As a long-haul truck driver he spends his days criss-crossing the country all the while hiding a dark secret that will eventually earn him the nickname The Happy-Face Killer. True Crime Recaps: The Monster Behind the Happy Face, Youtube 16.22, 2023
John forced her [Laverne] to help while he violated and murdered Tanya. ibid.
Mad Man Keith grew up with abuse … Keith’s father was a violent drunk. ibid.
He targeted sex workers and single travellers. ibid.
Keith’s eighth and final victim is the only who took him down. ibid.
JIMENEZ, BERNIE murder: see DONALD, WILLIAM TIMMY
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Doors closed, lights out, and lights off … this spin-tingling tale that became the cornerstone of The Conjuring 3, and a real-lie murder that started with an exorcism. True Crime Recaps: Exorcism Meets the Paranormal: David Glatzel’s Scary Story, Youtube 14.48, 2023
In 1980 19-year-old Arne Cheyenne Johnson and his girlfriend, 26-year-old Debbie Glatzel find a great house to rent near Brookfield, Connecticut. ibid.
Debbie’s youngest brother, 11-year-old David Galtzel, is alone in the bedroom when something pushes him on to a waterbed the previous tenants left behind. Then he sees this something – it’s an old man in jeans and a plaid shirt ripped at the elbow, and he looks at David and says, Beware! ibid.
When the old man appears to David again he looks different. ibid.
Mysteries cuts and scratches appear across his [David] body. ibid.
Talking dinosaurs aside, is there a rational explanation for the way David’s acting? ibid.
After that [exorcism] David seems to get better and Arnie, well Arnie gets weird. ibid.
Alan’s [Bono] death … It was the devil that made Arnie do it …. Arnie … pulls out a 5-inch pocket knife and he stabs Alan in the chest 20 times. ibid.
In 1981 satanic panic was at an all-time high. ibid.
Defense: Arnie taunted the devil by inviting him into his body. ibid.
A verdict: Guilty of manslaughter … Arnie gets 10 to 20 years … but he gets out after 5 for good behaviour. ibid.
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Denise Johnson is a favourite in the small beach town of Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. But on the morning of July 13th 1997 her body is discovered in the charred remains of her home. But Denise didn’t die from the fire: she’s been stabbed multiple times in her neck. True Crime Recaps: 25 Years of Mystery: The Curious Case of Denise Johnson, Youtube 6.25, 2023
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This film is about the death penalty in the state of Mississippi and the effect it has on the staff and inmates as time runs out for one twenty-six-year-old man: Edward Earl Johnson. Johnson has been appealing against his sentence for eight years in the United States’ courts. He was convicted in 1979 of killing a Mississippi town marshal and the attempted rape of a sixty-year-old woman. He has spent the last eight years on this death row and has always professed his innocence. Fourteen Days in May, BBC 1987
At the scene of the crime where Johnson allegedly robbed a 60-year old woman and killed a local town marshal an old Buick car was seen. Because Johnson owned a Buick he was arrested with others and put in front of an identity parade. The woman who was robbed and nearly raped had known Edward Johnson for most of his life. ibid.
They wrote out a confession and asked Johnson to sign it. ibid.
JOHNSON, MATTHEW CHARLES: see WILLIAMS, CARL
JONES, APRIL murder: see BRIDGER, MARK
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In September 1982 Chelsea McClellan had what appeared to be a severe reaction to an innoculation and died in a small hospital in Comfort, Texas. She was just 15 months old. Doctors couldn’t work out why Chelsea had died so suddenly. But the truth was she’d been murdered. And her killer was the nurse who was meant to be caring for her. The killer nurse was 32-year-old Genene Jones, and Chelsea McClellan was not her first victim. It’s believed this twisted angel of death could have taken the lives of over 50 babies and young children. World’s Most Evil Killers s6e10: Genene Jones, Sky Crime 2021
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We get flooded with letters from all over the country … We are the court of last resort … We can only take on about 1% of the cases. The Innocence Files I: The Evidence: Indeed and Without Doubt, Netflix 2020
Because of these unreliable methods, innocent people are going to prison. ibid.
