All six had now confessed to their involvement in the two murders. After an investigation which had lasted more than a year, there was however no physical evidence, and the suspects’ memories were hazy. Yet they had all told police and signed statements that, yes, they had either killed Geirfinnur and Gudmundur or helped dispose of their bodies.
... Several of the suspects now began trying to retract their confessions saying they had been pressured into signing statements they knew weren’t true. Investigators dismissed these claims, as did the court; sometimes because the attempted retractions had come too late or, as in Saevar’s case, because the head investigator told the court ‘I know better.’
… Then there was the mental torture – being deprived of everything, kept awake all night, not allowed to sleep.
Forty years on, this still haunts Hlynur who is ashamed of what went on inside the prison walls. ‘I think most people here believe we live in a civilised country, that we are a civilised nation. We want to trust justice but that failed.’ BBC online article Simon Cox 15th May 2014, ‘The Reykjavik Confessions: The mystery of why six people admitted roles in two murders – when they couldn’t remember anything about the crimes’
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On the afternoon of 26 May 2013 in the town of Telford, Shropshire, 17-year-old Georgia Williams left her family home and went to visit a friend. Less than an hour later she was dead. Her horrific death would leave a family in tatters. Murdered By: Killed on Camera, Channel 5 2018
Jamie Reynolds worked at a petrol station near to the Williams’ family home. At 17 Georgia began working at the same petrol station. ibid.
‘To be told that your daughter has been murdered and then dealt with in terrible ways is something that you can’t really describe. Just like a living nightmare really.’ ibid. mother
Jamie Reynolds was leaving a trail of digital evidence behind him. ibid.
In May 2013 17-year-old Georgia Williams set out on a short walk to help a friend with a photography project at his house in Wellington, Shropshire. Georgia’s friend was 22-year-old Jamie Reynolds, a young man with a twisted and secret fantasy life. Britain’s Most Evil Killers s6e3: Jamie Reynolds, Sky Crime 2021
Reynolds had a documented history of assaulting young women as a minor. ibid.
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A modest trucker morphs into a killer on a horrifying level. He kidnaps and inflicts the unbearable acts of torture. Killers: Behind the Myth s3e4: Robert Ben Rhoades, 2015
Robert Ben Rhoades: a 44-year-old married man living in Texas. He is calm and relaxed during his interview … He insists that what happened in his cab was consensual. ibid.
A horrifying discovery: a briefcase full of chains, whips, even a horse girdle. ibid.
The judge sentences him to life imprisonment without parole. ibid.
Investigators suspect he murdered more victims. ibid.
For one very bad man the open road is a licence to inflict unspeakable pain and suffering. Very Bad Men s3e19: Hell on Wheels
An Arizona highway patrolman decides to check on an apparently disabled truck. He is stunned to discover a new woman shackled inside. ibid.
They discover a mobile chamber of horrors. ibid.
Robert Ben Rhoades pleads guilty to the murder of Virginia Walters … Robert Ben Rhodes is convicted of two other murders. ibid.
‘There were easily fifty homicides that he could have been responsible for.’ ibid. rozzer
On 1st April 1990 Arizona state trooper Michael Miller pulled to the side of Interstate 10 in Casa Grande to inspect a parked truck. When he peered through the windows of the cab he couldn’t believe what he saw: the face of a petrified woman chained up like an animal. He immediately handcuffed the cab driver and put him into his patrol car. Michael didn’t know it yet but he’d apprehended a cold-blooded serial killer: Robert Ben Rhodes. For over a decade Rhodes had been raping, torturing and killing vulnerable women across the country, but he had remained completely undetected. World’s Most Evil Killers: Robert Ben Rhodes, Sky Crime 2020
‘His father was convicted for sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl, so his father was essentially an abuser. And this behaviour was a reflection of a misogynistic value system that he had that woman and girls were there to be used and abused.’ ibid. Elizabeth Yardley
Rhodes had an uncontrollable sexual appetite. Working as a long-distance truck driver presented him with the perfect opportunity to act out his aggressive sexual perversions on strangers he had met on the road with or without their consent. ibid.
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In 2006 the bridegroom [Mohammed Riaz] carried out one of the most devastating multiple murders in Britain. He poured petrol throughout the family home and set it alight killing his wife and four beautiful daughters, and leaving his only son to suffer the dreadful consequences. Killer in the Family s1e3: The Firestarter, CI 2009
Mohammed Riaz’ DNA was on the cans and he was the only person not in bed at the time. ibid.
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On 10th July 2016 a young man was shot dead on the streets of Washington DC. 27-year-old Seth Rich was a political campaigner who worked for the Democratic Party. In a city torn by political divisions this unsolved murder has become dynamite. The Conspiracy Files: Murder in Washington, BBC 2018
Seth Rich’s murder became the focus of a series of conspiracy theories that have gripped America. ibid.
The Washington Post reported hackers working for the Russian government had broken into the Democrats’ computer system in the DNC headquarters where Seth worked. ibid.
July 10 2016 4.20 a.m. Seth Rich is shot in the back twice. There appears to be some significant struggle … Web of Mark Believe: Death, Lies & the Internet II: A Murder in DC
Slain Democratic National Committee staffer ‘wanted to make a difference’. ibid. online article
Assassination Of Top US Democratic Party Official Leaders To FBI Capture Of Clinton “Hit Team”. ibid. Whatdoesitmean online article David Booth
His site served as a clearing house for Russian information. ibid. man in the know
Assange implies murdered DNC staffer was Wikileaks’ source. ibid. online article 10 August 2016
Why would the Russians want to kill Seth Rich? ibid. interviewer to theorist
Explosive Additional Audio: Seymour Hersh Confirms Seth Rich Wikileaks Contact. ibid. online article Gateway Pundit
Fox News had just reignited conspiracy theories around Seth Rich’s murder. ibid. critic