In 1984 in the Tampa Bay sunshine state of Florida police were struggling to keep up with the discovery of bodies: the killer was Bobby Joe Long … After Bobby Joe Long’s motorbike accident in 1974, he was medically discharged from the army … Bobby’s behaviour began to spiral out of control. The Killer in My Family s2s5, Quest Red 2020
‘He was known as the Classified Ad rapist.’ ibid. J T Hunter, biographer
Northern Tampa Florida 1984: 17-year-old Lisa, the teenager was subjected to a terrifying 26-hour ordeal by a sadistic sexual predator. Unlike his other victims she was the only one to survive. At his peak the bodies of the killer’s victims were discovered at the rate of one every other week. World’s Most Evil Killers s3e9: Bobby Joe Long, History 2021
Long became one of the most notorious serial killers in US history. During his eight-month sadistic killing spree, he murdered ten women in Florida. ibid.
LONG ISLAND MURDERS: see REX HEUERMANN
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Waldport, Oregon, 2001: A mother and her three young children are murdered. How I Caught the Killer s2e7: A Picture Perfect Family, Sky Crime 2020
Christian and Mary-Jane Longo had three children. Christian Longo appeared to be doing well professionally. ibid.
‘They really ramped up efforts to find Christian Longo.’ ibid.
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Corpus Christi 10th March 2009: ‘Lieutenant Stuart Alexander died an immediate death: he was struck and killed by a suspect fleeing in an SUV.’ Life and Death Row s2e1: Execution, news, BBC 2016, news
At the age of 21 Daniel Lopez was sentenced to death for the murder of Lt Stuart Alexander. He will be executed in five weeks unless he decides to appeal. ibid.
‘He wanted to waive all of the appeals.’ ibid. judge
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He murdered hundreds of Ecuadorian girls. Monster of the Andes, CI 2014
Dozens of girls between the ages of eight and twelve had vanished. ibid.
Then the bodies of young girls began to be discovered. They had been raped and strangled. More and more young girls began to disappear. ibid.
A twisted sense of immortality. ibid.
March 1980 ... Lopez claimed to have raped and killed more than three hundred girls. ibid.
When he was eight Pedro Lopez ran away from home. ibid.
He was taken to an abandoned building and raped. ibid.
I am the worst of the worst. Perhaps even a complete animal. Pedro Lopez
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‘You don’t expect a human being to act like an animal.’ The Killer Speaks: Monster Inside: Robert Lopez, expert, 2013
42-year-old Robert Lopez has always had trouble controlling his anger. His history of violence goes back decades. In 1994 he stabbed a girlfriend thirteen times, then in 2005 with a hammer he brutally beat to death another girlfriend pregnant with his child. ibid.
‘Somebody else takes over me.’ ibid. Lopez
Robert Lopez warned women he loved never to betray him. In 2005, after serving 10 years for stabbing and nearly killing his first girlfriend, Lopez had a new girlfriend. But when she gave Lopez reason to doubt her affection, he exacted fatal revenge. Dr Sasha Bardey identifies Lopez as a push-button killer – one who has a specific set of emotional buttons, that when pushed, unleash a murderous rage. From behind bars, in a first-time ever interview, Lopez reveals the source of the horrifying rage that left 21-year-old Brandi Bernard dead. Crime and Investigation online
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January 2011, Tucson, Arizona ... In just seventeen seconds the Shopping Mall had been transformed into a science of bloody carnage. Killing Spree: Horror at the Mall, Channel 5 2014
Loughner had managed to end the lives of six people and wounded thirteen more. ibid.
Jared Lee Loughner, who shot former Republican Gabrielle Giffords in the head, killed six and wounded 12 others in a 2011 Tucson rampage, was sentenced to life in prison without parole after listening to some of his victims berate him for damaging their lives.
Loughner, now 24, received the sentence in a Tucson federal court after a series of emotional confrontations. After one woman spoke about the pain of losing her husband to Loughner’s bullet, Giffords turned to her husband, retired astronaut Mark Kelly, and kissed him on the head, according to reports from journalists inside the courtroom.
When it was their turn to confront the shooter, Kelly and Giffords stood and looked directly at Loughner. It was the first time that Giffords has been face-to-face with Loughner. The defendant returned the couple’s gaze as Kelly explained how the bullet had changed his wife’s life, but couldn’t damage her spirit. Los Angeles Times online article 8th November 2012
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The wedding was in the woods. A few years later the marriage was in shambles. Then a call out of the blue followed by a shock. Who was this mystery man on a midnight mission? Turns out it was a gunman the police and maybe even you already knew. Dateline: Murder for Hire: The Night of the New Moon, Sky Crime 2020
We met Weldon back in 2013 when we covered the story of another woman he met at the shooting range. ibid.
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‘Everything keeps going through my head, mad thoughts.’ Code Blue: Murder: The Murder of Katherine Smith, Lowe, ITV 2019
‘We’ve got a code blue here [Katherine Smith]. Extensive bleeding. Injuries to the head. There is a knife protruding from the side.’ ibid. rozzer enters flat
A young mother dead. The main suspect: her boyfriend of six weeks is on the run. This is Code Blue. ibid.
The wanted man is still sending text messages to Katherine’s phone. ibid.
11 hours from the Code Blue call the main suspect is in custody. ibid.
‘Katherine sustained 33 stab wounds.’ ibid.