Is there 1 murder incident from where you are from that made national news?

[FannyB1923]

In May 2006, the body of a 24 year old New Mexico woman was found at a trucker's rest stop here in Maryland about 10 miles down the road from us. It's just a parking area where they can turn off and sleep but even before the body was identified, the suspicion was that the murderer was a truck driver.

Last year, when Bruce Mendenhall was arrested, police were investigating looking for evidence connecting him to the Maryland murder. According to this article- http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs....EWS03/80501015 there was blood from at least ten people found in his truck.

I haven't heard of him being charged in this particular case.
I suspect there might be several serial killing truck drivers going around North America these days.

[JestersKiss]

Ive heard of truck driver murders before,,,seems to be a common thing and hard to catch em

[QuarterRat]

I was hanging out in gay bars in Indianapolis when Herb Baumeister was killing young gay men there as well as being suspected of murdering women on the 1-70 corridor. There were posters up about "suspicious disappearances" in the bars close to the end of the time when they caught him. A friend of mine once tricked with a friend of Herbs AT HERBS HOUSE while another man (who lived) was tricking with Herb. My friend refuses to talk about this and becomes visibly shaken when it's mentioned. To be so close to being taken down by a serial, I'd probably shake too. Herbs kids found human remains in the back yard and took them to their mother who dismissed them as animal remains.

Larry Eyler was another Indiana gay serial killer in the 80's. He eventually moved to Chicago and was caught when he dumped a victims body in his own trash can to be thrown away. He died of AIDS in prison in '94 but not before alluding to the fact that he had a still un-captured accomplice.

I was telling another friend of mine about this site last night and in particular this thread and he was said "Well I used to always try to hit on Andrew Cunanan in the gay bars of San Diego." Hot!

[jerseygirl1]

OMG... easily the Maria Marshall Murder.

Being from NJ, especially the pine barrens, there were always lots of interesting stories and rumors (like that Jimmy Hoffa was really dumped in the pine barrens like other missing mafia members). Hell, I went to HS in Lakehurst, NJ! Hello Hindenburg!

Toms River was the closest big town - and the county seat for Ocean County. Very sleepy town and very affluent in most parts. Not much happened in Ocean County - things were more brought there than happened there, and it usually involved the Mafia.

This case was very shocking and strange to this little area in the early 1980's. Murders like this were reserved for the city or the more affluent areas in the North.

Details of the case are here: http://www.crimelibrary.com/notoriou...arshall/3.html. They even made a TV movie about it! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099148/

Interesting Trivia:
- Joanna Kerns plays Maria Marshall in the movie "Blind Faith". Roby Marshall, Maria and Robert's Oldest son, was the consultant on the film. Joanna introduced Roby to Tracey Gold, who are still married today.
- The middle son, Chris, was the head swim coach for Lehigh University. He is changing jobs: http://www3.lehigh.edu/News/V2news_s...p?iNewsID=2653.
- Don't know what ever happend to the youngest child. I believe the movie said he married very young and had a kid. However, the movie was made in 1990. He's probably living in some crazy piney shack in the woods (piney is our term for redneck or hillbilly)
- Robert's mistress, Felice Richmond, used to teach aerobics classes and sell aerobic and other workout gear. I was shopping in her store one day, thinking that SURELY she had quit by now, when *poof* there she was at the sales counter. I bought my stuff and left, amazed that I saw her there. I was 17.
- I have been to the cemetary she is buried at. Maybe next time I am home I'll have to take pics. I also know which rest area on the Garden State Parkway she was murdered at. It was closed for a LOOOONG time but has been reopened again. In fact, because of her murder, ALL "picnic areas" (i.e., no building/facilities) on the GSP were closed off after the murder.
- He's sitting in the Trenton State Prison for the rest of his life. My Aunt used to work there. He was a pain in the ass, but has since quieted down. Now *SHE* has some great stories!

That's my story. Thanks for sharing yours! All are so interesting!

[kmed1971]

I do not think this made national news but it should have. It is the most horrific thing I can imagine. It happened about 2 miles from my house at the time. A man stabbed and beheaded his four year old daughter.


In the Superior Court proceedings, it was said that John Violette allegedly heard voices insisting that Katlin was possessed with an evil spirit. Violette went to the kitchen, grabbed a knife and stabbed Katlin several times before decapitating her. Supposedly to contain the evil spirit, he stuffed her body in a trash can.
Her mother found her like that when she returned home.

