GIFFORD-HULL, MIKE: Faking It: Tears of a Crime TV -
A missing mum, distraught husband. Where is their mother? Winchester in the south of England: Kirsi Gifford-Hull, a 39-year-old mother of two, is reported missing from her family home. As missing stories went, this one was rare. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s2e2: Mike Hull
Her husband claimed that after an argument she had walked out on him and their children, aged 10 and 13. But there was no sign of Kirsi anywhere. Detectives started to focus on her husband who’d been the last to see her. ibid.
‘Kirsi Gifford-Hull had discovered that her husband had been having several several affairs with women he had met on the internet and with prostitutes.’ ibid. journalist
I don’t think I’ve ever seen that blink rate before. ibid. Cliff
It’s just positive impression management. ibid. Kerry
GIGANTE, VINCENT ‘THE CHIN’: Mobsters TV - Mafia's Greatest Hits TV - Vinnie the Chin Gigante TV - Mafia Empire TV - Mafia Killers TV -
‘He would walk the streets in a bath-robe; he would urinate in public.’ Mobsters s1e12: Vinnie the Chin Gigante, Biography 2007
Gigante might be very sane and very dangerous. ibid.
Vito Genovese took Vinnie under his wing. ibid.
In 1959 prosecutors convicted the 30-year-old Gigante and his mentor 62-year-old Vito Genovese of heroin trafficking. ibid.
As Costello entered the lobby a large man [Gigante] stepped out of the shadows, raised his arm and said, ‘This is for you, Frank.’ Mafia’s Greatest Hits s1e6: Vito Genovese, 2012
The most dangerous gangster in America – Vito Genovese. ibid.
Genovese was a hitman for the greatest Mafia boss of them all – Charles Lucky Luciano. ibid.
Mussolini gave him [Genovese] an Italian knighthood. ibid.
Frank Costello: the Salvation Army even made him their Vice-Chairman. ibid.
Before a judge could be appointed, it had to be cleared by Frank Costello. ibid.
Costello became known as the Prime Minister. ibid.
Throughout the 1980s Vincent the Chin Gigante could be seen shuffling along Sullivan Street in New York’s Greenwich Village. He wore bedroom slippers and a tattered bathrobe. His hair was uncombed and he supported a day’s growth of grey whiskers. The average New Yorker assumed he was crazy. Vinnie ‘The Chin’ Gigante, 2006
The FBI hoped to link Chin to at least six Mafia hits and the attempted murder of mob boss John Gotti. Investigators also believed Gigante controlled the Genovese family’s vast criminal enterprises, including extortion and drug running. But they needed to take the veil off his crazy act. So the FBI began to follow his every move. ibid.
He was twenty-nine when he earned the assignment that would make his career: to kill a mob boss, a Godfather named Frank Costello. ibid.
But it wasn’t until mobster Vito Genovese took Gigante under his wing that his criminal career began to take shape. ibid.
On July 25th 1997 Vincent Gigante was found guilty and sentenced to 12 years in prison. ibid.
The last godfather from the old generation was the wily Vincent Gigante, head of the Genovese family ... It wasn’t until 1997 that the government was able to get enough evidence to bring the head of the Genovese family to court. Mafia Empire – Vendetta
New York, 1957: One of the strangest careers in Mob history. Mafia Killers s1e5: Vicent Gigante The Oddfather, History 2019
‘He would mumble, look crazy, and look totally unaware of what was going on.’ ibid. Selwyn Rabb
Vincent Gigante was born in 1928 in Manhattan’s lower east side; he grew up in Greenwich Village in an almost exclusively American-Italian community. ibid.
He was mad, bad, but very clever and extremely dangerous. ibid.
He drifts into the cross-hairs of the FBI … playing the Crazy Man with the Feds. ibid.
Lombardo retires due to ill health and anoints the Chin as his successor. ibid.
GILBERT, KRISTEN: Crime Stories TV - crime about online -
Boston, Massachusetts, VA Hospital, 1995: An emergency in Ward C – one of their patients was having a heart attack ... 66-year-old Stanley Jagodowski was dead. Crime Stories: Lethal Injector, CTV 2010
The number of deaths on Ward C had increased. ibid.
Kathy Rix decided to keep a close eye on the hospital’s supply of Epinephrine. ibid.
An alarming number of emergencies occurred when one particular nurse was on duty – she was 28-year-old Kristen Gilbert. ibid.
Kristen became physically abusive. ibid.
The victims they knew about may just be the tip of the iceberg. ibid.
Guilty on three counts of first-degree murder. ibid.
Kristen Gilbert was a bright, attractive, well-trained nurse who, in 2001, was found guilty of killing her patients at a Veterans Administration medical center in Northampton, Mass. What made this talented young woman turn to murder? Some believe it was for the thrill, other’s say it was so she could meet up with her boyfriend who also worked at the hospital ...
On February 15, an AIDS patient who was being treated with antibiotics suddenly passed out after Kristen had flushed his intravenous lines and the nurses on Ward C finally decided to report their suspicions. It did not take federal investigators long to figure out the common thread to many of the deaths occurring on Ward C, was Kristen Gilbert. In the seven years she worked at the VA Hospital, 350 deaths had occurred during her shift, statistically impossible to attribute to coincidence. About Crime online article
GILBERT, RAY: British Injustice with Raphael Rowe II, History 2022 - Trial & Error TV -
Toxteth, Liverpool, Friday 13th March 1981: At 9.30 a.m. the manager of a betting shop on a busy high street was brutally murdered in broad daylight. The victim was 23-year-old John Suffield. British Injustice with Raphael Rowe II, History 2022
Honing in on two local men: 22-year-old Ray Gilbert and 24-year-old John Kamara. Despite there being no forensic evidence both men were quickly convicted and sentenced to Life in prison. ibid.
Merseyside Police investigated the murder of John Suffield in March 1981. Ray Gilbert and John Kamara were found guilty of murder. In 2000 the Court of Appeal found that the conviction of John Kamara could no longer be deemed safe and should be quashed. On the potential unfairness of the identification parade, the Court of Appeal concluded that they were left unpersuaded that Kamara stood out to any appreciable extent. ibid.
On March 12th 1981 there was an argument in the betting shop at Lodge Lane, Liverpool 8. It was enough to make the manager, a young man of 23 called John Suffield, fear for his life. Trial & Error: John Kamara, Channel 4 1997
John Suffield was to die that day. Though not at the hands of that angry customer. Two other men were convicted of his murder, one rightly so. The other has so far served sixteen years for a murder he did not commit. ibid.
The two men got away with less than £200 in notes and coins. ibid.
Raymond Gilbert confessed to the murder within hours of being taken to Admiral Street police station. He told the police he got angry with his victim, and that it was he, Gilbert, who was solely responsible for the fatal stabbing. ibid.
The man we do worry about is a man whose name Gilbert offered to the police as his supposed accomplice – Johnnie Kamara … He had also slept with Gilbert’s girlfriend – a fatal indiscretion. ibid.
As we began to excavate the Kamara case, whole areas of the prosecution would crumble at the touch. ibid.
The trial of Johnnie Kamara took place in front of an all-white jury just weeks after riots had reduced much of Toxteth to a smouldering ruin. ibid.