KELLY, KIERAN: The Nobody Zone: Interview With an Irish Serial Killer TV -
Was the underground once stalked by a serial killer who pushed people from tube platforms to their deaths and then got away with it? The Nobody Zone: Interview With an Irish Serial Killer I: How Many Have You Killed? woman, RTE/Netflix 2024
The story kicks off in 1983 when Kelly is arrested in Clapham, London, for stealing a gold ring. The police foolishly put him in a cell with other drunks. ibid. narrator
So I went down the cells and there was Boyd on his back. He’d been garrotted with a pair of socks. Kelly is sitting in the corner and no socks on. I’m not a great detective but I could work that one out. ibid. rozzer
One tape has survived of Kieran Kelly’s final interview in custody. It’s the confession of an Irish serial killer in his own words. ibid. narrator
After the murder of Christie Smith, Kelly went home to Dublin to keep a low profile. But it didn’t last. Kelly was soon back in London. ibid.
Rozzer: How many people do you think you’ve killed altogether?
Kelly: Ah, Jesus, I don’t fuckin’ know … And what’s more, I don’t worry about it. ibid.
The Fisher murder was on Clapham Common, one of Kelly’s regular haunts on the London underground. ibid.
The nobody zone was a world that existed in London in the 60s, 70s and 80s. Very much associated with Irish people who fell on hard times in this era and had alcohol addiction. ibid.
Kelly’s long list of murders covers 30 years. Most of the victims were homeless men living rough in London’s nobody zone. ibid.
Thirty years after Kelly was first questioned by police, his so-called murder spree made the headline news. The Nobody Zone: Interview With an Irish Serial Killer II: It Plays on Your Mind
He had been sent to Broadmoor psychiatric prison. ibid. solicitor
‘By Kelly’s own admission his mind had been mithered with drink.’ ibid. author
KELSALL, DANIEL JACK: Crimes that Shook Australia TV -
On the night of 8th September 2013 that calm was shattered: ’Morgan had 28 separate stab wounds’ … The murder of Morgan Huxley was a crime that shook Australia. Crimes that Shook Australia s3e6: Morgan Huxley, CI 2018
Detectives … were becoming increasingly interested in the movements of Daniel Kelsall, a young kitchen worker spotted on CCTV in the vicinity of the victim on the night of the murder. ibid.
Daniel Kelsall was sentenced to a minimum of thirty years in prison. ibid.
KEMPER, EDMUND: Born to Kill? The Co-Ed Killer TV - Chief rozzer - World’s Most Evil Killers TV - Kemper on Kemper: Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer TV - True Crime Recaps 2021 -
In the early 1970s the idyllic capital of the Californian seaside town of Santa Cruz would be plunged into panic. Innocent young women were being raped, murdered and dismembered. Born to Kill? The Co-Ed Killer s3e2: Edmund Kemper, Channel 5 2012
Mary Anne Pesce an 18-year-old talented co-ed and skier disappeared … And it went on … Alice Liu disappears for ever … ibid.
Big Ed: the 25-year-old 6-foot-9-inch, 280-pound Edmund Kemper was a regular feature. ibid.
He said he had killed his mother and a friend of hers. ibid. rozzer
An extraordinary and sickening tale. ibid.
April 1973: unexpectedly confessed that he was the infamous Co-Ed butcher, and that he now had a tally of ten murder victims. ibid.
Had difficulties with his mother. ibid.
He would explain his murders in chilling detail. ibid.
He would have oral sex with the decapitated head. ibid. chief rozzer
On August 27th 1964 in North Fork, California, 15-year-old Edmund Kemper shot and killed his grandmother Maude. Then when he returned home the boy also shot and murdered his grandfather Edmund senior. Kemper junior then called his mother to tell her what he’d done. Released after just five years in a facility for the criminally insane Kemper went on a killing spree that targeted young female co-eds. In all the vicious serial killer would slaughter ten people including his mother. He would typically dismember and sexually desecrate the bodies. World’s Most Evil Killers s2e1: Edmund Kemper, Pick TV 2018
‘He grew to 6-foot-9, 21 stone-300 pounds; he was in a way almost a Frankenstein figure.’ ibid.
‘Just a week ago today four more bodies were discovered: in a connected series of murders that now numbers at least ten …’ Kemper on Kemper: Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer, contemporary news report, NBC 2018
In 1973 one of America’s most twisted serial killers is apprehended … ‘Later that night I cut both their heads off.’ ibid. caption & Kemper
‘We’re [abusive mother] still fighting. She’s still belittling me like a puppet on a string.’ ibid. Kemper
Special Agent John Douglas’s interviews with Kemper revolutionize criminal psychology. To this day, these conversations inform the way police track and capture serial killers. ibid. captions
‘He’s got total recall to everything he has ever done.’ ibid. expert
He also confesses to being the Co-Ed Killer. ibid. caption
Interviewer: Why did you wind up giving yourself up?
Kemper: It had to stop. ibid.
‘He had sex with both the heads and with decapitated bodies.’ ibid. psychology counsellor, re two dead hitchhikers
With each kill he becomes quicker and more efficient. ibid. caption
If you didn’t know he was responsible for ten murders you’d probably like him. At a towering six foot nine inches most people thought of Ed as a gentle giant. True Crime Recaps: Was Ed Kemper Born to Kill? Youtube 38.41, 2021
In the early 1970s he murdered six girls hitchhiking around Santa Cruz, California. ibid.
At 15 he murdered his grandparents. ibid.
He picked up the phone and turned himself in. ibid.
Known as Big Ed the Co-Ed Killer. ibid.
‘He didn’t know whether he wanted to date girls or see their heads on sticks.’ ibid.
A constant war of good and evil raging inside him. ibid.
Ed Kemper: In the mid-60s he killed his grandparents then he killed his mother and told her what he’d done … He just wanted to know what it would feel like … He started targeting female hitchhikers: he murdered six … True Crime Recaps: 10 Most Terrifying Serial Killer Stories, Youtube 15.20, 2022