In the early hours of the morning on the 11 May 2012 a fire quickly spread through the home of a young family in Derby. The raging fire ripped through the small semi-detached within minutes and all six children lost their lives. The Philpott Fire: What Happened Next, Channel 5 2023
A shocking twist threw suspicion on the parents. ibid.
After ten years of sharing a partner and her children the mistress had had enough. ibid.
The actions of Mick and Mairead became increasingly bizarre. ibid.
[Journalist] ‘This was a national new story. Five children who had died in an horrific fire. Everybody wanted to know who could do something so awful.’ The Philpott Fire: A Very British Horror Story, Channel 5 2024
‘There’s no evidence. They’ve got nothing.’ ibid. Philpott wiretapped
Jade, John, Jack, Jesse & Jayden are pronounced dead at the scene. Miraed’s eldest son, Duwayne, is rushed to hospital. ibid. caption
Derbyshire police launch a murder investigation. ibid.
Mick tells police his ex, Lisa Willis, has been sending him death threats. ibid.
That’s not the behaviour of someone who’s just lost six children. ibid. neighbour
PHYO, WAI: see KOH TAO murders
PICHUSHKIN, ALEXANDER: The Chessboard Killer TV - Alexander Pichushkin - Crimes that Shook the World TV -
This Russian shop assistant believed killing was his destiny. One body at a time Alexander Pichushkin turned a national obsession into a real-life game of terror. The Chessboard Killer, Crime Channel
His alcoholic father abandoned the family. ibid.
[Aged] four he suffered a life-changing injury: the boy received extensive medical treatment for brain damage. After the accident Sasha’s behaviour became impossible. ibid.
He worked ... played chess and drank vodka. ibid.
His dog died and the unassuming grocery assistant fell apart. ibid.
He re-kindled his long dormant fascination with murder. ibid.
He recorded each murder by placing a token on one square of the chessboard he kept in his bedroom. ibid.
The indifference of the Moscow police made Pichushkin feel invulnerable. ibid.
In reality I have committed sixty-one murders. Alexander Pichushkin
He is the worst serial killer in Russia’s history. For years he kept a city in fear; for years he taunted the police. He preyed on the lonely and vulnerable. And he kept a unique record of his crimes. Chessboard Killer: Serial Killers s/a Crimes that Shook the World, Discovery 2009
A vodka bottle or stick forced into the bloody gaping wound at the back of the head. ibid.
Before she left, Marina had tried to call her son on her mobile to tell him where she was going, but it wasn’t working. ibid.
It was an astonishing confession. Sixty victims. ibid.
The Chessboard Killer claims to have murdered more than sixty people. ibid.
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A teenager [Loui Phillips] has been stabbed. And a family’s lives forever destroyed … A Sunday lunchtime in August: police are called to a stabbing at Fish Dam Lane on the outskirts of Barnsley. Killer at the Crime Scene s2e11, Channel 5 2022
Police have obtained some key CCTV footage. ibid.
‘He [Loui] had not seen him [Kyle] before.’ ibid. mum
PICKTON, ROBERT: Robert Pickton: Pig Farmer Killer TV - CTV News online - World’s Most Evil Killers TV -
On this run-down farm the Canadian police discovered an unimaginable horror. A slaughter-house for human beings. For more than a decade a predator had hunted women in Vancouver. At the time of his capture the number of dead and missing women were staggering. His shocking crimes earned him the name the Butcher. Robert Pickton: Pig Farmer Killer
February 1999: Willie Pickton was on the prowl. ibid.
Brenda was the 53rd Vancouver woman to vanish without a trace. The missing women were all prostitutes or drug addicts from the city’s skid row. ibid.
The jury found Pickton not guilty on all counts of first-degree murder. But Pickton did not escape justice. The jury did find him guilty on six counts of second-degree murder. Judge Williams gave him the maximum sentence of twenty-five years in prison. ibid.
Vancouver – Serial killer Robert Pickton appeared in court by video Tuesday for a civil case involving the families of several of his victims.
It’s one of the first times anyone from outside the prison system has seen the notorious murderer in the years since his conviction.
Pickton – bald and wearing a white shirt as he sat in a room at Kent Institution, a maximum security southeast of Vancouver – was polite as he listened to a BC Supreme Court judge and the lawyer for nine families explain the proceedings. CTV News online article 14th January 2014
March 22nd 1997 Downtown Eastside Vancouver, Canada: Her streetname was Stitch … a 31-year-old mother of two with a serious drug habit. Selling her body was the quickest way to the next high. An old pickup truck approached; the driver flashed some cash and Stitch got in. The driver was 47-year-old Robert Willy Pickton who drove Stitch seventeen miles east to his pig farm … Stitch escaped with four stab wounds; she was critically injured but alive. Pickton had been sloppy; this one had got away. World’s Most Evil Killers s6e2: Robert Pickton, the Pig Fame Killer, Sky Crime 2021
Over the next five years at least forty-nine other women wouldn’t be so lucky. ibid.
Pickton was one of those predators who hunted women relentlessly. ibid.
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Knoxville, 1995: A young woman was essentially slaughtered … She cut her all over … Christa was later diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. Killer Kids s4e5: Southern Belle from Hell & My Best Friend’s Girl, LMN 2015
When an 18-year-old girl lures her romantic rival away from their dorm room with promises of a fun night out, her victim hopes to God this is her chance to convince her nothing is going on with her boyfriend. But she doesn’t live long enough to make her case. She has no idea how dark and twisted her killer is. True Crime Recaps: The Most Shocking Teenage Murder Case Ever! Youtube 15.24, 2023
Christa Pike was just 18 years old when she was sentenced to death for the brutal murder of another teenager. ibid.