SWEATT, THOMAS: Very Bad Men TV -
In May 2003 fires blaze across Washington DC … A similar incendiary device at many of the crime scenes. Very Bad Men s3e14: A Deadly Burning Passion
The deranged fantasies of a serial arsonist … Three hundred and fifty-three blazes … Marines and other men in uniform: to him fire was the only means to get their attention. ibid.
Thomas Sweatt was sentenced to life in prison plus 136 years. He has no chance of parole. ibid.
SWEENEY, JASON murder: Killer Kids TV -
Fishtown in Philadelphia is a rough neighbourhood … 16-year-old Jason Sweeney had been accepted into the Valley Forge Military Academy … Killer Kids s2e1: Foul Ball & Framed, LMN 2012
Jason began spending time with a girl he liked: Justina Morley. ibid.
‘Multiple multiple blows from a variety of weapons.’ ibid.
Eddie Batzig, Dominic Coia, Nicholas Coia … ‘We beat him to death’ … ‘They just continued to bludgeon him with these weapons.’ ibid.
Jason’s girlfriend Christina had helped set up the horrific murder. ibid.
SWEENEY, JOHN: The Sketchbook Killer TV - Telegraph online - Crimes that Shook Britain TV - Britain’s Most Evil Killers TV - Hunt for the Canal Murderer: John Sweeney TV - How I Caught the Killer TV - Killer at the Crime Scene TV -
A monster even to his own family. He killed in Britain and in Europe, escaping justice for twenty years. Only in 2011 clues contained in his pictures provided the vital evidence. The Sketchbook Killer, Crime Channel 2012 s/a Murder Files Channel 5 2013
Before he was cornered he would kill again. In 1994 John Sweeney, a carpenter from Merseyside, had savagely attacked two women before going on the run. ibid.
In 1992 parts of a dismembered female corpse had been found in this suitcase in a canal in Amsterdam. ibid.
Sweeney was given a whole-life sentence for killing both Melissa and Paula, but police suspect that’s not the full extent of his crimes. ibid.
John Sweeney, 54, will be given two life sentences at the Old Bailey for murdering Melissa Halstead and Paula Fields.
He is likely to be told that he is so dangerous, he will never be released from prison.
Detectives say Sweeney may have killed other women and will continue to try to trace former girlfriends.
Sweeney is already serving four life sentences for attacking another girlfriend, Delia Balmer, with an axe in 1994.
Former model Miss Halstead, 33, from the US, was killed in 1990. Her dismembered body was thrown into a canal in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. She was only identified 18 years later by DNA, although her head and hands have never been found. Telegraph online article 4th April 2011
60-year-old John Sweeney is a criminal like no other describing himself as a scalp hunter. The brutality of the crimes would stun detectives. Despite going to extreme lengths to conceal the evidence of his crimes he would tease police with bizarre clues in his artwork. Crimes that Shook Britain s7e6, CI 2017
The domestic violence continued and during a particularly ferocious row John attacked Melissa with a hammer breaking her skull. ibid.
A second body found in near identical circumstances in Amsterdam two years later. ibid.
Found guilty of all charges and ordered to serve a whole-life tariff. ibid.
2nd November 1989 Amsterdam, Netherlands: But then to dismember the bodies and remove body parts that even to this day have still not been recovered is just an horrific and shocking thing to do. Britain’s Most Evil Killers s4e3: John Sweeney, rozzer, Sky Crime 2020
Back in London he brutally dismembered a second woman and subjected another to a brutal assault. ibid.
‘An incredibly warped individual … so violent, so depraved.’ ibid.
He received four life sentences. ibid.
In 2001 a dismembered body was found in London’s Regents Canal. Inquiries soon led police to one man, 44-year-old tradesman John Sweeney. Sweeney’s life was dominated by violence and controlling behaviour. Despite going to extreme lengths to conceal the evidence of his crimes, he celebrated the savage attacks of his victims in his art work. Hunt for the Canal Murderer: John Sweeney, Channel 5 2021
‘One of the most cruel individuals I’ve ever had the misfortune to come across.’ ibid. rozzer
A serial killer is finally brought to justice after a tip-off … Paula’s dismembered body had been found in six holdalls submerged in the Regent’s Canal in London. How I Caught the Killer s2e5: The Canal Murders, Sky Crime 2020
There had been a murder in Holland that had also gone unsolved but now police had new information which they believed might be helpful in finding the killer in both cases. ibid.
‘The common denominator in both these horrendous and untimely deaths is John Sweeney.’ ibid.
Human remains have been discovered in London’s Regent’s Canal. A violent killer is on the loose … Police are called to investigate a missing woman: her name is Paula Fields. Killer at the Crime Scene s3e6, Channel 5 2023
John Sweeney: ‘A long criminal history, history of violence, serious violence.’ ibid. rozzer
SWIGER, ED et al: True Crime with Aphrodite Jones TV -
How did two best friends who had everything going for them hurtle down a collision course of trouble? A robbery gone wrong, an older woman, and arson, all leading to murder. True Crime with Aphrodite Jones s6e5: Blood Brotherhood, ID 2016
Ed and Butch are drawn to each other … Ed and Butch hatch a plan to get revenge on the fraternity they couldn’t control. It would be the first step down a dangerous path of jealousy and revenge … The two friends decide to burglarize their own Frat house. ibid.
Ed won’t leave Butch alone about helping with the fire [to burn down Lin, girlfriend’s, warehouse].
‘He [Butch] finally confessed that he and Ed Swiger were involved and did take all those items from the Frat house.’ ibid. rozzer
Ed and Lin worry that the fire investigation will ultimately catch up with them. Their paranoia kicks into high gear.
When Butch Pratt doesn’t come home from a weekend trip, his mother Rose has the feeling something is wrong … Rose files a missing person’s report. ibid.
A fire broke out at Lin Karlen’s Greenville home causing extensive damage. ibid.
The perpetrators a trio of petty criminals: they claim they were hired to set the fire by Lin Karlen herself. ibid.
‘She says, I can tell you guys where a body is.’ ibid. rozzer
SWINDELLS, ANTHONY: How I Caught the Killer TV -
Ramsgate, 1996: An 84-year-old man is found strangled to death in his own home. How I Caught the Killer s2e1: Assassin’s Greed, Sky Crime 2020
‘He was a gun collector and a gun enthusiast.’ ibid. rozzer
‘He’d been beaten and/or tortured as well as strangled which was the cause of death.’ ibid. rozzer
Police were called to a house where shots had been fired … ‘Somebody had entered the house and had been confronted by the occupant … and shot him three times’ ibid.