-old woman disappears while walking home after a night out. Investigations would uncover the secrets of a violent murderer. Crimes that Shook Australia s3e3: Jill Meagher, CI 2018
There then followed a social-media frenzy offering help and demanding information. ibid.
‘Who was this man seen running after her?’ ibid. rozzer
A man with a history of violence against women. ibid.
BEADMAN, STEPHEN & LUKE HARLOW: Faking It: Tears of a Crime TV -
Groomed, held captive and murdered. Fifteen years, the target of an online predator. How her dream date turned into a night of horror. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s5e2: Groomed for Murder, DiscoveryPlus 2021
A man twelve years her senior, unemployed loner Luke Harlow … When officers searched Harlow’s flat, they found some of Kayleigh’s possessions and saw signs of a possible struggle. ibid.
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Some very bad men appear as guardian angels but are in fact devils in disguise. Very Bad Men s4e1: The Devil’s Disciple, ID 2014
Once a girl has been taken in, Reverend Rich [Beasley] applies the tools of every pimp’s stock of trade. ibid.
Richard Beasley is convicted of murder and sentenced to death. ibid.