I murdered three men but it could be worse – I could be big, fat, black and ugly. Joanna Dennehy
Three men have been brutally murdered. Their bodies unceremoniously dumped in the Cambridgeshire countryside … And now she is picking her victims at random … One of Britain’s most notorious serial killers. Crimes that Shook Britain: Joanna Dennehy s7e3, CI 2017
A pathological liar with sociopathic tendencies. ibid.
On 30th March 2013 a man’s body was discovered in a ditch near Newborough, Cambridgeshire. His name was Kevin Lee … Bizarrely, he was wearing a dress. Meet the Psychopaths I: Psycho Killers, Channel 5 2015
Joanna Dennehy was known to police for petty crime. But they’d never seen the true depths of her disturbed personality. Her killing spree shocked the nation … Joanna lived in one of Kevin Lee’s rented properties and worked in his property letting business. ibid.
Kevin Lee was not her first victim, he was her third. ibid.
She placed one of the men’s bodies in a wheely-bin and decided to show it off to a fourteen-year-old girl she had befriended. bid.
Dennehy was after more men; within an hour two were fighting for their lives. ibid.
She was arrested without a struggle. ibid.
She will never be released from prison. ibid.
Dennehy was the mother of two daughters, the first born when she was seventeen, the second six years later but she would still disappear for weeks and months and be in constant trouble. Dennehy was drinking heavily and began to cut herself. ibid.
A schoolgirl from a loving home turned psychopath who killed for fun. One of only three British women ever to be told she will never be released from prison. But what drove Joanna Dennehy to murder three men and try to kill two others in a two-week spree? Joanna Dennehy: Killing for Kicks s/a Beyond Evil: The Peterborough Ditch Murderer, Channel 5 2017
‘Attempted murder and murder is nothing.’ ibid. Dennehy
Dennehy and Treanor had two children but according to him she showed little interest in them. ibid.
Calmly waited in the car to be arrested. ibid.
Dennehy is now in Bronzefield Prison in Surrey where she has spent much of her time in isolation. ibid.
But how and why did the teenage Dennehy transform into a psychotic murderer? And what caused her hatred of men? ibid.
A murderer addicted to pain who kills for pleasure, turns nightmares into reality, high on suffering, immune to all reason, a rare killer hides in suburbia waiting to strike with no fear of the consequences. Killers: Behind the Myth s3e6: Joanna Dennehy, BBC 2016
Inside [the car] they find Joanna Dennehy: she sits just waiting to be captured … ‘She’s covered in blood; she seems fairly calm.’ ibid.
Dennehy begins to self-harm; she even self-tattoos a star beneath her right eye. ibid.
She’s diagnosed with an anti-social personality problem. ibid.
Dennehy has discovered murder is her pleasure trigger. ibid.
In March 2013 a man walking his dog on the outskirts of Peterborough in Cambridgeshire made a shocking and grisly discovery. Dumped in a rural ditch was the body of a man who had been violently stabbed to death. Police didn’t know it yet but there was a serial killer on the loose. Britain’s Most Evil Killers s1e6: Joanne Dennehy, Pick TV 2017
For no other reason than the pleasure and gratification it offered her. During a 12-day killing spree Joanna Dennehy butchered three men and left a trail of destruction. ibid.
One of the most dangerous women in criminal history. ibid.
Footage of Dennehy in custody at Hereford police station just forty minutes after stabbing two men and leaving them for dead showed her laughing and joking with the arresting officers. ibid.
The posing of the victim’s body after death often reveals a twisted inner need. Born to Kill: Class of Evil s1e6: Joanne Dennehy, Really 2018
30-year-old Joanna Dennehy was known to have a close relationship with local criminal Gary Stretch. ibid.
‘A stable family, she grew up in a loving home.’ ibid. rozzer
The wild child also started to self-harm. ibid.
What was driving Joanna Dennehy? Dennehy would later be diagnosed with having a sadomasochistic sexual paraphilia. ibid.
Around 2012 Dennehy served a series of short sentences in prison. ibid.
Joanna Dennehy was not looking to evade capture ... Joanna Dennehy appeared oblivious to the severity of her crimes. ibid.
How did this bright girl from a good home become one of Britain’s most notorious and cold-blooded serial killers? Over two weeks in 2013 Joanna Dennehy went on a killing spree, murdering three men and attempting to kill two others. Joanna Dennehy: Serial Killer, ITV 2019
Both Dennehy and Stretch were missing: police considered them very dangerous. ibid.
Joanna Dennehy was on a mission: she had two men under her control in the car and was now hunting for more men to murder. ibid.
‘She’s got nothing to say in all of the interviews. She gives no explanation. She gives us nothing to work with. Her behaviour is quite different from the custody office.’ ibid. rozzer
In March 2013 Joanna Dennehy commenced a killing spree that shocked Britain … A psychopathic serial killer … ‘Joanna Dennehy is one of the rare human beings that exist in this world who are essentially born to kill.’ The Killer in My Family s2e1: Joanae Dennehy, Emma Kenny, Quest Red 2020
Despite showing the body in the bin to a local teenager, it’s not discovered by police and Dennehy seems to have got away with murder. ibid.
She was one of those rare individuals: a real psychopath … no sense of human balance. ibid.