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Serial killer Sean Vincent Gillis’s ex-girlfriend Terri Lemoine talks to Dead of Night

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Sean Vincent Gillis with girlfriend Terri
Sean Vincent Gillis raped, mutilated and murdered eight woman in Louisiana between 1994 and 2004,  Dead of Night investigates his crimes and talk to his girlfriend at the time when he started kiling, Terri Lemoine. Gillison’s first victim was 81-year-old Ann Bryan, who lived at an upmarket retirement home in Baton Rouge. He sneaked into the home and attempted to rape Bryan, but when she made too much noise he slit her throat and stabbed her to death in a frenzied attack where he inflicted more than 50 knife wounds. Across the road from the home was where 36-year-old single mom Terri […]

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Teresa Bradish was sexually assaulted and murdered by her own father for $10,000

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Teresa Bradish
Teresa Bradish was found strangled to death by the side of the road just hours after leaving the group home where she was living, Evil Talks: Chilling Confessions examines the case and how it took over 20 years to bring her killer to justice. September, 1985, Fremont County, Wyoming, and 13-year-old Teresa Bradish left the group home where she was staying and told other residents she’d had a call from her dad. The teen was later found sexually assaulted and strangled by the side of the road and when they spoke to her father, Jerry Joe Bradish, he denied having […]

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John Hardy Rose murdered neighbor Patricia Stewart – his sisters talk to Evil Lives Here

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John Hardy Rose
Betty and Ulayla Rose talk to Evil Lives Here about their murderous brother John Hardy Rose, who killed their neighbor. January, 1991, in North Carolina and 24-year-old Patricia Stewart was reported missing to police. An search of her apartment turned up several drops of blood and detectives questioned her neighbors, including John Rose. He lived with his sister and her boyfriend in the apartment above Stewart’s and when the State Bureau of Investigation searched cars owned by Rose and his sister they found blood that matched the same type as Patricia. He was interviewed and at his mother’s prompting he […]

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Breck Bednar’s online grooming and murder by Lewis Daynes features on Web of Lies

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Breck Bednar
This episode of Web of Lies spotlights the tragic murder of schoolboy Breck Bednar, who was groomed online 18-year-old Lewis Daynes and then murdered. 14-year-old Breck Bednar was a keen gamer and often played games like Call of Duty and Battlefield for hours online. At some point he joined a gaming group through TeamSpeak and befriended computer technician Lewis Daynes. The two became close and Daynes told Bednar he worked for the US government and that he could make him rich. Bednar’s parents, who moved to the UK from the US years before,  became concerned that their son was being groomed […]

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Clay King Smith murder his girlfriend, her cousin, two kids and a babysitter

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Clay King Smith
Clay King Smith’s mass killing, that included his girlfriend Misty Erwin and her cousin Shelley Sorg, is featured on Evil Lives Here. Jefferson County, Arkansas, on March 23, 1998, and 20-year-old Misty Erwin reported to police that her boyfriend Clay King Smith had beaten her and that she wanted help getting her belongings, so that she could move into a shelter. However, when Erwin was escorted to Smith’s home she had a chat with him and decided to withdraw the charges and stay, a fatal decision. On March 25 Erwin was reported missing, along with her cousin, her cousin’s two […]

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Laura Simonson and Jenny Gamez both killed by ‘Mr. Handcuffs’ after bondage sex hookups

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Laura Simonson
This week Web of Lies spotlights the killing of Laura Simonson and Jenny Gamez by former-cop and bondage fetishist Steven Zelich. June 5, 2014, in Town of Geneva, Wisconsin, and a Highway Department worker cutting the grass found two suitcases, each one containing the body of a woman. One of the bodies was quickly identified as that of 37-year-old mother of five Laura Simonson of Farmington, Minnesota. She’d last been seen in Rochester on November 22, 2013, and her mother had reported her missing a few weeks later. A tip off from a employee led to police searching a Rochester, Minn. motel, […]

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Robert Costello was shot dead and his friend kidnapped – Lt. Joe Kenda helped solve the case

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Robert Costello was murdered and his friend kidnapped the night before Halloween, Homicide Hunter: Lt. Joe Kenda is on the case. Costello, 18, was shot dead at local construction site on the night of October 30 and died at the scene. His friend, 17-year-old Danny Barela, was kidnapped, then shot in the head and his body dumped by the side of the road. Remarkably Barela survived and was able to crawl to a house and raise the alarm. When police began investigating the case they soon realised it was linked to Costello’s plea deal over a schoolteacher’s car that he […]

