They are just metres from the safety of their hotel. ibid.
There are only six officers on the island. And they don’t get off to a good start: they struggle to control the crime scene, strangers are wandering across restricted areas, bystanders are taking photos of the dead bodies and posting them on social media. ibid.
He [Sean] believes the threat to kill him [Mafia] was genuine. ibid.
The Thai police’s track record is hardly unblemished especially when investigating the deaths of western tourists. Eight months before Hanna and David were murdered, Nick Pearson was murdered on the island. ibid.
As New Year breaks, more suspicious deaths on Koh Tao. ibid.
The fate of Zaw Lin and Wai Phyo rests with three judges … The prosecution has asked for the death penalty. ibid.
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New York’s Eve: A 16-year-old grabs his brother’s assault rifle and sets out to gun down his childhood bully. But at the last minute he changes his mind: he doesn’t want to kill that that kid; he wants to eliminate his entire family. You could say he was obsessed with the whole idea. True Crime Recaps: Teen Guns Down Own Family! Youtube 8.00, 2022
Scott’s mental health issues included a history of hallucinations, autism and distorted thinking … The jury rejected his insanity plea. ibid.
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A 38-year-old woman [Gergana Prodanova] goes missing but is believed to have been killed … Statements from Gergana’s friends and colleagues which revealed worrying information about her relationship with the father of her children: a man called Kostadin Kostov. How I Caught the Killer s1e4: Body in a Suitcase, Sky Crime 2018
He has followed Gergana to the UK and moved himself into her tiny bedsit. ibid.
From the moment Kostov had arrived in the UK he had forced himself into her life. ibid.
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Surinder Koli tempted children into his home before abusing and killing them. The horror wasn’t over: he butchered their bodies later confessing to eating their organs. Evil Up Close s2e6: The Slumdog Cannibal, CI 2013
He later claimed to police that village elders abused him. ibid.
The depths of his depravity shocked the nation. ibid.
He murdered and raped nineteen children. ibid.
Slowly these feelings turned into my wanting to murder and eat them. Surinder Koli
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In September 2017 a young French nanny was tortured, murdered and thrown on a garden bonfire. 21-year-old Sophie Lionnet had also been interrogated and tortured whilst being filmed by her killers, Sabrina Kouider and Ouissem Medouni. Tortured to Death: Murdering the Nanny, Channel 5 2018
For months Sophie had suffered appalling abuse at the hands of her glamorous employer. Abuse that would end in a murder trial. ibid.
Kouider was making increasingly wild allegations against Sophie. ibid.
Both defendants facing charges of murder … Neither defendant appeared to show any remorse. ibid.
In 2016 a seemingly affluent and respectable couple revealed a hidden dark side. Jealousy and obsession led to the abuse and murder of the couple’s nanny. The Killer Within: Kouider & Medouni: The Nanny Killer, Sky Crime 2019
2017: Emergency services discovered charred human remains in the garden of a house in Wimbledon, south-west London. French nanny Sophie Lionnet had been murdered by the couple she had been working for. ibid.
Just two days before her death a camera captured a thin hollow-looking Sophie Lionnet sitting in front of a fireplace. The au pair was being starved and tortured by her London host family … Not long after it was taken her employers beat her to death then tried to dispose of her body on the family grill. True Crime Recaps: Deluded Ex Grills Nanny on Family BBQ: Sophie Lionnet Case, Youtube 10.28, 2022
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The Vampire of Krakow: In September 1964 rumours of a brutal murder in a church spread through the Polish city of Krakow. This is the third knife attack on elderly women in less than a month. Killers: Behind the Myth s1e2: The Vampyre of Krakow, 2014
Two years later in February 1966 the bloody body of an eleven-year-old boy was found in a park. He had been stabbed to death in a frenzied attack. ibid.
To the public the killer seems unstoppable. ibid.
The baby-faced killer really is a schoolboy. ibid.
He detailed his exploits to police interrogators. ibid.
‘I don’t regret anything. If I could, I’d murder again.’ ibid. statement
Another of Karol’s fascinations were weapons and torture, or, as he said once said himself, ‘Everything that serves for human destruction.’
He had an impressive number of knives in his collection. Grateful that their son had an interest, his parents were happy to give him money to buy new knives ...
Karol loved reading books on human anatomy and toxicology, and he had knowledge of forensic medicine.
He was also fascinated by the history of concentration camps.
‘I dreamed about mass murder in gas chambers, roundups, dividing people. I wanted to murder all women.’
In school, Karol experimented with poisons.
He once poured arsenic into a classmate’s drink but because this gave the drink a bad smell he poured it away without tasting it.
He had always been fascinated with fire and developed this interest by trying to set a house alight. However, when he returned to see how much damage the fire had done, he was surprised to find that there was not even smoke. In the basement of another house he set fire to some rags and loose papers – again without effect. Crime and Investigation online article
February 13th 1966 Krakow, Poland: children were out sledging, but 19-year-old Karol Kot was looking for a very different kind of thrill. Kot spotted an 11-year-old boy walking alone and approached him. Spurred by an insatiable lust for blood, Kot grabbed the boy and drove his bayonet into the child’s chest repeatedly. World’s Most Evil Killers s3e10: Karol Kot, Sky Crime 2020
Beginning in 1964 a young man called Karol Kot developed a lust for blood that earned his moniker, the Vampire of Krakow. He would terrify the city for the next two years. ibid.
Still at school, Karol Kot had killed 2 people, an 11-year-old boy at a sledging competition and an 86-year-old as she prayed. Kot had attempted to kill a dozen more. ibid.
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California, Boxing Day, 1972: a body of a young man is found on the 405 Freeway. He's identified as Edward Daniel Moore. A marine from the nearby Camp Pendleton barracks. He has been sodomised and strangled. Killers: Behind the Myth s2e6: Scorecard Killer, 2014
James Reeves: he too experienced unimaginable torture at the hands of his killer. These were just three bodies of over one hundred that are found on or around California Freeways over a ten-year period. ibid.
One of the most prolific serial killers in history. ibid.
He drugs them and has sex with them. Some he goes on to murder. Then takes their photo. ibid.
The level of torture continues to get worse. ibid.
Today Randy Kraft sits on Death Row. He continues to profess his innocence. ibid.