One of Sam Little’s crime scenes would trigger his eventual capture. ibid.
Once again Little, or McDowell, escaped a more serious conviction and got a light sentence. ibid.
The [DNA] match is from a 31-year-old cold case. ibid.
In a single seven-hour session Sam Little confesses to killing after killing after killing … with photographic precision. ibid.
According to his confessions, Little’s obsession with women’s necks began when he was young. His fetish soon turned into fantasies about strangulation and he began to act those fantasies. ibid.
‘Engaged in the act of killing, whether it was about the sex or if it was about the killing. And he said both.’ ibid. investigator
For decades a serial killer was loose in America and remarkably no-one realised it … The sheer breath of Little’s reign of terror is stunning – nineteen states over 40 years. Catching a Serial Killer: Sam Little II, Beth Karas reporting
1971: Dead prostitutes were turning up around the Miami area and no-one knew why. ibid.
LITVINENKO, ALEXANDER murder: viz Assassinations: LITVINENKO, ALEXANDER
LIVERS, MATT & NICHOLAS SAMPSON: The Confession Tapes TV -
No-one could have expected someone would have murdered Wayne and Sharmon Stock in their secluded farmhouse. The Confession Tapes s2e2: Joyride, news, Netflix 2019
Matt Livers: I wanted to help them figure this out, you know. I didn’t have a clue that I was even considered a suspect. ibid.
They were leading him to the story that they thought fit the physical evidence. ibid. defence lawyer
Like his cousin Nicholas Sampson before him, this morning charges were dismissed against Matthew Livers. ibid. television news
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Margaret Livesey is now serving a life sentence … She was convicted four years ago of murdering her fourteen-year-old son Alan. But we have now found new evidence which suggests that Alan was killed by a young man and that his mother should never have been convicted in the first place. Rough Justice: The Case of the Tortured Teenager, BBC 1983
The two boys ran off … It was to be Leslie Matthews who found Alan’s body. ibid.
Whoever had murdered the boy had turned all the gas taps on. ibid.
He had been stabbed ten times … that someone had also tortured him. ibid.
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The body of a lone male [Nigel Chapman] has been found in his home … He was found by his carer with multiple stab wounds … The forensic team continues to collate material from cameras in the area. Killer at the Crime Scene s2e3, Channel 5 2022
The masked figure exits for the final time … The suspect is identified as a woman, Jennifer Lloyd. ibid.
LLOYD, KEITH & MELINDA MCSWAIN: True Crime Recaps 2022 -
A 19-year-old girl disappears. The only clues are a series of strange phone calls and a mysterious thump in the night. And the case goes cold for 26 years. Then a suicide note offers a surprise breakthrough. But can it lead investigators to the last known resting place of Sabrina Long? True Crime Recaps: The Mysterious Disappearance of Sabrina Long, Youtube 7.04, 2022
Keith Lloyd stepped in front of a train in September 2017. On the same day he was scheduled to meet with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation to be questioned again about Sabrina’s disappearance. And he left behind a note … He allegedly pointed the finger at someone else too … a woman named Melinda McSwain. ibid.
LOCKE, ERIC: Ireland’s Most Evil Killers TV -
In 2014 in a suburb of Dublin a brief romance between Sonia Blount and Eric Locke went sour setting off a chain of events that would end with Sonia’s violent death. Furious with being rejected, Locke became obsessed with getting Sonia back. After taking Sonia’s life, Eric Locke threw off all responsibility for his terrible crime. Despite his attempts to play the victim, Eric Locke’s depraved actions means that he will always be known as one of Ireland’s most evil killers. Ireland’s Most Evil Killers s1e6: Eric Locke, Sky Crime 2023
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Police gunned down in the streets. In the city of Chicago a manhunt underway. Justice appeared to prevail. But had one man been condemned for another’s crime? I Didn’t Do It s2e4: Alton Logan, CI 2012
Both lawyers knew they could only reveal the truth if and when their client Andrew Wilson either gave them permission to speak up or die. ibid.
