In March 2013 a man walking his dog on the outskirts of Peterborough in Cambridgeshire made a shocking and grisly discovery. Dumped in a rural ditch was the body of a man who had been violently stabbed to death. Police didn’t know it yet but there was a serial killer on the loose. Britain’s Most Evil Killers s1e6: Joanne Dennehy, Pick TV 2017
For no other reason than the pleasure and gratification it offered her. During a 12-day killing spree Joanna Dennehy butchered three men and left a trail of destruction. ibid.
One of the most dangerous women in criminal history. ibid.
Footage of Dennehy in custody at Hereford police station just forty minutes after stabbing two men and leaving them for dead showed her laughing and joking with the arresting officers. ibid.
The posing of the victim’s body after death often reveals a twisted inner need. Born to Kill: Class of Evil s1e6: Joanne Dennehy, Really 2018
30-year-old Joanna Dennehy was known to have a close relationship with local criminal Gary Stretch. ibid.
‘A stable family, she grew up in a loving home.’ ibid. rozzer
The wild child also started to self-harm. ibid.
What was driving Joanna Dennehy? Dennehy would later be diagnosed with having a sadomasochistic sexual paraphilia. ibid.
Around 2012 Dennehy served a series of short sentences in prison. ibid.
Joanna Dennehy was not looking to evade capture ... Joanna Dennehy appeared oblivious to the severity of her crimes. ibid.
How did this bright girl from a good home become one of Britain’s most notorious and cold-blooded serial killers? Over two weeks in 2013 Joanna Dennehy went on a killing spree, murdering three men and attempting to kill two others. Joanna Dennehy: Serial Killer, ITV 2019
Both Dennehy and Stretch were missing: police considered them very dangerous. ibid.
Joanna Dennehy was on a mission: she had two men under her control in the car and was now hunting for more men to murder. ibid.
‘She’s got nothing to say in all of the interviews. She gives no explanation. She gives us nothing to work with. Her behaviour is quite different from the custody office.’ ibid. rozzer
In March 2013 Joanna Dennehy commenced a killing spree that shocked Britain … A psychopathic serial killer … ‘Joanna Dennehy is one of the rare human beings that exist in this world who are essentially born to kill.’ The Killer in My Family s2e1: Joanae Dennehy, Emma Kenny, Quest Red 2020
Despite showing the body in the bin to a local teenager, it’s not discovered by police and Dennehy seems to have got away with murder. ibid.
She was one of those rare individuals: a real psychopath … no sense of human balance. ibid.
In the Spring of 2013 Joanna Dennehy committed five brutal stabbings. She took three innocent lives. And devastated countless more. Over just ten days Joanna Dennehy’s violent spree victimised so many including her own family. The Murderer & Me: Joanna Dennehy, Sky Crime 2021
To the officers’ surprise, Dennehy simply accepts the arrest … Joanna’s erratic behaviour raises concern … Her condition is classified as paraphilia-sadomasochism, meaning she simply enjoys causing pain. ibid.
On 2nd April 2013 the city of Hereford witnessed two crimes so brutal and so horrific that they would thrust an otherwise sleepy community into the news headlines. In separate random assaults two men are savagely set upon while innocently walking their dogs. Joanna Dennehy: British Serial Killer aka Joanne Dennehy: Killing for Fun, Channel 5 2023
A 14 day killing spree that started over 140 miles away. ibid.
On 30th March 2013 the body of property landlord Kevin Lee was found in a ditch near Newborough in Cambridgeshire. ibid.
She returned to the Old Bailey where she was sentenced to a whole life tariff. ibid.
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1964 ... Joann Graff, a twenty-three-year-old dress designer, is found strangled in her apartment while watching the TV coverage [of Kennedy]. Throttled with her own black leotard which was tied around her neck in a grotesque bow she had become the twelfth victim of the Boston strangler, a killer who had terrified the city for almost eighteen months. Great Crimes & Trials s1e19: The Boston Strangler, BBC 1993
The stranglings in Boston had begun at 77 Gainsborough Street in the Back Bay district on 14th May 1962. ibid.
In all he had claimed thirteen lives. Then the murders ceased as suddenly as they had begun two years before. Gradually the female population of Boston breathed a sigh of relief. But what appeared to be a new menace soon surfaced in Connecticut, as a young man who became known as the Green Man, because he always wore green work pants, began talking his way into young women’s homes, tying them up and raping them. In November 1964 the police linked the Green Man to a smooth-talking sexual con-man who had served eleven months in prison four years earlier. His name was Albert de Salvo. ibid.
Within five weeks the Strangler had escaped causing a massive police hunt. ibid.
It was the first and most notorious serial murder case in American history. In 1965 Albert de Salvo confessed to being the Boston Strangler. But he was never convicted of the eleven brutal sexually deranged murders. But there was no physical evidence to link de Salvo to the crimes. Was de Salvo really the Boston Strangler or was he a publicity-seeking false confessor? History’s Conspiracies
Six years later de Salvo was murdered in prison under suspicious circumstances. Some people believe he was about to recant his confession. ibid.
And on closer examination, many people now believe the hard evidence proves there was more than one Boston Strangler. ibid.
In November 1964 de Salvo was arrested for a series of sexual attacks known as the Green Man Assaults ... He was obsessed with sex, but his track record gave no indication of the extreme violence of the stranglings ... The Green Man Assaults came after the stranglings. ibid.
Boston Strangler is murdered in his cell. Daily Mail, article December 1973
The so-called Boston Strangler case does not strike me as the work of one killer. Dr Katherine Ramsland, author The Human Predator