DESTEFANO, MAD SAM: Mad Sam DeStefano - Mobsters TV -
Then I became what they call a raving maniac. Do I make myself clear? Mad Sam DeStefano
August 1961: a hot summer night on Chicago’s south-west side, outside a meat-packing plant … Mobsters Tony Spilotro and Mario DeStefano dragged Jackson inside the warehouse: Mad Sam was waiting. Mobsters s4e3: Mad Sam DeStefano, Biography 2012
The [42] Gang gave Sam junior the opportunity he had been looking for to make real money. ibid.
Sam DeStefano began his juice-loan racket. ibid.
While DeStefano amused the public, his outfit bosses were not laughing. ibid.
The Mobster who had killed a brother he didn’t trust was undone by the one he did. ibid.
DEWANI, ANNI murder: Murder on Honeymoon TV - The Sun - The Honeymoon Murder: Who Killed Anni? TV - Zola Tongo - Panorama TV - True Crime Recaps 2022 -
This is Anni Dewani, dancing for her husband Shrien on their wedding day. Two weeks after the biggest day of her life Anni was dead, murdered on her honeymoon. Murder on Honeymoon
Shrien Dewani said his wife was the victim of a hijack. But claims soon emerged that Dewani had paid to have his wife killed. ibid.
The wedding cost £150,000. ibid.
Beneath the surface there were tensions. ibid.
The police case against Shrien Dewani relies heavily on the driver Zola Tongo. ibid.
A few days before her murder Anni described Shrien as a monster. ibid.
The plea bargain raises serious questions about Tongo’s evidence, according to Dewani’s defence team. ibid.
Questions have also been raised about the confessions of the two alleged killers. ibid.
Dewani has denied being gay. ibid.
I Didn’t Kill My Bride: Tycoon denies link to honeymoon murder. The Sun front page
A young bride – Anni Dewani – on her South African honeymoon hours before her death. The Honeymoon Murder: Who Killed Anni? BBC 2013
It raises serious doubts about the integrity of the South African criminal justice system. ibid.
The case against Shrien: he lands in Capetown with Anni and in little more than one hour arranges his wife’s murder with a taxi driver. ibid.
He looks like a distraught man on previously unseen CCTV. ibid.
Incompetence, flawed evidence and lies. ibid.
After we arrived at the hotel, Shrien Dewani approached me alone and asked me if I knew anyone that could ‘have a client of his taken off the scene’. After some discussion with him, I understood that he wanted someone, a woman, killed. He said he was willing to pay an amount of R15,000. Shrien Dewani said he had US dollars and could pay in US dollars. After contacting a friend, we agreed that Shrien Dewani and I would be ejected from the vehicle and that the female occupant had to be killed. Zola Tongo
Her wedding had been a lavish affair; her murder was squalid and remains a mystery. Panorama: The Honeymoon Murder: Who Killed Anni? BBC 2013
The same man, South African police said, paid hitmen to execute his wife. Anni’s family are devastated and they’re desperate for Shrien to go back to South Africa and face trial. ibid.
At an identity parade two weeks after her death three local men behind the killing were picked out. All three have since been convicted, but the South Africans believe one man is missing from this lineup. ibid.
But is this case really so clear cut? ibid.
Fighting a lot with Shrien … Wish I had never got engaged … We have nothing in common … Hate him … I don’t feel happy at all … ibid. her honeymoon texts
Shrien Dewani did not gain financially from Anni’s death. The South Africans believe there was a different motive – Shrien’s sexuality. ibid.
A beautiful bride’s fairytale honeymoon ends with a bullet to her throat … The driver claims her new husband paid him to recruit the shooters. Her husband maintains he was framed. The assassins are pointing the finger at each other. Then there’s a middleman who might actually be the kingpin … Everybody in this case is lying about something. True Crime Recaps: Shrien Dewani, Youtube 35.37, 2022
Shrien was controlling, cold and critical of her appearance and habits … Behind the scenes the relationship was falling apart. ibid.
DEWEY, ROBERT [viz Miscarriages of Justice: Dewey, Robert]: Oddee online - Innocence Project online -
He was released 17 years later when DNA technology surfaced and exonerated him of the strangulation murder of a 19-year-old woman in Palisade, Colorado.
Dewey was compensated financially for his wrongful imprisonment, but certain things remained that he couldn't get back, including the funeral of his only son.
Dewey was locked up when his son died and was buried, and during the birth of his grandchildren, as well – all for a crime he didn’t commit. Oddee online report ‘10 of the Worst Wrongful Imprisonment Cases’
On June 4, 1994, 19-year-old Jacie Taylor was found dead in her bathtub. Neighbors had discovered a leak into their apartment at 7:00 a.m. that morning; upon entering Taylor’s apartment two hours later, they found her body and immediately called the police. According to the medical examiner who examined the body, Taylor appeared to have been strangled by a nylon dog leash or horse lead and had been sexually assaulted shortly before her death.
The police and prosecutor built a circumstantial case against Dewey. He initially emerged as a suspect in the case when police heard from several of Taylor’s friends that she was afraid of Dewey. Police also learned that Dewey hid from them when they came to question him and several of the victim’s friends. Furthermore, when police later found and questioned him, he initially gave police a fake name. Despite this, Dewey ultimately cooperated with police during the investigation and subsequent interrogations. Dewey admitted that he knew the victim and had been to her house, but he denied any involvement in or knowledge of the crime. When he was questioned again, police recovered a t-shirt belonging to Dewey, which was stained with oil, grease and blood.
During the investigation, police recovered the shirt Dewey was wearing when the crime occurred. The shirt had several bloodstains on it. Dewey claimed that it was his blood on the shirt, but police didn’t believe him. Using the methods of DNA testing that were available in the early 1990s, police tested the blood from Dewey’s shirt. The testing confirmed that the blood on the shirt was consistent with Dewey, the victim, and 45 percent of the population. In addition to testing Dewey’s shirt, the State conducted DNA testing on the victim’s fingernails and semen from a blanket where she was raped. This testing confirmed that Dewey was not the source of the semen or the DNA found under the victim’s fingernails. Despite this, prosecutors continued to pursue Dewey based on the other circumstantial evidence.