He was found to be insane. I will bet half of the people who arrived on that scene are a little insane now too.
Strange thing is that my little town isn't a crime capital but a man murdered his estranged wife in that same neighborhood about a year or two before this murder. Here is the link to the whole story about little Katlin.
http://www.claytonpolice.org/nc/Default.aspx?tabid=132

[JJ Hart]

This one from my hometown of Sarasota, FL is just plain sad. I'm surprised it hasn't been the basis for a movie.

Christine Chubbuck was a young host of a TV program on a local affiliate. After a sad series of events, she was desperate enough to kill herself on air during her morning show.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Chubbuck

[hollywoodsaint]

Originally Posted by JJ Hart

This one from my hometown of Sarasota, FL is just plain sad. I'm surprised it hasn't been the basis for a movie.

Christine Chubbuck was a young host of a TV program on a local affiliate. After a sad series of events, she was desperate enough to kill herself on air during her morning show.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Chubbuck

I used to live in Sarasota, too. I believe there is a Christine Chubbuck thread somewhere on the board.

[Sam]

Originally Posted by kimmer927

i had just moved to Ft.Worth when the T.Cullen Davis murders happened where he "allegedly" tried to kill Priscilla Davis in 1975 and ended up killing her date, a basketball player from TCU and her daughter, his stepdaughter that same night in August. Later i worked at a car wash next door to Priscilla's ex-husband Jack and met their son Jack who was my age. he would never speak of T.Cullen. It's still considered "unsolved" to this day. I heard Priscilla passed a few years ago, but there was a movie made about it in the late 80's starring Heather Locklear as Priscilla. Creeped me out and still does to this day to drive by that house. it tried to be a restaurant some years ago, but i heard / read it's haunted and no one wanted to eat there. check it out.

I've never seen the "Death House" on Mockingbird even though I just live a few blocks away at Bellaire & Hulen,
T. Cullen Davis was back on the news about 3 days ago. It seems there was ANOTHER fire at his house in Colleyville there was a fire there 18 months ago.

One of my biggest regrets happened when I was in a gay piano bar in the 90's in Dallas named "The Hideaway" (It's still there).
I had to wedge my way up to the bar to place my order saying "excuse me, sorry"....and when the woman to my left turned and looked me in the face it was PRISCILLA DAVIS!
I was so shocked all I could manage was "Hi, how are you?" She just smiled at me and said "Fine".
OH HOW I WISH I'd bought her a drink and had a LONG conversation with her.
People told me later that she was living in Highland Park and raising her granddaughter because her daughter was a drug addict and a lesbian, but she was almost broke and driving a old Cadillac and loved hanging out with the gay guys. This was only a couple of years before she died.

http://www.crimelibrary.com/notoriou...vis/index.html

[NOVSTORM]

I found out that money talks when it came to his trial. He was as bad as OJ IMO.
I thought Priss got a good settlement?? AM I wrong?

[NOVSTORM]

Originally Posted by Mrs. Watson

DNA nailed the Christa Worthington case. They took samples from a lot of men Christa knew, those who lived on the island and even a lot of those far in her past.

I was really surprised it was that guy. I was sure it was going to be Tony.

I think, don't take this as gospel, that the friends of Christa that she had designated in her will as Ava's guardian, do let Tony and his family see Ava from time to time. I've watched and read so much about that case, it's a little fuzzy in my recall.

He tried to get xustody didn't he and they wouldn't let him. I wonder why?

[Sam]

Originally Posted by NOVSTORM

I found out that money talks when it came to his trial. He was as bad as OJ IMO.
I thought Priss got a good settlement?? AM I wrong?

She was ostracized by Fort Worth society and one newspaper proclaimed she was "The Biggest Whore In The State".
She placed a wrongful death suit against T. Cullin in the death of her daughter, but a judge threw it out of court.
Cullin ended up with the house and I heard he broke priceless statues and threw them into a lake behind the house because he'd found "Religion".
Before her death he was supposedly living in a small house in Arlington and driving around in an old Cadillac with 200,000 miles on it.
After her death it's now a different story Colleyville is one of the most prestigious places to live in the DFW area and the cars sitting in his driveway looked like late model Lexus, or Infiniti's so he's NOT broke!