A firestorm of torture allegations and caused a scandal that rocked the Chicago Police Department. ibid
More than two decades in prison for a crime he did not commit. ibid.
Chicago will pay $10.25 million to compensate a man who spent 26 years in prison for a murder he did not commit because of an alleged cover-up engineered by now-convicted former Area 2 Commander Jon Burge.
The 11th-hour settlement with Alton Logan will head off a trial that could have forced Burge to testify in court – via video hook-up from a federal prison in North Carolina – for the first time in 20 years. Chicago Sun-Times online article 14th January 2013
LOIBL, KEVIN JAMES: True Crime Recaps 2022 -
Youtube star Christina Grimmie … became the target of a madman … at the hands of one of her fans … Kevin James Loibl … was packing a hunting knife and two legally purchased handguns. True Crime Recaps: Youtube Star Gunned Down by Stalker: Christina Grimmie, Youtube 8.18, 2022
LONG, BOBBY JOE: Serial Killer Profile TV - About Serial Killers online - Born to Kill? TV - The Killer in My Family TV - World’s Most Evil Killers TV -
I don’t know what it was about this girl. But it was very violent ... And that’s how it started. Serial Killer Profile: Bobby Joe Long s1e1, Long of first victim, 2012
‘He was actually killing his mother I believe over and over again.’ ibid. Anna Flowers, profiler
I probably destroyed about a hundred people. ibid. Long
Am I supposed to sit here and cry? ibid.
The sexual drive of Bobby Joe Long can be described in one word: unbelievable. But for a number of women in Florida, it became all too believable – and deadly. Bobby Joe Long believes that his troubles began in 1974, when he was involved in a very nasty motorcycle accident. He was speeding down a street in Tampa, Florida, when a car suddenly appeared in front of him. He slammed on the brakes, but it didn’t help. He was thrown into the car hard enough to crack his helmet. From then on, Bobby Joe says, strange things happened to his sex drive. He started to think about sex all the time – and to do it all the time, becoming almost satyrlike ...
With eight victims behind him, something strange happened to Long. Following his usual pattern, he picked up a big, sexy woman named Kim Sann in North Tampa. As soon as she was in the car, he started to assault her. But Sann was a fighter, and she fought back – and screamed. There followed a series of skirmishes inside the car during which he managed to choke her into unconsciousness, only for her to awaken and scream and fight.
Finally he strangled her to death, and it was then that he discovered the curious thing: he had no energy to violate her sexually. To some degree, his frantic sexual energy had dissipated ...
Less than a year after he was arrested, Long was tried on multiple homicide charges. There was a mound of evidence against him, including the testimony of the girl he had raped and held at his apartment. His defense counsel tried mightily to establish a medical reason for his actions: Medical experts presented evidence that the motorcycle accident had caused trauma to his brain and that his injuries were the precipitating factor in his assaults on women. Before the brain injuries, his counsel argued, there had been no offenses. After, there had been the fifty-plus rapes of the Want-Ad Rapist and nine homicides.
There was no question he had brain damage. Brain tests showed it, and he also had physical symptoms: his face felt dead on one side and he walked with a limp. But the defense counsel did not effectively establish a connection between his injuries and his actions, or maybe the jury just didn’t think it reason enough for his crimes. They found him guilty, and in early 1985, he was sentenced to death in the electric chair. He is still – after all these years – on death row in Florida. About Serial Killers online article
During the mid-1980s Florida’s Tampa Strip was torn apart by a twisted killer. His sadistic action fuelled by an inner fury. Those who lived tell the tale of a monster with an insatiable desire. But what drove this prolific perpetrator, and was he born to kill? Born to Kill s6e12: Bobby Joe Long, Really 2017
The body count continued to rise. ibid.
Lisa was able to recount her ordeal to investigators. ibid.