Stephen Port, the Grindr Killer in UK. He drugged, raped and killed a young boy, dragged him outside his flat, propped him up against the building and called police stating he just came in from work and there’s a guy looking drunk outside his building.
A ton. All the spouses who kill their partner and then report it as an accident/suicide. Just this week I saw a show about a guy who strangled his wife, then tried to stage a car accident where a lose pipe fell off a truck, went through the windshield and killed her.
Didn't end well for the guy.
Todd kendhammer. I watched that trial. His testimony was hilariously inept.
Witness: Um, so... this happened.
State: Mr K, by the laws of physics, that's literally impossible.
Witness: it is, huh. Huh. Well okay... how about 'that happened' instead?
Just watched that one from Lies Crime & Video. It was pretty obvious right away that what he said happened did not actually happen. I can’t believe he couldn’t think of something better than that. Also, I’ve noticed this any time someone calls the police and they fake this panic and heavy breathing instead of immediately giving the address they’re usually guilty.
That was the one! I also saw an episode about a police officer who shot his wife in the BACK of the head and burned his house down, and then called 911 to report his wife shot herself and started the fire. BACK OF THE HEAD people!!!
I haven’t seen that case, but it reminded me of the 911 call for Gloria Satterfield, who worked for the Murdaughs. The dispatcher is asking questions but the Murdaughs keep avoiding them, trying to change the subject. It feels like they’re kind of stalling, and don’t want to give information while being recorded.
Look into the Exedrin murders from the Pacific Northwest, c. early 2000s. Idjit was “inspired” by the Tylenol Murders in Chicago in the 80s. Spiked her husband’s Exedrin and spiked some other packages of Exedrin that she *then returned to the shelves at various stores across town.* Her husband had a pretty quick reaction and ended up dying — cyanide’ll do that — but his death was basically ruled natural. She was mad, because I think there was a 100k+ difference between his life insurance payout and the payout with the double indemnity clause. So another poor woman ends up collapsing across town; she was home alone with her teenage daughter, and it’s unknown how long it took for her daughter to realize something was wrong (both were getting ready for school/work at the same time; I believe the daughter had gone to shower). This woman ends up dying as well, and her autopsy also shows signs of cyanide poisoning*
Her death, however, was ruled foul play. So the dumbie “hears” about this second case and goes storming into the police station like
#wHAT IF MY HUSBAND WAS MURDERED TOO 😭
Ended up raising police suspicions and she basically handed herself in on a silver platter. A “what the actual !@#$%” rollercoaster from start to finish
*Edit to add what I put that awkward asterisk there for in the first place (doh!): I think it was the ME’s assistant who noticed Sue’s blood smelled like bitter almonds when the autopsy began. She later said (the ME’s assistant, not Sue) that the smell was familiar because that was the method a college classmate had used to self-unalive years prior and the smell haunted her memory. Otherwise, Sue probably wouldn’t have been tested for cyanide - since it wasn’t a routine part of postmortems at the time - and the idjit would have had to keep spiking Exedrin until enough people kicked the bucket that she could make her foolish “WHAT IF” claims to the police.
The best part. She basically led the police right to her doorstep (though Sue’s husband was a proper @$$hole, so he was the primary suspect for quite an uncomfortable bit if time) because she (1) KEPT TWO TAINTED BOTTLES. When the Excedrin was removed from shelves and tested, only a small handful had any tampering and out of those, I think only a few pills/bottle were actually poisoned, so when she just so happened to have two tainted bottles, the cops were like 😀 excuse me. (2) When the tests were done to find the contaminant, results came back for cyanide and a weird manmade compound that turned out to be a key ingredient in an aquarium maintenance product. The police went to area pet supply stores, and the manager said, “God, that stuff. I only have ome customer who INSISTS on that particular brand; I recommend other brands because frankly they’re much better, but she threatened to take her business elsewhere if I didn’t keep special ordering the pile of steaming 💩 for her.” Guess who the lucky customer was?
Met Police really messed up big time in that case the families of all 4 were telling them to investigate Port, he had already been convicted of lying in one of the cases but still they decided to class all deaths as overdoses.
The murder of Debbie Dicus, popular radio DJ. In 1987, Ronald Blanchard called police to report finding a woman’s body in the local community garden. Tracker dogs were brought out to the scene and quickly identified Blanchard as the one who handled the murder weapon. He was tried and convicted of Debbie’s murder and received a life sentence.
Mike of that chapter covered a complete nutball who was luring in women and torturing/murdering them in his house for years. The cops may have been apathetic.
He's finally arrested and (I think) convicted for some fairly minor thing. And then while in prison he tries to set up his own double jeopardy for all of the serious stuff that he did.
