Shawcross has murdered eleven women. And he’s serving a 250-year prison sentence. Serial Killer: An Interview with Arthur Shawcross, 2008
In July 1989 police found the body of an elderly homeless woman – Dorothy Keeler. ibid.
He would later return to her dead corpse. ibid.
Throughout the autumn of 1989 the killings continued. ibid.
A trail of murder stretching back almost twenty years. ibid.
Shawcross served less than fifteen years of his sentence before being released on parole in April 1987. ibid.
Why had he done it? ibid.
On 27th October 1989 the body of a woman was found covered in cardboard and hidden under a bush behind the Maplewood YMCA in Rochester, New York. She was the fourth woman to be discovered in a tiny area by the banks of the Genesee River. The killer was 44-year-old Arthur Shawcross, a tall imposing outsider whose deadly deeds had started 15 years before. World’s Most Evil Killers s5e9: Arthur Shawcross – The Genesee River Killers, History 2021
A killing spree that would see the deaths of eleven women. ibid.
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September 13th 1982: police in British Columbia respond to an isolated scene deep in the woods; they’re discovering a collection of human remains. Crime Stories s1e8: David Shearing
Police are now sure they have found the remains of all six members of the missing group. ibid.
A separate crime: a fatal hit and run that took place in the park a few years earlier; the caller claims that David Shearing was the driver. ibid.
He finally breaks down and begins to confess. ibid.
Three generations of a family set out for two weeks of hiking, fishing and camping in British Columbia, Canada, in early August 1982: it was grandma and grandpa George and Edith Bentley, their daughter and son-in-law, Jackie and Bob, and their daughters, thirteen-year-old Janet and eleven-year-old Karen … They never made it out of those woods … A hiker stumbled across the burnt-out remains of Bob’s 1979 Plymouth and the charred remains of all four adults were inside; what was left of the children was in the trunk … 24-year-old David Shearing … is still behind bars. True Crime Recaps: Four Chilling Cases of Camping Gone Wrong! Youtube 9.39, 2022
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They thought she had eternal youth. Age didn’t seem to matter: men just fell for her. And now another senior – head over heals for Melissa. She might have had eternal youth but Melissa also had a history. The Fifth Estate: Melissa Ann Shepard: Internet Black Widow, CBC 2012
She was known as a small-town lady with city pretensions. ibid.
Melissa just couldn’t keep her hands off other people’s money. ibid.
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An emergency dash to hospital. An infant death. Under questioning, what the suspect says and what the suspect doesn’t say. In April 2016 in a seaside town a call was made to the emergency services. A five-month-old baby had stopped breathing. His name was Eli Cox. Neighbours heard screams and rushed to help. Inside the house were Eli’s mother Catherine Cox and her partner, Danny Shepherd … Shepherd had shaken him violently and hurled him into his cot. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s3e6: Michael Lane & Danny Shepherd, Discovery 2020
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The speedboat killer: The victim just 24, the boat owner determined to escape punishment. He claims to be innocent. But does his story add up? Faking It: Tears of a Crime s5e3: Jack Shepherd
2015: A speedboat owner gets ready to take his new date on a sightseeing tour. His name Jack Shepherd. ibid.
On her cameraphone Charlotte can be heard commenting on the speed. ibid.
Three miles from home their ride came to a sickening end as the boat hit a submerged object, and then overturned. It took search teams 20 minutes to find Charlotte, who died from the effects of the icy water soon afterwards. ibid.
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31st August ... There was a funeral in west London. Three policemen were being buried after being shot down in cold blood. Great Crimes & Trials s2e7: Roberts, Duddy & Witney, BBC 1994
They teamed up to steal metal and lead. From the pubs of London they followed rent collectors and managers of betting shops and robbed them. John Duddy soon joined them ... Roberts insisted they always have guns on them. ibid.
The officers in the Q car felt suspicious about the Vanguard: they flagged it down. PC Wombwell walked over and peered inside. Suddenly there was a shot – David Wombwell fell, shot in the face; all he had done was to take out a notebook to take down the details of the car and driver. Roberts told Duddy to grab a gun and he leapt out. ibid.
One of the most traumatic murder cases in London occurred one summer afternoon on 12th August 1966 when the crew of F11 Q Car was cold-bloodedly murdered near Wormwood Scrubs prison.
The three officers were Detective Sergeant Christopher Head, Detective Constable David Wombwell and PC Geoffrey Fox, all of whom were attached to Shepherd's Bush police station. They approached a battered blue Standard Vanguard Estate car with three suspects inside in Braybrook Street, and Christopher Head and David Wombwell questioned the occupants. The suspects were John Witney, owner of the car, John Duddy, and the infamous Harry Roberts. It was Roberts who pulled out a gun, and turned a routine police stop into a gruesome murder by shooting David Wombwell. Roberts then pursued Christopher Head towards the police car and shot him also, whilst Duddy fired at and killed Geoffrey Fox. History By The Yard online article