‘I’ve seen dead bodies before but that day was the first time I actually saw dismemberment.’ The Mark of a Killer s1e2: The Last Call Killer, rozzer, Sky Crime 2019
‘The cut marks was similar in all three victims.’ ibid.
‘They had a match’ … ‘We had to catch this guy.’ ibid.
Major Crimes Unit, New Jersey State Police … Whoever killed Mulcahy and their motive remains unknown … A cold case heats up … ‘He was trolling the gay bars looking for victims’ … ibid.
Three men, Thomas Mulcahy, Anthony Marrero and Michael Sakaka, have all been found murdered and dismembered, all within a 60 mile radius of Staten Island. ibid.
A fourth victim from a cold case in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania … ‘The victim’s penis – it was lodged in his throat.’ ibid. rozzer
‘The fingerprints came back to a person named Richard Rogers. ibid. Hillary Bryce, prosecutors’ office
ROLDOS, JAIME murder: viz Assassinations AGUILERA, JAIME ROLDOS
ROLFE, CRAIG murder: see ESSEX murders
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The Gainesville River’s final body count is five students. Four years later the victims’ families finally confront Danny Rolling … All three of the victims were sexually assaulted and grotesquely mutilated, but the body count continues to rise. Killer Trials s1e22: Terror in Gainesville, ID 2012
A judge finds Danny Rolling guilty and sentences him to jail. Meanwhile in Gainesville the killing spree ends as abruptly as it started. ibid.
DNA tests come back linking three of the murders to Rolling’s camp site. ibid.
Rollings had assembled a murder kit. ibid.
Rollings admitted to all five murders. ibid.
The killer had set up this crime scene for its shock value. The Mark of a Killer s1e1: Posed to Kill, reporter, Sky Crime 2019
They find Sonja on the bed stabbed to death … They found Christine Powell on the living-room floor … The posing was definitely deliberate … She had been disembowelled ... The decapitated head had been placed on a bookshelf. ibid. rozzers & reporters
Florida, 23rd August 1990: But in less than 24 hours they [students] would both be dead, brutally murdered by a 36-year-old vagrant named Danny Rolling. World’s Most Evil Killers s3e10, Sky History 2021
For the rest of Danny’s life, his father would refer to him as an accident that should never have happened. He had a violent temper. ibid.
He stole his father’s gun and embarked on a series of armed robberies across Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia. But he was soon arrested. ibid.
‘He appeared to be looking for young college-age females with brunette hair of a small petite build.’ ibid. rozzer
This man is a serial killer. He claims the devil makes him do it. His five victims – four women and one man – are found over a three-day period. All are stabbed to death. Serial Killers: Danny Rolling, Channel 5 2023
The murder task force get a call from a detective in Louisiana where they have three unsolved murders strangely similar to the ones in Gainesville. ibid.
Danny Rowling, a 36-year-old drifter and career criminal, has a string of convictions across the southern states. ibid.
Did you know Scream is inspired by a real-life serial killer? The killer dubbed the Gainesville Ripper stalked young college kids at the University of Florida. He savagely tortured, raped and murdered his victims before posing their bodies for police to find. He was meticulous. True Crime Recaps: The Gainesville Ripper, Youtube 17.31, 2022
Danny murdered five innocent students as they slept in their off-campus apartments. He mutilated their bodies before slipping into the night knowing the police would never catch him. ibid.
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Joe Romano gets sentenced to 15 years … A ruthless evil person. ‘Murder for Hire s1e9: Revenge, Revenge, Revenge’, rozzer CI 2019
To kill a federal judge and federal prosecutors. ibid.
Coin fraud: We identified 1,300 victims … The average age was 73. ibid.
ROMANOV family murders: viz ROMANOV DYNASTY
ROMRUEN, RONNAKORN:
A tourist [Miriam Beelte] is brutally murdered on an island paradise … 26-year-old Miriam Beelte. True Crime Recaps: The Young Tourist Who Was Killed in Thailand, Youtube 4.53, 2023
CCTV catches a man pulling up on his own motorbike: this is Ronnakorn Romruen … He eventually comes back down covered in blood.
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Wednesday, June 17th 2015, 9.05 p.m. Emanuel AME church side entrance: ‘Yeah, he shot the Pastor. He shot all the men in the church. Please come right away.’ Active Shooter: America. Under Fire s1e3: Charleston, South Carolina, caller, 2017
‘I just … I went to that church in Charleston and uh … I did it? … Well I did. I killed. I guess …’ ibid. Roof in custody
‘Fired in all about 77 times and left behind him essentially a tomb of people dying. ‘ ibid.
‘I had to do it because black people are killing white people every day.’ ibid. Roof in custody
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East London: Police are called to a disturbance in Chadwell Heath. Neighbours tell police and paramedics that a man, his son and the family dog [Hayden family] are seriously injured after being attacked by masked men with machetes. Killer at the Crime Scene s3e7, Netflix 2023
The DNA profile of a male … Tommy Roome who had over 25 convictions. ibid.
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A human body burned beyond recognition … Emerging from the ashes is a tale of lies, sins and broken hearts … An elderly man who probably wore dentures. True Crime with Aphrodite Jones s6e9: Burning Man, ID 2016
Police suspect that a man and woman captured on video at a nearby store just hours before the body is discovered are either the killers or had something to do with the murder. After weeks of investigating they finally take in Lydia Rosario, the woman in the video, for questioning. ibid.
The kidnapping and murder of Louis Saulnier. ibid.
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Hedge End, Hampshire: A 27-year-old recluse is accused of murdering his mother while his father was missing. How I Caught the Killer s1e10: Mad Scientist, Sky Crime 2018
‘I felt he was nuts. Mad.’ ibid. neighbour
‘He actually kept chickens in the front room.’ ibid. new owner of bungalow
‘He does experiments with chickens.’ ibid. rozzer
He had been taken to a psychiatric by his mother Leah when he was just eight years old. ibid.
ROSZKOWSKI, RICHARD: World’s Most Evil Killers TV -
On 7th September 2006 three people were gunned down on a street in the city of Bridgeport in Connecticut. The youngest victim, 9-year-old Kylie Flannery, had been chased down by the lone gunman and executed at close range. The killer was 41-year-old Richard Roszkowski whose infatuation with Kylie’s mother Holly Flannery had come to a head in the most tragic of circumstances. World’s Most Evil Killers s5e8: Richard Roszkowski, Sky Crime 2021
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It tears at the very fabric of the judicial system … Michael and Joan Lefko were pillars of the legal community in Chicago, Illinois. People Magazine Investigates s4e6: Law & Murder, ID 2020
Police were sure Ross was acting alone and they get an idea of how the Lefko murders happened by the details in his letters. ibid.
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In one of the most remote corners of the British Isles a hooded assassin carries out what appears to be a contract killing. The Black Watch Assassin
The man accused of this cold-blooded execution was at the time no more than a schoolboy but one who grew up to be a deadly sniper. ibid.
They’d been no murder in Orkney for twenty-five years. ibid.
Suspicions gathered around a father and son – policeman Eddie Ross and his fifteen-year-old boy Michael ... Eddie Ross first aroused suspicion by revealing he owned bullets identical to the one used in the murder. ibid.
Eddie Ross was released from prison after two years. ibid.
Michael Ross remained free – the whole island knew he’d been branded as the Restaurant Hit Man. ibid.
Michael Ross received a minimum twenty-five year sentence for the murder and escape plot. Yet both he and his father say they are innocent. ibid.