SINCLAIR, ANGUS & GORDON HAMILTON: Crimes That Shook Britain TV - BBC online - Britain’s Most Evil Killers TV -
The infamous World’s End murders that occurred in Edinburgh in 1977 ... Two murders would uncover the appalling criminal past of one of Scotland’s worst killers. Crimes That Shook Britain s6e4: Angus Sinclair, CI 2015
Advances in forensic science ... After thirty years police finally had a breakthrough ... Sinclair was one but who was the other? ibid.
Sinclair revealed nothing about the World’s End case. ibid.
Angus Sinclair voluntarily gave a DNA sample to police in the mid-1990s – that led to convictions for the murders of three women two decades earlier.
The Sinclair trial was the first to be held in Scotland following the ending of the centuries-old double jeopardy rule.
For 37 years the families of Helen Scott and Christine Eadie have waited for justice for the teenagers who were murdered by Sinclair.
In his sentencing statement, Lord Matthews said Sinclair had shown no remorse. BBC online article 14 November 2014, ‘World’s End Murders: Angus Sinclair Jailed For 37 Years’
Edinburgh, Scotland, October 16th 1977: the body of a 17-year-old girl was found on a deserted beach: she’d been raped, bound and gagged. Discovered in a field a few miles away was the body of a second teenage girl. Britain’s Most Evil Killers s3e2: Angus Sinclair, Sky Crimes 2019
The biggest manhunt in Scotland’s history; it ended after almost four decades with a known paedophile and convicted child killer: a man called Angus Sinclair. ibid.
SINGH, ANU: Crimes that Shook Australia TV -
‘She killed my son … She is the devil.’ Crimes that Shook Australia s3e2: Anu Singh, CI 2018
A woman named Anu Singh: a killer whose actions in the nation’s capital continue to defy any rational explanation. ibid.
Anu Singh began a relationship with Joe Cinque … Less than three months later Joe Cinque would be dead … Joe was given a sedative-laced cup of coffee that rendered him helpless … [and] then injected with not one but two massive doses of heroin. ibid.
SKINNER, HANK: Werner Herzog TV -
‘I was within 20 minutes of execution.’ Werner Herzog on Death Row s1e4: Hank Skinner
‘No sense of time in here.’ ibid.
‘That’s where they found Twila Busby … she was bludgeoned to death; the two boys were stabbed.’ ibid. journalist
SKIRDA, ALEKSANDRAS & VITAS PLYTNYKAS: Forensics: Catching a Killer TV
An horrific discovery on a picturesque beach. A finding that shocked police and the community of this small seaside town. And a brazen killer caught on CCTV. Forensics: Catching a Killer s2e9, Sky Crime 2023
Inside a supermarket carrier bag wrapped in a bin liner was a human head. ibid.
Jolanta Bledaite as a 35-year-old Lithuanian woman who had moved to Scotland for work in 2006. ibid.
Shocking evidence that Jolanta may have been tortured before she was killed. ibid.
One of the people there was a man, 19-year-old Aleksandras Skirda … hanging round with another man, 40-year-old Vitas Plytnykas. ibid.
SKRIPAL, SERGEI murder: viz Assassinations: SKRIPAL, SERGEI
SLOOT, JORAN VAN DER: True Crime Recaps 2021
Aruba should have been Natalee’s time of her life and it almost way … On that night a smooth-talking stranger sat down at the same blackjack table where Natalee and her friends were playing … Joran van der Sloot. True Crime Recaps: Natalee Holloway, Youtube 33.54, 2021
Van der Sloot is currently serving a 28-year prison sentence in Peru for the 2010 murder of 21-year-old Stephany Flores in Lima. He's awaiting temporary extradiction to the United States to face American charges of extortion and wire fraud related to promises he allegedly made to Holloway's family about leading authorities to her body. CBS online article 5th June 2023, ‘Joran van der Sloot, Natalee Holloway murder suspect, ‘severely beaten’ in Peru prison, lawyer says
SMALLS, BIGGIE murder: viz Assassinations: SMALLS, BIGGIE
SMALLWOOD, BILLI-JO: True Crime with Aphrodite Jones TV - Gainesville Times online -
A troubled marriage. A deadly fire. And family devastated. The evidence suggests an unthinkable act. True Crime with Aphrodite Jones s4e9: The Ballad of Billi-Jo, ID 2013
On the Fort Campbell army base ... houses over 25,000 soldiers and their families. ibid.
