Leader of a neighbourhood gang he called the Dirty Dozen. Great Crimes & Trials s1e6: John Dillinger Public Enemy No. 1, BBC 1993
Bitter and resentful, Dillinger decided to treat this as an education in crime, and in Indiana State Penitentiary he found willing teachers. From them he compiled a list of banks to rob in the mid-west. And by the time his sentence was up he had recruited a gang of experts to attack them. Within three months of his release in 1933 they had robbed their first bank at Daleville, Indiana. ibid.
In four months they robbed five more banks but Dillinger had been captured. ibid.
John Dillinger asked casually, ‘What kept you?’ They raced out of a side door and into a waiting car. Dillinger had his ideal gun. ibid.
They got away in a fast car. Dillinger had killed his first man. As the gang criss-crossed the mid-western states in Dillinger’s first spree of robberies the American public turned a villain into a hero. ibid.
He became one of the first prisoners to be transported by air. ibid.
A beautiful bride’s fairytale honeymoon ends with a bullet to her throat … The driver claims her new husband paid him to recruit the shooters. Her husband maintains he was framed. The assassins are pointing the finger at each other. Then there’s a middleman who might actually be the kingpin … Everybody in this case is lying about something. True Crime Recaps: Shrien Dewani, Youtube 35.37, 2022
Shrien was controlling, cold and critical of her appearance and habits … Behind the scenes the relationship was falling apart. ibid.
DEWEY, ROBERT [viz Miscarriages of Justice: Dewey, Robert]: Oddee online - Innocence Project online -
He was released 17 years later when DNA technology surfaced and exonerated him of the strangulation murder of a 19-year-old woman in Palisade, Colorado.
Dewey was compensated financially for his wrongful imprisonment, but certain things remained that he couldn't get back, including the funeral of his only son.
Dewey was locked up when his son died and was buried, and during the birth of his grandchildren, as well – all for a crime he didn’t commit. Oddee online report ‘10 of the Worst Wrongful Imprisonment Cases’
On June 4, 1994, 19-year-old Jacie Taylor was found dead in her bathtub. Neighbors had discovered a leak into their apartment at 7:00 a.m. that morning; upon entering Taylor’s apartment two hours later, they found her body and immediately called the police. According to the medical examiner who examined the body, Taylor appeared to have been strangled by a nylon dog leash or horse lead and had been sexually assaulted shortly before her death.
The police and prosecutor built a circumstantial case against Dewey. He initially emerged as a suspect in the case when police heard from several of Taylor’s friends that she was afraid of Dewey. Police also learned that Dewey hid from them when they came to question him and several of the victim’s friends. Furthermore, when police later found and questioned him, he initially gave police a fake name. Despite this, Dewey ultimately cooperated with police during the investigation and subsequent interrogations. Dewey admitted that he knew the victim and had been to her house, but he denied any involvement in or knowledge of the crime. When he was questioned again, police recovered a t-shirt belonging to Dewey, which was stained with oil, grease and blood.
During the investigation, police recovered the shirt Dewey was wearing when the crime occurred. The shirt had several bloodstains on it. Dewey claimed that it was his blood on the shirt, but police didn’t believe him. Using the methods of DNA testing that were available in the early 1990s, police tested the blood from Dewey’s shirt. The testing confirmed that the blood on the shirt was consistent with Dewey, the victim, and 45 percent of the population. In addition to testing Dewey’s shirt, the State conducted DNA testing on the victim’s fingernails and semen from a blanket where she was raped. This testing confirmed that Dewey was not the source of the semen or the DNA found under the victim’s fingernails. Despite this, prosecutors continued to pursue Dewey based on the other circumstantial evidence.
At Dewey’s trial in 1996, the prosecution relied on the DNA results from testing the blood on Dewey’s shirt, emphasizing that the profile was consistent with the victim’s blood. The prosecution also emphasized Dewey’s suspicious actions during the initial stages of the investigation. Dewey continued to assert that the blood on his shirt was his own blood, not the victim’s, and he argued that the real perpetrator was the person who left semen on the blanket and male DNA under the victim’s fingernails. The prosecutors countered this by arguing that there must have been a second perpetrator who assisted Dewey in committing the crime.
