ROSENTHAL, DANIEL: How I Caught the Killer TV -
Hedge End, Hampshire: A 27-year-old recluse is accused of murdering his mother while his father was missing. How I Caught the Killer s1e10: Mad Scientist, Sky Crime 2018
‘I felt he was nuts. Mad.’ ibid. neighbour
‘He actually kept chickens in the front room.’ ibid. new owner of bungalow
‘He does experiments with chickens.’ ibid. rozzer
He had been taken to a psychiatric by his mother Leah when he was just eight years old. ibid.
ROSZKOWSKI, RICHARD: World’s Most Evil Killers TV -
On 7th September 2006 three people were gunned down on a street in the city of Bridgeport in Connecticut. The youngest victim, 9-year-old Kylie Flannery, had been chased down by the lone gunman and executed at close range. The killer was 41-year-old Richard Roszkowski whose infatuation with Kylie’s mother Holly Flannery had come to a head in the most tragic of circumstances. World’s Most Evil Killers s5e8: Richard Roszkowski, Sky Crime 2021
ROSS, BART: People Magazine Investigates TV -
It tears at the very fabric of the judicial system … Michael and Joan Lefko were pillars of the legal community in Chicago, Illinois. People Magazine Investigates s4e6: Law & Murder, ID 2020
Police were sure Ross was acting alone and they get an idea of how the Lefko murders happened by the details in his letters. ibid.
ROSS, MICHAEL: The Black Watch Assassin TV - The Independent online -
In one of the most remote corners of the British Isles a hooded assassin carries out what appears to be a contract killing. The Black Watch Assassin
The man accused of this cold-blooded execution was at the time no more than a schoolboy but one who grew up to be a deadly sniper. ibid.
They’d been no murder in Orkney for twenty-five years. ibid.
Suspicions gathered around a father and son – policeman Eddie Ross and his fifteen-year-old boy Michael ... Eddie Ross first aroused suspicion by revealing he owned bullets identical to the one used in the murder. ibid.
Eddie Ross was released from prison after two years. ibid.
Michael Ross remained free – the whole island knew he’d been branded as the Restaurant Hit Man. ibid.
Michael Ross received a minimum twenty-five year sentence for the murder and escape plot. Yet both he and his father say they are innocent. ibid.
To his comrades in the Black Watch, Sgt Michael Ross was nothing other than a hero. When his armoured vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb in Iraq in 2004, he put himself in danger to administer first aid before organising the evacuation of his wounded men. When a black soldier under his command died, he wept openly.
Yesterday, a different and horrifying side to the 29-year-old decorated soldier was revealed in Glasgow’s High Court when a jury convicted him of murdering a Bangladeshi waiter by shooting him in the head in front of diners at a restaurant in the Orkneys, in 1994. Ross, who had hidden his face behind a balaclava or ski mask, was aged just 15.
Moments after the verdict was delivered, Ross tried to escape from the court, managing to run through a side door before he was wrestled to the ground by an official and handcuffed by police. The Independent online article 21st June 2008
ROSS, MICHAEL: Making a Monster TV - Signs of a Psychopath TV -
Michael Ross was one of the most brutally sadistic serial killers the world has ever seen. But to most his name remains virtually unknown. Yet what makes Michael Ross unique amongst serial killers is how he turned himself in and was prepared to discuss his crimes in unparalleled detail, offering an insight into the mind of a serial killer. Making a Monster s1e8: Making a Monster, CI 2020
‘I just felt like I was on the edge.’ ibid. Ross to rozzers
Parental Neglect … Killing Animals … Construction of a Fantasy World … Fantasy Turned into Reality … Stalking … Hunting Ground … Signature … ibid.
Michael Ross was executed by lethal injection on the 13th of May 2005. He had waived his final right to appeal, insisting he wanted to die for his crimes. ibid.
September 1994, Osborn Correctional Institute, Somers, Connecticut: My name is Michael Ross. I’m Connecticut’s most heinous killer. Signs of a Psychopath s2e3: Guess I’ve Got No Conscience, TV interview
June 15th 1984, Lisbon, Connecticut: Authorities discover the body of 17-year-old Wendy Baribeault by the side of the road. Tips lead authorities to 27-year-old Cornell University graduate, Michael Ross. ibid.
In his senior year at Cornell University, he began targeting victims. ibid.
Despite his own denials, Michael continues to rape and kill. bid.
ROSSUM, KRISTIN: Crime Stories TV - Huffington Post online -
Investigators exposed a deadly cover up. Crime Stories: Pretty Poison
The caller is twenty-four-year-old Kristin Rossum. She tells the dispatchers that Greg [deVillers] may have taken drugs to kill himself. ibid.
Toxicologists find something even deadlier in his bloodstream – a painkiller called Fentanyl. ibid.
And who was in charge of the drug inventory log-book? None other than Kristin Rossum herself. ibid.
Once Kristin Rossum’s federal appeal was rejected by the US Supreme Court last year, I figured that the attractive toxicologist had finally run out of options.
Since 2002, Rossum has been serving a life sentence without parole at Chowchilla state prison after being convicted of poisoning her husband with Fentanyl, a powerful and fast-acting narcotic painkiller 100 times stronger than morphine, then staging a suicide scene by sprinkling red rose petals over his body here in San Diego.
But I was wrong. The case is heating up again. I was woken up this week by a national morning show producer, asking if a crew could come to my house in a couple of hours to interview me – the author of the authoritative book on the case, Poisoned Love – about the latest developments, which I promptly researched.
Turns out that Rossum has yet another new attorney, who submitted a motion in June. It is essentially based on the same issue and arguments as Rossum’s previous state and federal ‘ineffective counsel’ appeals, which seemed to have run their course – only this time, Rossum is citing a state law that allows new discovery or reconstruction of a death penalty or LWOP case file. The motion was denied without prejudice this week, which means the door is still open. Huffington Post online article 19th November 2012
ROTH, RANDY: True Crime Recaps 2023 -
His first marriage ends in divorce, his second wife tumbles off a cliff and falls to her death, his third wife leaves him after a dangerous rafting trip – she could have sworn he tried to kill her and his fourth wife drowns in a lake. Is Randy Roth the unluckiest groom in the world or the deadliest? True Crime Recaps: The Dark Tale of Randy Roth, Youtube 18.52, 2023
They uncovered numerous lies in insurance scams dating back to the late ’70s. ibid.