Griffiths’ interest in serial murder would stem further, beyond the realms of the university library and academia; he was determined to put the knowledge he had gained into practice. Making a Monster: Stephen Griffiths s1e5, CI 2020
In a matter of months Griffiths had murdered three women in an almost identical way. ibid.
He told probation officers that he’d fantasized about becoming a serial killer, but this was dismissed as bravado. ibid.
He was sectioned under the Mental Health Act and found himself at Rampton. ibid.
Having committed three murders, Griffiths now felt he had done enough to reach his goal to be accepted into the serial killer’ Hall of Fame. ibid.
GRIFFITHS, THOMAS: Killer at the Crime Scene TV -
Wiltshire, 3rd May 2019: Matthew Gould has discovered his 17-year-old daughter [Ellie] collapsed on the kitchen floor in a pool of blood. Killer at the Crime Scene s2e5, Channel 5 2024
‘She had been strangled prior to being stabbed.’ ibid. rozzer
GRIGGS, ANDREW: Meet, Marry, Murder TV -
Deal, Kent, England: Andrew Griggs reports that his pregnant wife Debbie has vanished into the night … 20 years later Mr Griggs is arrested on suspicion of his wife’s murder. What secrets has he been hiding? Where is Debbie Griggs? Meet, Marry, Murder s2e19, Netflix 2022
‘During the course of our marriage my husband was bombastic and bullying. He has threatened to get me sorted. I’m genuinely concerned for my own safety and the safety of my children …’ ibid. evidence
GRIMES, SIMON et al: Killer Kids TV -
What happens when two boys bond and feed off each other’s bad traits? Killer Kids s3e7: Simon Says & No Good Reason, LMN 2014
Robert and Donna Grimes led a normal life in suburban Colorado Springs and had a son named Isaac. ibid.
Not realising he had joined a cult, Isaac was quickly in over his head and his life was dominated by punishment, threats, control and guns. ibid.
In October 2003 all three boys accepted plea deals. ibid.
GROGAN FAMILY: see Murder cases: SEWELL, JAY
GROVES, DANIEL & JESSICA: True Crime Recaps 2021 -
Little brother Dylan was born in January of 2019 … Dylan was living proof that Jessica, Daniel’s wife and Dylan’s mom, was also a drug addict. As a result, baby Dylan was put into foster care … The court returned his [Daniel] newborn son to him on the conditions that he stay in contact with social services, and that Jessica was not going to be living in the house but only allowed to visit while she supposedly went to rehab. True Crime Recaps: Daniel & Jessica Groves Older Son Gets Justice For Baby Brother Dylan, Youtube 10.39, 2021
Dylan’s body was found in June 2019 but he was murdered at the end of March. ibid.
On the fourth day of her trial Jessica made a surprise confession on the stand. ibid.
GRUBBER family murders: True Crime Recaps
Germany, 1922, the ‘Hinterkaifeck murders’: The brutal murders of all six members of the Gruber household … Their killer has never been caught. True Crime Recaps: What Happened to the McStay family? Youtube 36.12, 2021
All four of their bodies were stacked on top of each other covered with hay. Inside the house they found the body of Victoria’s two-year-old son Josef – he had been hacked to death in his crib. And in her room was the body of the unluckiest maid in the world … her first day working for the Grubers had ended in her murder. ibid.
Large sums of money were found in the house untouched. ibid.
GUANDIQUE, INGMAR: see LEVY, CHANDRA murder
GUEDE, RUDY: see KERCHER, MEREDITH
GUERIN, VERONICA murder: viz Assassinations: GUERIN, VERONICA
GUEVARA, CHE murder: viz Assassinations: GUEVARA, CHE
GUNN, COLIN: Real Crime with Mark Austin TV - Daily Mail online -
Summer 2004 and a murder which shocks the country. A middle-aged couple are shot dead in their bungalow in a quiet seaside town on the east coast. More shocking still, it has the hallmarks of a gangland execution. The hunt for the killers is to lead detectives to an organised crime gang built on drugs and held together by violence. The number one murder suspect the seemingly untouchable gang leader Colin Gunn, overlord of a tough council estate. Real Crime With Mark Austin s9e8: Gunn Law, ITV 2010
This is Nottingham’s Bestwood Estate ... Colin and David Gunn ran this place ... The Gunns held the estate in a vice-like grip with a mixture of gratitude and fear. ibid.
During the investigation of the Bestwood gang Nottingham police quickly discovered that a sickening suspicion was becoming a reality: that corrupt colleagues were working for Colin Gunn’s organised crime network, and feeding back damaging information – information that was putting lives at risk. ibid.
Police seized large quantities of cocaine, heroin and ecstasy tablets. ibid.
Amid the labyrinthine streets of a run-down Nottingham housing estate, a white Porsche with the personalised number plate ‘POWER’ was, for many years, a common sight that instilled as much fear as it did cowering respect.
The muscular, shaven-headed driver in his trademark tracksuit and trainers who would emerge swaggering from the purring sports car was the underworld boss of a gang of 40 gun-toting henchmen.
The 6ft 4in bodybuilder’s menacing stature was matched only by his reputation for sheer brutality meted out to enforce his authority.
And there are plenty of people on the streets of Bestwood, a sprawling Fifties estate, who bear the scars to prove they have encountered the power of Colin Gunn.
One man had his hand nailed to a table before having petrol poured over him as a grinning Gunn sat opposite flicking a lighter on and off.
Another man was beaten to within inches of his life after daring to broker a large drugs deal without his boss’s consent.
In total, Gunn is linked to six murders, more than 50 non-fatal shootings, as well as to a drugs racket believed to have amassed him a £15 million fortune.
His reign of terror at the head of the Bestwood Cartel helped earn Nottingham its one-time reputation as Britain’s gun capital, or Shottingham, as it was then nicknamed. Daily Mail online article 12th December 2011
GUNNESS, BELLE: True Crime Recaps 2021 -
Belle Gunness: America’s first [born & bred] serial killer who may or may not have faked her own death. True Crime Recaps: 3 Shocking Female Serial Killers, Youtube 36.26, 2021
Fire, insurance fraud, husbands and poison. ibid.
More than 40 people lost their lives on Belle Gunness’s farm. ibid.
When the gig was up and she was about to be arrested she suddenly died along with her children in a house fire. Or did she? ibid.
GUY-THOMAS, CYNTHIA: Murder for Hire 1A: An Ex-Wife’s Revenge TV -
We have information she [Cynthia Guy-Thomas] wants to kill somebody [Terry-Thomas]. Murder for Hire 1A: An Ex-Wife’s Revenge s1e1, rozzer, CI 2019
Wife: I just want it done.
Killer: But messy or clean? Doesn’t matter to you?
Wife: What ever’s gonna less alert the cops. ibid.
A murder for hire of Cynthia’s ex-husband. ibid. counsellor
I’m probably gonna hit him while he is in bed. ibid. hitman to Cynthia
Well, my first choice is suicide. ibid. Cynthia to hitman