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William Davis was murdered at his girlfriend’s home – Lt. Joe Kenda recounts the case

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William Davis murder, Joe Kenda investigates
William Davis was fatally wounded in a shooting at his girlfriend’s house, Homicide Hunter: Lt. Joe Kenda explains how he helped to solve the case. July 8, 1994 and group of friends get together to catch up but two of their number, William Davis and Chad Evans end up being shot by two mystery gunmen. Nora Evans is the host of the party and her boyfriend Davis, 29, is critically injured at the scene from a gunshot wound to the back of the head and her 21-year-old son is listed as stable after being shot in the chest. Lt. Joe […]

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Maribel Ramos was murdered by roommate K.C. Joy – Web of Lies

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K.C. Joy with Maribel Ramos
Maribel Ramos was murdered by her own roommate in apparent argument over rent and maybe even love, Web of Lies investigates the case. Maribel Ramos, 36, was a U.S. Army veteran and a student at university when she was reported missing by friends. Ramos failed to turn up for some events, leading friends to think something was amiss. Police questioned her roommate, 55 -year-old Kwang Chol Joy, who denied any involvement in her disappearance and seemed to be cooperating with the investigation. However, police knew the pair had argued over rent, with Ramos’s boyfriend having heard them talking over speakerphone. […]

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Becky Sears had her son Christopher Bowers beat neighbor Kay Parsons to death with a hammer

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Christopher Bowers and his mother Becky Sears
Becky Sears and Kay Parsons were neighbors and knew each other very well, raising their kids side-by-side, but as Evil Kin reveals, behind that veneer Sears had deadly intentions. Augusta, Ga., on March 25, 2009 and Kay Parsons was found badly beaten in her garage and later died in hospital. Her house looked as if it had been robbed and the attacker had used a claw hammer and baseball bat to carry out the murder. The next night Parsons’s neighbor, 41-year-old Rebecca Sears, was also attacked and shot in the leg whilst leaving her work. The pair both worked for […]

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The 30 best Westerns ever made

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Clint Eastwood in The Outlaw Josey Wales
Few genres have the ability to capture a time and place as well as the western. The western genre is filled with films that deliver breathtaking landscapes, unforgettable characters and some of the best stories ever brought to the screen. Here is a look at some of best westerns ever made, in no particular order. 1 Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)  John Ford and John Wayne team together again to give the western genre another classic film. Joined by the great James Stewart and Lee Marvin, the film follows the tale of Ransom “Ranse” Stoddard (Stewart) and is told through […]

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The Golden State Killer might have been caught in shape of suspect Joseph James DeAngelo – ID spotlights the crimes involved

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Sketch of The Golden State Killer
The Golden State Killer: It’s Not Over looks at the back at the crimes of the serial rapist, killer and burglar who terrorized the people of California during the 1970s and 1980s. Sometimes known as the Night Stalker, the Diamond Knot Killer or the East Bay Rapist, he is best know as the Golden State Killer, a moniker given to him by a true crime writer. His criminal activity is believed to have been initially focussed on burglary, stalking and targeting homes with easy escape routes. As he moved on to carry out rapes, he is thought to have sought out […]

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Emily Lambert was murdered by her boyfriend Robert Earley – See No Evil

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Robert Earley with Emily Lambert
Schoolteacher and mother of two Emily Lambert was murdered by her boyfriend Robert Earley, See No Evil shows how CCTV from the hotel helped solve the case. 30-year-old Emily Lambert was on a trip to Carlsbad, New Mexico, when she was reported missing by boyfriend Robert Earley. She’d travelled from Garland, Texas to visit her long distance boyfriend on the Friday and he called her parents on the Sunday to say that he was worried about her. He explained that the pair had argued after another man in the bar had started flirting with Lambert. 33-year-old Earley said that after […]

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Grandfather Ronnie Robinson who was beaten to death by children features on Murder Chose Me

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Detective Rod Demery
Detective Rod Demery recalls the case of grandfather Ronnie Robinson on Murder Chose Me, a man who was beaten to death by some unlikely attackers. Shreveport, Louisiana, at 4:50 a.m. on July 11, 2010, and police were called to investigate reports of a man in distress on the sidewalk. They found a badly beaten man who was later identified as 47-year-old Ronnie D. Robinson. He was rushed to hospital but died of injuries a few days later. There were few clues at the scene of the beating but when Demery visits Robinson’s employer he gets a tip that the grandfather was having […]

