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Murder Most Vile Volume Eighteen 18 Truly Shocking Murder Cases |
Robert Keller |
PUBLISHED BY: Robert Keller Copyright © 2017 |
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18 Horrific True Murder Cases, including; Flesh and Blood : How far would someone go to maintain their standard of living? As far as murdering their children to relieve themselves of the financial burden? The Case of the Vanished Bride : He said he was a millionaire, a British Lord, a spy. In truth, Eileen's gr... |
present. ” Desperate Measures : Lucy's grandmother didn't approve of the man in her life. The man in Lucy's life didn't approve of Lucy's grandmother. When does a battle of wills become a matter of life and death? Music and Murder : The little girl was a prodigy on the accordion and her teacher promised that she... |
Flesh and Blood It is a highly controversial case, one that continues to provoke debate decades after a young mother was sent to death row for the savage murders of her children. Did Darlie Routier really take a butcher's knife and plunge it repeatedly into the chests of 6-year-old Devon and 5-year-old Damon? The ... |
“Somebody broke into my house! They stabbed me and my children!” Trammell, of course, had been trained to deal with these situations. She glanced briefly at her computer clock which read 2:31 a. m. Then she punched the main police line and instructed units to standby for an emergency involving women and children. ... |
managed to escape, possibly through a side window, where the screen had been slashed. Or perhaps he was elsewhere in the house. The officers conducted a room-by-room search but found no stranger in hiding. They then returned to the kitchen where they'd spotted the possible murder weapon, a bloodied butcher knife car... |
Patterson and his partner, Chris Frosch. Patterson soon had reason to suspect that the story told by Darlie Routier was somewhat shy of the truth. It started with an anecdote relayed to him by Sgt. Welling shortly after he arrived at the house. “You're not going to believe what Mr. Routier said to me right before... |
strangers. ” Where, Patterson wondered, had this little guardian been when the intruder had entered the house? Why had he not raised the alarm and woken the Routiers? There was only one possible answer that Patterson could think of. There had been no intruder. Someone in the house had done this. The following day,... |
mother who'd suffered such a devastating loss. And anyway, while the police may have had their suspicions, where was the motive? What possible reason could Darlie Routier have had for killing her children? There were no insurance policies, no bitter custody dispute. By all accounts, Darlie doted on her boys. Perhaps ... |
for size EE breast implants, assets she put to use by wearing the skimpiest, most revealing outfits. Inevitably, this led to problems in her marriage with the couple sometimes arguing in public over Darlie's flirting. Not that Darin was an angel either. Rumors abounded that both he and Darlie were having affairs. ... |
many questions surrounding the case. Some of those would soon be answered. First the medical examiner's report on Darlie's injuries was back. The cuts, according to the M. E. were “hesitation wounds” that is, they had been inflicted slowly and deliberately, with the person reflexively withdrawing the blade as soon a... |
and lack of grief. And that had continued at the boys' funeral and beyond. One particular incident had involved a bizarre birthday party that Darlie had hosted at her sons' gravesite, complete with cake and silly string. Darlie's friends and family might have believed she was innocent, her attorney might have tried ... |
The Case of the Vanishing Bride When Eileen Spargo and George Turner met in Auckland, New Zealand in 1942, sparks instantly flew between them. The attraction on her part was easy to understand. Turner was tall and handsome, suave and sophisticated. He was from an aristocratic family that had made millions in the... |
She'd have no need of these things once she was Lady Turner. Finally, the big day arrived and the couple tied the knot at the Pitt Street Methodist Church in Central Auckland with a tight-knit group of family and friends in attendance. It was here that Eileen's parents first got to meet their new son-in-law and they... |
in early December when their son-in-law appeared unexpectedly on their doorstep. The Spargos were more than a little surprised to see him, since they believed him to be in England, along with Eileen. But that surprise soon morphed into anguish as Turner explained the reason for his visit. He said that he and Eileen ... |
fancied the long con and his scams usually involved seducing women and then relieving them of their life's savings. He also enjoyed posing as a member of the British nobility. Horry, of course, was easy to trace. Detectives simply followed the redirected letter to the front door of his house in Mt Albert. There, t... |
