BAUMEISTER, HERB: Crime Stories TV - Crime Library online -
Young men are vanishing. And it seems there’s nothing investigators can do to stop it. Indianapolis, Indiana, July 1993: 32-year-old Roger Goodlet left his mother’s house for a gay bar and never came home. Crime Stories: Family Secrets
That brings the total number of missing men to eight in the last two years. ibid.
The cases in Indiana may only be the tip of the iceberg. ibid.
Baumeister had shot himself in the head. ibid.
But, as the number of disappearances tolled up, a few members of the community began to realize that there might be something wrong in the Bible Belt. The first to suspect foul play was a private detective named Virgil Vandagriff I, in fact, to start putting two and two together to actually add up to four. However, even he and the believers he eventually recruited from among the law enforcement agencies in the two surrounding counties who took up the search for a killer were not prepared to find a monster.
Their trail ended in the wooded back yard of a huge private estate where the skeletons of the reported missing persons and others were uncovered. Then the media took notice, then the camera trucks rolled in, then the killings took headline. Crime Library online article
BAXENDALE, DAVID: Evil Up Close TV - BBC online -
David Baxendale killed for neither love nor money – he did it for pleasure. Evil Up Close: The Costa Killer, Crime Channel 2013
Baxendale’s downfall was his addiction to drink and drugs which would make the likeable person change utterly. ibid.
Unpredictable and very violent. ibid.
One of the few men in Britain to be given a whole-life sentence. ibid.
A convicted killer who stabbed to death a mother-of-three before fleeing to Spain has been jailed for life.
David Baxendale, 40, carried out a ‘ferocious attack’ on Sarah Thomas, 38, at her home in High Street, Nutfield, on 10 May last year.
Surrey Police said he fled the country on a ferry and travelled to southern Spain where he had been jailed for a previous murder in 2001.
He was extradited and given a whole-life term at Guildford Crown Court. BBC online article 17th March 2011, ‘Man convicted of second murder over Surrey woman's death’
BAYLEY, ADRIAN: Crimes that Shook Australia TV -
September 2012 in Melbourne: a 29-year-old woman disappears while walking home after a night out. Investigations would uncover the secrets of a violent murderer. Crimes that Shook Australia s3e3: Jill Meagher, CI 2018
There then followed a social-media frenzy offering help and demanding information. ibid.
‘Who was this man seen running after her?’ ibid. rozzer
A man with a history of violence against women. ibid.
BEADMAN, STEPHEN & LUKE HARLOW: Faking It: Tears of a Crime TV -
Groomed, held captive and murdered. Fifteen years old, the target of an online predator. How her dream date turned into a night of horror. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s5e2: Luke Harlow & Stephen Beadman
Kayleigh Haywood. 15 years old. Innocent. And love struck. ibid.
She’s arranged to meet a man 12 years her senior, unemployed loner Luke Harlow. ibid.
When officers searched Harlow’s flat, they found some of Kayleigh’s possessions and saw signs of a possible struggle. ibid.
There was a second man in the flat: Stephen Beadman. ibid.
There was one thing he [Beadman] couldn’t conceal: the marks on his face. ibid.
BEASLEY, RICH: Very Bad Men TV -
Some very bad men appear as guardian angels but are in fact devils in disguise. Very Bad Men s4e1: The Devil’s Disciple, ID 2014
Once a girl has been taken in, Reverend Rich [Beasley] applies the tools of every pimp’s stock of trade. ibid.
Richard Beasley is convicted of murder and sentenced to death. ibid.