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In September 2017 a young French nanny was tortured, murdered and thrown on a garden bonfire. 21-year-old Sophie Lionnet had also been interrogated and tortured whilst being filmed by her killers, Sabrina Kouider and Ouissem Medouni. Tortured to Death: Murdering the Nanny, Channel 5 2018
For months Sophie had suffered appalling abuse at the hands of her glamorous employer. Abuse that would end in a murder trial. ibid.
Kouider was making increasingly wild allegations against Sophie. ibid.
Both defendants facing charges of murder … Neither defendant appeared to show any remorse. ibid.
In 2016 a seemingly affluent and respectable couple revealed a hidden dark side. Jealousy and obsession led to the abuse and murder of the couple’s nanny. The Killer Within: Kouider & Medouni: The Nanny Killer, Sky Crime 2019
2017: Emergency services discovered charred human remains in the garden of a house in Wimbledon, south-west London. French nanny Sophie Lionnet had been murdered by the couple she had been working for. ibid.
Just two days before her death a camera captured a thin hollow-looking Sophie Lionnet sitting in front of a fireplace. The au pair was being starved and tortured by her London host family … Not long after it was taken her employers beat her to death then tried to dispose of her body on the family grill. True Crime Recaps: Deluded Ex Grills Nanny on Family BBQ: Sophie Lionnet Case, Youtube 10.28, 2022
London, Wednesday 20 September 2017: French au-pair Sophie Lionnet … an innocent young woman was caught up in the violent and paranoid world of a delusional couple. Killer Britain with Dermot Murnaghan s1e2, CI 2020
Isolated and exploited … naive vulnerable Sophie found herself caught up in her employer’s increasingly bizarre behaviour. ibid.
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California, Boxing Day, 1972: a body of a young man is found on the 405 Freeway. He's identified as Edward Daniel Moore. A marine from the nearby Camp Pendleton barracks. He has been sodomised and strangled. Killers: Behind the Myth s2e6: Scorecard Killer, 2014
James Reeves: he too experienced unimaginable torture at the hands of his killer. These were just three bodies of over one hundred that are found on or around California Freeways over a ten-year period. ibid.
One of the most prolific serial killers in history. ibid.
He drugs them and has sex with them. Some he goes on to murder. Then takes their photo. ibid.
The level of torture continues to get worse. ibid.
Today Randy Kraft sits on Death Row. He continues to profess his innocence. ibid.
Many serial killers share similar characteristics. One that stands out is their desire to keep an item from their victims and hold on to it like a trophy. It might be a piece of hair, the victim’s driver’s license, pictures, intimate apparel, or anything that would help the killer recall the experience.
One of the most notorious killers to ever strike in California was computer programmer Randy Kraft, who was responsible for killing 16 young men, and suspected of killing up to 50+ more. Crime About online article
Randy Kraft, the Scorecard Killer: This computer consultant from Long Beach lured males into his car with promises of rides or booze. Most were in their late teens or early 20s. 16 were raped, tortured and killed by him, and he’s suspected of doing the same thing to 51 others. True Crime Recaps: 10 Most Terrifying Serial Killer Stories, Youtube 15.20, 2022
In 1970s California Randy Kraft was a man of many guises: military veteran, computer whiz, party animal and prolific serial killer. The young men Kraft targeted suffered a cruel and unusual fate. World’s Most Evil Killer s8e8: Randy Kraft, Sky Crime 2024
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‘At the Great Lakes naval station he commits a rape where he stabs a lady and then he is caught and arrested. He is sentenced ... twenty-five to fifty years.’ Serial Killer Profile: Timothy Krajcir s1e7, Paul Echols, author In Cold Pursuit, 2013
‘He had only been out of prison for a year before he began his sexual assaults.’ ibid. Morley Swingle
‘The mother and daughter were found lying naked on their stomachs with their hands bound behind them; they had each been shot one time in the head.’ ibid. Swingle
Krajcir would travel to various towns that he had no connection to, stalk his victims, and then break into their homes and wait for them to arrive. In 1977, Krajcir was released from prison after serving time for rape when he enrolled at Southern Illinois University Carbondale as a condition of his parole. There, in 1981, he earned a degree in Administrative Justice with a minor in psychology.
Some victims were found tied up in their beds. Others were kidnapped and transported across state lines before they were killed. Most of them were raped or forced to perform sexual acts. Some were killed by a gunshot to the head. Others were stabbed or asphyxiated, often with little evidence to connect any of the murders together or to any one person. The lack of forensic and DNA technology at the time and the multiple methods of murder made it difficult for investigators to link all the crimes to a single suspect. Criminal Motives online article
Somewhere out there a very bad man is watching and waiting … Seven more women are sexually assaulted; two of them are murdered in their own homes. Very Bad Men s3e20: 911 to Murder, 2014
Another college student is found dead. ibid.
DNA unlocks the identity of … Timothy Krajcir, a lifelong criminal … Krajcir confesses to nine murders and dozens of rapes. ibid.
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One of the worst crime scenes you can possibly imagine. People Magazine Investigates s7e6: Brighton Axe Murder, Quest Red 2023
Not eveyone believes the right person has been caught. ibid.
In 1982 Brighton, New York, is a quiet suburb of the bustling city of Rochester. ibid.
She was sound asleep when she was murdered and it appeared she was struck with one swift blow from behind burying the axe into her skull. ibid.
The real culprit was Jim Krauseneck. ibid.
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They were the best years of our lives. They called them the swinging sixties. The Beatles and the Rolling Stones were rulers of pop music, Carnaby Street ruled the fashion world … and me and my brother ruled London. We were fucking untouchable. Ronnie Kray, My Story autobiography