at him. He wanted more than ever to bring Horry to justice for killing Eileen Spargo. Fell was also aware that the time to bring charges against Horry was rapidly running out. Although there is no statute of limitation on murder, witnesses move away, they get old and forgetful, they die. If he was ever going to br... |
Taken On the day that she died, 22-year-old Dru Sjodin had everything to live for. The pretty blonde was a graphic design student at the University of North Dakota, she had a close and loving bond with her family, and she was in a steady relationship with a young man who she cared about. On the day that she died,... |
of minutes. He'd been asking when she expected to be home and whether he might see her before she set off for her waitressing job at the El Roco nightclub. Then suddenly, the call was interrupted and he heard Dru say, “Oh my God!” and then “No, no!” “Dru?” Chris said. “What's going on?” But there was nothing but si... |
Roadways, woods and the expanse of the Red Lake River were combed; ditches, fields and farmland were meticulously scanned. A helicopter was brought in and several teams of trained tracking dogs probed the most likely areas. Yet as the days stretched on, there was no trace of Dru. It was as if the earth had opened up... |
for his safety. The holiday season of 2003 was a muted affair in Grand Forks. It was as though a pall hung over the town and in particular over Dru Sjodin's family. They missed her smile and her infectious laugh, the ability she seemed to have to light up any room she walked into. The thought of her lying out ther... |
him. But he'd committed a federal offense by kidnapping Dru, transporting her across state lines and then killing her. Moreover, it was an offense that carried the possibility of death by lethal injection. When Rodriguez appeared at the Quentin Burdick Federal Courthouse on July 6, 2006, U. S. Attorney Drew Wrigley... |
A Family of Killers In the early months of 1987, a school located in Kiev, Ukraine suffered a double tragedy. Two staff members died in quick succession, both with similar, inexplicable symptoms. The first of these was the school “Partorg” (a role that encompassed responsibility for ideological education as well ... |
caused them? Initially, it was speculated that some sort of infection was responsible. However, the symptoms displayed by the patients were inconsistent with this. None, for example, had shown any evidence of fever. Then, it was thought the victims had been exposed to some sort of poison or radioactive material.... |
interesting snippet of information. In addition to his role in the chemistry department, he was also responsible for the school's food inventory. That clue set alarm bells jangling with detectives. Suddenly the connection they'd been missing appeared crystal clear. All of the deaths were somehow connected to the s... |
By then, four of their offspring had cut all ties with the family. It is not difficult to understand why. Anton and Maria Maslenko appear to have been a particularly malevolent couple, who sought to instill in their children an ideology based on hatred and self-interest. Succeed at any cost and crush those who s... |
Oleg Ivanyutina was instantly attracted to the pretty but overweight Tamara. It is easy too, to see what attracted her to him. His parents had a free standing house with a large backyard on the outskirts of Kiev. Tamara, who had ambitions of raising livestock and operating a butcher shop, undoubtedly had her eye on ... |
Often, she'd be seen stalking the cafeteria floor chasing slow eaters from their meals which she'd then scoop up into one of her bags. On one occasion, two young children - a first-grader and a fifth-grader - approached the cook for some scraps to take home to their pet. Tamara was furious. She waited for the chi... |
them. She tried to kill a neighbor with a batch of poisoned pancakes (the woman's only offense appeared to be that Maria was jealous of her war veteran's pension). Fortunately, the woman was suspicious of Maria's sudden show of generosity and rather than eat the pancakes she packed them up and took them to the police... |
Germ Warfare Arthur Warren Waite was born in 1889 in rural Michigan. His parents were dirt poor sharecroppers and Arthur grew up lacking everything in life but the bare necessities. As a child, he suffered a bout of meningitis which few expected him to survive. Yet he not only overcame the illness but thrived in... |
industry. The Pecks counted themselves among the social elite of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Waite wanted a part of that life and lifestyle. To him, Clara Peck was little more than a key to unlock the door. And so Waite got to work on the Peck family. John Peck was at first suspicious of the young man's intentions... |
