I can’t get in touch with my kids … She threatened me. To murder me. Sins of Our Mother I: The 144,000, father to rozzers, Netflix 2022
All the trail of death leads right back to Chad Daybell and Lori vallow. ibid. man
She would complain a lot about Charles. ibid. family
Phoenix, July 2019 there was a shooting, and at first Charles Vallow was a man that was shot and killed in self-defence, allegedly. We started investigating. Sins of Our Mother II: Dark Spirits, reporter
Tylee & JJ: This case quickly became a national story. ibid.
In Hawaii of all places. And there’s no sign of the kids. Sins of Our Mother III: A Mother Knos, family
VANE, RUSSELL: How I Caught the Killer TV -
Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2007: A cold murder case [1976] suddenly reignites … the unsolved murder of a young woman [Kathy Darling]. How I Caught the Killer s2e8: Justice Delayed, BBC 2023
The cold case team … thought her case may be related to other murders at the time. ibid.
In 2007 the cold case team highlighted another person of interest who was at John’s [boyfriend] house the night Diane [Holloway] was murdered, and was also present at the home of Kathy Darling the night she was murdered – Russell Vane. ibid.
VASS, JONATHAN: Stalked to Death: Countdown to Murder TV - Mail online -
She was a young nurse, a new mum, in her prime of life; he was an ambulance technician, but he was living a life of deceit. When he raped Jane Clough in front of their baby she went to the police – he swore revenge. As Jane Clough walked to work to begin her nightshift, Jonathan Vass stalked her every move waiting to pounce. Stalked to Death: Countdown to Murder, Channel 5 2013
Jonathan Vass stabbed Jane seventy-one times, then to make sure she was dead, cut her throat. After he had killed Jane, he went after her family. ibid.
On May 12th 2012 they succeeded: Jane’s Law allows rape victims to challenge a Judge’s bail decisions. ibid.
A former ambulance worker who stabbed the mother of his child to death after she filed rape charges against him was yesterday sentenced to a minimum of 30 years in jail.
Jonathan Vass, 30, killed his ex-girlfriend, A&E nurse Jane Clough, 26, in a frenzied knife attack in the car park of the hospital where she worked in July.
He had earlier been freed on bail after she had accused him of repeatedly raping her at their home while she was pregnant with his daughter. Mail online article 15th October 2010
VENABLES, JON: see BULGER, JAMES
VERSACE, GIANNI murder: see CUNANAN, ANDREW
VICKERS, DARREN: Real Crime TV - Faking It: Tears of a Crime TV -
Manchester’s biggest police investigation since the Moors murders. May bank holiday weekend schoolboy Jamie Lavis goes missing … he went out to play but didn’t come back. Real Crime [with Mark Austin] s2e3: Crocodile Tears, ITV 2002
A crucial witness came forward … Darren Vickers lived round the corner from the Lavis family and he quickly joined in the search for Jamie. ibid.
But Vickers’ frequent media appeals were about to backfire. Two teenagers who had seen him on television reported that he had tried to lead them into some woods late at night. The police then focused their search for Jamie in that area. ibid.
He killed their child then moved in on the family. The bus driver who hijacked the search for an eight-year-old boy … The judge described his actions as truly wicked. He killed their son, now he was manipulating the family. The leader and incredibly the lodger. On a May bank holiday in 1997 passengers on a Manchester bus noticed something unusual – a small boy alone being allowed by the driver to do anything he liked. The boy is Jamie Lavis, eight years old; the driver, Darren Vickers. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s3e5: Darren Vickers, Discovery 2020
‘How does he [Vickers] know that he was the last person to see Jamie alive?’ ibid. Kerry Daynes, psychologist
It was his TV experiences that would seal his fate. ibid.
VILLEGAS, DANIEL: A Fatal Confession: Keith Morrison Investigates TV -
A once convicted murderer who claims he was forced to confess to a crime he didn’t commit will go before a jury again. A Fatal Confession: Keith Morrison Investigates, ID 2020, news report, ID 2020
Villegas was only 16 years old when he confessed to killing two teenagers in a 1993 drive-by-shooting in El Paso, Texas. ibid.
