On 8th March 1993 Colin Ireland arrives at the Coleherne pub. Tonight he will begin his campaign of violence. Back in the early nineties the Coleherne [Arms] was hugely popular with the gay community, and in particular the centre of a thriving S & M scene. ibid.
They travel back to Walker’s flat together. Before killing Peter Walker, Ireland demands money from his now helpless victim. Forcing Walker to reveal his bank card and pin number by burning his testicles with a lighter. ibid.
Having made a new year’s resolution to become a serial killer, Colin Ireland had already brutally murdered his first victim. And was ready to kill again, moving one step closer to his goal. ibid.
Police didn’t suspect foul play. ibid.
He was looking for a new victim. ibid.
Ireland could keep his silence no longer. ibid.
In the summer of 1993 detectives were hunting a killer who was preying on London’s gay community. His reign of terror led to the deaths of five men, all brutally murdered in their own homes. Crimes that Shook Britain s4e2: Colin Ireland, Sky 2013
He had vowed to become a serial killer. ibid.
Most serial killers – men who kill men – are themselves gay. Most heterosexual serial killers kill women ... Ireland himself may be homosexual or may have a strong aspect of homosexuality to his personality but can’t accept it ... There’s a part of him that he hates. Professor Louis Schlesinger, forensic pathologist
There is that side of my character that is negative, that’s quite cold and calculating. Colin Ireland
They are despicable. Colin Ireland
His first wife was disabled, and he instead can dominate her because he’s providing a caring service as he would see it. Professor David Wilson
A former soldier jailed for life for torturing five gay men to death has died at Wakefield jail, the Prison Service has said.
Colin Ireland, 57, was given a whole-life tariff in 1993 for the murders. BBC online article 21st February 2012, ‘Torture killer Colin Ireland dies in Wakefield Prison’
London, England: On March 10th 1993 a man rang a national newspaper to declare that he’d just killed somebody. The victim: 45-year-old Peter Walker had been suffocated to death with a plastic bag during a sadomasochistic sex session. The killer was 38-year-old Colin Ireland, a man with a singular obsession … By June 12th four more men would be dead across London. Britain’s Most Evil Killers s3e1: Colin Ireland, Pick TV 2019
The man the press were calling The Gay Slayer had dreamt of becoming a serial killer. ibid.
The self-made serial killer slipped up: a fingerprint left behind at one of the murder scenes would lead to Colin Ireland’s downfall. ibid.
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He was kicked, punched and stamped on repeatedly. The Murder of Lee Irving: Disability Mate Crime, Sky Crime 2021, dude
A learning disability, it was a speech and language disability but he struggled with general life skills.’ ibid. Bev, mum
The 999 call alerting police to the body of Lee Irving was made by a 34-year-old male called Barry Imray. He was at the scene when police arrived. ibid. caption
Imray denied inflicting any violence on Lee but told the court he was asked to move his body ‘away from the house’ on June 6th 2015. He said he was ‘too frightened’ to refuse. ibid.
On December 2016 after an eight-week trial the jury returned a verdict on the murder charge against the four defendants. ibid.
Easter Sunday 1937: New York: a shining city. The shining city. A diamond set betwixt the Hudson east and Harlem rivers. Scary Tales of New York s1e1: The Model & the Maniac, Sky History 2023
Sometimes a true crime story [Robert Irwin] comes along so good everyone wants a piece of it. The East Sunday massacre triple homicide in midtown in the spring of ’37 was exactly that kind of story. The mags and the rags instantly go crazy over one of the victims, Veronica ‘Ronnie’ Gadeon, a beautiful model for true crime titles including my own. ibid.
A bloody thumbprint left behind at the scene. It’s a stone-cold whodunnit. And one with sex fiend blazoned all over it in 72-point Railroad Gothic. ibid.
With Bob, all good things come to a violent end. ibid.
‘I said to myself I would sacrifice Ethel.’ ibid.
I-70 KILLER: Dark Minds TV - People Magazine Investigates TV -
A serial killer like no other. An executioner prowling the midwest. There’s no motive and no mercy … Over the next 30 days, 5 more clerks in strip-malls across 3 mid-western states are executed in the exact same way. And 20 years later the I-70 killer has never been caught. Dark Minds s2e5: The I-70 Killer, 2013
He attacked people in public in broad daylight when they least expected it. People Magazine Investigates s7e2: The I-70 Killer, ID 2023
The first officers arrived noticed the front door of the business was open and they keys were in the door … At first they think they are manikins … They discovered Patricia Magers and Patricia Smith … Both girls had been shot. ibid.
The MO is just so similar … Single female employee and she was taken to the back and shot in the head close range. ibid.
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A brutal murder. The hunt for a killer. The motive: a mystery. What the Killer Did Next s1e7: Joy Morgan, Sky Crime 2023
‘We are talking about a frenzied attack.’ ibid. rozzer
5th October 2019, Hertfordshire: ‘Body wrapped in bin bags found with gaffer tape and just thrown in the woodlands piled with logs and she [dog-walker] reported it to the police.’ ibid. journalist
The car in which Joy was driven away [from a party] was distinctive. ibid.
‘The police pulled over a car on the M25 … A male driver who was called Shohfar-El Israel. He was actually a fellow churchgoer.’ ibid. journalist