The Cadillac Priscilla drove was about 14 years old when I saw it. I think it was a white '85 or '86 Coupe De Ville, and even though she lived in Highland Park I heard it was a rented Condo or apartment. I'm sure she would have appreciated any drinks I bought for her.
Just before she died Cullen went on TV and all but admitted the murders. She was standing on the side lines and was recorded telling him on camera that "He would be judged by a higher authority than her."

She was a sick, tired, old broad by then, but she carried herself with dignity and class!

[Ima Sikfuk]

In the mid-1970s I lived in Houston when Jose Campos Torres and Randy Webster were sent to the Great Beyond with the help of the local constabulary in separate incidents. Gil Scott-Heron did a song about Torres and there was a made for TV movie called "The Killing of Randy Webster" .

I grew up near and lived for several years in Corpus Christi (still live near there) where I suppose the murder that made the biggest splash nationally was the murder of Tejano singer Selena (Quintanilla). My only connection to that was that I had once stayed in that motel (Days Inn) where the murder took place.

[kmed1971]

Originally Posted by pinkrose35

I live near Charlotte NC, where Cherica Adams, girlfriend of football player Rae Carruth was shot and killed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rae_Carruth. Here's the story very sad.

I have a family member that was in prison with Rae. He cuts hair in prison now. My relative also said Rae is a jerk.

Also Michael Peterson was in the same prison. He and my relative were good friends. My relative(cousin) was only in for 18 months and Mike is in for life so that friendship is over. Michael Peterson murdered his wife Kathleen in the stairwell of their Durham, NC home. He is a novelist. The story was on courttv and several other crime shows and has had a movie made based on it.

Go ahead, make jokes about my incarcerated family member. I can take it.

[crescentia]

My parents knew some of the people who were killed in the Jonestown Massacre. My parents were both poor hippies in San Francisco and I think that people were trying to get them to join the People's Temple since we barely had enough food to eat etc.

Also, when I was a small child(in the early 70's) there was a murder case in which a child that lived downstairs from us was crucified and murdered by two other children who had kidnapped him from a nearby playground that I used to play at. My parents knew the mother of the victim. I can't find a link anywhere online, but at the time it was a huge case.

Plus, my boyfriend's mother actually kind of knew Ted Bundy in a casual way. She worked at a food counter and Bundy would come in and chat with her while he ate. He actually offered to give her a ride home one time but she refused. True story.

A lot of strange things surround me and the places I have lived.

[lab_rat]

The POS who killed her is currently on trial.

http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/a...NTPAGECAROUSEL

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_..._Gardner-Quinn

[lisalouver]

I don't know if anyone from my area posted it, but

The 35W Bridge Collapse in Minneapolis last summer.

ETA: It made Wiki!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-35W_M...i_River_bridge

Sheriff Rich Stanek, btw seen in one of the pics on Wiki is HOT, HOT, HOT. But, I loved him when he was a Captain for MPD before he was Sheriff.

[nameuhpete]

Two come to mind for me. In Elba Alabama in 1979 (I was in high school), Billy Joe Magwood shot Sheriff Neil Grantham. Magwood had a "hit-list" with several prominent people in town on it. The story still continues to be a sore subject in the area because Magwood was sentenced to death in 1981, but because of appeals and questions about his mental state, he is still on Alabama's death row.

The other was the Alday murders in Seminole County, GA in 1973. Carl Issacs and some companions escaped from prison and murdered, I believe it was 6 members of the Alday family. I was living in the area in the 80's when the convictions were overturned due to pre-trial publicity and new trials were granted. They were convicted again, but the people of the area were outraged that they were given new trials. I think the ringleader, Carl Issacs was finally executed in 2003.

[AFoolandHisMonkey]

Originally Posted by SquirrelNutZipper

People drop like flies here in Boston.

Right after I moved here there was a man in the suburbs who was furious with his wife for burning the spaghetti. He beheaded her in front of their three-year old and impaled her head on a stick in the backyard. He apparently took his meals seriously.

Delurking to say that I remember this (although, actually, he didn't decapitate her, but he did impale her heart on the stick)... I was working at a pharmacy at the time and sold that guy his prescription less than a week before he did it (nothing interesting... it was Claritin).

Aside from Boston stuff, I grew up in CT the next town over from the Peter Reilly case (kid accused of murdering his mom... Google the book "A Death in Canaan). My mother taught Peter Reilly--and the neighbor boys who were also suspects--in school.

