On 24th February 1986 police in Talladega, Alabama, forced entry into the home of 24-year-old Sherri Weathers. The profoundly deaf mother of two had not turned up to school for nearly a week, and the reason soon became clear. Sherri and her two young children had been strangled to death and piled up on top of each other in the shape of a cross. World’s Most Evil Killers: Daniel Lee Siebert, Sky Crime 2020
Authorities believe that Siebert was responsible for many other deaths across the US in the mid-1980s. ibid.
‘He had no compassion for anyone, no feelings for anyone.’ ibid. rozzer
‘Siebert stabbed his [male] partner 29 times.’ ibid. Dr Yardley
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The killing of three policemen in 1910 which led to the Siege of Sidney Street was still remembered as extraordinary. Great Crimes & Trials s3e19: Browne & Kennedy & Other Police Killers, BBC 1996
On the evening of Friday 16th December 1910 a police constable patrolling in the city of London was called to investigate strange noises coming from Exchange Buildings, a small alleyway near Houndsditch. ibid.
Behind, they left Sergeants Bentley and Tucker and Constable Choate dead. ibid.
Among the immigrants came political refugees. ibid.
In the suburb of Tottenham ... Two Latvian émigrés attempted a wages snatch. Foiled, they hijacked a tram and were chased for several miles, shooting indiscriminately at the pursuers. A policeman and a ten-year-old boy were killed before the gunmen were cornered and shot themselves. ibid.
Two hundred policemen, some armed with shotguns, moved into the area in the late evening of 3rd January 1911. ibid.
Their response was to start shooting at anything that moved. ibid.
The request was sent asking for troops to be dispatched from the Tower of London. This was approved by the thirty-six-year-old Home Secretary Winston Churchill, who then hurried to Sidney Street to see the action. ibid.
The anarchists were now keeping up a steady fire. ibid.
A wisp of smoke was seen coming from Number 100. Soon the fire had taken a good hold. Churchill told firemen to stay clear until the roof and first floor collapsed. ibid.
The killing of three policemen in Exchange Buildings and the subsequent siege at Sidney Street shook pre First World War Britain. ibid.
Latvian anarchists in London decided to rob a jeweller’s shop on the 16th of December 1910. This attempt failed, but the robbers shot dead 3 unarmed policemen and wounded several others. The robbers managed to escape together with a wounded comrade who had been shot by accident and whose body was found the next day in some flat belonging to a Jewish family, where Jekabs Peters lived together with his cousin Fricis Svars. (Peters later became Deputy Chairman of Lenin’s Cheka, assistant of Felix Dzerzhinsky, Chairman of the Revolutionary Tribunal, and in 1938 Peters was shot by the executioners of the Soviet Secret Police which he himself had headed for many years). Spectacle online article
The Sidney Street Siege was covered with unprecedented depth … The making of press photography. Eamonn McCabe, Britain in Focus: A Photographic History II, BBC 2017
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Los Angeles 20th June 1947: The murder of Bugsy Siegel was never solved. But the one name always associated with Siegel’s death is the one name he would have least expected, that of his best friend Meyer Lansky. Mafia’s Greatest Hits s1e8: Meyer Lansky, Biography 2007
While Mickey embraced life in LA, Bugsy Siegel was bored with the same old Hollywood scene. In 1945 Bugsy came up with an idea that he pitched to the Mob families – an investment opportunity. The Flamingo Hotel. A first-class destination in Las Vegas, Nevada, complete with a hundred and five rooms, private bungalows, and a casino. Siegel told them all they had to do was put up the money to build the place and watch their wallets grow. Mobsters s1e25: Mickey Cohen, Biography 2008
By the time Mickey arrived in Las Vegas it was too late. The hotel was already $5 million over budget. Bugsy had promised the Mob a sure thing; the Flamingo was anything but ... The Assassin fired into the house hitting Bugsy three times in the head, killing him instantly. Bugsy Siegel had bet everything on Vegas. And lost. ibid.
Bugsy Siegel found himself on the wrong end of mob justice for breaking a cardinal rule – never rob the mob. Mobsters s2e6: The Mob’s Greatest Hits, Biography 2010
Bugsy’s new casino would be called the Flamingo. ibid.
Not only was Bugsy a bad businessman he was skimming the profits. ibid.
The list of suspects in Bugsy’s murder reads like a classic whodunnit ... His real name was Benjamin Siegel. And he was the Mob’s most feared hit-man. But beneath the smile the handsome New Yorker was a cold-blooded killer. Siegel began a partnership with Meyer Lansky in New York. They formed an organised crime syndicate with its hands in gambling, prostitution and murder. Unexplained Mysteries
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‘I’m at a friend’s house. He’s out of town. And I came here to check on his wife. And she’s dead on the floor.’ How I Caught the Killer s3e6: Sievers: Murder for Hire, doctor colleague’s 911 call, Sky Crime 2023
On Monday June 29th 2015 Florida’s lead county sheriff’s department responded to reports of a homicide. ibid.
Detectives called Mark Sievers into the station for questioning a second time. ibid.
The man who had taken the sudden trip to Florida was Curtis Wayne Wright … ‘When we started to dig deeper into the background of Jimmy Ray Rodgers we realised that he met Curtis Wayne Wright in a local detention facility because Jimmy Ray Rodgers was on federal probation and he kind of passed himself off as kind of like a hitman or a tough guy.’ ibid. rozzer
Facing trial, Curtis finally gave them what they needed. ibid.
Dr Teresa Sievers … found brutally bludgeoned to death on her kitchen floor … a hammer laying next to her, blood stains, smears and splatters were everywhere. True Crime Recaps: The Twisted Murder of Dr Teresa Sievers, Youtube 13.19, 2023
Her husband … was thousands of miles away with an unbreakable alibi. ibid.
There were signs of a forced entry and a struggle. ibid.
Curtis Wayne Wright … and his buddy Jimmy Ray Rodgers were the men Lee County investigators were looking for. ibid.
According to Curtis, Mark could only see one way out – kill Teresa. ibid.
Days after his wife’s brutal murder, he was hosting pool parties. ibid.
Curtis turned star witness against his two friends … His old friend Mark Sievers hired them to do it. ibid.