Travis, a 36-year-old hotel waiter, hanged himself in jail before admitting to any of the murders, but St Louis police believe he killed between 12 and 20 women. They have identified 12 of his victims as drug-addicted prostitutes whose bodies were dumped along city streets and country roads in the St Louis area between March 2001 and May 2002.
But in a letter Travis sent to the St Louis Post-Dispatch – which helped lead police to him – he boasted of killing 17 women. ABC News online article
TRENT, CHRISTOPHER & REBECCA HOGUE: Accused: Guilty or Innocent: Did I Murder My Child? TV -
I just woke up next to my son. He’s cold. He’s not breathing. Accused: Guilty or Innocent? Did I Murder My Child? mom’s 911 call, Channel 5 2024
Christopher Trent ran away after Johnson died. Now prosecutors have filed first degree murder charges against the boy’s mother, Rebecca Hogue. They say she should reasonably have know her child was at risk of child abuse when she left him with Trent. ibid.
Rebecca spent 4 months in jail after her arrest. Released on bond, she is staying with family until trial. ibid. caption
They watch Rebecca being carried away in handcuffs. ibid.
The judge upholds Rebecca’s life sentence. But he decides to reduce her prison time. From a possible 38.5 years to 16 months. ibid.
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A mysterious illness strikes a Florida family and police fear foul play. An unlikely suspect surfaces. Crime Stories: Mind Games
The poison is Thallium. ibid.
Trepal is charged with murder and six counts of attempted murder. ibid.
Twenty years ago Sunday, George James Trepal stood silently and with no expression as Circuit Judge Dennis Maloney sentenced him to die for poisoning his neighbor.
For 20 years he’s maintained he had nothing to do with the death of Peggy Carr.
For 20 years he has filed appeals and motions, all of which have been returned with the same decision: Denied.
Trepal, now 62, has an appeal pending before the federal 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta. If that’s denied, he can go to the US Supreme Court, but that’s his last option.
So Trepal, who has been on death row longer than any of Polk’s current roster of condemned murderers, waits. So does Duane Dubberly, who wishes every day that his late mother could know his wife and could see he’s turned his life around. So does Gelena Dubberly Kent, whose son will never know his grandmother. The Ledger online article 4th March 2011
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A shocking discovery, The hunt for a killer. The motive: a mystery. What the Killer Did Next s1e1: Megan Newton, Sky Crime 2022
20th April 2019, Stoke on Trent: A phone call from some members of the public: they had found a dead body within a flat, a female that had been stabbed a number of times. ibid. rozzer
She [Megan Newton] been strangled … She was raped and stabbed in her back and behind her neck nine times. ibid.
Joseph Trevor was arrested in connection with Megan’s murder. ibid.
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A gruesome triple homicide in a quiet Arlington neighbourhood led to one of the most sensational in Texas history. True Crime Recaps: The Gruesome Triple Homicide that Shocked Texas, Youtube 17.28, 2023
Joanne stumbled into a site no mother should ever see, the scene was a bloodbath. There were spots of blood spattered on the telephone, a blood-stained sock lay near the pull-out couch bed. She found Renee curled up on the bathroom floor … In the tiny laundry room she found the body of 17-year-old John Bradley. ibid.
In the crowd was 40-year-old Ronald Trimboli … The Grand Jury indicted him for murder. ibid.
Did they get the right guy when they put away Ron Trimboli? ibid.
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After a night out Ana and Stefan had an argument … ‘I hit him with my shoe [x25] and now he’s bleeding.’ Women Who Kill I, Ana’s 911 call, Channel 4 2017
Ana Trujillo murdered her boyfriend by stabbing him 25 times with her stiletto shoe. Formerly an exec at Coca Cola and a mother of two, the 45-year-old’s life plummeted and she found herself homeless. In 2009 she moved to Houston where she started to use men for money. She soon met 59-year-old Stefan Andersson and moved in with him.
She tells us that he had a foot fetish and liked her wearing high heels. Then, in 2013, Ana and Stefan had an argument in the back of a taxi after which she desperately called the police, telling them that she had been attacked. A jury later found her guilty of killing her boyfriend using a blue stiletto with a five-and-a-half inch heel, likening it to ‘an ice pick’. Refinery 29 online article
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1927 ... Staff at the left luggage office noticed a particularly unpleasant smell coming from one of the trunks that had been there for some time. They prised it open and found a dismembered body of a woman. Great Crimes & Trials s3e18: The Trunk Murders, BBC 1996
Anything that could identify her had been removed. ibid.
[John] Robinson immediately began to confess. He admitted picking up a woman who had accosted him at Victoria Station and taking her back to his office. ibid.
He admitted most of the details of the case against him but repeated his insistence that the woman had died accidentally from a knock to the head. ibid.
Only seven years later and also on the railways of southern England trunks were in the news again: This time it was in the resort town of Brighton. On 17th June 1934 staff at the station left luggage office were appalled by the smell coming from one of the trunks. They opened it and found the torso and arms of a young woman. Other stations were alerted and the next day a case containing the legs was found at Kings Cross Station in London. ibid.
By the evening of the 17th Mancini had been charged with the murders. It now emerged that his real name was Cecil Lois England and that he had a string of minor convictions and aliases in London. ibid.
They [the jury] were back in two and a half hours and found him not guilty. ibid.
In November 1976 Mancini, who had been living quietly with his third wife, suddenly confessed in the News of the World that he had indeed murdered Violet. ibid.
The other Brighton trunk murder was never solved. ibid.
Important Trunk Murder Clues: Police On Track Of Dark Handsome Man: Strange Behaviour After Buying Trunk At Brixton: Full Description Known. ibid. news report