The crime scene was less than a hundred yards from her residence. She was about ten feet out there [pond]. She actually was found partially clothed … ibid. rozzer
Some of the wounds on Courtney Smith’s body were made from bite marks. ibid. forensics guy
Bite-mark evidence was new at the time. ibid.
I said I was in the club that night. ibid. Levon Brooks, suspect
I just held my head down in disbelief … I didn’t do this. ibid.
Christine Jackson: They said that the little girl had bite marks exactly the same as in my case. ibid.
I knew they got me wrong. They got this all wrong. I didn’t commit no crime like this. ibid. Kennedy Brewer
This is so outrageous. You’ve got to be kidding me. ibid. expert dentologist
I was in prison in Parchman on death row for killing a three-year-old girl. The Innocence Files s1e2: The Evidence: The Truth Will Defend Me, Kennedy Brewer
Forensic dentology really began in the 1970s … The first really big case that put bite marks on the map nationally was the Bundy case. ibid. expert dentology
2001: Christine Jackson’ DNA testing: Kennedy Brewer had not contributed to the DNA. ibid. defence
We went to the house where Christine Jackson was abducted … Any adult male could have easily lifted Christine Jackson through the window and into the darkness. It was that easy. ibid.
Crawfish could have caused the marks on Christine’s Jackson’s body. ibid.
Courtney Smith: 1990; Christine Jackson 1992: a couple of miles away in the same community: both are abductions of three-year-old girls, both are abductions in the middle of the night from their beds, both of them are sexually assaulted, and both of them are deposited in bodies of water. ibid.
If not Levon then who? … Justin Albert Johnston, 35-year-old black male, who was brought in and arrested and samples were collected; he had already been convicted of one home invasion/sexual assault … ibid.
I was out of control. I went to the house … Them demons in my head … to hurt the little girl … I reached through the window and got her … I throwed her in that creek … ibid. Johnston’s confession
Justin Albert Johnston confessed to both murders. ibid. legal dude
The much more pressing question to answer is, How did they get in prison in the first place? The Innocence Files s1e3: The Evidence: The Duty to Correct, Innocence Project dude
Part of my job is to highlight the areas where forensics have never been established as reliable evidence. ibid.
National Academy of Science: Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States. ibid.
We decided to start there: with bite-mark cases. ibid. Innocence Project
JONES, HAROLD: Great Crimes & Trials TV - Fred Dinenage: Murder Casebook TV - David Wilson: Dark Son: The Hunt for a Serial Killer TV - David Wilson - Daily Mirror -
Early on 2nd February 1964 an oarsman spotted a woman’s body by Hammersmith Bridge. Great Crimes & Trials s1e24: The Hammersmith Murders, BBC 1993
The exact cause of death was never established. ibid.
A second body was found on the shore below Dukes Meadow. ibid.
Both were found on the foreshore without any clothes on. ibid.
Jack the Stripper. ibid.
The body of a third victim was found dumped ... Three of her front teeth were missing as well ... She was also a prostitute. ibid.
They came to the conclusion that at least two others were down to him. ibid.
Mary Fleming ... again her body had flecks of paint on it. ibid.
Another body was found in a car park on Horton Street ... The same clues were there ... There were the familiar paint specks on the body. ibid.
A security guard [Mungo Ireland] ... Before he could be questioned this man took his own life. ibid.
In 1921 Harold Jones murdered two young girls ... He was just a fifteen year old boy himself ... Did Harold Jones go on to become the man who become known as Jack the Stripper? Fred Dinenage: Murder Casebook s1e6: The Welsh Child Killer, CI 2011
After almost ninety minutes of deliberation, the jury returned their verdict: they found fifteen-year-old Harold Jones not guilty. ibid.
He received a hero’s welcome. ibid.