[lab_rat]

I lived in Boston when Karina Holmer, the Swedish Nanny, was murdered. I can't recall if they ever figured out who did it. I remember there was a guy who was a suspect and killed himself, but it may have never been shown conclusively that he was the perp.

Here is an article comparing Holmer to The Black Dahlia.
http://thephoenix.com/article_ektid22595.aspx

[observer]

In the early 1980s I set up shop in Kansas City's Old Westport Flea Market (bar and grill). My booth was 5 away from Bobs but as all of us probably bought and sold as much to each as we did to the public, we all spent idle time in chit chat. 2 stories to illustrate Bob's 'personality and preferences'; The same year Bob caught himself (if you know the story you understand this)KC hosted the 'final Four'. Bob's was one of only three booths that had windows facing Westport Road so he assembled a set of 4 skulls (later verified as not real)with a sign 'The final four'.
Everything is sold in fleamarkets and I had an 'ecletic' assortment myself.
One item was a beautiful inlaid brass and ivory Persian picture frame-too beautiful to describe, really-and another, a half bust of an God-like being; the kind of 'artifact' Bob bought and sold the most of.
One Saturday, Bob was standing in the aisle and I could tell by the way he was peering at the wall where I had displayed the frame and then, inside it, the stone bust, that he was interested so I said, "Bob, if you want that little bust I can sell it to you for about half."
"Actually, Bob replied, I was looking at the frame....Besides, he added with his usual smugness, "if I want a little head, that won't be what I have in mind."
Mind you, when I said I 'knew' Bob, I did. But I didn't know about him. NONE of the dealers in the market at that time had any clue to the fact that Bob's Bizarre Brizarre actually housed a person THAT bizarre.

[AFoolandHisMonkey]

Originally Posted by lab_rat

I lived in Boston when Karina Holmer, the Swedish Nanny, was murdered. I can't recall if they ever figured out who did it. I remember there was a guy who was a suspect and killed himself, but it may have never been shown conclusively that he was the perp.

Here is an article comparing Holmer to The Black Dahlia.
http://thephoenix.com/article_ektid22595.aspx

I remember that one too. I don't think they ever found her killer. Also around the same time, an Irish exchange student was murdered in Allston, right around the corner from my apt. Some guy lured her off the street and into the park, raped and killed her. My male roommates never understood why I didn't want to walk home that way. Erm, THAT'S why.

[lab_rat]

Originally Posted by AFoolandHisMonkey

I remember that one too. I don't think they ever found her killer. Also around the same time, an Irish exchange student was murdered in Allston, right around the corner from my apt. Some guy lured her off the street and into the park, raped and killed her. My male roommates never understood why I didn't want to walk home that way. Erm, THAT'S why.

Duh!! Wasn't/Isn't Allston a tough neighborhood?

[Chunga]

Riley Ann Sawyers. Lived about a half mile down the road from me when she lived in Ohio. I went to school with the grandmother, Cheryl Nebelski (nee) and the father of the child, Cheryl's son, worked at the BP up the road.

[sunshine74137]

Tim McVey

[kmed1971]

Originally Posted by Chunga

Riley Ann Sawyers. Lived about a half mile down the road from me when she lived in Ohio. I went to school with the grandmother, Cheryl Nebelski (nee) and the father of the child, Cheryl's son, worked at the BP up the road.

Does anyone know what happened to these two pieces of scum?

[lisalouver]

Originally Posted by duster

Back in the late 1980s I was a police reporter at the Sun, and one of the stories I was covering had to do with a serial rapist who was operating in eastern Toronto. Now, I'd covered lots of serious crimes and interviewed tons of detectives, and they were almost always pretty blase' about the bad guys they were chasing. But the detective on this particular rapist's trail seemed genuinely nervous - almost scared - for the public's safety. He told me, off the record, that the most recent victim had been found by accident. The rapist had dragged her off a suburban street in between two houses and gone to work. But he was much worse than the average rapist, according to this cop. He not only raped her, he also beat the hell out of her - and I mean really beat her. Then he wrapped a piece of wire around her neck and stared at her as he began to strangle her. Luckily some passerby heard a commotion, went to check it out, the rapist ran away and the victim survived. I'll never forget the cop telling me: "We really, really, really need to get this guy - and soon. He is going to kill someone."
So, who was this douchebag? Here's a hint: He was known as the Scarborough Rapist in those days. A couple of years later he went on to rape and murder two schoolgirls (with his wife's help). His name: Paul Bernardo.

