Speaking of murderers, what bizarre criminal trials are famous in your country?

[shereads]

Any hope of finding the real killer?

First time I visited my parents after moving to Miami, I noticed something strange about their small Southern city: the most mundane murders received coverage on the local TV news!

"Man shot to death at convenience store. More after this message."

Shot? Shot and what else? Shot and found in more than one dumpster? Shot and ritually dismembered by a little-known religious cult? Shot after being held hostage in a warehouse and subjected to non-voluntary dentistry with mechanics' tools?

No, just shot. That alone was sufficiently unusual to be news in that other America. Here in Miami, you can't earn your 15 minutes of fame just by being killed. You need a theme; an angle. It helps if your killer was eleven years old. Even better, you're an upper-middle-class husband and daddy whose wife witnessed your tragic death at the hands of a car-jacker, who later turns out to have been your wife's crack dealer for the past three years. Not that there's a connection.



I know the Brits must have tales that make these look like bedtime stories. Whenever we read about a woman whose cottage is wallpapered in individually numbered fish scales, or a couple whose pet hedgehog thinks its a squirrel, it happened in Britain. Any good murders? Or just lovable eccentrics?

 

[maggot420]

We had a famous husband & wife murder spree here in Canada a few years ago. Paul Bernardo & Karla Holmoka. It was so outrageously horrific they turned it into a Law & Order episode.

All the names and facts were changed of course.

 

[shereads]

We had a famous husband & wife murder spree here in Canada a few years ago. Paul Bernardo & Karla Holmoka. It was so outrageously horrific they turned it into a Law & Order episode.

All the names and facts were changed of course.

How many spinoff episodes of Law & Order did it generate?

Was that Law & Order Titillating Sex Crimes Unit? Or Law & Order Unspeakable Violence Unit?

 

[maggot420]

How many spinoff episodes of Law & Order did it generate?

Was that Law & Order Titillating Sex Crimes Unit? Or Law & Order Unspeakable Violence Unit?

Uh...I think it was just the one episode of the Law & Order Just Plain Old Regular Variety.

Much more gruesome in reality though...

They killed her sister first (after molesting her of course) and then 2 schoolgirls were raped, tortured and dismembered.

The weird thing is he was known to be the Scarborough rapist (responsible for 30 some odd attacks) but when he hooked up with her they started killing their victims.
But she made a sweet deal with the prosocutors in return for testifying against him. Then the cops found the videos they had made of the crimes but it was too late.
So she ended up getting a sweetheart deal when there is alot of speculation that she was actually the one who planned it all.

 

[Guest]

Excuse me but what the fuck kind of topic is this?! I avoid this news crap and now it's a subject for humor? Merely my reaction.

Perdita

 

[shereads]

Excuse me but what the fuck kind of topic is this?! I avoid this news crap and now it's a subject for humor? Merely my reaction.

Perdita

Try avoiding the threads, too, and see if that works out.

 

[maggot420]

Excuse me but what the fuck kind of topic is this?! I avoid this news crap and now it's a subject for humor? Merely my reaction.

Perdita

Humour? I was being dead serious...Well maybe not dead serious but mostly serious.
At least 37% serious.
Well, as serious as someone like me ever gets which I admit isn't much...

Ok maybe 21% serious...

Give or take.

 

[rgraham666]

The one that spring to mind for me is the Gillian Guess trial.

No, she wasn't on trial. She was a juror on the trial.

She fell in love with the defendant and ended up doing the horizontal mambo with him.

The guy got off too. In more ways than one.

 

[Guest]

The one that spring to mind for me is the Gillian Guess trial.

No, she wasn't on trial. She was a juror on the trial.

She fell in love with the defendant and ended up doing the horizontal mambo with him.

The guy got off too. In more ways than one.

 

[Pure]

The trial of Stephen Truscott, age 14, a few years back is still being examined; seems he may not have done it. He's now in 40s in prison.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

There's a nice Mexican restaurant not far from here over on Dempster and Austin. I was there once and it was okay, but the guy providing the live music wouldn't shut up or take a break. (electric keyboard and drum machine.)
I hate live music when I'm eating.

Anyhow, one day the owner (who was Greek, if my memory serves) disappeared. The restaurant stayed open, and about a year later they were having the roof redone when they came across some big tupperware storage bins up there covered with roofing paper. They opened one up and found it filled with concrete with a human hand in it.

They found other parts of his body in other containers on the roof, but not all of him. I think his torso was missing.

No one's been caught or charged. The restaurant's still open. New management, I assume. The food's not bad.

---dr.M.

P.S. Wait: the Brown's Chiacken Murders too. About ten years ago in Palatine, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago), six people were found shot to death execution-style in the cooler of a Brown's Firied Chicken restaurant. The people were just a an odd selection of kids working there, the owner's wife, maybe a late customer or two, so it wasn't any sort of gangster thing. It looked like 2 or 3 people had just come in at closing time and rounded up whoever was in there, herded them into the freezer and killed them. It made no sense.

The police figured it was a robbery gone horribly wrong, but the local Palatine cops, through professional rivalry, conducted the preliminary investigation themselves and screwed things up badly. By the time they called in police who knew their business, tire tracks and footprints had been obliterated, the grounds had been trampled on, evidence had been thrown out, and the whole place pretty much cleaned up.

