Inside the bank vault, police found a collection of torture instruments, including knives, a bloodstained saw, pliers, a double-barreled shotgun, rope, tape, rubber gloves, and a Variac metallurgy device that was used to administer electronic shocks to the victims' genitals. Several of the bodies were dismembered.
A thorough police investigation revealed something even more sinister at work: a vast conspiracy involving as many as seven perpetrators and 12 victims who were murdered between August 1992 and May 1999. The ringleader was John Bunting, a former neo-Nazi who harbored a deep hatred of pedophiles and homosexuals and targeted those he suspected of being such. The case, which was like a cross between the West Memphis Three murders and the Manson Family, became a media sensation in its native Australia due to a years-long trial – three jurors withdrew because of the horror of the evidence – and came to be known as the ‘Bodies in Barrels Murders’. The Daily Beast online article
It was a series of murders that would defy human comprehension. The revelations about the case would captivate and shock the nation … This is Snowtown and the Bodies in the Barrels murders were crimes that shook Australia. Crimes that Shook Australia s3e1: Snowtown, CI 2018
A tale of torture, cold-blooded murder and lead to Australia’s most prolific serial killer. ibid.
Police discovered that [Robert] Wagner was a friend of Barry Lane’s and now he’d been spotted taking money from the missing man’s bank account … The trial led to the home of a man who also knew Barry Lane: his name was John Bunting. ibid.
They [missing people] were all linked to the same two individuals. ibid.
They filled six large black barrels … bottles of acid … ‘When I took the lid off the first barrels I could see what appeared to be a mummified foot …’ ibid. rozzer
People were murdered as the killers covered their tracks or they had simply outlived their usefulness. ibid.
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‘Police are searching for the missing Burnley mum, Katie Kenyon.’ The Murder of Katie Kenyon, news, Youtube 41.33, 2023
April 2022: Police arrive at Andrew Burfield’s house. Katie Kenyon’s car is parked at the address. Katie’s family raise concerns. ibid. captions
He claims he threw an axe and hit Katie by accident. ibid.
The team finalise the phone evidence building a picture of premeditation. ibid.
The forest of Beaufort, an area of outstanding natural beauty … April 2022: in search of a mum of two named Katie Kinton … Tears of a Crime s7e6: Murder in the Forest
‘Andrew Burfield, a builder, odd-job man … Katie was vulnerable, she suffered from anxiety …’ ibid.
‘He reacts by gaslighting her.’ ibid. Kerry
He led them to a clearing seventy metres off the main track. ibid.
Burfield struck her twelve times with the axe. ibid.
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Just after midnight, Burger Chef in Speedway, Indiana: The back door was open … the place empty … all four of them [workers] were gone … The safe was wide open … One of the most notorious cases in the country. True Crime Recaps: Tragic Mystery of the Burger Chef Murders, Youtube 10.05, 2022
Daniel Davis and Mark Flemmonds both 16, Ruth Sheldon 17, the Assistant Manager 20-year-old Jane Friedt. The store manager arrived shortly after that and verified a total of $581 was also missing. ibid.
$100 worth of coins was left behind and so were the women’s purses and jackets … all pretty responsible employees. ibid.
An elderly couple hiking through woods in the next county over found Jane; someone had stabbed her to death so violently the blade broke off … Ruth and Daniel were nearby; their bodies were face down on the ground shot … Mark wasn’t far away; he had been beaten with a metal chain. ibid.
They [rozzers] were pretty sure they were looking for more than one suspect. ibid.
Eight years after the brutal mass murder a detective got a lead: Donald Forrester was a twice-convicted rapist … He claimed he was the man who had shot Daniel and Ruth. He said he and his buddies went to the restaurant for Jane; her brother owed the wrong person so they started leaning on her. Then Mark stepped in. From there the situation spiralled out of control … Not only did he [Forrester] lead them straight to the murder scene but he went on to describe exactly where and how they’d been positioned. ibid.
In the end they decided not to charge him and eventually cancer killed him in prison in 2006. ibid.
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March 2016: In Harrisburg, Illinois, a search is on for missing wife and mother Carla Burns. Joining the search her husband Brian. He warns she’s suicidal. But when charred human remains are discovered police become immediately suspicious. What part has her husband played in all this? It’s a story of control, of a failed marriage, and of greed. Meet, Marry, Murder s1e18, Netflix 2022
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Sometimes the cops don’t get the bad guy, so they create one.
