ROSS, MICHAEL: The Black Watch Assassin TV - The Independent online - World's Most Evil Killers TV - The Orkney Assassin: Murder in the Isles TV -
In one of the most remote corners of the British Isles a hooded assassin carries out what appears to be a contract killing. The Black Watch Assassin
The man accused of this cold-blooded execution was at the time no more than a schoolboy but one who grew up to be a deadly sniper. ibid.
They’d been no murder in Orkney for twenty-five years. ibid.
Suspicions gathered around a father and son – policeman Eddie Ross and his fifteen-year-old boy Michael ... Eddie Ross first aroused suspicion by revealing he owned bullets identical to the one used in the murder. ibid.
Eddie Ross was released from prison after two years. ibid.
Michael Ross remained free – the whole island knew he’d been branded as the Restaurant Hit Man. ibid.
Michael Ross received a minimum twenty-five year sentence for the murder and escape plot. Yet both he and his father say they are innocent. ibid.
To his comrades in the Black Watch, Sgt Michael Ross was nothing other than a hero. When his armoured vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb in Iraq in 2004, he put himself in danger to administer first aid before organising the evacuation of his wounded men. When a black soldier under his command died, he wept openly.
Yesterday, a different and horrifying side to the 29-year-old decorated soldier was revealed in Glasgow’s High Court when a jury convicted him of murdering a Bangladeshi waiter by shooting him in the head in front of diners at a restaurant in the Orkneys, in 1994. Ross, who had hidden his face behind a balaclava or ski mask, was aged just 15.
Moments after the verdict was delivered, Ross tried to escape from the court, managing to run through a side door before he was wrestled to the ground by an official and handcuffed by police. The Independent online article 21st June 2008
[News]: The island of Orkney was shocked by its first murder in 25 years. A waiter was gunned down in a busy Indian restaurant. The Orkney Assassin: Murder in the Isles, Amazon 2025
This was a cold-blooded publice execution. ibid. journalist
I remember it was a handgun. And then there was a pop. ibid. restaurant customer Emma
So this is Shamul [Shamsuddin], the waiter who was killed. But I remember he had a big smile in real life. ibid. Emma with photograph
We had no description because the face was covered up with a balaclava. ibid.
This was like Pulp Fiction meets Whisky Galore. ibid. journalist
The only real clue that the police had to work on with the bullet casing that was left on the floor of the restaurant. ibid.
Shamsuddin Mahmood was 26 and from a large and successful family. ibid. Crimewatch
He was a very brilliant student. ibid. dad
Here you had a police officer at the very heart of this inquiry handling one of the most key tasks, and yet he never let on that he had a supply of the same bullets until two months later. ibid. journalist
They were sealed in cellophane so there was no way any bullets had come out of that box. ibid. rozzer
I had received a box of 9mm ammunition from the late Jim Spence, a friend of mine. ibid. rozzer Eddy
I got a phone call from this person that saw the individual behaving strangely in the Papdale Woods. ibid. rozzer
That person going into the bakery was Michael Ross, who was the 15-year-old son of Constable Eddy Ross. ibid.
We checked out that [Michael’s] alibi, these two people that he had named, and they were quite adamant was not a friend of theirs. ibid.
With the evidence that the inquiry team had gathered, there was enough evidence to charge Eddy Ross with perverting the course of justice. ibid.
He was found guilty. He was jailed for four years. His 23-year police career was in absolute ruins. ibid. journalist
Eddy Ross came right back into the community again, and he reinvented himself in a completely different role. He [Eddy Ross] became an undertaker on the island. And he then started to claim that him and his family were innocent. ibid.
This death threat [Shamul by two men] hadn’t been solved, which I then wrote up as a story. ibid. local journalist
12 years after the murder, police finally get the breakthrough they were looking for. An anonymous letter is handed in to Kirkwall Police Station, stating that they saw a gunman outside the public toilets in Kirkwall in the night of the shooting. ibid. journalist
Police detectives interview William, and during the questioning, he tells them it was Michael Ross he had seen outside the toilets with the handgun and with a balaclava rolled up on top of his head. ibid.
This was an astonishing trial. Here we had a war hero on trial for a brutal killing carried out when he was only 15 years old. ibid.
His army training kicked in and he tried to escape. ibid. TV reporter
ROSS, MICHAEL: Making a Monster TV - Signs of a Psychopath TV - World's Most Evil Killers TV -
Michael Ross was one of the most brutally sadistic serial killers the world has ever seen. But to most his name remains virtually unknown. Yet what makes Michael Ross unique amongst serial killers is how he turned himself in and was prepared to discuss his crimes in unparalleled detail, offering an insight into the mind of a serial killer. Making a Monster s1e8: Making a Monster, CI 2020
‘I just felt like I was on the edge.’ ibid. Ross to rozzers
Parental Neglect … Killing Animals … Construction of a Fantasy World … Fantasy Turned into Reality … Stalking … Hunting Ground … Signature … ibid.
