Warsaw – A Polish court ordered the death penalty Monday for a 39-year-old electrician known as the Scorpion for an eight-year wave of sex attacks in which he battered 9 women to death with a hammer and injured 11 others.
Pawel Tuchlin, who is married with two children, took the sentence calmly, said Judge Grzegorz Bucholtz, who presided over the trial in Gdansk. Chicago Tribune online article 6th August 1985, ‘Pole to be Executed for 9 Sex Murders’
On December 8th 1982 Polish farmer Pawel Tuchlin snuck up on a 24-year-old woman walking home alone. He pulled out a hammer and hit her in the back of the head again and again … In all Tuchlin sexually assaulted and battered nine women to death with a hammer and he seriously injured 11 more. Police called him the Scorpion. World’s Most Evil Killers s2e8: Pawel Tuchlin aka The Scorpion, Pick TV 2018
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Michael Tucker was a career landlord plagued by alcoholism, adultery and depression. And when Rebecca met him, she thought Tucker was the answer to her dreams. They ran a pub together. Countdown to Murder s2e2: The Body in the Freezer, Channel 5 2014
Michael Tucker shot Rebecca Thorpe in the back of the head while she was in the bath. Then hid her body in the freezer. ibid.
Tucker successfully appealed his sentence and it was reduced by 4 years to 22 years. ibid.
A pub landlord shot his partner in the back of the head, left her body in a freezer and he carried on with life as normal, a court heard today.
Michael Tucker, 50, even had sex with another woman upstairs in the pub while his partner’s body lay in the chest freezer in a nearby outbuilding, Norwich Crown Court was told.
Tucker, landlord of The Compasses Inn in Snettisham, Norfolk, is accused of shooting Rebecca Thorpe in the back of the head while she was taking a bath in March last year.
He told police he lost his temper when the 29 year old said he could not see his children and that she was sleeping with another man.
Graham Parkins QC, prosecuting, told the court Tucker fetched a shotgun and loaded and cocked the weapon. Mail online article 16th May 2011 ‘Pub landlord shot partner in the head, dumped her in freezer and carried on life as normal’
TUCKER, TONY murder: see ESSEX murders
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Who would want to kill Dan Jess and why? Deadly Cults s2e7: The Gatekeepers, comments
Chris Turgeon founded a group that called itself The Gatekeepers. ibid.
It was classic apocalyptic fire and brimstone coupled with an armed lifestyle. ibid.
The neighbours were convinced that this group, The Gatekeepers, was possibly involved in this homicide. And they told us they’re a Christian cult and that there were eight members. ibid.
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In February 1998 the murder of 41-year-old Paula Vance was captured on CCTV in downtown Los Angeles, California. The grainy footage made it difficult to identify Paula’s killer but the detectives watching the murder playing out before their eyes knew they were seeing a serial killer in action. It would take another five years before the killer was unveiled as 37-year-old Chester Turner. The 6’2’’ 250-pound murderer had strangled 14 women to death across an 11-year reign of terror. DNA would lead to the downfall of the prolific killer who was sentenced to death for his savage crimes. World’s Most Evil Killers s6e9: Chester Turner, Sky Crime 2021
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Elliot Turner partied in an exclusive playground for the rich but at just nineteen he was living a lie. But behind his charade a seventeen-year-old New Zealander’s life was in danger. Evil Up Close: Green Eyed Monster, 2013
A lifestyle subsidised by parents. ibid.
From the start of the relationship he was very possessive. ibid.
Elliot Turner had strangled Emily. ibid.
The parents of murderer Elliot Turner have been released from prison after serving just half of their sentences for covering up their son’s crime.
Leigh and Anita Turner were jailed for 27 months last July after being found guilty of perverting the course of justice at Winchester Crown Court.
Yesterday Mrs Turner refused a request for an interview when the Daily Echo approached her at the couple’s home in Queenswood Avenue, Queens Park, Bournemouth.
Neighbours confirmed both Mr and Mrs Turner have been seen at the address in recent days. Daily Echo online article 6th September 2013
Very early on we started to get the picture that this is a volatile relationship. Mummy’s Little Killer: The Murder of Emily Longley, rozzer, 5Star 2024
I just flipped, grabbed her, grabbed her as hard as I could. ibid.
What it is, my son’s friend is staying with us. This morning I tried to wake both of them up but the girl didn’t wake up. We can’t wake her up. I don’t know what it is. ibid. mother’s complicit 999 call
In December 2009, Emily and Hannah return to the UK to stay with their grandparents in Bournemouth. ibid. caption
Footage of Elliot going into the club with a club-hammer. ibid. rozzer
Mrs Turner was not being truthful with her account or with her description of the relationship between Emily and Elliot. ibid.
The lengths his parents would go to to try to exonerate him. ibid.
Elliot Turner lived a life of parties and hedonism. But at just 19 he was living a lie. Far from home, a 17-year-old girl [Emily Longley] was exposed to his charms and his volatility. In a rare police operation, secret recordings revealed the truth about Turner. A young man willing to murder his trophy girlfriend, and coach his parents to dupe the police. Killer Britain with Dermot Murnaghan s4e6: Elliot Turner, CI 2022
Poole, Dorset, 2001: A group of young men calling themselves The Firm arrived ready to enjoy the excesses of this party town. As the sun set their revelry began. (David) Turner, at 19, had the seemingly endless means to fund his hedonistic ways. It was a lifestyle in part funded by selling drugs. David Wilson, Murder UK s3e9: Entitled to Kill, ITVX 2026
Elliot Turner was living the high life. At home his parents appeared to be completely cowered by his aggressive dominating personality. ibid.
‘He had a history of stalking and harassing women.’ ibid.
A young man who was beginning to show his aggressive side. ibid.
The emergency services receive a call from Turner’s mother. ibid.
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She’s [Kelsey Turner] a young Instagram model; he’s her 71-year-old sugar daddy. But when the money dries up and the lies are exposed, this beauty queen turns to murder. How did bad Barbie go from Playboy to Prison? True Crime Recaps: Fatal Attraction in Vegas, Youtube 2024
She called herself Bad Barbie online. ibid.
The police find his body in the trunk of Kelsie’s car. ibid.