You know that boy that I was speaking to when I was like in a bad way, we carried on speaking and I finally got to meet him … The Murder of Molly McLaren: The Social Media Murders s1e3, Molly to friend, ITV 2021
Joshua Stimpson launched a brutal and frenzied attack on Molly McLaren, stabbing and slashing at her more than fifty times. ibid. TV news
Josh and Molly both matched on Tinder. ibid. friend
They both had some sort of mental health problem. ibid.
STINNEY, GEORGE [viz Miscarriages of Justice: George Stinney]: True Crime Recaps 2021 -
Parts of the Candyman movie are true … One of those is 14-year-old George Stinney, the youngest person ever to get the electric chair. He was so small he had to sit on a book; they used a Bible. True Crime Recaps: True Stories Behind the Candyman Credits, Youtube 23.24, 2021
1944: 11-year-old Betty June Binnicker and 7-year-old Mary Emma Thames were out picking wildflowers when they were beaten over the head with an iron railroad spike. ibid.
The prosecution’s case rested only on what they claimed George told the police about the murders. But even that had two versions. ibid.
It was a joke of a trial that lasted all of three hours. ibid.
2014: His conviction was overturned and the judge admitted that a grave injustice had been done. ibid.
STEWART, MICHAEL murder: Virginia Law Archives online -
Shortly before 3 a.m. on September 15, 1983, police arrested Michael Stewart in a 14th Street subway station for writing in felt-tip marker on the wall. Within an hour, officers brought him to Bellevue Hospital. Stewart had no pulse or blood pressure. He was revived but remained comatose until his death 13 days later.
Stewart was black. The cops who arrested him were white. Three officers — John Kostick, Henry Boerner, and Anthony Piscola — were charged with criminally negligent homicide, assault, and perjury, and three others — Susan Techky, Henry Hassler, and James Barry — with committing perjury before the investigating grand jury.
Chief Medical Examiner Elliot Gross concluded Stewart died of cardiac arrest and that neither bruising on Stewart’s face nor abrasions on his wrists were contributing injuries. A month later, Gross changed his mind in the final report and cited a spinal cord injury as cause of death. Two years later, Gross changed his mind again, and decided he had no opinion on how Stewart died.
But the Chief Medical Examiner of Massachusetts, who reviewed hospital records and the autopsy report, testified that Michael Stewart died of asphyxia as a result of force applied to his neck. A witness for the prosecution, who was studying at his dormitory window, said he saw an officer use a nightstick to put a chokehold on Stewart. The defense claimed Stewart drunkenly, violently resisted arrest and died of heart failure.
The all-white jury found the officers not guilty after seven days of deliberation. Virginia Law Archives online article, Dengrove Collection Wrightup
STITES, STACEY murder: see Miscarriages of Justice: Reed, Rodney
STOCKELMAN, ANTHONY: Crime Stories TV - New York Daily News -
A child killer ... For many years the entire area of Jackson County, Indiana, had enjoyed a low crime rate. Crime Stories: Anthony Stockelman
Katie Collman ... hadn’t come home from the shops. ibid.
The image of the slender white male appeared on television reports and newspapers across the state. ibid.
A startling confession to the murder of ten-year-old Katie Collman ... Several inconsistencies in Hickman’s confession. ibid.
Stockelman willingly provided a sample of his DNA. ibid.
Crothersville Killer given ‘Katie’s revenge’ tattoo on forehead. ibid.
A lasting impression on those involved. ibid.
Two guards at an Indiana prison have been fired after a man serving a life sentence for molesting and murdering a 10-year-old southern Indiana had the girl’s name forcibly tattooed on his forehead by other inmates.
Anthony Ray Stockelman, 39, was placed in protective custody last weekend after authorities discovered the tattoo reading ‘Katie’s Revenge’ said Rich Larsen, spokesman for the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility in Carlisle, Ind.
Stockelman was sentenced to life in prison in March after pleading guilty to abducting, molesting and killing Katlyn ‘Katie’ Collman. The Crothersville girl was missing for five days before her body was found Jan 30 2005, in a creek about 15 miles from her home midway between Indianapolis and Louisville.
A photo of what is identified as Stockelman’s forehead and eyes appeared on a crime blog called ‘Lost in Lima Ohio’ that focuses on news reports about crimes against children and women.
Stockelman’s tattoo, which covers nearly his entire forehead, has KATIE’S in large letters and REVENGE below in smaller letters. New York Daily News article
STOCKER, PETRINA: Real Crime: A Deadly Secret TV - London Evening Standard online -
On 20th August 2001 David Stocker died in the world famous children’s hospital, Great Ormond Street. He’d suffered a massive cardiac arrest two days earlier from which he never recovered. The investigation found evidence of poisoning. Unusually high levels of salt were discovered in his system. Real Crime s6e8: A Deadly Secret, ITV 2007
Someone had been tampering with David’s sample ... At this time that the condition Munchausen’s by Proxy with reference to David’s mother was mentioned in his medical notes. ibid.
The guilty manslaughter verdict was unanimous. ibid.
Petrina Stocker was an old hand when it came to pulling the wool over people’s eyes with false medical symptoms.
She tried to make out she was ill and suffered blackouts when she was a teenager.
In 1983, she poured acid on her face and arms, disfiguring her skin.
She then said the scarring was caused by leukaemia, that she had cancer and was infertile.
In May 1987, she claimed she had diabetes while working in the office of pharmaceutical company May and Baker.
There was concern about the time she was taking off work and arrangements were made for tests to be done and analysed.
There were two urine samples. Sucrose was found at a high level in one, consistent with diabetes. London Evening Standard online article 24th February 2005
STONE, MICHAEL: The Funeral Murders TV -
This is the story of a dramatic and deadly series of events that took place at two funerals in Belfast in March 1988. The Funeral Murders, BBC 2018
The Gibraltar 3 were unarmed when they were killed … The coffins were driven 100 miles north across the border to Belfast. ibid.
A sense of nervousness about how the funeral would be policed. ibid.
This triple republican funeral was a major event in west Belfast with thousands of people lining the route. ibid.
‘There was a loud boom’ … ‘And then people were sort of in a panic’ … ‘There were more explosions’ … ‘I seen this fellow, ended up Michael Stone, having this handgun’ … ‘Then he pulled out a grenade’ … The crowd of mourners caught up with him and successfully overpowered him. ibid.
He [Stone] attacked the mourners indiscriminately injuring sixty people and killing three of the young men. ibid.
Just 72 hours after the funeral of the Gibraltar 3, republicans prepared for another funeral … IRA volunteer Michael Brady who’d been killed by Michael Stone three days earlier. ibid.
British soldiers who had been travelling in an unmarked vehicle. ibid.
‘Michael Anthony Stone, a 32 year old Unemployed builder, appeared in a Belfast magistrates court this afternoon charged with the murders of three people.’ Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland s1e4: Loose Talk Costs Lives, BBC 2023