EDWARDS, AUSTIN LEE: True Crime Recaps 2023 -
You never really know who you’re talking to online … The gruesome triple murder of a 15-year-old’s family and the sickening fate that her fake boyfriend [Austin Lee Edwards] had in mind for her … She was Brooke Winek’s daughter. True Crime Recaps: Her Fake Online Boyfriend Had Something in Mind, Youtube 8.51, 2023
Police rescued the teenage girl and opened fire on the driver … but the San Bernardino sheriff’s department said the fatal wound was self-inflicted. ibid.
EDWARDS, BRADLEY: Night Stalker: Terror in a Small Town TV -
A major breakthrough in the longest-running and most expensive murder investigation in Australian history. Night Stalker: Terror in a Small Town, TV news, Channel 5 2023
How could he go thirty years under the radar committing the most heinous crimes that this country has ever seen and not get caught? ibid. woman
1996 Perth, Australia: There was a tiny little piece in the West Australian about a missing person … Everything told you there was something not right about this missing girl. ibid. crime researcher
Here she is disappearing from one of the safest neighbourhoods in Australia. ibid.
The first mass DNA testing in Australia. ibid.
23-year-old child care worker Jane Louise Rimmer was last seen by friends outside Claremont’s Continental hotel. ibid. TV news
The stains on the kimono matched the DNA from the Claremont and the Karrakatta incidents. ibid. rozzer
The Huntingdale prowler was something new to us.
When the fingerprints came back there was a match. ibid.
EDWARDS, EDWARD WAYNE: People Magazine Investigates TV -
In the middle of the night on August 6th 1997 a young couple was making out in a car when they were killed without warning. Police were looking for a serial killer. People Magazine Investigates s2e10: My Father the Serial Killer, Discovery 2018
After April’s brother shares that when they were kids Edwards stabbed their mother, April and her siblings begin to wonder if their family’s past may hold deeper and darker secrets. ibid.
‘Mr Edwards is implicated by DNA evidence.’ ibid. news
EDWARDS, ELIZABETH & KATIE murders: When Kids Kill TV -
In April 2016 dinner lady Elizabeth Edwards and her daughter Katie were slaughtered in Spalding by a pair of 14-year-old sweethearts in what is believed to be Britain’s youngest ever double murder. When Kids Kill s2e6: No Name Killers, Channel 5 2016
Who do these anonymity orders benefit? ibid.
‘The boy also stabbed Katie through the front; she also was smothered with a pillow.’ ibid.
EINHORN, IRA: People Magazine Investigates TV -
The medical examiner’s report reveals just how dark and disturbed he is. And so begins an international manhunt. People Magazine Investigates s3e10: The Unicorn Killer, Discovery 2019
Holly [Maddox] settles into her new life in Philadelphia … In 1972 she meets a man named Ira Einhorn. ibid.
Holly’s parents contact the Philadelphia police. In 1977 there was a missing person’s report filed. ibid.
ELDRIDGE, BRITTANY murder: Dateline: The Murder of Brittany Eldridge TV -
She was a bright young mom to be. Moving on from a messy divorce, jumping into a new romance. No-one could believe it when they found her. Then police found something else when reviewing recordings: could she point police to her killer? Dateline: The Murder of Brittany Eldridge: Deadly Circumstances, Sky Crime 2020
A married woman having an affair with a co-worker … Norman and Britney kept their relationship on the down-low … Their secret affair became not so secret … She was pregnant: the father was her co-worker … ibid.
Brittany Eldridge had been strangled and stabbed in the throat. Police found her on the floor next to her bed. ibid.
In fact, there had been a series of burglaries in the area in recent days. ibid.
When the results of Terry’s [ex-husband] DNA test came back from the lab, they didn’t match the samples from the crime scene. Police also found out he was nowhere near Brittany’s apartment at the time of her murder. ibid.
Interviewer: How many women were you seeing at the time?
Norman: Maybe fifteen to twenty. ibid.
Norman was arrested on May 14th 2014: he pleaded not guilty … They [jury] could not reach a verdict: eleven not guilty, only one guilty … Only this time the jury wanted to convict … another hung jury. ibid.
