CLANTON, JAMES: People Magazine Investigates TV -
1980: Helene [Pruszynski] was due home to her aunt’s house at around 6.30 p.m. that night but she failed to return home from her internship. People Magazine Investigates s5e5: Blood Ties, rozzer, ID 2021
A gruesome discovery … Back in 1980 this was a completely open field … a female half-nude partially clothed … She was found with her hands tied behind her back ... She had clearly been stabbed. ibid.
2019: A more advanced genetic profile of the killer. ibid.
James Curtis Clanton … has a police record … James Curtis Clanton’s mugshot from 1998 is a near match of the suspect … The results of that DNA analysis confirmed that James Curtis Clanton raped and murdered Helene Pruszynski. ibid.
CLARK, BRANDON: The Murder of Bianca Devins: The Social Media Murders TV -
14th July 2019 Utica, New York: ‘I know this is going to come as kind of a surprise, at least to you, it isn’t to me, but I killed someone today. I killed my girlfriend.’ The Murder of Bianca Devins: The Social Media Murders s2e3, ITV 2023
At 6.48 a.m. a photo of the dead body of teenager Bianca Devins was posted on social media by her killer, Brandon Clark. ibid.
‘When she was about 12 and in the 7th grade she started to struggle with mental health and depression.’ ibid. friend
‘The suspect, 21-year-old Brandon Clark, was hospitalised and is expected to survive.’ ibid. TV news
‘One of the first things he said when he was apprehended was, he was very curious to know how many TV stations were covering the story.’ ibid.
CLARK, CONSTANCE & JEAN PIERRE DEVAUGHN: True Crime with Aphrodite Jones TV -
She started out as the perfect daughter-in-law. But was she too good to be true? When tragedy strikes a close-knit family police uncover a web of deceit. True Crime with Aphrodite Jones s5e8: Cold Case in Hotlanta, ID 2015
It’s December 13th 2005 and 35-year-old Eric Clark is heading from his home outside Birmingham Alabama to Atlanta. ibid.
Detective Kip Young gets a call about a murder … Detective Young sees an African-American man’s lifeless body in the driveway of an empty house … Young finds the man’s wallet: inside is an Alabama’s driver licence with the name of Eric Clark on it. ibid.
[Eric & Constance] had taken out life insurance policies on each other … Eric and Constance had been struggling financially. ibid.
Constance and her cousin Pierre were working together to kill her husband … All she seems to be interested in is getting her insurance money. ibid.
CLARK, DAVID: Meet, Marry, Murder TV -
On New Year’s Eve 2017 as revelers across the country counted down to midnight David Clark became enraged with a WhatsApp message from his wife Melanie. And then he picked up a knife. Meet, Marry, Murder s1e16, Netflix 2022
A marriage frought with abuse, infedelity and rows. ibid.
CLARK, DOUGLAS & CAROL BUNDY: Los Angeles Times - Born to Kill? TV - World’s Most Evil Killers TV -
A gruesome news story can provoke a certain frisson when it pokes a corner into one’s everyday life. That’s what Louise Farr felt when, one evening in 1980, her mother said that a regular customer at the Bullock’s Northridge beauty parlor had been arrested in a series of murders.
Farr’s mother was manager of the beauty parlor. She said the woman, Carol Bundy, was accused of teaming with serial killer Doug Clark in some of his crimes. Clark, a suspect in 25 killings, eventually was convicted of six. Bundy (who is not related to Seattle serial killer Ted Bundy) confessed to killing two people, including a former lover named Jack Murray, whom she decapitated.
Farr’s mother said Bundy, a nurse with dim eyesight and a weight problem, was known in the beauty parlor for her bawdy conversation.
‘She would bring in photos of Doug and Jack,’ Farr’s mother said at the time. ‘Nobody could understand how someone as homely as that could have two boyfriends.’
Farr read accounts of the crimes. They were called the Sunset murders, because many of the victims were runaways or prostitutes picked up on Sunset Boulevard. Most of the bodies were dumped in the San Fernando Valley. Clark was accused of shooting or stabbing some of the victims during sex acts. Bundy told Farr it was a way he could achieve orgasm, an assertion confirmed during testimony by a nightclub dancer who had talked to Clark. Bundy also said Clark had sex with several of the bodies.
Bundy told Farr she had taken pride in her man's actions. At the trial, it came out that she had bought him two guns. Los Angeles Times article Mike Wyma 2nd October 1992, ‘The Lure of Murder: How could they commit these crimes?’
In 1980 the killer couple would commit a string of cruel murders against the backdrop of LA’s Sunset strip. Douglas Clark and Carol Bundy would act out their darkest desires and leave a trail of bloodshed in their wake … ‘The couple from hell, everyone’s worse nightmare’ … But what had motivated their sickening crimes? Were Clark and Bundy born to kill? Born to Kill? s5e12: Clark and Bundy, Really 2017
But as darkness falls the Strip transforms into a very different scene … Working girls had begun being plucked from Sunset Strip, murdered and dumped on the streets in the hills. As the body count climbed the perpetrator was dubbed the Sunset Slayer, a killer seemingly capable of the most shocking of atrocities. ibid.
Jack Murray had been shot, stabbed, mutilated and beheaded. ibid.
‘A necrophiliac aspect to the case.’ ibid.
‘It’s pretty deviant behaviour.’ ibid. psychiatry professor
‘It’s a bitch to get the clothes off a dying girl.’ ibid. Carol
Doug kept a trophy from his night’s killing. But it would be the revelation of what the couple would do next with the severed head of Exxi Wilson that would most astound and horrify … Carol was excited by the prospect of joining him in his perversions. ibid.
‘It’s a bitch putting lipstick on a frozen face.’ ibid.
Doug would continue to deny his involvement in the crimes. ibid.
On 11th August 1980 37-year-old nurse Carol Bundy called the LAPD claiming her boyfriend was the infamous Sunset Strip Killer. Her boyfriend was 32-year-old Doug Clark, a boiler engineer from Pennsylvania. Clark’s dark fantasies had culminated in a sexually motivated killing spree targeting sex workers on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. Between May and July 1980 Doug Clark brutally murdered six women, mutilating one of his victims and decapitating another. It wouldn’t be long before Bundy, spurred on by Clark, committed murder herself. World’s Most Evil Killers s5e2: Clark & Bundy, Sky Crime 2021
‘It’s fun to kill people. And if I was allowed to run loose, I’d probably do it again.’ ibid. Bundy to rozzers