ROWLAND, NATHANIEL: True Crime Recaps 2022 -
Samantha Josephson called for an Uber after a night our with friends. But she got into the wrong car by mistake. And once the door closed behind her, the child locks made sure she couldn’t get out. Then her kidnapper stabbed her more than 120 times. True Crime Recaps: All About the Fake Rideshaw Murder, Youtube 4.38, 2022
In July 2021 Nathaniel Rowland was sentenced to life in prison for kidnap and murder. ibid.
ROZIER, ROBERT: Killers: Behind the Myth TV -
In Miami men are being murdered and mutilated. Police suspect a violent, secretive cult. One fateful mistake will reveal the truth. Killers: Behind the Myth s3e1: Robert Rozier, 2016
Their suspect is a former pro-football player from California. ibid.
RUDD, DONNIE: Who is Donnie Rudd? Keith Morrison Investigates TV -
Donnie Rudd, a man with unlimited potential, but Donnie has secrets. Was he a murderer or just a maverick? Who is Donnie Rudd? Keith Morrison Investigates, ID 2020
She had a massive injury to the back of her head … The terrible [car] accident occurred just four weeks after Donnie and Noreen had married. ibid.
The next day instead of getting a windfall of cash, Loretta Tabak Bodtke [client] was murdered. ibid.
A former client executed in her own home … and right when she was threatening to take down Donnie’s career. Who is Donnie Rudd? Keith Morrison Investigates II
Noreen Rudd’s manner of death was officially changed to a homicide caused by blunt force trauma. ibid.
RUDOLPH, ERIC: Catching Killers TV -
Atlanta, Georgia, July 27th 1996, 26th Olympic Games: There is a bomb in Centennial Park. You have 30 minutes. Catching Killers s3e3: Manhunt: The Olympic Park Bomber, 911 call, Netflix 2023
One of the longest manhunts in American history. ibid. rozzer
A name that was identified as a suspect was a security guard, Richard Jewell. He was the one that finds the device and finds help … He wasn’t involved with it. ibid.
We had the Olympic Park bombing, the Sandy Springs abortion bombing, the Otherside Lounge bombing … ibid. FBI dude
At last we had a name. We knew where to go. ibid.
RUDOLPH, LARRY: True Crime Recaps 2023 -
2016: An early morning shotgun blast echoes through an African national park. When a ranger arrives he finds a grieving husband clutching his dead wife’s body [Bianca Rudolph]. It looks like a horrible accident but the police dig deeper – they uncover a dirty little secret that changes everything. True Crime Recaps: Love, Lies & Leopards, Youtube 13.53, 2023
Larry says Bianca pulled the trigger on herself on purpose. ibid.
Larry got to thinking: how does he get ride of Bianca, keep all his money and retire with Lori. ibid.
August 1st 2022: A Denver jury found Larry guilty of murdering his wife. ibid.
RUIZ, FELICIA murder: True Crime with Aphrodite Jones TV -
A promising teenager caught between two worlds. And between two young men. Until a deadly betrayal nearly pushes two parents beyond the brink of all reason. True Crime with Aphrodite Jones s5e3: A Halloween Horror Story, CI 2015
‘She got in the car. We trusted Felicia’s judgment. We trusted her. And the car drove off into the night and that was the last time we saw her alive.’ ibid. mother
This child was savagely stabbed, was left to die in a field within eye-shot of neighbouring homes and the road. ibid.
That leaves Jesus and his girlfriend Lisa at the top of the list … They are on the run … Lisa turns herself in … It was planned, calculated cold-blooded murder. ibid.
RUNGE, PAUL: World’s Most Evil Killers TV -
In 2000, 3 Years after he was sent back to jail, investigators were running out of options. They turned to Runge’s now ex-wife, offering her immunity if she testified against him. Charlene took the deal and admitted to luring the sisters to their home under false pretences, clearing up after all three murders, and helping Runge dispose of the bodies. World’s Most Evil Killers s7e8: Paul Runge, Sky Crime 2022
Scientists were re-examining evidence from the Chicago PD [four] fire murders. They had a breakthrough that would expose the full extent of the killer’s actions. ibid.
He went on to confess to all seven murders. ibid.
