In Britain 76,000 children go missing every year. By the end of this programme, 13 more will have disappeared. Most will have been found within a few days. But not all. In March 2002 the disappearance of one teenage girl shocked the nation. But it was to no avail. From missing person to murder, the hunt for Milly Dowler’s killer was the biggest in the history of the investigating force. The Abduction of Milly Dowler, Channel 5 2021
In the short time it takes Milly’s friend to board the bus and look out of the window to where Milly should be, from this very stretch of a busy main road, Milly has vanished into thin air. ibid.
I’ve suffered for it mentally and I just want to get some closure. The Russell Murders: Who Killed Lin & Megan? I: Horrific Crime, No Suspect, rozzer revisits scene, Sky Documentaries 2023
Police investigating the murder of a mother and daughter in Kent say they were victims of a brutal frenzied attack. ibid. BBC news
We have now received a full confession from Levi Bellfield. ibid. rozzers’ press conference
A mother and her two daughters bludgeoned by a hammer was just horrendous. ibid. woman
The motive at the moment is incomprehensible. The Russell Murders: Who Killed Lin & Megan? II: The Media vs Michael Stone, rozzer
It Wasn’t Me. I Wasn’t There. ibid. Michael Stone
Police will be very reluctant to admit they made a mistake. ibid. journalist
They [rozzers] were set on me like a pack of hounds. ibid. Michael Stone
They [rozzers] always assured me there was DNA found at the scene. ibid. Michael Stone’s sister
The first muttering of doubt over the [Stone] conviction were beginning to emerge. The Russell Murders: Who Killed Lin & Megan III: Confessions & Serial Killers, journalist
The appeal judges insisted on a retrial. ibid.
He [prison witness] would have sold his grandmother down the pan to get the charges dropped. ibid. Michael Stone
The jury came back with guilty. I nearly had a heart attack on the spot. ibid.
South-West London between 2002 and 2004: 3 young women are murdered; several more are brutally attacked and left for dead. Police have a suspect but they need to prove his guilt beyond doubt. Little do investigators know that they are dealing with one of Britain’s most dangerous killers. Killer Britain with Dermot Murnaghan s1e5, CI 2024
Levi Bellfield targeted teenagers and young women in so-called blitz attacks. ibid.
Detectives were eventually able to bring him to justice. ibid.
He was to marry 4 times and father 11 children. ibid.
Both friends and lovers would discover Bellfield’s violent side, often alcohol or steroid induced. ibid.
His first wife has left him after a particularly savage beating. ibid.
He may have loathed them but that didn’t stop him wanting to sleep with them. ibid.
Between 1995 and 2001 a string of complaints was made to London’s Metropolitan police about sexual attacks. ibid.
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Kew, London, 5th March 2019: Police in London make a grim discovery … Officers force entry to her ground-floor flat. 34-year-old Laureline Garcia-Bertaux has been missing for 5 days. Killer at the Crime Scene s3e1, Netflix 2023
Police show the CCTV to Laureline’s friends; they instantly recognise the man, her ex-boyfriend Kirill Belorusov. ibid.
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A twisted story of a mail bomb, three friends, a suicide, shady characters, a faked death, and one lucky escape. For 17 years Roberto de Heredia was looking over his shoulder, an international fugitive. A man who faked his own death and bolted overseas after being charged with the attempted murder of Brett Boyd in a crime known as the Belrose parcel bombing. A crime he maintains he didn’t commit. Inside Crime s2e8: Roberto de Heredia
Heredia was shot in the car park of this Botany apartment block near Sydney airport. ibid.
They had his DNA from the parcel bomb stamps and his fingerprints on the delivery card. ibid.
Roberto de Heredia always maintained he was set up. ibid.
The disgraced former detective Ray Peattie who led the investigation into the Belrose bombing. Detective Peattie has admitted to fabricating evidence in multiple cases. ibid.
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Omar regularly calls from prison where he is serving a life sentence for murdering a young woman in 2002. Unsolved I II: The Man With No Alibi, BBC 2018
‘Convicted on no evidence. Not one piece of evidence can they prove that I done it. Because I didn’t do it. I wasn’t there.’ ibid. Omar
There’s no forensic evidence linking this man to the crime. And it took three trials to get a conviction. ibid.
‘There’s 17 witnesses who came forward.’ ibid. Brian the rozzer
Omar’s sister claimed the police framed him by pushing other drug addicts into backing up parts of BB’s story. ibid.
John’s story shows the police were prepared to put forward unreliable witnesses who changed their accounts. ibid.
Most of the prosecution witnesses were crack and heroin addicts. ibid.
Less than three months after he [Restivo – convicted killer] moves in, Oki is killed here three streets away … Exactly four months to the day after Oki is murdered, there is another murder nearby and we know for sure he [Restivo] did this one. ibid.
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On a grey fall day in Paris a little girl is walking home from school … She’s met by a friendly young woman who strikes up a conversation with her … She convinces the girl to come inside her apartment … 12-year-old Lola Daviet is never seen again. True Crime Recaps: Disturbing Developing Case of Lola Daviet, Youtube 9,07, 2023
The strange woman caught on camera … is 24-year-old Dahbia Benkired. ibid.