VASS, JONATHAN: Stalked to Death: Countdown to Murder TV - Mail online -
She was a young nurse, a new mum, in her prime of life; he was an ambulance technician, but he was living a life of deceit. When he raped Jane Clough in front of their baby she went to the police – he swore revenge. As Jane Clough walked to work to begin her nightshift, Jonathan Vass stalked her every move waiting to pounce. Stalked to Death: Countdown to Murder, Channel 5 2013
Jonathan Vass stabbed Jane seventy-one times, then to make sure she was dead, cut her throat. After he had killed Jane, he went after her family. ibid.
On May 12th 2012 they succeeded: Jane’s Law allows rape victims to challenge a Judge’s bail decisions. ibid.
A former ambulance worker who stabbed the mother of his child to death after she filed rape charges against him was yesterday sentenced to a minimum of 30 years in jail.
Jonathan Vass, 30, killed his ex-girlfriend, A&E nurse Jane Clough, 26, in a frenzied knife attack in the car park of the hospital where she worked in July.
He had earlier been freed on bail after she had accused him of repeatedly raping her at their home while she was pregnant with his daughter. Mail online article 15th October 2010
VELASQUEZ, CAIN: True Crime Recaps -
He’s a former UFC Heavyweight champion. Now he could be spending the rest of his life in jail. Fans and supporters think Cain Velasquez should be set free. After all he was only arrested for shooting a man who allegedly molested his son. True Crime Recaps: Ex-UFC Champion Took the Law into his own Hands: Was He Justified? Youtube 2024
VENABLES, JON: see BULGER, JAMES
VERSACE, GIANNI murder: see CUNANAN, ANDREW
VICKERS, DARREN: Real Crime TV - Faking It: Tears of a Crime TV - When Missing Turns to Murder TV -
Manchester’s biggest police investigation since the Moors murders. May bank holiday weekend schoolboy Jamie Lavis goes missing … he went out to play but didn’t come back. Real Crime [with Mark Austin] s2e3: Crocodile Tears, ITV 2002
A crucial witness came forward … Darren Vickers lived round the corner from the Lavis family and he quickly joined in the search for Jamie. ibid.
But Vickers’ frequent media appeals were about to backfire. Two teenagers who had seen him on television reported that he had tried to lead them into some woods late at night. The police then focused their search for Jamie in that area. ibid.
He killed their child then moved in on the family. The bus driver who hijacked the search for an eight-year-old boy … The judge described his actions as truly wicked. He killed their son, now he was manipulating the family. The leader and incredibly the lodger. On a May bank holiday in 1997 passengers on a Manchester bus noticed something unusual – a small boy alone being allowed by the driver to do anything he liked. The boy is Jamie Lavis, eight years old; the driver, Darren Vickers. Faking It: Tears of a Crime s3e5: Darren Vickers
How does he [Vickers] know that he’s the last person to see Jamie alive? ibid.
Here we have a viper in the nest. The perpetrator has implanted himself into the family. ibid. Cliff
But it was his TV appearances that would seal his fate. ibid.
‘Darren said that he used to get on the base on a regular basis and travel up and down on the bus ’cause he liked it.’ When Missing Turns to Murder s2e5: Jamie Lavis, rozzer, Netflix 2023
The police are becoming suspicious of Darren’s motives. ibid.
‘They all thought that Jamie was the bus driver’s son.’ ibid. rozzer
Darren Vickers has been approaching more children. ibid.
VILLEGAS, DANIEL: A Fatal Confession: Keith Morrison Investigates TV -
A once convicted murderer who claims he was forced to confess to a crime he didn’t commit will go before a jury again. A Fatal Confession: Keith Morrison Investigates, ID 2020, news report, ID 2020
Villegas was only 16 years old when he confessed to killing two teenagers in a 1993 drive-by-shooting in El Paso, Texas. ibid.
Alfonso Marquez: he had a reputation as a tough successful investigator known for getting killers to confess. ibid.
Texas law allows police to speak to minors without a lawyer or guardian present. ibid.
2011: I went to visit him – he had been locked up for 16 years by then. ibid.
The interrogation began just before midnight and went on for hours. ibid.
Daniel Villegas [on appeal] walked out into the light of day. ibid.
VILLEGAS, TONY: True Crime with Aphrodite Jones TV -
A routine missing person’s report leads to a tragic discovery … Melissa’s [Lewis] attackers slipped in as she closed the garage door behind her. True Crime with Aphrodite Jones s2e4: Loyalty, Lies & Loss, ID 2011
On March 15th 2008 [Tony] Villegas was arrested and charged with first-degree murder. ibid.
VILLEMIN, GREGORY murder: True Crime Recaps 2022 -
Long before their four-year-old’s body was discovered in a river with his hands and feet bound, the Villemin family was being terrorised in other ways. True Crime Recaps: Who Killed Little Gregory Villemin? Youtube 26.12, 2022
For over 30 years France has been captivated by the mystery. ibid.
Sketches … bore a striking resemblance to Jean-Marie’s cousin, Bernard Laroche, and Bernard’s handwriting as it turned out bore a pretty striking resemblance to whoever had been leaving around those little hate notes for everyone. ibid.
Authorities were closing in on another suspect, his wife Christine. The handwriting experts said her handwriting matched the letters. ibid.
As Bernard Laroche was leaving work on March 29th, four days after Christine had been named as a suspect in Gregory’s death, Jean-Marie shot him dead. ibid.
VILLISCA AXE MURDERS: True Crime Recaps 2023 -
In the sleepy little town of Villisca, Iowa, a house full of 8 people, 6 of them children, were bludgeoned to death with an axe. To this day their killer has never been caught. True Crime Recaps: An Axe, A Slumber Party & 8 Brutal Murders, Youtube 9.55, 2023
VIRK, REENA murder: Crime Stories TV - Ripeace online -
The police discovered it wasn’t the assault that killed Reena, it was what happened next. Crime Stories: Bull Kills
She had last been seen at a party. Acting on eye-witness testimony from the party-goers the police learned that Rena was assaulted by as many as eight other youths in a brutal attack. ibid.
A task force made up of three divisions planned a massive sweep of the teenagers who had taken part in the assault. ibid.
The strategy paid off. ibid.