The helpline received more than 20,000 calls … Privately, police feared the worst … Police already had her killer in their sights: Roy Whiting, a convicted paedophile, had snatched Sarah from this lane as she had walked to her grandparent’s home. He later buried her lifeless body in a shallow grave in this field nineteen miles away. ibid.
His first crucial mistake: the location … When questioned by officers at his flat, his behaviour had raised suspicions. But Whiting was about to make another mistake that would prove he was lying: the white van … Another of his mistakes: the cover-up. ibid.
He’d abducted and sexually assaulted a nine-year-old girl in Crawley in 1995. After serving just two and a half years he was released. ibid.
WHITMAN, CHARLES: Great Crimes & Trials TV - Deranged Killers: Charles Whitman TV - Charles Whitman - Tower 2016 -
July 1966: Here in Austin, Texas, just two weeks later an even more random mass killing [than Richard Speck] took place ... The first shot ripped in the leg of a student who was cycling round the campus. Three more fell in quick succession. By the time the gunman had finished he had killed twelve people at or near the Tower. Great Crimes & Trials s2e16: Charles Whitman, BBC 1994
His father was a believer in frequent physical punishment. ibid.
Whitman admitted to have fits of rage against family and friends and, that like his father, he beat his wife. He also revealed that he fantasised about shooting people from the university tower. ibid.
He seemed to be the All American boy. But dark thoughts cloud the mind of Charles J Whitman. On August 1st 1966 he barricaded himself at the top of the clock tower at the University of Texas and began shooting. In ninety-six minutes Charlie Whitman gunned down forty-five strangers, killing fourteen. Deranged Killers: Charles Whitman
Charlie nursed a hatred for his father. His violence wasn’t the only reason. ibid.
Whitman went to the home of his mother Margaret. She had recently moved to Austin to escape her brutal husband. Whitman attacked her as soon as he entered her flat. ibid.
Whitman had been taking amphetamines in the months leading up to the killings. ibid.
The bravery of a few officers would end the carnage. ibid.
Pathologists discovered that he had a brain tumour. ibid.
I have just taken my mother’s life. I am very upset over having done it. Charles Whitman
I never could make it. Charles Whitman, diary entry day of massacre
Stay away from the university area. There is a sniper on the university tower firing at will. Tower, radio station’ warning, 2010
I just felt this huge jolt. Like I’d stepped on this live wire. ibid. pregnant student
August 1st started out as a typical summer day in Austin, Texas. ibid. radio station
I realised there was someone shooting from the tower. ibid. photographer
After I got shot the baby never moved. ibid. pregnant student
I’ve never been more scared. ibid. rescuer
Consider yourself deputised. ibid. rozzer on roof to volunteer
WHITAKER, BART et al: People Magazine Investigates TV -
In Sugarland, Texas, there is a killer on the loose … Sugarland police know that the threat of an armed burglar who has already killed two people and who is on the run could send the community into a frenzy. People Magazine Investigates s3e7, ID 2018
Bart’s [Whitaker] SUV is found abandoned, the door is opened, the motor is running, and Bart is nowhere to be found. ibid.
‘So we believe Chris Brashear was the shooter [three of the Whitaker family], and we knew Steve Champagne was involved.’ ibid. rozzer
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WIGGINTON, TRACEY et al: Killer Trials TV - News online Australia -
In January 1991 a twenty-five-year-old sheet-metal-work student stands before a judge in Brisbane, Australia ... accused of the murder of a middle-aged man. Killer Trials s1e2: Tracy Wigginton: Lesbian Vampire Killers, 2013
The trial of Wigginton’s alleged three accomplices in the murder ... sensational allegations ... They have fallen under the spell of a lesbian vampire. Could they possibly be telling the truth? ibid.
The women share a morbid interest in the occult. ibid.
Drawn, weary and looking much older than her 46 years, this is the first photo of notorious lesbian vampire killer Tracey Wigginton since her release from nearly 23 years of jail.
She is visibly frail, moving about on crutches and much larger than she was before imprisonment, the Courier-Mail reported.
One of her 31 conditions prohibits her from speaking to the media unless gaining permission from the parole board, but sources close to Wigginton say she just wants to get on with her life away from the public glare. News online Australia article 13th January 2012
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First they strike. Then they pretend to grieve. They appeal for help. But hide the truth. Tonight - crocodile tears. The killers caught in the spotlight. The killers caught in a trap of their own deceit. Real Crime [with Mark Austin] s2e3: Crocodile Tears, ITV 2002
‘The children of Robert Wignall, grief-striken and baffled by the brutal murder of a father they loved.’ ibid. news report
Bob had gone with his wife Sandra to feed some fox cubs when he was attacked and stabbed several times in the chest. Sandra managed to escape. They’d been married less than a year. ibid.
Sandra gave police a description of three men she said attacked her husband. ibid.
Sandra’s secret world was about to unravel. ibid.
WILBERN, RICHARD LEON: People Magazine Investigates TV -
August 12 2003: ‘This was a takeover where he took control of the bank.’ People Magazine Investigates s7e12: Manhunt, Quest Red 2023
On the shores of Lake Ontario in upstate New York is the town of Webster … On that [Xerox] campus was a man named Raymond Batzel. He was a machine operator who had worked there for decades … Raymond Batzel was going to make his last car payment at the Xerox Federal Credit Union … ‘A gunshot, then two seconds later another gunshot …’ ibid.
‘We didn’t know where our suspect went.’ ibid. rozzer
He left something crucial behind – his image. ibid.
They had a [DNA] profile but now they need a match … ibid.
WILKINSON, SCOTT murder: Killer at the Crime Scene TV -
A body has been discovered in the River Thames. Local fisherman Scott Wilkinson has been beaten to death. Killer at the Crime Scene s1e3, Channel 5 2021
Police have discovered an abandoned website just metres from where Scott’s body was found. Identifying who has been staying her could be integral to the investigation. ibid.
The extent of Scott’s injuries suggest more than one attacker. ibid.
Three suspects have been forensically linked to the crime scene … 16-year-old Lenny Crawt … older brother Shane Crawt … 21-yea-old Charlie Smith. ibid.
WILLIAMS, CARL & JOHNSON, MATTHEW CHARLES: Australian Families of Crime TV - Telegraph online -
On a winter’s Saturday morning in 2003 ... Notorious gangster Jason Moran is sitting in his family van chatting with one of his men. In the back seat are five children including Moran’s six-year-old twins. A hired killer steps up to the car. Both men are assassinated. The killings are the latest and most brazen in a series of seventeen gangland murders over five years. They’ve been carried out on the orders of a man who’ll become known as a mass murderer, a killer with a perpetual smile, who never did his own dirty work but who paid others to ambush his enemies – Carl Williams. Australian Families of Crime s1e1: Carl Williams: Baby Face Killer, Nine Network 2010