HELZER, GLENN & JUSTIN & DAWN GODMAN: True Crime with Aphrodite Jones TV - Mail online - People Magazine Investigates TV -
Five murders so gruesome even police were shocked. It was the work of a cult, a cult of three, out to defeat Satan and heal the world. What turned this latter-day saint into a modern day Charles Manson? True Crime with Aphrodite Jones s2e9: Children of Thunder, ID 2011
Glenn Taylor Helzer: At age fourteen Taylor started hearing voices. ibid.
A budding psychopath who thought he had a special relationship with God. ibid.
Taylor called his two minions [brothers former Mormons] the Children of Thunder. ibid.
July 30th 2000 ... Ivan and Annette Stineman, an elderly couple who were friends as well as former clients of Taylor. The brothers kidnapped the couple, and with Dawn’s help forced them to write two cheques totalling $100,000 payable to Selina Bishop. Then they drugged the Stinemans and tried to kill them by banging their hands on the floor. When cracking their skulls didn’t work, Taylor finished them off with a knife. ibid.
The murders made headlines across the country. ibid.
Empowerment training became the devil in this person’s head. ibid.
His belief in himself as a prophet never wavered. ibid.
Justin Helzer, 41, received three death sentences in 2005 for the murders.
Helzer’s brother, Glenn Taylor Helzer, called himself a prophet who wanted to kill Mormon leaders and take over the church.
The siblings and a female accomplice called themselves Children of Thunder and hatched a plot to extort $100,000 from an elderly couple.
The death row inmate who killed guitarist Elvin Bishop’s daughter and four others in 2000 murder-extortion plot died of an apparent suicide, California prison officials announced Monday.
Justin Helzer, 41, was found dead Sunday night in his single cell at San Quentin Prison, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation told NBC Bay Area.
Corrections Lt Sam Robinson said Helzer used a sheet tied to his cell bars to hang himself. He was found dead during a security check at around 10.17 p.m.
An earlier suicide attempt two years ago had left the 41-year-old death row inmate blind.
Helzer and his brother Glenn Helzer, who went by his middle name Taylor, were sentenced to death in 2005 for the murders, which were planned as part of a bizarre blackmail scheme.
Taylor Helzer was a stock broker and self-described prophet seeking to raise money for a religious group he had launched to hasten Christ’s return to Earth. Mail online article 16th April 2013, ‘Notorious killer who murdered five people in bizarre plot ‘to speed Christ's return to Earth’ hangs himself on death row’
A gruesome discovery is made in a river … The secret cult called the Children of Thunder … It’s about a charismatic cult leader who seduces his people to do his evil, and a sick conspiracy involving extortion, sex and murder all in the name of God. People Magazine Investigates s3e12: Children of Thunder, ID 2018
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Tuesday 3rd May 2016: ‘Yes, my love, my daughter’s been missing for forty-eight hours. We have just been up to Milton Keynes to her partner and he says he doesn’t know where she is. It’s Natalie Hemming. It’s worrying me because it’s not like her.’ Catching a Killer, mother’s 999 call, Channel 4 2017
‘The six-year-old has drawn us a nice plan of the lounge because he was saying there were wet patches on the lounge floor, one of them’s on the hardwood floor, one is on a red rug which is now not there and dad works for a rug company.’ ibid. rozzer
They have managed to find some blood in the living room and they’ve examined the boot of his car … and they can see there’s a small amount of blood … There’s some red fibres in the car … We’ve now changed this from a high-risk missing person and we’re now treating it as a murder investigation.’ ibid. liaison rozzer to family
‘I’d do time for him, I tell ya.’ ibid. Natalie’s mother
Immediately, Natalie’s mother knew that there was something very very wrong here. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s7e1: The Impossible Murder, Kerry, DiscoveryPlus 2023
He’s [Paul] having a lot of trouble here … gestural retreat … a fake expression … there’s no tears … ibid. Cliff
We don’t see evidence of him showing concern for Natalie. ibid. Dawn
Paul Hemming was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life. ibid.
HENRIQUEZ, ALEJANDRO: Piers Morgan TV -
‘I am innocent of these killings.’ Serial Killers with Piers Morgan: Alex Henriquez, Henriquez, ITV 2018
This man is one of America’s most notorious serial killers. He’s convicted of three murders and suspected of more. But he proclaims he’s innocent. Henriquez admits he did know all the victims; one was just ten years old. ibid.
‘There was no other person that could have done it.’ ibid. juror
HENRY, DON & KEVIN IVES: Phenomenon: The Lost Archives TV - True Crime Recaps 2022 -
On a humid August night in 1987 two high school seniors Don Henry and Kevin Ives while hiking in the woods of their nearby Southern community paid a terrible price for being in the wrong place at the wrong time: the facts in the case indicate that the two boys happened upon a transaction of some kind involving a ring of long-time smugglers and billion-dollar drug profiteers. Phenomenon: The Lost Archives s1e4: American Midnight, 1998
Dr Malak failed to notice clear evidence of beating marks and a stab wound. ibid.
Two years of botched investigations, blatant lies, false autopsies and cover ups. ibid.
In the 1980s the most notorious drug smuggler in America was Barry Seal … recruited by the CIA … He amasses a fleet of aeroplanes with a network of pilots and mechanics. ibid.
Two teenagers are hit by a train in Arkansas; the medical examiner says the two boys laid down next to each other and fell asleep on the tracks. It was an accident. Or was it? As the distraught families dig deeper they start to suspect a cover-up. True Crime Recaps: The Boys on the Tracks: Suicide or Corrupt Cover-Up? Youtube 13.58, 2022
It seems as though everyone in the sleepy Arkansas community has something to hide and no-one is talking. ibid.
Why would the crew say they saw a tarp if they didn’t? … They did find a rifle placed precisely parallel to their bodies on the tracks, a flashlight laid next to that. ibid.
Their families were told it was a tragic accident … Strangely, their so-called accident was incredibly similar to another case three years earlier. ibid.