RUPPERT, JIMMY: True Crime Recaps 2021 -
‘There’s been a shooting.’ That’s what Jimmy Rupert calmly told the operator when he called the police around 9.30 p.m. on Easter Sunday in 1975. True Crime Recaps: The Easter Sunday Massacre: The Story of James Ruppert, Youtube 8.10, 2021
Five children lay dead on the living room floor … In the kitchen there were six more dead … Jimmy murdered his entire family that day. ibid.
RUSSELL, BLAKE: Conspiracies Decoded TV -
Can new DNA technology solve a cold-case murder? … In 2009 a woman’s mutilated body is found in Louisiana … ‘He was a cruel and manipulative killer who evaded the law for eight years’: Blake Russell. Conspiracies Decoded s1e8, Discovery 2022
RUSSELL, LIN & MEGAN murders [viz Miscarriages of Justice: Stone, Michael & Murder Cases: Bellfield, Levi] Crimes that Shook Britain TV - Britain's Worst Crimes TV - Mail online - The Chillenden Murders TV - Who Killed Lin & Megan Russell? The Russell Murders: Who Killed Lin & Megan? TV -
Dr Lin Russell and her two daughters Josie and Megan were victims of a vicious hammer attack in 1996. Three people left for dead in the picturesque countryside of Kent. The brutality of the crime left a community reeling and the senseless murders stunned the nation. Crimes that Shook Britain s1e4: Lin & Megan Russell, CI 2008
Lin, Megan and Josie Russell were violently attacked by a stranger while walking home from school. ibid.
Eventually, a local psychiatric patient Michael Stone was arrested and charged with murder. ibid.
Sean Russell’s world has fallen apart ... He sits in the hospital clinging to the hope his eldest daughter will regain consciousness. His wife and youngest daughter have been killed in an unprovoked attack. ibid.
What was the motive? ibid.
Stone is found guilty. ibid.
The killer evaded justice for a year. Britain's Worst Crimes: Lin & Megan & Josie Russell
They must find a way of communicating with Josie; her evidence is now the crux of their investigation. ibid.
Michael Stone, the man accused of bludgeoning mother-and-daughter Lin and Megan Russell to death in a frenzied hammer attack, admitted his horrific crimes to another prisoner shortly after he was remanded in custody, a court heard today.
Stone, 41, from Gillingham, Kent, is also charged with battering Megan’s sister, Josie Russell, to within an inch of her life in a remote country lane near Chillenden, in Kent, on July 9, 1996.
He denies two counts of murder and one of attempted murder.
On the first day of evidence at the second trial for the Russell hammer murders, the jury at Nottingham Crown Court heard that Lin and her two daughters were walking back from their school when they were subjected to an attack of unimaginable violence.
The court heard that a man approached the family in Cherry Garden Lane brandishing a hammer and demanding money.
Lin, 45, had left her purse at home but said she would go back to her house to get cash.
The attacker refused to let her go and Lin shouted to Josie, nine, to run away.
The man grabbed hold of her and hit her over the head with the hammer before forcing all three of them off the lane and into a small copse.
There, he bound and gagged Lin and Josie and tied up Megan, six, before bludgeoning them all with his hammer. Megan’s swimming costume was found a few yards away. The family’s dog, Lucy, was also found dead. Mail online article, ‘Stone boasted about murders’
‘Their bodies were found huddled together on this isolated track just half a mile from their home in Gillingham.’ … ‘The family were beaten with a blunt metal instrument like a hammer.’ The Chillenden Murders I, news reports, BBC 2017
In the summer of 1996 a young family were attacked down a quiet country lane in Kent. The hunt for the killer became one of the biggest stories of the decade. A year later Michael Stone was arrested. He was tried, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. ibid.
Doubts continue to be raised about Michael Stone’s guilt. And for the last twenty years Stone himself has stuck to the same story. ibid.
‘He had a previous conviction for a hammer attack for which he got a two-year sentence.’ ibid. investigator
‘You’d expect him to leave his DNA on the items … It’s 1996.’ ibid.
‘One of the three alleged self-confessions they used in the first trial – Thompson subsequently admitted it was all false.’ ibid.
‘The second prisoner … Jennings … had been paid £5,000 via his sister by The Sun with another promise of £10,000 to come.’ ibid.
Stone’s conviction was overturned and a new trial was ordered. ibid.