Every so often there's a ripple of hope as someone comes forth claiming to know who did it and why, but it never seems to pan out. It's the most nagging crime hanging over Chicago. Cops and investigators are still trying to track down leads on their own time, but so far nothing.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

... Paul Bernardo & Karla Holmoka....

Norstar tried to produce a film a few years back on the Bernardo Case, but the Ontario government would not co-operate, they tried to move to Manitoba, and they would not co-operate, either.

I heard recently that Quantum Entertainment is trying again, this time in LA, under the tentative title, Deadly.

It is still in pre-production, but they have a cast, and Joel Bender who worked as the editor on the very confused 2003 feature Vlad (Yes, the Impaler!) is presently slated to direct.

 

[Pure]

I believe the film is proceeding, though some law enforcement and some family of victims aren't too happy. I doubt they have any recourse. In our society you can write all you want about bizarre cases and pocket the proceeds. (lately it's forbidden that you profit from your OWN crimes.) What's the solution? Make the writer share his/her gains with ??

The film, if any good, MIGHT create some good, in that the lady murderer (or murderers helper) in question is up for parole soon, and people would be discussing the case if they've seen the movie.

 

[OldScotlandYard]

pervs, you are all nicked!

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

pervs, you are all nicked!

OldScotlandYard, you are now Iggied.

If you've got a beef, you should have presented it to the forum in a special thread.

As it is, you're spreading SPAM. Someone less generous might report your activity to the management.

Then, you could be nicked.

At least turfed from Literotica.

 

[BlackShanglan]

There's always Shergar, the Jimmy Hoffa of the horse world. Did they ever find the poor bugger?

Where I grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia, there was the case of a high school principal who knocked over liquor stores in his spare time and then eventually teamed up with one teacher to kill another for her insurance money. Unfortunately, she unexpectedly had her kids with her that weekend and they were murdered as well. In the end, it was the evil bastards' own cleverness that stitched them up. They never did reveal where the childrens' bodies were, may heaven have pity on the poor things - but it made the prosecutors' case. They all went missing and were presumably killed at the same time, so why did only one body show up? Obvious answer: that one needed to be found so that someone could cash in the insurance policy. The jury found it persuasive.

 

[Songcatcher]

Try avoiding the threads, too, and see if that works out.

Nachtwandlung. It is an action of political importance, also completely secret.

 

[cantdog]

Mensch

Diese Leute sprechen kein deutsch. Und wir brauchen keine Nachtwandlung hier.

Verzeihe.


canthund

 

[cantdog]

I used to collect Victorian murder cases, Burke and Hare, Saucy Jack, and so on. There seems to be a deeper anomie today. serial killers who see us all as a hobbyist would see stamps or glassware. Back then, a serial killer like Jack with a number of victims in the single digits was notorious worldwide.

 

[CharleyH]

I believe the film is proceeding, though some law enforcement and some family of victims aren't too happy. I doubt they have any recourse. In our society you can write all you want about bizarre cases and pocket the proceeds. (lately it's forbidden that you profit from your OWN crimes.) What's the solution? Make the writer share his/her gains with ??

The film, if any good, MIGHT create some good, in that the lady murderer (or murderers helper) in question is up for parole soon, and people would be discussing the case if they've seen the movie.

The Mahaffey and French families (their daughters were victims) do have lawyers and are trying to stop the production. It had been on the news recently. As for it doing any good to make a film? Karla Homolka turned down early parole as far as I recall. She will be released without a hitch no doubt. Infamous couple, not too many will forget her face.

The case was touted "The Ken and Barbie murders."

I never quite understood this since they were obviously far from the perfect couple. Besides, had they really been Ken and Barbie, it would hardly have been an issue of sexual sadism. Think about it. It may take some time

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Not funny in any way, so Perdya, please don't read this.



A man axed his wife to death. The judge gave him custody of their 11-year-old son, with the motivation "it's best for a child to be with its biological parents".

In Malexander, a few years ago, a cop was killed in the line of duty when he tried to stop 3 men who had robbed a bank. The 3 men were all members of White Aryan Resistance - only thing is, one of them was a black man.

Right now, there's a very well-reported murder trial going on, about an au pair in Knutby who killed the woman she worked for, because the womans husband, who was the priest of a local sect, had brainwashed the girl to think that God wanted her to kill the woman.

 

[BlackShanglan]

Right now, there's a very well-reported murder trial going on, about an au pair in Knutby who killed the woman she worked for, because the womans husband, who was the priest of a local sect, had brainwashed the girl to think that God wanted her to kill the woman.

(K)nutby would appear to be aptly named.

 

[cantdog]

Life is very bizarre. God wanted it.

Have they sold the film rights?

 

[Guest]

Re: Mensch

Diese Leute sprechen kein deutsch. Und wir brauchen keine Nachtwandlung hier.

Verzeihe.

canthund

Aber nicht müssen Deutsch Sprecher noch auch lieben.

Süß unterwürfig sarahh

 

[Boxlicker101]

pervs, you are all nicked!

Hey, Scotty, who do you think is the most perverted person here? If you read my stories, I'll bet you say I am.

Rather than hijacking this thread why not start another to list the most perverted.