The jury found Dewey guilty of first-degree murder and sexual assault. He was given a life sentence with no possibility of parole. At his sentencing hearing, Dewey warned the judge, ‘There is still a killer out there.’
Dewey’s conviction was affirmed in his initial appeals. The Innocence Project began working on Dewey’s case in 2007 when Dewey and his appointed post-conviction counsel, Danyel Joffe, reached out to the Innocence Project for assistance. In late 2009, Joffe and the Innocence Project discovered that Forensic Analytical Sciences retained DNA extracts from the pretrial DNA testing of the blood on Dewey’s shirt. FAS re-tested this evidence using more advanced methods, and this testing definitively excluded the victim as a source of the blood on Dewey’s shirt. Furthermore, the DNA from the semen from the blanket matched the DNA from the victim’s fingernail scrapings, neither of which matched Dewey.
The Innocence Project and Joffe brought this evidence to the attention of the Colorado Attorney General’s Justice Review Project — a grant-funded organization tasked with reviewing cases in which DNA evidence could lead to exonerations. The project agreed to retest several additional items of evidence at the Colorado Bureau of Investigation laboratory. This testing confirmed the results from FAS and developed a DNA profile suitable for comparison to the CODIS DNA databank. The comparison yielded a ‘hit’ to another man in the database.
That man was already serving a life sentence for a 1989 home invasion rape and murder in Fort Collins. After an extensive investigation by the Mesa County Prosecutor, the Colorado Attorney General, the Mesa County Sheriff’s Department, and the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, concluded that Dewey was innocent and that the actual perpetrator was the man whose semen and DNA was left at the crime scene.
On April 30, 2012, Joffe, the Innocence Project, and the Mesa County District Attorney’s Office jointly filed a motion to vacate Dewey’s conviction. The Court granted the motion and declared Dewey innocent. That same day, the Court issued an arrest warrant for the actual perpetrator. Innocence Project online article
DEWILD, DANIEL: Evil Twins TV -
Identical twins Daniel and David DeWild were inseparable as children. But as adults they find themselves connected by something sinister. The Twins vowed to take a dark secret to their grave until a shocking betrayal turns one twin against another. Evil Twins s2e7: Mile High Monsters, Discovery 2015
The victim is Edgewater resident Heather DeWild, a thirty-year-old mother, who went missing six weeks earlier. ibid.
DHILLON, TRIMAAN: Trevor McDonald TV - Murdered By: My Stalker TV - Faking It: Tears of a Crime TV - Britain’s Most Evil Killers TV - The Murder of Alice Ruggles: The Social Media Murders TV -
‘Alice! Alice! Oh my God, she’s dead, she’s dead!’ Trevor McDonald, An Hour to Catch a Killer, ITV 2017
On the evening of October 12th 2016, 24-year-old Alice Ruggles is discovered by her flatmate at home in Gateshead; she has suffered a serious wound to the neck. At 7.30 p.m. Alice is pronounced dead. ibid.
We follow homicide detectives during their ‘golden hour’. ibid.
20:00 search for ex-boyfriend [Trimaan Dhillon]. ibid.
A positive test for Alice’s blood will prove Dhillon’s guilt beyond all reasonable doubt. ibid.
12 October 2016: My flatmate’s covered in blood in the bathroom … Oh my God! Murdered By s1e1: My Stalker: The Killing of Alice Ruggles, Maxine’s 999 call, Channel 5 2018
‘I’m not intending to kill you.’ ibid. stalker boyfriend
Newcastle the evening of 12 October 2016: The prime suspect is Alice’s ex-boyfriend, 25-years-old soldier Trimaan Dhillon. ibid.
In 2017 the police recorded a record number of 8,364 cases of stalking. ibid.