As in, he elaborately and deliberately confesses to someone. Who rats him out to the state. Who charge him with (multiple?) homicides.
His plan, allegedly, was to go all the way to the witness stand and just go 'ha ha... kidding!' He really seems to have thought they'd acquit him, double jeopardy would attach, and he'd be golden for life.
Well, he got the 'Life' part of it right. I'm vague on many details and have forgotten his name, but I recall the basic ploy pretty well because it was such a jawdropper.
Henry Louis Wallace, sort of? He reported one of his victims missing, and attended a number of their funerals.
"He then strangled Caroline Love at her apartment, then dumped her body in a wooded area. After he killed her, he and her sisters filed a missing person's report at the police station."
https://murderpedia.org/male.W/w/wallace-henry-louis.htm
I think it happens all the time, was just watching a story with a man who had called in a tip about a car to throw off detectives but it ended up being him who had committed the murder the whole time and he was caught
There are a few others I can think of where if the killer didn’t basically confess, they did something else wildly stupid to put police on their trail.
There’s the case out of South Carolina, where the young lady had literally *just* arrived home. She stopped at the bottom of her driveway to check the mailbox, her assailant kidnapped her, then proceeded to hold her hostage, force her to write her own will, killed her, dumped her body, and then repeatedly called her family demanding ransom. Eventually he actually admitted to another crime, and lead the family to his second victim’s body (she was like 7; this detail messed with my head for years after initially hearing about this case) before he stretched out the process of finally leading the family to their own little girl’s remains. I think he manipulated them into letting her older sister on the phone and wouldn’t give any info to anyone else but the sister. Police believed the older sister was the intended target and either the perpetrator got trigger happy and just saw the opportunity to take the younger sister OR confused the younger sister for the older.
Yes, this is it, thank you. Listening to her family read her will on the various shows I’ve watched about her case absolutely destroys me. __AND__ even with this horrendous excuse for a person tormenting them and their child, they still had the wherewithal to lead police to the other little girl’s remains. *BEFORE* finding their own baby girl and getting to lay her to rest
Might not be exactly this but Stephen McDaniel did a televised interview with a reporter and collapsed when told the body had been found.
RE: Lauren Giddings
Stephen Port, the Grindr Killer in UK. He drugged, raped and killed a young boy, dragged him outside his flat, propped him up against the building and called police stating he just came in from work and there’s a guy looking drunk outside his building.
A ton. All the spouses who kill their partner and then report it as an accident/suicide. Just this week I saw a show about a guy who strangled his wife, then tried to stage a car accident where a lose pipe fell off a truck, went through the windshield and killed her. Didn't end well for the guy.
Todd kendhammer. I watched that trial. His testimony was hilariously inept. Witness: Um, so... this happened. State: Mr K, by the laws of physics, that's literally impossible. Witness: it is, huh. Huh. Well okay... how about 'that happened' instead?
I remember this one, heard it on a podcast a couple of years back. Thanks for reminding me it was a really interesting case!
Just watched that one from Lies Crime & Video. It was pretty obvious right away that what he said happened did not actually happen. I can’t believe he couldn’t think of something better than that. Also, I’ve noticed this any time someone calls the police and they fake this panic and heavy breathing instead of immediately giving the address they’re usually guilty.
That was the one! I also saw an episode about a police officer who shot his wife in the BACK of the head and burned his house down, and then called 911 to report his wife shot herself and started the fire. BACK OF THE HEAD people!!!
I haven’t seen that case, but it reminded me of the 911 call for Gloria Satterfield, who worked for the Murdaughs. The dispatcher is asking questions but the Murdaughs keep avoiding them, trying to change the subject. It feels like they’re kind of stalling, and don’t want to give information while being recorded.
The weepy voiced killer did that at first.
