MEE, JENNIFER: Killer Women with Piers Morgan TV -
In 2013 America was shocked by a very unlikely murderer … ‘She lured a guy under false pretences and he ended up dead’ … ‘This case can be seen as a tragedy on several levels’ … America was gripped by the unfolding story of the so-called Hiccup Girl now charged with murder. Killer Women with Piers Morgan s2e2: Jennifer Mee, ITV 2017
‘She was the prime person who contacted the victim who was Shannon Griffin, she contacted him, she brought him down here, she lured him here, and they were all going to try to get some money from him.’ ibid. rozzer
Had this seemingly innocent teenager knowingly lured a man to his death? ibid.
She didn’t pull the trigger, she wasn’t there when it happened, and she didn’t know that Shannon would be killed. ibid.
MEE, JOSEPH & CHRISTOPHER SMITH: Murdered at Fight Sight TV -
They wanted to kill someone … They looked for trouble all night long that night. And they didn’t find trouble, they found my dad. Murdered at First Sight: A Quiet Night Out: Robin Chard, daughter, Sky Crime 2022
MEHROTRA, VISHAL murder [viz Sydney Cooke]: In the Footsteps of Killers TV -
1981 on the day of the royal wedding an eight-year-old boy goes missing and disappears off the streets of London in broad daylight. Seven months later his partial remains are found. In the Footsteps of Killers s2e2: Vishal Mehrotra
‘The abuse from certain teachers was shocking.’ ibid. schoolfriend
‘They followed so many leads that they ended up going nowhere.’ ibid. journalist
Fairgrounds, travelling showmen were an important line of enquiry. Goodwood races might be another lead. And there’s even a witness who saw suspicious activity by the copse. ibid.
Catweasel: That man is Leslie Bailey, who is a notorious predatory paedophile. ibid.
Seen on the tube with an Asia boy. ibid.
The leader of this group of men was Sydney Cooke. Hissing Sid, he was known as … an evil man. ibid. witness
Do you think Cooke has killed more victims? ibid.
MEIWES, ARMIN: Channel 4 News TV - Crimes that Shook Britain TV - Guardian online - The Man Who Ate His Lover TV - Fred Dinenage: Murder Casebook TV -
The trial of a man [Armin Meiwes] accused of killing and eating another man has opened in Germany ... It appears the victim was entirely complicit in the crime. Channel 4 News
He [Armin Meiwes] didn’t just offer a confession, he also gave the court his recording of the act. Crimes That Shook Britain
To the family next door, Armin Meiwes seemed the perfect neighbour. He mowed their lawn, repaired their car and even invited them round for dinner.
Other residents in the small German town of Rotenburg also believed there was nothing odd about the 42-year-old computer expert, whose light burned late into the night inside his creaking mansion. Yesterday, however, Meiwes appeared in court charged with killing – and then frying and eating – another man.
In one of the most extraordinary trials in German criminal history, the self-confessed cannibal admitted that he had met a 43-year-old Berlin engineer, Bernd Brandes, after advertising on the internet, and had chopped him up and eaten him.
It was, he said, something he had wanted to do for a long time. ‘I always had the fantasy and in the end I fulfilled it,’ Meiwes told the court on the first day of his trial for murder in the nearby city of Kassel.
Yesterday German prosecutors described how Meiwes had fantasised about killing and devouring someone, including his classmates, from the age of eight ...
Over the next few weeks, he defrosted and cooked parts of Mr Brandes in olive oil and garlic, eventually consuming 20kg of human flesh before police finally turned up at his door.
‘With every bite, my memory of him grew stronger,’ he said. Guardian online headline 4 December 2003, ‘Victim of Cannibal Agreed to be Eaten’
9th March 2001: Armin Meiwes, a 39-year-old computer engineer who lives in Germany, takes a butcher’s knife. He cuts the penis off Bernd Brandes, a 42-year-old software designer, who has arranged to be killed and eaten. Meiwes slices it in half; they both try to eat a piece. He records the whole event on video. The Man Who Ate His Lover, BBC 2004
Over the next year he eats twenty kilograms of Brandes’ flesh before he voluntarily confesses. ibid.
His mother’s death threw him completely off balance. ibid.
Armin Meiwes seems the perfect neighbour ... Armin’s interest in Cannibalism was awakened at the age of ten ... Robinson Crusoe. Fred Dinenage: Murder Casebook s3e5: The Cannibal of Rotenburg, CI 2013
He was free to indulge his fantasies on the internet and pursue his obsession with cannibalism. ibid.
It would all be recorded on video. ibid.
Is it murder or manslaughter when someone volunteers willingly? ibid.
MELGAR, SANDRA [viz Miscarriages of Justice: Melgar, Sandra]: People Magazine Investigates TV - True Crime Recaps 2022 -
It was supposed to be an anniversary celebration: 32 years together. Suddenly, an intimate moment turned to infinite terror: a husband found murdered in a closet, a wife tied up in another. Who could be behind this? Dateline: An Anniversary Murder: Unspeakable, Sky Crime 2020
Sandra [Melgar] said she simply could not remember what happened the night before. ibid.
They [rozzers] found her [Sandra] more disinterested than distraught … Sandra’s story morphed over time. ibid.
The jury sentenced Sandra to 27 years in prison. ibid.
Detectives say Sandra Melgar killed her husband then staged an elaborate home invasion to cover it up. A jury agreed but she still insists she’s innocent. True Crime Recaps: Was Sandra Melgar Wrongly Convicted? Youtube 14.50, 2022
Sandra Melgar and her husband were married for 32 years. ibid.
On the floor in the closet still wearing her black satin nightgown, her hands and feet were tied with her scarves, she’s like urinated, defecated … The knots were so tight around her wrists and ankles that they had to cut through them … 30 feet away in the second closet was Jim’s naked bloody body … Blood splattered the closet, walls with some also on a chair and a stool in the bedroom. He’d been stabbed 31 times. ibid.
2014: Sandra Melgar was convicted for the murder of her husband. ibid.
Sandra was a frail five foot four; she walked with a cane. ibid.
How would she ever be able to inflict that kind of damage on him? ibid.
How on earth could see wedge a chair under the closet door from the inside? How is she gonna tie bonds so tight she had to be cut free? ibid.
Strange DNA on the dresser and on the scarf that bound her arms and legs. ibid.