ARROYO, LOUIS: Homicide: Hours to Kill TV -
[rozzer]: You just don’t wake up one morning and commit a crime of this nature [Missy Grubaugh]. Not this demented and sick and evil. There was this kind of bad blood between them. He was a registered sex offender. He paints himself as a great guy, but he’s lying, lying, lying. He was a walking time-tomb. He was just incredibly dangerous. Homicide: Hours to Kill s1e18: Out of Control, Channel 4 2017
Once the flames are extinguished, the true horror of the scene is revealed. ibid. narrator
‘We need to talk to this guy. This behaviour is not normal.’ ibid. rozzer
Despite the overwhelming evidence, Arroyo backtracks. ibid.
Louis Arroyo was sentenced to life without parole. ibid.
ARTHUR, MARK: Meet, Marry, Murder TV -
Niagara Falls 2003: Mark Arthur proposes to his girlfriend of 10 years, Heather. In what would become a signature move, Mark uses emotional blackmail to ensure that Heather will say yes. Meet, Marry, Murder s2e11, Netflix 2022
Clear signs of controlling and jealous behaviour. ibid. fellow actor
A kind of luminescence about her … and this vulnerability. ibid.
Mark did use self-harm and threats of self-harm throughout the relationship. ibid. domestic abuse specialist
He snaps. He grabs and kitchen knife and stabs her. ibid. dude
ARTHUR, MARK & CARMEN FONSECA: I Am a Killer TV -
[Arthur]: Sometimes it has to happen. Being Mexican there’s a certain way we live our life, a certain machismo that we use. I couldn’t sit there and just watch some guy beat up on a woman. It’s not going to happen. I Am a Killer s2e5: Honourable Intentions
There was a body of the driver behind the steering wheel. These drive-by type shootings, road-rage type shootings, are often difficult to solve. ibid. rozzer
In 1996, Mark Arthur shot dead Esequiel Fonseca senior. Arthur was 17 years old when he committed the murder. ibid. captions
The whole reason I offed the guy was because he told me he was gonna kill me. And because I didn’t like him. ibid. Arthur
On April 3rd 1998 a jury found Carmen Fonseca guilty of murder. ibid.
ASAHARA, SHOKO & AUM SHINRIKYO CULT: The Japan Times online - Decoding the Past: Dangerous Cults: Devotion TV - Killer Cults TV - Aum internal video - Ori - Robert Lifton - Takeo Mori - Shoko Egawa - Nori - Infamous Murder: Cults TV -
On the morning of March 20, 1995, members of the Aum Shinrikyo (Supreme Truth) doomsday cult carried out the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in the postwar era, releasing a toxic nerve gas that killed 13 and injured thousands during the rush-hour in Tokyo.
Twenty years later, a number of victims continue to suffer physical or mental after-effects of the sarin attack, experiencing complications such as impaired speech, blurred vision and post-traumatic stress disorder. Some of the more unlucky ones are still confined to their beds.
To date, investigators have charged 192 Aum members over their alleged role in the attack, with 13 members, including leader Shoko Asahara, receiving the death sentence.
Katsuya Takahashi, who was arrested in June 2012 after being on the run for 17 years, is the last cultist still on trial. Takahashi is thought to have been the driver for one of the senior cultists who sprayed the gas, and faces charges that include murder, kidnapping and solitary confinement resulting in death, and violation of the Explosives Control Law. He pleaded not guilty to almost all charges against him at the beginning of his trial at the Tokyo District Court in January. A verdict is expected at the end of April.
Following Aum’s dismantlement, former members quickly reorganized into a group called Aleph in 2000. Others joined a splinter group headed by former Aum spokesman Fumihiro Joyu called Hikari no Wa (Circle of Rainbow Light). The spin-off groups will remain under the Public Security Intelligence Agency’s surveillance until the end of January 2018. The Japan Times article 14 March 2015, ‘Cult attraction: Aum Shinrikyo’s Powers of Persuasion’
Japanese cult Leader Shoko Asahara convinced his disciples he was Christ reincarnated and that they must surrender their will to his for ultimate salvation ... In blind obedience to their leader, cult members poured their resources into a deadly scheme. March 20th 1995, Monday morning rush hour: as millions of commuters board the Tokyo subways, members of Aum Shinrikyo release a deadly nerve agent on five different trains throughout the city. Decoding the Past s4e1: Cults: Devotion, History 2007
Instead of a demonstration you are advised to buy the instruction manual, the handbook, the video and T-shirt. Not expensive but it’s only the beginning. It soon becomes clear that in order to progress you have to pay. Killer Cults: Blinded By the Light, CI 2019
Shoko Asahara was a high-tech guru. He used all the latest resources available. ibid.
Punishment, oppression, even torture become routine. The master explains that they are necessary. ibid.
The Japanese Guru Shoko Asahara likewise presented himself to his followers as a true living God. Killer Cults: The Men Who Would Be Gods
The problem was that Asahara failed at everything ... Asahara’s first arrest was in 1982. At that time he was selling a snake-oil remedy door to door in Tokyo’s first-class hotels. ibid.
The association drifted along until 1987. That year Asahara pulled off a major coup. Persistent and cunning, he managed to obtain an audience with the Buddhist spiritual leader the Dalai Lama. From that day on he claimed to be on a spiritual mission. A mission to save Buddhism in Japan. The Dalai Lama has consistently denied entrusting Asahara with any mission whatsoever. Asahara’s followers believed it though. And the Armed Supreme Truth was created. Asahara was now a Guru. Soon he was to become a god. ibid.
The perpetrators were not common criminals: they were doctors, lawyers, scientists. All were members of the Doomsday Cult Aum Shinriko, a cult preaching Armageddon ... By 1990 Asahara had recruited five thousand adherents. He ordered some of his scientist followers to develop a wired helmet for new students to wear: its purpose to align their brainwaves with Asahara’s in order to better understand his thoughts. It was called the PSI: Perfect Salvation Initiation. He also ordered cult members to wear masks of his likeness, and while wearing them to demonstrate devotion. But Asahara’s ultimate goal was the creation of a new world by bringing about Armageddon. His scientist followers were directed to develop weapons of mass destruction. Most Evil Cult Leaders, 2007
Every time the master receives money his dear face darkens because he has to dissolve the money’s bad karma. He relieves us of a terrible burden. I see it all the time. It must be very hard for the master. Aum internal video