BERNARD, BRANDON et al: True Crime Recaps 2021 -
Brandon Bernard: At age 40 Brandon was the youngest prisoner to be executed by the federal government in almost 70 years. Despite multiple attempts to stop it, Brandon died by lethal injection on December 10th. True Crime Recaps: Bernard Brandon, Youtube 8.33, 2021
Brandon drenched the car in lighter fluid and lit it on fire as Todd and Stacie sang hymns and prayed for Jesus to take care of them. ibid.
Christopher [Lewis] opened the trunk and shot Todd and Stacie in the head. ibid.
BERNARDO, PAUL & KARLA HOMOLKA: Born to Kill: The Serial-Killing Couple TV - Toronto Sun online - True Crime Recaps 2021 - Very Scary People TV -
On 29th June 1991 a discovery at Lake Gibson in Ontario would horrify the nation ... The disappearance of a fourteen-year-old schoolgirl. Born to Kill: The Serial-Killing Couple, Sky 2013
A fatal attraction ... A deadly combination ... The year they met the city would be rocked by an unprecedented series of violent rapes ... The Scarborough Rapist. ibid.
He began to humiliate and beat girlfriends. And engage in sadistic sex. ibid.
Husband and wife would go hunting together. ibid.
Homolka did talk ... but claimed she’d been a battered wife. ibid.
So even if Bernardo and Homolka had never met, might each of them have been destined to become murderers? ibid.
She would serve just twelve years. ibid.
Toronto – As his sex-killer son settles into his new prison cell thanks to the pending closing of his old home, Paul Bernardo’s father says in his opinion Karla Homolka should still be locked up behind bars, too.
In an exclusive interview with the Toronto Sun on the eve of Kingston Penitentiary shutting its doors after 179 years, Ken Bernardo said it’s not easy as a parent of such a notorious killer and understands ‘it’s worse’ for the families of those he was convicted of murdering.
‘It’s harder on them and it’s terrible,’ he said from his Scarborough home. ‘They have to live with it every day.’
Ken Bernardo, who said his son receives daily threats on his life, says ‘naturally’ he feels the pain of the suffering the families of Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy go through.
It’s a constant source of ‘distress’, he said. Toronto Sun article 26th September 2013 ‘Paul Bernardo dad says Karla Homolka got away with it’
The true story of killer couple Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka … driving around searching for their next victim … Kristen French … For the next three days Paul and Karla raped and tortured her, videotaping every second of the attack. True Crime Recaps: Paul Bernardo & Karla Homolka, Youtube 30.03, 2021
Kristen was the couple’s third and last known murder but it would be almost another year before police caught up to Paul and Karla. ibid.
All those assaults seemed to be pointing to one man … the Scarborough Rapist … Paul Bernardo. ibid.
They [rozzers] didn’t get around to testing Paul’s [DNA] for years. ibid.
[comment]: He was physically very punishing with the victims. Beating them, abusing them, and eventually punishing them. Very Scary People s4e1: The Ken & Barbie Killers: Dead Ringers I, CI 2022
From May 1997 unto April 1992 there were a series of rapes, abductions and murders of young women just north of the Canadian/US border. ibid.
Their hunt for the man dubbed the Scarborough Rapist. ibid. Someone actually took the time to dismember her [Leslie Mahaffy] body, put it in concrete and dump it in the lake. ibid. comment
There are two psychopaths: very cold manipulative, and they feed off one another. And there you have this match made in hell. And this deadly cyclone takes off. Very Scary People s4e1: The Ken & Barbie Killers: Dead Ringers II, comment
The attacks – each one got a little bit more violent. ibid.
DNA: Matched to Paul Bernardo. ibid.
BERNSTEIN, IRA & KELLY GRIBELUK: Murder for Hire TV -
Ira & Susan Bernstein: They appeared to be a couple very much in love but there was trouble in paradise. Murder for Hire s1e2: The Other Woman, woman, CI 2019
2016: The Ramapo police department was notified that there was a woman who was trying to hire somebody to kill another woman. ibid. rozzer Dennis Procter
I knew it was Kelly Gribeluk … who was Bernstein’s girlfriend: she’s actually thinking about killing his wife. ibid. rozzer Peter Louzan
What you guys were planning is a terrible thing. ibid. rozzer to Ira in station
I’m done. I can’t practise ever again. I’m finished. ibid. Ira in rozzer’s station
BERRY, SHAWN & LAWRENCE BREWER & JOHN KING: People Magazine Investigates TV - True Crime Recaps 2021 -
This is a bad guy with no conscience, no remorse. Full of racial hatred. People Magazine Investigates s6e6: Evil Comes to Jasper, ID 2022
They found the body [James Byrd] laying on the edge of the road … The head and shoulder were missing from the body. ibid.
A routine traffic stop does the work for them ... Human blood and tissue under the truck. ibid.
Parts of the Candyman movie are true … Another is the story of James Bird junior, one of the most horrifying murders you’ll ever hear. True Crime Recaps: True Stories Behind the Candyman Credits, Youtube 23.24, 2021
Three white guys were in the cab … Shawn Berry, Lawrence Russell Brewer and John William King … were all in the early or mid-20s. James was 49 … They beat him to the ground, sprayed his face with black paint before they wrapped a 24-foot logging chain around his ankles, tied the other end to their bumper and hit the gas. They dragged him behind the truck for three miles … A trail of blood and body parts … Three very evil men.
BESLAN SCHOOL SIEGE: Dispatches: Beslan TV -
In September 2004 terrorists stormed a school in Beslam. Over 300 died, more than half were children. Dispatches: Beslan, Channel 4 2006
To bring Chechnya’s war to School #1. ibid.
The explosives were in the gym where most of the people were held. ibid.
With this warning, all shooting from the outside stopped. ibid.
Basayev, who else? Mastermind of the hospital siege, mastermind of the theatre siege, and again the inevitable demand. ibid.
BESSEY, AMY et al: True Crime with Aphrodite Jones TV -
Far form the lights of the Las Vegas strip a mysterious shooting in the dead of night. When the investigation launches, one family’s troubles are revealed. All bets are off. True Crime with Aphrodite Jones s5e2: What Happens in Vegas, ID 2015
2012: Long-time resident Robert Bessey leaves his house every morning at 4 a.m. for his construction job … It appears that Robert has been shot in a drive-by. ibid.
Las Vegas police are trying to figure out whether the attack was personal. Robert is in the middle of a messy divorce with his wife Amy … Her son Michael isn’t going anywhere; he is arrested for the attempted murder of his adopted father Robert.
Not only did Amy persuade Michael and Rick to kill Robert, she promised a sweet pay-off for doing the job. ibid.