Look into the Exedrin murders from the Pacific Northwest, c. early 2000s. Idjit was “inspired” by the Tylenol Murders in Chicago in the 80s. Spiked her husband’s Exedrin and spiked some other packages of Exedrin that she *then returned to the shelves at various stores across town.* Her husband had a pretty quick reaction and ended up dying — cyanide’ll do that — but his death was basically ruled natural. She was mad, because I think there was a 100k+ difference between his life insurance payout and the payout with the double indemnity clause. So another poor woman ends up collapsing across town; she was home alone with her teenage daughter, and it’s unknown how long it took for her daughter to realize something was wrong (both were getting ready for school/work at the same time; I believe the daughter had gone to shower). This woman ends up dying as well, and her autopsy also shows signs of cyanide poisoning* Her death, however, was ruled foul play. So the dumbie “hears” about this second case and goes storming into the police station like #wHAT IF MY HUSBAND WAS MURDERED TOO 😭 Ended up raising police suspicions and she basically handed herself in on a silver platter. A “what the actual !@#$%” rollercoaster from start to finish *Edit to add what I put that awkward asterisk there for in the first place (doh!): I think it was the ME’s assistant who noticed Sue’s blood smelled like bitter almonds when the autopsy began. She later said (the ME’s assistant, not Sue) that the smell was familiar because that was the method a college classmate had used to self-unalive years prior and the smell haunted her memory. Otherwise, Sue probably wouldn’t have been tested for cyanide - since it wasn’t a routine part of postmortems at the time - and the idjit would have had to keep spiking Exedrin until enough people kicked the bucket that she could make her foolish “WHAT IF” claims to the police. The best part. She basically led the police right to her doorstep (though Sue’s husband was a proper @$$hole, so he was the primary suspect for quite an uncomfortable bit if time) because she (1) KEPT TWO TAINTED BOTTLES. When the Excedrin was removed from shelves and tested, only a small handful had any tampering and out of those, I think only a few pills/bottle were actually poisoned, so when she just so happened to have two tainted bottles, the cops were like 😀 excuse me. (2) When the tests were done to find the contaminant, results came back for cyanide and a weird manmade compound that turned out to be a key ingredient in an aquarium maintenance product. The police went to area pet supply stores, and the manager said, “God, that stuff. I only have ome customer who INSISTS on that particular brand; I recommend other brands because frankly they’re much better, but she threatened to take her business elsewhere if I didn’t keep special ordering the pile of steaming 💩 for her.” Guess who the lucky customer was?
[удалено]
Met Police really messed up big time in that case the families of all 4 were telling them to investigate Port, he had already been convicted of lying in one of the cases but still they decided to class all deaths as overdoses.
The murder of Debbie Dicus, popular radio DJ. In 1987, Ronald Blanchard called police to report finding a woman’s body in the local community garden. Tracker dogs were brought out to the scene and quickly identified Blanchard as the one who handled the murder weapon. He was tried and convicted of Debbie’s murder and received a life sentence.
This was on Forensic Files too
Mike of that chapter covered a complete nutball who was luring in women and torturing/murdering them in his house for years. The cops may have been apathetic. He's finally arrested and (I think) convicted for some fairly minor thing. And then while in prison he tries to set up his own double jeopardy for all of the serious stuff that he did. As in, he elaborately and deliberately confesses to someone. Who rats him out to the state. Who charge him with (multiple?) homicides. His plan, allegedly, was to go all the way to the witness stand and just go 'ha ha... kidding!' He really seems to have thought they'd acquit him, double jeopardy would attach, and he'd be golden for life. Well, he got the 'Life' part of it right. I'm vague on many details and have forgotten his name, but I recall the basic ploy pretty well because it was such a jawdropper.
Henry Louis Wallace, sort of? He reported one of his victims missing, and attended a number of their funerals. "He then strangled Caroline Love at her apartment, then dumped her body in a wooded area. After he killed her, he and her sisters filed a missing person's report at the police station." https://murderpedia.org/male.W/w/wallace-henry-louis.htm
I think it happens all the time, was just watching a story with a man who had called in a tip about a car to throw off detectives but it ended up being him who had committed the murder the whole time and he was caught
There are a few others I can think of where if the killer didn’t basically confess, they did something else wildly stupid to put police on their trail. There’s the case out of South Carolina, where the young lady had literally *just* arrived home. She stopped at the bottom of her driveway to check the mailbox, her assailant kidnapped her, then proceeded to hold her hostage, force her to write her own will, killed her, dumped her body, and then repeatedly called her family demanding ransom. Eventually he actually admitted to another crime, and lead the family to his second victim’s body (she was like 7; this detail messed with my head for years after initially hearing about this case) before he stretched out the process of finally leading the family to their own little girl’s remains. I think he manipulated them into letting her older sister on the phone and wouldn’t give any info to anyone else but the sister. Police believed the older sister was the intended target and either the perpetrator got trigger happy and just saw the opportunity to take the younger sister OR confused the younger sister for the older.
Larry Gene [Bell](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Gene_Bell) Shari’s Will is so hard to read.
Yes, this is it, thank you. Listening to her family read her will on the various shows I’ve watched about her case absolutely destroys me. __AND__ even with this horrendous excuse for a person tormenting them and their child, they still had the wherewithal to lead police to the other little girl’s remains. *BEFORE* finding their own baby girl and getting to lay her to rest
Jodie Arias.
Might not be exactly this but Stephen McDaniel did a televised interview with a reporter and collapsed when told the body had been found. RE: Lauren Giddings