DORSEY, SIDNEY: Southern Fried Homicide TV - The New York Times TV -
DeKalb: the County’s new sheriff Sidney Dorsey ... ‘had incredible ambition’. Southern Fried Homicide, ID 2014
Derwin Brown never had a chance. He was hit eleven times. ibid.
The former sheriff of DeKalb County, Sidney Dorsey, was sentenced today to life in prison for murdering his successor and to 23 years for corruption.
Mr Dorsey, 63, may one day be eligible for parole. He was convicted last month of ordering the murder of Derwin Brown, who was fatally shot on December 15, 2000, three days before taking office after defeating Mr Dorsey in a bitter runoff election. The former sheriff was also found guilty on 11 charges of corruption.
‘Words cannot express the magnitude of this case,’ District Attorney J Tom Morgan said after the sentencing. ‘An elected official used the power of his position to order the assassination of another elected official.’
At his sentencing hearing Mr Dorsey maintained his innocence.
‘I do not have the blood of Derwin Brown on my hands,’ he told Judge Cynthia Becker of Superior Court. ‘I was not a party to the murder of Derwin Brown. I did not orchestrate it, I did not plan it, I did not play a role in the diabolical and horrible murder of the sheriff-elect. However, here I am.’ The New York Times online article 16th August 2002, ‘Ex-Sheriff Gets Life in Death of Successor’
DOSS, NANNIE: True Crime Recaps 2022 -
Nannie Doss, the Giggling Granny: Over three decades she’s suspected of killing eleven people in Alabama including four husbands, her mother, her mother-in-law, her sister, her newborn granddaughter and her toddler grandson. True Crime Recaps: 10 Most Terrifying Serial Killer Stories, Youtube 15.20, 2022
DOTY, WAYNE: I Am a Killer TV -
In March 1997 Wayne Doty was convicted of murder. He is currently on death row. I Am a Killer s1e7: A Matter of Life and Death: Wayne Doty, caption, CI 2018
After leaving home, Doty moved around the country for several years. In 1996 at the age of 23 he took a factory job in Plant City, Florida. ibid.
‘We had both been up for about a week straight on Crystal Meth. An argument ensued … I shot him point blank in the face.’ ibid. Doty
Doty and a fellow prisoner tricked Rodriguez into a challenge, by offering him the chance to win some tobacco, known as RIP … ‘I stabbed him approximately 25 times.’ ibid.
He was sentenced to death in 2013. ibid.
DOWLER, MILLIE: see LEVI BELLFIELD
DOWNES, CHARLENE murder: The Murder of Charlene Downes TV -
Charlene Downes disappeared near Blackpool’s north shore in November 2003. The Murder of Charlene Downes I, commentary, Channel 5 2019
The men were guilty and we had the evidence to bring the killers to justice. ibid. rozzer
Charlene Downes disappeared on 1st November 2003 … The police were given conflicting accounts of Charlene’s last sighting. ibid. captions
Two Asian takeaway bosses … Cassidy named two people: Iyad Albattikhi and Mohammad Revenshi. ibid.
Charlene was exposed to a network of Asian males that were actively involved in grooming. ibid. Jan Beasant, detective rozzer
Police were convinced that Raveshi and Albattikhi were key players in the grooming gang. ibid. caption
And then Raveshi says, ‘I’m so worried; you were the one who fucking killed her.’ ibid. Beasant reviews covert surveillance tapes
Both men deny any involvement in the disappearance or murder of Charlene Downes and maintain their innocence. ibid. caption
These men have been locked up for two and a half years. They’ve been falsely accused of the gravest of crimes. The Murder of Charlene Downes II, defence lawyer
Raveshi claims the police tried to influence witnesses to testify against him and Albattikhi. ibid. caption
A classic case of cognitive priming … It’s edited evidence. ibid. independent expert review of surveillance tapes
The police tried to manipulate the evidence in this case. ibid. defence lawyer
It seems they didn’t have any forensic evidence at all. The Murder of Charlene Downes III, Julie Bindel
IOE has a lead regarding Iyad Albattikhi, the original suspect in the Charlene Downes murder investigation. ibid. caption
Social services report states there was an incident between Ray Munro and Charlene the day she disappeared … Ray Munro was only one of a number of men that visited the Downes home. ibid.
DOWNIE, JASON: Evil Up Close TV - BBC online - Crimes that Shook Australia TV - Justice John Sulan -
Jason Downie ferociously stabbed a mother and father to death and then turned on their daughter. Evil Up Close: Family Killer, CI 2013
Detectives were positively furious that Downie had tried to appear remorseful. ibid.
A jealous Scot who brutally murdered a teenager and her parents after she spurned his advances has been jailed in Australia for at least 35 years.
Jason Downie, 20, stabbed 16-year-old Chantelle Rowe, her father Andrew and mother Rose at their house in Kapunda, near Adelaide, in November 2010.
He admitted stabbing her more than 33 times, her father at least 29 times and her mother more than 50 times.
Downie emigrated to Australia with his mother from Kilmarnock in 2006.
The South Australian Supreme Court heard that Downie, who was 18 at the time of the murders, had fantasised about Chantelle and became jealous of his friend who was dating her. BBC online article 17th April 2012
In November 2010 a small town on the fringe of the famous Barossa Valley is the scene of the most gruesome multiple murders. A family savagely murdered in their own home. Crimes that Shook Australia, CI 2014
Downie pleads guilty to the three murder charges. ibid.
The cold-bloodied merciless attack upon Chantelle – who was hiding under the bed in fear and who you dragged out, stabbed, sexually assaulted and then stabbed again and murdered – was a chilling act. Justice John Sulan