PITERA, TOMMY: Mobsters TV - Biography online -
June 1990, Staten Island, New York ... The woods were home to a mobster’s dumping ground. After three days of digging they found what they were looking for. Buried in shallow graves, dismembered and stuffed inside suitcases were the remains of those unfortunate to have crossed mobster Tommy Pitera. Mobsters: Tommy Karate Pitera, 2010
All the victims were neatly cut up into six pieces. ibid.
In the late ’70s heroin and cocaine were the Family’s big money makers. ibid.
One of his closest allies, Frank Gangi, had turned. ibid.
Mobster hitman Tommy Pitera was born on December 2, 1954, in New York City. He is believed to have killed at least 60 people. In 1990, Pitera’s deadly crime spree finally ended when he and members of the Bonanno crime family were arrested. Pitera was convicted on six counts of murder and on racketeering and drug charges. He is currently serving time at the United States Penitentiary in Pennsylvania. Biography online article
PITTMAN, CHRISTOPHER: True Crime Recaps 2023
At just 12 year old Christopher Pittman murdered his grandparents, set their house on fire and hit the road. Is there a violent fire raging inside or is it the antidepressants that sent him on a murderous rampage? True Crime Recaps: Christopher Pittman, Youtube 8.08, 2023
PITTMAN, EDWARD: Cold Case Files TV -
Two murders. One haunted family. A crime scene hidden for decades. Cold Case Files s1e5: A Family Cursed, A&E 2021
‘We had two family members missing. They was making every excuse in the world they could to keep from looking for Jeremiah and Zilpha.’ ibid. Reba
‘Eddie picked up a hammer so he could finish Jeremiah off.’ ibid. rozzer
‘He got rid of Zilpha because of her suspicions of him.’ ibid. Reba
PLANTIER, SOPHIE murder: Sophie: A Murder in West Cork TV -
Gardai are treating as suspicious the death of a woman whose body has been found in a remote area of County Cork on the souther coast. Sophie: A Murder in West Cork s1e1: The World Turned Upside Down, TV news
It has become a modern Irish murder mystery. ibid.
The body was lying in the grass verge dressed in white night attire attached to barbed wire at the edge of the field. The body has been on the roadside a long time, a minimum of twelve hours … She had severe head and facial injuries, severe brain injury, and crushed skull from a heavy object. ibid. forensic rozzer
Its wild beauty and remoteness was what attracted Sophie du Plantier to the Mizen Peninsula. ibid. reporter
We eliminated every possible suspect from Paris. Sophie: A Murder in West Cork s1e2: The Suspect, rozzer
I was all over the fucking papers. ibid. Ian Bailey, local reporter suspected by Gardai
We learned later that he [Bailey] confessed to a number of people in the community. Sophie: A Murder in West Cork s1e3: Justice, local
Out of the five million there was only fellah talked about killing her. ibid. rozzer
A year after the first arrest I was subjected to a second arrest. ibid. Ian Bailey
Bailey had Ireland by the balls. ibid. victim’s mother
December 2003, 7 years after Sophie’s murder, ‘journalist Ian Bailey’s libel action.’ ibid. caption & journalist
Are you 100% sure it was Ian Bailey on the bridge? ibid. reporter to witness
Judge Moran had no hesitation in describing Mr Bailey as a violent man. ibid. reporter
The Irish Director of Prosecutions says he has no plans to charge Ian Bailey with the murder. ibid.
A development in the story that took Ireland and France by storm.
I’m positive it wasn’t Ian Bailey. ibid. witness retracts statement of having seen Bailey at 3 a.m. on local bridge
Bailey has always said that the treatment that he has received at the hands of the Irish police has been corrupt. ibid. Ian’s solicitor
Big mistakes from the beginning. ibid. Pierre-Louis
Exhibits have gone missing [farmyard gate]. ibid. journalist
Ian Bailey left the High Court this afternoon having lost a marathon legal battle to face a multi-million euro bill for costs. ibid. TV news
I remember seeing the scratches on his arms. ibid. ex-partner
I remember taking a shower. There was a large bucket in the shower. A dark coat soaked in there. ibid.
He himself confessed he went out on the night of the murder. ibid. victim’s family
Tomorrow in Paris, over 1,000 kilometres away, Ian Bailey will be tried for the murder in his absence under Irish law. ibid. TV news
The judges convicted Ian Bailey. ibid. Pierre-Louis
The High Court ruled that Ian Bailey cannot be extradited to France. ibid. TV news
PLAUCHÉ, GARY: True Crime Recaps 2023 -
Linda Boyd was working as a bartender in the airport lounge in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Sitting on one of the bar stools Murray Curry nursed a triple Jim Beam while the two talked to Washington Post reporter Art Harris. ‘I’d have shot him too if he’d done what they say he’d done to my boys, only I’d have gut-shot him three or four times and he’d have suffered before he died,’ Linda said. Murray said, ‘He’s no killer. He’s a father who’d done it out of love for his child and for his pride.’ True Crime Recaps: Father Takes Revenge on Live TV! Jody Plauché Story, Youtube 6.30, 2023
On March 16th 1984 at around 9.30 p.m. Gary Plauché shot Jeff Douchet in the airport terminal across from Linda’s bar. And the reason why he pulled the trigger will make you ask yourself, What wouldn’t I do for someone I love?’ ibid.
He [Douchet] had just been arrested for kidnapping and abusing Gary’s ten-year-old son. ibid.
PLCH, VACLAV: Homicide: Hours to Kill TV -
Piscataquog River, Manchester, 20th July 1999: [rozzer]: When I opened the bag the first thing I saw was the torso of a woman. Homicide: Hours to Kill s1e10: Red River, Channel 4 2024
Mary Stetson was reported missing that morning. ibid.
She died of multiple stab wounds. The dismemberment was almost done surgically. ibid.
Detectives have proof Mary Stetson was inside Vaclav Plch’s apartment the night she disappeared. Now they are looking for evidence of murder. ibid.
PODOLA, GUENTHER FRITZ: Great Crimes & Trials TV - British Executions online -
Podola was found guilty and sentenced to death. He was hanged on 5th November 1959 at Wandsworth Prison: the last man to be executed in Great Britain for killing a policeman. Great Crimes & Trials s3e19: Browne & Kennedy & Other Police Killers, BBC 1996
Guenther Podola, the last person to be hanged for the murder of a policeman.
Guenther Fritz Erwin Podola (8 February 1929 – 5 November 1959) was a German-born petty thief, and the last man to be hanged in Britain for killing a police officer. His trial was notable and controversial because of his defence of amnesia and the use of expert witnesses to determine whether his illness was real ...
Podola moved to London on 21 May 1959. He assumed the alias of Mike Colato and pretended to be a gangster. He broke into the house of an American model, Verne Schiffmann, and stole jewellery and furs worth £2,000. He tried to blackmail her in return for her possessions, asking for £500, but she notified the police who attempted to arrest Podola on 12 July 1959 in Kensington. Podola shot one of the officers, Detective Sergeant Raymond Purdy, through the heart with a Radom 9mm semi-automatic pistol. He was later apprehended and Podola claimed he was beaten up by the police and that as a result he lost his memory of events. The police claimed that he was merely hit on the head when they broke down the door to his hotel room. British Executions online article