Once he had cleared away all the rubbish Beresford Brown [the new tenant] started to remove the wallpaper and prised open the alcove at the back of the kitchen. To his horror he found himself looking at the torso of a semi-naked woman. He called the police. And when they had removed the body they found another two concealed behind her both wrapped in blankets. All three women had been strangled. ibid.
The garden fence was being supported by a human thigh-bone. ibid.
His bald head and small glasses [John Christie] made him unmistakable. ibid.
He showed little remorse for his deeds, proud of his skill as a killer. ibid.
The question of Timothy Evans’ innocence refused to go away. In 1961 Ludovic Kennedy’s book 10 Rillington Place crushed the evidence against Evans ... Evans received a free pardon posthumously. ibid.
It’s the moral question that concerns me. The taking of life. No matter how rudimentary. 10 Rillington Place 1971 starring Richard Attenborough & John Hurt & Judy Geeson & Pat Heywood & Isobel Black & Ray Barron & Douglas Blackwell & Gabrielle Daye & Jimmy Gardner & Edward Evans et al, director Richard Fleischer, Christie to victim
I know where you should be. You know what I mean. ibid. wife to Christie
Christie confessed his crimes and was hanged at Pentonville Prison. ibid. caption
CHRISTMAN, JANETT murder: Killer Legends
A babysitter is watching TV after putting the kids to bed when she gets a call from a mysterious stranger … The babysitter reports the call … A man is coming down the stairs … Yes, the babysitter and the man upstairs is a popular urban legend … Janett [Christman] had called the police while she was being attacked but the only thing they heard were desperate screams … Her murder has never been solved. Killer Legends, Netflix 2014
CHUA, VICTORINO: Crimes that Shook Britain TV -
Between 1970 and 2006, 45 health care professionals were found guilty of serial murders in Europe and America. Of these 86% were nurses. Crimes that Shook Britain s8e4: The Stepping Hill Murders, VI 2017
‘A murder mystery like no other.’ ibid.
The poisonings at Stepping Hill Hospital are crimes that shook Britain. ibid.
Over 20 patients in 3 wards were affected over a 4 week period. ibid.
27-year-old Rebecca Leighton is a local woman working as a nurse … The Crown Prosecution Service announced that the case against her has been discontinued; despite this, Rebecca is suspended by Stockport NHS Foundation Trust and eventually sacked for stealing medication. ibid.
‘A 46-year-old male nurse has been arrested on suspicion of tampering with medical records.’ ibid. local news
‘He [Victorino Chua] called himself the Angel of Death.’ ibid. prosecutor
He’s jailed for life with a minimum term of 35 years. ibid.
CHURCHILL, CHRISTOPHER: Killer Kids TV -
In the spring of 1992 in an elementary schoolyard ten-year-old Christopher Churchill is the victim of twelve-year-old bullies … Alone and simmering … The anger has been festering and now it’s just about to explode … In less than an hour four dead … Over the next hours the sexual assaults won’t stop there … Now he’s hungry … Five bloody corpses. Killer Kids s3e15: Ticking Time Bomb, LMN 2014
CILLIERS, EMILE: The Parachute Murder Plot TV - Faking It: Tears of a Crime TV -
Three years ago, mother of two, Victoria Cilliers, took her 2,650th parachute jump. A gift from her husband Emile. But her chute catastrophically failed. And she hit the ground causing life-threatening injuries. Detectives eventually discovered the awful truth. Shockingly, the police learned her husband had tried to kill her before … This is the extraordinary story of the Parachute Murder Plot. The Parachute Murder Plot, ITV 2018
Their marriage was far from a fairytale. ibid.
Emile’s candid revelations handed police a clear motive. ibid.
She had just told the police of a gas leak six days earlier that could have killed her and her young children while Emile was away at barracks. ibid.
Victoria had met Army PT instructor Emile Cilliers while working as a military physio. Drawn together by their love of adrenalin sports they soon became close. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s6e1: Emile Cilliers, DiscoveryPlus 2021
‘She’s the last one out of the plane. She jumps and her main chute fails to deploy. So she goes to pull the reserve chute: that also fails to deploy.’ ibid. dude
‘We’ve got three indicators … We can suspect deception is at play here … The arrogance of the man.’ ibid. Cliff Lansley
As well as the gas valve evidence, police had gathered more incriminating information on their subject … ‘he was funding a separate lifestyle, a secret lifestyle of affairs; he also had debts.’ ibid. woman
In October 2017 Cilliers appeared at Winchester Crown Court on two counts of attempted murder. ibid.
