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WADE, JOSHUA: World’s Most Evil Killers TV -
On 3rd August 2007 52-year-old nurse Mindy Schloss was preparing for a shift at the local medical centre but she never arrived. Detectives were horrified to learn that Mindy’s neighbour was 27-year-old Joshua Wade, a man who’d already escaped justice seven years earlier. It would take a city-wide manhunt and a dramatic standoff to finally capture the elusive killer. World’s Most Evil Killers s7e5: Joshua Wade, Sky Crime 2023
WALKER, ALBERT JOHNSON: Real Crime TV -
‘Albert Walker thought he had committed the perfect murder and that he was going to get away from it scot-free.’ Real Crime [with Mark Austin] s6e4: The Almost Perfect Murder, ITV 2007, rozzer
A man’s body falls out [the nets] with the fish … the post-mortem revealed several injuries including a deep gash on his head. ibid.
1996: The mystery of Ron Platt’s death … They’ve stumbled across an international criminal on Interpol’s most-wanted list. ibid.
WALKER, DENZIL KEITH: How I Caught the Killer TV -
6th July 1994, Lincolnshire: The body of a young woman is found in a ditch but who is she? How I Caught the Killer s2e4: Body in the Ditch, Sky Crime 2020
The woman had been badly beaten and had consumed a cocktail of drugs. ibid.
‘The actions of a sexual sadistic predator.’ ibid.
Julie was a 27-year-old Australian. She had been living in the UK for several years. ibid.
The police had a name: known sex offender Denzil Walker. ibid.
WALKOWICZ, WANDA murder: see COLON, CARMEN murder
WALLNER, PETER: Faking It: Tears of a Crime TV - Killer at the Crime Scene TV -
A quiet road in Cobham, Surrey … But this Friday in June 2009 was different because at this house the wheelie bin was different: ‘The bin was too heavy. The rubbishmen refused to remove it, then the landlords turned up, and on his way out he looked at the bin and he saw a foot sticking out at top.’ As word spread of the discovery, police asked if anyone could remember the woman who lived at the house. Melanie Wallner, aged 30. It was while working at this exclusive hotel in Surrey she met the chef – Peter Wallner recently arrived from Germany. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s3e2: Parker & Wallner, Discovery 2020
Peter Wallner told different stories to different people. ibid.
‘His solution is to put her out with the rubbish. And he thinks that because the rubbish is collected mechanically that she will be tipped into the garbage disposal, probably crushed, end up on a landfill and no-one would be any the wiser. And that so nearly could have happened.’ ibid. Kerry Daynes, psychologist
Saturday, 6th June 2009: A decomposing body has been found in a wheelie bin. But when the victim is identified, so is a world of deceit … ‘Where had she been for three years?’ Killer at the Crime Scene s2e10, Channel 5 2022
Melanie [Wallner] allegedly died three years ago of a brain aneurysm. ibid.
Detectives need to speak to Malanie’s husband, Peter. ibid.
WALSH, KATRINA: see WILLIAMS, SARAH
WALSH STREET murders: Crimes that Shook Australia TV -
On 12th October 1988 Melbourne would be rocked by the news of a vicious double shooting: the victims were two innocent police officers investigating an abandoned car. The investigation into the shootings would uncover a tale of revenge, violence and deceit. The brutal murders of two young police officers at Walsh Street were crimes that shook Australia. Crimes that Shook Australia s3e9: Walsh Street, CI 2018
Their threat to avenge the death of one of their own by killing two police was about to become very real. ibid.
The same names were being mentioned, names they were well aware of: the notorious bank robbers known as the Flemington Crew. ibid.
By July 1990 police had amassed enough evidence to charge four men with the Walsh Street killings: Peter McEvoy, Victor Peirce, Trevor Pettingill and Anthony Farrell would face justice in court. ibid.
The second crucial witness was Wendy Peirce, the wife of Victor Peirce … Whatever the reason for Wendy Peirce’s change of heart, the Crown’s case was fatally compromised. ibid.
‘They found each of the four not guilty.’ ibid. reporter
WALSHE, BRIAN: What goes on behind closed doors in the Walshe house? In 2014 Brian Walshe allegedly threatened to kill Ana and a friend. A years later she [Ana] married him. Now she’s missing and look at Brian’s smile! True Crime Recaps: Ana Walshe Case Shocking Details! Youtube 7.19, 2023
She never made it to the office … so what happened to Ana? ibid.
The next day Home Depot cameras caught him allegedly buying $450 worth of cleaning products. ibid.
They unearthed a hatchet, a hacksaw, a bloody rug and used cleaning stuff. ibid.
