On April 21st 1990 two youths out shooting pigeons made a gruesome discovery on the land between the chemical factory and the town of Billingham. They found a human skull … The remains belonged to 18 year old Tina Bell … She had been dissolved in acid. In the Footsteps of Killers s2e5
Tina was mixing with some dangerous characters. I’ve been looking into Billy Dunlop … has since been convicted of murder. ibid.
The police inquiry into Dunlop and Robson went as far as it could. ibid.
In February 1990, 22-year-old mother Julie Hogg had been missing from Billingham, Stockton-on-Tees, for over 2 months. When her mother turned up at the family home to investigate a strong smell coming from the bathroom, she would make an horrendous discovery. Julie was never missing; her body had been under the bathtub in her home for 80 days. Britain’s Most Evil Killers s5e3: Billy Dunlop, Sky Crime 2020
Billy Dunlop: after 2 trials he was sensationally acquitted of Julie’s murder. Despite his protestations, Dunlop stunned investigators by confessing to the murder 10 years later.
17 years after Julie Hogg’s murder, Billy Dunlop would finally be convicted. ibid.
The 800-year-old legislation known as Double Jeopardy was brought about by a campaign led by Julie Hogg’s mother, Ann Ming. ibid.
Billingham, County Durham, a young mother is missing. An 80-day search ends in a shocking discovery. When Missing Turns to Murder s3e9, Netflix 2024
‘Julie’s remains had been under the bath from the date that she was killed.’ ibid. rozzer
Police then turn their attention to Dunlop, a man known to the investigators due to his repeated violent behaviour. ibid.
On 13 February 1990 police arrested Dunlop on suspicion of Julie’s murder. ibid.
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45-year-old Michael Dunn is being charged with shooting and killing 17-year-old Jordan Davis. Three and a Half Minutes: Ten Bullets, 2015
The suspect fired multiple shots at the victim who was also in the car with other juveniles. ibid.
Everybody’s talking about Stand Your Ground; everybody’s talking about self-defence. ibid.
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December 1988: A 22-year-old woman has gone missing after a Christmas party … Police are searching for Lorraine Benson who hasn’t arrived at her friend’s house after a work’s Christmas party. This has been made a high-risk missing person’s case because of recent attacks in the local area. When Missing Turns to Murder, Netflix 2023
‘Crucial pieces of evidence were found in that fine finger-tip search which included the earring that confirmed she was definitely walking that route back.’ ibid. rozzer
‘Evidence they had forensically from the other cases in Kingston.’ ibid.
‘You can’t believe you’re living through the anxiety.’ ibid. mother
It’s around 12 hours since Lorraine Benson has disappeared and police have found a body. ibid.
Injuries to Lorraine’s body reveal that she fended off her attacker without being raped before being strangled using a ligature.
‘The suspect was actually arrested only a couple of streets away from where Lorraine’s body was found. ibid.
The suspect is 19-year-old local man John Dunne. ibid.
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Dr Christopher Duntsch was a rising star as a neurosurgeon in Texas. But the truth was he was a man with a deadly God complex who used his scalpel like a weapon. True Crime Recaps: Dr Death: The True Story Revealed, Youtube 15.24, 2021
He butchered his patients leaving them paralysed, in permanent pain or dead. ibid.
At least on one occasion operating on people after a night of doing lsd, cocaine and drinking. ibid.
He was allowed or permanently main or kill 33 out of 38 patients over the space of 18 months in Texas. ibid.
He was put in prison for life. ibid.
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By 2010 three innocent women lay dead at his hands in the most macabre killings the country had ever seen. Crimes that Shook Australia: Peter Dupas s1e3, CI 2014
He will spend the rest of his life behind bars. ibid.
Peter Dupas’s first crime against women was committed at age 15 when he attacked a next-door neighbour with a knife, and he went on to become one of the worst serial rapists and killers in Australian history.
In July 1974, at age 21, Dupas broke into a married woman’s home and threatened her and her baby with a knife before tying her up and raping her. The sentencing judge described it as ‘one of the worst rapes that could be imagined’ and he was sentenced to nine years imprisonment, with a minimum of five years.
Two months after his release in 1979 he molested women in four attacks over a 10 day period. In 1980 he received another five year minimum sentence for three charges of assault with intent to rape, malicious wounding, indecent assault and assault with intent to rob.
Released again in 1985, it was only another month before he committed another offence. This time he raped a 21-year-old woman on Blairgowrie beach at gunpoint.
He served seven years of a 12 year sentence and less than two years later was arrested again for false imprisonment having held a woman at knifepoint in a toilet block near Lake Eppalock.
He was released from prison in 1996. Three years later, the body of Nicole Patterson, a 28 year old psychotherapist and youth counsellor was found severely mutilated in her home, with both her breasts cut off.
Peter Dupas was found guilty of the crime and Judge Frank Vincent said the chances of rehabilitation were ‘so close to hopeless that they can be effectively discounted’. CI online article 24th April 2014