Unfortunately for Tammy Homolka, Leslie Mahaffey and Kristin French, the police in Toronto and the forensic laboratory in Toronto charged with testing Bernado's blood bungled and because of this, Bernardo was not tested nor found to be a match until 1993.

[Chunga]

Originally Posted by kmed1971

Does anyone know what happened to these two pieces of scum?

Kimberly Trenor, now prego with dipshits spawn, and Royce Ziegler, (Royce?) are both set to go on trial Nov. 3 and are being held on $750,000. The death penlty will not be applied to these two goofballs.

I dated (very briefly) Chris Whitely. He stomped to death a poor guy in Arizona outside a bar. He was featured on America's Most Wanted. It really didn't suprise me at all the he turned out the way he did. I also went to private school with a serial rapest, who raped women on the ASU campus. I actually spoke to him a week before he was arrested. And most sad of all....... My uncle, who was a detective for Phoenix Pd. was arrested and in jail when he hung himself inside Sheriff Joe Arpaio's jail. My grandmother is suing Sheriff Joe.

[Chunga]

Originally Posted by Jessica Rabbit

I dated (very briefly) Chris Whitely. He stomped to death a poor guy in Arizona outside a bar. He was featured on America's Most Wanted. It really didn't suprise me at all the he turned out the way he did. I also went to private school with a serial rapest, who raped women on the ASU campus. I actually spoke to him a week before he was arrested. And most sad of all....... My uncle, who was a detective for Phoenix Pd. was arrested and in jail when he hung himself inside Sheriff Joe Arpaio's jail. My grandmother is suing Sheriff Joe.

Don King stomped some guy to death here in Cleveland some years ago when he was running the numbers racket. Only in America! Sorry to hear about your uncle. Ol' Sheriff Joe. What a son of gun.

[Shadow]

There's one murder case in our area that I will never forget... The Duffield Murders in 1983. I was friends with one of the victims, Janelle, and my brother was friends with another victim, Kelly.

From what I remember, Kelly Duffield had witnessed something (to this day it's still unclear what she witnessed). She was followed home by Michael Cade. In the early morning hours Michael Cade broke in to the Duffields’ home in January 1983 when he was 21. Using a two-pound sledgehammer, he bludgeoned 12-year-old Janelle to death and nearly killed 15-year-old Paul. Kelly, 17, was forced by Cade from the house, raped, beaten and left to die in a drainage ditch at Frisco Lake.

The really terrible part of this story is how the parents found out. Both mom and dad were already at work. Mom, Carole, was a nurse in the emergency room at the hospital. She was in the E.R. when Janelle and Paul were brought in. Kelly's body was found sometime later. I never attended Janelle's funeral because it really freaked me out. All I can think about now is what could have been going on in Janelle's mind before she died. From what I was told, she was barely recognizable. I just pray that she didn't suffer and that it was at least quick.

[Chunga]

Pretty gruesome stuff there. Poor things.

[sunshine74137]

April 19th 1909, Ada Oklahoma, Two hundred men lynch 4 accused murderers. At the time it was reported as Ending one of the bloodiest band of murderers in the state of Oklahoma, and an organization of professional assassins, that for a record of blood crimes, probably has no equal in the annals of criminal history in the entire southwest.Jim Miller, Jesse West, Joe Allen and D.B. Burrell, were all connected in the murder of Gus Bobbitt. But they all had a history of dirty deals and Miller was the hired gun of the gang. Almost a western "mafia" of sorts. They had slipped thruogh the hands of justice many times simply because no one would testify against them. The townspeople had a solution.Here it is *dead folks here* http://www.brightok.net/~bridges/photos/hanging.jpg

[Chunga]

Great Caesars Ghost! I shudder every time I hear that name. Bobbit. Yikes!

[sunshine74137]

I thought of the bobbitt thing too!! Must be a bad luck name

[JestersKiss]

did someone say Bobit!!!!!! thats worse than death,lol

[Sam]

Anyone remember the Karen Koslow murder here in Ft. Worth back in the early 90's?

http://www.txexecutions.org/reports/233.asp

[Chunga]

that I do, but it's interesting to me how they described the fact that he "grunted and gasped" as the lethal dose took affect. I always assumed that the lethal injections were administered after the person is rendered unconscious. Is it an involuntary reflex, or does every state do it different?