Michael Ross was executed by lethal injection on the 13th of May 2005. He had waived his final right to appeal, insisting he wanted to die for his crimes. ibid.
September 1994, Osborn Correctional Institute, Somers, Connecticut: My name is Michael Ross. I’m Connecticut’s most heinous killer. Signs of a Psychopath s2e3: Guess I’ve Got No Conscience, TV interview
June 15th 1984, Lisbon, Connecticut: Authorities discover the body of 17-year-old Wendy Baribeault by the side of the road. Tips lead authorities to 27-year-old Cornell University graduate, Michael Ross. ibid.
In his senior year at Cornell University, he began targeting victims. ibid.
Despite his own denials, Michael continues to rape and kill. bid.
In the early 1980s young women in and around the state of Connecticut were disappearing without a trace. Their families were left in the dark about their loved ones’ final moments. After several persons were reported, police finally had a lead – witness descriptions of a man in a car stalking a woman sparked a state-wide manhunt. Police found a car matching that description belonging to a man named Michael Ross. World’s Most Evil Killers s9e3: Michael Bruce Ross, History 2024
Ross was sentenced to death in April 2000, the first man in Connecticut in over 40 years. ibid.
ROSSUM, KRISTIN: Crime Stories TV - Huffington Post online -
Investigators exposed a deadly cover up. Crime Stories: Pretty Poison
The caller is twenty-four-year-old Kristin Rossum. She tells the dispatchers that Greg [deVillers] may have taken drugs to kill himself. ibid.
Toxicologists find something even deadlier in his bloodstream – a painkiller called Fentanyl. ibid.
And who was in charge of the drug inventory log-book? None other than Kristin Rossum herself. ibid.
Once Kristin Rossum’s federal appeal was rejected by the US Supreme Court last year, I figured that the attractive toxicologist had finally run out of options.
Since 2002, Rossum has been serving a life sentence without parole at Chowchilla state prison after being convicted of poisoning her husband with Fentanyl, a powerful and fast-acting narcotic painkiller 100 times stronger than morphine, then staging a suicide scene by sprinkling red rose petals over his body here in San Diego.
But I was wrong. The case is heating up again. I was woken up this week by a national morning show producer, asking if a crew could come to my house in a couple of hours to interview me – the author of the authoritative book on the case, Poisoned Love – about the latest developments, which I promptly researched.
Turns out that Rossum has yet another new attorney, who submitted a motion in June. It is essentially based on the same issue and arguments as Rossum’s previous state and federal ‘ineffective counsel’ appeals, which seemed to have run their course – only this time, Rossum is citing a state law that allows new discovery or reconstruction of a death penalty or LWOP case file. The motion was denied without prejudice this week, which means the door is still open. Huffington Post online article 19th November 2012
ROSZKOWSKI, RICHARD: World’s Most Evil Killers TV -
On 7th September 2006, 3 people were gunned down on a street in the city of Bridgeport in Connecticut. The youngest victim, 9-year-old Kylie Flannery, had been chased down by the lone gunman and executed at close range. The killer was 41-year-old Richard Roszkowski whose infatuation with Kylie’s mother Holly Flannery had come to a head in the most tragic of circumstances. World’s Most Evil Killers s5e8: Richard Roszkowski, Sky Crime 2021
ROTH, RANDY: True Crime Recaps 2023 -
His first marriage ends in divorce, his second wife tumbles off a cliff and falls to her death, his third wife leaves him after a dangerous rafting trip – she could have sworn he tried to kill her and his fourth wife drowns in a lake. Is Randy Roth the unluckiest groom in the world or the deadliest? True Crime Recaps: The Dark Tale of Randy Roth, Youtube 18.52, 2023
They uncovered numerous lies in insurance scams dating back to the late ’70s. ibid.
ROUSTOBY, DAVID: David Wilson, Murder UK
David Clarke, it soon emerged, he was a man with a troubled history. Early theories suggested he’d been drunk and fallen into the river. David Wilson, Murder UK: The Slip That Sank Him, ITV 2025
‘It should have been a murder hunt right from the get-go.’ ibid. family
David Roustoby: He began to admit to them that he had murdered David Clarke many years earlier … by strangling him and transporting his body to the River Foss and depositing it in the river. ibid.