When they check out his browser history they found searches for how to dismember and dispose of a 115-pound woman’s body. ibid.
WAMSLEY, ANDREW et al: People Magazine Investigates TV -
Rick and Susie Wamsley are a middle-aged well-to-do couple with a daughter named Sarah and a son Andrew. People Magazine Investigates s5e11: Red Christmas, ID 2021
Two bruised and blood dead bodies … Susie Wamsley was on the couch; she had multiple stab wounds and also looked like she had been shot in the head. And they saw by the front door Rick Wamsley face down in a pool of blood also having been stabbed multiple times and shot in the head. ibid.
Hilario said, Andrew and Chelsea came into the Ihop and told him they were going to kill Andrew’s parents, and it was Chelsea that led that discussion. ibid.
WARD, DELBERT: Brother’s Keeper 1992
Remember giving this answer? ‘I decided to put my hand over his mouth; I reached around behind him with my right hand and put it over his mouth. He struggled for a little bit but then stopped. I wanted to make sure Bill wasn’t suffering any more’. Brother’s Keeper, judge, 1992
‘Accused of killing his brother and roommate.’ ibid. television news
‘I didn’t know what I was saying.’ ibid. Delbert
WARD, JASON: Killer at the Crime Scene TV -
Mansfield, Nottingham, September 2002: An 87-year-old woman [Gladys Godfrey] has been murdered in her own home. A killer is on the loose … ‘A vicious violent long attack.’ Killer at the Crime Scene s1e4, Channel 5 2021
‘There had been a previous offence at Gladys’s home address almost 18 months ago.’ ibid. rozzer
CSIs have recovered fingerprints and a bloody footprint from the crime scene. ibid.
DNA shows many similarities amongst relatives … Swabs and fingerprints among these families are sent off … They had a positive match. ibid.
WARDELL, GORDON: Faking It: Tears of a Crime TV -
Robbery, kidnap and murder: but is the grief-stricken husband faking it? Faking It: Tears of a Crime s2e3: Shafelia Ahmed & Gordon Wardell, Discovery 2017
Nuneaton in Warwickshire 1994: scene of a headline-grabbing crime. The victim: Carole Wardell, 39 years old, married and a building society manager. ibid.
Gordon Wardell had claimed an armed gang had knocked him out and then undressed him. ibid.
WARMUS, CAROLYN: True Crime Recaps 2023 -
A young schoolteacher is charged with executing her lover’s wife so she can have him all to herself. True Crime Recaps: Real Life Fatal Attraction Murder! Youtube 19.19, 2023
The real-life fatal attraction plays out in the small town of Greenberg, New York. ibid.
WARNE, KARL & COLIN LOCKETT: The Real Manhunter TV -
This period was a pretty tough one for crimes on gay men. The Real Manhunter s2e7: Duncan Bone, Sky Crime 2022
The first murder I had been involved with as a detective inspector … I got the call out via a pager … There had been a fire with a body discovered that was very suspicious. ibid.
They weren’t the brightest criminals in the world because they’d used Duncan Bone’s phone after the murder to call for a minicab to take them from the scene … We just could not trace the driver. ibid.
Warne admits that he stabbed Duncan Bone … five times leaving three knives stuck in that man’s chest as he died. ibid.
WARNE, SUSAN: A Killer’s Mistake TV -
June 15th 2015 Leiston, England: An elderly man is attacked in his home. John Proctor was a man without enemies and no-one appeared to have a motive for his murder. A suspect emerges – a family woman, middle aged. A Killer’s Mistake s3e6: Susan Warne, DiscoveryPlus 2023
What motive could Susan Warne possibly have to kill the uncle she appeared to have loved? ibid.
She had not revealed the true extent of her [gambling] problem … Would that make her more desperate? ibid.
WARNOCK, JAMES: Faking It: Tears of a Crime TV -
A mystery unsolved for 33 years: Yianoulla Yianni. An amazing breakthrough. And the lies that exposed the killer … January 2016: In North London a man [James Warnock] is questioned by police … Faking It: Tears of a Crime s3e4: Harold Shipman & James Warnock, Discovery 2020
Yianoulla Yianni was seventeen years old … ‘He decided to come up with a cock-n-ball story of how the two were having a secret affair …’ ibid. Kerry Daynes, psychologist
In an unrelated investigation, in January 2016 police arrest a local man – James Warnock, aged 56. His DNA is direct match for DNA retrieved at the crime scene. ibid.
‘The girl. I knew her. The poor girl that got murdered, I knew her … We hit it off really big time …’ ibid. Warnock
Warnock’s face and ears start to give him away … ‘his cheeks and nose are increasing in redness’ … Then, arms and shoulders betray him too. ibid.