Scotland July 14th 1990: a 6-year-old girl was walking to her friend’s house in the small picturesque village. The man dialled 999: the police rushed to the scene. They managed to stop the driver. When they opened the back of the van, they made a startling discovery … ‘That child was trussed up; she has a plaster over her mouth; she’s got a bag over her head; she’s minutes away from suffocating.’ Britain’s Most Evil Killers s3e3: Robert Black, 2019
Robert Black: a prolific paedophile responsible for the rape, assault and murder of at least four young children in the 1980s. ibid.
In 1963, 16-year-old Robert Black had assaulted and strangled a 7-year-old girl. The child had survived the attack, but instead of being incarcerated, Black was reprimanded. ibid.
‘I’d be driving along, I’d see a young girl, I’d get out and talk to her, and try and persuade her to get into the van.’ Making a Monster: Robert Black: The Child Catcher s1e4, Black’s confession, CI 2020
This is the voice of a serial killer from beyond the grave, one of the worst child murders in British criminal history. ibid.
Between 1981 and 1986 Robert Black abducted, sexually assaulted and murdered four girls between the ages of 5 and 11. He is suspected of killing many more. ibid.
One of the worst paedophilic killers the UK has ever known. ibid.
Ballinderry Upper, 18 miles west of Belfast: ‘We are dealing with a travelling sexual predator.’ The Child Snatcher: Manhunt, rozzer, Channel 5 I, ITV 2023
Saturday, 14th July 1990, Slow, Scotland: A man was mowing his lawn. When he looked up he saw a neighbour’s girl walk past … He saw a van. And this man had stopped his van; she disappeared into thin air. The van disappeared. He felt that something was seriously wrong. He raised the alarm. The police office comes down straight away … All of the sudden coming south is the same van … The policeman he was talking to ran in front of the van and stopped it. The policeman opened the van … A bundle of rags moving … He released the child, and it was his own daughter. ibid. reporter
Nine years earlier, Balliderry Upper … ‘Her [Jennifer’s] body was found in the lake. A full-scale murder hunt has got under way … ’ ibid. news
Portobello, Edinburgh, 1983: ‘Caroline Hogg, aged five, goes missing.’ ibid. old boy
‘Robert Black appeared at the high court in Edinburgh in August 1998 within a month of his arrest. He was tried and convicted. He plead guilty for the offence at Stow. He was sentenced to a mandatory life sentence.’ The Child Snatcher: Manhunt II, rozzer
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Do it right this time. Sonny Black, final words on being shot
August 14th 1981, New York City: Dominick Sonny Black Napolitano, a captain in the Bonanno crime family, walks into the Motion Lounge bar in Brooklyn. He hands the barman his keys to his apartment, a large bundle of cash and diamond encrusted rings from his fingers. He tells the barman he is going to a meeting and doesn’t know if he’s coming back. Mafia’s Greatest Hits: Donnie Brasco: Undercover in the Mob, 2012
He had brought a spy, Donnie Brasco, into the inner sanctum of the Mafia. He was really Special Agent Joe Pistone. Thanks to Pistone’s six years undercover over 200 mobsters would be convicted. And one of the biggest Mafia families brought down. ibid.
In 1976 New York was facing a wave of truck hijackings. ibid.
Jewel Thief: in 1976 he left FBI headquarters with a new ID – Donnie Brasco. ibid.
Zips were enormous drug importers; they used a series of pizza restaurants to distribute the drugs. ibid.
The Bonanno family was right in the middle of a civil war. ibid.
Sonny Black had taken part in the murder of the boss of his own family Carmine Galante. ibid.
Sonny’s body was found dumped in a New York river. ibid.
Agent Joe Pistone lives under a pseudonym. ibid.
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The Ministry of Defence has confirmed that seven Royal Marines have been arrested on suspicion of murder in Afghanistan. War and Justice: The Case of Marine A, Channel 4 2022
It’s looks to be a cold-blooded shooting. ibid.
The sergeant, known only as Marine A throughout the trial, is the only UK serviceman to have faced such a charge of murder. ibid.
Al Blackman has been in prison for five months. An appeal has reduced his sentence from ten to eight years. But he remains a convicted killer. ibid.
A Shameful Injustice: Mail fights to overturn conviction of Marine given life for ‘murdering Taliban in the heat of battle as shocking flaws in his trial are revealed’. ibid. Daily Mail headline
Two years after Al Blackman is imprisoned a second appeal is launched to free him. ibid.
This is believed to be the first time an adjustment disorder diagnoses has been associated with the killing of an enemy. ibid.
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On Sunday July 25th 2004 in a quiet suburb of Liverpool public schoolboy Brian Blackwell kills his parents in an horrific attack at their home. Brian Blackwell then leaves the bodies where they’ve been killed and takes his girlfriend on a holiday of a lifetime to America. Real Crime: Brain Blackwell s6e6: Killed by a Perfect Son, ITV 2007
Brian Blackwell was becoming more and more adventurous in his lies. ibid.
Brian Blackwell hit his seventy-one-year-old father over the head with a claw-hammer and stabbed him thirty times with a ten-inch carving knife. He then knocked his sixty-one-year-old mother unconscious with the hammer before stabbing her in the head and chest around twenty times. ibid.
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When it comes to horrific crimes this story is hard to beat. Michelle Blair kept a freezer in plain sight in her living room, and every day her two kids would have to pass it knowing that the bodies of their brother and sister were inside. And that was just the beginning. True Crime Recaps: Locked in a Freezer: The Horrifying Case Behind the ‘Freezer Mum’ Revealed, Youtube 8.41, 2023
2015: She’s a 35-year-old single mum of four … The house is a freaking cesspit of garbage, old food … ibid.
‘I killed those demons and I would do it again.’ ibid. Mitchelle
She inflicts this level of punishment on Stephen that would make the guards at Guantanamo flinch in horror … Slowly she starves Stoni … She told the judge she only has one freezer so where else is she supposed to put her. ibid.
Mitchelle Blair was sexually abused as a kid. ibid.
All four of them suffered terrible abuse at her hands. ibid.