DAVIS, RICHARD ALLEN: True Crime Recaps 2022 -
The sounds of a slumber party drifted out of open windows … A hairy madman was about to crash their sleepover with a knife, a bungle of binding and a promise he never intended to keep. True Crime Recaps: Kidnapped From a Slumber Party, Youtube 15.17, 2022
October 1st 1993: Petaluma, California: He was on them faster than they could react. He pulled strips of cloth out of his duffel bag and bound and gagged them … He promised them he was only there for money, he wouldn’t hurt them, but that was a lie. ibid.
He pulled Polly to her feet … [and] promised to bring her back. ibid.
Richard Allen Davis: 1976 Robbery, Kidnapping and Assault with intent to commit Rape; 1978 Kidnapping and Assault with a deadly weapon; 1984 Kidnapping and Assault with a deadly weapon including the use of a firearm … Richard Allen Davis … promptly placed in custody: it was a surprise to no-one when his palm print matched the one left behind … Richard eventually confessed to the crime sort of … He led investigators to Polly’s remains. ibid.
Richard’s criminal record and abduction of Polly Klaas helped inspire the Three Strike and You’re Out Law. ibid.
DAWSON, ANDREW: When Life Means Life TV - BBC online - Britain’s Most Evil Killers TV -
A man who committed murders almost thirty years apart. A man who used knives to deadly effect. And who targeted elderly vulnerable men. When Life Means Life s1e6, CI 2012
At just 19 years of age Andrew Dawson was a convicted killer. ibid.
Andrew Dawson served seventeen years. ibid.
Within three years of marrying, Dawson separated from his wife, and his life was spiralling out of control. ibid.
Andrew Dawson was now a convicted triple killer. ibid.
A convicted killer who murdered two of his neighbours while out on licence for an earlier crime has been told he will spend the rest of his life in prison.
John David Matthews, 66, was found dead in his Derby flat on 25 July 2010.
Five days later Paul Hancock, 58, was found dead in the same building. The pair had been repeatedly stabbed and both were found in their own baths.
Andrew Dawson, 48, admitted murdering the two men, on the first day of his Nottingham Crown Court trial.
In sentencing Dawson to a whole life term, Mrs Justice Dobbs said ‘Life will mean life.’ BBC online article 18th July 2011, ‘Neighbour killer Andrew Dawson given whole life term’
In August 1981, 91-year-old Henry Walsh was held up at knifepoint in this small hardware store in Ormskirk, Lancashire. The elderly shopkeeper refused to yield to his 18-year-old assailant. He would pay with his life. Britain’s Most Evil Killers: Andrew Dawson, Sky Crime 2020
The perpetrator was Andrew Dawson, a known local thief who suddenly matured into a vicious murderer. ibid.
Almost 30 years after his first killing, Dawson was a free man with murder on his mind. In 2010 police in Derby would discover two of Dawson’s neighbours dead, but the convicted killer was nowhere to be found. ibid.
DAWSON, CHRIS: Faking It: Tears of a Crime TV - The Murder of Lyn Dawson TV -
The northern beaches, Australia: Among these 18 miles of stunning Pacific coastline stands Bayview, home in the early 1980s to Chris and Lyn Dawson. Key to that success was his sporting ability and looks. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s7e6: Chris Dawson
By the start of 1982 Lyn Dawson had begun to suspect her husband was having an affair. On January 8th, they both attended a marriage guidance session. The next day she went missing leaving her clothes, money, bank cards, passport, and even contact lenses behind. ibid.
1991 and officers began a fresh search of the couple’s former property; they also brought in Chris Dawson for renewed questioning. ibid.
Lyn Dawson went missing in 1982. There were two reasons why police regarded her husband as the prime suspect: his implausible explanation at the time and his behaviour immediately afterwards. ibid.
The podcast sparked a wider media frenzy with Dawson at the centre. More seriously for Dawson, the police were responding to renewed public interest in the case. ibid.
It’s a Sydney suburban murder mystery 40 years in the making: is Chris Dawson a grieving husband or is he a killer? The Murder of Lyn Dawson: The Teacher, The Groomer, The Killer I, reporter, Sky Crime 2023
He presented to the world as goody-two-shoes. ibid. daughter
Chris’s eyes wandered into the sights of a schoolgirl. ibid. reporter
No doubt she was groomed from an early age. ibid. rozzer
Mothers and fathers knew about it. Other teachers. ibid.
Bullied boys and girls who didn’t have any athletic prowess. The Murder of Lyn Dawson: The Teacher, The Groomer, The Killer II: Everything that Glitters, witness re Chris
He let me become almost part of the family. ibid. babysitter
There was basically no investigation into her disappearance. ibid. ex-rozzer
The police didn’t know about his girlfriend; the police didn’t know about their marital problems. The Murder of Lyn Dawson: The Teacher, The Groomer, The Killer III, observer
She [Lyn] didn’t have any money, she didn’t driver, she wasn’t worldly. ibid.
He married the babysitter; then they subsequently moved to Queensland. ibid.
How could you not question what happened to the wife? ibid. daughter
I smelt a rat. And Chris Dawson was in my cross-hairs from that day. ibid. rozzer
Narcissistic personality, domineering in his relationships. The Murder of Lyn Dawson: The Teacher, The Groomer, The Killer IV, rozzer
2018 Podcast: The Teacher’s Pet. ibid.
It climaxes with the trial of Chris Dawson. ibid. dude
Accused allegedly asked witness to help find a hitman to kill his wife. ibid. newspaper headline
DAY, JELANI murder: True Crime Recaps 2021 -
When he [Jelani Day] did finally turn up ten days later he was badly decomposed floating in the Illinois River an hour away from home. True Crime Recaps: Missing Student Jelani Day: What Happened? Youtube 11.39, 2021
Theories range from a tragic accident or suicide to murder … ibid.
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‘19 year old Lewis Daynes was sentenced to at least 25 years today for the murder of Breck Bednar’ … ‘a sexual and sadistic motive’. When Kids Kill s1e2: Predator Online, news clips, Channel 5 2016
16th February 2014: Daynes sent a taxi to bring Breck thirty miles from his home in Surrey to Daynes’ flat in Essex. ibid.
Daynes: Spent his day interacting with young boys. ibid.