MCGOWAN, HEATH & CLINTON & EDWARD GRIFFES: How I Caught the Killer TV -
July 24th 2002: ‘At 2:59 p.m. a 911 call came in reporting of a deceased man inside a home in Trufant, Michigan.’ How I Caught the Killer s3e8: Marrott – Amnesia, Meth & Murder, rozzer, Sky Crime 2023
The victim, Henry Marrott, was 88 years old … ‘Blunt-force trauma to the skull – Henry Marrott suffered 4 to 5 blows that crushed his skull. He also had been strangled …’ ibid.
This wasn’t the only unsolved murder in the country. ibid.
Although only 21 years old, Heath McGowan was already infamous in the local community. ibid.
‘At this point my focus was on Heath and Mike simply because I had a firearm that belonged to Henry Marrott and both of their DNAs was on that firearm.’ ibid.
MCGRAY, MICHAEL: Crime Stories TV -
Sunday March 1st 1998: In the city of Moncton, New Brunswick, a brutal murder has just been committed. Before this case is closed it will open a Pandora’s box that will shake not only a community but the entire country. Crime Stories s1e11: The Homicidal Drifter, 2006
Investigators discover that Joan has been beaten and strangled and her throat has been cut with a serrated-edge knife. Her eleven-year-old daughter Nina is missing. ibid.
The man responsible for the murders is 34-year-old Michael McGray. ibid.
He is willing to confess to eleven other killings. ibid.
MCGREAVY, DAVID: Fred Dinenage: Murder Casebook TV - The Telegraph online -
On Friday April 13th 1973 here in Worcester was the scene of three horrific murders. The Ralph children, aged 4, 2 and 9 months were brutally slain by their babysitter David McGreavy who then impaled their bodies on iron railings in the back garden. Fred Dinenage: Murder Casebook s3e6: The Monster of Worcester, CI 2013
Over forty years later, David McGrevy’s fight to stay anonymous would bring him back to the public attention once more. ibid.
Even 40 years on, the triple child murders committed by David McGreavy in the city remain among the most horrific of modern day killings.
The now 62-year-old was babysitting for Paul Ralph, four, and his sisters Dawn, two, and nine-month-old Samantha in April 1973 when he struck.
He was lodging with their parents at the time and was left in charge of the infants.
Paul was strangled, Dawn was found with her throat cut and Samantha died from a compound fracture to the skull.
McGreavy then impaled their small bodies on the spiked garden railings of the next door house in Gillam Street. The Telegraph online article 22nd May 2013
McGUIRE, MELANIE: How I Caught the Killer TV -
Chesapeake Bay, Virginia: Fishermen find male body parts floating in a suitcase leaving police baffled. How I Caught the Killer s2e10: Suitcase Killer, Sky Crime 2020
Police eventually identified the victim as 39-year-old Bill McGuire. ibid.
Reporters began chasing down their own leads on the couple. ibid.
But when Virginia police broke the news to Melanie, her reaction was strange. ibid.
MCIVER, TEX: Dateline TV -
He was rich: she was richer, the lawyer and the tycoon. Lavish didn’t begin to describe it. Then came that deadly night. A single gunshot and she is gone. What happened in that dark SUV? And what was hiding beneath the surface? Power and privilege, love and greed, did the secret lead to murder? Dateline: The Death of Diane McIver, Sky Crime 2020
‘Bonfire of the Vanities writ large as life.’ ibid. friend of Tex
But the wealthy widower’s behaviour in the weeks after Diane’s death was raising eyebrows. ibid.
On December 21st 2016: Tex McIver was arrested and charged with involuntary manslaughter and reckless conduct. ibid.
The Tex McIver case escalated from careless accident to malice murder. ibid.
Diane had quietly made a new will. ibid.
Was Tex’s gun cocked or not? ibid.
Tex McIver is now serving a life sentence. ibid.
McKILLIGAN, DOMINIC: When Missing Turns to Murder TV -
Newcastle, 1998: A young boy cycles to his local shop to buy some sweets but doesn’t return. When Missing Turns to Murder s1e4: Heailey, Netflix 2019
11-year-old Wesley, who needs epilepsy medication, has been missing all night. His family are frantic with worry. ibid.
Further investigation reveals extremely disturbing information about 18-year-old Dominic McKilligan. ibid.
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MCKINNEY, AARON & RUSSELL HENDERSON: Murdered at Fight Sight TV -
Reported that a person was in need of serious medical attention tied to a fence … Absolutely covered in blood. Murdered at Fight Sight s1e8: Matthew Shepard, rozzer, Sky Crime 2022
McKinney had come home that evening and he was covered in blood and he actually said to her [girlfriend], I think I’ve killed somebody. ibid. Kerry Daynes
Matt was taken out of the truck and beaten over and over again. ibid.
MCLURE, LARRY & AMANDA: True Crime Recaps 2021 -
This twisted case begins with convicted child molester Larry McLure. In September 2019 he told West Virginia state patrol a truly depraved story of murder, torture and incest. True Crime Recaps: Trust Game Murders, Youtube 6.51, 2021
After spending almost 18 years behind bars, Larry had reconnected with his two adult daughters … the three of them bonded over their love of drugs. ibid.
Larry wanted to play what he called the Trust Game. ibid.
Amanda and Larry were obsessed with the idea that John [boyfriend] was a federal informant. They tied a black garbage bag around his head … [and] shot him up with the bad batch of liquid meth … it supercharged his adrenalin. That’s when Anna Marie says her father and sister stood over her and told her to finish it. She strangled him to death while Larry held him down … Amanda and her father went to the bedroom and had sex while Anna Marie got high in the other room ibid.
It’s not clear what made him admit to the murder. ibid.