The then-28-year-old claimed Holly had accidentally drowned after falling into the bath at his rented cottage as he tried to treat her nosebleed. He also claimed to have accidentally suffocated Jessica while trying to stop her screaming after she witnessed the incident. However a jury failed to believe his lies and following a six-week trial at the Old Bailey, Huntley was found guilty on both counts of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. Maxine Carr, his girlfriend was also found guilty of perverting the course of justice, and then she was charged and served a 21-month prison term. Ten years on from the tragedy, Holly’s family have spoken out vowing to “make it out the other side”.
In Goldsboro, North Carolina in 1990, there were three different crimes committed by an unknown attacker that was named the “Night Stalker”. In March an elderly woman was brutally raped and almost murdered, but her daughter came home early and the attacker fled the scene and left materials behind that would have been used to burn the house down in order to cover up the crime. In July, a second elderly woman was raped and murdered, and in October, a third woman was raped and stabbed to death and her husband was also murdered. The house was set on fire, but fire and rescue were able to get the bodies out before the house was totally destroyed. DNA analysis of the vaginal swabs from the three women who had been raped enabled the authorities
Thompson and Venables were arrested and controversially tried and convicted in an adult court. They were both found guilty of murder and sentenced to custody until the age of 18. 8-Year-Old Boy Kills Father and Friend: In 2008, an 8-year-old boy, whose name was not released, was arrested and charged with shooting and killing his father and his father’s friend in their St. Johns, Arizona home. The
Greg Griego, the teenager’s father and a former gang member, worked as a pastor and volunteered with inmates at the Metropolitan Detention Center. The teenager told police he shot his mother, the first victim in his rampage, because he was “frustrated” with her, Houston said. Police said that after shooting his brother and two sisters, Griego then waited five hours for his father to return from work and ambushed him with an AR-15 assault rifle - the same type of weapon used in the Newton, Connecticut, elementary school shootings. “It’s the first time I’ve been to a crime scene with so much destruction in one home,” Houston said, describing the scene as “horrific.” The dead have been identified as 51-year-old Greg Griego, his 40-year-old wife, Sarah Griego, and three of their children: a 9-year-old boy and two girls, ages 5 and 2. The couple had 10 children in all, including from a former marriage.
On the 7th September 1998 the family of Kathleen Grundy went to Police and reported Dr Shipman of suspected foul play, after her death they found out just days before she died she had changed her will and left her entire estate to Shipman £386,000 he was arrested for murder. No one at that time imagined the enormity of the case as the Police started to investigate Dr Shipman and the extent of his involvement in the deaths of his patients would soon became apparent. During the investigation bodies were exhumed and many thousands of records were studied Dr. Harold Shipman was sentence to 27 years in prison for the murder of 15 patients at Preston County Court January 2000. In his first ten years of practice 31 patients died and in the next ten years another 168 patients, the eventual total was around 250 victims and Police were sure that many more that had gone under
Later, police finds out he also raped a girl called Wendy Singer who died several days ago. Mr.McCoy attempts to prosecute him for 25 years to prison. As the investigation goes
The trial was a very short one. He was sentenced to 15 consecutive life sentences. Jeffrey Dahmer’s home was filled with incriminating evidence, and there was no escaping being convicted. He eventually admitted to the murders and rapes. At first Dahmer’s argument was that he was emotionally unstable, due to his alcoholism and childhood.
Evan Marshall was 31-years-old when he committed the murder. He lived in his parents’ in a gated community. He murdered and dismembered the body of retired teacher who lived across the street. He did not know the victim. The disappearance of Denise Fox, age 57, was first noticed by her daughter who found the back sliding door broken and blood on the floor when she returned home.
Then in 2007, is what the police believe, Sowell started killing the women he brought back to his home on Imperial Avenue. During Anthony’s childhood he was raised by his single mother. Anthony’s mother had three children, Anthony a daughter and another son. Anthony’s mother also took in her seven grandchildren. Sowell’s childhood consisted of watching his mother beat on his nieces and nephews while he and his brother watched, from a different room.
He started killing more frequently, 4 in just that year. The next of his victims was 33 year old Raymond Smith in May of 1990. His crime was the same, drugged and strangled him and then engaged in oral sex with the cadaver. He cut off his head and painted it and put it in his fridge and placed his bones around his apartment as decorations. A week later he did the same thing when he met 27 year old Eddie Smith.