STRATTON, ALBERT & ALFRED: Gabriel Weston: Catching History’s Criminals TV -
Fingerprints: Thomas and Ann Farrow, an elderly couple, managed a shop selling inks and paints. Two men had gained entry to the shop and attacked the Farrows … The thieves Albert and Alfred Stratton found the shop’s cashbox in the bedroom … They should have been wearing gloves … They left behind a crucial piece of evidence: a thumbprint … Gabriel Weston: Catching History’s Criminals II: Traces of Guilt, BBC 2015
STROUD, PHILLIP: see PAYNE, CHARITY
STUTZMAN, ELI: True Crime Recaps 2021 -
Eli Stutzman: The strange story of a nine-year-old boy abandoned in a ditch next to a cornfield in the tiny town of Chester, Nebraska, on Christmas Eve 1985. His frozen little boy was dressed only in thin blue sleeper pyjamas. He was partially covered in snow. Despite several autopsies, no-one could figure out how he might have lost his life, or who might have taken it. True Crime Recaps: 3 Terrifying Amish Murders, Youtube 37.28, 2021
Reader’s Digest ran the story of Little Boy Blue … Suddenly, he had a name: Danny Stutzman, the Amish son of Eli and Ida Stutzman from Dalton, Ohio. ibid.
Ida was 26 years old and 8 months pregnant in July 1977 when their barn mysteriously caught on fire in the middle of the night. Her body was found hours later. ibid.
Also wanted for questioning in Texas in connection with another body found there, that of 24-year-old Glenn Pritchard, his former roommate from Austin. ibid.
SU, TIEN POH: Crime Stories TV -
October 19th 1983: Police find the body of a young Asian student face down on the bathroom floor … A dangerous sexual killer is now on the loose. Crime Stories s1e12: Tien Poh Su: The Casebook Rapist
Investigators zero-in on a set of fingerprints that seem to match the ones found on a glass at the crime scene. ibid.
SUFF, BILL: Born to Kill? TV - World’s Most Evil Killers TV -
In the early ’90s Riverside’s women became the target of a sadistic killer. His victims subjected to a twisted form of brutality. As his confidence grew the body count rose. But what was the root of his inner fury and was he born to kill? Born to Kill? s7e3: Bill Suff, Really 2017
In December 1990 police suspected a link between the murders of two Riverside prostitutes. ibid.
Their bodies subjected to mutilation and other grotesque forms of abuse. ibid.
The Texas court would sentence Bill Suff to 70 years in prison for the murder of his two-month-old daughter … In 1991 the posed body of a sixth body – Kathleen Puckett – had been discovered near Lake Elsinore. ibid.
The search of his van and home would uncover damning evidence. ibid.
8th February 1990, Riverside, California USA: The half-naked corpse of a woman was found in a grapefruit orchard on the outskirts of the city by two local workers. Forensic scientists later identified the woman as 35-year-old sex woman Carol Miller. And her stab-wounds were a calling card of the so-called Riverside Prostitute Killer who had already slain three women. 39-year-old Bill Suff would go on to take another nine victims. But by day, Suff was a model employee for the local county. The Jekyll-n-Hyde killer even attacked his own children. He brutally killed and mutilated 12 women. World’s Most Evil Killers a4e4: William Suff, Pick TV 2020
‘He reserved a particular distaste for sex workers because he saw them as less than women. He saw them as women who weren’t fulfilling the roles of the caregiver and the nurturer and he had some very rigid ideas of who women were and how they should behave.’ ibid. Professor Elizabeth Yardley
SUFFIELD, JOHN murder [viz also Miscarriages of Justice: Kamara, John]: British Injustice with Raphael Rowe TV - Trial & Error TV -
Toxteth, Liverpool, Friday 13th March 1981: At 9.30 a.m. the manager of a betting shop on a busy high street was brutally murdered in broad daylight. The victim was 23-year-old John Suffield. British Injustice with Raphael Rowe II, History 2022
Honing in on two local men: 22-year-old Ray Gilbert and 24-year-old John Kamara. Despite there being no forensic evidence both men were quickly convicted and sentenced to life in prison. ibid.
Merseyside Police investigated the murder of John Suffield in March 1981. Ray Gilbert and John Kamara were found guilty of murder. In 2000 the Court of Appeal found that the conviction of John Kamara could no longer be deemed safe and should be quashed. On the potential unfairness of the identification parade, the Court of Appeal concluded that they were left unpersuaded that Kamara stood out to any appreciable extent. ibid.
On March 12th 1981 there was an argument in the betting shop at Lodge Lane, Liverpool 8. It was enough to make the manager, a young man of 23 called John Suffield, fear for his life. Trial & Error: John Kamara, Channel 4 1997
John Suffield was to die that day. Though not at the hands of that angry customer. Two other men were convicted of his murder, one rightly so. The other has so far served sixteen years for a murder he did not commit. ibid.
The two men got away with less than £200 in notes and coins. ibid.
Raymond Gilbert confessed to the murder within hours of being taken to Admiral Street police station. He told the police he got angry with his victim, and that it was he, Gilbert, who was solely responsible for the fatal stabbing. ibid.
The man we do worry about is a man whose name Gilbert offered to the police as his supposed accomplice – Johnnie Kamara … He had also slept with Gilbert’s girlfriend – a fatal indiscretion. ibid.
As we began to excavate the Kamara case, whole areas of the prosecution would crumble at the touch. ibid.
The trial of Johnnie Kamara took place in front of an all-white jury just weeks after riots had reduced much of Toxteth to a smouldering ruin. ibid.
SULLIVAN, JIM: Crime Stories TV - Wiki Unsolved Mysteries TV -
Bob Christianson discovered Lita [McClinton] lying in a pool of blood ... The murder of Lita Sullivan set in motion an investigation that would span nearly two decades. Crime Stories: The Long Stemmed Killer
The police focused their efforts on their most tangible piece of evidence – the blood-soaked box of roses. ibid.
16,170. Lita’s ongoing divorce proceedings from her wealthy husband Jim. ibid.
On 19th April 1998 Tony Harwood was arrested at his home in North Carolina. He was charged with felony murder. ibid.
He told investigators that he’d met Jim Sullivan while making a delivery to his mansion in Palm Beach. ibid.
On 14th March 2006 James Vincent Sullivan was sentenced to life in prison without parole. ibid.