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Former Motown man Lawrence Horn hired hitman to kill his ex-wife and quadriplegic son

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Lawrence Horn and James Perry,
Lawrence Horn was the senior engineer at Motown Records, but when he was laid off his life spiralled into debt. His solution was to have his son and ex-wife murdered, Shattered spotlights this cold-blooded case. Silver Spring, Rockville, on March 3, 1993, and a family member finds the bodies of 8-year-old Trevor Horn, his mother Mildred Horn, 43, and Trevor’s nurse 38-year-old Janice Saunders in their home. Trevor had been smothered to death and his breathing tubes taken out, his mother and the nurse had both been shot in the eye – in what were execution style murders. Mildred’s family […]

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Todd Reed’s Forest Park murders spotlighted on Shattered

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Alexandria Ison
Todd Alan Reed raped and murdered at least three homeless women in Oregon during the 1990s, Shattered examines his crimes. Portland, Orgeon, in May and June 1999 and the bodies of three young women were found in the woods of Forest Park, all of them had been raped and then strangled to death. Lilla Moler, 28, was found on May 7 and a day later 26-year-old Stephanie Russell’s body was also found, the third victim was Alexandria Ison, 17, whose body was discovered June 2. All the women lived on the street and worked as prostitutes to feed their drug […]

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Rev. Samuel N. Booth Jr was murdered by James Thomas Wood during Christmas Eve over crack cocaine dispute

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Rev. Samuel N. Booth Jr
Samuel Booth had been minister at his popular church for over a decade when he was brutally murdered by James Wood, Shattered examines a case that shocked the minister’s flock. Baltimore on Christmas Eve, 1994, and 55-year-old Rev. Samuel Nathaniel Booth Jr. was found stabbed to death in the mobile home behind the church where he was the minister. James Thomas Wood, 24, handed himself into police on Christmas Day and was charged with murder and robbery, with police believing he stabbed the pastor to death with a 6-inch kitchen knife. He also admitted to stealing a small amount of […]

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Michael John Braae known as ‘Cowboy Mike’ murdered Lori Jones and is suspected of other killings

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Michael John Braae
Former country singer Michael John Braae was known as ‘Cowboy Mike’ and had a reputation as a ladies man, but he also had a taste for rape and murder – Shattered spotlights his crimes. July 2001, and 44-year-old Lori Jones was last seen in Bailey’s Lounge in Olympia , Washington, where she’d decided to go for a Saturday night out alone after an online date fell through. There she met Braae and the barman later told police that the pair drank and danced together all night, he said they seemed very familiar. However, when Jones’s 11-year-old daughter Elisa came home […]

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Jeffrey Wolfe was murdered and his girlfriend Charlene Leaser raped by Gary Simmons and Timothy Milano

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Gary Carl Simmons
This episode of Shattered examines the gruesome murder of Jeffrey Wolfe and the rape of his girlfriend Charlene Leaser by Gary Simmons and Timothy Milano. Jeffrey Wolfe and his new girlfriend 21-year-old Leaser headed down to Mississippi from Houston to recover money owed to Wolfe by grocery store butcher Simmons, the cash was part of a drug deal and Wolfe had been sent a note inviting him down. However, things soon went south one they arrived at the house where they were meeting 33-year-old Simmons and his associate, 21-year-old Milano. They appeared to have neither the money or the cash, an argument ensued and Milano […]

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Robert Kowalski’s murder of girlfriend Sandra Perry was ruled an accident until he killed Lorraine Kay Morin the same way – Diabolical

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Robert Kowalski murderer
Robert Kowalski got away with murder for over a decade until he killed another girlfriend the same way, Diabolical examines his crimes. 1996 in Yakutat, Alaska, and loved up couple Sandra Perry, 29, and Robert D. Kowalski, 34, were on a vacation. Whilst staying at the Glacier Bear Lodge the pair smoked marijuana and had a few drinks, but the night turned deadly when Kowalski claimed he heard a bear and grabbed the shotgun, tripping on the way to the door he shot Perry in the head, killing her. At the time no charges were brought against Kowalski and he […]

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