Alfonso Marquez: he had a reputation as a tough successful investigator known for getting killers to confess. ibid.
Texas law allows police to speak to minors without a lawyer or guardian present. ibid.
2011: I went to visit him – he had been locked up for 16 years by then. ibid.
The interrogation began just before midnight and went on for hours. ibid.
Daniel Villegas [on appeal] walked out into the light of day. ibid.
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A routine missing person’s report leads to a tragic discovery … Melissa’s [Lewis] attackers slipped in as she closed the garage door behind her. True Crime with Aphrodite Jones s2e4: Loyalty, Lies & Loss, ID 2011
On March 15th 2008 [Tony] Villegas was arrested and charged with first-degree murder. ibid.
VILLEMIN, GREGORY murder: True Crime Recaps 2022 -
Long before their four-year-old’s body was discovered in a river with his hands and feet bound, the Villemin family was being terrorised in other ways. True Crime Recaps: Who Killed Little Gregory Villemin? Youtube 26.12, 2022
For over 30 years France has been captivated by the mystery. ibid.
Sketches … bore a striking resemblance to Jean-Marie’s cousin, Bernard Laroche, and Bernard’s handwriting as it turned out bore a pretty striking resemblance to whoever had been leaving around those little hate notes for everyone. ibid.
Authorities were closing in on another suspect, his wife Christine. The handwriting experts said her handwriting matched the letters. ibid.
As Bernard Laroche was leaving work on March 29th, four days after Christine had been named as a suspect in Gregory’s death, Jean-Marie shot him dead. ibid.
VILLISCA AXE MURDERS: True Crime Recaps 2023 -
In the sleepy little town of Villisca, Iowa, a house full of 8 people, 6 of them children, were bludgeoned to death with an axe. To this day their killer has never been caught. True Crime Recaps: An Axe, A Slumber Party & 8 Brutal Murders, Youtube 9.55, 2023
VIRK, REENA murder: Crime Stories TV - Ripeace online -
The police discovered it wasn’t the assault that killed Reena, it was what happened next. Crime Stories: Bull Kills
She had last been seen at a party. Acting on eye-witness testimony from the party-goers the police learned that Rena was assaulted by as many as eight other youths in a brutal attack. ibid.
A task force made up of three divisions planned a massive sweep of the teenagers who had taken part in the assault. ibid.
The strategy paid off. ibid.
Reena Virk was a fourteen year old teen from Saanich, British Columbia. She would have been turning fifteen on March 10, 1983 but sadly, she never made it.
Reena was originally from India and transferred to Canada as a child. Her immediate family was described as ‘a minority within a minority’, as they were of the Jehovah’s Witness religion in the local South Asian community of 3,000 which was predominantly Sikh.
She always had a hard time in school, constantly getting bullied due to her accent and looks and because she was ‘different’.
On the night of Friday November 14, 1997, Reena was invited to a ‘party’ by her friend near the Craigflower Bridge, a popular hangout spot, west of the city of Victoria, British Columbia. She heard rumors that her bullies were going to go there and ‘beat her up’ but that didn’t stop her from continuing her life. At first everything was fine, Reena was enjoying herself and the group were said to be drinking and smoking. But then, the ‘Shoreline Six’ arrived, a group of girls known to bully Reena. They swarmed the teen. Ripeace online Horrific True Stories article
VITKOVIC, FRANK: Crimes that Shook Australia TV -
Just after 4 p.m. one December afternoon in 1987 a Melbourne office block became a scene of carnage. Innocent office workers found themselves caught up in a terrifying ordeal as they witnessed friends and colleagues being killed in front of them. The man at the centre of the chaos was a young student whose pent-up anger and frustration would lead to a tragic outcome. The cold-blooded massacre that took place in Queen Street in central Melbourne was a crime that shook Australia. Crimes that Shook Australia s3e5: Queen Street, CI 2018
The 5th floor was a scene of chaos: staff were confronted by a gunman Frank Vitkovic who was chasing them around the office to stop them escaping. ibid.
They were tasked with determining why 22-year-old Frank Vitkovic had killed 8 people before throwing himself off the 11th floor of the Melbourne office block. ibid.