On September 14th 2015, 25-year-old Jack Taylor was found dead in the graveyard of St Margaret’s Church in east London … An active serial killer was on the loose in London. The killer was a 40-year-old loner named Stephen Port. He lured four young men to their deaths using online dating sites and went to great lengths to cover up his crimes. Britain’s Most Evil Killers s2e3: The Grindr Killer, Sky Living 2018
Port had become immersed in a world of drug-fuelled sex parties. ibid.
14th September 2015: the body of a 25-year-old truck driver is found in the grounds of St Margaret’s church in Barking, east London. However, he wasn’t the first body found there. Uncovering the Date Rape Killer, CBS Reality 2019
‘So by day he’s working as a bald sad lonely old git who lives in the East End on his own, but at night he becomes someone else.’ ibid. Mike Sullivan, Sun crime editor
And it was in this drug-fuelled state that Port began another addiction, one that was to have disastrous consequences … drug rape … ‘raping young gay men he had rendered unconscious.’ ibid.
‘Other deaths in the area … three other young men had seemingly died from GBL.’ ibid. Sullivan
Four deaths all very similar. The killer who remarkably went undetected for months. And the body language that proved his lies. A serial murder case that would rock Britain’s police force. Four men dead on the streets of London. A prime suspect the police knew all about. And how body language betrayed his guilt. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s3e8: Stephen Port, DiscoveryPlus 2020
‘The police were more incompetent than he was.’ ibid. Kerry Daynes, psychologist
After midnight Jack left this club and decided to do something he may never have done before – make a date with a man. Jack had been murdered by Stephen Port. A Killer’s Mistake s1e6: Stephen Port, DiscoveryPlus 2023
It had taken 18 months for Port to be arrested with the murders of 4 men. ibid.
He had spent time in the flat of Stephen Port. ibid.
Inside Port’s flat was a mountain of evidence that might have incriminated him. ibid.
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‘How does an innocent man sit on Death Row for fifteen years?’ A Murder in the Park, news, CI 2017
In 1983 Anthony Porter was sentenced to death for the murders of teenagers Jerry Hillard and Marilyn Green at the Washington Park swimming pool on Chicago’s south side. ibid.
Allegations of police brutality and coerced confessions were now commonplace. ibid.
‘There was one problem: Anthony Porter killed those two people – it was one big lie.’ ibid. attorney
‘There were six witnesses implicating Anthony Porter.’ ibid.
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Billy-Jean Hayworth was found in the nursery; she was shot in the head but she never let go of her seven-month-old baby boy. He was asleep in her arms; thankfully he wasn’t hurt. True Crime Recaps: A Facebook Fued Turned Deadly, Youtube 17.54, 2023
Down the hall Billy Payne was still in bed; his throat was slit and a bullet pierced his cheek right under his left eye. ibid.
This young couple found themselves at centre of a deadly Facebook feud that went all the way to the CIA.
Barbara and Buddy Potter were looking for a simpler life … Jenelle … was the apple of their eye. ibid.
He [Jamie] watched as Buddy entered the bedrooms and shot them both dead … Buddy is found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison; Jamie pled guilty and got 25 years; Jenelle and Barbara … both got life but they sill maintain their innocence. ibid.
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2011 Thorneywood Mount: The body of a woman [Caroline Coyne] is found in a suburban part of Nottingham. How I Caught the Killer s1e7: Caught on CCTV, Sky Crime 2018
‘It appeared there’d been a struggle, some clothing had been moved … We’re thinking this is a sexually motivated attack.’ ibid. rozzer
A man came into the police station to report a missing person. ibid.
‘Another female had been attacked in similar circumstances.’ ibid. rozzer
Officers were sent out to arrest Carl Powell. ibid.
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Susan Cox Powell she was last seen at alive at home in West Valley City, Utah, on December 6th 2009. It’s widely believed she was murdered by her husband Josh. And he body was hidden somewhere in the canyons and mountains surrounding that city. True Crime Recaps: Susan Cox Powell Married a Monster 2021
Inside that safety deposit box was a handwritten transcript of this terrible fight she’d had with her husband, a video inventory of her assets, a journal and her last will and testament. ibid.
Josh had taken out life insurance policies on their family. ibid.
He kept hardcore porn in the house and regularly showed it to the kids. ibid.
Susan told friends her father-in-law was a disgusting perverted evil man; she complained her was obsessed with her. ibid.
He was selfish, controlling and over-bearing. ibid.
He was acting suspicious and just plain weird. ibid.
Police think Josh’s younger brother Michael may also have been involved. ibid.
Josh poured gasoline all over the house and on their [sons] bodies. ibid.
Michael jumped off the roof of the parking garage at the apartment building in Minneapolis and died. ibid.
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This college student couldn’t stop lying. She’d just got kicked out of school but refused to tell her parents. When the school finally called, Sydney Powell picked up a frying pan and bashed her mother’s skull in. Did she go insane or did the lies finally catch up with her? True Crime Recaps: The Lies & Desperate Acts of Sydney Powell, Youtube 9.22, 2023
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2019: Chacey Poynter called 911: They were married for about six years but they were having issues, she said. She ended up on this dirty road way off the highway and her Jeep got stuck in the mud. She called him to come and help her … Chacey said this tall shadowy figure came out of the darkness, shot him in the head and killed him instantly. Then they ran off before she could get a good look at him. True Crime Recaps: Dalia Dippolito, Youtube 29.27, 2021
What was somebody doing just hanging out in the bushes? ibid.
Chacey was laying the groundwork for one of her boyfriends to murder Robert for months … 10,000 text messages with about five different guys. ibid.
The face of a woman in distress. Her husband attacked by an apparent stranger. Wife Chacey Poynter appears to stress but to those who know her these are crocodile tears. A Killer’s Mistake s3e5: Chacey Poynter, DiscoveryPlus 2023
An ambush on a remote dirt road. Robert Poynter has been gunned down. His distressed wife Chacey the only witness. ibid.
Confronted with his name [Michael Garza], Chacey’s story changes. ibid.
A remote dirt track, a desperate 911 call, a killer waiting in the darkness. Meet, Marry, Murder s1e15, Netflix 2022
‘She was the one that pursued him, and she really really pushed it.’ ibid. friend
‘She had him change the life insurance to make the 100% beneficiary.’ ibid. DA
Chacey’s wild side began to kick in. ibid.
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The sleepy town of Warwick, Rhode Island … An intruder broke into Becky Spencer’s house late at night brutally murdering her … Police discover the bodies of Joan Heaton and her two young daughters brutally stabbed to death in their own home. Killer Kids s2e5: Sibling Rivalry & The Warwick Slasher, LMN 2012
As a teenager Craig Price had turned to crime and drugs … Police found the murder weapons in the Price household … ‘He was still only 15.’ ibid.
Craig’s anger towards women was traced back to early childhood. Years of reckless drug abuse only added to Craig’s issues. ibid.
One of the youngest serial killers in American history. ibid.
1989: A murder spree … Her daughter Joan [Heaton] and her two granddaughters Jennifer and Melissa have all been brutally murdered … Killer Kids s3e15: Ticking Time Bomb
He’s a 15-year-old teenager; and if he had anything to do with Rebecca Spencer’s death, that would have happened when he was only 13 year old. ibid.