plans. After the wedding, the couple settled down to life in a luxury brownstone at 435 Riverside Drive on Manhattan's Upper Westside, a wedding gift from John Peck. Waite also set up a dental practice but, in truth, he had little enthusiasm for his chosen profession. He spent most of his time playing tennis and car... |
Percy and Clara were similarly distraught. It is therefore fortunate that Dr. Waite was there to take charge of the funeral arrangements. His main concern was for the remains to be cremated as swiftly as possible. This, he assured the undertaker, was to spare the family “unnecessary anguish. ” About two months a... |
attempt. He may well have died had the officers not arrived when they did. Waite was rushed to Bellevue Hospital where he would eventually make a full recovery. In the meanwhile, an autopsy was carried out on John Peck's body and turned up copious amounts of arsenic. Vials of the same poison had been found hidden ... |
way he could avoid the electric chair was to feign insanity. Horton had since destroyed the letter but her testimony in court was enough to convince the jury. Waite's insanity defense was out the window. He was found guilty and sentenced to death. Few killers in New York's history can have more richly deserved thei... |
Friday the 13 th There are some crimes whose impact is not softened by the passage of time, some murders that continue to haunt our thoughts and dreams even decades after they were committed. Most often, these are the crimes involving the most innocent victims of all, the slaughter of helpless children. And yet, ... |
bin. He'd later claim that the fire started accidentally after he dropped his cigarette but the stunt nonetheless earned him 90 days in the brig. In January 1971, Mc Greavy was transferred from HMS Eagle to a shore-based job at the Portsmouth dockyard. Not long after, he began corresponding with a young woman nam... |
1972, there were six people living in the tiny residence. But, at least, Mc Greavy's presence offered some benefit to the cash-strapped couple. He'd since found work at a factory and paid £6 per week board and lodging. He even occasionally helped with the cooking and he was good with the children. That proved to b... |
Next, Mc Greavy turned his attention to the older children. Dawn, who he'd so often bounced upon his knee, was strangled to death before her throat was sliced upon with a razor. Paul too, was strangled before Mc Greavy got to work with the blade. Still dissatisfied with his handiwork, the killer then fetched a picka... |
who stirs controversy. In 2006, while preparing for a parole hearing, Mc Greavy was allowed to stay at a bail hostel in Liverpool and was even permitted to walk the streets without supervision. However, a journalist from a local newspaper had been tipped off and after a picture of the notorious child killer appeared... |
Death for Hire The suburb of Rivercrest, on the western edge of Fort Worth, Texas is an area of stately mansions, many of them occupied by the city's wealthiest and most affluent families. It is hardly the sort of place where you would expect a bloody murder to occur but that is exactly what happened in the early ... |
answers he gave did nothing to discourage their initial impression that he had murdered his wife. For starters, there were the injuries that Koslow had suffered. These were not trivial. He had been beaten and slashed and there were defensive wounds to his hands and arms, including what appeared to be bite mar... |
population, Jack Koslow had already been tried in the court of public opinion and found guilty. The motive? Well, there was evidence that the couple had been seeing a marriage counsellor. And there was always money. Jack Koslow, an ex-military helicopter pilot, was not well off but his wife was from a wealthy Texas ... |
bedroom and attacked them. He had been carrying an iron pry bar while Salter had been armed with a hunting knife. Describing the attack, he said: “I hit Mr. Koslow in the back of the head, on the neck. Then I hit Mrs. Koslow, and I hit Mr. Koslow some more. She was screaming and I hit her with the pry bar and she... |
The Hit On the morning of June 16, 2001, 44-year-old Jeff Zack got into his Ford SUV and drove away from his home in Akron, Ohio. Zack's intended destination was a catering warehouse where he planned on buying supplies to restock the vending machines he operated. This was part of his usual Saturday routine, a ted... |
Jeff Zack squarely in the head. Zack was dead by the time he slumped forward onto the steering wheel and ejected a spray of blood onto the inside of the windshield. Carolyn Hyson, a pump attendant at the station, was walking towards the SUV when she heard the sharp snap of the pistol. Recognizing it as a gunshot, s... |
after she'd found out about it and confronted him. But Zack's cellphone records told a different story. He was still in touch with George, sometimes staying on the line with her for hours. Might this relationship have been the motive for murder? Might Cynthia George's jealous husband have decided to end his wife's d... |
1000 under the name “John Smith” on May 24, three weeks before the murder. He'd handed it over to his wife the day after Jeff Zack was shot. The evidence was stacking up. But detectives were acutely aware that their case was circumstantial. There were plenty of gray-and-black Hondas on the road. What they needed... |
John Zaffino was certainly no help. He remained steadfastly loyal to his former lover and refused to say anything. But that is not to say that the police were without evidence. There were the phone calls that had passed between George and Zaffino in the proximity to the murder. And there was an unexplained $5,300... |
Death Metal Fabio Tollis was just a kid, a sixteen-year-old who loved heavy metal music and was blessed with a voice that had gained him an audition with a local death metal band known as the Beasts of Satan. Fabio had shone at that audition and had been welcomed into the fold by band members Andrea Volpe, Nicol... |
and arranged them in a circle on the leaf-strewn floor; they cranked up the music on the boom-box they'd brought with them; lines of cocaine were snorted and a heroin pipe was passed around, along with bottles of beer. It was all fun and games until things suddenly turned ugly. No one would later say exactly how it ... |
for them. Michele, however, was not prepared to accept that his son would have run off without a word. The two had a close relationship, a good relationship. Michele had never encroached on his son's freedom. He'd always encouraged his music career. Fabio had no reason to run away. Over the next six years, Michel... |
Might they have gotten away with this ill-conceived murder? Possibly. But Volpe and Ballarin then put themselves in the frame by getting high and driving Pezzotta's vehicle to a nearby lake, where they planned on submerging it. Instead they slammed into a crash barrier, leading to their arrest for driving under the ... |
Kill Him by Christmas The problem with marrying for the second time, and marrying a widower who has a kid from his first marriage, is that you can never know how well you'll get on with your stepchild. Sueanne Hobson had found this out to her cost. When the divorced mother of two tied the knot with Ed Hobson in D... |
blowing hot, a new battle line was drawn. And on April 17, 1980, it claimed its first casualty April 17 th was the day that Ed Hobson called the police and reported his 13-year-old son missing. A cruiser was then dispatched to the Hobson residence where an apparently distraught Ed and Sueanne answered questions. ... |
Crumm and Sorrentino stood doing some drugs, laughing and taunting their victim. Then they made him lie down in the hole to “try it for size. ” Deciding that it was deep enough, they forced him to kneel. The killers then counted to three before opening fire with their shotguns, hitting Chris in the neck and chest. As... |
The police were now left with a problem. Who was telling the truth and who was lying? On the face of it, Sueanne Hobson was the more reliable witness. Her son, after all, was a junkie and petty thief. She was an apparently upstanding citizen, with no criminal record. What was needed was an independent witness to ... |
same time, he was also an active and prominent member of the support group, Parents of Murdered Children. Needless to say, this duality caused some consternation. |
Desperate Measures Carshalton Beeches is an affluent suburb to the south of greater London in the so-called stockbroker-belt. It is a peaceful enclave of leafy streets and tranquil parks with natural springs and ponds adding to its aesthetic appeal. It even has a waterfall, situated in the green expanse of Grove ... |
that role was filled by 34-year-old Lucy. A single mother of two small children, Lucy had struggled throughout her adult life with drug addiction. It had cost her marriage and livelihood and almost seen her children taken away from her. But for the intervention of her parents, offering her and her brood a place to s... |
The first responders were on the scene at around 2:20 p. m. but by then it was already clear to Lucy that her mother was beyond help. It was quite obvious that Maureen wasn't breathing. Tearfully, Lucy described to the paramedics how she'd arrived home to find her mother lying on the floor. How had this happened,... |
she had seen or spoken to their mother, only to learn that she had not. After leaving the pub, he and Lucy had done some shopping before driving back to Maureen's house. He then explained how they had found Maureen's body, adding that the back gate, laundry door and side door were all open when he and Lucy arrived w... |
