LATHEM, WYNDHAM & ANDREW WARREN: True Crime Recaps 2022 -
Professor Wyndham Lathem: He was a renowned microbiologist … but his fantasies were bizarre and bloody … One night he gave in to his evil nature. True Crime Recaps: Professor Murders Boyfriend to Fulfil Violent Twisted Fantasies, Youtube 10.09, 2022
26-year-old Trenton Cornell-Duranleau started seeing an older wealthy scientist … Trent’s butchered body lay against the half-open bedroom door. ibid.
Three days before the murder 56-year-old Andrew Warren landed in Chicago … Months earlier the two of them [Lathem & Warren] had bonded over their shared dark fantasies. ibid.
Wyndham had an idea: They would murder his young trusting boyfriend … Trent had been stabbed 78 times. ibid.
LATUNSKI, MARK: True Crime Recaps 2023 -
On Christmas Day 2019 Kevin Bacon’s family reported him missing … Police finally found Kevin in the waning hours of December 27th but the gruesome scene was straight out of a horror movie. True Crime Recaps: His Date Was a Cannibal! Kevin Bacon Murder Recap, Youtube 7.42, 2022
Mark Latunski answered the door to police shirtless wearing only a leather kilt. ibid.
His [Kevin] testicles were missing having been removed, fried and eaten by his captor. ibid.
LAUNDRIE, BRIAN: Gabby Petito: The Murder that Gripped the World TV - Faking It TV - True Crime Recaps 2022 -
In June 2021 Gabby and her fiancé embarked on a cross-country trip. They were travelling in Gabby’s 2012 white Ford van … Community abruptly stopped around the end of August. Gabby Petito: The Murder that Gripped the World, rozzer, 5Star 2022
Brian wanted Gabby all to himself. He didn’t want her socialising or going out. It seemed like one of those red flags. ibid. reporter
News of the disappearance of Gabby Petito has gone viral. ibid.
The FBI receives a tip that Britain Laundrie could be hiding in the Carlton Reserve 12 miles from his parents’ home. ibid.
They were able to find his belongings and his partial human remains. ibid. woman
A spirited young woman documenting a dream road-trip across the USA. Projecting this sunny image of the perfect life. Faking It Special s2e3: The Murder of Gabby Petito, Discovery 2020
A search across American on the road and online. What happened to Gabby Petito gripped the world. ibid.
Sometimes scratches on a perpetrator is all that you will see when a women has been subject to non-fatal strangulation. ibid. Kerry Daynes
Utah police made the bodycam footage public. ibid.
Her body was found on September 19th in Wyoming’s Spread Creek Campground … That’s also the area she had her last text conversation on August 27th, but that wasn’t the last text sent from her phone. Real Crime Recaps: Gabby Petito Update: Bodycam Footage, Youtube 6.56, 2021
Brian Laundrie’s skull was found near his backpack and notebook on October 20th in a Florida wildlife reserve, only miles from his Florida home. He is the only person of interest in Gabby Petito’s murder, and he’s been the focus of a nationwide manhunt. True Crime Recaps: Brian Laundrie Found: Gabby Petito Case, Youtube 11.28, 2021
His father … miraculously spotted his son’s dry bag about 20 feet away from the trail caught up in some bushes; meanwhile police spotted Brian’s backpack and remains in a nearby area. ibid.
Brian is the target of a massive manhunt – how did things go so wrong? True Crime Recaps: Timeline of Gabby Petito’s Disappearance, Youtube 14.02, 2021
Her phone was powered down and her social media went dark; no-one heard from her for three days. Then her mom got this strange message 30th August 2021: ‘No service in Yosemite’. ibid.
Problems in the relationship had already escalated to abuse. ibid.
