Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and the coasts thereof from Tirzah: because they opened not to him, therefore he smote it; and all the women therein that were with child he ripped up. II Kings 15:14-16
But when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal of the house of Judah. II Chronicles 22:10
For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant men; because they had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers. II Chronicles 28:6
Because that she had been married to seven husbands, whom Asmodeus the evil spirit had killed, before they had lain with her. Dost thou not know, said they, that thou hast strangled thine husbands? Thou hast had already seven husbands, neither wast thou named after any of them. Tobias 3:8
Which thing when Mattathias saw, he was inflamed with zeal, and his reins trembled, neither could he forbear to shew his anger according to judgment: wherefore he ran, and slew him upon the altar.
Also the king’s commissioner, who compelled men to sacrifice, he killed at that time, and the altar he pulled down. I Maccabees 2:24-25
Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men. Matthew 2:16
November 2006: in a ditch outside Atlantic City police discover more bodies – bizarrely all of them are facing east. Dark Minds: The Eastbound Strangler, ID 2014
Does the Eastbound Strangler have a foot fetish? ibid.
In rural Connecticut and Mississippi blonde, blue eyed girls disappear without a trace. Could they all be victims of one monster? Dark Minds s2e2: Blonde, Blued Eyed & Gone
Barrister. Found naked. Hands tied behind his back. Little pair of lady’s underpants found on the pillow next to him. Suspects I: Bound & Gagged, boss to Jack, Channel 4 2014
Within a few days of Paul VI’s return to Rome the Pope let it be known that Rome was ready to take a new look at secret societies. The stage was now set for full Papal approval of membership in secret societies. On 27th November 1983, Pope John Paul II issued the papal bull which legalised secret society membership for Roman Catholics. Pope VI continued to promote the New World Order until his death. New World Order: The Devil in the Vatican
In the early evening of Saturday, 26th August 1978, hundreds of thousands of people rejoiced to see the white smoke emanating from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel. Shortly thereafter 7:18 p.m. Pericle Cardinal Felici stepped out on the balcony above the main doors of St Peter’s Basilica and announced Habemus papem [We have a Pope] and announced his name: Cardinal Albino Luciani, who took the name of Pope John Paul I ... He only served thirty-three days. ibid.
With his bright intelligence and naive fearlessness John Paul I penetrated to the heart of this maze of corruption within weeks of his coronation. On the evening of 28th September 1978 he called Cardinal [Jean] Villot, the leader of the powerful Curia, to his private study to discuss certain changes that he proposed to make public the following day. Among those whose resignations would be accepted by the Pontiff the following day were the head of the Vatican Bank and several members of the Curia who were implicated in the activities of Sindona and P2 and Villot himself. When Pope John Paul I retired to his bedroom on the evening of 28th September clutching the paperwork that would expose the Vatican’s financial dealings with the Mafia and purge the Curia of those responsibly, a number of very ruthless individuals had a great interest in seeing to it that he would never awaken to issue these directives. ibid.
In Mexico less than 2% of murders resulted in convictions in 2012. Meth and Madness in Mexico: Stacey Dooley Investigates I, BBC 2018
Laura Ling: There have been more than a thousand murders this year ... How many of those murders have been solved?
Rozzer: Not one. Vanguard: Mexican Drug Wars
Brian 21 years old arrested at 16: ‘Columbine kind of created a sub-culture for disenfranchised kids.’ Teen Killers: Life Without Parole, BBC 2015
The worse crime a woman could commit in the eighteenth century was the murder of her husband. Amanda Vickery, Suffragettes: Forever! The Story of Women and Power ***** BBC 2015
As a criminologist, every day someone will ask me, Who’s Britain’s worst murderer? Professor David Wilson, Measuring Evil: Britain’s Worst Killers s1e1
But how can we measure Britain’s worst murderer? ibid.
2012: Stephen Farrow: murder of vicar and old lady: ‘a psychopath, a drifter, a man of limited intelligence.’ ibid. Geoffrey Wansell
2012: Dale Cregan: ‘despicable act, one of pure evil, the cold-blooded murder of two female police officers.’ ibid. David Cameron
2007: Rahan Arshad: For the murder of his wife and three children ... with a baseball bat. ibid.
1988: John Duffy: known in the press as the Railway Killer ... increasingly sadistic. ibid.
2002: Ian Huntley: he was found to host a string of criminal convictions. ibid.
1986: Kenneth Erskine: octogenarians murdered in their own beds. ibid.
1984-2013: Ian McLoughlin: a killer had been set free [twice] only to kill again. ibid.
2009-2010: Stephen Griffiths: he murdered three sex workers ... a desperate narcissistic attempt to gain notoriety ... he intended to go down in history as a serial murderer. ibid.
2002-2004: Levi Bellfield: attacks on women throughout the 1990s, murderer of Milly Dowler … He was nicknamed ‘The Bus-Stop Killer’. ibid.
1990/2000: John Sweeney was jailed for attempted murder in 1994 … 2011 ‘a jury found him guilty of two murders.’ ibid.
2000/2002: Anthony Hardy: The Camden Ripper: murdering three women to satisfy his depraved and perverted sexual needs … widely suspected of having killed six other women. ibid.
September-December 1995: Peter Moore: elements of sadism … his murder of four men in seemingly sexually motivated attacks in north Wales … ‘He describes the killings as fun.’ ibid.
30 October – 10 December 2006: Suffolk Strangler: five victims – sex workers with Class A drugs habits. ibid.
Dates Unknown or how many murders we should assign to him: Peter Tobin. ibid.
1981 fit to plead: Peter Sutcliffe, Yorkshire Ripper: thirteen women many of whom were vulnerable because they were sex workers. ibid.
Robert Black: Fear and panic for almost every parent in the country. A man who almost single-handedly destroyed the idea of childhood in Britain. He was a paedophile who abducted, raped and killed three girls between the ages of five and eleven between 1982 and 1986. ibid.
Dennis Nilsen: Who murdered and dismembered fifteen young men at his house in North London ... drains that were clogged with human remains. ibid.
Rose West: including one of her own daughters and her stepdaughter ... Her crimes were executed with extreme and prolonged elements of torture. ibid.
Joanna Dennehy: Britain has never known a women so disturbed or so driven in pursuit of death ... She humiliated them even after their deaths. ibid.
Ian Brady: The worst crimes of the twentieth century. ibid.
My father – he hates me … I get so sore at him sometimes I want to kill him. Stranger on a Train 1951 starring Farley Granger & Ruth Roman & Robert Walker & Leo G Carroll & Patricia Hitchcock & Laura Elliott & Marion Larone & Jonathan Hale & Howard St John & John Brown & Norma Vare & Robert Gist et al, director Alfred Hitchcock, weirdo to hero
You do my murder – I do yours. For example, your wife, my father – criss-cross. ibid.
We planned it on the train together, remember? ibid.
Daddy doesn’t mind a little scandal – he’s a senator. ibid. sister of bird
It’s Miss Cooper. She’s not moving. Death Goes to School 1953 starring Barbara Murray & Gordon Jackson & Pamela Alan & Jane Aird & Beatrice Varley & Ann Butchart et al, director Stephen Clarkson, Julie
Nobody’s ever been arrested for a murder; they have only ever been arrested for not planning it properly. Terry Hayes, I Am Pilgrim
Other sins only speak; murther shrieks out:
The element of water moistens the earth,
But blood flies upwards, and bedews the heavens. John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi