UK/Scotland/Tayside – Twice in less than a year, the frozen conifers of Dundee’s Templeton Woods shrouded the naked bodies of young women who died violently.
Tayside Police were already trying to track down the killer of teenage prostitute Carol Lannen when two rabbit hunters stumbled on the remains of trainee nursery nurse Elizabeth McCabe, covered only by debris from the trees and a blue jumper draped over her shoulders. It was the eve of her 21st birthday.
For a time detectives thought both girls had died at the hands of a serial killer – and they had been told that Ms Lannen was last seen talking to a taxi driver. But the trail soon went cold.
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IN/Lucknow – Notorious serial killer Salim Samath escaped from the police custody on Wednesday morning, when he was been taken to Varanasi on Kashi Vishwanath Express from Meerut jail.
Salim was to be produced before a court in Varanasi. Sources said the incident took place near Suryawan railway station in Bhadohi district, in east UP. Around 5.30 am, the three constables escorting Salim, realised that he has disappeared. They at once alerted the authorities. Read More »
US/Oakland/CA – ED NEWBEGIN listened as a prosecutor asked a witness what his life had been like since his son became a serial killer’s final victim.The witness replied, “I have no life — it ended that day.”"The revelation it led me to is that when something like a murder happens, it’s as if a bomb were dropped by the murderer right there at ground zero where the victim is, but the blast has impact on the people closest to the victim and the murderer and ripples outward to investigators, jurors and everyone else around the case”, Newbegin said. Read More »
IN/New Delhi – Taking strong exception to print and television media’s identification of children who are in conflict, the newly formed National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) will be taking up the matter with media organisations.
NCPCR has received complaints on the use of the name and photographs of an 8-year old boy in Begusarai, Bihar. The boy, who is alleged to have killed three children, was referred to in reports as a ‘serial killer’ and a ‘tyrant’. Read More »
IN/Jagraon – The Ludhiana Rural (Jagraon) police claimed to have solved four murders and one attempt to murder case with the arrest of an alleged serial killer who was giving sleepless nights to the residents of this town and surrounding areas since October last year. Read More »
IN/Bihar – Innocent-looking eight-year-old Amardeep Sada from Begusarai district seems like a hard nut to crack for the police, whom he had been evading after having killed three infants in the past one year.
Whenever police tried to dig deep into the incident asking him his motive, the child dodges them with a smile and demands biscuits and candies. Read More »
IN/Bihar – An eight-year-old boy from Bihar’s Begusarai district has been arrested for killing a six-month-old girl from his neighbourhood in the Manopur Musahari village.
Amarjeet is alleged to have crushed the little girl to death with a stone and buried her body. Read More »
IN/Bihar – He is just eight years old, but his neighbours claim that he has already claimed three lives.
At his village, residents have started calling him a “mini” serial-killer. While police remain bewildered to the reason, medical experts call Samarjit’s (name changed) need a “conduct disorder”. Read More »
US/Tampa/FL – Scott Schweickert received 40 years, the maximum sentence under law, for conspiring with Steven Lorenzo to drug, torture and kill Jason Galehouse and Michael Wachholtz.
As Scott Schweickert’s trial comes to a close, facing sentencing later today, Jason Galehouse’s best friend Tyler still isn’t satisfied. Read More »
US/Buffalo/NY – A gun was used in a series of Delaware Park rapes, while a ligature was used in the bike path sexual assaults. Did the use of different weapons help point police to the wrong man?
Erie County District Attorney Frank Clark said, “We don’t want to convict anybody who isn’t guilty.” Read More »
