FORREST, EARL: The Killer Speaks TV - Supreme Court opinion -
On December 9th 2002 ... Earl Forrest gunned down two people, one of whom was his oldest closest friend. He then began a bloody shoot-out with county law enforcement. The Killer Speaks: Earl Forrest s1e2, A&E 2017
‘I’ve always dealt drugs all my life ... Meth – lots of it.’ ibid. Forrest
Earl Forrest is due to be executed in 2015. ibid.
Case Facts: In December 2002, Earl Forrest, who had been drinking, went to Harriet Smith’s home and demanded that she fulfil her part of a bargain to buy a lawn mower and a mobile home for Forrest in exchange for Forrest introducing her to a source for methamphetamine.
During the ensuing melee, Forrest shot a guest of Smith’s, Michael Wells, in the face, killing him. Forrest also shot Smith six times, killing her. He took $25,000 worth of methamphetamine from Smith’s home and returned to his own home, where he had a shootout with law enforcement officers. He shot and killed Deputy Joann Barnes. He also shot his girlfriend, Angela Gamblin, and Sheriff Bob Wofford, both of whom survived.
He was charged with three counts of first-degree murder, and the jury found him guilty on all three counts. The jury subsequently recommended a death sentence for each of the three murders. Supreme Court opinion
FORSYTH, STUART: The Real Manhunter TV -
A lovely middle-late elderly couple who spent most of their life fostering children. The Real Manhunter s2e6: Miriam & Maurice, Baldock, friend, Now TV 2022
We’d been told they’d been a knife attack on both of the occupants … A really horrific scene. You’ve got a couple in their sixties asleep in their own bed in their own home had been brutally stabbed. The woman is dead and the man is clinging on to life. ibid. rozzer Sutton
Stuart Forsyth … had been in the British army … They struck up a friendship with him … He was suffering from some sort of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder … He became essentially like one of their family. ibid.
Basically said he couldn’t remember what had happened but he believed he had done a terrible thing. And was arrested by police down in Devon and Cornwall. ibid. lady rozzer
He pleaded guilty to murder and attempted murder. ibid. rozzer Sutton
FORTIN, STEVEN: The Face of Evil: Jaws of Death TV -
A single mother [Melissa Padilla] found brutally murdered walking back from the store. Then he [Steven Fortin] strikes again. The Face of Evil s1e6: Jaws of Death, ID 2019
She also appears to be sexually assaulted. ibid.
Steven Fortin – and when investigators talk to his girlfriend Anna they learn that Fortin had physically assaulted her a couple of blocks away just an hour before Melissa was killed. ibid.
FOSTER, CHRISTOPHER: Crimes That Shook Britain TV - Mail online - Cutting Edge: The Millionaire and the Murder Mansion TV -
In the summer of 2008 as the August Bank Holiday draws to a close a family return home from a friend's barbecue. Hours later all three members of the family would be dead and their mansion completely engulfed in flames. Crimes that Shook Britain s4e5: Christopher Foster, CI 2013
All was not as it seemed with Foster and his finances ... His business was struggling and bills were mounting up. ibid.
He had shot his wife Jill before crossing the hall to Kirsty’s room and turning the gun on her. ibid.
Millionaire Christopher Foster murdered his wife Jill and daughter Kirstie, 15, before committing suicide, a coroner ruled yesterday.
Mr Foster shot his family and their pet dogs and horses before setting his £1.2 million mansion ablaze in August last year. Earlier, the court had been shown the last actions of Mr Foster, caught on CCTV security cameras on the night of the blaze, as he walked around the grounds of his home in Oswestry, Shropshire, carrying what is thought to be a bucket, a rifle and a battery pack in preparation for setting the fire.
It also heard how Kirstie had spent the final moments before her death texting a friend, with no indication of the horror that lay ahead.
So what drove Mr Foster to end their lives? Mail online article Roger Graef 4th April 2009, ‘Revealed: Why millionaire Christopher Foster slaughtered his family’
August Bank Holiday weekend 2008: A millionaire and his family are missing after their country estate was burnt down in an arson attack. In the days that followed the burnt-out ruins of Osbaston House began to give up its secrets. Cutting Edge: The Millionaire and the Murder Mansion, Channel 4 2009
The gates were deliberately blocked by a horse box; its tyres had been shot out. ibid.
‘An investigation into the fire, which is believed to have been started deliberately, has been launched. Christopher Foster, his wife Jillian, and teenage daughter Kirsty remain unaccounted for.’ ibid. rozzer’s statement
‘He was in some significant financial difficulty.’ iibid. rozzer
‘We believe Mr Foster took his own life after setting the house alight.’ ibid.
Disturbing aspect of Chris’s personality started to emerge. ibid.
FOSTER, KENNETH: I Am a Killer TV -
Since the reintroduction of the death penalty in the US in 1976 more than 8,000 people have been sentenced to death. I am a Killer s1e1: Killer in the Eyes of the Law: Kenneth Foster, caption, Netflix 2018
‘I was convicted for capital murder and I was sentenced to death in 1997.’ ibid. Foster
In 1996 Kenneth Foster was involved in a fatal shooting in San Antonio, Texas. He was given the death penalty despite never firing a shot. ibid. caption
In 2006 the shooter, Mauriceo Brown, was executed by lethal injection. ibid.
Kenneth Foster was convicted under the Texas law of parties which states that anybody whoo is a ‘party’ to a crime can also be held responsible for it. ibid.
FOURNIET, SCOTT: People Magazine Investigates TV -
It’s a story about a mother’s fight for justice: this is a mother who would not let her daughter [Joyce McLain] be forgotten. And that for forty years she pressured the police to make sure that the spotlight was still on this investigation and the truth would finally be found out. People Magazine Investigates s3e8, ID 2020
Scott [Fournier] was also fixated on Joyce … He confessed to his pastor. ibid.