DAWSON, ANDREW: When Life Means Life TV - BBC online - Britain’s Most Evil Killers TV -
A man who committed murders almost thirty years apart. A man who used knives to deadly effect. And who targeted elderly vulnerable men. When Life Means Life s1e6, CI 2012
At just 19 years of age Andrew Dawson was a convicted killer. ibid.
Andrew Dawson served seventeen years. ibid.
Within three years of marrying, Dawson separated from his wife, and his life was spiralling out of control. ibid.
Andrew Dawson was now a convicted triple killer. ibid.
A convicted killer who murdered two of his neighbours while out on licence for an earlier crime has been told he will spend the rest of his life in prison.
John David Matthews, 66, was found dead in his Derby flat on 25 July 2010.
Five days later Paul Hancock, 58, was found dead in the same building. The pair had been repeatedly stabbed and both were found in their own baths.
Andrew Dawson, 48, admitted murdering the two men, on the first day of his Nottingham Crown Court trial.
In sentencing Dawson to a whole life term, Mrs Justice Dobbs said ‘Life will mean life.’ BBC online article 18th July 2011, ‘Neighbour killer Andrew Dawson given whole life term’
In August 1981, 91-year-old Henry Walsh was held up at knifepoint in this small hardware store in Ormskirk, Lancashire. The elderly shopkeeper refused to yield to his 18-year-old assailant. He would pay with his life. Britain’s Most Evil Killers: Andrew Dawson, Sky Crime 2020
The perpetrator was Andrew Dawson, a known local thief who suddenly matured into a vicious murderer. ibid.
Almost 30 years after his first killing, Dawson was a free man with murder on his mind. In 2010 police in Derby would discover two of Dawson’s neighbours dead, but the convicted killer was nowhere to be found. ibid.
DAWSON, CHRIS: Faking It: Tears of a Crime TV - The Murder of Lyn Dawson TV -
Bay View, Australia: home in the early 1980s to Chris and Lyn Dawson … 1991: Officers began a fresh search of the couple’s former property; they also brought in Chris Dawson for fresh questioning. Tears of a Crime s7e6: Murder in the Forest, DiscoveryPlus 2023
Lyn Dawson went missing in 1982. There were two reasons why police regarded her husband as the prime suspect: his implausible explanation at the time and his behaviour immediately afterwards. ibid.
For the second time he walked free … 2018: Podcast Teacher’s Pet. ibid.
It’s a Sydney suburban murder mystery 40 years in the making: is Chris Dawson a grieving husband or is he a killer? The Murder of Lyn Dawson: The Teacher, The Groomer, The Killer I, reporter, Sky Crime 2023
He presented to the world as goody-two-shoes. ibid. daughter
Chris’s eyes wandered into the sights of a schoolgirl. ibid. reporter
No doubt she was groomed from an early age. ibid. rozzer
Mothers and fathers knew about it. Other teachers. ibid.
Bullied boys and girls who didn’t have any athletic prowess. The Murder of Lyn Dawson: The Teacher, The Groomer, The Killer II: Everything that Glitters, witness re Chris
He let me become almost part of the family. ibid. babysitter
There was basically no investigation into her disappearance. ibid. ex-rozzer
The police didn’t know about his girlfriend; the police didn’t know about their marital problems. The Murder of Lyn Dawson: The Teacher, The Groomer, The Killer III, observer
She [Lyn] didn’t have any money, she didn’t driver, she wasn’t worldly. ibid.
He married the babysitter; then they subsequently moved to Queensland. ibid.
How could you not question what happened to the wife? ibid. daughter
I smelt a rat. And Chris Dawson was in my cross-hairs from that day. ibid. rozzer
Narcissistic personality, domineering in his relationships. The Murder of Lyn Dawson: The Teacher, The Groomer, The Killer IV, rozzer
2018 Podcast: The Teacher’s Pet. ibid.
It climaxes with the trial of Chris Dawson. ibid. dude
Accused allegedly asked witness to help find a hitman to kill his wife. ibid. newspaper headline
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When he [Jelani Day] did finally turn up ten days later he was badly decomposed floating in the Illinois River an hour away from home. True Crime Recaps: Missing Student Jelani Day: What Happened? Youtube 11.39, 2021
Theories range from a tragic accident or suicide to murder … ibid.
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‘19 year old Lewis Daynes was sentenced to at least 25 years today for the murder of Breck Bednar’ … ‘a sexual and sadistic motive’. When Kids Kill s1e2: Predator Online, news clips, Channel 5 2016
16th February 2014: Daynes sent a taxi to bring Breck thirty miles from his home in Surrey to Daynes’ flat in Essex. ibid.
Daynes: spent his day interacting with young boys. ibid.
At 11.06 a.m. on 17th February 2014 Essex police received a 999 call … ‘Lewis Daynes stabbed Breck Bednar after grooming him on the internet.’ Murder Games: The Life and Death of Breck Bednar, news, BBC 2018
On 17th February 2014 Surrey schoolboy Breck Bednar was lured to his death. ibid.
Beck had only been part of Lewis’s gaming group for a few months but some of the older boys were becoming suspicious. ibid.
Lewis maintained his story of self-defence but evidence was pointing to the contrary. ibid.
Lewis Daynes had been abandoned by his parents as a child and had grown up in and out of foster care. Living alone from the age of 16 he had developed unhealthy online interests. ibid.
In February 2014, 14-year-old Breck Bednar went in secret to meet fellow online gamer Lewis Daynes. Britain’s Most Evil Killers s7e1: Lewis Daynes, Sky Crime 2023
In 2011 aged 16, Daynes was accused of rape and computer hacking by a student at his school. ibid.
Breck got into a taxi telling his dad that he was visiting a friend from school. His family had no idea that he’d never return from that visit. ibid.
‘This is what he’d planned to do all along.’ ibid. expert
DEANGELO, JOSEPH JAMES: The Golden State Killer: It’s Not Over TV - Golden State Killer: Unmasked TV - People Magazine Investigates TV - I’ll Be Gone in the Dark TV - Conspiracies Decoded TV - Serial Killer: Original Night Stalker TV - True Crime Recaps 2022 -
A predator known as the East Area rapist brings terror to northern California. From 1976-1978 the masked attacker rapes 50 women in their quiet suburban homes. The Golden State Killer: It’s Not Over I, ID 2018
‘One of the most prolific serial killers in the history of this state if not in this nation.’ ibid. press conference
Over time his idiosyncrasies became clear. ibid.
Even private citizens have become obsessed with solving it. ibid.
Was the East Area Rapist a police officer? ibid.
The Rapist is keenly aware of how he presents to the public. He tries to paint a misleading portrait but sometimes his actions are purely ego-driven. ibid.
A monster hiding behind a ski mask. He is a diabolical predator. But for the most part he remains unknown. The Golden State Killer: It’s Not Over II
He seems too familiar with these neighbourhoods for there not to be a connection. ibid.
The caller’s voice isn’t the only one on the tape … perhaps with a family who knew nothing of his evil deeds. ibid.
From 1976 to 1986 he raped 50 women and killed 10 people, maybe more. The Golden State Killer: It’s Not Over III
‘In June 1976 a community was taken hostage.’ Golden State Killer: Unmasked I: Launching the Manhunt for the Golden State Killer, press conference, Sky Living 2018
1976 Sacramento: ‘Flash-light shining down the hall. And then his eyes lit up, he looked, and there was this man, with ski-knife, with a large butcher knife standing over me.’ ibid. Jane, victim