TANESKI, VLADO: Evil Up Close TV - The Guardian online -
Police in a tiny East European country are convinced they have arrested the vicious killers of an elderly woman but they have the wrong men. Evil Up Close s1e11: Murder He Wrote, CI 2013
Taneski painstakingly reveals the details in his articles as Murder He Wrote. ibid.
2005: a woman in her sixties, who works as a cleaner, simply disappears. ibid.
What had first convinced investigators that he was a genuine suspect were his news articles. ibid.
He is found dead in his cell. ibid.
When Vlado Taneski wrote about the serial killer stalking his hometown in Macedonia, his eye for detail was such that the story was soon riveting readers. The journalist’s inside knowledge of the brutal murders of three elderly women in the tiny town of Kicevo ensured that newspaper editors gave his columns prominence.
Yesterday the 56-year-old father-of-two killed himself by dunking his head in a bucket of water in the toilet at a prison in the town of Tetovo, after it was revealed he had been charged with the murders he had written about.
‘All these women were raped, molested and murdered in the most terrible way and we have very strong evidence that Taneski was responsible for all three,’ said police spokesman Ivo Kotevski speaking from the capital Skopje. ‘In the end there were many things that pointed to him as a suspect and led us to file charges against him for two of the murders,’ he added. ‘We were close to charging him with a third murder, and hoped he would give us details of a fourth woman who disappeared in 2003 – because we believe he was involved in that case, too.’ The Guardian online article 24th June 2008
TANKLEFF family murders [viz Miscarriages of Justice: Marty Tankleff]: True Crime Recaps 2023 -
September 7th 1988: When 17-year-old Marty Tankleff woke up one morning he had no idea his world was about to be turned upside down. As soon as he stepped out of his room however it was glaringly obvious something was horribly wrong. Both his parents had been brutally attacked during the night. And suddenly it seemed like everyone in town thought he did it. True Crime Recaps: He Woke Up to Find His Parents Dead! Youtube 11.24, 2023
His father who miraculously awoke from his coma and fingered Mary as the killer … That single lie was enough to make Marty believe he must have done it. ibid.
No blood evidence … The kid didn’t have a scratch on him. ibid.
After 13 weeks of trial and 8 days of deliberation the jury returned its verdict: Guilty. ibid.
Jerry the Bagel King [Steuerman] was falling behind on his payments and Seymour was tired of it … Through his underworld connections Jerry hired Joey ‘Guns’ [Creedon] and Peter Kent to kill the Tankleffs … Joey and Peter snuck in through a window. ibid.
Martin’s conviction was overturned in December 2007 after a unanimous vote of the Supreme Court of Brooklyn … Today he practises law in New York State. ibid.
TANNER, JOHN: Real Crime TV - Faking It: Tears of a Crime TV -
25 Argyle Street, Oxford, Tuesday 16th April 1991: ‘We got a call in April basically telling us that an Oxford University student, Rachel McLean, had gone missing.’ Real Crime [with Mark Austin] s4e2: Love You to Death, Jamie Pyatt from The Sun, ITV 2004
Rachel McLean had arrived back in Oxford after the Easter holidays and spent the weekend with her boyfriend. ibid.
His one glaring fault: his compulsive jealousy. ibid.
He marched in front of the cameras and told everyone his girlfriend had gone missing on Valentine’s Day. But was the boyfriend faking it? Faking It: Tears of a Crime s2e5: John Tanner
The 1989 [Oxford] intake included Rachel McLean, an 18-year-old English scholar from Blackpool, Lancashire. ibid.
Two years older, he was studying over a hundred miles away in Nottingham. ibid.
We see all the worrying signs of possession, obsession, of jealousy. ibid.
He told the world he had nothing to do with the disappearance of his girlfriend. 27 years later accused again. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s4e7: John Tanner
New Zealand, September 2018, Whanganui, North Island: A 49-year old-man appears in court charged with violently attacking his girlfriend and threatening to kill her. His name John Tanner. Six months of violence had culminating in a day of repeated assaults in September 2017. ibid.
‘He’s a violent, dominant and controlling man … John Tanner is a serial perpetrator … not fit to be around women.’ ibid. Kerry
Rachel McLean: One name stood out as a possible suspect … He had killed Rachel, covered her in a rolled-up carpet and hid her under the floorboards of her house. ibid.
TAPP, CHRIS: Who Killed Angie Dodge? Keith Morrison Investigates I II TV -
When a beloved teenager Angie Dodge is found murdered in her own home, her mother embarks on a mission to hunt down the killer and the truth. A confession leads to a conviction: but the case is far from closed. When hours of interrogation tapes are made public, they ignite a fire-storm of controversy. Who Killed Angie Dodge? Keith Morrison Investigates I II, ID 2020
Detective [Jared] Fuhriman had a history with the troubled teen. ibid.
Chris Tapp’s DNA was also tested: he was not a match. ibid.
Chris was interrogated on nine different days, given six polygraphs and questioned for more than 40 hours. ibid.
Chris’s attorneys were not present. ibid.
‘This is the worst confession I have ever evaluated.’ ibid. expert
TARBERT, LAWRENCE: The Killer Speaks TV - Alamogordo Daily News online -
Alamogordo, New Mexico ... June 11th 2011 ... ‘a deceased male next to the bike path.’ The Killer Speaks: Lawrence Tarbert, rozzer, A&E 2014
I’ve only killed three people. Lawrence Tarbert
Lawrence Tarbert was sentenced to life in prison plus one year in 12th Judicial Court for fatally shooting Joseph Glen Pruitt in the back of the head in 2011.
Tarbert sat silent through his entire sentencing hearing except to consult with his standby attorney Tuesday.
In a plea agreement with the state, Tarbert also received a 27-year concurrent prison sentences for three counts of tampering with evidence, three counts of possession of a firearm by a felon, one count of larceny of a firearm, one count of larceny over $500 and one count of conspiracy for tampering with evidence.
In the plea agreement with the state, Tarbert pleaded no contest to one count of first-degree felony murder and the other nine felony charges in June 2013.
He will also have to pay a $300 DNA sample fee and pay $50 into the domestic violence fund. Alamogordo Daily News article 3rd September 2013