[burgtwngrl]

I live in Ohio now but back in 2003 I lived in Erie PA. I worked on state street in the FBI building...a street over (Peach Street) A pizza delivery man; his name was Brian Wells was kidnapped by a still unknown assailant had a collar bomb strapped to his neck and was forced to rob a PNC Bank right in the heart of Erie's Shopping district. He was given 7 pages of rambling instructions and only given 20 minutes to get the job done. Poor Brian was kind of slow mentally anyway and when the cops showed up to arrest him he tried to tell him that he didn't intentionally rob the bank that he was kidnapped etc etc... as he was streaming for someone to help him BOOM the bomb went off killing him instantly and put a gigantic hole in his chest. (he had to be decapitated at autopsy to get the bomb off his neck) me working in the FBI building I was leaving work that day when two agents were carrying in the device that was around his neck... to make a strange story stranger a month later a man's body was found frozen in a chest freezer in a house not far from where Mr. Wells was kidnapped. The man who owned the house said it was not his freezer but that of his X-Girlfriend Marjorie Deal Armstrong (in Erie she is called Mad Madge) anyhoo... the man in the freezer turned out to be Mad Madge's other X-boyfriend that she chopped up. I think it was 2 years later that the police linked the pizza bomber case and the Frozen Boyfriend case together and Mad Madge is serving time for her boyfriend's murder and is right now being evaluated to see if she is competant to stand trial in the Pizza bomber case. The man who owned the house where the freezer was died of cancer before he could stand trial. she's the only surviving suspect in the case. Incidentally the poor frozen boyfriend was murdered, chopped up and frozen before Brian Wells was kidnapped. whew long story... i'll try to find a link to it and post it... it was on CNN and all the major world news stories but it's been 5 years ago so many probably forgot about oh and yes it was made into a storyline for "law & Order" also in 2004.

Hugs fellow death hags

[burgtwngrl]

Here is a Link from MSNBC

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9120093/

[lab_rat]

Originally Posted by lab_rat

The POS who killed her is currently on trial.

http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/a...NTPAGECAROUSEL

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_..._Gardner-Quinn

Guilty of aggravated murder with a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole.

[crescentia]

Originally Posted by Chunga

Great Caesars Ghost! I shudder every time I hear that name. Bobbit. Yikes!

An ex-boyfriend of mine lived in the samne apartment complex where that happened. I drove by the field where she dumped it quite often.

[mistydawn]

I live about 2 hours away from Virginia Tech. Also, I am about that far away from where the DC sniper shot one of his victims. My mom and I actually got off at the exit and ate at the Cracker Barrel there about a month after it happened.

In Norfolk, about 30 minutes from me, there was a case, in the 80s, where a man killed his teenage daughter and dumped her body in the Dismal Swamp. I don't remember the names, but the case made national headlines when the man was interviewed by a psychiatrist and the psychiatrist decided to use this man as the first person to use multiple personality disorder as a defense in court. I remember seeing the snippets of the hours of footage that was taken. One personality was supposedly "Satan", that was the one that killed the girl.

This didn't make national news, but an ex-boyfriend of mine raped and killed an older women in the neighborhood we used to live in. Luckily, my taste in men has gotten better as I got older.

[burgtwngrl]

Good for you Misty. I bet you felt really strange knowing your x raped and killed someone..I would; has he tried to contact you?

[mistydawn]

Luckily he has never tried to contact me and I hadn't spoken to him in 3 or 4 years before he committed that act. I got a call at work to pick up the paper and look at the front page. The whole story was there. Needless to say, I was shocked. I was a senior in high school at the time. He is serving life in prison. Thank God he'll never be released.

[amaranthaseven]

Mentioned in an earlier post, but Neil Entwhistle's trial is about to begin, it seems. The Boston Herald is a pretty tabloid-like newspaper, but I found the latest article on Entwhistle interesting- and highly unflattering. If he's half the creep he appears to be from this distance, he's a sure thing for Life in prison- until another prisoner takes him out, that is.

Here's an excerpt from today's Herald article:

Double-murder suspect Neil Entwistle was looking to sell his story to the “highest bidder” - and trying to hook up with an old girlfriend - when he was arrested in his native England about a month after the grisly slayings of his wife and baby girl in Hopkinton, according to shocking new court filings.

