MCATASNEY, LIAM & PRESTON TAYLOR: True Crime Recaps 2021 -
The shocking betrayal of 19-year-old Sarah Stern. It took an aspiring horror-movie director and a secret confession caught on camera to solve the mystery of what happened to her. True Crime Recaps: Sarah Stern, Youtube 30.54, 2021
December 3rd 2019: An Uber-driver noticed an Oldsmobile on the side of the Shark river bridge between Belmar and Nepture in New Jersey. When police checked it out the car was empty but the keys were in the ignition. 19-year-old Sarah Stern had vanished. ibid.
Six months before she disappeared Sarah and a guy she’d known since middle school, a boy she thought was her friend by the name of Liam McAtasney, were going through he mom’s things when they stumbled across a shoe box stuffed with cash … It seems that her mother wanted her to have the cash saying the money was her inheritance. ibid.
Liam … and his roommate Preston Taylor … The idea to rob her came about … They decided that Liam would strangle her and take the cash … The best way to cover it up would be to make it look like suicide. ibid.
She never had as much money as they thought she did. ibid.
MCBRIDE, KENNETH: see BRAEMAR HILL MURDERS
MCCANDLESS, EZRA: True Crime Recaps 2021 -
When Ezra McCandless showed up at Don Sipple’s door in Spring Brook, Wisconsin, the unsuspecting dairy farmer didn’t know that he was playing a role in a twisted game that had already left 24-year-old Alex Woodworth dead. True Crime Recaps: Ezra McCandless, Youtube 26.53, 2021
Alex was stabbed 16 times in the head, neck and stomach. ibid.
She wanted to play the role of victim but couldn’t quite pull it off. ibid.
MCCLUSKIE, TONY: Countdown to Murder: The Soap Star Killer TV - Mail online - The Eastenders Murders: True Crime, Real Tragedy TV - Crimes that Shook Britain TV - A Killer's Mistake TV -
Former EastEanders actress Gemma McCluskie was a strong independent woman. But Gemma’s brother was an unstable drug addict jealous of his sister’s success. Countdown to Murder: The Soap Star Killer, Channel 5 2014
That jealously led him to kill his sister, then chop up her body and throw it into a canal. ibid.
The brother of EastEnders actress Gemma McCluskie confessed to killing her in a letter to their father – but insisted he was ‘not evil’.
Tony McCluskie, 36, lied that he could not remember battering his sister to death at their east London home, butchering her body and dumping the parts in a nearby canal.
In a letter he sent to his father Anthony from Highdown Prison in Surrey, the murderer wrote that he ‘wouldn’t hurt a fly’ and ‘would do anything for the family’. Mail online article 3rd February 2013, ‘I’m not evil, Dad: Brother who brutally murdered EastEnders actress tells father he’s ‘choked up’ by what he did in disturbing letter sent from jail’
Eastenders: one of Britain’s most popular soaps bizarrely linked to two horrific crimes: two big stars taken too soon. The innocent victims of separate deadly real-life dramas. Who fell victim to the men closest to them. A devoted mother killed in her own home with her children. Their father on the run. A loving sister her body dumped in a canal. Her brother desperately covering his tracks. Sian Blake and Gemma McCluskie … murdered four years apart. The Eastenders Murderers: True Crime, Real Tragedy, Channel 5 2017
Gemma McCluskie was born and bred in London’s East End … Gemma was sharing a flat with her brother Tony; their relationship had long been strained but was now getting worse. ibid.
The chance discovery was made in a canal near Gemma’s home. ibid.
The police already had a prime suspect – Gemma’s brother Tony, the last person to see her alive. ibid.
CCTV footage also shows Tony dragging a suitcase to a car. ibid.
5 days later a suitcase was found in a canal … The murder of Gemma McCluskie was a crime that shook Britain. In early March 2012 a young woman goes missing in east London: she’s 29-year-old actress Gemma McCluskie. Crimes that Shook Britain s8e3: Murder of Gemma McCluskie, CI 2017
The relationship between Gemma and her brother Tony is coming under scrutiny. ibid.
Gemma McCluskie: On a cold dark London evening a man [Tony McCluskie] hauls a heavy bag into the back of a cab. Hours later he discards it in a canal. It’s been a struggle … The next day a 29-year-old star of BBC soap series Eastenders is reported missing. A Killer’s Mistake s1e8: Tony McCluskie
Tales of abduction, false trails and subterfuge. ibid.
‘She died as a result of blunt force trauma.’ ibid. rozzer
Sudden, spontaneous, perhaps after a struggle. The picture of the murderer was building. ibid.
‘They had been conflict between brother and sister.’ iibid. forensic scientist
As Tony would use drugs, so he would become violent. ibid.
MCCOWEN, CHRISTOPHER: Killer Trials TV -
A beautiful woman is discovered lying in a pool of blood on the kitchen floor of her Cape Cod home: she is identified as fashion writer Crista Worthington. It takes police four years to bring her killer to trial, but did they get the right man? Killer Trials s1e14: A Murder on Cape Cod, 2012
Begin analysing the DNA samples that also include the samples volunteered the months before: one of these is given by Truro garbage man Christopher Cowen. ibid.
None of the genetic profiles match McCowen’s. ibid.
The semen found on Crista’s body belongs to McCowen. ibid.
The jury gives their verdict: they find McCowen guilty of all charges. ibid.
MCCOY, RUTHIE MAY: True Crime Recaps 2021 -
The murder of Ruthie Mae McCoy … She was lying in a pool of blood in her bedroom; her apartment was ransacked and she’d been shot four times … How does someone break in through the bathroom mirror? True Crime Recaps: True Stories Behind the Candyman Credits, Youtube 23.24, 2021
It’s believed that her attackers thought she had a lot of money there which is why they broke in and robbed and killed her. Two people were arrested and tried but they were found not guilty. ibid.
McCREA, GARY: Murder My Sweetheart: The Killing of Dolores McCrea TV -
Dolores McCrea was last seen on the evening of January 20th calling in to her estranged husband’s house on the way to a darts match. Murder My Sweetheart: The Killing of Dolores McCrea, news, Channel 5 2022
Would she have ever left her four daughters? No. ibid. dude
When he [estranged husband] was charged he was brought to the courthouse in Donegal town. ibid.
He was no stranger to the use of violence. ibid. psychologist