The ATF ... This was a serious fire ... an engulfment ... ‘There was a smoke detector taken down.’ ibid.
To federal agents it means that the fire must have been set by someone who was already inside the house. ibid.
The Defense Team attacks the circumstantial evidence ... The jury doesn't agree ... ‘Came back so fast your head would spin.’ ibid.
The wife of a soldier from Gainesville faced a federal judge Tuesday after tearfully proclaiming her innocence to intentionally killing two of her children in an arson fire.
Billi Jo Smallwood, 35, could face the death penalty if convicted of setting fire to the on-base residence she and her husband Wayne Smallwood shared at Fort Campbell, Ky. Her children Rebekah Smallwood, 2, and Samual Fagan, 9, died in the 29th May 2007 fire.
In court documents, federal authorities claim the arson was premeditated, that she knew children would die, and that it was committed for money.
Billi Jo Smallwood, who is separated from her husband, most recently lived in Brunswick but was arrested Tuesday in Gainesville after a federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment against her last week. She was brought by marshals to an initial court appearance Tuesday in US District Court in Gainesville, where her husband and some of his fellow soldiers looked on solemnly from the gallery. Smallwood, with short, reddish hair and wearing a black pantsuit and leg irons, wept through much of the brief court proceeding. Gainesville Times online article 23rd November 2008
SMART, KRISTIN murder: True Crime with Aphrodite Jones TV - NBC News online -
A missing co-ed. A young man hounded by suspicion. An important witness who has never spoken publicly before. It’s the story of how one case changed the way violent crimes are investigated on college campuses across California. True Crime with Aphrodite Jones s3e8: Girl, Gone, ID 2013
May 1996: I believe that Paul Flores already had his eye on Kristen Smart for some time. ibid.
May 25th 1996 was the last time anyone saw or heard from Kristin. She vanished without a trace from the California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo California where she was a student. Kristin, 19 at the time, was returning to her Muir Hall dorm room following an off-campus party with fellow student and friend, Paul Flores.
Flores later told authorities that he said goodbye to Kristin a block away from her dorm room. In July 1996, he was named a key witness by police. Although Flores has never officially been charged in connection with Kristin’s disappearance, he has since been the subject of several police inquiries and searches. Most recently, in 2007, police dug up the back patio of Flores’ Arroyo Grande home, but found nothing. NBC News online article 2nd October 2014
SMART, PAMELA et al: Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart TV - Mail online - True Crime Recaps 2023 -
911 Audiotape May 1 1990: Yes um emergency in 4E. Summerhill Condominiums. There’s someone passed out. I don’t know. A girl is hysterical in there. Her husband is passed out. Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart, Sky Atlantic 2017
May 1st 1990: Twenty-four-year-old Gregory Smart has been shot in the head. His wife Pamela Smart is accused of plotting her husband’s death. ibid. news report
The first trial ever captured live on television. ibid. news
Three teenage boys who killed Greg Smart live on the other side of town … The only possible connection is that Pam Smart works at the high-school. ibid. dude
Sex, murder, teenage kids, a teacher. ibid. reporter
Everyone concerned with Pamela Smart’s trial was caught up in a black hole, a black hole of media attention. ibid. media bloke
A cheating newlywed whose plot to kill her husband with a teenage lover became the subject of a Hollywood movie has made a new bid for freedom.
Pamela Smart, of New Hampshire, was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder, being an accomplice to first-degree murder and witness tampering in March 1991 at the age of 22 over the death of her 24-year-old husband.