To die at the very hands of the very people sworn to protect us is for me the ultimate betrayal. Cops Who Kill With Will Mellor s1e1: Couzens, CI 2023
On the night of the 3rd March 2021 police officer Wayne Couzens kinapped, raped and murdered 33-year-old marketing executive Sarah Everard. ibid.
An innocent woman was taken from the street as she was walking home. ibid.
What drove Couzens to commit such a dispicable act? And more importantly, could he have been stopped? ibid.
This case was on another level. ibid.
‘We know that he started his preparation weeks earlier.’ ibid. rozzer
The police had to plough through hundreds of hours of CCTV to painstakingly piece together exactly what had happened to Sarah. ibid.
As soon as he’s shown that picture of Sarah, he knows he’s in trouble. ibid.
Detectives were gathering a mountain of evidence that pointed towards his guilt. ibid.
Couzens had a telling nickname: he was known as The Rapist. ibid.
He was finding his urges harder and harder to control. ibid.
Steven Jones was a celebrated police office cited for bravery. But on a cold January night in 1993 Jones’s wife Madallin is found dead next to a crashed car. It looked at first glance like a tragic road accident. However, the more officers investigated, the clearer it became that this was no ordinary accident. This was murder. 37-year-old Madallin was killed by her serving police office husband, Steven Jones. Cops Who Kill With Will Mellor s1e2: Jones, CI 2023
A man matching her husband’s description was spotted near the crime scene. ibid.
But at the scene things didn’t add up … Evidence of foul play was being uncovered. ibid.
‘It suggests that a metal object hit that window screen.’ ibid. comment
The Home Office pathologist who examined the body, Dr Donald Waite, ruled that the death had been by a blunt force trauma to the left side of her head … something like a truncheon. ibid.
He was very clearly the prime suspect in what was now a murder inquiry. ibid.
‘It was definitely that steel truncheon that did it.’ ibid. rozzer
On the morning of 29th August 2019, Keith Farquharson, a retired Detective Inspector, was asked by his wife of 30 years did he still love her? Less than an hour later, Alice Farquharson would be dead. Cops Gone Bad With Will Mellor: Keith Farquharson, Channel 5 2023
‘What he’s saying is that Alice has fallen out of bed and injured herself.’ ibid. ex-rozzer
Keith Farquharson had a dark side … a serial womaniser. ibid.
Behind the scenes he had a reputation for unsolicited attention of his female colleagues. ibid.
The senior officer who had arrived at the scene raised his concerns with CID. ibid.
The results of the postmortem were returned … ‘There’s indications of stangling taken place.’ ibid.
On 5th June 2009 Los Angeles police detective Stephanie Lawrence reported for work … What she didn’t know is that her colleagues had uncovered evidence of a murder that had been hidden for over two decades. Cops Who Kill s1e4, CI 2023
‘They discovered a bite-mark on Sherri’s arm.’ ibid. ex-rozzer
‘We know that Stephanie was obsessed with John.’ ibid.
Sherri Rasmussen’s family all pointed the finger to one particular LAPD cop.
Sydney, Australia, 2014: The day would end with the death of 20-year-old student, Jamie Gao, at the hands of Roger Rogerson and Glen McNamara, two former New South Wales police detectives. Thiis was one of the most documented murders in Australia, carried out by a pair of bent coppers with a long history of criminality. Cops Who Kill: Roger Rogerson & Glen McNamara, CI 2023
‘It’s just a cold-blooded calculated murder of a gullible young drug dealer.’ ibid. comment
‘Roger slid across to the dark side.’ ibid.
He had been associated with a drug-dealing operation and implicated in a gangland execution. And he’d gotten away with both. Over the following years he grew even more self-assured and considered himself untouchable. ibid.
Bobby Cutts junior was a charismatic and well-liked police officer in Canton, Ohio, in America’s mid-west … In June 2007 Bobby Cutts jr’s 26-year-old girlfriend, Jessie Davis, heavily pregnant with their child, disappeared, seemingly without a trace. The disappearance sparked a massive state-wide search which became national news. 10 days later her lifeless body was found dumped om a state park in northeastern Ohio. Cops Who Kill s1e7, CI 2023
When she arrived at her daughter’s home, she discovered her 2-year-old grandson, Blake, home alone. Investigators at the scene noticed a strong smell of bleach in the house and signs of a struggle. ibid.
Bobby and Jessie’s relationship wasn’t quite as perfect as it seemed. ibid.
Little Blake had been right. His mother’s lifeless body had been wrapped in a rug. ibid.
In an effort to evade justice, he tried to cover up his dispicable crime and carry on as if nothing had happened. Cops Who Kill s1e8: Darren McKie, CI 2023
Aside from their money worries, they seemed to have a happy relationship. ibid.
‘There’s no reports of previous domestic violence.’ ibid. pscyhologist
Despite his police knowledge and his attempts to stage a fake crime scene, once Leanne’s body was found and identified, McKie was immediately arrested. ibid.
This is the story of one of Australia’s top officers gone rogue. He was known for putting drug traffickers behind bars. But this cop was playing both sides. Cops Gone Bad with Will Mellor: Mark Standen, CI 2024
The actions of the Dutch cartel that Kinch was a part of was starting to make the Australian press. ibid.
The Australian police thought Standen had flipped Kinch to help their war on drugs. ibid.
They started to realise that Standon was most probably the instigator. ibid.
‘His financial position was certainly not a strong one.’ ibid. rozzer
‘We know that he was having an affair and that was trying to maintain a particular lifestyle.’ ibid. psychologist
This is one of the most bizarre cases I’ve ever heard. This cop’s crimes involve food contamination, blackmail, and threats to harm children. Cops Gone Bad With Will Mellor: Rodney Whitchelo
August 1988 and a parcel arrives on the managing director’s desk at Pedigree petfoods, one of the biggest-selling petfood manufacturers in Britain. Inside was a demand for £100,000. ibid.
March 1989: An anonymous letter lands on the desk of the managing director of Heinz Foods. ibid.
The blackmailer is planting lethal objects in the food of innocent babies. ibid.
‘Five children were hospitalized.’ ibid. ex-rozzer
‘The blackmailer and the person now trying to claim the reward as the ‘informant’ are one and the same.’ ibid.
Police are swamped with thousands of calls a day. ibid.
‘An extraordinary array of copycat cases.’ ibid.
The police settled down to an old-fashioned stakeout. ibid.
When the helmet come off, it’s one Rodney Witchelo. ibid.
He was a highly skilled detective. ibid.
‘Rodney Whitchelo will spend much of his 17-year jail sentence apart from other prisoners for his own protection.’ ibid. TV news