That’s what Daryl Burton alleged that the St Louis Police Department did in relation to his wrongful conviction and imprisonment for the slaying of a man at a gas station in 1984.
Burton was sentenced to life in prison for the crime, but was exonerated in 2008 when a judge released him, agreeing that evidence suggesting he was an innocent man was kept from the jury during his trial.
After 24 years in prison and two years out, Burton sued the city, its board of police commissioners, and several police officers, alleging that witnesses were coached into accusing him of the crime. He also claimed that police created false reports and hid eyewitness descriptions of the actual murderer, who was killed in 1986. Oddee online report ‘10 of the Worst Wrongful Imprisonment Cases’
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In April 1997 in Stockport, Greater Manchester, a 17-year-old girl was abducted at knifepoint by a stranger. She was held hostage for over eleven hours. Unbeknownst to his victim, hours before her abduction, the stranger had brutally murdered another innocent woman in a gruesome act of violence. Britain’s Most Evil Killers: Nicholas Burton, Sky Crime 2023
Psychiatrists agreed that Burton was one of the most stable persons they had ever assessed. ibid.
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2011: 18-year-old Tony Bushby brutally murdered his girlfriend, 17-year-old Katy Wynter … stabbed 23 times in a sexually motivated attack. When Kids Kill: Catfish Killer, Channel 5 2017
It was on Facebook their relationship blossomed. ibid.
Bushby had an unhealthy interest with serial killers. ibid.
Unanimously found him guilty of murder. ibid.
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Lauria Bible and her best friend Ashley Freeman … Lauria had spent the day with her. People Magazine Investigates s5e12: Bible Belt Massacre, ID 2021
A fire at the Freeman residence … There are no signs of Danny, Kathy, Ashley or Lauria except for three vehicles in the driveway. ibid.
The next day an all-points bulletin is sent out for Ashley and Lauria, while the local community organises a search for the girls. ibid.
[Jeremy] Jones provides authorities with information they’ve been waiting for since 1999: the location of Lauria and Ashley’s bodies … [then] recants the confession. ibid.
Philip Welch is well known for his criminal record … Welch died in 2007 … Pennington and Welch were seen with the girls. ibid.
That only leaves Ronnie Busick alive … 2018: The OSPI arrest Ronnie Busick for the murders. ibid.
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30 miles south of Columbia, Missouri, is the state capital Jefferson City. 9-year-old Elizabeth Olten attended the local school and was a popular well-behaved child. Elizabeth’s best friend was Emma who lived down the road. Elizabeth and Emma often played together after school, and a local 15-year-old girl called Alyssa would watch over them. Killer Kids s2e4, Thrill Kill & Poisoned, LMN 2012
Despite the huge search overnight no-one could locate Elizabeth. ibid.
Alyssa had a difficult childhood. Police also discovered that Alyssa had a habit of self-harming. ibid.
‘I strangled her. And then I stabbed her. And then I buried her in a hole I had dug five days ago.’ ibid.
At 15 year old Alyssa Bustamante’s journal reads like a Stephen King novel … Her victim was 9-year-old neighbour Elizabeth Olten. True Crime Recaps: Alyssa Bustamante’s Shocking Diary Entry Reveals Sadistic Crimes, Youtube 14.10, 2022
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The TV actress, the partner and the cover up. London October 2013: at 12.46 a working mother is messaged from home. Then her mobile phone rang … It was the tragic end to the story of Ellie Butler, a little girl who had endured abuse at the hands of a violent, unstable father; her weak and terrified mother let it happen. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s3e7: Ben Butler & John Cooper, DiscoveryPlus 2021
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The disappearance of a marine engineer would unearth a dark tale of greed, deception and dishonesty. A brutal and violent crime that unravelled a twisted web of lies. Crimes that Shook Australia s3e10: Patricia Byers, CI 2018
Asquith had not just one life insurance policy in his name but they found there were actually five … all were forged. ibid.
Byers was arrested and charged with the attempted murder of John Asquith. In September 1994 she was found guilty and eventually sentenced to twelve years in prison. ibid.
51-year-old Carel Gottgens disappeared from Queensland in July 1990. ibid.