TSAKIRIS, DIMITRIOS: Inside Crime TV -
Lethal lovers: One story is of a loving husband torn between his extended family and his new wife resulting in a frenzied attack that no-one saw coming. Inside Crime s2e7, 2020
Stabbed to death in her own home, killed by the man she loved. He was a big-talking salesman who sold her the dream. ibid.
Lara was born just one year after they were married. While Dimitrios was a doting father, he wasn’t prepared to see so much of his wife’s love and attention lavished on their adorable baby girl. Lara’s birth was the beginning of the end. ibid.
TSARNAEV BROTHERS: The Hunt for the Boston Bombers TV - Marathon: The Patriots Day Bombing TV - Breaking History: New Age of Terror TV - Days that Shaped America TV -
‘And we will find out who did this ... will feel the full weight of justice.’ The Hunt for the Boston Bombers, Barach Obama, Channel 4 2014
‘The captured suspect had been hit by a car, and shot: he died from his injuries.’ ibid. rozzer
264 people were injured in the Boston Marathon bombing. Three were killed. ibid. caption
‘Today the nation’s oldest marathon will be run for the 117th time. Some 27,000 runners from all over the world are expected to run Boston this year.’ Marathon: The Patriots Day Bombing, morning news, HBO 2016
‘Oh my God. My God. We’ve had an explosion on the marathon course. People on the finish line. Two explosions went off. One after the other.’ ibid. rozzer
‘Two devices. Two hundred yards apart. That’s a big crime scene.’ ibid. FBI agent
‘Someone beside me said he saw a red flash. Others close by told me they felt the spray of what they thought were shards of shrapnel. My ears were ringing from the blast, my eyes stinging from the smoke. ibid.
‘Time felt like it had slowed down – the disorientation, the confusion, the strange silence stealing my breath and delaying my ability to comprehend’. ibid. newspaper report
‘Becomes known to us as White Hat; we expand out that triage of analysis and we find Black Cap also carrying a backpack.’ ibid. investigator
Boston police and the FBI combed through 120,000 photographs and almost 13,000 video clips … These terrorists were home-grown. Breaking History: New Age of Terror II
‘All of a sudden there was some sort of explosion. I looked down to the left; you could see a plume of smoke at the finish line … I took probably about two steps then I saw the two flashes of white light at my feet. I could feel myself being propelled … I instantly saw a severed foot in front of my left leg on the ground; it had a little white sock on it … I then instantly knew that was my foot that was dangling …’ Days that Shaped America s1e2: Boston Bombing, Roseann Sdoia, History 2018
‘It was surreal; it looked like a war zone.’ ibid. rozzer William Evans
‘We had the video, now we just needed to identify who they are.’ ibid.
TUCHLIN, PAWEL: Killers: Behind the Myth TV - Chicago Tribune online - World’s Most Evil Killers TV -
Gdansk, northern Poland 1983: For the last eight years a serial sex killer – known as the Scorpion – has preyed on women in the area. Killers: Behind the Myth s1e5, 2013
Pawel Tuchlin – the killer known as Scorpion – is driven by perverse sexual urges stemming from his childhood. ibid.
Assaults twenty women – he murders nine of them. ibid.
The abuse and cruelty Tuchlin experiences as a child would play a key role in his murderous future. ibid.
Warsaw – A Polish court ordered the death penalty Monday for a 39-year-old electrician known as the Scorpion for an eight-year wave of sex attacks in which he battered 9 women to death with a hammer and injured 11 others.
Pawel Tuchlin, who is married with two children, took the sentence calmly, said Judge Grzegorz Bucholtz, who presided over the trial in Gdansk. Chicago Tribune online article 6th August 1985, ‘Pole to be Executed for 9 Sex Murders’
On December 8th 1982 Polish farmer Pawel Tuchlin snuck up on a 24-year-old woman walking home alone. He pulled out a hammer and hit her in the back of the head again and again … In all Tuchlin sexually assaulted and battered nine women to death with a hammer and he seriously injured 11 more. Police called him the Scorpion. World’s Most Evil Killers s2e8: Pawel Tuchlin aka The Scorpion, Pick TV 2018
TUCKER, MICHAEL: Countdown to Murder: The Body in the Freezer TV -
Michael Tucker was a career landlord plagued by alcoholism, adultery and depression. And when Rebecca met him, she thought Tucker was the answer to her dreams. They ran a pub together. Countdown to Murder s2e2: The Body in the Freezer, Channel 5 2014
Michael Tucker shot Rebecca Thorpe in the back of the head while she was in the bath. Then hid her body in the freezer. ibid.
Tucker successfully appealed his sentence and it was reduced by 4 years to 22 years. ibid.
A pub landlord shot his partner in the back of the head, left her body in a freezer and he carried on with life as normal, a court heard today.
Michael Tucker, 50, even had sex with another woman upstairs in the pub while his partner’s body lay in the chest freezer in a nearby outbuilding, Norwich Crown Court was told.
Tucker, landlord of The Compasses Inn in Snettisham, Norfolk, is accused of shooting Rebecca Thorpe in the back of the head while she was taking a bath in March last year.
He told police he lost his temper when the 29 year old said he could not see his children and that she was sleeping with another man.
Graham Parkins QC, prosecuting, told the court Tucker fetched a shotgun and loaded and cocked the weapon. Mail online article 16th May 2011 ‘Pub landlord shot partner in the head, dumped her in freezer and carried on life as normal’
TUCKER, TONY murder: see ESSEX murders
TURGEON, CHRIS et al: Deadly Cults 2020 -
Who would want to kill Dan Jess and why? Deadly Cults s2e7: The Gatekeepers, comments
Chris Turgeon founded a group that called itself The Gatekeepers. ibid.
It was classic apocalyptic fire and brimstone coupled with an armed lifestyle. ibid.
The neighbours were convinced that this group, The Gatekeepers, was possibly involved in this homicide. And they told us they’re a Christian cult and that there were eight members. ibid.
TURNER, CHESTER: World’s Most Evil Killers TV -
In February 1998 the murder of 41-year-old Paula Vance was captured on CCTV in downtown Los Angeles, California. The grainy footage made it difficult to identify Paula’s killer but the detectives watching the murder playing out before their eyes knew they were seeing a serial killer in action. It would take another five years before the killer was unveiled as 37-year-old Chester Turner. The 6’2’’ 250-pound murderer had strangled 14 women to death across an 11-year reign of terror. DNA would lead to the downfall of the prolific killer who was sentenced to death for his savage crimes. World’s Most Evil Killers s6e9: Chester Turner, Sky Crime 2021