DUNLAP, GERALD: Cold Case Files TV -
March 1979, Oregon: My dad got the call about Janie [Landers] being missing. She was my sister. She was mentally disabled. Cold Case Files s3e12, CI 2022
The victim is 18-year-old Janie Landers … ‘It was pretty clear that the body had been just dumped in the bushes.’ ibid. rozzer
By 1985 the case goes as cold as the winter. ibid.
160,348. 2016: The promise of new technology … Nine month’s after Janie’s shirt is submitted for testing the results come back … ‘The suspect was Gerald Dunlap.’ ibid. rozzer
DUNLOP, BILLY: Real Crime TV - GazetteLive online - Catching Britain’s Killers: The Crimes that Changed Us TV - In the Footsteps of Killers TV - When Missing Turns to Murder TV -
This woman has battled for 13 years to get justice for her murdered daughter [Julie Hogg]. She knows who the murderer is: this man [Billy Dunlop] who persuaded the courts to acquit him. Then, when it was legally safe, boasted he was the killer all along. Real Crime [with Mark Austin] s2e2: Justice for Julie, ITV 2002
The police soon had a prime suspect: Billy Dunlop who was lodging two streets from Julie’s house … In May 1991 Billy Dunlop went on trial in Newcastle for Julie Hogg’s murder … Julie’s housekeys were discovered under Dunlop’s floorboards and had his fingerprints on them, semen on the blanket around Julie’s body could have been his. ibid.
She’d had many lovers and her private life was splashed across the newspapers. ibid.
Dunlop had sex with Julie once in her home a month before she was murdered. This allowed him to explain away his fingerprints on her keys and his possible DNA on the blanket around the body. ibid.
The judge ordered a retrial. ibid.
Dunlop was formally acquitted of murdering Julie Hogg. ibid.
For almost 17 years, Billy Dunlop thought he had got away with murder.
And had it not been for his victim’s mum and her incredible battle to change the double jeopardy law, the evil killer could still be walking our streets.
Pizza delivery girl Julie Hogg was just 22 and a mum to three-year-old Kevin when she was killed in November 1989.
Her disappearance was initially treated as a missing person inquiry.
But 80 days later, Ann found her daughter’s decomposing and partially mutilated body behind a bath panel in the young mum’s Billingham home. GazetteLive online article 28th November 2013, ‘Crimes that Shook Teeside: Double Jeopardy Killer Billy Dunlop’
A murderer who walked free, inspiring one other to challenge an 800-year-old law. Her campaign would bring killers to justice who had until then been getting away with murder. Catching Britain’s Killers: The Crimes that Changed Us II
Double Jeopardy: Julie Hogg: a forensic team went in to search Julie’s house … ‘Screaming, She’s under the bath!’ … The police began looking at Julie’s private life … ‘All the evidence started to point to one of these men as the prime suspect, and that man was Billy Dunlop. ibid.
In 1991, over a year since Julie’s body was found, Billy Dunlop stood trial for murder in Newcastle’s Crown Court … They had failed to reach a unanimous decision and couldn’t come to a majority verdict either. The judge discharged them and ordered a retrial … A new jury heard the defence call all the evidence into question once more. ibid.
‘Dunlop has told the court that he did kill Julie Hogg. Why then is he serving a six year sentence for lying and not a life sentence for taking the life of another human being.’ ibid. dude reading trial account
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. ibid.
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
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.
DUNN, MICHAEL: Three and a Half Minutes: 10 Bullets 2015 -
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.
DUNNE, JOHN: When Missing Turns to Murder TV -
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. ibid.
‘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.
DUNTSCH, CHRISTOPHER: True Crime Recaps 2021 -
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.
DUPAS, PETER: Crimes that Shook Australia TV - CI online -
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.