LEEMING, ROBERT: Faking It: Tears of a Crime TV -
Calgary, western Canada: A city surrounded by wilderness. And in 2019 one gripped by an unfolding real-life mystery. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s7e4: Interview With a Killer
9 days after that last sighting and with fears for their safety growing police began searching a wooded area … An Englishman, Robert Leeming, their growing suspect. ibid.
Jasmin met Robert Leeming online … ibid.
She was due to meet her mother and sister for dinner but she never arrived. ibid.
She had become pregnant with his baby. ibid.
‘He started collecting knives from the age of seven.’ ibid. Kerry
‘He doesn’t take any responsibility for himself.’ ibid.
They began delving into his background further … caused them even more worries. ibid.
LEGERE, ALAN: Crime Stories TV - Born to Kill? TV -
Monday, May 28th 1989: In Chatham, New Brunswick, police arrive on the scene of a house fire; they soon discover that this was no accidental blaze. In one of the largest manhunts in Canadian history … An unprecedented wave of terror. Crime Stories s1e1: Allan Legere: The Monster of Miramichi, 1998
Residents may have a serial killer on their hands. ibid.
Legere is a man tied to a violent crime in the past … A man with a history of burglaries and violent assaults. ibid.
Allan Legere was convicted of murder … With the sudden violent attack on Nina and Eddie Flam coming just three weeks after Allan Legere’s attack fears of his return seem confirmed. ibid.
‘The first time in Canadian history that a person was convicted almost solely on DNA evidence.’ ibid. expert
In 1989 the residents of Canada’s Miramichi became the target of a vengeful killer. He struck with brutal ferocity. But what was the root of his inner fury? And was he born to kill? Born to Kill? s7e5: Allan Legere, Really 2017
The killer had evaded capture for six months. ibid.
A masked intruder had initially demanded money but had then subjected the elderly women to a prolonged attack before setting the building ablaze. ibid.
The attacker had worn a chain around his midriff. ibid.
Father James Smith would become the fourth victim of a sadistic killing spree. ibid.
As before Allan Legere had disappeared without trace. ibid.
Although Legere would eventually be cornered, he was holding the truck driver captive at gunpoint. ibid.
LENNON, JOHN murder: viz Assassinations: LENNON, JOHN
LENT, LEWIS: True Crime Recaps 2023 -
1994: 12-year-old Becky Savarese … A thin dirty-looking man came out and came over to her, Becky had this feeling nothing would be the same again. True Crime Recaps: Escaping the Unthinkable: The Lewis Lent Case Unveiled, Youtube 14.18, 2023
He hung out with little girls around 13 or 14. ibid.
13 years later another little boy was found strangled by a tree in Upstate, New York. The man who did it was Lewis Lent.
12-year-old Sarah Ann Wood was peddling home from church when a van pulled up beside her; a thin grungy-looking man stepped out; he had a hunting knife in his hand … ibid.
That rare kind of monster – a serial killer of children. ibid.
He said the aliens made him do it. ibid.
LEOPOLD & LOEB: Great Crimes & Trials TV - Chicago Daily Tribune - In Search of History TV - American Experience: The Perfect Crime 2016 -
In the United States’ second largest city – Chicago – the roaring twenties were in full swing. Great Crimes & Trials: Leopold & Loeb
The naked body of a boy ... Bobby was the third child of wealthy parents. ibid.
For nineteen-year-old Nathaniel Leopold was the son of one of the best known millionaires in Chicago ... Just round the corner from the Harvard School. ibid.
The next day police brought in Richard Loeb: he agreed he had been out with Nathaniel Leopold but claimed to have gone home without meeting any girls. ibid.
Richard Loeb cracked within minutes, and during the early hours of the morning he made a full confession, claiming that Leopold had actually killed Franks. ibid.
The privileged sons of two of the city’s richest families had made a full confession to an appalling, callous and motiveless killing. Each boy tried to pin greater responsibility on the other. ibid.
Both agreed it would provide the ultimate thrill and show their superiority over the common mass of people. ibid.
The boys had spent months planning the killing. ibid.
They were given life sentences for the murder. ibid.
Slayers ‘King And Slave’: Loeb Master of Leopold Under Solemn Pact Made; Sex Inferiority Is Factor. Chicago Daily Tribune front page
It was the crime of the century, America’s first thrill killing. And no-one understood why they did it. Nathan Leopold & Richard Leob had it all: they were young, rich, they were brilliant. But just beneath the polished surface of these two gifted young men lurked a compulsion, an obsession. In Search of History s3e16: Leopold & Loeb: Born Killers, History 1998
Leopold and Loeb were utterly indifferent over exactly which innocent boy they were going to murder. ibid.
Just ten days after the killing Loeb provided [Robert] Crowe with a detailed confession of the murder. ibid.
They were bound by a sexual relationship; they shared a belief that they were superior to the moral norm. ibid.
LEPKE, LOUIS aka LEPKE BUCHALTER: Mobsters TV -
Among the giants of organised crime in the 1930 Lepke Buchalter [aka Louis Lepke] quietly built a fortune on the backs of an army of workers, and created the marriage between corruption and labor unions in America. Then the Mob double-crossed him. Mobsters s1e3: Louis Lepke, Bio 2007
He stepped out of Sing Sing just as Americans were getting used to a new word in their vocabulary – Prohibition. ibid.
The future was not breaking heads on the picket line but in dominating the unions themselves. ibid.
His men simply came into their union headquarters with guns drawn and opened fire. When the shooting was over, a dozen were dead, and Lepke had another union under his belt. ibid.
He planned nothing less than a murder spree to kill every witness that might testify against him. ibid.
Lepke and his associates were found guilty of murder. ibid.
LEPPERT, MORGAN & TOBY LEE LOWRY: Susanna Reid: Children Who Kill TV -
Morgan Leppert was sentenced to life without parole for a murder committed when she was just 15. Morgan was arrested, along with her boyfriend, after a 66-year-old disabled man James Stewart was found beaten, stabbed and suffocated in his Florida home. Susanna Reid, Children Who Kill s1e1: Josh Phillips, ITV 2018
LESTOURGEON, ROBERT et al: How I Caught the Killer TV -
A young athlete is shot dead on the street … ‘a drive by shooting’ … Sulu Palega … ‘a gentle giant’ … There didn’t seem to be any obvious motive as to why these three men had been targeted. How I Caught the Killer s1e9: Drive By Shooting, Sky Crime 2018
The team had now found their suspect. A picture was emerging of Bobby’s life and why he was in Medesto the night of Sulu’s shooting. ibid.
‘The shooting was done because it was a mistaken identity.’ ibid. rozzer