In motions filed this afternoon in Middlesex Superior Court in Woburn, the district attorney lays out the prosecution’s case against Entwistle, saying the 29-year-old computer engineer was obsessed with sex, money and violence. Prosecutors argue in the motions that Entwistle’s alleged “bad acts” took place before, during and after the Jan. 20, 2006, murders of his 27-year-old wife Rachel and 9-month-old baby girl Lillian Rose.

Jury selection is expected to begin Monday in the Entwistle murder case.

Entwistle, at the time of the murders, fled to his parents’ home in Worksop, England, and was arrested Feb. 8th 2006, on a London subway car. Prosecutors stated today that Entwistle “had on his person a complete page torn from a local tabloid containing hundreds of ads by women providing a variety of escort and sexual services.”

Records state Entwistle was also carrying hand-written notes “indicating he was intending to make contact with a former girlfriend” in London.
Another hand-written note indicated Entwistle wanted to “sell to the media exclusive rights to the full story to the highest bidder,” according to the court filings.

[hoxharding]

[quote=QuarterRat;244879]I was hanging out in gay bars in Indianapolis when Herb Baumeister was killing young gay men there as well as being suspected of murdering women on the 1-70 corridor. There were posters up about "suspicious disappearances" in the bars close to the end of the time when they caught him. A friend of mine once tricked with a friend of Herbs AT HERBS HOUSE while another man (who lived) was tricking with Herb. My friend refuses to talk about this and becomes visibly shaken when it's mentioned. To be so close to being taken down by a serial, I'd probably shake too. Herbs kids found human remains in the back yard and took them to their mother who dismissed them as animal remains.


I don't know if I am thinking of the same guy-is he the one who co-owned a grocery store or something like that? That they found human remains in a creek(?) and even right next to the house(or patio)?

[Smackman]

I didn't see this already mentioned here:

I live in Mason, Ohio - where Michele Veillette killed his wife and kids a few months ago. Then he took the easy way out and hung himself in prison.

[seurtoFW]

We have a couple here actually. The most recent would be Chante Mallard, the nurse's assistant (or some such) that hit a homeless man, who then got stuck in her windshield. Rather than do anything about it, she just drove home and left him in the windshield in the garage for a couple of days until he died; then her boyfriend dumped him in Cobb Park. CourtTV showed the trial, but I just happened to be on vacation that week and didn't see it - darn it.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/mallard1.html

I believe someone has already mentioned T. Cullen Davis, that's another interesting story. At the time ('76) he was the richest man ever put on trial for murder. He was acquitted not only of that, but also trying to have the judge in his divorce trial off'd as well. Not that there isn't a ton of evidence, but let's just say, OJ wasn't the first. A wonderful book on the subject is "Blood Will Tell" by Gary Cartwright.

[kmed1971]

Originally Posted by seurtoFW

We have a couple here actually. The most recent would be Chante Mallard, the nurse's assistant (or some such) that hit a homeless man, who then got stuck in her windshield. Rather than do anything about it, she just drove home and left him in the windshield in the garage for a couple of days until he died; then her boyfriend dumped him in Cobb Park. CourtTV showed the trial, but I just happened to be on vacation that week and didn't see it - darn it.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/mallard1.html

CSI did an episode on that when the show first came out. I can't even imagine leaving someone moaning stuck in my car. I can't believe people can run over animals and keep going. She had no sympathy for his suffering.

[Miss Bells]

I don't think this is a famous case but when I was doing my A-levels my friends used to know a guy called David Harker, he used to hang out in the park opposite our 6th form college. I would see him at parties/pubs etc but didn't really know him well. Anyway, we'd all been out one night and went back to my friend Sam's house, it was late and we were just having a drink and listening to music when there is a knock on the door - its Harker. He's acting a weird and starts talking about what it feels like to kill someone and all sorts of crazy stuff then asks my then boyfriend to smell his fingers, naturally he doesn't want to but Harker insists and then asks what they smell like, so he says farmyards to which he replies "no, Christopher, try dead bodies". At this point I go to bed as he is freaking me out and when we get up in the morning he's gone. It sounds crazy, but when someone is there telling you they've killed someone, you don't believe it. We certainly didn't anyway. Turns out that he was telling the truth, and stupidly (or thankfully) he told a lot of different people different parts of the story. He murdered this woman he was seeing and cut off her head, her arms and her legs. They still haven't found her head. The night he came round was the night he did it, which is freaky. He then went on to claim he ate her with macaroni and cheese but I don't believe that.