BLACK, GARY: I Am a Killer TV -
[Black]: This is where I live. This is where I exist. There is nothing matters to me. There’s nothing means anything to me. I am who I am. Just a killer. I Am a Killer s4e2: The Bogeyman, Netflix 2024
In December 1999, Gary Black was found guilty of first-degree murder following a fatal stabbing in Joplin, Missouri. ibid. caption
I was an actual pimp for about six of the girls that worked there. ibid.
Black’s victim was 28-year-old Jason Johnson. ibid.
BLACK, PATRICE murder: Unsolved Mysteries 2024 TV -
I was in tenth grade when all of this transpired. The last morning we got up … I was in a hurry to get to school … She dropped me off at school. Unsolved Mysteries s1e2: 13 Minutes, Pistol Black, Patrice’s son
It appeared that she was arming up her lunch. It was found there on the counter by the microwave. The rest of her shop was unremarkable. It was Patrice’s normal, clean, tidy, well-kept shop. ibid. rozzer
A laundry list of suspects … When Jeremy Jones started to confess to these different murders, he talked how he needed to tell us about a hairdresser in Georgia ibid.
We got the call from the Dawson County Sheriff’s Office that two volunteers at Lebanon Baptist Church had found a er skull they believed to be human. ibid.
When Patrice’s body was found it was December 6th 2005. 600 days she was missing. ibid.
BLACK, ROBERT: Killers Behind Bars TV - Robert Black - Andrew Watt - Robert Black: Without Conscience 2010 - Britain’s Most Evil Killers TV - Making a Monster TV - The Child Snatcher: Manhunt TV -
Robert Black is one of the most evil predatory paedophiles that this country has ever seen. But his thirty-year offending period led to him being convicted of only four child murders. Killers Behind Bars: The Untold Story: Robert Black
His murders covered the UK. ibid.
Black seemed to hint at further crimes. ibid.
Whilst still at school he was suspected of having abused a neighbour’s baby but the incident was ignored. ibid.
He would suffer systematic sexual abuse by an adult member of staff who is now dead. ibid.
Black worked as a driver for a nationwide poster delivery company. ibid.
I can’t understand myself. I keep asking myself why. I’ve got this fascination, a weakness. Robert Black
The policeman who stopped the van [at Stow] was the little girl’s father. Andrew Watt, former Detective Superintendent of Lothian and Borders rozzers
‘The police were under tremendous pressure at the time: three children had been murdered’ … ‘They were all snatched out of sight within seconds.’ Robert Black: Without Conscience, rozzer, BBC Alba 2010
Black is full of psychopathic [sic] and has no capacity for empathy or remorse for his victims.’ ibid. shrink
One child killer roamed free for many years. He subjected his victims to grotesque acts of indecency before murdering them and dumping their bodies in various locations. ibid.
‘I never knew my mother; she abandoned me when I was a kid.’ ibid. Black
‘He later referred to assaulting perhaps up to thirty girls.’ ibid. rozzer
He had finally been caught. ibid.
Scotland July 14th 1990: a 6-year-old girl was walking to her friend’s house in the small picturesque village. The man dialled 999: the police rushed to the scene. They managed to stop the driver. When they opened the back of the van, they made a startling discovery … ‘That child was trussed up; she has a plaster over her mouth; she’s got a bag over her head; she’s minutes away from suffocating.’ Britain’s Most Evil Killers s3e3: Robert Black, 2019
Robert Black: a prolific paedophile responsible for the rape, assault and murder of at least four young children in the 1980s. ibid.
In 1963, 16-year-old Robert Black had assaulted and strangled a 7-year-old girl. The child had survived the attack, but instead of being incarcerated, Black was reprimanded. ibid.
‘I’d be driving along, I’d see a young girl, I’d get out and talk to her, and try and persuade her to get into the van.’ Making a Monster: Robert Black: The Child Catcher s1e4, Black’s confession, CI 2020
This is the voice of a serial killer from beyond the grave, one of the worst child murders in British criminal history. ibid.
Between 1981 and 1986 Robert Black abducted, sexually assaulted and murdered four girls between the ages of 5 and 11. He is suspected of killing many more. ibid.
One of the worst paedophilic killers the UK has ever known. ibid.
Ballinderry Upper, 18 miles west of Belfast: ‘We are dealing with a travelling sexual predator.’ The Child Snatcher: Manhunt, rozzer, Channel 5 I, ITV 2023
Saturday, 14th July 1990, Slow, Scotland: A man was mowing his lawn. When he looked up he saw a neighbour’s girl walk past … He saw a van. And this man had stopped his van; she disappeared into thin air. The van disappeared. He felt that something was seriously wrong. He raised the alarm. The police office comes down straight away … All of the sudden coming south is the same van … The policeman he was talking to ran in front of the van and stopped it. The policeman opened the van … A bundle of rags moving … He released the child, and it was his own daughter. ibid. reporter
Nine years earlier, Balliderry Upper … ‘Her [Jennifer’s] body was found in the lake. A full-scale murder hunt has got under way … ’ ibid. news
Portobello, Edinburgh, 1983: ‘Caroline Hogg, aged five, goes missing.’ ibid. old boy
‘Robert Black appeared at the high court in Edinburgh in August 1998 within a month of his arrest. He was tried and convicted. He plead guilty for the offence at Stow. He was sentenced to a mandatory life sentence.’ The Child Snatcher: Manhunt II, rozzer
BLACK, SONNY: Sonny Black - Mafia’s Greatest Hits TV -
Do it right this time. Sonny Black, final words on being shot
August 14th 1981, New York City: Dominick Sonny Black Napolitano, a captain in the Bonanno crime family, walks into the Motion Lounge bar in Brooklyn. He hands the barman his keys to his apartment, a large bundle of cash and diamond encrusted rings from his fingers. He tells the barman he is going to a meeting and doesn’t know if he’s coming back. Mafia’s Greatest Hits: Donnie Brasco: Undercover in the Mob, 2012
He had brought a spy, Donnie Brasco, into the inner sanctum of the Mafia. He was really Special Agent Joe Pistone. Thanks to Pistone’s six years undercover over 200 mobsters would be convicted. And one of the biggest Mafia families brought down. ibid.
In 1976 New York was facing a wave of truck hijackings. ibid.
Jewel Thief: in 1976 he left FBI headquarters with a new ID – Donnie Brasco. ibid.
Zips were enormous drug importers; they used a series of pizza restaurants to distribute the drugs. ibid.
The Bonanno family was right in the middle of a civil war. ibid.
Sonny Black had taken part in the murder of the boss of his own family Carmine Galante. ibid.
Sonny’s body was found dumped in a New York river. ibid.
Agent Joe Pistone lives under a pseudonym. ibid.