If you thought Gabby Petito’s murder would cause Brian to take his own life, you might be right. Remains were discovered on October 20th almost one month to the day after his girlfriend’s body was found strangled and abandoned on a popular camping spot. True Crime Recaps: Have They Found Brian Laundrie? Youtube 0.59 short, 2022
When Gabby Petito was found murdered with her boyfriend Brian Laundrie beind the sole person of interest her case and the manhunt for Brian came under intense scrutiny. True Crime Recaps: Bodies Found During Brian Laundrie Search, Youtube 6.30, 2022
Three other people who disappeared under mysterious circumstances: Lauren Cho, Daniel Robinson and Josue Calderon. ibid.
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1994: Here police investigating last night’s fire at a sex cinema in London have confirmed they are treating the case as murder. The Real Manhunter s1e8: The Dream City Cinema Club Fire, BBC evening news, Sky Crime 2021
A fire in St John’s street near the City. I responded to the call and I arrived at the scene around about midnight to find a very large fire. I was briefed by the fire service and by the police who were already there. They’d clearly already found a number of bodies and were already suspicious. ibid. Davis Scaysbrook, forensic scientist
11 people could die in a cinema fire which had been deliberately started by someone, and there not being a massive public outrage. ibid. man
LAVERY, KELLY & LAVI PHAM: True Crime Recaps 2023 -
When your friends turn on you that’s an extra kind of terrifying. Mary Collins thought she was meeting up with friends for sushi but the dinner invitation was actually a trap. By the end of the night the 20-year-old’s body was wrapped in duct tape and hidden in the bedroom mattress. True Crime Recaps: How a ‘Friendly’ Supper Ended With Murder: The Case of Mary Collins, Youtube 9.07, 2023
Two of Mary’s friends, Kelly Lavery and Lavi Pham … tied her up and forced her into the bathtub where they proceeded to beat her relentlessly; that’s when one of them drew a knife and stabbed Mary to death. From there they bound Mary’s body with duct tape and wrapped her in plastic trash bags. Then they opened the side of their mattress and stuffed Mary’s body inside. ibid.
LAWLER, DAVID: Most Shocking Murders: Frozen in Time TV -
January 7th 1996: the body of a 41-year-old civil servant [Marilyn Rynn] is found on waste ground … minutes from her home in Dublin. She had been sexually assaulted and strangled … Unknown to the killer he has left a vital clue: this is the story of that man and that clue and how the revolutionary science of DNA profiling eventually led to his conviction. Most Shocking Murders: Frozen in Time s1e5, CI 2017
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A 20-year-old man lies in a pool of blood. It leaves the police struggling for answers. And a family struggling to survive. Stabbed in the Back: Murder of Sam Caulfield, Channel 5 2018
It’s just before three in the morning and Sussex police are responding to a 999 call. Minutes later the ambulance crew arrives. Sam dies at 6:45 a.m. from a single stab wound to his abdomen … Sam’s four friends are brought in for questioning ... Sam’s friends told officers that he had been attacked in the street. ibid.
Why did one of Sam’s friends become his killer? ibid.
The murder must have happened inside the flat. ibid.
LAWRENCE, IAIN: The Real Manhunter TV - A Killer's Mistake TV - Meet, Marry, Murder TV -
Iain Lawrence wanted to kill her, and not just kill her but carry out the perfect murder. The Real Manhunter s2e1: Sally Lawrence, rozzer, Sky Crime 2022
He seemed to be an impossible person to deal with. ibid.
The police began investigating the accident as if it was a murder. ibid.
The trial lasted for 12 days, and at the end of that he was found guilty of murdering his wife Sally. ibid.
Sally Lawrence impressed everyone who came across her including the man who brought the business where she worked … The couple looked set for life, so why did one day Sally look so frightened of him? A Killer’s Mistake s2e1: Iain Lawrence
The risk seemed to have paid off for Iain Lawrence. He had survived the crash. The decree nisi would now not go ahead on the following Monday. He stood the own the family home outright. And to benefit from a £250,000 insurance payout. Had a killer got away with murder? ibid.
A car crash would claim the life of Sally Lawrence and leave her husband apparently injured but being treated in hospital. Meet, Marry, Murder s1e8, Netflix 2022
‘His injuries weren’t as severe as first reported to me.’ ibid. rozzer
‘She was telling me she was really frightened of him.’ ibid. friend