CLANCY, LINDSAY: True Crime Recaps 2023 -
The first thing Patrick notices is the silence. With three kids under six, quiet is hard to come back in the Clancy house … Patrick’s been gone less than an hour but life as he knew it is already over. True Crime Recaps: Uncovering the Shocking Events Behind the Tragic Lindsay Clancy Story, Youtube 9.25, 2023
In September 2023 a grand jury indicted Lindsay Clancy on charges of murder and strangulation. ibid.
CLANTON, JAMES: People Magazine Investigates TV -
1980: Helene [Pruszynski] was due home to her aunt’s house at around 6.30 p.m. that night but she failed to return home from her internship. People Magazine Investigates s5e5: Blood Ties, rozzer, ID 2021
A gruesome discovery … Back in 1980 this was a completely open field … a female half-nude partially clothed … She was found with her hands tied behind her back ... She had clearly been stabbed. ibid.
2019: A more advanced genetic profile of the killer. ibid.
James Curtis Clanton … has a police record … James Curtis Clanton’s mugshot from 1998 is a near match of the suspect … The results of that DNA analysis confirmed that James Curtis Clanton raped and murdered Helene Pruszynski. ibid
CLARK, BRANDON: The Murder of Bianca Devins: The Social Media Murders TV -
14th July 2019 Utica, New York: ‘I know this is going to come as kind of a surprise, at least to you, it isn’t to me, but I killed someone today. I killed my girlfriend.’ The Murder of Bianca Devins: The Social Media Murders s2e3, ITV 2023
At 6.48 a.m. a photo of the dead body of teenager Bianca Devins was posted on social media by her killer, Brandon Clark. ibid.
‘When she was about 12 and in the 7th grade she started to struggle with mental health and depression.’ ibid. friend
‘The suspect, 21-year-old Brandon Clark, was hospitalised and is expected to survive.’ ibid. TV news
‘One of the first things he said when he was apprehended was, he was very curious to know how many TV stations were covering the story.’ ibid.
CLARK, CONSTANCE & JEAN PIERRE DEVAUGHN: True Crime with Aphrodite Jones TV -
She started out as the perfect daughter-in-law. But was she too good to be true? When tragedy strikes a close-knit family police uncover a web of deceit. True Crime with Aphrodite Jones s5e8: Cold Case in Hotlanta, ID 2015
It’s December 13th 2005 and 35-year-old Eric Clark is heading from his home outside Birmingham Alabama to Atlanta. ibid.
Detective Kip Young gets a call about a murder … Detective Young sees an African-American man’s lifeless body in the driveway of an empty house … Young finds the man’s wallet: inside is an Alabama’s driver licence with the name of Eric Clark on it. ibid.
[Eric & Constance] had taken out life insurance policies on each other … Eric and Constance had been struggling financially. ibid.
Constance and her cousin Pierre were working together to kill her husband … All she seems to be interested in is getting her insurance money. ibid.
CLARK, DAVID: Meet, Marry, Murder TV -
On New Year’s Eve 2017 as revelers across the country counted down to midnight David Clark became enraged with a WhatsApp message from his wife Melanie. And then he picked up a knife. Meet, Marry, Murder s1e16, Netflix 2022
A marriage frought with abuse, infedelity and rows. ibid.
CLARK, DOUGLAS & CAROL BUNDY: Los Angeles Times - Born to Kill? TV - World’s Most Evil Killers TV -
A gruesome news story can provoke a certain frisson when it pokes a corner into one’s everyday life. That’s what Louise Farr felt when, one evening in 1980, her mother said that a regular customer at the Bullock’s Northridge beauty parlor had been arrested in a series of murders.
Farr’s mother was manager of the beauty parlor. She said the woman, Carol Bundy, was accused of teaming with serial killer Doug Clark in some of his crimes. Clark, a suspect in 25 killings, eventually was convicted of six. Bundy (who is not related to Seattle serial killer Ted Bundy) confessed to killing two people, including a former lover named Jack Murray, whom she decapitated.
Farr’s mother said Bundy, a nurse with dim eyesight and a weight problem, was known in the beauty parlor for her bawdy conversation.
‘She would bring in photos of Doug and Jack,’ Farr’s mother said at the time. ‘Nobody could understand how someone as homely as that could have two boyfriends.’