Chmurny’s decision to swallow the pill Wednesday unnerved Howard Circuit Court officials and stunned his lawyer, Dino Flores.
Flores said he had no inkling that the 57-year-old scientist, a man he described as ‘very intelligent’ was contemplating suicide.
‘I had no idea anything like this was possible,’ a shaken Flores said yesterday. ‘Certainly, sitting right next to him as he does this, it’s very surreal to me.’
Chmurny faced a maximum penalty of more than 30 years in prison for the crimes. Sentencing had been scheduled for November 15.
Chmurny’s actions at the defense table in Howard Circuit Court’s ceremonial courtroom were not unprecedented. At least once before in Maryland, a defendant committed suicide by taking cyanide in open court. Baltimore Sun online article Lisa Goldberg 14th September 2001, ‘Chmurny succumbs to suicide’
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Tuesday she’s on her way to pick up her daughter; by Friday her head is in a soup pot in an apartment rented by her former father-in-law. Why would someone go after Abby Choi, Hong Kong’s favourite young celebrity? True Crime Recaps: Fame, Fortune & Murder: The Abby Choi Case, Youtube 10.32, 2023
Over 150 detectives hit the ground running. They knew Abby was last seen outside the Kwongs’ apartment building. They also knew Anthony was driving her. So they questioned the Kwongs relentlessly but the whole family stuck to their stories. ibid.
Abby’s SUV outside this three-storey apartment building. Phone records showed that she wasn’t alone. Anthony and Alex’s phones put them there too. And lo and behold her former father-in-law had rented the first floor apartment at the beginning of that month. Police kicked in the door with a search warrant on Friday, February 24. What they saw inside will haunt them for ever. They could only describe it as a human butcher shop. ibid.
They took a look at the soup. Abby’s head was floating under a layer of carrots. ibid.
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July 2019 London: ‘Anti-terrorism officers have this evening arrested a man suspected of plotting a series of attacks across the capital.’ Faking It: Tears of a Crime s4e5: Neil Entwistle & Mohissunnath Chowdhury, news, DiscoveryPlus 2021
The suspect Mohiussunnath Chowdhury, aged 27, tells police they have got the wrong man. What Chowdury didn’t know is he had been under police surveillance ever since he had been found Not Guilty of preparing another potential terrorist attack. ibid.
The man wielding the sword was Mohissunnath Chowdhury then aged 25. ibid.
When Cowdhury wasn’t driving his Uber, he was online devouring Islamist propaganda. ibid.
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‘Yingying is an intelligent, beautiful and a kind person.’ Murders at First Sight s1e2: A Devil in Disguise, dude, Sky Crime 2022
Yingying had come to the United States because she wanted to learn more about agriculture. Her end goal was to go back to China and teach. ibid. dude #2
Yingying was standing on that corner waiting for the bus when all of a sudden a car appeared. She got into that car. ibid. dude #3
When the FBI agents went back to Christenson after identifying the wheel of his car, this was the second time, the FBI asked him if he would be willing to come to FBI headquarters. He agreed. ibid.
CHRISTIANSEN, THOR NIS: Born to Kill: The Hitchhiker Slayer TV - Guttenberg Press -
In the mid-70s fear would strike a once care-free college town. Thor Christiansen was plucking young women from the streets for his sick satisfaction. How did Christiansen come to commit these heinous crimes? And was he born to kill? Born to Kill? s5e9: The Hitchhiker Slayer, Channel 5 2013
From an early age others had noticed a dark side to Thor’s personality. ibid.
‘In [the bar] walks the guy who had shot her in the head.’ ibid. rozzer
Christiansen had been killing in Los Angeles. ibid.
He pleads not guilty by reason of insanity. ibid.
Thor Nis Christiansen (28 December 1957 – 30 March 1981) was a serial killer from Solvang, California. He committed his first three murders in late 1976 and early 1977, killing young women of similar appearance from Isla Vista, California. His crimes motivated large demonstrations opposed to violence against women, and in favor of better transportation for the young people residing in Isla Vista. In 1979, he killed a young African-American woman from Los Angeles. A fifth intended victim escaped with a bullet in her head, and later identified him in a Los Angeles bar. Project Gutenberg Press article
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In 1977 abandoned and vulnerable, 16 year old Sandy [Turpin] lands on the Eureka California doorstep of the only family she can count on. Very Bad Men s3e5: Haunted, ID 2014
Several other women had recently disappeared lost in the town’s darkest corners. ibid.
Sam is ready to name her killer – his own father. ibid.
CHRISTIE, JOHN: John Christie - Daily Mail - Evening Standard - Fred Dinenage: Murder Casebook TV - Great Crimes & Trials TV - 10 Rillington Place 1971 -
I gave them a merciful exit. John Christie
I can’t stand it any more. They are hunting me like a dog and I’m tired of it. I’m cold and wet and I’ve nothing to change into. John Christie, telephone call to crime report desk News of the World
He Made A Death Machine: Clerk, police ‘special’ – then, a murderer: For most of his 55 years John Reginald Halliday Christie was the man-in-the-crowd whom no-one notices: the little man who might stand next to you in a bus queue or share a train compartment, leaving afterwards only a vague impression that he had been there. Daily Mail article
Christie Peads Insanity says QC: He asks permission to refer to other killings. Evening Standard headline
Is Christie Sane? Doctors Clash. Evening Standard headline
In 1953 the police entered 10 Rillington Place in London. It was simply a house of horrors. The scene of eight horrific murders. Fred Dinenage: Murder Casebook: John Christie and 10 Rillington Place, CI 2011
In 1948 a couple by the name of Evans moved into the flat above the Christies. Tim and Beryl Evans were expecting their first child, and they soon attracted the attention of their sinister neighbour. ibid.
On his return Evans was told by Christie that he’d tried to carry out an abortion on Beryl but tragically she had died during the procedure. ibid.
The suspicion of guilt didn’t fall upon Christie. ibid.
After just forty minutes of deliberation the jury found Evans guilty of murder. ibid.
Christie was tried for the murder of his wife Ethel in a trial that lasted only four days. When asked if he’d committed more murders than were known about he replied, I can’t say exactly. I might have done. ibid.
On 9th March 1950 at Pentonville Prison a man known as Timothy Evans went to the gallows. He had been found guilty of the murder of his wife Beryl who had been strangled, and of his baby daughter Geraldine. Great Crimes & Trials s1e21: John Christie, BBC 1993
10 Riddlington Place ... It was Mr Christie who came up with the solution to the unwanted pregnancy. He told them he could perform abortions ... When Timothy got back Christie told him his wife had died during the operation. ibid.
Christie then volunteered to take baby Geraldine away to stay with friends. ibid.
Evans was found guilty and went to the gallows protesting his innocence. ibid.