ATHERTON, PHILIP: Trial & Error TV -
Early evening in Spring 1985: A 10-year-old boy had been assaulted and strangled. His murderer was about to throw him inert but still alive into the river Leen. But the killer, Philip Atherton, ruined a second life, that of an innocent man, Mark Cleary. Trial & Error: The Murder of Wayne Keeting, Channel 4 1993
The following day Philip Atherton was taken in for questioning. Almost immediately Atherton broke down and admitted to the killing. ibid.
This time he put the responsibility for the worst aspects of Wayne’s killing on someone he’d never even mentioned to the police before – Mark Cleary. ibid.
ATHWAL, SURJIT murder: Killer in the Family TV - Mail online - The Killer in My Family TV - Whem Missing Turns to Murder TV -
These are the last pictures ever taken of twenty-seven-year-old mother of two Surjit Athwal. With her is her mother-in-law Bachan Athwal who persuaded her to go to India to attend this family wedding. Days later she went missing and was never seen again. Surjit was murdered on the orders of her own husband and mother-in-law but they cleverly covered their tracks. These killers were so cold and heartless they were prepared to murder and make their own grandchildren suffer the loss of their mother. Killer in the Family: The Honour Killers, Crime Channel 2012
Surjit was just sixteen years old when her parents organised for her to have an arranged marriage. The year was 1988 ... A union Surjit’s family would bitterly regret. ibid.
Surjit was drugged, strangled and thrown into the River Ravi in the Punjab. ibid.
Seriously abused and policed at home by her strict Sikh mother-in-law and husband. ibid.
Surjit consulted a solicitor about a divorce; she had begun a relationship with another man. ibid.
At least twelve women in the UK are known each year to have been killed by family members because of so-called honour. ibid.
This was a groundbreaking case. ibid.
A woman was murdered by her mother-in-law and husband after disgracing her Indian family by having an affair, a court has heard.
Surjit Kaur Athwal, a mother of two, was lured to India on the pretext of attending family weddings. Once there, she was allegedly strangled.
Surjit, a ‘Westernised’ 27-year-old Sikh, worked as a customs officer at Heathrow.
Her husband Sukhdave’s family were said to have been concerned that she cut her hair short, smoked cigarettes and drank alcohol.
Tensions between Surjit, her 43-year-old husband, and her mother-in-law, Bachan Athwal, reached breaking point when they discovered she was having an affair and she announced she wanted a divorce, the Old Bailey heard.
At a secret family meeting, the matriarch Bachan, 70, a mother of six, allegedly decreed that her daughter-in-law had besmirched the family’s honour, and said they needed to ‘get rid of her’.
Surjit was lured on the trip to the Punjab with Bachan then ‘disappeared from the face of the Earth’. Mail online article ‘Mother-in-Law lured a cheating wife to her death’
In December 1998 Surjit Athwal, a young mother of two from East London, had not spoken to her family for weeks. She was disappeared. Surjit was married to Sukhdave Athwal. The Killer in My Family s1e5: Surjit Athwal, Quest Red 2020
So Bachan made plans to dispose of her daughter-in-law Surjit for good. ibid.
The man chosen for Sarbjit was the Athwal’s youngest son. ibid.
The Athwals believed they had got away with the perfect murder. ibid.
A family is left without answers when their sister-in-law vanishes. Leading detectives to raid a family home. When Missing Turns to Murder s2e6: Surjit Athwal
The disappearance of Surjit Athwal back in 1998. ibid.
As the family intimidate Sarbjit, police are mounting up the case for a murder trial. ibid.
ATKINS, BOB: People Magazine Investigates TV -
1991: I could see black smoke coming out. I knew my mom [Joy Hibbs] was in the house because her car was in the driveway. People Magazine Investigates s6e7: American Nightmare, son, ID 2022
Who would want to murder Joy and why? Detectives first search the house for the knife used in Joy’s murder but they are unable to find one that matches the wounds on Joy’s body. ibid.
Bob [Atkins] had an explosive temper and I was scared of him … I heard him say [to mom], ‘I will kill you and blow up your house.’ ibid. son
AUGUSTINE, DALLAS: Meet, Marry, Murder TV -
The life of Dallas Augustine, daughter of a connected Republican. Dallas’s mother would be killed by her husband. The tragedies just kept on coming … Meet, Marry, Murder s2e16, Netflix 2022
The loves and lives of Jessie McCaskill and Dallas Augustine … ibid.
AULAKH, HARPREET et al: How I Caught the Killer TV - Guardian online - Killer at the Crime Scene TV -
West London, 2009: ‘The murder team received information that a female [Geeta Aulakh] had been savagely attacked in Braund Avenue.’ How I Caught the Killer s3e1: Aulakh: Assassin’s Accomplice, rozzer, Sky Crime 2023
‘We knew that the [marriage] relationship was not well.’ ibid.
