LAING, BENJAMIN: How I Caught the Killer TV -
In April 1992 relatives of Matthew and Alison Manwaring became extremely concerned after they were after they were unable to locate or contact them for four days. How I Caught the Killer s4e9: Love Always in God, Sky Crime 2024
After the press conference, a man walked into Barking police station and identified himself as Benjamin Laing. ibid.
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Delphine LaLaurie, a sadistic serial killer whose crimes were so horrifying that even her rich neighbours in New Orleans banded together to run her out of town. ibid.
Over the years, accounts of what was actually found in the attic got worse. ibid.
As many as 100 men, women and children may have fallen victim to them [wife/husband]. ibid.
LAM, KOR-WAN: The Jars Murderer TV - Wow online -
In 1982 over the course of four different nights a taxi driver picked up four different women from four busy streets of Hong Kong. All four would meet the same fate. He captured them on camera and preserved their body parts in jars. A cold-blooded serial killer or a victim of warped morality? They call him the Jars Murderer. The Jars Murderer
Months passed and the mysterious torso case remained unsolved. ibid.
The technician developed the film ... The arrested man was identified as 27-year-old Lam Kor Wan – a Hong Kong night-shift taxi driver. ibid.
They discovered a macabre collection of female body parts pickled in Tupperware jars and preserved like forensic specimens. ibid.
Lam seemed indifferent. ibid.
Lam’s make-shift photo studio was transformed into a private post-mortem laboratory. ibid.
A serial killer had been driving their streets for the last six months. ibid.
This time he performed necrophilia on his victim. ibid.
Lam lived with his father who had married three times. His mother believed her son had had an abused childhood. ibid.
Lam, who worked as a taxi driver, would pick up female passengers, strangle them with electrical wire, take them to his family home, and dismember them. His English moniker, The Jars Murderer, was coined when the police revealed that he had hoarded sexual organs in Tupperware containers. He was a keen photographer and frequently took pictures and video of his victims, filming himself performing an act of necrophilia with his fourth victim ...
Lam shared his bedroom with his brother, who was unaware of his activities; Lam worked the nightshift, so was able to dismember victims at home during the daytime without his immediate family finding out. The bodies were disposed of via his taxi in the New Territories and on Hong Kong Island, and all were eventually located. Wow online article
LAMPLUGH, SUZY: viz CANNAN, JOHN
LANCASTER, SOPHIE & ROBERT MALTBY murders: Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster TV - When Kids Kill TV - Killer Kids TV -
You know I always used to call her my dark fairy because that’s what she symbolised to me, and it were always my thing, that that would be our symbol – the black rose. That’s what I saw her as. Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster, mother, BBC 2015
Not only do they take your daughter. They take your life with them as well. ibid.
We were both in league with the colour black. ibid. Sophie
I thought she looked lovely. She was quite distinctive … She was vegetarian. She was a pacifist. ibid. mother
A plague of fists or a swarm of feet. ibid. Sophie
A teenage girl has just witnessed a brutal attack by a group of boys on a young couple in a park. When paramedics reached her, Sophie Lancaster’s face was beaten so badly they couldn’t work out if she was a girl or a boy. The couple were attacked simply because they were Goths. Hate crime is on the rise. When Kids Kill s2e1: Beaten for Being Different, Channel 5 2017
Teenagers Ryan Herbert and Brendan Harris had quite a reputation on the streets of Bacup. ibid.
At the age of 16 Ryan Herbert received a 16 year jail sentence while Brendan Harris got 18 years for his part in the murder. ibid.
Bacup, England, 10th August 2007: Sophie Lancaster and her boyfriend Robert Maltby leave to go home … They share a liking for the Goths … They run into a gang of five boys … Investigators identify the assailants: Brendan Harris, Ryan Herbert, Joseph Hulme, Daniel Hulme and Daniel Mallet. Killer Kids s1e4: Hate Killers, Biography 2011
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Harahan, Louisiana: This one even shocked the police: this woman is accused of killing her boyfriend’s six-year-old daughter, but she’s only getting started. She wedges the girls’ body into a plastic bucket then uses a wagon to haul it over to the girl’s mother’s house and it’s all caught on camera. True Crime Recaps: The Disturbing Case of Bella Fontenelle, Youtube 4.11, 2023
The woman accused of ending Bella’s short life – none other than Michael’s longtime girlfriend, 43-year-old Hannah Landon. ibid.
LANE, ADAM LEROY: How I Caught the Killer TV -
‘Monica was a 37-year-old female … Monica’s body was found on top of the bed having suffered many many stab wounds.’ How I Caught the Killer s4e4: The Highway Hunter: Adam Leroy Lane, rozzer
Chelmsford, Massachusetts, 30th July 2007: Sexual assault of 15-year-old female. ibid.
‘Mixed in with his [Leroy Lane] belongings we did find long blonde hair which we believed had belonged to Monica.’ ibid. rozzer
‘He was willing to talk to us.’ ibid.
LANE, D’ANDRE [viz Miscarriages of Justice: Lane, D’Andre]: Exhibit A 2019 -
There’s a lot of knowledge involved in handling a dog. You don’t just take a trained dog out of the car and let it off the lead and it goes and does its thing and then it comes back – it’s not a piece of equipment. Exhibit A s1e3: Cadaver Dogs, expert dog handler, Netflix 2019
For a dog to respond isn’t a great surprise. ibid.
We don’t use dogs as an evidential tool. ibid.
Detroit, Michigan: You just can’t go into an incinerator plant, throw something in and drive away. Let’s face it – if Mr Lane killed this child there should be overwhelming blood evidence, DNA. ibid. defense dude
A guy reported his car being hijacked with his daughter in it; the detective dog that I took, Morse … responded to his vehicle, a child’s blanket and the car seat. ibid. expert dog handler
Those dogs gave them what they wanted. ibid. Mrs Lane
Death doesn’t have a specific scent for each and every individual. ibid. defense dude
Junk science literally convicted a man. ibid.