From the Angels came a wall of silence. ibid.
Tobin had been riding home after one of the biggest events in the Hell’s Angels calendar – the Bulldog Bash. A three-day jamboree. ibid.
The Hell’s Angels were formed in America in the 1950s ... But they are only one of the outlawed biker groups operating in the UK today. Others include the Devil’s Diciples [sic], the Barbarians and the Patriots. In all there are believed to be around 25 active clubs with as many as 1,500 members, the biggest of which are the Outlaws. ibid.
To become a fully patched member you have to endure two years of probation. ibid.
They’d found the murderer’s car ... This vital information gave the police a name: Sean Creighton ... The undercover police surveillance focused on the Warwickshire Outlaws. ibid.
European News: Car-bomb killing in suburbia rekindles Denmark’s bitter biker-gang violence. ibid. newspaper article
In Norway a Scandinavian biker war broke out between the Hell’s Angels and the Bandidos. ibid.
All seven defendants were found guilty. ibid.
For what? A patch on his clothing. ibid.
Opening the case against Creighton, who pleaded guilty on the first day of the nine-week trial, Timothy Raggatt QC told the court his plea had been had been a ‘tactical’ one.
He said Creighton, accepted by the court as the gunman who fired the fatal shot, had been disguising his appearance in the days leading up to the killing.
When police arrested him in Coventry on August 22 last year, a dummy was recovered – believed to have been used for target practice, the court heard.
Mr Raggatt said: ‘It may not be that it was a matter of chance that the shot that killed Mr Tobin, if it was fired by Creighton, was not just a lucky shot – it may have been a shot he had been practising for some time.’
He added that Creighton, thought to be the president of the South Warwickshire chapter of the Outlaws, was ‘a central figure and a leading light’, both in the motorbike gang and the murder plot. Mail online article 29th November 2008, ‘Jailed for a total of 191 years: Seven members of biker gang behind ‘utterly pointless’ Hell’s Angel motorway murder’
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Her upstairs neighbour [Brooke Crews] is offering $20 to model a dress she’s sewing. ibid.
She’s [Savanna] walking straight into the trap of a deadly womb-raider. ibid.
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38-year-old Paul David Crews already had one body under his belt before he ran into Geoff and Molly. ibid.
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Dr Crippen killed Belle Elmore
Ran away from Miss le Neve
Right across the ocean blue
Followed by Inspector Dew
Ship’s ahoy, naughty boy! Popular children’s song
I came across what seemed to be human remains. Chief Inspector Dew, court evidence
Poisoning by Hyoscine. Dr Wilcox, Home Office Chief Scientific Officer, court evidence
Forensic detectives have re-examined one of the most famous crimes of all time. A murder shocking in its brutality. It was the first trial by media. The first trial dominated by forensic evidence. It was the trial of Dr Crippen. Now a new investigation using DNA and previously confidential documents will cast serious doubt on Crippen’s conviction. Was Dr Crippen Innocent? Channel 5 2008
This murder was as horrific as anything the Ripper carried out. Still more alarming, the prime suspect seemed such a gentleman. A doctor living in suburbia. Yet it seemed he was capable of poisoning his wife and then slicing her body into small pieces: Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen. ibid.
His wax figure still stands in London’s Chamber of Horrors. ibid.
Now she was in her thirties, an aspiring actress; he was middle-aged and serious. And they had nothing in common. ibid.
Above all, were the body parts in the cellar really Cora Crippen? ibid.
The forty-seven-year-old doctor, outwardly respectable, was sleeping with his twenty-six-year-old secretary Ethel ‘le Neve’. ibid.
Dr David Foran’s work on the Crippen case ... made headlines around the world ... ‘The tissue on that slide is male in origin’ ... Michigan State University’s work confirms that Crippen was executed for a crime he didn’t commit. It was a miscarriage of justice. ibid.
Only Dew and one other officer were present when the remains were found. ibid.
Recent research in America has turned up tantalising clues that Cora Crippen may have travelled there by ship in 1910. ibid.
The dismemberment of the body: it does not make sense to dismember one’s victim. This is the only case I know of where the victim was dismembered. A poisoner attempts to get a natural death certificate signed and then walk away from the crime. Dr John Trestrail, forensic toxicologist
Cora was drinking heavily. She’d been known to have an affair. He went to work. He came home and she was gone. That’s what he claimed in court. They had a fight. She says, ‘I’m leaving you. I’ll never be back. You’ll never find me.’ Dr John Trestrail
This is the only hyoscine murder case I’m familiar with ... It was used in obstetrics – an abortion [is] an obstetrical procedure. Dr John Trestrail
Here we have a report to the Metropolitan police saying that a woman of Cora’s age, of her stature, asked a carriage man to remove five trunks from 39 Hilldrop Crescent to another location. Dr John Trestrail
I think they’re [the evidence] planted. And I think it was planted by the police authorities. Dr John Trestrail
I make a last appeal to the world not to think the worst of me. Face to face with God I believe that facts will be forthcoming to prove my innocence. Hawley Harvey Crippen, letter from prison cell to Miss le Neve