Howard and the team had only one person in their sites – her ex, Sonny [Harpreet]. ibid.
Geeta Aulakh killing: a brutal murder ordered by a jealous husband: Greeta Aulakh was ‘selfless, hardworking and devoted to her children’. Her husband, Harpreet, was in the private words of one detective on the case, ‘a shit of Biblical proportions.’ Guardian online article 3rd December 2010
It’s the evening rush hour in London. A woman has been savagely attacked on her way home. Killer at the Crime Scene s3e4, Netflix 2023
‘This was the murder of a loving mother of two boys. This was outrageous. The most barbaric way of killing somebody.’ ibid. rozzer
The ferocity of the attack leads police to suspect it was personal. ibid.
‘A history of violence – the finger would be pointing at him.’ [Sonny] ibid. domestic violence campaigner
AURORA COUNTY murders: Dark Minds TV -
On the dark streets of Denver there’s an epidemic of evil. Dead girls posed by the roadside. A killer still on the hunt … Between 1975 and 1995 dozens of young women are snatched from Denver’s streets, strangled to death then thrown away outside the city limits. Dark Minds s3e6: Road Paved in Murder, ID 2014
AUSONIUS, JOHN: Crime Stories TV - Find Facts About online -
In Stockholm on 8th November 1991 Swedish police arrived at the scene of a violent attack. The victim was a student from Iran. A gunman was targeting immigrants and using a laser-guided site to pinpoint his victims. Crime Stories: John Ausonius
A man with red hair and rectangular steel-rimmed glasses. ibid.
Three shootings in as many weeks. Two months passed without an incident. ibid.
A string of unsolved bank robberies seemingly at a dead end. ibid.
A figure who had targeted immigrants in a series of shootings that gripped the country. ibid.
John Ausonius had just robbed a bank right in front of police. When officers tried to stop him, John Ausonius fired a shot. ibid.
In April 1995 John Ausonius was sentenced to life imprisonment. ibid.
Ausonius’ reign of terror indirectly led to what many consider to be one of the most embarrassing moments in Swedish politics. During a televised debate on the subject of racism held in Rinkeby, a suburb in Stockholm with a high concentration of immigrants, Birgit Friggebo (minister of culture at the time) stood up and tried to get the audience to sing We Shall Overcome in an attempt to calm the upset and angry crowd. The audience booed her and prime minister Carl Bildt so they had to leave. Find Facts About online article
AUSTIN, LARENE: How I Caught the Killer TV -
Larene Austin … told the deputies that her friend had been murdered. How I Caught the Killer s4e5: Fatal Attraction: Larene Austene
There were problems with Larene’s story. ibid.
‘We looked in your purse and saw two bullets.’ ibid. rozzer to Larene
Convinced Larene Austin was lying, detectives sent the bullet parts found at the scene for forensic examination. ibid.
AUSTIN, PHILLIP: Killer in the Family TV - Britain’s Most Evil Killers TV -
Phillip [Austin] brutally murdered his wife and two children. Killer in the Family s1e1: The Family Annihilator
Phillip wrote his parents a letter ending all contact. ibid.
More like Claire threatened to leave her selfish controlling husband. ibid.
Austin cut a remarkably ordinary figure. ibid.
In June 2000 the Austins enjoyed what was to be their last family holiday. A month after this home video was filmed, three members of the family were dead. On 11th July Claire Austin didn’t turn up for her shift as a carer. Her husband Phillip visited her place of work. In reality Claire was lying lifeless in a pool of blood on her kitchen floor murdered by her husband. But Phillip Austin wasn’t finished yet. Later that day he calmly collected his children from school. After taking them out for a fish and chips supper he strangled them. Britain’s Most Evil Killers s5e5: Phillip Austin, Sky Crime 2020
AUSTIN YOGHURT SHOP murders: True Crime Recaps 2022 - People Magazine Investigates TV -
Austin: Four teenage girls were executed in a strip mall yoghurt shop. For the next 30 years the case would be known simply as the Yoghurt Shop murders. True Crime Recaps: Two Unsolved Murders, Youtube 36.42, 2022
Austin: All four girls were naked, bound, gagged with their own clothes and they’d all been shot … The store went up in flames. ibid.
The firefighters are shocked to discover that they are people who got caught in the building … They were all shot … naked … People Magazine Investigates s7e7: Who Killed Our Girls? Quest Red 2023
We think the perpetrator just panicked and shot the girls … The fire was started by paper products. ibid. rozzer
DNA excluded all four boys: Robert Springsteen, Michael Scott, Maurice Pierce and Forest Welborn. ibid.