‘William MacDowell had embarked on a massive deception on Renee MacRae by pretending he was going to set up a new life with her.’ ibid.
‘The conduct of the accused is highly suspicious.’ ibid.
Five days after Renee and Andrew disappeared, William MacDowell took his Volvo to the garage … ‘the floor was removed.’ ibid.
William MacDowell died in prison five months later. He never revealed where he had left the bodies of Reneee and Andrew. ibid.
MACKAY, PATRICK: David Wilson TV - Fred Dinenage: Murder Casebook TV - Harold Mackay - True Crime Recaps 2023 - Confessions of a Psycho Killer TV -
Patrick Mackay displays all of the classic signs of that kind of offender we know as the psychopath. Professor David Wilson
In 1975 the quiet village of Shorne in Kent hit the headlines because of a gruesome murder … the last in a string of murders committed by twenty-two-year-old Patrick Mackay. Fred Dinenage: Murder Casebook s2e7: Patrick Mackay, CI 2012
How does a child grow into a monster? ibid.
He spent time in approved schools and psychiatric wards. ibid.
The fifteen-year-old repeatedly tried to commit suicide. ibid.
He went on to kill at least three people … The system had failed him. ibid.
Mackay told inmates of other murders he had committed. ibid.
I wonder if these murders could have been avoided if the authorities had intervened earlier. ibid.
Remember to be good. Harold Mackay to serial killer son Patrick Mackay
In the 1970s London’s police were baffled by a series of bizarre murders. The perpetrator was a disturbed young man called Patrick Mackay. And the last of his crime was to be the most horrific of all. Even as a child the warning signs were there. But was Patrick Mackay born to kill? Born to Kill? s5e3: Patrick Mackay, Channel 5 2015 aka Patrick McKay: 45 Years Behind Bars, Channel 5 2015
Patrick Mackay would go on to reveal a litany of crimes that would stun the interviewing detectives. ibid.
‘In this atmosphere of domestic violence Mackay grew up.’ ibid. John Penycate, author ‘Psychopath’
‘He seemed to have a split personality.’ ibid. schoolfriend
The police believe Mackay committed up to thirteen murders. ibid.
He is the English serial killer you’ve never heard of. In the early 1970s Patrick Mackay went on a Robbery/Murder spree through some of London’s most affluent areas. True Crime Recaps: Inside the Twisted Mind of Patrick Mackay, Youtube 12.23, 2003
He called himself the Devil’s Disciple. ibid.
I started to strike him on the side of the head with my hand and with my fist … I picked up an axe from a box … Confessions of a Psycho Killer, Amazon 2023
A nun had gone into the bathroom and found the gruesome sight of Father Crean in a bloodstained bath. ibid. rozzer
His mother always forgave him and took him back. ibid. journalist, re the young psychopath Mackay
Without intervention he will go on to be a cold, psychopathic killer. ibid. early diagnosis
He collected Nazi memorabilia. He worshipped Hitler. ibid. journalist
It didn’t seem to trouble me too much what I had done. ibid. Mackay
MACNAMEE, DANNY: Innocent online - Guardian Unlimited online - Trial & Error TV -
Danny Macnamee was convicted in London on 27 October 1987 of conspiracy to cause explosions. An appeal was dismissed in January 1991.
The case was referred by the CCRC to the Court of Appeal in July 1997. The appeal court quashed the conviction on 17 December 1998, ruling that the verdict was unsafe because there had been a failure to disclose relevant evidence. Innocent online article
Scant attention was devoted last month to the successful outcome of the appeal of Danny Macnamee, known as the ‘Hyde Park bomber’. In publicity terms, Macnamee was doubly disadvantaged: not only was the judgment overshadowed by pre-Christmas festivities, it was also given on a day when the news agenda was focused on Baghdad. With Britain and the US dropping so many bombs on Iraq, who was interested in a man who, we belatedly learnt, hadn’t bombed anyone at all?
Yet the judgment was of immense importance, for it offered yet another proof of how catastrophically flawed the British justice can be; and because the appeal judges fundamentally restated the legal position with regard to appeals.
Macnamee had supposedly manufactured the bomb that exploded in July 1982, killing four soldiers and seven horses.
The Crown’s case rested on three fingerprints: one each on short lengths of insulating tape in two caches of explosives-making equipment discovered in Pangbourne and Salcey forests, and a thumbprint on a Duracell battery recovered from the debris after a controlled explosion in Kensington. Guardian Unlimited online article December 1998
Whitemoor high security jail. One of the men caught on camera allegedly trying to escape – Danny Macnamee, convicted as the Hyde Park bomber. But last week given new hope of freedom. Trial & Error: Danny Macnamee, Channel 4 1997
The jury that convicted Macnamee never heard evidence that key police officers and prosecution witnesses must have known. Evidence that someone else made the Hyde Park bomb. ibid.
MACNEILL, MARTIN: True Crime Recaps TV -
It was almost the perfect murder. At first glance Martin MacNeill is living the dream: a prominent doctor, a leader of the Mormon church, and the proud husband of a beautiful wife and father to a large loving family. But it’s all an act. Nothing about Martin is what it seems. True Crime Recaps: Surgeon, Mormon Bishop, Killer! Youtube 18.38, 2023
The former beauty queen had just left the hospital after getting a facelift she thought would save her crumbling marriage. ibid.
Michele was face down fully clothed in a tub of reddish-brown water. ibid.
Every time he got caught doing something wrong he threatened to take his own life. ibid.
Investigators dug deeper into Martin’s background and quickly uncovered his web of lies. ibid.