[Murder Cases listed by perpetrator. Case may be listed by victim if unsolved or with multiple perpetrators]
Rossum, Kristin p1 - Roszkowski, Richard p1 - Roth, Randy p1 - Roustoby, David p1 - Routier, Darlie p1 - Rowe, Raymond p2 - Rowland, Nathaniel p2 - Roy, Sanjay p2 - Rozier, Robert p2 - Rozier, Robert p2 - Rubin, Joenell, p2 - Ruble, Mitch p3 - Rudd, Donnie p3 - Rudakubana, Axel p3 - Rudalph, Eric p3 - Rudolph, Larry p3 - Ruiz, Felicia murder p3 - Rumsby, Craig p3 - Runge, Paul p4 - Ruppert, Jimmy p4 Russell, Anthony p4 - Russell, Blake p4 - Russell, Lin, Megan & Josie p4 - Russo, Patrick p5 - Rust, Mark Errin p5 - Ruxton, Buck p5 - Ryan, Michael p6 - Ryan, Mike p6 - Rylaarsdam, Michaela p6 - Rzeszowski, Damian p6 -
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 three 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 - Killer Britain TV -
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 murderhunt 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.
York, 18th April 2007: A dogwalker spotted something unusual. It was the body of David Clarke, a man who lived 3.5 miles away from the river. The coroner ruled the death was ‘accidental drowning’, but years later police were handed a new piece of evidence. Murder UK s5e7: Roustoby, CI 2025
‘David Clarke lived in a house that back on to the River Foss in the centre of York where it’s a much deeper and faster-moving river. If he’d wanted to hurt himself, he had many many ways of doing that.’ ibid. prosecutor
Roustoby had a history of previous criminal activities. ibid.
After 12 years of silence, why did David Roustoby suddenly confess to friends in 2019? ibid.
ROUTIER, DARLIE: Mother on Death Row TV - 911 Call - Crime Stories: The Wrong Man TV - Werner Herzog on Death Row TV - Death Row Women with Susanna Reid TV - True Crime Recaps 2022 -
The couple built it from scratch, a business and a life with their three sons. Then one summer night it was taken away. Was there an intruder? The police didn’t believe the tearful mother. Mother on Death Row, 2001
2.30 in the morning on June 6th 1996 ... The evidence did not seem to match Darlie’s account. ibid.
A striking difference between Darlie’s wounds and those of her sons. ibid.
Defence attorneys accused the authorities of sloppy work in the collection of evidence. ibid.
The jurors announced she was guilty. ibid.
February 4th 1997: Darlie Routier was sentenced to death. Darlie Routier is now on death row. ibid.
There were evidence photos the jurors did not see. ibid.
Investigators found one bloody partial fingerprint on the Routier’s coffee table. ibid.
The trial transcripts were found to be full of errors – 33,000 errors. ibid.