lied about his hand injury and if so why? The police didn't want to jump to any conclusions just yet but they decided to focus the next phase of the investigation on Maben. From that point on, he became their main suspect. And there was soon other evidence to back up their suspicions. While viewing CCTV footage fro... |
George Maben's trial took place at London's Old Bailey in November 2009. And with the excellent detective work done by the Metropolitan Police, there was never a chance that he would escape a conviction. However, Maben was fortunate to have his case heard before a judge who showed him far more compassion than Maben... |
Music and Murder On the morning of October 12, 1950, police in Long Beach, California received a call from a frantic woman. The caller identified herself as Violet John Berling, a music teacher. One of her students, she said, had collapsed and was unresponsive. The child did not appear to be breathing. Obtaini... |
accounts a prodigy on the instrument. Her teacher, Violet Berling, was considered to be one of the best in the Long Beach area so it was unsurprising that Kay's parents chose her to provide their daughter with lessons. But the relationship went deeper than a teacher/student arrangement. Berling had confidently infor... |
hours by the time Berling called the police. Violet Berling was thus arrested and charged with murder, her trial date set for early 1951. And if the public thought that they had heard the last of the bizarre claims and counterclaims in the case they were mistaken. Despite all evidence to the contrary, Berling conti... |
with bandages wrapped around her face on at least four occasions, with only the eyes and nose exposed. She said that the music teacher once took a group of students to watch a movie. Kay was among them but the little girl was required to sit through the entire production with a scarf covering her eyes so that she cou... |
False Evidence On the afternoon of Sunday, October 7, 1994, 9-year-old Daniel Handley was riding his bicycle on the Beckton council estate in London, England. The day was frigid, with a stiff, arctic breeze and ominous overhanging cloud bringing an early twilight. Still, Daniel was in no hurry to get home. Lif... |
“Champion” emblazoned across the front of it. Now, he skidded his bike to a stop and sized up the man holding the map. Daniel was naturally wary of strangers but he was always on the lookout for ways to make money. Perhaps there might be a tip in this for him. Lowering his bicycle to the tarmac, he walked over. T... |
struggle, Daniel was forced into the back seat. Then the car raced off again, leaving Daniel's red bicycle by the roadside. Just over four hours later, at around 10:45 pm, Maxine Handley called the police to report that her nine-year-old son, Daniel, was missing. The case was assigned to Detective Superintendent... |
attacked Maxine's children in the past so was it possible that he'd taken things further this time and killed Daniel? Was it possible that Maxine was covering for him? It was a possibility that could not be ignored. Maxine Handley and Alex Joseph were taken into custody on December 14, 1994. But despite hours of rig... |
on. Thus far, their investigation had been focused on London. Was it possible that their perpetrator was from Bristol and had brought Daniel up here? In order to test that theory, Williams turned again to Crimewatch, appealing for anyone who might have seen Daniel in the Bristol area to come forward. He was soon rew... |
The investigation quickly gained momentum after that. Williams began looking into Morss' background; he saw that Morss closely resembled the man described by his eyewitness; he learned that Morss had previous convictions for child abuse; he noted Morss's familiarity with the area from which Daniel had been abducted.... |
17, 1996. Found guilty of murder they were sentenced to life imprisonment, with the recommendation that they should never be released. |
Murder, Miami-Style “Greed is good,” that famous line, uttered by Michael Douglas' character in the award winning “Wall Street” has often been cited as a catchword for the eighties. And it is not that far from the mark. The decade does seem, in retrospect, to have been one endless party, when money was plentiful a... |
and other business premises. He also got a number of state and federal commissions for the construction of government buildings. Still not satisfied with the amount of work coming his way, he branched out into residential real estate development. The work was hard and the hours long but the rewards were great. Befo... |
building boom there, he was willing to listen, if only to make some inroads into the couple's mounting debt. But George failed to settle in Florida and within a year he was back in Carpentersville. Joyce stayed behind with Shawn. Soon after, she'd snared Stanley Cohen. The life of want that she had known thus far w... |
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