ELLIS, CHARLENE & LETISHA SHAKESPEARE murders: The Killer Within
In 2003 a desire for revenge cost two innocent girls their lives … On 2nd January 2003 shots rang out at a party in Aston, Birmingham. Chaos ensued as party-goers ran for cover. When the panic had died down the bodies of two young women were found lifeless on the street. Teenagers Charlene Ellis and Letisha Shakespeare would be innocent victims. The murder was carried out by four childhood friends. The Killer Within s1e8: Ellis, Gregory, Martin & Simms, Sky Crime 2021
ELLIS, RITA murder: In the Footsteps of Killers TV -
Rita Ellis: an unsolved murder. 1967, a brutal attack on a cold November night. She was an RAF servicewoman … She is seen walking towards a red car … There were 2,000 people working on the camp … Her body was found in a copse beyond these trees. In the Footsteps of Killers s1e3: Rita Ellis, Channel 4 2021
There were a number of attacks in the weeks and months after Rita was murdered around RAF Halton that have similar characteristics to each other. ibid.
ELLIS, RUTH [viz Miscarriages of Justice: Ellis, Ruth]: Andrew Marr TV - Inside the Old Bailey TV - Watford Observer - Fred Dinenage: Murder Casebook TV - Pip Granger - Justice Baroness Butler-Sloss - David Wilson - Ruth Ellis - Pathé News - Albert Pierrepoint - Rough Justice: Ruth Ellis: A Life for a Life TV - The Ruth Ellis Files: A Very British Crime Story TV - Crime & Punishment: A Timewatch Guide TV - Inside Holloway: Women Behind Bars TV -
The Ruth Ellis case was a genuine watershed in British justice: hanging had been very popular in this country but what was done on that July morning to a young, traumatised, and abused woman horrified and disgusted millions of the Queen’s subjects. New Elizabethans With Andrew Marr I: Building a New Society, BBC 2020
An Old Bailey trial that saw the last woman in Britain executed for murder. It was a troubling case in which for some the law and justice seemed to be at odds. On 20th June 1955 a woman named Ruth Ellis left her cell at the Old Bailey on her way to Court 1. She was accused of murder. Inside the Old Bailey s1e6, Channel 5 2018
Life was never easy for Ruth Ellis. Having given birth to a son whose father turned out to be a married man, she later had a daughter to her husband, George Ellis, a drunkard. She then suffered a long and violent love-hate relationship with her racing car boyfriend, David Blakely. And now, not long after she had miscarried his baby, he was ignoring her, choosing instead to drink with friends, including a woman known to have been his lover. Small wonder that Ruth was hurt, angry and frustrated, and that her tortured mind, possibly driven by alcohol and certainly by jealousy, sought retribution. But no-one, least of all Blakely himself, could have predicted that she would step from a doorway armed with a revolver to kill the man she loved.
It was Easter Sunday, 1955, and Ruth was 28 years old. Five shots she fired into David Blakely’s body, as he emerged from the Magdala Tavern, Hampstead, with a male friend. At point-blank range Blakely stood no chance. His killing, as murders go, was unremarkable. Several people witnessed the shooting, and Ruth Ellis never attempted to deny it. But the murder of David Blakely is remembered after so many years for one reason: that Ruth Ellis was the last woman to be hanged in England.
Should she have hanged? Was she guilty of murder, and not manslaughter, as she might have been? This woman acquired a gun, was driven to a place she believed her intended victim to be, where she shot him in cold blood, not once but five times – hardly a spontaneous deed or an act of self-defence, no matter that she had been the victim of so much violence at the hands – and fists – of the man she killed. Watford Observer library article
In 1955 a murder was committed outside this pub in Hampstead, London. The victim was David Blakely, and what made his killing so shocking was that his attacker had been his lover: Ruth Ellis. Fred Dinenage: Murder Casebook: Ruth Ellis, CI 2011
Her name remains in the history books as the last woman to be hanged in Britain. ibid.
Ruth underwent several illegal abortions during her time working as a hostess. ibid.
She then turned the gun on herself, but the gun misfired. ibid.
I’ve got enormous sympathy for Ruth Ellis, because she just didn’t have the self-awareness to be able to drag herself out of the mire she had got herself in ... She let the hangman do it for her. Pip Granger