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While a drug war ravages Miami a killer is on a deadly mission … The city’s underworld is under siege. But one mistake will bring the killer out of the shadows. Killers: Behind the Myth, 2016
1986: Police discover the bodies of two women in an apartment. ibid.
Who would murder four victims in 48 hours using a silenced .22 calibre hand-gun? … They could be dealing with a professional contract killer. ibid.
Pardo finished top of his class at police training school … Pardo resigns after being implicated in a ticket-fixing scandal. ibid.
The scrapbook has a record of nine murders. ibid.
PARK, GORDON: Countdown to Murder: The Body in the Lake TV - Telegraph online - Real Crime TV -
Carol Park was a respected schoolteacher. Gordon Park was a young, dashing and sporty man about town. But they had a loveless marriage and both had a string of affairs. Carol soon fell in love with someone else and left Park. She came back for the children but he never got over it. Gordon Park murdered his wife in a violent attack. A murder he would get away with for twenty-eight years. Countdown to Murder: The Body in the Lake s2e6, Channel 5 2014
Her body lay lifeless on the kitchen floor, her face a mass of blood and bone. ibid.
New DNA evidence could throw fresh doubt on the murder conviction of Gordon Park, the retired teacher who became known as the Lady in the Lake Killer.
Park was jailed for life in 2005 for the murder of his wife Carol, a deputy headmistress, after a jury found he had killed her and dumped her body in Coniston Water in the Lake District nearly 30 years before.
The retired teacher’s conviction apparently solved one of the longest-running mysteries in British criminal history.
However Park always maintained his innocence, until he was found hanging dead in his cell on his 66th birthday in January 2010.
Nine months after his death, Park’s family – the couple had three children – launched a fresh bid to clear his name.
Now they claim to have identified new DNA evidence which may exonerate him and pave the way for a new police investigation to find his wife’s true killer. Telegraph online article 3rd November 2014
This is the story of an almost perfect murder. Of a killer whose crime would go undetected for 21 years, and of a woman whose body was cleverly concealed in the murky depths of Coniston Water in the Lake District. Real Crime [with Mark Austin] s6e2: Lady in the Lake, ITV 2007
Dental records finally confirmed her identity as 30-year-old Carol Ann Park, a teacher and mother of 3 who’d gone missing from home in 1976. Carol was married to fellow schoolteacher Gordon Park. ibid.
His passion was the great outdoors. ibid.
In 1974 Carol took a lover, left home … there she made plans for a new life. ibid.
Carol’s watery grave was discovered by chance. ibid.
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Hollywood portrayed them as the most glamorous outlaws in American history. Timewatch: The Real Bonnie & Clyde, 2009
The most infamous outlaws of all were a pair of young lovers whose two-year crime spree included armed robbery, car theft, abduction, murder and a series of dramatic gun battles across at least eleven states. Some saw them as modern-day Robin Hoods. ibid.
There is some evidence that Clyde tried to go straight. ibid.
The bungled robbery of a grocery store led to the death of its owner. ibid.
He faced the electric chair if caught, but she vowed never to leave him. Bonnie and Clyde were already beyond the point of no return. ibid.
A deputy sheriff was murdered at this notorious Dallas safe house. ibid.
Already wanted for four other murders Clyde and his lover Bonnie took to the road. Their life on the run was romanticised and made glamorous. ibid.
Clyde had become obsessed by a dark episode from his past. ibid.
Fast cars, big guns and relentless travel were the secrets of the Barrow Gang’s epic crime spree. ibid.
J Edgar Hoover was personally outraged by Clyde Barrow’s audacious raids of military armaments. ibid.
Hoover’s agents would play a significant part in the downfall of Bonnie & Clyde. ibid.
While Frank Hamer has long been regarded as the archetypal lone ranger, the FBI file reveals that he was actually working in close harmony with J Edgar Hoover’s agents. ibid.
Bonnie & Clyde’s families’ telephones had been tapped. ibid.
There is no evidence that Bonnie pulled the trigger here or at any of the other murders attributed to the Barrow gang. ibid.
On a lonely road in Louisiana Bonnie & Clyde’s deadly game of cat and mouse reached its inevitable conclusion. ibid.
The Barrow Gang’s chaotic crime spree had claimed seventeen lives including those of Buck Barrow and Bonnie & Clyde themselves. ibid.
You can’t really understand what motivated them if you don’t understand the economic hopelessness of the time. Jeff Guinn, author ‘The True, Untold Story of Bonnie & Clyde’
For these young people there is a chance of fun and excitement. Jeff Guinn
Federal law changed so that murder and bank robbery became federal crimes. Jeff Guinn
There seemed to be a strange and terrifying change going on in the mind of my child. Emma Parker, Fugitives
All of us had a lot of fun together but to me there always seemed to be a shadow hanging over us like a dark cloud. Blanche Barrow, memoir